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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1786, 25 January 1886, Page 2

At the Greytown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in the case W. H. Franks y Gambliu (Mr Beard for defendant), judgment was given for plaintiff for £7 fig fid and costa 30s. The case W. Mitchell v H. W. Kemptfto was adjourned until 3rd February.

Another bush fire started behind Mrs Bridgwater’s, Morrison’s Bush, on Wednesday. It probably arose from ths smouldering embers of the one we chronicled recently. Mr Tweeddale’s house was in great danger, being nearly surrounded by fire, and taxing to the utmost all efforts to save it. Mr Sinclair, in addition to the grass burned the other day, has had fencing and several moie acres of grass Hodge’s Bush Inn was condestroyed. ... fir# made its way sidared in danger, as u.„ " ‘he hotel, tnrough the grass until opposite ...

Fortunately it did not cross the road near the the hotel, thanks to the hard labour of willing workers. Mr Coleman Phillips has obtained from the Acclimatisation Society a large supply of trout for the purpose of stocking the rivers of the Lower Valley.

Visitors to the races will see by advertisement that Mr A. L. Whyte will as usual, provide a good spread lor a hungry public at the No 2 booth. Mr D. Barratt will also be at the Grand Stand Luncheon Room with a good table and youpg waitresses. Mr Barratt informs us that be intends to turn his room into a fairy bowor by. decorating it with flowers and evergreens. To remove any doubts that may exist as to whether a hack horse running fur the lady's bracelet, hurry scurry, or novel race at the forthcoming W. J. C. Meeting becomes disqualified for the hack races, the Stewards have decided that any qualified hack may tun for either the bracelet, hurry scurry, or novel race, and still be eligible for hack races.

The Stewards of theWairarapa Jockey Club have endorsed the disqualification passed by the Featherston Racing Club upon W. t\, Donald and the horse Torea, late Rough Cut, but declined to disqualify tha jockey, Percy Hayward, preferring to warn him of the serious consequence such riding is likely to entail. Allhough believing the lad knew it was wrong to ride as he did, the Stewards took a lenient view of the case, beeause hia position rendered it rather a difficult matter for him to disobey instructions.

A correspondent residing at Featherston wishes to know if we can explain why a little boy who was sent by him to Woodside from Featherston per rail was charged five pence faro from Featherston to Woodside, and on the return journey was charged one shilling and a penny. We recommend him to interview the railway officials. On Thursday the Hokitika Fire Brigade passed through the Wairatapa per train en route tor Napier to take place in the Fire Brigade’s competition. A number of their friends from the West Coast of the South Irland accompanied them. On arrival at Masterton they inspected the fire engines, but were of opinion generally that their own appliances were the most complete and more convenient to work,

It is twenty years this month since Melbourne was first lighted with gas, and forty eight since its first newspaper was published.

Two Germans were recently obliged to erased exploring iu north-east New Guinea owing to their compass becoming useless through the presence of an electrical tree.

Since the starting of the Bendigo rash in 1851, gold to the value of 57 millions sterling has been taken from the Sandhurst goldfield. The profits for the past year are £154,636, 216,7720za haying been produced during the year.

Some Hawera settlers went up ths Patea River a short time ago, and during their travels they came across a man named Campbell, who had lived with the Maoris (or a very long time, and had not seen a European for eight or ten years.

A gentleman who recently made the overland trip from Nelson to Westport, writes to s friend in Nelson “ 1 never (ravelled on a road where the people were so universally attentive. My wife, who is easily knocked up by coaching, did not (eel the journey from Foxhill to the Lyell, which says a good deal for the state of the road. As to the drive as a whole I was charmed with it. Ido not think comparisons between it and the Christ-church-Hokitika road can be drawn. The Buller Valley is as unique as the Otira Gorge, and one great thing to the advantage of the Nelson-Westport road is the absence of the disgusting river beds there are in Canterbury.”

The number of buildings in Blenheim is said to have been doubled within the past two years. One gentleman in the town is credited with having invested £20,000 in land and buildings during that period. A large straw stack, together with 130 sacks of chaff and a chaff-cutter, was burnt at Morrison’s farm. Manaia, last Tuesday night. The whole of the property destroyed belonged to Tonks Bros. A frightful accident happened near Strathalbyn, South Australia, on Sunday, 3rd last., by which two little boys named Frisk, while playing with matches, set fire to a drum of kerosene, which burst, scattering the oil over the children, and another standing by, instantly wrapping them in flames. The father threw the children into a tnb of water. The youngest, two years of age, died from the injuries, and the others are much burnt. Tire flames spread to the outbuildings, doing £IOO worth of damage.

