The Member for the Wairarapa.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1679, 27 February 1885, Page 2

The Member for the Wairarapa.

Wk notice a suggestion made by the Evening Post that the members for Wellington city sh mid meet their constituents and give an account of their stewardship. It would ha well that Mr Buchanan and Mr Beetham, the members for the Wairarapa, should also do the same thing. The electors would like to hoar the opinion of those gentlemen ou the existing position of political affaire, the polie.v and proceedings of the present Ministry, the financial prospects of the colony, and other cognate subjects. In several parts of

the colony members have been addressing Mirir no’iptilu ds, and the Wairarapa ihc: would like to listen to the words of wisdom which Messrs Buchanan and Beetham could doubtless utter concerning things in general and politics in particular.

Mr F. H. Wood’s stock sale, held at Mr Ray's yards, Taratahi, yesterday, was wcdl attended. The following prices were realised —Ewes and wethers, 2, 4 and 6 tooth, 7s (id ; lambs, shorn, 3a 4d and 3s 9d; lambs in wool, -is and 6s 4d ; culled ewes, 3s; Romney Marsh ram lambs, 40s ; other rams from 5s to L 4. Cows, from L3to L 5 ; heifers, 2 year old, L 3 ; calves, 235; hack horses, L 3 10s ; draft, L 6 6s and L 29. The body of Alfred Urwin, who was drowned by the capsizing of the yacht Diamond last Saturday week, was found on the Ngahaurauga beach at an early hour on Thursday morning. A boy at Dunedin, was recently fined 10s and costs for inserting a false notice of birth in a newspaper.

The Tarawera left Auckland for Sydney yesterday with 1785 cases of preserved moat, valued at £2142, for the Sydney Government, for the use of the troops in the Soudan. The Hun. Mr. Buckley, Colonial Secretary, is stated to be now engaged in the preparation of a Bill for the management of hospitals and other charitable institutions. Ministers will all probably reassemble in Wellington some time next week. There is a good deal of Cabinet business awaiting attention.

The remains of Mrs Eade, who died from blood poisoning on Monday, were interred yesterday. The funeral was conducted under the auspices of the Salvation Army, of which body deceased had been a member. The cortege, says the Post, was headed by a brass band, and each person who followed the hearse wore a piece of white cloth on the left arm.

Wellington can boast of having the throe moat portly sergeants of police m the whole force of New Zealand. The three turn the scales at 6721b5., which is an average weight of 10 stone each.

The Victoria Wesleyans have determined to celebrate the jubilee of Victorian Wesleyans next year, and to signalise the event by raising a thanksgiving fund, in recognition of God’s goodness to the churches in Victoria during the past half-century. Hundreds of people are said to be actually starving in the North of England, with many thousands more hungry and destitute.

The combined Australian team has beaten the English cricketers by seven runs. Otago has gained a victory over Canterbury with two wickets to spare. The Mutual Life Assoeation of Australia, who have just established a local board in Christchurch, have bought large freehold premises at the corner of Princess and Dowling streets, Dunedin, and in Hereford street, Christchurch. Mr Reaming, secretary to the company, leaves for Auckland, by the Te Anau, to arrange for the erection of magnificent buildings in Queen street, Auckland, as a central office for the North Island The purchase and erection of buildings involves an expenditure of £50,000. Messrs Kitkcaldie and Stains, of Wellington, have resolved to sell at wholesale prices for ready money only. An announcement to this effect appears in another column. At Milton, Otago, a persevering member of the Salvation Army wrote to Major Pollard, asking him if he could procure him a situation. The boy who was sent to post the letter, knowing the contents, thought it would be n good joke to reply thereto. He wrote a letter in the name of the major appointing the man to the command of the Milton contingent of the army. With an overflowing heart he went to the evening meeting to discharge his duties, but the soldiers rebelled ; high words ensued, and it was some time before the would-be captain was persuaded that he had been the victim of a joke. It is quite on the cards that New Zealand may yet boast of the champion walker of the world. Mr Alfred Austin has written to the Dunedin Star that by next mail he will send to the London Sportsman a challenge for Joe Scott to walk any man in the world for 12 or 21 hours for £250 a side, or 21 hours alone for £SOO a side.

