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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1749, 21 October 1885, Page 2

Sir William and Lady Fos are on their way out to New Zealand. The lonio is bringing out a large consignment of stoats and weasels, about 250 in all. It is probable that His Excellency the Governor will leave for Christchurch tomorrow. The examination of the Greytown school by Mr Lee, the Board Inspector, commences to-day. In our report of the Featherston Lacing Club’s proceedings on Saturday last, the word Feiuherston was inadvertently printed for Tauhereuikau in reference to the race course. Tiro entries for the Wairarapa and Bast Const Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Show close on Saturday, the 21th inst, at Carterton at noon. Mr 11. if. Welters will receive all entries up to tuat date at the Council Chambers, Carterton. Entries can be made also at the ollice of MrF. H. Wood, Greytown, and Messrs 11. Brown and Co.. Maeterton, and J, I). Oahly, Featherston, and no entries can be received after that date. It is particularly requested that all persons intending to be present at to morrow night’s concert will secure seats early. Owing to the length of the programme the overture will bo played at 8 o'clock sharp. The New Zealand Lean and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have received the following telegram from their London office, dateu 10th instant ; —Tallow.— Good mutton is worth £25 per ton. Inferior quality is in demand, but medium to flue is neglected. Mr Hudson, saddler, of Carterton, adverUses in another column some horse collets of a new American patten, manufactured by himself. These collars being stuffed with chaff instead of straw, are not so calculated to injure a horse’s shoulder as the ordinaiy kind. Mr Hudson has also on hand some very handsome sets of harness and colonial and English made saddles. Mr Dion Boucicnult. dramatic author and actor, will probably open at the Tleatie Ito; 1, Wellington, about the middle ot November,

Some Featherston cricketers are endeavouring to get a practice team for next Saturday if possible.

Late cable news state that prime New Zealand frozen mutton lemains at 4Jd per lb. Tallow is about 6d lower, being quoted 27b 6d and 28s 6d for average Australian beef and mutton respectively.

Excessive depression is being felt in New Caledona, and there is every appearance of the return of drought. It is most gratifying to find that the concert to be given to-morrow evening in aid of the funds of the Greytowo Horticultural and Industrial Society, promises to be largely attended. The Society deserves the support of the public, for its Spring and Autumn Exhibitions with their social gatherings have had a good influence. The programme submitted for to-morrow evening is a long one, for there has been a ready response on the part of onr vocalists. An old settler fays the reason why Sir Julius Vogel could not carry out his measures was, the poor knight was suffering with a violent fit of the Meighrams (migrams) and could not get the members to coin cide with the constitution.

In view of the rates of freight on wool now ruling in Australia, and of the low price at which this staple is selling we (New Zealand Times) learn with pleasure that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company have authorised their agents to accept one-eighth of a penny lees freight by sailing vessel to London this season than was charged for last season’s wool cargo. This is a liberal and judicious act.

The editor of a newspaper recently asked the subscribers to name the ten most important inventions of all time. More than 800 answers were received, and the ten inventions receiving the most votes were:—The telegraph, printing-press, steam-engine, gun cotton, telephone, mariner’s compass, gunpowder, sewing machines, telescope, and photography. Twenty-one votes were in favour of the steamboat, six for paper, two for timepieces, and only one for the ocean cable.

The Bishop of London recently presided at a meeting in Exeter Hall, on “ Temperance,” and insisted on the importance of ministers of religion associating themselves with the temperance movement, and setting an example of total abstinence to the hundreds of thousands who were crying aloud to be helped to withstand temptation. Temperance, he said, was the first step towards the promotion of religious life. Mr Motley, M.P., condemned drunkenness as the gieat cause of the evil of overcrowding.

A London correspondent says that the real reason why Lord Carrington is bringing out a staff of 30 servants, as well as carriages, horses, and postillions, is the expected visit of the Prinoe of Wales.

The Archbishop of Canterbury insists that the clergy of his charge shall leave the discussion of modern scientific doctrines out of their services, until they know something about science, it having been brought to bis notice that a Welsh curate preaching to an English congregation gave the following lucid summary of the science of astronomy. " A atarr is but a lid dot in the skyee. Saw many stars make one plannot, so many plannota make a constelleasohn. Saw many constellessohns make one milkee we. Six milkwee wes mek one rorriborriallis.”

Mary Anderson’s Australian tour is now a positive certainty. The Era officially announces that she leaves England immediately on a tour through the United States and 11 round the world.”

