Wairarapa Standard Published Tri weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1886.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1792, 8 February 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1886.

At the Featherston R, M. Court ou Thurs day, before the Resident Magistrate, D' Haggerty sued H. Harrison for £4 13s sd, claim for half costs of erecting a dividing fence between the plaintiff’s and defendant’s land. Mr Gray for defendant. The plaintiff was nonsuited on the ground that no notice had been given to the defendant as to the intention to fence.

The monthly meeting of the Greytown School Committee takes place to-morrow evening at the school honse, when the whole of the members ol committee are requested to be present for the despatch of important business.

A recent writer tells us to discriminate between recollect and remember. He says we try to recollect, but we don’t remember. That may be true, but it’s trying to collect what others don't remember that bothers us. A beekeeper, having been told that a lad, through being repeatedly stung by bees, had become impervious to any unpleasant sensation when attacked by them, resolved to experiment on his own person. He kept a record of the number of tiroes he was stung, and when he began to cease feeling the effects of the stings. The result was that all sense of feeling had done when he had been stung 80 times within a few weeks; at least an American paper says so. We recommend the above to the consideration of our Wairarapa beekeepers, and will be glad to publish the result when they are satisfied with the trial.

Four years ago Mr J. Outram, of Hotspur, sowed an acre of land with wattles, and this year he has stripped 3} tons of bark from that acre, realising £2B. Two years ago we pointed out the profitableness of wattle growing, bnt the settlers of the Wairarapa, though they owned it, did not plant out trees. Barbed wire fences are complained of by tanners and hide dealers on the ground that they inflict the severest injuries upon hides injuries not easily discoverable until it is too late.

It bag been decided to open the new Maori School at Papawai on Thursday. The Eev Mr Habeas, Inspector-General of Schools will take part, and we hear that Mr Buchanan and Mr Beetham, M.H.E’s will also be present. The natives are anxious to see the new building opened with some ceremony and they would like the children of the Greytown School to be present. Alcoholic Fatality—The chronic debauchee feels that he positively cannot exist without his alcoholic stimulation. To quit drinking or to continue the habit brings death all the same. Such a man can find in American Co.’s Hop Bitters properly used, a perfect panacea for the drunkard’s cure. Bead. The most amusing law suit yet recorded, and one which affords a rich suggestion, is mentioned in a Russian paper, A wealthy lady at her death placed her pet dog Gypsy in the hands of a friend, with the request to provide for her with the annual interest on iooo roubles, set aside for that purpose in her testament. The other day Gypsy died and the lady who. had charge of her took it for granted that the money was now her own. Another lady, however, appeared on the scene, who owned a son of Gypsy, and who claimed that her dog was heir to the income of iooo roubles, since nothing was said in the testament regarding the disposal of this money after the death of Gypsy. In some places in Russia pat dogs have visiting cards, calling lists and reception days. The following good election story is told by the London correspondent of the Dunedin Star :—At one of his meetings, Mr Shaw Lefevre was tackled by a bully Reading tradesman, who, rising from a seat on the platform, said i—“ Now, sir, will you promise me to answer a plain question I desire to put you, without evasion or circomlocution—just a ‘ Yes,’ or a ' No. *" Sniffing danger, the candidate thought a minute; then, turning to his interlocutor, replied, with engaging frankness: “ Certainly, sir ;if in the first instance, you will answer me a question on the same terms, via, by replying just' Yes,’or' No.' nothing more. “ I will, declared the tradesman.' 1 Very well, then, said Mr Lefevre, “ Have you left off picking pockete ?’’ For an instant there was an awful silence in the hall. Then the point of the question and the unhappy tradesman’s quandary began to dawn on the intelligence of the crowd, and it fairly shouted with laughter. Needless to say (he (rapped querist »t down ig lilepc?.

With the object of opening up an outlet i i South America for farming produce, five cases of tinned butter were shipped lately by the New Plymouth Butter Company to Rio Jeoairo as samples. Last week the Evening Post contained the following notice :—•• A private exhibition was given at the Lyceum last night of a limelight and dissolving view apparatus which was recently imported to New Zealand from the London Polytechnic, and has been purchased by Messrs Short and Walker for exhibition throughout the colony. The slides, nearly 500 in number, are really beautifully painted, and include an immense number of subjects, while the lanterns are superior to anything of the kind we have before seen. The apparatus is capable of showing a picture 36 feet ip diameter. Some very extraordinary mechanical effects are introduced in some of the slides. The exhibition last night was a decided success, and a general opinion was expressed that the show will prove one of the most successful of its kind ever exhibited in New Zealand.” This is certainly a first-class testimonial. By advertisement it will be seen that this diorama will be presented to the public of Greytown at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening, when we have no doubt there will be a large audience to see for themselves.

The Custodian of the Hospital desires to acknowledge with thanks to the Rev Mr Western, an offering of fruit, vegetables, and flowers from a Harvest Thanksgiving Service, held at St John's Church, Featherston, yesterday. An exchange says that if all the amounts under ten shillings, owing by debtors in this colony, were paid, there would be no such word as “ depression ” floating about. The rage foe land in Melbourne shows very little abatement. The Age says that last week was not a very active one, owing to the bad weather and the inauguration of the racing carnival, yet sales were recorded by seven auctioneers to the value of close upon £l4o,ooo—a sum, large as it is, which has been trebled during the busy season.

There is a probability that Mr Moody, the revivalist, will shortly pay New Zealand a visit.