A Yankee journalist has been forming a creed for Agnostics. It rung as follows : “ I believe in the chaotic Nebula, selfexistent Evolver of heaven and earth, and in the differentiation of its original homogeneous mass, its first begotten product, which was self-formed into separate worlds ; divided into land and water; self-organised into plants and animals; reproduced in like species ; farther developed into higher orders ; and finally refined, rationalised, and perfect in man. He descended from the monkey, ascended to the philosopher, and sitteth down in the rites and customs of civilisation, under the laws of a developed Sociology. From thence he shall come again, by the disintegration of the culminated homogeneousness back to the original homogeneousness of Chaos. I believe in the wholly impersonal and meaningless absolute, the wholly unCatholio Church, the disunion of the saints, the survival of the fittest, the persistence of of force, and the dispersion of the body, and in progress everlasting.

Cured of Drinking.—” A young friend of mine was cured of an insatiable thirst for liquor, that had so prostrated his system that he was unable to do any business. He was entirely cared by the use of Am. Go’s Hop Bitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, took away the appetite for liquor, made bis nerves steady, and he has remained a sober and steady man for more than two years, and has not desire to return to his cups.”—From a leading B.E. Official.

" Are you a native of this parish ? ” asked a Scotch Sheriff of a witness, who was summoned to testify in a case of illicit distilling. 11 Maistly, yer honour.” ” I mean, were you born in this parish ? ” “I wasna born m this parish, but I’m maist a native for a’ that.” “ Yob came here when you were a ohiid. I suppose you mean ?’’ said the Sheriff. “ Na, Sir, I’m jist here about sax year noo.” “ Then how do you come to be nearly a native of the parish ? ” “ Well, ye see, whan I cam’ here sax year sin’, I just weighed eight stine, an’ I’m fully seventeen stane noo ; sae ye see that abont nine stane o’ me belongs to this parish, and the ither eight oomes frae Camlaohie.”

A Lady’s Wish.—" Oh, how Ido wish my skin was as clear and soft as yours !” said a lady to a friend. You can easily make it so,” answered the friend. “ How ?” inquired the first lady. “By using Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did it for me, as you observe.” Read

August Flower.—The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects ; such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Heartburn, Waterbrash, gnawing and burning pains at the pit of the Stomach, Yellow skin, Coated Tongue and disagreeable taste in the mouth, coming up of food after eating, low spirits, &c. Go to your Druggist and get a bottle of August Flower This valuable medicine has cured thousands and thousands of sufferers and is known in all civilized countries. Two doses will relieve you. It costs only 3s. 6d. a bottle. Sample bottles Cd. A workman employed in repairing the roof of the hall at the West Loudon District Schools, near Staines, discovered a man in the space between the roof and the ceiling. ~««n stated that he had lived there for The - -""nealed during the day several years, lying —in« B arch and at night prowling about the roonio.of food, a quantity of which was found near him, as well as a dark lantern. The loft was in a dreadful condition, the man having made no effort to keep it clean. A hole had been made, so that the man could see what was going on in the dining-hall beneath; and access to the attic was gained by an iron ladder fixed to the oalside wail.

Flies and Bugs. Beetles, insects, roaches, ants" bed bgr»a, rats, mice, gophers, chip munks, cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” Kompthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

America is the possessor of a brass band composed entirely of women. The uniform is of black veßet, tightly fitting and plainly made, with a golden epaulette on each shoulder, and hats bound round with gold cord.

An English authority states :—" It seems that the fringe on the forehead is really to disappear. Two or three different styles of hair dressing have been introduced lately, and the loading elegantes have decreed that in front, the hair shall be brushed hack, and rolled over a small pad in diadem shape. Such a marked change, however, seed’s scarcely likely to become general all at onoc, and those who as jet have made na difference in their fringes will probably prefer to put it back by degrees, leaving a few curls at least to shade the temples ; for although the hair rolled back from the forehead suits some faces, it is decidedly not becoming to the majority as the fringe. No one now, however, wears the fringe nearly touching the eyebrows ; in all oases it is much shorter and exposes the greater part of the forehead.” What a blessing it will be when those horrid bangs are done away with, borne girls are perfect frights, with their hair combed down to the eyelashes, or left nnoombed to grow in a mass of disorder over the head.

" Rough on Corns." Ask lor Wells’ "Bough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. Catarrh of The Bladder. Stinging Irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buohu-paiba.” Druggist). Kempthorne, Prosser & 0o. t Agents.