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 sd. The sample bottles enable sufferers to prove their value at a trifling cost. This shows tho pass to which we have come, commercially considered ; it is from the Dunedin Star:—“ The undersigned would like to join some business as active partner. Capital, £l. Address M.J., Post Office.

A Chicago paper has a column headed “ Births, Deaths, Marriages, Divorces, and Elopements.” This is a specimen under its last named head From Carthage, near Cincinnatti, Mrs Thomas Horton, 38 years old, with a fat boy of 17, name unknown. The Rev. C. Mason, curate of St. Agatha, Wilson street, London, E. C., Las addressed the following letter to the secretary of the Leicester Secularist Cricket Club in respect of the recent attempt to establish Sunday cricket“ Sir,—allow me as a Church of England parson to most heartily sympathise with you in your efforts to promote healthy and restful recreation upon the only holiday our commerical covetousness allows to the modern labourers. May you win a most decisive triumph, and deal a blow at the loveless (godless) trammels which prevent the free development of manhood, and are among the chief support of the reign of dullness. It may interest you to know that your controversy is one in which very many leading English minds from Saxon times onward have declared for a free Sunday, and until Puritan times our English Sunday was free. “ Bnchu Paiba.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and urinary diseases. At Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

It is a pity that His Excellency, the Governor, did not find it suitable on the recent occasion of his returning from the West Coast via Masterton. to devote a few days to visiting the various towns in the Wairarapa, and thus making himself acquainted with the district and its leading settlers. But as it is never too late to do the right thing, we hope that Sir William Francis J.-rvois will ere long make a special visit to this district, and its several townships. The Wairarapa settlers are not prone to run after and " kotow ” great folks, but if His Excellency chooses to make a toar through “ the Waidrop ” they will give him a general and hearty welcome. “ Rough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser .6 Co., Agents, Christchurch. The omission of a comma has often euased funny statements. Some years ago the Times gives a horrible meaning to a sentence. The letter was on ihe American war and the writer said, " The loss of life will fall short of a million; and how many more were better v,: hj the dead than doomed to crawl on the mutilated victims of this great national crime. It should have beou“thin deemed to crawl on, the mutilated victims of this great national crime.” The following sentence appeared in a newspaper a short time ago: “The prisoner said the witness was a convicted thief.” This statement nearly caused the proprietors of the paper some trouble, and yet the words were correct. When their attention was drawn to the matter, and proper punctuation supplied, the sentence had an exactly opposite meaning. “ The prisoner, said the witness, was a convicted thief.” Decline of Man. Nervous weakness, dyspepsia, impotence, sexual debility, cured by "Wells’ Health Eenewer,’’ Drugidsts. Kempthorne, Prosser <fc Co., Agents, Christchurch. John Thomas, who had read of much quarrelling over wills, left his property with a proviso " This is the last will and testament of mo, John Thomas. I leave all my ■ things to be divided among my relations, if anybody makes a fuss about anything he is * to have 1

j The Geraldine Dairy Factory intend paying for their milk by result—4d to be lire maximum.

The settling on the Caulfield Mooting shows that the ring have been hit to the extent of £50,000. Mat O’Shannessy won £SOOO on one lino from Alfred Joseph.

Another case of smallpox has been reported in Sydney.

The Premier addresses his constituents at Dunedin to-morrow.

A Maori chief has just hung himself at Hokitika. It seems the poor fellow gave a lease of some quarry land at Greymouth illegally. The lease should have been given by the Public Taustee. He magnified the consequence of the act, aud this, pressing on his mind, urged him to commit the fatal deed.

On Monday afternoon one of our representatives gave a passing call at a house in Greytown and suddenly found himself in the company of three very old ladies who were enjoying a friendly cup of tea together. Upon being introduced our visitor felt much interested in the ages of the ladies in question, and believing that they would not be quite so diffident in telling as many ladies in the prime of life, he ventured to ask, and found that the respective ages were 72, 77, and 79, making a total of 228 years. In the conversation which followed it was interesting to note how different things are now to the time when these women In their seventies were girls of “ sweet seventeen.” “ Dear me,” said the oldest one of the party, “the girls don't have to work at all now; they have their washing machines, and mangles and wringers and all their sewing is done with machines too. It is so different now to what it was when I was girl.” Our representative enjoyed bis cup of tea, and a pleasant chat with the old ladies, aud on leaving suggested that they should get up an annual tea meeting ot old folks of like ages as themselves.

