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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1788, 29 January 1886, Page 2

We do not think it necessary to inform our readers that the Wairarapa Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting will be run to-day and tomorrow on the new course at Creytown. The town was filled with visitors last night and has been pretty lively to-day with a continuous stream of visitors to the races. The weather is unfortunately wet. Nothing fresh has been elicited as yet eon< corning “ The Severed Hand." The date of the Taratahi Carterton Jockey Club Spring Meeting has been altered to the 19th proz., in order to avoid clashing with the Bam and Ewe Fair of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society, which is to be held on the 17th and 18th proximo.

Although the Postal Notes' system has only been in operation a little over a week (says the Press) its tuccess is remarkable. The business transacted in this department throughout the colony is already four times as great as was anticipated, and about 500 notes are issued every day. The notes which seem to be most in requisition are for sums of twenty shilling!. We hope the time is not distant when tie system will he extended to the neighboring colonies, as such a step would prove an inestimable convenience. The bed of the ocean, says a recent writer, is to an enormous extent covered with lava and pumice stone. Still more remarkable is to find the floor of the ocean covered in many parts with the dust of meteorites. Between Honolulu and Tahiti, a depth of 2,370 fathoms—ov<r two miles and a-half—a Na-t layer of this material exists. Falling upon land this impalpable dust is indistinguishable, but accunulating lor centuries in the sea depths it forms a wondrous story of continuous bombadment of this planet by cemetary bodies.

The settlers tbroaghout the district (says , the Clutha Leader are now gaining some practical experience of the effects of ferrets 1 having been turned >ut in their neighborhood. One in the Puerua district has had over 40 young ducks destnved in the course of three weeks. Ten were dscovered lying in a heap dead last Sunday ni)ht. Bach had a small puncture below the wing. The flesh uud feathers were left inbot, but the blood was gone. The ferrets are very impudent, and soon find out the pigs’ troughs, where they shafe the milk with the pigs. Some of the vermin have been trapped and destroyed, but it is feared that they will be much worse to get rid of than the rabbits, which still are very numerous, and rapidly increasing. The recent prognostications of the blacks that heavy floods were imminent (says the South Australian Register) have already been verified, and soon the grtss and vegetation npon which stock thrive .vill be springing up like magic. It is a fact vortby of the attention of Sir John Lubbock and other distinguished entomologists thet the Natives have arrived at their conclusons regarding the weather through observiig the ants, which this year are said to have removed their habitations from the ground lo the trees with the idea of getting out of barm’s way. Whether these insects have meane unknown to human beings of forecasting the weather, or whether their migration to higher latitudes is merely a coincidence, is a point upon which we cannot pronounce authoritatively, but it is a fact that the blacks have implicit faith in ths prescience of the tiny orettures. A romantic story is making a stir in Berlin. A young and beautiful girt lately arrived there half starving and without a penny. As there Was some irregularity In her passport, inquiries were mads to establish her indentity. It transpired that she was the heiress of 600,000 tnarks, and that after having been educated in a French convent, she was taken to Frankfort and abandoned by a man disguised as a monk. She was ignorant of her circumstances, and tramped all the way- to Berlin, living on charity and the proceeds of a little needlework. The French Embassy has taken the interesting waif under its protection. Sines hw story became known moim of suitors kavo bean tasting about bar.

A correspondent writes :—Gn dit, that an Observer •' Sheep ” will have to apologise to (W >at they once took to be) a Taratahi lamb, realy for slaughter. The Observer went to the “ Marquis " for consolation and sympathy, and got it (?) Final beat to be decided at R M Court, Carterton, of which due notice will be given, unless full satisfaction is made on or before that date to the Borough.

The vacancy of assistant teacher in the Greytown school will be filled by a Mr Fairbrother.

Eketahuna and Alfredton have been playing a cricket match. The former team won, Mr A. Selby scoring 102 for his side in the second innings, not out.

Telegrams from London, of Jan. 26, state that greasy inferior wools fetched id to Id below last sales, and seonrei wools Id lower. Crossbreds, however, are generally firm. Some important changes in the management of the various railway district throughout the colony have been decided upon by the Government, the result being in each case that the official moved will receive promotion. All we can say at present is that Mr Bonayne, who for some time past has been in charge of the Greymonth district, will be moved to Wellington, and will take charge of the locomotive branch of the Wellington and Masterton Bailway. Mr Stone, formerly manager at Wellington, hut for many years past manager at Nelson, succeeds Mr Bonayne, and Mr Jackson, of Wanganui, succeeds Mr Stone. Mr Ashcroft, who is now taking a well-earned holiday, will not again take charge of the Wellington district,'but the station to which he will be moved has not yet been settled. The many friends of Mr Ashcroft, while being pleased at his promotion, will regret very much that they are about to loose so obliging an officer.—Press An enterprising firm in Christchurch announces a pamphlet containing full particulars of 41 The Severed Hand ; or, the Howard Mystery.” It will be embellished with photos of Mr and Mrs (?) Howard, the two Godfreys and the severed hand. 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, Waterbrasn, 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 fid.