Gerald Massey commences bis Wellington lectures on Monday next. The February number of tbc Wellington Landed Property Guide is to hand from the publishers, Messrs T. Kennedy Macdonald and Co., the Wellington Land Auctioneers. The issue maintains the promises of usefulness promised by the first issue, and is now one of the most complete and handy publications of its kind to be met with in the colonies. The principal feature in this month’s number is the very voluable return of the properties sold and prices realised for various properties in the several districts of the colonies, and other information under the heading of Land Sales and Jottings. This in itself should make the hook of great value as a standing record of the value of properties in the various centres. We note from it that the publishers, during the last month, disposed of the well known Crofton Estate, Mr Littlejohn being the purchaser. August Flower. —The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than seventy-five percent of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects : such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Heart-burn, WalerluMsh, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the Stomach, Yellow Skin, Coaled Tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, Ac. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of August Flower. This valuable medicine has cured thousands and thousands of sufferers and is known in all civilized countries, Two doses will relieve you. It costs only 3s Od a bottle, Sample bottles Cd. Laery and Campbell report business to be moderately good, hut as usual at this time of the mouth hardly so brisk as in the preceding weeks. There is little or no alteration to quote in the bulk, and, as will bo noted below, it is only a special line hero and there where alterations in prices arc of a marked character. Flour may be still quoted at L 8 15s to L 9, hut is dull of sale at that. Butter, prime quality, 7d to 8d ; cheese, 5d to 6£d ; potatoes come forward freely, and it is wuh uifficulty that shippers are restrained from swamping the market ; they may he quoted this week at 55s to L 3 in lines ; best fine skin onions, 10s to 11a ; inferior, 7s to Bs, but as large quantities are coming forward, these prices, we fear, will have to give way ; hay and* straw, is and 2s 6d per cwt ; chaff, ol really prime quality, about Li ; fowls, 3s Od to 3s 9d ; ducks, 3s 9d to is ; geese, 3s ; turkeys, Ss per pair ; eggs have improved somewhat, and may be quoted at la id.

" Buchu Paiba.” Quick, complete cure, all aumying kidney, bladder and urinary diaeaseo. Druggists. Moses, Moss & Co,, Sydney, General Agents. Botc Throat quickly yields to " Baxter’s Lung Preserver." For Coughs and Colds, “ Baxter's Lung Preserver ” is unrivalled. In Croup, “ Baxter’s Lung Preserver" operates magically, its expectorant and other properties affording speedy relief. In Whooping Cough, “ Baxter’s Lung Preserver " is a specific. In Bronchitis and Asthma, "Baxter’s Lung Preserver " affords immediate relief. In Consumption, "Baxter's Lung Preserver” has been signally successful.

n Bough on Eats." Clears out rats, mice roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects’ skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists' Moses Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents'

Tic-doloreux, toothache, or any other neuralgia pain speedily yields to Baxter's Ann-neuralgic Pills. That Husband of Mine is three times the man he was before he began using “ Wells’ Health Renower.” Druggists. Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents,

The Wilmott Compm* l " 1,1 :l in t.'io final sc; i-e i f • i •• • !••»: 1,1 lit Blenheim tiic OlllL' M; 'i' A. 1 ■ tuining angels w.iHi;■ I--.- .ulii,. >i. c down with a ciudi ju-; .i' iho ;J; 1 111 1 ltK falling, and Mist; 1.. n AVv;.; :>■( a girl sustained slight r.’ts <n i-e In n . Uncle Tom and the other angels <tci.j • d with severe shaking and frigid.

A London Him has agreed fo take nil Ihe honey from a Waikato apiarv at .kola ton (Gd a Ik).

A la-other of Goneriil Guidon's wan of the pioneer fetllws of Southland, lie uicd at Invercargill twenty years ago. There will ho a large im-ctim! at Par Inka on ;hc 17ill M.uih. To Whin is gome to use all his endeavours to gel the unlives to become total abstainers.

The return match between Greytown and Kuritiwhiti, will be played at Greytown, mi Saturday next (to-morrow). The following are the players selected on the Kuritiwhiti side:—Messrs W. Saywcll, T. Biywell, H. Hawke, (captain) C. Hawke, A. Hawke, W. Knell, W. Judd, P. Cotter, D. O’Connor, W. Udy, emergencies, J. Judd, and T. Fisher. Greytown team, Messrs W. C. Cull (captain) J. Nation, J. Maguire, Rutherford, Jaek.-ou, (2) Rev T. Western, Rev K. Young, 1). P. Player, J. Bcoleton, M. R. Vnrnh.-un, andD. Baillie.

The third match for tbo shooting comp tition for a rifle will t.ke place tomonow. Lieut Cameron secured the highest score iu the first match and S>-rgt Willi ;.on was the highest competitor iu the second. Mr C. J. Tully was the successful compelitor in placing the three first horses in “ Venture’s” sweep and takes the prize awarded.

At the Magistrates Court, Greytown, this morning before Messrs J. Tuliy and J. Russell, Esqrs., J.P’s, a man named Frank Ermtll was charged with being drunk and incapable in the public streets and fined 5s or 24 hours.

