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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1683, 1 April 1885, Page 2

The Featherston (Jaailri le commence their eearon shoitly. will then meet weekly da; inj men thi, Glues will The class the winter

Tlji- '.i. yiown Quadrille Class, under the au. piers i A the Fire Diigado, held their first meeting in the Town Hall, Greytown, on Monday night. Considering that it was the first night of the season, and the ladies as usual, being somewhat diffident in taking the initiatory steps to commence the class, the affair was a great success, and the young people of both sexes appeared to thoroughly enjoy themselves. The music was supplied by iMessrs Yarn ham and Barnard, who are always to the front in catering for the public enjoyment.

The members of the Gtreytown Cricket Club and some outside “ Muffs " contemplate playing a cricket match at Greytown on Good Friday. Featheiatou men are cordially invited to take part.

The Millis Hart Troupe will appear at the Greytown Town Hall to-morrow evening in an entertainment entitled 11 Sans Souci " Every body knows Millis to be all that can be desired, and the names of Mrs, E. A. Hart and her daughter have formerly been oopbined with those “ Happy Hours Entertainment ” which so delighted old and young. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows : —The week has been characterised by extreme dullness, and leading lines are without any change, therefore a brief mention of different qaotations, will be deemed sufficient information. New Zealand flour, £Blss r.o £9; fowls’ wheai, 2s S)d ; feed barley, nominally worth 2s to 2s fid ; old oats, 2s , new do (short feed) 2s fid to 2s 4d ; oatmeal, £l2 15s to £l3 ; pollard £6 ; bran, £4, sacks extra; onions, overstocked, £6 ; potatoes have shown some activity, and are quoted almost universally at £2 15s ship’s side, or £3 in store ; whole beans, 4s ; peas 3s ; wheaten chaff £3 10s ; oaten do, £4 ; cheese, 4Jd to 5d ; salt butter remains at 8d ; fresh do, 9d ; eggs are exceedingly scarce at Is lOd to 2s per dozen. Poultry rather quiet— Fowls, 3s Sid to 4s ; ducks, 4s ; geese, 6s fid ; turkeys, 10s per pair. Fruit is very hard to move, the dealers have quite overstocked themselves, and the recent cold weather has curtailed trade considerably. Good cooking apples are the only line worth noting as being in demand. Tbe storm on a recent Sunday night did glorious work among the small birds in the North Ashley district, Canterbury. They were found in scores under the blue gum trees round the homesteads in exposed situations —sparrows, greenfinches and goldfinches meeting their fate alike. Ten dozen were picked up in one garden of about half an acre in extent.

Messas, Mitchell and Richards, o£ Wanganui have accepted an order from Sydney for 100,0001ba of preserved moat in tins. Timaru people, having successfully berthed the Wnkatipu at the breakwater, are agitating for all the Union Company’s intercolonial steamers to call there.

The Mayor of Sydney offers a prize of 25 pumeas for the man who most distinguishes himself in the Soudan.

In the event of war being declared the firstclass militia will at once be called out for training all over the colony. The Rev James Gumming, Inspector of the North Canterbury Education Board, died at Dunedin, on Thursday last. He arrived in Dunedin a week before and had only been confined to bed three days in his hotel. He nad not been in good health for some time. Several fatal cases of diptheria have occurred in Wellington during the last few days. Two deaths have taken place in one family in Brougham-street. It is stated that certain residents in the locality referred to have been for a considerable time past in the habit of burying night-soil in their gardens. A Fact Worth Knowing.—Are you suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Colds settled on the Breast, Pneumonia, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs ? If so, go to your Druggist and get a bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. The people are going wild over its success, and Druggists all over our country are writing us of its wonderful cures among their customers. It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value in all affections of this kind. Chronic cases quickly yield to it. Druggists recommend it and physicians prescribe it. If you wish to try its superior virtue, get a Sample Bottle for Cd. Large size bottle 3s 6d. Three doses will relieve any case. Try it There are no shops in any Abyssinian town. All the trade is done within the trader’s home, or compounded over a glass of tedge or mattic. Flour is ground by the women of the house ; on the premises bread is made ; tedge and meads are brewed in each household. Each house rears its own cattle as well as children—babies, goats, and lambs, fowls and chickens, are brought up together, and are playmates from their youth. It has been discoveredjn Cape County, the Colonial Mail states, that insects shun land on which tomatoes are grown, and some efforts will be mmle to turn the fact to advantage for the preservation of growing fruits, &c.

Arrangements are to be made for six steamers to leave England during the present year with emigrants for Queensland. It is the intention of the Sydney military authorities to hold a volunteer encampment during Easter at Middle Head and Windsor A subscription is being raised in Hobart to remunerate Mr Matthew Burnett for his self-sacrificing work in the cause of temperance.

The bakers in Tasmania are seeking to get the hours of work reduced to ten hours per day. The present hours range from thirteen to sixteen.

