Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1883.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVII, Issue 1455, 12 September 1883, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1883.

The late Druids festival at Carterton realised the sum of .GlO. After paying all expenses there will be a goodly sum to go to the regalia fund. Mr Green has finished the new gates to the Pastoral Society’s ground, and the work is most satisfactory.

The ploughing match which takes place tomorrow at Mr Donald’s property, Manaia, promises to he a moat attractive affair. His Excellency the Governor, has been invited to be present and will arrive by the 12.30 train, and of course upon bis arrival in Masterton there will he great doings. The day has been proclaimed a public holiday, and there will be a procession of Friendly Societies, Volunteers, etc. The Governor will bo entertained at lunch at the Club Hotel. A special train leaves G r eytown 9.40, Peatherston 9.30, Carterton 10.15 a.m., returning from Mas terton at 5 p.m, His Worship the Mayor of Greytown has been elected one of the reception committee. Tho following entries have been received for tne forthcoming Ploughing Match : Single furrow, C. \V. Bannister, S. Foren, S, Liddiugton ; double furrow, .7. Lowers, H. McLean, J. Hansen, S. Gresswell, DeaForges, J. Bows kad, P. Winter'; subsoil, S. Brown; Boys. H. Preston. From all reports the Soiree to bo held under Lie auspices of the Loyal Greytown Lodge o! Oddfellows promi.:oc to ha one of tie most successful events of tho season. A great number of tickets have already been sold, and the committee are making every effort -.o made it a thorough success. They are determined to decorate the hall with overgreens, flags, and emblems of the Order. The district Officers have intimated their intention of being present; alt representatives from nearly all the different Lodges and Courts in the Valley. The providing of the music has been entrusted to Mr Lundqvist, who has engaged tie Masterton String Baud. Admission to the gallery '■ -s been fixed at one shilling, which should . ■ the effect of filling it, and the progi.-. me, as arranged, should suit ail.

M V'. Fitzgerald has been elected member of 1 Wellington City Council for the Thorndon ward in place of Cr. Allen, who resigned hi:; seat.

'atncs Winton, a butcher in the eoy’oy of I j Gear Meat Preserving Courn-'v was thrown from a meat cart last Friday and received such injuries to his bead by the fall that fears are entertained for his rec ivory.

The Waimapa Hospital Committee met yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs Cuff (chairman). Gray, Wyett, Pkeet, Nation and Wood. The credit balance in bank, was reported as £2B 10s sd. Several accounts were passed lor payment. It was resolved to make application for a refund of tiie hospital borough rates. Mr Gray reported that Mr Greatbead had paid £0 11s towards the maintenance of his wife, but Mr Greatbead said ho had not received any other account for money due. The committee instructed Mr Gray to write for the balance due, £4 10s. Mr Skeet reported that he had ordered 120 feet of piping in Wellington for drainage purposes at the hospital. A letter from the Featherston Road Board was received, asking if the committee would accept of £lO, and give the Board the right to send any patients, or whether they would supply that amount in or tickets. The commiitee decided to allow the Board to send what patients they saw fit for tho term of twelve months, it being understood that the privilege would be for the benefit of those who could not afford medical attendance. The hospital was reported by the secretary to be in a much improved condition, and everything was neat and clean. The Bev W. T Western was appointed visitor for the month.

The following business was transacted at the Taratahi Dairy Company meeting last week That applications for the office of Secretary be invited by advertisement. That Mr Owen’s offer be accepted to re-lease twenty acres adjoining the Company’s freehold, provided a divisional fence be erected. That tenders be called for the factory offal with right to use three acres of land as a pig paddock. That a platform be erected on the south side of the factory building 10 afford facilities for the receipt and measuring of milk. That tenders be called for firewood. That a weighing machine bo purchased. That Messrs Burrows. Buchanan, and Booth, be a committee to purchase necessary plant for cheesemaking. The factory manager reported having ordered sixty large miik cans. September 17th was fixed for tho next meeting, and the business closed.

