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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1782, 13 January 1886, Page 2

The fires at Stratford have been subdued. The Qreytown Public School treat will be held on Saturday, tbe 23rd, not on the 32nd as reported. The Thursday half holiday movement in Christchurch has collapsed. The Hokitika Guardian of the oth says that at Lyell on New Tear's Eve, an Italian miner delibeiately blew off his head with dynamite. Tbe nominations for tbe Handicap Hurdles, first and second day, Wairarapa Jup. and Wairarapa Jockey Club Handicap will bo received by the Secretary at Carterton next 'Wednesday, 20ih inst, (this day week). LI. M.S. Nelson arrived at Wellington on Sunday afternoon. Tbe official reception takes place to-day, when His Excellency tbe Governor will have returned from Christchurch. Tbe settlers of Woodville give a concert tonignt iu aid of those settlers who suffered through the late fires up that way. It is stated that tbe total lose at Noreewoed, Ormondville, and was Makatokn is £7900. On the 20th June nez, Quean Victoria will have occupied the throne of England lor 50 years. Mr F. H. Wood has added 100 lambs and 15 mixed sheep and several hacks and hnggy horses to his sale on Thursday at Taratabi. The Dreyertown settlers are complaining because their post office is closed. They have to get their letters at thq Masterten office. Frank McDowell (who conducted several sales of drapery in the Wairarapa some time ago), has been charged by James McDowell with having, between the Sth and 17th of November last, at Blenheim, stolen and converted to his own use certain lots of clothing and drapery of the total value of £576, the property of James McDowell. He was further charged with having, between the Sth and 17tb of last November, embezzled a large amount of money belonging to James McDowell, by whom he was then employed. The case waa partly heard in the Wellington B.M. Court yesterday. A Melbourne telegram says that the smoke from tbe bneh fires WfS so dense that artificial light was supplied to business places during the one day. Tbe Wellington Secjular Society are thinking of building a Lyceum in that city. New municipal buildinga are to be erected at Christchurch at a cost of £4623.

It is «aid that Ur Charles White, the Secretary of one of the Wellington Building Societies, who suddenly disappeared from Wellington some time ago, is now in Bookampton la business as an actuary. A telegram has been received in Melbourne from a camel driver named Billooh, who was witb M'lntyre in bis exploring expedition of 1866. The telegram, which is seat from Cloucurry, North Queensland, states that Bi loch has found the remains of the explorer Leiohardt. A bush fire has taken place this week at Papawui, in which Ur 0. J Jury and the contractor for the falling (Ur W. 0 Collier) will, respectively, be great losers. It it supposed tnst the fire originated by the act of some careless person who was seen on the spot oo Sunday prior to (ha outbreak of the fire. Had the bush been ripe tor burning, it would not have been of so much consequence ’; hut aa some of the tiuuer wag only felled last week it has spoiled any chance of an effective burning this season, the underscrub being ounauuied and nothing but the large timber which was too green to burn being left.

What are oa'led farmers' trains are now being tried on the New South Wales Rai wrvs. The fares aie very low, ami the experiment is as a oo'iseqaeoce successful and remunerative. On the Western line, the earnings amount to lie per train mile as compared with a little over 6s, the average earnings of ordinary trains throughout the year. On the Sydney and Albury line the cheap trains earn 18s per mile against 6s. Nearly L6OO have bean collected towards the fund to relieve the Taranaki settlers who have lost all by the bush fires. The losses are calculated at about £IO,OOO. Thomas Quin, a blacksmith at Auckland• was found dead in bis smithy. Supposed to have died m a fit. A seven roomed bouse at Spreydon, Canterbury, owned by Henry Tape, has bean homed down. A young man named Tucker, a plumber, fell from the upper floor of a building at Ohristohnroh, and received snob injuries that it is donbtfnl if he will recover. We hear encouraging accounts from Torawhiti respecting the appearance of the lode in the Golden Crown mine, says the N. Z. Times. There is a rustling among the dry bones; the field is again in coarse of reoccnpation. A new claim, to be called the Hopeful, situated on the old Enterprise and part of the Wealth of Nations claims, commenced work last week. The appearance of the lodo in the Welcome Compaoy’s claim is also said to be very profitable. A novel suit recently came before the Courts at Rochester (N. J,). A wife sought to maintain an action against another woman for the alienation of her (the plaintiff) husband’s affections. The defendant de. murred, on the ground that such an action is not expressly authorised by statute ; but Judge Macotnber dismissed the demurrer, on the common-sense ground that a wife has just as good a right as a husband to redress for a wrong pf this kind.