Mr F. H. Wood has secured a piece of land fronting Queen street, Mastertou, and sections fronting Chapel street, known as Corbett’s, next Toomath’s mill. The Queen street section has a frontage of 36 feet by a depth of 2 chains, and the back sections a frontage of 150 feet to Chapel street, and .3 chains deep. Mr Wood intends to erect a commodious auction room on the front section, and sale yards at the back. The Featherston school picnic takes place on 6th. We draw attention to Mr Wood’s she of ploughs, horses, hacks, sheep and cuttle, farming implements, tools, &c., to be held to-morrow.

Sir Samuel Baker says—" To fling aw«y the Soudan is to fling away the granary of the world ; to abandon Khartoum is to surrender what will be the richest entrepot in the world. If the Soudan were in English hands, in a very few years you would no entirely independent of the United States both for cotton and corn. You have no idea what a country it is ; soil fertile beyond belief, an inexhaustible water supply, and the whole traversed from end to end by two' great highways. Many a time have I ridden through deserted districts in which the com or dhurra was growing high enough to cover an elephant, and that without the slightest cultivation .... To tap this immense reservoir of undeveloped wealth all that is necessary is a railway from Suakim to the Nile and a decent Government. But to abandon it would bo to open the vast region to be scrambled for by the (filibusters and pirates of the world.”

A letter signed "The Governor” in out nest.

At the Selwyn County Council, Canterbury, t was reported that 33 acres of barley at Chcyney’s Corner, on Northern Kailway line, have been entirely stripped of grain by sparrows. Other crops on the same farm were much damaged, ami tho owner estimates his loss at about 2300 bushels.

Sir J.Lawcs tho eminent English agriculturist, says ;—lt is somewhat remarkable that, within my recollection, every year ending in 4. has produced a great wheat crop —l63d was one of the largest ever grown iu country; ’-11, ’sl, ’6l, ’7l, were all great crops ; the present crop upon my experimental field appears likely to give a larger yield thuu any crop since 166-1.” Ormondvillc has 1300 inhabitants. They have a lawyer but want a doctor. Trust the devil’s own for being first iu the field says a contemporary.

The Intercolonial eight-oar rowing match takes place on the Parramatta on 25th of April next. Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania compete.

At the Dunedin court this week T. McKenzie was charged with trying to drown Richard Norman the master of a small craft. McKenzie rushed at Herman caught him by the leg. and threw him overboard. The boat manned by the cook and a seaman picked him up. After the hearing of a lengthy evidence, the case was adjourned lor a week.

Tho annual exhibition in connection with the Sunday School Unioa of Wellington was opened on we inesday evening in the Drillshed by his Excellency Sir James Preudergast, Debuty-Goveruor. He passed through two lines of young ladies, who scattered flowers as ho walked along. As ho entered the hall, a choir of boys and girls, numbering about COO, and led by the Kev. P. Hunter, sang a verse of the National Arnhem Mr Gillies, speaking at Mi'ton, Otago, strongly condemned Mr Stout's attack on Christianity, lie said Mr Stout should remember tho responsibility of his position, if ho did not, others would. Mr Stout had no right to use his position to insult tho feelings of the hulk of the people of the colony. The colonial prize firing takes place next month at Island Bay. The ground is now being prepared and targets erected for the approaching event. There will he about 300 men in camp at Island Bay for a week. The Hon. G. M, Waterhouse, M.L.C., is about to visit England. Ho has been granted leave of absence from the next Parliamentary session.

Tlio directors of the New Zealand ilofrigeni ting Company, whose works are at BurnsideDunedin, anil who were tho first company in New Zealand to begin freezing operations, which they have carried on since August, 1882. have passed the following resolution ; •• That in view of tho small number of sheep guaranteed for shipment during the ensuing months of May, June, July, and August, the present high rates of freight, and the unsatisfactory position of the trade in London, this company declines to commit itself to any further freight arrangements.”

The crops are all gathered in Nelson, and luc yield has been an abundant one. The hop'yield will alto be very heavy, but price? will hardly pay fer picking, being only 6d per lb. Two years ago the hop-growers got from 2s Gd to os per lb, so the great fall in price will seriously affect the whole district. It is estimated that there are 1000 acres under hops this season.

The approaching departure of troops for the Soudaa is the all-absorbing topic in Sydney. All is bustle and excitement. A late telegram says i-Evetywhme men are offering themselves freely, both married aud single, are being enrolled daily and sent into barracks. Respectable and hardworking citizens, who havo been following a number of trades, havo been suddenly transformed into full blown field officers, with all military status, and with handsome pay and allowances. The commandant alone Las tBLO a year. The pay of the officers vanes from jC(3SO for lieulenantß-coloncls in comma J to ,i; 325 for lieutenants. The men get from .is bd to Gs per day. Provision is also made or the wives aud families aud for casualties. Iho enthusiasm has extended to the country, aim numbers ol volunteers have arrived from different centres. Contributions ol money and kind arc flowing in.

~ . , v, v the Inspector-General’s Crime, as shown cy immurt K . report, is rapidly increasing in New South Wales.