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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 366, 24 January 1890, Page 2

’ Item of news on fourth |>age. Mr Crewe lias a four-roomed house to let. The Rev. J. Saunders has been ap- | |snnted to take charge of the WoodviUe i Methodist Church. Rain set in on Wednesday night, and lias continued to fall ever since. Messrs Lowes A lums announce a sale ;of stock at Mas tenon on the 291 h. See , entries. We offer our congratulations to Mr W. Corbett. For reason, look rt announcement over leader. Mr W. Stewart is trying to make ar- , rangeinents with the KairnsCather Family | to give a |H-rforuiance here next Tuesday i ight. We hope he will succeed. Settlers are reminded of the sale of ' stock at Briggs' yards on Tuesday next by Mr S. G. Scott. No time sbonld be lost in sending in entries to Mr W. McCardie. The beast killed on Mr Greville's section I lb# other day belonged to Mr W. Orr. We acknowledge receipt from the Chief i Surveyor of a plan of the land to be j offered for sale on the 81st instant. Pahiatua is exceedingly well represented by the pugilist close at the present time. 1 They may consider themselves an acqui- | srtion, but opinions differ.

Mr D. McEelh notifies that he is willing t • gi\# a reward for a lost dog. Potatoes are being shipped Home from Victoria in the cool chamber* of the st eiucrs. Wr direct attention to en alteration in Mr Hewlett's advertisement. He is pre pared to sell clean cocksfoot grass-seed. The tnoatlily meeting of the Pahiatua Town Hoard takes place on Monday evening. The Pahiatua and Pukemiku schools re open on Monday at 10. The children have not had a very pleasant holiday, it having rained more or less for ths whole five weeks. Mr S. G. Scott announces a sale of stock at Woodvilie on the 30th. A large number of eiilnea have beeu received. The following tenders were received for the erectioo of the I toman Catholic Church at Pahiatua: —F. Farley, 4'53 He (accepted : T. Nisbet, 4‘6GBa; A. Cieghorn, fill; J. E. Drake, 459 14s. The Woo Kill# Jubilee Committee are doing their utmost to make the celebration on the 20th a success. They intend to roaet a whole bollock in the evening, besides having a torchlight procession, fireworks, and a Maori haka, W aits Tobu having promised to get up the latter. The Pahiatua Athletic Society arc about to consider the advisability of purchasing a piece of ground for the purpose of holding their sjiorts on. The idea originated with Mr Tosswill, and a general meeting will lie held shortly to discuss the matter. It is possible the questiou will take a wider sha|ie, as several residents are anxious to see a Jockey Club established here.

Some people seem to be in an outrageous hurry in this world. The Jubilee procession had formed on the main road on Wednesday morning, and was just about moving otf, when a man with a load of firewood in a dray drove the horses right smougst the children, and it was the merest chance some of them wore not injured. When expostulated with, he growled out “ Do you think I am going to wait here all day.” As a matter of fact he had not been waiting two minutes, and anothsr ten on to that would not have hurt him. Unless we had witnessed the conduct we could hardly have believed a man would have been guilty of it. He had at least four children marching in the procession.

The terms on which an English Company take over the “ Safe Cure " business of H. H. Warner are as follows:—The price to be paid the vendor is L 700.000, of which at least L 300.000 will be cash. The share capital has been fixed at L 550.000, divided at follows :—20,000 8 per cent cumulative preference shares of LlO each, and 35.000 ordinary shares of LlO each, and the debenture capital is L 120.000 in 6 per cent debentures. All the capital has been subscribed.

Says the Napier Telegraph :—Mr L. Rice had an apple tree infested with codlin ■noth to such an extent that last year there was not a sound apple on it. It also became infested with tke woolly aphis, and the tree began to show signs of decay. It was some Cin. in diameter. Mr Rice bored a hole in the tree to about tho centre and filled it with sulphur, sealing it with w ax. He bound a wax cloth over the orifice. This lie did last April, when the sap was going up. It killed every vestige of the aphis, and there is not a worm in this year’s crop of apples, while the tree has grown more vigorously than ever before.