A fatal accident occurred in the Napier roadstead ou Saturday. As thesohooner Waiwera was comiug into the roadstead the butcher supplying the shipping put oft in a flat bottomed boat in company with a lad and a boatman named Hayes, better known as Port Wine Jack. On reaching the schooner the butcher and the lad went on board, leaving Jack in the boat, which was being towed behind. A sudden gust of wind sprung up, and the sudden tautening of the painter capsized the boat, the accident not being observed for some little time. When it was observed, there was no signs of Jack Hayes. The body has not been recovered.

An Auckland paper has the following from its London correspondent The tinned meat trade continues frightfully depressed, and there is a general opinion that things have not yet reached their worst. The prices of corned and compressed beef have further receded, the demand showing no sign of improvement. The lonic brings 2096 and the Aorangi 450 oases from New Zealand.

The expulsion of Germans from Russia is p.ngressing favorably. A despatch from Warsaw says a large factory there had dismissed all its employes and replaced them with Russians who were expelled from Prussia. The Czar had conferred a decoration of high order on the Governor of St Honia, who is famous for severe anti-German measures adopted in the Baltic provinces.

The Danevirk people have started a Prospecting Association. Over 150 acres have already been pegged out on the Pohangina reef. There are hundreds of acres of similar looking land to be taken up.

A gentleman in Wellington (says the Post) telegraphed on Saturday to one of the directors of the Nevv Zealand Stud Co asking that one of Musket’s hoots might be sent him as a souvenir of the famous horse. He received a reply yesterday to the effect that it was the intention of the company to have the skin of the animal, which has rendered them such service, preserved and stuffed, and that therefore the request could not be complied with.

The Melbourne Argus states that “ Messrs Rignold aud Allison have engaged the great English tenor singer Sim Reeves, for a tour through the Australian colonies and New Zealand. He is expected to arrive here by the end of February or the beginning of March.

A dairy factory, on the American principle, (says an exchange) was started last week in Opunake, and the residents celebrated the opening by a ball. Mr Breach, Chairman of the Directors, stated, in reply to some of the objections urged by croakers, that if it became necessary to close the factory, farmers might as well cease operations. All that was required to make the factory a success was for tna farmers to milk their cows, and not the factory. The Rev R. Young, lately of Greytown, who is now stationed at Opunake, said that farmers in some places thought the manager of the factory could make cheese out of water. He hoped they would hear nothing of such mean trickery at Opunake. The factory is said to be the first started on the American principle between the Waikato and Wellington. A telegram from Blenheim says " A pedestrian is matched to walk to Pioton and hack—forty miles—on Wednesday (this) mon.ing in five hours. He intends to beat the train from Blenheim to Pioton. and it is generally thought he will do so.” At the meeting of the Philosophical Institute Mr Holder “ brought dowu the house.” Mr Colenso bad just concluded his narration of Maori stories in which the heroes were men who rode upon whales, and Mr Holder followed with a modern instance extracted from a religious magazine published about HO years ago. This story narrated how a Wesleyan minister rode ou the back of a whale that lost his way in an estuary, aud a barely perceptible ripple of laughter among

the audience was converted into a roar bj Mr Holder stating that “ The Wesleyan Conference were very much exercised over the publication of the story.”—H.B. Herald. At Auckland Constable Chiistie bravely jumped over the reclaimed breastwork at midnight, and rescued a man named James Council, who fell over drunk. This makes the sixth life saved by Constable Christie in this colony. William Shaud, Canterbury, aged T.i, eon of Mr J, Sband, of Sefton, was killed by being run over by Ins dray, at Allamtale. Tonquin advices to Kith September say the Black Blags are preparing fur active guerilla warfare, and the French army of occupation will soon begin aggresive operations unless terms are made. The massacre of Christians at Anam was frightful. The Superiors ot the College aud the whole host of Christians were sluughtsued pell-mell. Some were thrown into the sea with their hands tied behind their backs. Some ot the missionaries tried to make a stand with muskets, but were soon defeated. The churches, schools aud dwelling houses were everywhere burned. A Calcutta despatch of 10th September says that no doubt remains but that a terrible famine is impending in India. The crops in the Deccan have all failed for want of rain, while in Bengal they have been ruined by an excess of rain aud floods. The country for fifty miles about Calcutta is completely submerged.