Mr, Coleman Phillips recently wrote q letter to the Star expressing the regret he felt at the Homan Catholic body not being satisfied with the present state school system. At a meeting of the Catholic Church Committee held on the 7th inst. a discussion took place on the letter and the following resolutions were carried : Ist. That the Catholics of Magterfon sympathise with Mr Coleman Phillips at bis deep regret at their progress in the matter of education, and. That their thanks are duo to him for his unconscious exposure of what the advocates of secular education wish to enforce on the Christian children of New Zealand. 3rd That the Catholics of Masterton, contrary to his unsolicited advice, yet conscious of their duty towards God, are determined to redouble their efforts in providing for their children ?n education which will be permeated with the knowledge of God and their fellowmen. 4th. That they (J eem it beneath their notice to reply seriatnm to statements in his letter founded on ignorant bigotry, and penned by one who has, apparently no regard for truth,

A fatal explosion of dynamite took place | on the Opawa River, Blenheim, on Saturday afternoon. Two men engaged in removing a snag were rowing away after placing the lose beneath it when at a distance of only five yards an explosion took place. Both men were blown out of the boat, and one of them, Win Eden, a married man, with two children. was etuoned and drowned. The body was recovered, and an inquest held on Monday. The other man clung to the boat, and was got out in a hall conscious state. No reason has yet been given why the fuse, which was two feet long, went off so soon.

lutoimstion has been received in Auckland that the Melbourne Total Abetinence Society is negotiating with Dr W. B. Richardson, the well known temperance advocate, to deliver a course of 60 lectures throughout the Australasian Colonise. Ho will visit New Zealand. Mr R. T. Booth is in Mai. bourne, but bis mission on this occasion has not been so successful as had been anticipated. Mr W. Noble, the celebrated Temperance leotnrer from Hoxton Hall, London, is announced to visit Auckland, and is now an route for New Zealand. Mr T. W. Glover, who is expected to arrive in Auckland in January, under engagement to the Temperance Allilhoe, is considered by many in Melbourne to be as good if not a better speaker than Mr Booth. Two gentlemen in Invercargill, who attempted to rescue the captain aud two of the seamen belonging to the Annie Hill, bad a rather novel experience. - The boat in which the captain and seamen were, oaptizsd, when other seamen from the vessel, Messrs Ohm ne and bpence, who were engaged in fishing, pulled to the men struggling iuthe water. Instead of evincing any thankfulness (says lbs Southland News) the captain roundly abused his rescuers for the manner in which they bad gone about the work ; dedaied in effect that he bad never seen a boat handled in a more 'ubberly fashion, and altogether appeared to regret that he had been saved by such means. A London Journal, quoting statistics to back it up, presents as a moral paradox the statement that the most poorly paid working girls in the metropolis, are those engaged in the sewing and binding of Bibles. It adds that 'for every heathen abroad who can induced to use the sacred volume for anything else than gun wadding a dozen of these girl# are driven to pedition, at home. News is brought by the mail steamer that the Germans are supporting the rebels against King Malietoa, at Samoa. The King hoisted his flag at Apia, and the German Consul ordered him to take it down. He refused, and Germans landed from the warship Albatross and palled down the flag, despite the protest uf the British and American Consuls. Two Chiefs have come to Auckland to ask Intervention, and that a British man-of-war be sent to protect British and American interests. Referring to the recent disastrous bash firss the Napier Herald says :—A solicitor in town has been consulted by three different settlers, who complain that another settler fired the bush on his section for a burn, although his neighbors begged him not to do so till the wind changed, and pointed out the destruction that would eosne. It is generally con si dared that to this man’s act is dne nearly alt the subsequent trouble. Paris appears to Jbe overstocked with American dentists at present. The other day a recently established dentist brought a complaint against his servant for having left him suddenly without giving him 'notice. The servant justified his conduct by explaining that all the while he was in the doctor’s house not a single patient made his appearance, while he was obliged to sit near ths window and scream by the hour to make people believe that teeth were being pulled inside by the wholesale. The Court acquitted the servant. 11 The' mission ’of brass bands has been discovered st West Maitland. On Tuesday, says the Sydney Daily Telegraph, a resident in the district was savagely bitten on the finger by a black snake. Amputation by means of a tomahawk, tbs rough but prompt