Press Cigarettes.— * Hurrah I Rain at last! Long may she rain I Gently does it though I We don’t want too much of a good thing, right in the middle of harvest ? Do you remember that story of the old farmer and the parson ? No, what was that ? Why, there had been prayers for rain, in Church, and sure enough it came down in torrents next day, and poured for a week ? An old farmer who had been foremost among those who had asked the clergyman to pray for rain was furious at this ? “That's just the way with parson,'’he said. He Jcan’t never du nothin he overdu it ?" Ha, well there’s a lot of’that sort of feeling about! I read the 'other day about a custom they have in Germany of the pastor and choir going from field to field singing hymns and praying for plentiful crops, but one old fellow, when he came to a very bad field said, " Come on. it's no use singing and praying here. Nothing but manure will do it any good !" The head of a splendid trout which when intact weighed between 12 and ijlbs, was found in the Waipona below the bathing sheds on Sunday.—Star.

Another remedy has come forward for lung worm in sheep. The receipt given below has been published by the South Australian Government: Nitre, 12 oz; sulphur, 50 ; water, 100 ; dissolve the nitre in the water, then add the sulphur. The mixture must be constantly stirred while administering it, as sulphur is notsoluable in water. The dose is one ounce. The best thing for dosing sheep is a small bullock's horn. Dose four times at ten days’ interval. Supply the sheep with t mixture of salt with ten per cent of sulphate of iron for them to lick.

Owing to the harvest operations several of the Qreytown team cannot go to Wellington next week. The match with Wellington has therefore been indefinitely postponed. “ Rough on Corns.’’ Ask for Wells’ '* Bough on Corns.’’ Quick relief, complete, permanen, care. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. A good story is told of Judge Kent, the welt known American Jurist. A man was indicted for burglary, and the evidence on the trial showed that bis burglary consisted in cutting a hole through a tent in which several persons were sleeping, and then inserting his head and arm through the hole and abstracting various articles of value. It was claimed by his connsel that, inasmuch as he never actually entered into the tent with his body he had not committed the offence charged, and must therefore be die* charged. Judge Kent, in reply te this plea, told the jury that it they were not satisfied that the whole man was involved in the crime they might bring in a verdict of guilty against so much of him as was thus involved. The jury, after a brief consultation, found the right arm, the right shoulder, and the bead of the prisoner guilty of the offence of burglary. The Judge sentenced tie right arm, the right shoulder, and head to imprisonment with bard labor in the State prison for two years, remarking that as to the rest of the man’s body he might do with it what he pleased. Don’t Die In The House. "Rough on rata ’’ clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches' bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, jack-rabbits, insects, gophers. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., Agents.

A carious controversy, to which, we referred in a previous issue, is going on just now in Ireland on the subject of cutting off the horns of bullocks and heifers, and turning them into polled cattle. The practice is called " dishorning," or, in other words, disarming. There can be no doubt but that the custom, which has now grown general in Meath, tends to fatten the animals, and that it tends, moreover, to peaceable behaviour on board ship and on railways. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have enlisted themselves on the side of horns, and veterinary science seems ambiguous. There can be no doubt pain is inflicted, and pain that lasts for some hours, but the increased thriving condition of the animal after the operation shows that it cannot be a permanent torment.

Skinny Men. “ Wells’ Health Beuewer” restores health and vigor, cures, Dyspepsia, impotence, Debility. At druggists. Kempthorne. Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. There is a story that a farmer who had lost some cows, was fully persuaded that he had himself been attacked by the epidemic. Forthwith be consulted hie medical man, who tried to laugh him out of the motion, but to no purpose. The farmer then went off to an old well-known practitioner, whobeing a bit of a wag, and seeing how matters were, entered minutely into the details of the case, expressed his concurrence with the patient’s views, and told him he could cure him. He then wrote a prescription sealed

it up, and told the farmer to go to a certain druggist in the next pittery (own. Tift farmer lost no time in going with the prescription, but was somewhat startled when the druggist showed him the formula, which ran thus : " This man has got the cattle plague; take him into the back yard and shoot him' according to Act of Parliament.” There is no need of faying that (bis was a " perfset caw."

Ab we predicted in onr lest, a number of sharpers have found their way to Oreytown. They are looking for “ lambs," and will probably fleeoe some of the unwary ones by the time the races are over.

On Wednesday, at Featherston, Samuel Whiteside was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor for two months for cruelly treating bis wife. The Court also ordered that the wife should have the custody of the two children, that the defendant pay 8s a week each lor their maintenance, and that her property be protected against the husband, his creditors, and all persons claiming under him.

The Amateur Dramatis Society will appear at the Town Hall, Oreytown, to-night and to-morrow night. In addition to the two pieces to be presented this evening, the prize will be awarded for best two sets of conundrums.