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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1672, 22 April 1885, Page 2

On being written to by the Mayor of Mastorton on the subject of the promised answer to the railway deputation, (says the Post) Mr, J. P. Maxwell, in a letter dated 17th inst., states that an answer was forwarded to Mr. G. Beetham, the member for the district on the 24th ult,, to the effect that he (the general manager) did not see his way at present to make any alteration in tbo timetable, tbe balance of opinion in the district, so far as could be ascertained, being in favor of the present times, but that the matter would ho reconsidered should it be found that a change was generally desired.

Tbe gale which passed over 'Wellington during Saturday night and early on Sunday morning destroyed a very considerable portion of tbe frame-work of the Exhibition Buildings, for some time in course of construction. The Taranaki Herald says that the agitation lor defence works in Auckland and other ports is " more with the view of getting large sums of money spent, than for any fear of an invasion.” An Auckland paper retorts : “It is evident that the Taranaki people judge other folk by themselves.”

The Auckland contractors stripped their works of 100 men to work at the harbor defences.

On Saturday Mr. James Daley, an old and respected settler at Akaroa, was found dead in bed. Ho had been in the habit of taking German chloroform for sleeplesness, and on this occasion had evidently taken an over dose.

The latest novelty connected with the blaeksmithing industry in Greytown is to be f.con at Mr It. Bright’s establishment in the shape of some very ingeniously contrived drying stoves for Mr Puller’s tobacco drying rooms in this town. Mr Bright has, since bis long establishment in the borough, introduced many novel and useful ideas cwmooted with his particular branch of industry, and these newly contrived drying stoves nto not the least among such acquisitions. They are portable. Clark and Pickering’s coach arrived from Nolsonat 3.30 on Monday, at Havelock, via Rai Valley. This is the first through coach.

Tho Lizzie, from Norfolk Island, reports that a terrific storm visited Norfolk Island on tho 10th March, destroying the crops, blowing down trees, lifting the roofs off houses and doing other damage. Neatly SO3O attended Mr Booth’s children's oc-nicu at Christchurch on Sunday, mid as many iatuUs crowded tho evening meeting, wbilo hundred!, were turned away. Tim chiii! m in, .Urn Mr leitt, had u> bespeak i'.uialac-.ico for Mr Booth, wiio shows signs of bn down. Mr Mali Imw Burnett, temperance lecturer, ive-ssiul mission on Monday a I 1 1 .i*i■ ■.i';,. hv hohiioo a mothers’ mooting at wSoh Oil ;■!.> I go.-' Win',' taken. j'uii.v ii lias declared himself in T.vi nt :,m dl i.irni.-, mid opposed to largo i "do . M, ,il;,o proposed a duly on corn oo.i ’■, ihe b; 1 , ‘lt of pnei's'int proprieUn■; .. ■[ id,; ludchsiiig curried tlie motion by d.'' e. -.iin.-i. tu;. i.i'iy.-, u eioiu-iopor iry—A lady writes. The most abnormally umdost girl I over hoard of came, to town a i'mv days ago, 1 was in nor bedroom, Some handsome flowers that I had previously seen there were gone. " Did you send thorn out for fear that, as some say, they might have ft had effect on your health while you were asleep ?” “Ohno my dear,” ftUv ruunyuved. “ Botany was my at school, uild 1 bWWW familiar with tho fact that there are actually sckM in plants—males and females m every species don't yo! 1 ka?'iY • Well, I found on examination that the ilowera iu this room were masculine, and they didn’t scorn quite proper in a lady’s chamber. Really I couldn’t disrobe comfortably, nor sleep in peace."

