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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1744, 9 October 1885, Page 2

The valuable farm property of Colonel Farrington, consisting of 250 acres on the Taratahi, eight roomed house, man’s cottage, stables, yards and sheep dip, are offered for private sale by Mr F. H. Wood in his advertising column.

By the s.s. Arawa, the Carterton Institute received nearly 300 volumes chosen by C. K. Carter. Mr P. H. Wood has received instructions to sell 18 light and draught horses, broken and unbroken, in the estate of the late Mr 11. McLaren.

Mr Alfred Booth, of Carterton, has just lost a little boy through bronchitis. The attack was sudden and so severe that, though the lad was in the beat of health on Monday, he succumbed on Wednesday. The funeral takes place to-morrow. The Grey town Fire Brigade had a firstrate wet practice last night. While trying to shoe a very fractious colt yesterday, at Greytowu, Mr Gamblin had a narrow escape of a feaiful scalp wound, The animal “ let out ”as the saying is, and Mr Gamblin fortunately escaped with a nasty bruise on the forehead.

In the catalogue e£ prizes to be awarded by the Greytowu Horticultural Society at the Spring Show in December next, two special prizes are offered by Mr Nation to boys or giris under fifteen years of age who shallsbow tae two largest collections of flowers having five petals. It is not expected that the flowers are to be grown by the exhibitors ; the prize is simply for the largest collection, and is open for competition to the boys and girls of any of the surrounding districts as well as of Greytown It will astonish our young friends to find how many of our flowers possess just five leaves, and in order to encourage a tasce for botany among the young Mr Nation lias offered a prize of 5s for the largest collection and 2s 6d for the second largest. We recommend oar young friends to begin at once to collect and hope to see a good display at the Exhibition in December.

The Carterton rifles have accepted a challenge from the Masterton civilians to fire a match, to take place to-morrow. Carterton will be represented by Lieut Moore, Corpl C. D Reid, Sergt. T. Reid, Vol E. Goodin, Vol .1. Boys, Vol Mathison, Bugler Rising, Vol J. Reid, Vol Bairstow. Emergencies—Sergt. Clifton, and Volf C. Fairbrother, R. Fairbrother, and T. Moore.

Messrs Hollard Bros of the Petone Jam Factory, who obtained the first prize at the Exhibition, have enlarged their premises (says the Times) and are no v busily preparing the tins for next season’s operations. The services of two workmen from Keiller’s celebrated London jam factory have been secured for that branch. The jam making will bo under the supervision ot Messrs Hollard. Last season thirty three or thirty four tons of jam were manufactured. Next season one hundred tons will be turned out if the fruit is forthcoming. In addition to supplies from the Hutt and Wairarapa, Blenheim fruit growers will also have a good market, as Wellington is quite as conveniently situated as Nelson, and Messrs Hollard will be prepared to pay a reasonable price. The railway tariff is a severe handicap on this part of colonial industry, and it is to be hoped a change will be made before next season’s jams are ready for market. The Buffalo Minstrels are drawing crowded houses in Wellington. Laery & Campbell report that prices this week are without any material alteration, and quote Flour, £8 ; sharps, £5 to £5 10s; bran, £4 5s to £4 10s ; oatmeal, £lO 10s to £lO 15s ; potatoes, 70s to 75s per ton ; onious are in full supply at £lO to £11; oaten hay chaff, £4 to £5 per ton ; hay, £4 to £4 10s ; straw, £3 to £3 10s ; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; chick wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; fresh butter is a shade lower, and may be quoted at la per lb ; no salt butter has reached the market yet j eggs, 10J to lid per doz ; Banks and Dimock’s local cure of bacon. 8d to 9d per lb ; oiieese, 4Jd to 5d per lb ; fowls, 3a lid to 3s 9d per pair; ducks, 3s 9d to 4s per pair ; turkeys, 5s to 0s each. The horse sale on Saturday is not worthy of special note. The Carterton Cricket Club have just held their annual meeting, (Mr Seed in the chair), when the following officers were elected : Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.H.R., President; Mr F. W. R. Seed Vice-President, and Mr W. Moore, captain. Mr Potts the office of secretary and treasurer pro tern. The following committee were elected ;—Messrs T. Rathbone, H. A. Ewon, C. G. Beckett, Dempsey, Acooks, Dudson and Oakly, juu. Wm Booth’s offer of the use of a paddock in the late Wm. Walker’s estate at 30s per year was put to the meeting ; but upon the casting vote of the Chairman the offer of Wm. Bishop to use the Show ground free of charge, was accepted. Messrs Ewen, Dempsey, and Potts were appointed a Ground Committee. The Secretary was instructed to write to Mr Bishop, thanking him on behalf of the Cricket Club for his kindness in placing the Show ground at their service. The annual subscription was fixed at 5s per member, and the opening of the season was fixed for tomorrow.