■ An adjourned me’eting of the creditors of Job Vile, of Masterton, was held at the Supremo Court House, Wellington, on Monday nik-rnoon for the purpose of considering the debtor's application for discharge from bankruptcy. Mr A. Hasell occupied the chair, and numerous creditors repre son ted either personally or by proxy. . MiMiles (Messrs Murray, Bob. :ts & Co ) commented on the generally unsatisfactory character of the estate, and proved that the Bankruptcy Court be urged to huspnd the debtor’s certificate of discharge for three years from the date of bankruptcy, on the 'following alleged grounds That ho had obstructed the trustee, forcibly ejected a bailiff, kept his books improperly, earned on v-me time after having, by his own admission, o-ated himself of everything he possessed, a; -: had appropriated a sura of £6OO in favoi of his father. Mr Palmer seconded the > Con. Mr A. IV. Hogg moved, as an amr ;tnont, “ That tho creditors recommend the debtor’s immediate discharge.” Mr J. Vii=, sen. seconded the amendum-at. The a, 'iidmeut was lost by 16 votes to Hi, the C; ;Tinaa not voting, and tho motion hr *’lo suspension of tho debtor’s certificate for three years was then declared to be carried. The Greytown Juvenile Society will not meet to-morrow evening, as the hall is engaged for other purposes.

A patient in one of our Lunatic Asylums dreamed the other night that he had bitten off one little finger, and when lie awoke he found he had actually acted his dream, the finger lying at the aide of his bed. On Tuesday afternoon the Greytown Cadets were drilled by Sergeant-Major Bezar in the sciiool ground. This being the inspection parade, Majors Bunny and Butts were present, Alter having gone through the usual com; any movements and manual exercise in a praiseworthy manner, Major Bunny addressed a few encouraging words, in which he said ho was greatly pleased at the way in which they went through their drill, and that he would give them a holiday, to be devoted to shooting, after the school examinations. Tenders are invited by Mr G, Wyett, of Greytown, for pairing and papering, a dwelling bouse.

It is currently reported (says the Rgivur. Courier) that Te Whiti has forbidden the women folk of ParihaUa to go to dances oi other amusements got up by the pakehns. The sheep which are now being frozen io. export at the works of the Wellington Meat Export Company, present a splendid appearance. The mutton is of the lines! quality, the animals are well butchered, an., everything in connection with the establish meat is scrupuously clean. The meat ought to fetch a fine price in London. Opunake now rejoices ia a well-got-np pa, er of its own, under the name of “ Thu Eg uont Courier and Waimate chains Gazette.” Mr P. Galvin is the proprietor. A youthful witness at New Plymouth, on being asked if she understood the nature of an oath, and where J she would go to if she told a lie, replied, “I will go to hell.” The child was, in consequence, allowed to give her evidence. A contemporary asks “Is it not nearly time some alteration was made in regard to these absurd questions asked of boys and girls, when about to give evidence in our courts of law?”

The Rev. Lindsay Maokic, pastor of the Presbyterian First Church Dunedin, died last week, aged 39, Ho leaves a widow and three children.

Austin and Seymour have managed to come to terms with reference to the proposed twenty-four hours and forty-eight hours pedestrian matches with Edwards, the Australian Champion, who is to walk Scott. The first of the t-vo events will come off in Dunedin in five weeks’ time, and the second a week later.

Common glue, as used by cabinetmakers, is not always sufficiently strong to resist the steam to which the pieces joined together with it may happen to bo exposed ; sometimes even it is required to make metal, glass, or stone adhere strongly t-' wood, in which case a mixture of glue and ashes of wood will be found greatly prefer able to glue in its ordinary state. The latter should first be reduced to the proper consistency required for wood, and a sufficient quantity of ashes added to give it the tenacity of a varnish It must be applied hot. A petition having been filed in the Featherston Magistrate's Court in respect to the election of a warden f.;r ward No 8 for tbo Featherstou Road Board which took place on the 25th ult., Mr Warded will hold an inquiry into the ma'icr allege 1 in the petition ou the 21st iust., at Featherstoc. The English mail which left Auckland on the 14th august arrived at Sau Francisco on 7th Ssptcmuer. The Australia loft San Francisco on 25th August for Auckland with the English mail.