Bat, riding to market with a’sack of potatoes before him, find.-, ins horse gotl’ug tired, wheioupon he dismounts, shoulders his potatoes, and again mounts, saying " It is better I should carry the praties, as I’m fresher than the yoo* baste,"

: '.’.at the wood on tho nortii side 'H [; e■wi • out warp us much as that from liu; b-.uiili side, and that if trees arc sawed in plsuts that uin east and as the tree stood, it will wary leas than if cut in tire opposite direction. Tiro Preach have discovered that a mixture of oil, naphtha, quicklime, and water, will destroy the winter eggs of the phylloxera without injuring tho grape vines. The rciuedy is not only efficient, but cheap, ami wi .tor is the best time to attack the scourge lu Mexico there is a petrified forest covering t>oo acres. The petrified stumps, limbs, and, in fact, whole trees lie about on all sides ; the action of the waters for hundreds of years has gradually washed away tho high hills round about, and the trees that once covered tho high table-lauds now lie iu tho valley beneath. A special general meeting of the Colonial Mutual Lrfo Assurance Society (Limited) was hold at tho Melbourne office on March 30, There was a large attendance of members, including Sir Samuel Davenport, of Adelaide, Hon. J. P. Dorns, M. P., New Soutn Wales; and W. H Wilson, of Brisbane. Tho Eev. H. Plow Kand, M. A., Chairman of the Melbourne Board, iu the chair. The report showed the policies in force at tho 31st March 1884, to be 17,821, assuring over £4, 131,732, annual premiums on which were £160,000, and are now £IB,OOO. The invested funds wore set down at £385,269, now increased to £450,000, the interest on which exceeded £29,000. The actuarial calculation were certified by Mr. Thomas Bond Sprague, M.A., P.1.A., President of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain and Ireland, and Mr. George King, P.1.A., Lecturer of the Institute. The report showed a balance of £48,033 available for distribution at end of quinquennium, of which the Directors propose to distribute £45,000, which will create reversionary bonuses to the amount of over £IOO,OOO amongst those members entitled to participate. The adoption of the report was moved by the Chairman, who was supported by the representatives from Adelaide and New South Walea, and carried unanimously. Tho Chairman announced that tbe returns to hand showed the new business to be considerably in excess of the previous year’s. Votes of thanks were passed to the Chairman, Directors, General Manager, Actuary, and officers. Skinny Men. “ Wells’ Health Benewer,” restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Debility. At Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosse. 1 & Co., Agents, Christchurch. The residents of Greytown, will be glad to learn that a committee has been appointed to arrange for a series of entertainments at tho Literary Institute. The great saocess which has attended these entertainments in past seasons showed how much they were appreciated by the public, and we have no doubt, as the funds are to bo devoted to two of our best local institutions—the Hospital end Institute—that the coming season will see some large audiences, and a good display of local ta’cubhi musiojand elocution. The Greytown Quadrille Assembly held their second Monday night’s meeting at the Town Hall. The affair was an unequaliscd success ; about 120 persons were in the room and tho dancing was spiritedly sustained m:lit tire appointed hour for closing 10.30 p.m. Tho company were as select as could be desired, and the promoters of these Monday evening entertainments have every reason lo expect that the result will exceed their most sanguine expectations. Messrs Lundqviat and Varnham supplied tbe music.

la connection with the late fire at Te Aro House, Wellington, a painful feeling has been created bv the circulation of a report (says the Post) that Mr. Squire Barlow, an old resident of Wellington, met his death in the burning building. Mr. Squire Barlow was observed in the carpet room of Te Aro House about 10 minutes after 6, when he was engaged in assisting Mr. Hodgers and others to suppress the outbreak. From all we can gather he was not seen after that, and it is believed that be was suffocated by the smoke any that his dead body now lies amongst the debris. A search for the missing man was instituted amougst tho rest of the debris this afternoon. Mr. Barlow was a married man, with four children. Ho was in partnership with his brother, Mr. E. Barlow and was to have returned to the shop after tea. As he has not been seen by anyone since the fire it is feared that ho met with his death in the burning building. Mr. Barlow was known in tho Wnirarapa, having kept a butcher's shop at Carterton at one time. “ Eough On Corns.” Ask lor Wells’ “Eough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthoiue, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. An exchange says that a curious fact in natural history is reported from the Huvunui district. There Karo immense quantities of tho native flax there, all of which presents a healthy appearance ; but not a single flower stalk of tho present season is to be seen, much to the bewilderment of the " crowds ” of bees that have in past years bad ample opportunity of becoming giddy with the sweet surfeit of the flax blooms. The °same thing occurred, we are told, some time years ago. The inference would be— though we do not know whether this is tho case—that in the absence of the usual flower stems the plants will have shown extraordinary vigor in their new growth. This absence of flowers has been noted in tho North Island as well, especial'y in the Wanganui district.