Mr Wilson, manager of the Otakapo estate, informs the Advocate that a flock of several hundred hoggets which had been troubled with lung worm, got into a young plantation of blue gums, the trees being about two feet high, and fed on the leaves of the young trees. He noticed a few days after that the sheep were quite free from the cough—the natural result of lung worms which they had been subject to before. The sheep are now doing well. It is a well known fact that blue gums possess considerable medicinal properties, but we believe that the fact ot sheep having been cured of this disease by the eating of the leaves of the blue gum had not been ascertained before. Mr Wilson says that it is his intention to prepare a decoction of the leaves of the blue gum and give it to the sheep instead of the usual dose of turpentine, and he is fully confident that the experiment will prove a success,

The Directors of the Wcllirpto- .MinawalU Hallway Company intend to iuci a Motion and refreshment room at Plimnji r;on without delay. It is mid that a larre 1m, 1, 1 will also be built at this pleasant seaside res ,it in the course of a few months.

The returns for the Wellington District of the elections of members of the new Hoard erected under the provisions of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Act are to baud, with the exception of that from Maaterton, which for some accountable reason has not arrived. Out of the six local bodies interested viz., the City Council, the Hull County Council, and the Counties of Wairarapa E ,st and West, Grey town and Masterton, only two cdootions look place. The choice of the Wellington City Council fell upon Councillors H. J. Williams, and S. Danks, and that of the Hutt County Council upon Councillors J. Taylor and D. Speedy. The Conn.y Councils of Wairarapa Vast, Wairarapa West, and the Borough Council of Gn-ytown failed to elect members to sit at the Board. His Excellency (lie Governor lias been recommended to appoint Mr W. H Beetham for Wairarapa East. Mr H. Buriy for Wairarapa West, and Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.H.H., for Greytown. As before intimated, no return has been sent in from Mastutou.— Post.

At the nomination of members for the "Wharekaka sub district, Feaiberston lioad Board, Mr C. D. Hall and Mr Coleman Phillips were proposed. As only one member is required the election will take place next Saturday.

On the ICth September the 'f Nationalists held 62 meetings throughout Ireland. The amount of enthusiasm exceeded that in Danisl O’Connor’s times. They cry at these assemblages was, “ Down with directors and raokrenters.”

Mr J. Beel, the Feathereton ranger, while running horses to the pound yesterday, fell off his horse, which tied on him, and crushed him so severely that it is feared the injuries will prove fatal.

Mr G. H. Scales offers a reward of £2 for the recovery of a fox tenier that is supposed to have come to the Wairarapa by last Friday afternoon's ir.on.

At the Caru-rton II.M. Court held yesterday In fore H. A. Stratford, Mr D. McLaren, of Pahaua, was cl i rgtd by Mr Orbell, llabbit Inspector, with ai uwing rabbits to infest hi* run. Fined liO and costs, borne civil case* were disposed of. In the leaping match at the Agricultural Show at Carterton, of November 4th, there will be a water jump, gorse hedges and ordinary hurdles. Altogether this feature of the show will this year be tendered very iJA tractive. The committee of the side met on Saturday and arranged for the exhioff. of flowers, dogs, poultry and produce. The programme will be out in » fortnight. This show will embrace all classes of interest and include beehives, honey, apiarian appliances generally receiving special attention. Romney Marsh sheep this year will be an immense attraction, as there are entries from Napier and West Conet in addit/orr to the district exhibits. The implement department will be well represented, the Christchurch and Dunedin firms having made good entries. The De Laval Cream Separator will also be on the ground at work, Mr Maunsell having purchased one and kindly offered to slow the method of working the same. 'Weather permitting this is expected to be tbe most attractive annual Show yet he;d in the Valley.

Schoolmasters often complain that the irregularity of tbe attendance of many children greatly nullifies their efforts. But the crowning instance came under our notice yesterday, when a girl who had not been present ouoe during the twelve mouths presented herself at the annual examination, with a note from her mother, asking the head-master to pas* the gill from the fourth to the liilb standard. —Hawke’s Bay Herald.

An accident befell a young married man named George Luke, a relative of Messr* Luke & Sons, at Wellington on Wednesday afternoon. Luke, who is a moulder, was engaged in chipping a casting when a piece of iron flew up and struck the ball of his eye and became embedded. The effect was the total loss of the sight of the injured eye. Dr Kemp was called in and decided that it would be necessary to remove the bull of tire eye. The operation wn> successfully performed, hut fears ate entertained that the sight of the other eye through sjmpathy with the injured optic will be permanently dimmed.—Post.

Administrator and Consul, are both scratched for the Birthday Cup of the Wairarapa Jockey Club's Spring Meeting. It is understood tiiat they are going South.

The reatherston volunteers met for parade last night. There was an excellent muster, Captain A Donald, Lieuts Smith and Benton, Drill Instructor Bezar, and 40 rank and file were present.