A most remarkable aurora borealis was observed at Lmivika, in Sweden, recently, at about r.O p.m. it began as a feint band of light parallel with the horizon, which gradually grew broader and broader. The extraordinary feature of tho phenomenon was, however, that this baud had tho appearance of an ice covered lake on which the moon was shining. Promontories and shores covered with trees were seen, and also the faint outline of farms. This phenomena lasted about ten minutes, when tho aurora changed into a suffused pink luminosity, like that of clouds'near the setting sun.

In the year IS *3 there were 207,336 volunteers enrolled in Great Britain, of whom 19b,371 were classed as efficients, and 7962 as non-efficients. Tho “ proficients ’’ who had qualified themselves for a special grant amounted to 17,621, of whom 5692 were officers, and 11,929 wore sergeants ; 175,578 volunteers were picsent at the annual inspection. A letter from the flight Hon John Bright, which was read at a meeting of tho Hebden Bridge Parliamentary Society contained the following passage :—“ On the question of oaths, probably there is nothing in the New Testament more especially condemned and forbidden than oaths. To those who do not care about the New Testament, this ftct will be of no weight. The praeti e of swearing to the truth of any ihmg makes two kinds of truth and truthfulness. If oaths ere of any avail, by to much as they make truth more than certain, by so much they lessen the value of an ordinary statement and diminish the probability of its truth. If ignorant persons are not sworn, they can tell lies with impunity, and their lying is made to a largo extent blameless in their eyes. I think oaths and oath-taking have done more than any other thing to impair and destroy a regard for truth.”

Never paper a wall over old paper and paste. Always scrape down tucroughly. Old paper can be got off by damping with seleratus aud water; then go over all the cracks of the wall with plaster of Paris, and finally put on a wash of a weak solution of carbolic acid. The best 'paste is made out of rye flour, with 2oz of glue dissolved in each quart of paste; loz of powdered borax improves the mixture. Messrs Chas. Powuall & Co., scriveners, Wellington, report the value of money uualtered (luring the preceding month, the rate of interest still ruling from 7£ to 8 per cent, on broad acres. A few sums of average amount have been placed at the lower quotation, but otherwise the applications continue limited The supply of capital offering for mortgage investment is adequate to meet the denuiul. Australian rates are fully upheld, but last advices from London show tho market rate there has had a decided fall, viz , from 3$ to per cent., which may have a tendency to shortly reduce our quotations.

To euro burns, saturate a soft piece of fabric with alcohol, lay it over the burn, then cover it with cotton or finely picked oakum. This is the most cleanly dressing that can be adopted. It may 1,., thought that alcohol applied to a burn will produce more pain ; but try it, and you will beapiceably surprised to observe bow quickly it will allay the pain. Subsequently disturb the dressing as little ns possible ; wet the dressing occasionally with alcohol, and the result you will find better than by auy other method.

Iti most cases the sooner land is planted nftt'V it is ploughed the easier it will be to keep weeds down, for in this way the planted crop wid have a more equal chance for a start, lint of late years, in the e iao of corn and potatoes, the practice Ims been growing in favor of going over the land with a barrow a week after the crop has bean planted. The best time for this, work is when the ground is d"y and the sun is hot. Even after corn is several inches high a light harrow may be used with good effect. A letter from Tangier’s gives a list of slaves sold during one week, and some of the prices which they realised. Three females were sold on successive clays, one for 55 dollars, equal to /ix sterling. The prices of the other two are not mentioned. A nigger boy, aged eight years, was sold for 35 dollars, and a woman, aged twenty, for 54 dollars. All these slaves were sold in the public streets by an auctioneer, who assigned them to the highest bidder. M' iiher Swan’s Worm Smip,—lnfallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic ; for feverish; ness, vistlesanoss, worms, constipation. Is at Druggists. Moses, Moss and 00., Sydney, General Agents. “ Roughen Eats,”—Clears cut rafs, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. 7Jd. Drug, grata, Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General 4geuts.