A man named Dan Jones was drowned at Ormond on Monday. He tried to swim the river when drunk.

A meeting has been held at Carterton for the purpose of forming a football club. Mr F. W. K. Seed was voted to the chair, and the election of office bearers resulted as fol’ows ; —Mr C, Fnirbrother (captain), Mr F. W. Seed (president), Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.H.R., (vice president), and Mr A. Ewcn (secretary and treasurer). The Wanganui Chronicle contains the following “ Auckland papers reports evidence of a good deal of typhoid fever in that city. The city is not well drained, and suffers especially at this time of the year from tho autumn rains stirring up the foetid deposits in the uncleared watercourses.

Tiio Hon It. Campbell has sold 1003 head of cattle at L 7 10s to the Now South Government The meat is to be frozen and seut to the Soudan.

Mr A. L. Whyte, the widely known confect loner, and providoro of Carterton, baa made of lute some very convenient alterations to Ids premises. He lias now an extra and nlvly tilted dining room, and his numerous cu,toners can either dine privately or colli e'ively, as their tastes may desire. Mr Whyte's enterprise is proverbial throughout tho whole of the Wairarapa, The first symptoms of “ the Soudan fever’’ in Sydney were the signal for a great out burst of frothy patriotism, which soon fizzled out. A letter received from Sydney by a gentleman in town on this subject says :—“ There is one noticeable feature

iu this Soudan business that has not crept into the papers, and that is bid for cheap patriotism made by a lot of those who scut in their names ,- t the first instance, but who, when the f'U-r was accepted, took a back seat, rml were h-rml of no more. Never dreaming the oiler of a New South Wales contingent would he accepted by the British Goverment, these spurious heroes were red hot to go right away to the Soudan, but the acceptanee of the ofler made a sudden (no pun intended) change in their feelings, and became affected with a disease, Dr O’ Rafferty declared to be a kind of a “ Stay at home wid us ” {ntcatom ?) affection! Of those who volunteered In th§ fifst instance, only a very small per centage tiu P e d up yhyn called upon ; but their places were soon fiileu ov ne'.V men, who meant business and said nothing, One fellow in our shop, was one of the first to come forward and have his name ngm mg iu the list of heroes published in the papers, but he evidently likes Sydney too well as he is here still. But hot as the Soudan is, we are making Sydney hotter ror tnis sham soldier, who wishes he hadn't made such a conspicuous ass of himself. " i

The usual monthly meeting of the Carter-1 tuo School CuiuLuiiUo tuuk place on Monday evening. Present—Messrs 11. Fairbrotbcr j (chairman), Anderson, Aplia, G. Fairbrotbcr, | Li, Campiu and it. Carter. The head master's monthly report was of a satisfactory 1 character. A tender for flooring the slmhe r shed was received from Mr Rubt. Apliu.Li os, and accepted. A letter was read from the Secretary of the Education Board, enclosing a map of the boundaries of the Dak-field and Belvedere districts. A long discussion ensued relative to trio encroachments made on tuo Carterton school district, during which some severe remarks were passed on the action of tbo Board in making the boundaries without in any way consulting the Carterton Committee, It was decided to hold a special meeting of the Committee on Monday evening nest to consider the matter.

