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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1695, 17 June 1885, Page 2

AVe are glad to see that Mr A. Anderson, of AVoudside, has consented to come forward as a candidate for the vacant seat on the Featherston Hoad Board. For some time past No 1 AVard has been unrepresented on the Board, owing to Mr Budding's illness, and his resignation winch followed. We believe Mr Anderson would make a painstaking and active member, and we doubt whether the ratepayers will be able to secure tbe services of any gentleman more suitable who could give the necessary time and attention to the duties.

The quarterly inspection of the Fcatherston volunteers is postponed until next AA Tednesday, on account of the recent bereavement sustained by Acting Captain Brunskill. Every member of the company who does not attend the inspection is liable to be fined.

The Greytown quadrille assembly was well attended on Monday night. About fifty couples were present, and tho various dauces were indulged in with great fervor. The dance will be postponed for a fortnight, on account of the fancy dress ball taking place next week.

The funeral of Mrs Brunskill took place at Featherston on Monday atternoou. A | number of persons were present from Carterton, Greytown and other places, and altogether there were about 150 people at the cemetery. A heavy gale of wind was blowing during the ceremony. The liev Mr AVestern conducted the service. Two candidates have been nominated for the vacant seat in the Greytown Borough Council, namely, Mr AValter Armstrong and Mr Fierce Cotter, juu. The election will take place on Tuesday next. Mr Booth leaves AVelliugtou on Friday. At a meeting the other night he regretted that his success in AVelliagtou had not been so great as in other colonial cities. Either there had not been sufficient preparatory work done before the mission commmenced, or else the people were less impressionable,' but any way the fact remained that at Auckland and Buuedin he had succeeded in converting many more people than he had converted in Wellington. Tho total number of sheep in the colony in May, 1884, was 13,078,520, against 13,30(5,329 the previous year. AVe have received from Mr AV. H. Wobbe, of Auckland, a waltz, composed by him and entitled “My LoveAValtz,” AVe introduced it at a private dance the other night and the whole company expressed themselves highly pleased with it. It is very expressive, and we have heard very few waltzes that run so smoothly. AVe believe copies are to be had in Wellington. Gear and Co’s Meat Preserving AAffirka, Wellington, had a narrow escipe from fire yesterday morning. The Featherston Hoad Board, advertise for a clerk and collector.

The drawing in connection with the coming foot hj ill matches took place at Masterton last night with the following result, tireytowu is to play Carterton at Carterton on Saturday next. The winning team will on the following Saturday play Masterton.

A fisherman named Dorritt, was drowned at Sumner, near Christchurch, on Sunday. He was stepping from one boat to another and fell into the water.

The tender of L. Lessong, of Napier, LBBO, has been accepted for the survey of the Mas-terton-Mangahao Special Settlement Block. There were eight tenders, the highest being L2OOO.

A consignment of tinned iith sent from ■Wellington to London by the ss Arawaon her return trip arrived in England in excellent condition. A sample was sent to the War Office and was approved of. This article can be exported and sold in England at 30 per cent less than the English articles of a similar kind.

The best paying line of railway in Now Zealand is the Kawakawa section. The section is only eight miles in length, but the year's profit is 00 58 per cent. The revenue per mile for the twelve months was £709 19a 7d. The expenditure per mile for the same period was £278 Ha. The number of animals carried on the New Zealand railway is very small, considering the length of lines open. Luting April only 2059 cattle, 55027 sheep, and 2905 pigs were conveyed over the lines. Ten donkeys have been imported into Christchurch from Melbourne, to be used for visitors at Summer Beach.

There appears to be some talk of another paper for Woodville, and this is how the Examiner refers to it : -It is out at last. The local agents of the proposed new paper are a publican in Woodville and another in Danevirlce, also members of ihe Survey and Public Works Department and a few friends whose little games we have been exposing, and to whom the exposures were not pala(lHo Walk we have a few more little ■ • -a shall leave them exposures to make, mu ... till the new paper is started. We shau mebe able to show up a few of the rumored pro motors properly, and so serious will be the charges we shall then be prepared to make that the result in two instances cannot stop short of criminal prosecutions by the Government. These are the men who are trying to do us injury, but they shall find us quite prepared to fight with our OWn weapons.

An old man named Thomas Mills, who is a recipient of relief from the Wellington Benevolent Society met with injuries to his head last Sunday afternoon by falling clown the steps leading from the pit outside the Tucatre Royal. He was taken to the hospital where he now lies. The poor old man (says the Post)* is more than 70 years of ago, and is at present overseer of the Benevolent Society’s oakum pickers. He is one of the oldest printers in the province, and for 25 years acted as schoolmaster in the Wairarapa district.