In order to prevent any misunderstanding as to his position either with regard to the Roman Catholic Church or Free* thought, Mr Coleman Philli ps desires to express his views shortly and distinctly : “ That all children in New Zealand should be educated side by side, and that all men and women should worship God side by side. The employees of the Wellington-Wairarapa section of the railway presented Mr George Ashcroft with an illuminated address and a solid silver fruit service on Saturday evening.

A suburban school teacher showed us an excuse which a ten-year-old boy wrote for his absence one day last week. He signed his father’s name to it, It reads as follows : " Miss —— : Please exchnge Joey. He was necessity obtained.”

The following ingenious composition, we need scarcely say, is from the pen of a determined temperance advocate ■ —Why is the letter X coupled with ale ? Because it X-actly X-pressea its character. On Xamining this X-alted and highly X-tolled X-cisable liquor we learn that it is an X-tract of malt and hops, with probably some X-tras. It is X-ceedingly X-pensive ; X-tremely dangerous ; end X-oessively injurious. Who can X-aggerate its evil effects ? It X-hilarates, and X-hausts the spirits; it X-cites anger ; it X-pels reason ; and X-tingnishes energy ; it X-poses its weakness; it X-terminates hope ; it X-asperates passion ; it fosters X-travaganoe ; it ruins X cellence ; and it X-tirpates friendship, It makes X-orbitant actions on the body ; X-erts an X-traordinary influence on the mind. Its deadly X-ploits ate everywhere X-hibited and fearfully Xperienced. X.tians awake I X-plore this X-ecrable drink curse; X-olude it from your lips; X-orcise it from your homes ; take a firm and X-plioit stand ; X-cept no compromise ; allow no X-cnse; admit no Xception; spare no X-ertion; abridge no X-pense ; but by X-hortation, by X clamation, bs X-ample, and by X-pectant prayer, strive to X-tricate its perishing victims ; to stay its X-tension ; to X-termioate its power : and X-pect no repose till it is X-iled out of Xistence.

At a negro wedding, when the minister read the words “ love, honour and obey,” the groom interrupted him, and said: “ Read that agtn’ eah ; read it wnnce mo’, bo’s de lady kin ketch de full solemnity of de meaning. I’se been married befor.”

Sydney papers record the death of Dr Carr, once well-known in New Zealand as a mesmerist and phrenologist, at Glen Innes, N.S.W., on the 18th nltimo, from an overdose of morphia. It is believed to be a case of suicide.

Mr Thomas Walker, writing from the Sydney University, gives the following instructions to those who may be overtaken by the terrible contingency by being lost in the bush “ Always carry aNo 10 needle ; wipe perfectly dry and place it (should ever the contingency arise), by means of a twig or small piece of fern, upon the surface of a small body of stagnant water. Ic will float. The point will gradually turn towards the north and there remain. The south is, of course, at the other extremity, and the east and west are at right angles to the former direction. By taking the beating of the place whence you started, you may easily reach your destination. This method is preferable to the ordinary compass, which is liable to get out of order, besides being so simple. I have tested it practically and never known it to fail.”

August Flower.—The most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and liver complaint. More than seventy-flve 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 6d.

The man was dust refined, but the woman was double dust refined—one remove futfier from the earth. The woman was made of a rib gut of the side of Adam —not made out of his head to lop him, nor out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.—Matthew Henry. The ' Australian,’ writing on the proposal pf Sir Julius Vogel to borrow another £ioooo.ooo, says the present New Zealand debt is, per capita, four times that of Egypt, five times that of Turkey, almost double that of Spain, and double the incidence of the debt ot the whole of the Australian colonies. Nearly 500 cases of apples and pears, infected with Jthe codiin moth, were condemned last Friday in Wellington. They had just arrived from Hobart, Sydney, and Melbourne. The United States Government prosecutions of Mormon polygamists have caused a panic in Utah. Three presidents of the Mormon church are hiding, to avoid arrest, and 50 "bishops" and "apostles" have suddenly been called away, and 10 otherwise under indictment, Twenty have been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. A witty as well as a soft answer will sometimes turn away wrath. Charles Burleigh, the Abolitionist, in (he midst of a’n antislavery speech, was struck by a rotten egg full in the face. Pausing |to wipe away the contents of the missile, he said calmly : “ I have always contended that pro-slavery arguments are very unsound.” The crowd roared and be was no longer molested.*

■' German Syrup.”—No other medicine in the vvorld was ever given such a test of its cmative qualities as Boschee’s German Syrup In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this mnlicine were distributed free of charge bv druggists in the United States of America to those afflicted with Consumption, Asthma, Group, severe Coughs, Pneumonia and Other diseases of the throat and lungs, giving the afflicted undeniable proof that Gsrraan Syrup will cure them. The resu t 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 fid. Regular size 3s. fid. Three doses will relieve any case. Catarrh of The Bladder. Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buohu-paiba.” Drug gists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. A German legend says :-<• First the Lord made man, then he made woman, then he felt sorry for the man and made tobacco.” “ Rough on Corns.” Ask tor Wells’ "Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. Miss Fisher : •* I really don’t think I shall take part again in theatricals ; I always feel as though I were making a fool of myself.” Pilkins (who always says the wrong thing); “ Oh, everybody thinks that.” Flies and Bugs. Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed bggs, rats, mice, gophers, chip munks, cleared ont by " Rough on Rats.” Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.