At Dunedin the other day a boy was charged with ringing a bell m the streets, contrary to the bye laws. The police stated that the charge was brought merely as warning. Tlie Bench regretted that they could not reach the auctioneers rather than the boys who rang the bells, The boy would be discharged, as it was clear that he had not been aware that the action was a wrong one

Shorn our Carterton contemporary we learn that the children belonging to the Carterton, Tails Vale, and D beheld schools, numbering about 200, arrived by train at Wellington on Wednesday, shortly after noon under the charge of Mr Samuel, the headmaster of the Carterton School, and tno mothers or guardians of the yuimgsters They were met on arrival at the Wellm !vi platform hy Air Dorset, the Secretary ot tin. .education Board, who took a zealous interest in Seeing to the comfort of the young visitors and their guardians. They were taken to the Exhibition, where the.ruddy faces of the iVairarapa lads and k'ses became the theme of remark by Wellington citizens. A special conjuring entertainment was given in the Aiusic Hall, which greatly amused and amazed the children. They all returned home by the evening train, looking hapey and bright after so long a journey, giving three hearty cheers as the train was brought to the station. We may mention that the Chairman and several members of the Carterton School Committee, took an active interest in seeing that no hitch occurred in the arrangements.

Messrs Hood & Shaw, of Mastertou, notify that they ate continuing their business of livery stable-keepers at the Empire Hotel, and all horses entrusted to their care will receive every attention. They have the convenience of good paddocks, and they uot.fy that they have first-class buggies and horses on hire. A bus’ meets every train and conveys passengers to all puts oi the tows.

The butchers of Wellington hope to hold their auuual outing on 2-itli November ut Plimmerton.

Mr W. Toogood’s new advertisement in our next.

Newstead has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup and V.R.O. Derby. Manchester and Umbra have been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. The Wanganui Band is now in Wellington and will compete at the Exhibition to morrow evening.

The new theatre being built in Melbourne will cost £55,000. A Victorian M.P., lias given notice of a progressive poll tax on bachelors between 25 and 60 years of age. A telegraph operator at Wanganui sent the Public Works Statement over the wires at the rate of 42 words per minute. Reckoning the instrument key at half a pound, and taking as an average that the key has to Impressed down four times for each letter, it is calculated that he lifted 3841bs per minute, or 50401bs per hour. The total time taken in the transaction was 217 minutes, and at the rate given above this would come out at 8 tons 2 cwt and 3 qrs. that would have to be lifted during that time, The Editor of the Post shares our dislike to overfat bec-f steak. He recently received from the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Co. a specimen of beef steak, in which the outside fat was fully four inches wide. He sincerely trusts that the other meat companies will not send him samples challenging comparison. Miss Payne, music teacher, announces that she willl be at the Town Hall, Fealherstou, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, where she will be glad to receive pupils. A visitor to Woodville says that town hag two splendid hotels, one bank, three blacksmiths two general stores, three saddlers, one watchmaker, two shoemakers, a boarding house, a bi-weekly paper, and stationer’s shop, two bakers, one barber, one tailor, Ac. There are also two churches, a large public school, post and telegraph cilice, and there is lately started a firm of auctioneers, several solicitors, and a doctor. Besides there is the world-renowned Cheese Factory, and Sash and Door Factory, and all seem to be doing fairly well.

Mr George Augustus Sala says of all the great men he has seen and respected, Garibaldi was the greatest—simple-minded, just, aud true—as brave as a lion, as gentle as a iamb. Only on two occasions had Garibaldi worn the grand uniform of an Italian general —once when he went on board an English man-of-war to thank a British admiral for protecting his troops, and on another occasion when he went to Turin to tender the Kingdom of Naples, which he had won from tbe Bourbons, to Victor Emmanuel. The uniform was afterwards given to, and worn by, the goatherd who tended Garibaldi’s goats in his rugged Island of Caprera.