The address presented to the Rev Mr Young on Saturday was the work of Mr E. A. Campbell and was very tastefully executed. It has been suggested that representations might be made to the Government through our member, Mr Buchanan, that it is advisable a sheep yard should be provided at the Greytown Railway Station for the convenience of parties transmitting sheep to and from that terminus.

It will be necessary for the combined Wairarapa cricketing team to leave per train on Friday for Saturday's match, or they will have no time to play the several innings before the train reiurus on Saturday afternoon.

We would call the attention of our readers to the fact, as can ha seen by an advertisement in another column, of a fishmonger's shop having been established in Greytown by Mr Barr. This will supply a want, long and badly felt, by the townspeople, as fresh fish of late has been a rarity to Greytown. Sc.ie Throat quickly yields to “ Baxter's Lung Preserver.' 1 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 Whoopi no 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. Wells’ “ Bough On Corns.” Ask tor Wells’ “ Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions, Moses, Moss A Co., Sydney, General Agents. Don’t Die la The House. “Bough on rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bod bugs, flies, ants, moles, jack-rabbits, gophers. Moses, Moss A Co., Sydney, General Agents. Skinny Men, “ Walla’ Health Kenewer,” restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Debility. Moses, Moss A Co., Sydney, General Agents. In ligestion and Liver Complaints.—For these complaints Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills have proved a specific, acting powerfully on the liver and mildly on the stomach. —Sold everywhere, or post free from f. Baxter, Chemist, Christchurch, for ig or 44 stamps.

Tic-doloreux. toothache, ov any other neuralgia pain’ speedily yields to Baxter's ,Anti neuralgic Pills.

The I’ost snys, The Hon. Minister of Defence Ins receive! a le*ter from the wellknown Kingito chief Tamihana offering to raise amongst his people a native contingent of 200 young men to proceed to the Soudan for military service there. Tamihana is a sou of the celebrated chief William Tirompsou, the Maori kingmaker. Oa of the men of war and possibly two, belonging to the Australian Squadron will at once be sent down to New Zealand to remain permanently on duty in these waters.

Four deaths from diptheria has occurred in Wellington. Auckland, Welliugtan, Lyttelton, and Dunedin harbours are to be fortified at once. Wellington will have three batteries. The town of Martinborough is steadily assuming large proportions. Mrs Harrison is now having built a handsome and commodious residence; Mr Benton of Featherston is the builder. Mr Benton is a builder of good repute in this valley, and has of late completed some very handsome houses. Mr Benton has also in hand a very nice house far Mr Wakelin of the saw mill, Greytown, the exterior of which Mr Beard is embellishing with the brush. The election of members of the Maori Committee which took place on Monday at Greytown, resulted as follows : -Martini Teoro, Hoani Eaugitakaiwaho, and Kopata Hekeca Mauihera (Papawai) ; Manihora Malta and Karaitiana Korou (Masterton) ; Hamuera Mahupuku (Martinborough) ; Piripi te Maati (Lower Valley) ; Wirimu Mahupuku and Tunuiarangi (Gladstone and East Coast); Te Kohea Tahana (Tupurupuru); Hum Te Idiaro (Forty-Mile-Bush anu Manawatu); Wiremu Eautu (Castle Point to Cape Turna gain.)

The Featherston Eifle Volunteers met for drill Monday night. The attendance was very good. A few of the members of the company much regret that they, through business en gagements, cannot accompany their more fortunate comrades to the Easter review.

We have just seen a telegram by which Mr Toogood, storekeeper of Featherston, has been appointed sole agent for this district, for Vollbracht’s Tobacco Growing and Manufacturing Company. Mr Toogood will be prepared to give one shilling per pound for tobacco consigned to him, and the owner will be absolved from all risk after the article reaches Wellington. The Yollbraoht Company have a number of branch factories, and as this industry is of a very lucrative nature, it is to be hoped that the attention of owners of good land will be drawn in that particular direction. The soiree which comes off next Monday at Oreytowu in aid of the Wairarapa Hospital promises to be a most successful and brilliant affair. Judging from the way in which the rickets are going off among both classes the attendance will be large and the result should be a goodly sum for the Hospital. Ihe Grey town Brass Baud have offered their services to assist with the music. A committee meeting will be held to morrow afternoon to make final arrangements. Masterton is to have a new lock up.

The Salvation Army at Masterton hold a big tea fight next Monday.

Mr F. H. Wood has some fresh announcements in to day’s issue. Mr Burnett closed his temperance mission on Monday night so far ns Invercargill and suburbs are concerned. He now goes to the country districts for a fortnight. He visited the gaol and created such a feeling among the prisoners that several took the pledge. In and around Invercargill, upwards of GOO recruits in the Blue Ribbon Army are the results of his mission.