The body of a man named Charles Blackett was exhumed in the Misterton Cemetery last Wednesday morning in the presence of Detective O’Connor, Sergeant Price, and other members of the police force, the object being to ascertain whether one of the hands had been removed after death. The corpse was “ found intact,” and the police authorities are now satisfied that the hand which forma the subject of the Christchurch mystery case was not taken from Blackett’s body. The exhumation took place in consequence of the fact becoming known that while in Masterton Howard endeavoured to persuade a man to open the coffin in which Blackett was buried so that he might, as be explained, ascertain whether the body was that of an old friend. Blackett died in the Masterton Hospital several months ago from injuries received while bush felling in the Wairarapa.

A conference was held last week between Admiral Tryon and the Government. An important proposal was laid before the Government by the Admiral, says the N. Z. limes. It was to the effect that all the Australasian Colonies, including New Zealand, should contribute, proportionally to (heir respective populations, to the cost of considerable additions to the English Navy in the Pacific. The idea is to build several suitably armed swift cruisers—some armonrbelted, some not—also a large number of torpedo boats and other vessels, all of the most improved modern types and designs, so as to secure permanent fleets in Australasian waters amply sufficient to grapple with, and beat any adverse force that oould be sent against the Colonies. It is estimated that in the event of such a proposal being adopted, New Zealand’s share of the expenaa would amount to between £600,000 and £700.000 ; so that the interest would ooma to about £25,000 per annum. It is believed that the Imperial Government would guarantee special loan raised for this purpose and this would materially reduce the interest payable. The Cabinet will consider the matter.

The South Wairarapa Amateur Dramatic Society appear at the Town Hall, Greytown, on Friday and Saturday evening nest. A good programme will be aubmittel each evening, and no doubt the two ptizea offered for first and second best conundrum, will cause some competition. The whole of conundrums sent in will be read out on Friday evening. The Secretary has already received several.

Mr Coleman Phillips in a letter to the Star oq “ Freethought ” says “ I am quite willing to meet Mr Hawkins and the Rev P. Treaoy, and say half-a-dezeu other clergymen, some evening at the Freethought Hall in Masterton, and have a friendly chat over this matter. And if Mr Hawkins likes to add lonr other lay members to his side of the question all the better, as that will make twelve. I think, Sir, that it is not presumptuous on my part to say that I, singly, am prepared to meet twelve good men and true, seeing that it will take at least that nnmber to uphold their side of the question. Of course the question for discussion will be “ The Divinity of the Bible and Christianity,” Mr Hawkins and his side to support it and 1 to oppose. Just a friendly argument on both sides, in which no harm can be done. We will get Mr William Beetham, as a fair and honorable man, to preside." Mr H. P. Ward, of the Greytown school has been appointed to the position of bead master to the Johnsonville school, subject to approval of the Committee.

Mrs Banks, an old resident of Greytown, died yesterday, aged 77. The old lady has been unwell for the last three months. Her husband, who was also an old settler, died at Greytown seme years ago. The funeral will take place to-morrow, at two o’clock. A thousand French residents ol Mauritius have petitioned the French Government for permission to colonise Madagascar.

A child 18 months old, son of Mr G. F. Wood, of South Cambridge, Canterbury, strayed away from home and was drowned in a creek near his lather's house last week. Mr C. H. Harper has been appointed first assistant teacher in the Featherston School.

A serious buggy accident occurred on Thursday evening on the Shakespeare-road, Napier. The Misses Williams (2), daughters of Henry Williams, ironmonger, and Miss Speedy, of Wainui, were driving down the Hill, when the horse went off at a rapid pace and came into collision with Dr Hitcbmg's carriage. Miss Williams’ horse then swerved, and becoming quite unmanageable, brought the buggy in contact with a telegraph pole, capsizing the vehicle and throwing the ladies on to the stone kerb of the footpath. The Misses Williams escaped with severe cuts and bruises, but Miss Speedy, it is feared, has suffered concussion of the brain.

Last Friday evening as the Wairarapa train to Wellington drew up at the Ngahauranga station a man who gave his name as Wm Sherwin and said he was a farm labourer and bad been working near Masterton, fell between the carriage and the station platform and the wheels passed over him. He sustained fracture of both collar bones, fracture of the left shoulder blade, several severe scalp wounds, and a fracture of the base of the skull. It is snrmised Sherwin attempted to alight while the train was in ' motion and was caught by the footboard. He died on Saturday,

Two fatal accidents occurred at the Lower Hutt on Thursday last,(says the Post) the victims being two children, who were drowned in the Hutt River within half an hour of each other. The first was a child named Alina Fleet, aged 15 months, daughter of Thomas Fleet of Petone. The child was in a perambulator, and was taken along the river bank by two young girls—Misses Cudby and Isabella Nicholl. Seeing Mr. Whiting in a boat near Alicetown the girls left the child in the perambulator on the bank of the stream, and went for a row. Returning to the spot in a few minutes’ time, they were horrified to find the little about 14 inches of water and one lying 1- - * :,J *'« d evidently mud quite dead. The cnuu ■■ ■ ■ tried to follow her elder companion, and in doing so had fallen out of the vehicle and rolled down the sloping bank into the muddy water. The victim of the second fatality was a little boy of nine years old, named George Anstiss, son of Mr George Anstiss Waiwetu. On Friday afternoon he was in company with Mr M’lntosh's son.andsuggested a bathe. The lads stripped and went into the river, and Anstiss getting out of his depth was drowned.