The Greytowu Loyal Lodge, 10OF, meet this evening. Mr G. Fairbrother, auctioneer, Carterton' announces a continuation of his sale on Saturday next. Last Friday evening the parishioners of St. Mark’s, Carhuou, met the llev. T. Fancourt to make arrangements for the payments of arrears of salary due to the late incumbent. A resolution was passed to the effect that not more than £2UO could be collected for future stipend, and that unless another appointment is made the collecting of arrears was extremely doubtful. Mr Booth, assisted by Mr L. Wilson, consented to conduct service once every Sunday for a few weeks pending fresh arrangements. It is evident that the engine running between Greytowu and Woodsido wants overhauling. On Monday morning, although the fires were started at 5 o'clock, yet at 8.20, the time for the departure of the train, there was no steam, and passengers were kept waiting upon the Givytown platform. Being without communication of any kind with Woodsido, a messenger was despatched to arrange for the engine on the main lino to come up. Upon arrival the Greytowu engine and carriages were taken in tow and the trouble ended. Wc have before pointed out the necessity of some means of communication being established between Woodsido and Greytowu. The expense of a telephone would bo trilling, but the advantages to bo derived would bo great.

Tiio famous thoroughbred racehorse Natator has boon purchased from the Hon. Mr Robinson, and having arrived at Wellington from the South ou Sunday, was taken in charge by the well-known Wanganui breeder, Mr John Walker. This important purchase (says the N. Z. Times) was made on account of liis sun. Mr George Walker, who is thereby making a bold bid for success in the lino winch his father has sa long followed in the Wanganui district. Natitor’s performances ou the turf make a splendid record. Among those we may mention that throe years ago lie won the Wellington Cup, and in the same year his total winnings in stakes were £993. As a two-year-old ho won the Champagne Stakes at Christchurch; at three years ho won the Canterbury Derby; and last year he finished his turf career by carrying off the Metropolitan Stakes at Christchurch. The Hon. Mr Robinson gave a thousand guineas for him as a two-year-old.

To remove paint splashed upon window panes, use a hot solution of soda and rub with soft flannel.

Homeopathic treatment for cattle has W seldom been resorted to, although when one ■ sees the quarts and gallons of na-ly stuff 1 poured, nolens volons, down the throats of side animals, common humanity suggests the alternative. But one of our scientific llockmasfers (says an English correspondent) has juH given his experience of ewes which suffered severe inllamation previous to lambing. To each of those ho administered live drops of tincture of aconite in a desertsporuful of water every hour, and the effect, lie says, was marvellous. All the animals recovered, although his shepherd had given them up. 'The abnormal condition of clover which occasionally brings on what is popularly called clover sickness, arises from want of potash in the soil, and particularly from tho absence of soluble salts of potash in the subsoil. The supposition that clover sickness is duo to decay in vegetable matter is incorrect, as is also that which assigns it to the presence of a fungus Oloospora herbarum. Though a falling off in yield may he due to the presence of parasites, yet when such parishes happen to bo present, the general appearance of the crop arc not the same as those usually associated with clover sickness.

The use of chloride of zinc, instead of tannin, is suggestive in the preparation of hides.

A correspondent signing himself “ Parmer,’ writing to a T’maru paper says that las veer harv 4 men could not be got, and that they turned up their noses when offered less than seven or eight shillings a day. He adds.—“ When one has to take on a few hands he has not only to feed them like fighting cocks, with the very best, but to pay ploughmen, for instance, 225. to 2ob, a week besides, and be careful how he speaks to them.” He expresses a (ear that the present outcry of a want of work may induce the Government to curtail immigration, and thus leave the farmers in a worse plight than ever.

Seventy-two men applied at the Addington workshops near Christchurch on Monday for work, but, from the scarcity of tools, only 27 were employed Six of these were put to stone-breaking at (3d per cubic yard, the remainder diggiu; drains at 4s Cd a day.

The Toronto News reports a .‘ragic experience from Manitoba, A new - settler 4 left his wife and children to fetch fuel, tuid on coming back found them all cuddled together in bed, his two little girls, of and eight, frozen dead, his wife frozen stiff up to the knees (both legs having to be amputated) aud his two-year-old baby frost-bitten.