and generally effective remedy asually adopted by a oouple of qaiok witted bush boy* in eoeb •u emergency was not reeorted to. The victim was swiftly conveyed to Dr Pierce’s surgery, where a twelve hours' straggle for life ensued. All the town appears to have been moved with sympathy. Throughout the night a crowd of people volunteered their services in the effort to keep the poor fellow awake and falive. It is doubtful, however, whether the dragging about to which he was subjected would have overcome the fatal stupor if the looal bras* band had not also come to the rescue. The band played, says our correspondent, in the most' generous ’ way, and ultimately the strenuous efforts of the doctor, the crowd, and the brass band triumphed over the danger. Bat we are no* surprised to learn that between the poison, the antidote, the dragging about, and the strains of the brass baud, the unhappy man ‘ requested to be allowed to die.' ” A New Tork physician has written an article entitled " Kissing as a Medium of Communicating Disease." It has long been known that kissing causes a species of heart disease, which terminates in matrimonial fever, and the victim dies sooner or later. Generally later. Ihe young women of St Petersburg are learning trades, in order to make their own living. They learn book-binding, type« setting, shoemaking, bookkeeping, toymaking, wood-oarving, and painting. The Industrial Soboola devoted to women are overcrowded.

Mr Hardeastle, formerly Resident Magistrate and District Judge, at Wellington, died at Neleon, on Sunday evening last, at the age of 49 years. Mr Hardeastle wss formerly a warden on the West Coast goldfields, and was afterwards Resident Magistrate at Wanganui. From there he succeeded Mr Edward Shaw as Resident Magistrate and District Judge at Wellington. Mr Hardeastle was a great snf ferer from neuralgia, and some two years ago went to England hoping to benefit by the change. Lately he hoe been residing with his family in Nelson.

" German Syrup."—No other medicine in the world was ever given such a tost of its curative qualities as Boscbee’s German Syrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed free of charge by druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Croup, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that German Syrup will cure them. The result has been that Druggists in every town and village in civilised countries are recommending it to their customers. Go to your Druggist and ask what they know about it. Sample bottle 6d. Regular size 3s. 6d. Three doses will relievo any case. A man left a very bony steed in Victoria* street recently, and on coming back a short time afterwards discovered that a funny youth had placed a card against the flwhies 1 ribs bearing the notice—" Oats wanted ; inquire with in."

11 Bough on Corns.” Ask for Wells"' Bough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanen, care. Corns, warts, bunions, Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. Vegetarianism is spreading very rapidly in London. Ten yeais ago it was difficult to find an avowed vegetarian,*but now more than two thousand persons refresh themselves daily at vegetarian restaurants. Skinny Men. “ Wells’ Health Benewer” restores health and vigor, cures. Dyspepsia, impotence. Debility. At druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser <fc Co., Agents. Christchurch. A parishioner asked his pastor the meaning of this line of Bcriptnra "Ha was clothed with onrses as with a garment." “It signifies," replied the divine, " that the individual bad a habit of swearing." Don’t Die In The House. “Bough on rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches’ bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, iaok-rabbits, insects, gophers. Eempthorne, Prosser and 00., Agents.

Early yesterday evening a moct refreshing rain set in and continued during the night and to-day. It has coma in good time and tbe face of Mature wears a different aspect already. The rain has been a gentle one, but a continuance is necessary to do much permanent good, (or tbe aoilii baked bard and requires a thorough soaking. Tbe picnic of tbe Matarawa Sunday School takes place oo Friday, the 23nd instant. Yesterday's Star, in answer to our paragraph oonot-minit tie lUe atai up case, aiyi “ Wa may state that we perused the eviaenc* for the defence as reported apparently very fully in the StiinußD together with the evidence lor the prosecution, and we arrived at the conclusion that a remarkably strong prima facie cave had been rn.de eat, so strong In fact that the dismissal of tbe seoased seemed loopable of explanation, nalass the eiroumetanee is taken into consideration that there were two old identities on the bench, and tbe son of an old identity, on whose behalf the father bad just given evidence, in tbe dock. We do not hesitate to express the opinion that the case is one ia which personal and friendly ooneiderationi have outweighed everything else with tba presiding justices.” The Tetsrs Lodge of Druids, Carterton, met on Monday evening, when Bro W. K. Bishop was present, who installed tbe following officers ioto their respective positions : —Bro G. M. Gardener, AD; Bro G. Mason, VA; Bro H. S. Horn, Secretary, (re-elected); Bro T Barnard, Treasurer ; Bro Juo. Greatbead, IG ; Bros A. Armstrong and Zabell, Arab Bards: J. Niool and A. Eddie, VAB'S; Bro Bishop retiring, Qro E. Jones, of Wellington, was nominated in his plaoe. A vote of thanks wee passed to Bro Bishop who has held tbe office of DP lor five years, daring which time he has done a considerable amount of work, and furthered tbe interests of tbs Order to a high degree. The balance sheet submitted to the meeting showed 67 good members on the books. The amount to tbs credit of the sick fund is £l3l 11s Id, and the management load £Bl as 6d. Three new membere were initiated. Mr W. 0. Buchanan, M.H.B, addressee the electors at Cattertou to-morrow aveniog. Mr Andrews, of the Tam. hoe been very unfortunate of lata. Yesterday, he had to bring hit boy James to Groytowa to gat bis arm ra-set. Tha lad was dismounting from a horse, when by some means he fell and dislocated hit arm. Oo arriving at Groytowa Dr Spratt attended to the east until Dr Bey returned to town, when tha arm was examined nd set right again. The Star says a large number of business people in Masterton have agreed to subscribe one shilling per week for tbe purpose of securing tha services of a night watchman. Two or three membere of the Cook Ward Licensing Committee, Wellington, were the recipients of a missive in which there was a rude sketch of a coffin with the name of tbe receiver inscribed upon it, and ornamented above with tba orthodox death’s head and orois bonee ; tha meaning being that if tbsy (the members of the Committee) did not grant the transfer in connection with the Army and Mavy Hotel, those voting against it would be dealt with rather ronghly.