What might have been a terrible accident was within an ace of occurring on Sunday on the Wcllington• Manawatu railway line above Kaiwurra, owing to the culpable neglige ice of some persons in the employ of the company, says the Post. The line is not yet open for traffic, and it is rather a favorite Sunday afternoon walk for people to stroll from Kaiwarra towards Croftou. No notice has been given of any trains running or against trespassing on the line, aud a great many persons fs usual went along it. Just as three young women aud some children had euteied one of the funnels some people outside were horrified to observe an engine and one or two carriages come down the line at a very fast rate, and without even whistling, dash into the tunnel. The women there saw the danger and screamed loudly. Then suddenly all was still. A couple of young men rushed in expecting to find the mangled bodies of the women and children, but, fortunately, one of the former, and tbe youngsters, had found refuge in a man hole, and the two other girls, with great presence of mind, had straightened themselves up against the wall, and remained motionless while the train swept by. It was a very narrow escape, and of course all were terribly frightened, the spectators almost as much as those who had so narrowly escaped. It was a most reckless thing to run a train down from Johnsonville without notice, and to enter a tunnel without whistling was, we believe, contrary to all railway rule. At Masterton, on Monday, a foreigner named Frederick Juritt, who carries the mail between Masterton and Castlepoint, was fined £lO or one months’ hard labour for gross cruelty to his horses, and £1 or six days’ hord labour for leaving them without proper food or shelter. The evidence shows that the poor animals were worked till they could go no further; their backs ami sides were covered with wounds and blood from the saddle and spurs, and one was turned adrift on the roadside, while the other was placed in a paddock. This occurred about a dozen miles from Masterton, whither the mails and mailman had to be brought on iu the coach. The Magistrate censured Juritt in strong language, and said he was cpiite unfit to have charge of animals of any desoriktiou.

Mr ATncent Fyke has been favoring his constituents with his opinion on the beetroot industry Did Ins hearers,” he asked, “ ever taste beetroot sugar ? He had been so unlucky. It had made Ins tea washy, spoiled his punch, soured his temper, and made him generally unhappy. And why, he should like to know, were the whole population to pay in order to enable a few farmers in the North Island to grow beetroot ! If an industry did not pay without special taxation, then abolish it. At Home they grow beetroot largely, and made it into white spirit, from which other spirits were manufactured, and that would be the end of beetroot culture here."

A telegram from Napier states that the remains of Mr John Sheehan were taken from town to the port, and shipped on the Hinemoa. An immense procession, over half-a mile long, followed. The Volunteers and Fire Brigades, with the Garrison Band playing the Bead March, led the way. After the hearse followed the friendly societies in procession, then a long line of people, two and two ; then a number of cabs, and a number of Maoris bringing up the rear. Mon of all political parties joined in paying the last tribute of respect. It is feared that all hopes for the safety of P. Liardet must be given up. Mr St. Clair Liardet has discovered his nephew’s punt on the Kahautara side of the AVairarapa lake. The little cruft was bottom up„ and it is believed that she was capsized during the time Frederick Liardet was crossing the lake on Saturday fortnight whir the object of catching the train at Featherston, and going into Wellington. On righting tho boat the missing man’s fowling piece was found lashed to one of the seats, and in a small leather bag in the front locker were discovered two watches and a gold ring. A bugle which the missing man was in the habit of carrying about with him when on the water was also found in the looker.

A " Mngby Party,” a sort of basket picnic was held by the ladies of a church in my neighbourhood a while ago, says an American writer. The ladies contributed baskets, each filled with a dainty supper for two. Each lady enclosed her card, and at seven o’clock these baskets were sold to the highest bidders among the gentleman. Then the gentleman sought the owner of tho card enclosed and shared with her his supper. Those who read the works of Charles Bickens will remember the story called 11 Mugby Junction.” It is said that ever since, ns the trains have passed through Mugby Junction the coaches are emptied of their inmates and all tourists buy a basket containing a lunch, and the proprietors of this restaurant have made themselves immensely wealthy, Mugby Junction having been made famous by Charles Bicaen’a Christmas story,

A correspondent of the London Standard, writing from St Petersburg on the KnssoAfghan outbreak, Bays “ The general public, even here in the capital, has not an inkling of what has happened, and thus there is before me the extraordinary spectacle of a nation of ninety millions of people on the very brink of a calamitous war, and, with the exception of a mere handful of people, all utterly ignorant of the fact.”