A special meeting of the Featberston Town Board was held on Monday evening. Commissioners present —Messrs Reynolds (chairman), Bruuskill, llodder and Gundy. Mr Hoddor proposed and Mr Brunskill seconded, “ That this Board strike a general rate of a halfpenny in the £ (real value), on all the ratable properties as appearing on the valuation roll for the Featberston Town District; also, a library rate of one penny in the £ (annual value), such rate to be for the period of one year dating from the Ist day of April, 1885, to the 31s( day of March, 1880, and to be payable in one instalment at the Town Board Office on the Ist day of May, 1885.”

Mr Stratford, K.M., sat on the Bench at Carterton yesterday, for the first time. Several civil cases were the only business on hand.

Mr. Jno. Radoliffe, the eminent flautist, and Madame Rita will open at the Theatre Royal, Wellington, on Monday next. At the Magistrates’ Court, Grey town, before J. Tully, Esq., J.P., on Tuesday, B. Lepinsky was charged by Constable Eocleton with being drunk in Greytown streets. Defendant pleaded guilty and a previous conviction being recorded against him he was fined 20s and costs.

A controversy has been carried on in the Daily Telegraph between the Bishop of Melbourne and Mr. Justice Williams on the subject ol Mr. Justice Williams’ book on Religion and superstition. The Qreytown Rifle Volunteers met for drill at the Town Hall last night. Among the ranks we noticed several new faces. Captain Webster and Licuts Cameron and Varnham were on parade. After drill the annual meeting of the Company was held, when the balance sheet was presented and adopted. The committees were formed as follows General Committee—The Officers, Sergeants Skotmun, Baillie and Willason. Vols Heckler and J. Cameron. Match Committee—The Officers, Sergeants Trotman and Baillie, Vole. Fisher and J. Cameron. This committee will meet on Tuesday next to draw up ruies and regulations. The Company also arranged to challenge the Carterton Rifles to Are a match on Saturday week or fortnight, as may be most convenient. Mr Toogood’s now advertisement in out next.

A mild case of variola, or smallpox, was repotted to the Melbourne health authorities on Monday from Hotham, The carrying trade (says the Daily) appears to be remarkably brisk in ibis district just now. We are informed that a linn which has several contracts on hand, and required ono or two extra waggons and horses, found it impossible to get them in lire district.

The Daily says—Complaints are made <■£ the state of a portion of the Forty Milo Bush road, near Bketahuua, Wo are informed that a quantity of now metal that has been put on consists almost entirely of big boulders, so that traffic over them is very heavy.

Tho weather in New South Wales has been of a more seasonable character lately, fine rains having fallen in most of the districts.

Farmers in South Australia era busy preparing for tho next crop ; a gt ed deal of land has been broken up aud sowing is being carried on, but more ram is required.

The number ofna'ives who attended tiro ceremony of turning tiro first sod of the North Island Trunk itailway was from Su) to lubd. Nearly the whole of ihe three sods dug by Wahanui pud wheeled away try the Premier, were carried bodily away in small quantities by Europeans as mementos of the occasion. It is reported tlxatlCJ.O,’) Lins!,"! trojps are being massed on 'hs Afghan Pe.-pier.

At Carterton, on May 2Sth, the Druid’s ball, one of the most popular annual gatherings held in the district, will take place, and should Hie weather prove propitious there wl'i he a large number of persons from all parts of the Wnivarapa as usual upon this celebration.

An exchange says—During tbo Easter Encampment at Queenstown the volunteers were continually imitating tho Salvationists, and on one Sunday night they drove to Avrowtown, held a service, and took up a collection of L2, which was banded to the hospital. Halleluiah. The attention of footballers is drawn to an advertisement re practice on Saturday. As a match is being arranged with the Wellington football club, members should obtain as much practice as possible in order that tho committee may select a strong team. Young members are specially invited to attend in view of a junior match on the 24'h May.

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