The Post says the Government have sent instructions to the Agent-General to endeavor to purchase for the colony, subject to the approval of the Admiralty, an armed cruiser of a class suited to the purpose of coastal defence. If procurable she will be sent out to the colony without delay. After the usual drill of the Greytown Rifles last night. Lieut. Cameron offered a valuable prize to be fired for, the first match to commence on Saturday next, at the usual time. Lieut Varnham also offered an album as a second prize in the same match. Mr John Kerr, of Nelson, will strive to represent the Waimea, now that Mr Shepherd has been elevated to the Legislative Council. Drs Collins and Kemp have returned from London by the R.M.S. Ruapehu. We hear that the Colonial Secretary has granted an enquiry into ex-inspector Sutton’s alleged grievances. At the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, Donald Chisholm admitting having committed a breach of the “ Sale of Poisons Act, 1871,” by selling a pot of “ Rough on Rats,” on the 18th instant. He said he did not know that he was infringing the law by selling the poison. Detective Inspector Browne stated that the accused had been in the habit of selling the poison without any restriction whatever. Accused said that if he had known the poison came under the Sale of Poisons Act he certainly would not have sold it. The Court imposed a fine of -10s and costs. A Scotish Rifle Corps is to be formed for the Canterbury district, with head-quarters at Christchurch. The uniform of the company, it is proposed, shall be the Gordon tartan. A boarding house at Macßae’s, Otago, known as the Temperance Hotel, was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday last, It contained seven rooms, and was owned and occupied by Mrs Sarah Rich. The usual monthly meeting of the Carterton Town Board was held on Monday. Preset.t Commissioners R. Fairbrother (chairman), Callister, Vickerstaff, Parker, Campbell, and H. H. Welters (town clerk), The Treasurer reported a credit balance at the hank of Lidos, and mentioned that Lot) overdue rates were outstanding. The matter of Mr R. Hooker’s offer to place three matai stringers over a creek in Lincoln road was not accepted. It was the opinion of the Board that a creek a chain and a-half wide would require a sluice bottom and a hand bridge.

Lord Augustus Loftus will continue to hold the position of Governor of New South Wales, and will remain in the colony till November nest.

The Eev Mr Ward, the new minister who will preside over the Greytown circuit during the ouming term, arrived in Greytown yesterday. Wo regret to hear that Mr W. H. W. Haines, of Greytown, is still lying in a very precarious state, and hopes of his recovery are very, doubtful.

The Kaitara school treat takes place to morrow afternoon.

It is said that the cost of the cables transmitted in regard to the arrest of William Sheehan for the Casthtowmoche murders already amount to £6OO. Air Gerald Massey lectures in Wellington ou Sunday next. T i the Editor,—Perhaps you would bo please.. ;*> remark that at the request (cabled), of lion Trios. G. Hewitt, President of the Exposition to be held at Grafton, N.S.W., (commencing the latter part of March), Mr H. P. Hubbard, Proprietor of fire International Newspaper Agency, New Haven, Conn., U.S.A., has forwarded for display on that occasion sample copies of over seven hundred leading newspapers, published in the various cities of the United States, Mexico, South America, the West Indies, British India, South Africa, Europe, etc. Probably such a collection of periodicals in various languages has never been seen before in Australia ; and possibly at no previous exhibition in the world. Mr Hubbard regretted that the short time allowed him for making this collection, (only one day after receipt of Mr Hewitt’s cablegram), did not admit of the selection and arrangement of a very much larger representation of the Press of the Woild The contribution sent, however, cannot fail to prove of great interest to all intelligent visitors to the Exposition, and especially to newspaper men and lovers of unique literature.

The Weslovan Bible and Improvcrne; t Class, nt a f .rcwe'lcMn; .i- >n n' o • Monday night at Mast, lien, pu Kcnti-d tin In' L. -IIsitt with a gold pencil case ui,.icump*nna.turjr address. The cricket mihh hi I'u'en V. i h.ii' I 1 n and the Wairarnpa will be played at U ciiii.gton on Saturday. Mr McCard’.e has Ice i appointed a Jusl.ce of the Peace. Mirny of the country settlers living n<*a r the flag stations, are much exercised in mind because the railway department do not pie., up passengers nt these stations when :i” excursion train is run to Wellington. It necessitates these settlers going miles to get to the principal railway stations, and it cau-es much inconveuco. But the groat drawback to such persons going to Wellington at nil by these cheap trains is the return at night. For instance a Matarawa settler has to get out at Woodside at a late hour on the return journey. He is miles from his home, and the walk at night acioss the country spoils the pleasures of the journey, lie get home about one or two in the morning, tired out and untitled for woik next day. All this could be avoided, and eeltleis living at such places as Matarawa and Dalefield would he able to enjoy these excursions if they were picked up or dropped ut their own stations. Wc hope tl 0 railway manager will consider the matter.