The residents of Woodville have taken up the idea of prospecting the surrounding country for gold and silver pretty warmly, and it is to be hoped that their enterprise will be rewarded. The locality of the late find of silver is more convenient to Woodville than to Palmerston. There is already a road to the foot of the range and it will be to the interest of the Woodville people (says the Examiner) to cut a track over the rouge, where a good grade may be obtained. The distance from Woodville to the locality is little more than

half that between there and Palmerston. An interesting fact in connection with the late discoveries on the other side of the range is that some time ago Mr .Schmidt found in the

Tamaki stream a piece of quartz showing gold thickly. The Tamaki originates on the side of the range opposite where the silver and gold lodes have been found.

A Beautiful Painting.—Mr G. G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U S.A., is presenting to druggists and others in this country some very fine pictures in oil of his magnificent house and grounds and laboratory at that place. Mr Green is the proprietor of Boschee's German Syrup and Green’s August Flower, two very valuable medicines, which are meeting with great favor, the first as a remedy for Pulmonary complaints, and the latter for Dyspepsia and disorders of the Liver. These preparations have obtained an immense sale solely on their superior merits and are sold by all chemists throughout the world. The price is the same for each, 3s 6d per bottle, or sample bottles for fid. Tie sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trilling cost. Over 6000 persons travelled on the Wel-lington-Manawatu Railway line for the fiist fortnight after it was opened. The Wellington Woollen manufacturing Company is actively going ahead in the work of preparation. A telegram has been received from London staling that all the machinery will be shipped in November, and by the time it arrives Messrs Secular and Archibald, the contractors for the mill, will have the building ready for its reception. Mr Justice Richmond recently referred in scathing terms of disappointment to the erection ol the central prison at Wellington, on its present site in the heart of the city. He thought it was horrible that the gaol should look down from one of the most magnificent sites in Wellington. It was a perfect wonder to him that it should be erected there, and he viewed it with disgust. He deprecated that view of penal discipline which confined men within such limits, and his own view was that it could not be carried on within such narrow limits. Ho had no hesitation in saying he looked upon the erection of this building with absolute disgust. He did not know what the authorities thought, but it seemed to him terrible to plaoo a large penal institution iu the midst of a large city, and thus put crime in such a prominent position. He did not know what the To Aro people thought about it, but be would be very sorry to live under the walls of a gaol all his life. Regarding the reports which were circulated as to intended changes in the management of the police force, we are able to state there is no intention of placing Inspector Weldon at the head of the New Zealand police or of transferring him from Duntdiu to Wellington. Nor is theie any idea of pensioning off Inspector Shearman. On Sunday Inst an old man named Andrew Lambert, residing at Kowui Bush. Canterbury, was lost between that place and Springfield. When last seen he was under the influence of liquor. A party went out, and next morning found his body at the foot of a high terrace, over which it is supposed he had fallen.

Mr John Gallic, of Carterton, has sold out to Mr Macdonald, of Napier. Flies and Bugs. Beetles, insects, roaches, auta, bed bggs, rats, mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by “ Hough on Rata.” Kempihorne, Prosser A Co., Agents, Christchurch.

Ibis is the London Spectator’s not very apt definition of a church fair:-It, is that for which people make what nobody values, ■ n order that other people may buy what nobody wants, all to help an association which badly needs both time and money, ami ought, therefore to encourage in every wav the economy of time and money. Catarrh ol The Bladder. Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buchu-paiha.” Idrnggisis. Kempthorne, Prosser A Co., Agents.

Sixty public men and sew ral doctors in St Louis l ave been questions 1 by a Republican reporter as to the benefits of hot water as a morning driuk for breakfast, and all agree that, as a rule, it is excellc.it for a disnrderei stomach resulting from excess in eating or drinking.