The settlers at Pahiatuar have resolved to erect a Town Hall. A care which created a considerable amount of interest was heard in the Masterton Besi-t dent Magistrate’s Coart on Tuesday. I appears (says the Daily) that in 1873 Mr H. Bentley gave each of his two alder sons, Thomas and Charles, a third of an acre of land, and to ensure that they should not sell it be gave them no deeds. About 1879 Mr Bentley got into difficulties, and his estate passed into the hands of his creditors, Messrs Thompson, Shannon and Co., becoming possessed of the block of land from which the sections ware taken. The two sons had each built a cottage, got married, and no doubt thought that they had a comfortable home lor life. They paid rates for the laud, and exercised all the usual rights of ownership until recently, when Messrs Thompson, Shanndta and Co., gave them notice to quit. This they refused to do, and an action was thereupon brought iu the Resident Magistrate’s Court lor their ejectment. The case of Mr 0. Bentley was first called upon. Bis Worship refused the order, on the ground that the proof of ownership on the part of the plaintiffs was insufficient. Mr T. Bentley did not appear, but the ease being precise! v similar to the preceding one was allowed to be withdrawn without prejudice.

II a sheet ol gold leal ii held up agaioet the light, it appear* to be el a vivid dark green ooloiir; this mean* that the light is transmitted through the leal. When it ie oon--idered that this leal is a piece ol solid mstal, a better idea ol the extreme tenuity ol thickness el the lea I can be comprehended than by any comparison by figure*; notniog mad* by the hand ol mao equals it in ihiuneM. This extreme thinness is produced >y patient hammering, the hammers weighing /lbs. to 201 b*. the lighter hammers being first used When the true method ol this nesting is understood, tbs wonder exprecicd sometimes that gold-beating should not be relegated to machinery ceases; the art belongs to tbs highest department o{ human skill and judgment. Apprentices here served a term, and hava been compelled to abandon the businea*. because they never could acquire the requisite skill end judgment combined necessary to become wtooeesfol workmen. At to the thickness of gold leaf, it may be interesting to know that 800,000 leaves, plaeed one npon another, make a pile one inch thick. When laid op to the light, the leaf is so transparent that objects may ba •sen through it—that made lor dentist* showing a bins shads whan looked through. A fair year’a work lor a representative house is about 60,000 buudleaof 600 leaves eaeb. The workmen are mostly American*, with some English and ftwer German* and Frenchmen.

latest telegrams from Sydney state that batter is selling at 9d. Heavy rains have fallen there. The Papal Propaganda shows that np to November 1, in the Vicanate of Cochin China, 9 missionaries, 7 native priests. 60 catechists, 270 members ol religions orders, aud 24,000 Christians were massacred, 200 parishes, 17 orphan asylums, and 10 convents destroyed, and 225 churches burned. Encouraged by the failure of the agent of the “ Universal Fire Extinguisher,” when put upon its trial on Saturday evening last at Greytown, another gentleman has decided to shortly exhibit an extinguisher, which he affirms surpasses all others. Ths fund for the benefit of Jae Stephens, the ex head centre of the Fenian Brotherhood, now amount* to £I7OO.