The Taieri Advocate has the following: —*• It is currently reported in Dunedin that the defalcations of the late Mr Ashcroft will get a number of railway officials into trouble.” It has been decided to hold the next meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association at Napier. We (Hush Advocate) understand that the It.M. is not likely to grant the use of the totalise tor to the Woodvilie Jockey Club for the proposed second race meeting. The qnestinn of accelerating the transmission of the San Francisco mails has occupied the attention of the Government for some time past, and they have decided to join with the New South Wales Government in approching the British Postal Department on the subject. At present the colonial mails are sent across the Atlantic in the ordinary slow boats, and it is intended they shall be convoyed bv faster steamers, which would effect a saving of three days in the delivery of colonial mails.

Tlie Lon Jon correspondent of the New Zealand Times says that it is rumoured that Mr Gladstone will shortly accept a peerage, as he feels that his end is near, and that his children are not adverse to bear a title. Should he do so many of his friends will consider he has fallen into his second childhood.

There are still clergymen living in New South \\ ales who enjoy salaries under the old State aid system. They have been gradually reuio'ved by death, and last year the numbers were. Church of England 33; Roman Catholic 15; Presbyterian 5; Wesleyan 5. In 1863 the annual gum paid as State aid to religion was 4*82,372, but last year it had fallen to 49,992.

The present Sultan (Truth says) is the eon of a Kurd slave who was in the harem of his reputed father. His real father, it is believed, was an Armenian coachman attached to the Conrt. Far from being mail, he has all the sharpness of au Armenian. He is an abject coward, and he is probably making a purse for himself, as he is as ready as any Pasha to take bribee.

A driver named Collis, working under about 20 feet of water at Tini&ru on Saturday, was seized by an catopus, with 6ft 6in spread, which also got hold of the timbere of the slip the driver was working at. Collis had the presence of mind, on seeing the creature coining, to extend his arms to avoid having them pinned down, and was able, though with difficulty, to pull himself away by the life line and walk to, and climb up.'the ladder, with the octopue around him.

The Melbourne Leader of a recent date contains a very interesting article on the nee in the price of wool. Ow* contentPorary calculates that the advance meant a gain of five millions sterling to Australia and New Zealand, the total output beiug set down at 1.400.000 bales and the increased value at 4'3 10s per bale. The estimate is based on Melbourne values last year and tke prices ruling thin season. The Ixieder takes a very sanguine view of the future of the market, as will be seen from tho following extract :—“ There are fair expectations that the present nee in values is founded on more than passing influences, and hence may prove of e permanent character. The reasons for arriving at this conclusion are uumeroue ; the tuoel important, ja-rhsps, is the fact

that the demands for consumption have a', length touched the point of supply, no in -rease being shown this year in the world's production, whilst from all manufacturing centres demands lor the staple are expanding rather than contra, ti-ig. Again, anothsr cause for the immediate advance tnay to some extent he attributed to the large reduction this season in the River Plate wools, owing to the heavy loss of slirsp during tlie last few monthin the Argentine Republic. Our specie. London correspondent states that the cup in some of the Plate districts will show a falling off of no less than 25 per cont.”

Ths first horse race that was ever held in New Zealand took place on Te Aro flat at Wellington. There was only one horse, •he first that was lanJed in the future capital of the colony, but the presence of a horse suggested a race. A course was laid out, and hurdles put up, and six men to start at different points so a* to take up ths running, entered against the horse ; slakes. 4540. The horse lost through refusing the last jump, and the men divided the stakes—jEs each. * * * —Napier Telegraph. At a meeting in Edinburgh (says an Exchange!. Dr Rainy said :—“ He had been struck by the press in ths colonies and. Speaking of it generally, he would say that the colonists had a very able prsas, and that among thnir newspapers were journals of very high degree of efficiency. He Yuight add that the press had developed there to a very considerable degres the great art of interviewing—laughter—and if any ono went to Australia as a representative man iu any way, he might be expected and would be expected to give an account of himself to a cute and inquisitive gentleman, who would take down any words of wisdom he might have to bestow, and who would cross-sxamine him very tightly. (Laughter). Speaking of lus own experience in this line Dr Rainy said he had always felt a strong temptation to ses how tar he could parry the interviewer's questions, and he had on one occasion succeeded so far that the interviewer had been heard to admit afterwards that he did not think there was very much in him—Dr Rainy.