The Admiialty, through a Sydney firm, have just ordered 1000 cases of preserved meat in tins (each tin containing (ilbsof meat) from the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company.

The Freemasons of England have subscribed during the past eleven years no less than £350,000 to their charitable institutions for widows and orphans.

A fiery denunciation of Freemasonry has lately been delivered in Melbourne by Father Thomas Cahill, S.P., who spared no words in condemning the Society, and exhorting his (lock to “ beware of the awful avalanche ” of judgment that would descend upon them were they to become allied with this “ impious ” secret association of the unregenerate. A Melbourne contemporary says :—“ The picture which ho has in his mind is that of a club of abandoned debauchees, whose aim is the dissolution of the bonds of society in conjunction with the Communists of Paris and the Dynamitards of Ireland, and who in the pursuits of their Eesoonnine festivities perform unclean rites that would disgrace a troop of goat footed Satyrs.’’ It is interesting to know what is the penalty exacted from a Freemason who betrays the secret of his order. M'Audrieux, late Prefect of Police, has been expelled from the Lyons “ Lodge of Perfect Silence, for malting too free with Masonic mysteries ; and, by way of adding insult to injury, announced that by their laws the lodge was bound to have his throat cut, hia body disembowelled, and hia mutilated remains laid on the seashore at low water. M. Andrieux is awaiting the execution of this sentence with philosophical resignation.

So ne ; Guardians' Meeting. Workhouse Boy, who had been apprenticed to a small farmer, brought up as he had run away. Guardian ,l Did they beat you?” Boy: “ No Sir.” Guardian : “ Then why did you run away?” *' Please sir, soon after I got there a pig died, they salted it, and we had fur to cat it; then a calf died, and they salted it, and we bad fur to eat that ; and th. u master’s grandmother died, and I seed ’urn taking some salt upstairs, so I njn'd away !’’

The police state that there is a good deal of drunkenness among women in South Dunedin.

The mongoose imported into Jamaica to cat up the rats have accomplished their task. The burning question now is how to get rid of the mongooses, which the blacks have a superstitious fear of killing.

A continuous stream of Jews from Russia and Rouimnia aro flowing into Palestine, says the Jewish World, and many of those who went to America have returned to the land of their fathers. Most of them support themselves by their own labour. At an examination of the College of Surgeons, a candidate was asked by Dr Anernethy what ho would do if a man were blown up by gunpowder. “ Why,” coolly answered the tyro, “ wait till ho came down again.” “ Then,” said Abernethy, " suppose I kicked you for such an impertinent reply, what muscles should I put in motion ?” “' Why,” replied the young man, “ the flexors and extensors of my arm. I should floor you directly.” Enjoy Life.—What a truly beautiful world we live in ! We can desire no better when in good health ; but how often do the majority oi people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, Green's August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint are the direct cause of seventy-five per cent of such maladies as Billiousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distressing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect. Sold by all Druggists at ys 6d per bottle. Sample bottles, 6d. Try it. A friend of sparrows thus writes in the Philadelphia Ledger ; —Your theorists claim that the sparrow is driving away all other birds and destroying our fruits and flowers wholesale. Reasoning from these theories, England ought to be a barren waste from end to end instead of being a perfect garden, as Horace Greely described it, and it ought to have no other bird but the sparrow, whereas the woods and forests of England are teeming with sweet-singing birds —the thrush, the linnet, therobin, the skylark, the nightingale and a host of others that we read not of except in poetry. While I have always been a factory worker, and am one still, I have cultivated a garden in England and in several States inthiscountry—in New Jersey, in Maine, in Pennsylvania, and in Maryland. In England the sparrow did two-thirds of the work, in keeping my plants, fruits, and vegetables free from insects. In this country, for the want of the sparrow, I had to do it all myself. The result was I could produce as much on a rod of ground in England as I could get from 3 rods in this country, in any of the four Slates named. Anyone who has lived in both countries and tried it, can bear me out in this. If you don't protect your seed in early spring, before insect life is developed, the sparrow is always hunting for insects. If lie digs a hole in your cherry or knocks off one side of you strawberry, depend upon it, he is after the grub that has taken lodging there. He does not care half as much for fruit as he does for the insect destroying it ; and instead of being an enemy, the sparrow is one of your best friends.” A rumour reached us (says tho Marlborough Times) that a disease said to be similar to British cholera is now prevalent in the suburbs of Nelson. We have heard of nothing being made public concerning the outbreak, but from u private source we learn that fifteen deaths have occurred within the last fortnight, and that several people are laid up with it.

