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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1706, 13 July 1885, Page 2

The Greytown School Committee will meet to-morrow evening. Edward Trickett, according to latest advices, was lying dangerously ill with fever at Rockhampton, Queensland. Tho Nelson Athletic Ground Company are offering a bonus of £25 for tho best.plan of protecting and reclaiming ten acres of their property for cricket, lawn tenuis, bicycle track, and other purposes. Tire Taranaki Herald says that it is understood that all arrangements are com plcted in connection with tho direct steamer from New Plymouth to Sydney, and that she will commence running as soon as tho railway to tho port is completed. South Australia appears to be making a determined and somewhat successful effort to put down incendiarism in Adelaide. In March last an incendiary was convicted and sentenced to 14 years, and now we learn that a man named De Young, for another fire, has been sentenced to seven years, while a third has got four years, Tho evidence against the two last was purely circumstantial. The neighbourhood of tho Exhibition buildings, and probably tho Queen’s Wharf, Wellington, will be illuminated with the electric light during the time tho Exhibition is open.

The floods in North Canterbury have subsided, but considerable damage has been done in some places to the railway lines and to the land through scouring. It is also feared that many cattle lure been drowned. The People Want Proof.—There is no medicine prescribed by physicians or sold by Diuggists that carries such evidence of its success and superior virtue as Boschee's German Syrup for severe Coughs, Coids settled on the breast, Consumption, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs. Any person alllicted can get a sample bottle for (id, and try its superior effect before buying the regular size at 3s Gd. Its wonderful cures are astonishing every one that uses it. Three doses will relieve any case. If you have a Cough or Cold that will not yield to other remedies try German Syrup and you will be surprised at the result. It has cured many cases of so called Consumption which doctors had given up. It is sold by all Druggists in the Civilised World,

A Leeds fanner’s wife has attained notoriety and a police court summons in a singular manner. .Resolved to administer a vigorous chock on her daughter’s courting proclivities. she followed on horseback the loving couple along the road leading to Macclesfield. Overtaking them she hud about them a heavy stockwhip. The chastisement completed, the irate mother found to her horror that slio had thrashed someone else’s daughter, and she is now face to face with police proceedings, and an action for damages, the giil’a face being severely out and lacerated, while she lias also sustained a shock from which she will not soon recover. The affair has caused the greatest amusement, the parties being well known. A devout and worthy gentleman is the clergyman of a suburban parish. His congregation was somewhat, amused at the singularity of one of Lis recent announ cements which ran as follows ;—" Remember our communion service next Sunday arternoon. The Lord will be with us during the morning icc.scrv and the bishop in the evening.

Some time ago the Committee of !ho Society lor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals dechled to give two prizes—ono of £3 nod another of £'2—for the two best essays by pupil teachers in the Wellington Provincial District on tiro subject of kindness to dumb animals. The winners of the first and second prizes are Miss Clara Francis Clareville, Wair irapa, and Miss M. Oarratt, Taranabi-streot, Wellington, respectively. Decline of Man. Nervous weakness, dyspepsia, impotence, sexual debility, cured by “Wells’ Health Eenewor.’’ Druggists. Kempthorue, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

Never Return.—lt is said that one nut of every four real invalids who go to foreign countries to recover health never return, except ns a corpse. The undertakers, next to the hotel-keepers, have the most profitable business. This excessive mortality may be prevented and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if they will but use American Co’s Hop Bitters in time. Read

Indigestion and Liver Complaints.---For these complaints Baxter’s Compound Quinine Fills have proved a specific, acting powerfully on the liver and mildly on the stomach.—Sold everywhere, or post free from], Baxter, Chemist, Christchurch, for ig;or 44 stamps. “ Rough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bod bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists Kcmpthorne, Prosser ,fe Co., Agents, Christchurch.

Indigestion.—Tho main cause of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused by weakness of the stomach. No ono can have sound nerves and good health without using American Go’s Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify tho blood, and keep llie liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisonous and waste matter of the system. See

CouifJi s, Colds, Bmichiti s, (f-c., are quickly cured by using Baxter's “ Lung Preserver." This old established medicine is pleasant to the palate, and highly extolled by members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions. Can be recommended. For testimonials see dage 4. Solds by all patent medicine venpors. Tic-doloreux, toothache, or any other ifeqralgia pain speedily yields to Baxter’s Anti-nenralgic Pills.

A largo whale, -I') feet long ami 10 feet in height, has been strand"!! within the hist week between White Rock and Wliatnmogi, 011 Iho least Coast near Pnlliser Bay, Thorn is a largo wound in the side, and this is believed by some to have been the object struck recently by the lonic ns reported.

The amount of the fees paid (luring the past throe years upon the issue of the various classes of licenses authorised by the Licensing Act wore as follows Publicans’ licenses, 1881-2. I T),Odd ; 1882-3, 1,515,854 ; 1883 1. 1.51,001 ; New Zealand wine licenses, L 3, L 25, L 22 ; accommodation licenses, LllsO, L 1420, IjISSU ; hottio licenses L 3047, L 4473, lißßf<2 ; packet licenses, Jjlb2, LRiO, Ll.Gfi ; wholesale licenses, 1.33(18, L 5374, L 4109 ; conditional licenses, L484.L8 1 .18, L 775. The lota] sumg received in Iho three years respectively were L57|27G, LGlhoijy, and LOo,CGB.

Up to the present time no fewer than 2J..000 persons have signed to Parliament against the employment of barmaids. Last Friday evening the Premier moved that no female o'her than Hie licensee, or the wife or daughter of the licensee, es the case may be, shall, with or without her consent, bo employed in tlm bar of any licensed house aider the hour of fi p.mr, or before the hour of Sa m. This was rejected by a majority of Id.

Mr Kelly has been returned for Taurauga by a majority of 2G.