The death of General Tom Thumb was sudden and unexpected. He had just risen from his bed, and soon after, being left alone by his brother-in-law, was heard to fall. Upon going to his room he was found upon the floor dead. The body was cmbalmed, and exposed to public view for a short lime. A stone vault is now being constructed on the magnificent lot belonging to tlie dead man, and the casket will he enclosed in solid masonry, to prevent any disturbance from grave robbers.

It seems to be generally assumed in some quarters that as soon as the Bill passes there will be a rush on deceased wives' sisters, and that forthwith all men who have not got deceased wives' sisters will begin to banker after their nieces, aunts and grandmothers. I am inclined to question whether men are so constant as all that to one type of perfection. "What I want now is a change,” said a widower, just bereaved of a Peeress in her own right. The poor man had tears in his eyes as he spoke. " A complete change is what I want,' 1 he sighed So he went to the sea-side, and married a lodging-house keeper. Now that I think, was human nature.—Truth.

A l.ansingbnrg firm has almost completed a paper steamboat for a Pittsburg company. Its length is twenty feet It has seating capacity for twenty-five persons and a carrying capacity of three tons. The sheathing is"a solid body of paper three-eighths of an inch thick. A bullet from a distance of four feet neither penetrated nor made an abrasion in it.

Facts worth knowing—That milk which has been changed may be sweetened or rendered fit for use again by stirring in a little soda. That boiling starch is much improved by the addition of sperm, or salt, or both, or a little gum arabic, dissolved. That a tablespoonful of turpentine, boiled with your white clothes, will greatly aid the whitening process. That kerosene will soften boots ana shoes that have been hardened by water, and will render them pliable as new. That beeswax and salt will make y ur rusty flatirons as “clean and as smo.ah as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot, rub them fust with the wax rag, then scour them with a paper or doth sprinkled with salt. That you can get a single pair of bools at who! 6 le price during the month of September at W. Mori arty' 8 Grey town boot suop,

It will be seen by advertisement that several lady and gentlemen vocal amateurs intend giving a complimentary benefit to . lis Shannon, of Featherstou It has been decided to hold the concert in Grey town, it being central and enabling the many friends of this lady in the various townships to be present.

On Tuesday night at the Grcytown Town Hall, the insoection parade of the Greytown Volunteers took place. Majors Bunny and Butts being pie-sent. There were 34 rank and file present. Lieutenant Webster put the corps through their various movements, it being that officer’s examination, wbicu be passed very creditably. After drill Major Bunny addressed the corps in a few words, in which he said it had given him great pleasure to sea the efficient manner in which they had gone through their drill, and that as this was the fourth inspection drill, those who had been present at those drills would be entitled to their capitation grant which wag £l. He also stated that the Governor would be in Masterton on Thursday, and that if not less than ten of the corps were willing to go, he would get them a free pass on the railway, provided they were in uniform. Lieutenant Cameron volunteered to take charge of those wno were willing to go._ Cap tain Tally, in dismissing the men, said that there would be an extra recruit drill every week, but it was only compulsory once a fortnight. After the corps was dismissed the Volunteer Band played several airs.

The Greytowu parsonage has of late been undergoing repairs. These are about finished, and the Bev. Mr Western will take up his abode in Greytown next week. There is at present only one patient in the hospital at Greyiown. The case is one of dropsy and the result is doubtful. On Monday evening the Totara Lodge of Druids, (Carterton) held their fortnightly meeting,when four new members were enrolled. Bro, Armstrong’s resignation as secretary was accepted. The Carterton Christy's will give an entertainment in old of Mr J. Crawley, at the Town Hall on the 17th inst. Considerable alarm was caused in Wellington yesterday by a boiler explosion, which took place at Mr. Brown’s coal-yard, Tory street, shortly after i o'clock. Fortunately no lives were lost, though the boiler-shed was blown to pieces, and the ■windows of -houses in the neighbourhood suffered sevwely. TheirJßonours the Chief Justice and Mr. Justic tfdch mond sat in banco on Monday. In case of M’ Laren v. Walker, a motion to enter judgment for defendment, or. in the alternative, for a new trial, Mr. Travers appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Edwards for the defendant. After argument judgment was reserved.