The Adelaide vinegrowers arc greatly concerned at the spread of phylloxera in New South Wales. They have memorialised the Government to take strong preventive measures.

A correspondent of a daily writing from Dover says : —A very palpable proof of tho contined traffic in English girls between England and the Continent occurred at Dover, in which the victim narrowly escaped the designs of a Belgian agent. The affair occurred under circumstances somewhat remarkable, and tho timely warning which the girl received was due entirely to a prominent continental official in tho SouthEastern Railway Company’s service. Amongst tho passengers who arrived by the morning boat from London was a well dressed young woman of prepossessing appearance. Her destination was Osteud, and she was accompanied by a gentleman. By some mischance they missed each other at Dover, and the girl walked on to the landing stage of tho Ostend mail packet at the Admiralty Pier, to inquire if the gentleman, whom she described, had gone abroad. In the meantime tho South-Eastern Kailway official referred to had noticed the min go on board whom the girl was inquiring after, and at once recognised Him as an agent of a house of illfame on the Continent. The official’s suspicions were at once aroused, and he took tho girl aside and told her the fact. The girl at once declined to go on board, and her luggagf was brought ashore. According to the girl’s statement she had held a situation in London which she wes induced by the representations of the man to leave for a more lucrative engagement in Belgium. Sore 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 Whoopimj Couyh, “ Baxter's Lung Preserver ” is a specific. In bronchitis ami Asthma,

" Baxter’s Lung Preserver " affords immediate relief. In Consumption, “Baxter's Lung Preserver” has been signally successful. Ostrich farming in South Africa has advanced with such strides that the number of tame birds there is estimated to have increased from eighty in 1865 to at least 70.CU0 in 1881, producing feathers for export of the value of about 600,000 per annum. Flies and Bugs. Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chip munks, cleared out by “ Hough on Hats.” Kempthoruc, Prosser A Co., Agents, Christchurch.

A story is told of a country parson who went to preach in a remote pari-li church. The sexton, in taking him to the chapel, dcprecatingly said, '‘l hope your reverence won’t mind preaching from the chancel. Ye see, the church’s u quiet place, an' I’ve got a duck settin’on fourteen eggs in the pulpit.” Catarrh of The Bladder. Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buohu-paiha.” Druggists. Kempthorne, Prossor & Co., Agents. Indigestion 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 J. Baxter, Chemist, Christchurch, for i y or .pi stamps.

A fashion paper says ;—“ Ladies will not dress as much ns usual the coming season.” If this be so it will be necessary after a while for men to wear shades over their eyes when they attend fashionable receptions.— N.Y. Graphic. “ Rough on Corns.” Ask for Wells’'' Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent care. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prossor & Co., Agents, Christchurch. The stones of Old Temple Bar, which have been carefully stowed away by Messrs Mowlern and Burt, will shortly be brought to light, and Temple Bar will be again set up in King's Bench Walk. Thus it will be almost within a stone’s throw from its old site. Tic-doloreux, toothache, or any other neuralgia pain speedily yields to Baxter's Anti-neuralgic Pills.

Guard (to an old lady who has been causing him a groat deal of unnecessary trouble) ” Well mum, I just wish you was an elephant, and then you’d always have your |rt)nk right under your eyes,"

In “ Bleak Home,” tho funeral <-f Mr Tulkinglu.ru is d-a-ciiD d with gnat humor. The aristocracy send their empty can' 'ges with “ bereaved worms," six I>'« t v, hj itangingon to them in the shape of mot men. To by the mromifs of li» ,j buri-il oi ■ je late Prince Lan Fu, the Chinese out'v'us in their pompous mockeries of woe. the procession of Jlis Roval Highm-s-remanis was preceded liy a huge wooden c ig", ripresenting his soul. The-) followed his sj mtsmon leading til!) huunds; then his armehair, then soldiers, and servants hy the hundred, and at last the Emperor represented by six empty carriages.

To remove the inkstains from a book, first wash the paper with warn water, u.-.n; a camel's hair pencil for the pnrpo.-e. I>y this means the surface ink is got ri I of; the paper must now be wet with a solution of o:; date of potash, or, bet ter still, oxalic acid, in the proportion of 011 c ounce to a half pint of water. The inkstains will iminoiji.ibdy disappear. Finally, again wash the stained place witli clean water, and dry it with while blotting paper.