“ Rougn On Corns.” Ask tor Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser A Co., Agents, Christchurch. Jack, who is at a boarding school in the country, writes home Please send me a good trap to catch birds, and a piece of carpet to say my prayers on,’’

At the annual meeting of the Ga'"''rtou File Brigade on Monday evening the fob''''* iug olliccrs were elected : —Alfred Smith, Captain ;J. Jonkine, Lieutenant ;Mr u °' keil, Foreman ; Chas Bennett, Ist Branchman; Hughon, 2nd Branchtnan ; Mr Liudop, Secretary ; and Mr Crawley, engine keeper. It is to be regretted that them is a deficiency of £ll, which the Brigade should not be called upon to pay. They give their timo ami labor often at great saciilice and inconvenience when a fiio is raging, and tnere should bo a hearty support given by the public. Is there no gentleman of me ins, who wiil do a noble tiring and send the hj ire Brigade a cheque for the above amount. We are willing to bet a £1 note that there i-n t. They have got a queer bitten in Wellingtou which was given birth to at the house of Mr Haines, stevedore, lust week. The monstrosity, as seen suspended in a boUl.i • spirits of wine, presents an appearance m. to curious than pretty. It has eight leg.', two bellies, and no back. The head is a most hideous compound of two heads welded into one, there being iwo mouths and four eyes, but only two .-ais, It was born alive, but only lived a few hours.

The Greytown thicket Club open the season to-morrow wuh « match Married v. Single, and it is anticipated that an interesting and close game wijl i e the result. We hope that every player will bo on the ground not later than 2 o’clock. If the club can make a good start it will give encouragement for the future. Among our young men we have several promising players ; all they require is steady practice, and we look to them to keep up the reputation of the club. It is the determination of the married men to morrow to put the “ single fellows ” through. If they do it will be a little humiliating to the losers. It is hoped that the ladies will try to be present and inspire confidence in the young men.

The soiree at Featherston this evening we hope will be successful. The dancing seaso u is drawing to a close and no doubt the entertainment will be largely patronised as it is in aid of the piano fund. The want of an instrument lor public gatherings has long been felt and we hope the proceeds will go a good way towards the purchase of one. Greytown will be well supplied with amusements the week after next. On the Monday evening there will be the Fite Brigade soiree at toe Town Hail; on Thursday the concert in aid ol the Horticultural Society, and on Friday the Wesleyan Choir will give the service of song " Uncle Tom," at the Morrison’s Bush Church. The South Wairarapa Amateur Dramatic Society have selected the laice “ Area Belle ” for their performance at Greytown in aid of the Horticultural Society on the 22nd JjMt. Rehearsals will commence on Monday night next. A lady professional has promised iler services. On Thursday, 15th October, on the occasion of the Friendly Societies Fete at the Industrial Exhibition, an Excursion Train wiil leave Masterton at 5.30 : Carterton, 6 ; Greytown, 0.10 ; arriving at realherslcu at 0.30. At this township there will be a delay of 20 minutes for bicakfaat. The arrangement is a good one ; tbe hour for starting, though rather early, will enable visitors to Wellington to get there by 9 30. The fares are cheap and no doubt will be taken advantage of to a large extent. Ft cm Cartel ton or Greytown tbe prices are Os and -is Cd ; from Featherston 6s and 8s 9d. Wo Lave been asked by the Secretary of the Wairarapa Hospital, Mr F. li. Wood, to acknowledge in our columns receipt of the following subscriptions for 1885, and to thank tbe gentleman who Lave thus so kindly helped the institution : —M. Cuselberg. £2 2s ; A. Gray (two .years) £2 2s ; R. J. Thompson, £1 Is,

At the Magistrate’s Court this morning, before J. Tully, J.P., a first offender wag dismissed.

An inquest was held at the Marliuborough Hotel, on Monday last, before la Spratt and a jury of six, on the body of John Toomcy, who died suddenly at Olarani on Snttnduy lust. The jury n turned u verdict of “died from heart disease.”

The Grejtown Volunteers meet for drill every evening this week, and lor class firing evuy afternoon until finished. Mr Welbv Jackson, of Matarawa, has furnished us wi hj I e following recipe for scale blight Mix one gal castor oil with one quad of slim p dip, and paint the tree all over with the preparation. Mr Jackson say» that this is an almost infallible remedy.

Mr Pike’s Imrse, Toung Sir Colin Campbell, is advertised i t another column.

The Greytown Town Lunas Trust meeting fell through this week through want of a quorum. Messrs Baillie aud Wyett being the only members present. The establishment of rifle clubs in Victoria has been attended with so much success that 221 clubs, numbering over fiOOO membeis, are now in existence.

Nelson this season exported bale* of hops. Melbourne is to have a duplicate of the London statue of Goumu ai n rust of £2600.