The Government have accepted the services of a native volunteer corps in Papawai.

The grass and bush fires which have been prevalent at Morrison’s Bush were stoutly fought against by a number of willing bands, and we were glad to hear yesterday that no dwellings had been consumed. Mr Hollard's orchard was in great danger, and there is no doubt if the fire had got into the grass growing there the whole of the trees would have been destroyed. A hay slack on the properly, belonging to Mr Johnston, was destroyed, and it is the opinion of several who saw the flames burst forth that it was wilfully set on .bn, as the wind was not blowing towards it when the conflagration commenced. A number of bads rushed to quench the flames, but Mr Johnston preferred that it should be left alone, aud the whole stack was consumed.

During the past week special evangelistic services have been held by the Rev J. Ward at Dalefisld at a building owned by Mr A. Hart which bad been fitted up for the occasion. Notwithstanding bush fires the attendances have been large and the meetings successful. ‘

We are pleased to note that our Carterton correspondent's suggestion, re email farm association, will apparently bear trait. An advertisement will be found in our column* today, calling a meeting of those interested. We understand that the matter is in competent hands, and that there is likely to be a full attendance.

Mr O C Sage, of Maeterton, storekeeper, has filed a declaration of insolvency.

The employees of Messrs Levin and Co proceeded per train from Wellington on Thursday night to Featherstuu station at tba invitation of Mr W. H. Levin, who resides at Te Pnbi Station, near Feathers ton. The party were catered for on srrival by Mr James Smith of the Empire Hotel, Featherston, where they were also accommodated with sleeping accommodation. The arrangements were all carried out by host Smith in his nsnal able style, giving ihe utmost satisfaction. The next morning (Friday) the party were driven out to Mr Levin’s place, where they met another party from Pibautea Station (Messrs Bidnrill Bros place) where a most enjoyable cricket match was played, Bidwill'e team ultimately being beaten by one run on the first innings. An excellent spread was provided after the match, and the nsnal loyal toasts and sentiments were given and exchanged,• after which the town visitor* returned by train to their homes. Last year the cricket match, which has now become an annnal event between the members and employees of the two firms, was played at Messrs Bidwill's station, and upon that occasion the same amount of enjoyment and conviviality prevailed.

The ladies’ cloak room on the racecourse on Friday and Saturday will be nader the charge of experienced female attendants.

Mr Bnohanan, MHB, addressed e meeting of his constituents at Martinborough, on Saturday, which was fairly attended. Mors particulars will be given in onr next.

The Wesleyan picnic, held in Mr Jobm' paddock on Friday laat, waa a great success. There were frieoda present from Carterton, Oreytown, Delefield and othar places. It was the largest attendance vet known in the district at any picnic connected with the circuit. The proceeds of the day amounted to neerly £>. Many sports were indulged in. The Hatarewa people one and all did their beat to make the occasion an nn. acetified enoceaa. In the evening n leetnre waa slivered in the school room by the Rev C. Ward on “ The Bib’eand its Teachings." The discourse waa full of conclusive argument, end wne spoken of by many as the most interesting feature of Ihe day's proceedings.

Mr F. H. Wood had a rtrr •cectwfol tala of Maori Downes and Henderson 1 ! railway contractors plant at UeurioeviLe on Thursday. The attendance eras eery law, boyars coming from all parts of tbs country, including Wellington Naprar, Woodritla, Ac. For flea hours and a half tha aale continued without interruption, th%biddiog at times being ran spirited ; draught horses ware in good demand nod sold wall. Two four horse coaches, left Niel’sstablee atJMastarton, for tha sale at 9 am. well filled, and the stream of pnrata rehiclea and horsemen, reminded one of a race meeting.

Last Friday afternoon a fire broke out at Taorui, near Adsett'a mill, Feilding. In a abort time the mill and dwelling bouse were surrounded by flatnee. A number of bouses occupied by tbc mill bands were destroyed with their contents. The mill was saved by the greatest exertions Upwards of a mile of tramway ana a quantity of fencing were destroyed.