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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1793, 10 February 1886, Page 2

The Papawai natives are auxioua that their friends at Masterton, the East Coast aud the Lakes should l e present at the opening of the new schoolhouee, and have therefore decided to postpone the opening day until to-morrow week, the 18th instant.

The herd ol purebred cattle, causistiug of about 40 head of female stock, the property of Mr Dunoan MoMaster.of the Lower Valley, is now offered for sale. This is a rare chance for those whom it may concern. Mr McMaster has made for himself a widely spread name for the excellence and value of his slock, and those who may do business with him will get a first-class article. Nominations for five members for the Featherston Town Licensing District must be in before noon of Friday next. The Carterton Licensing District nominations close at the Pioneer House, to-morrow at the same hour, aud lor (he Greytown Licensing District at the sohoolhouse, Tauherenikan, on Friday, at the same hour. A large number of rams will be offered by Mr F. H. Wood at the Ram Fair on the 17th instant. He also advertises 300 ewes.

A correspondent of the Daily urges the establishment of a jam factory at Masterton. The Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Society’s Ram and Ewe Fair will be hold tomorrow. There are 616 rams and It ewes entered.

A committee meeting of the Carterton Special Settlement Association will be held this evening. We do not think we shall be misleading out readers woen we say that the Diorama to be exhibited at the Town Hall, (treytowu, this evening, is well worthy of patronage. Mr Short, who was the advance agent for the Faust Family, says he believes nothing approaching to it baa been exhibited in New Zealand. The slides are beautifully painted, and the scenes represented are taken from all ports of the world. The mechanical ejects are ingeniously executed, and the whole of bis pictures are explained by a lecture. To-niottow evening the Diorama will appear at Carterton.

There has been quite an epidemic of sickness among children in the Wairarapa during the last week or two. Whether it arises from eating unripe fruit or what we cannot say. Some children are seized with fainting and pains in the stomach, and for days lie about lamest helpless. In the Groytown School several cases have occurred, the children having to leave for home. Parents will act wisely in cautioning the ehilfiren not to eat unripe fruit. Numbers are to he seen at the piesent time stuffing themselves with laurel berries, which are very injurious.

We bear that Mr Wm Cranmer, late of the Upper Butt, has taken the Royal Hotel at I'VaUierstOD, from Mr B. Isen. From Mr W. Ci.i.nuer’s excellent prestige as a landlord we should say that the Royal Hotel will be very for lunate in falling into such good bands. A harvest thanksgiving service took place at St John's Church, Featherston, on Sunday evening last. The decorations were very pretty and suitable for the occasion, and the congregation was large and attentive. The Rev W. T. Western officiated and delivered a must interesting address. One of the substantial additions to the borough of Greytown is the handsome and commodious residence of Mr B. J. Thompson on the Kuritiwbiti Road. Mr E. Gray was the builder, and has turned the work out exceedingly well, with the assistance of Mr J. Beard and Sons, who have done the painting and decorating in their usual excellent style.

A temperance demonstration was held at Auckland last Saturday. There was a procession half a mile long, headed by the Kohimarama Industrial School boys in their boat, decorated with the Union Jack, &0., drawn on a trolly by four horses. A mass meeting, attended by over 3000 people, was held in the grounds near Government House, and was addressed by Mr Glover. In the evening he addressed a mass meeting of working men in the Theatre Royal on “ Good wages and how to keep them.”

The Rev Mr Western, is about to pay a two months’ visit to Queensland to recruit his health. We hope both he aad Mrs Western will throughly enioy the trip and return invigorated for farther work. Notwithstanding the labor that has been spent upon the Greytown cemetery by Mr Porritt and the trustees, the recent grass fires have considerably scorched and damaged some of the fences around the graves. Where the grass was cut the graves have escaped, but where the fire reached and the grass was uncut it has disfigured the burial plots. It is a pity that those who have laid away the remains of loved ones have allowed this to happen. Had a little precaution been taken it would have spared .them an additional sorrow. If a grass fire should sweep right across the cemetery every perishable grave stone will go, and we therefore hope that individuals, having friends or relatives lying there will see to the graves, and get them cleared of the long grass.

The Matarawa Cricket Club have, up to the preseat, been successful in winning all the matches they have played in, and we believe this is accounted for on the ground that the members practise steadily three times a week. As many as twenty players may be seen together in Mr Welch's paddock on practice days, which, considering the distance some of them come, reflects much credit upon them. We hear that this Club is about to challenge the Grey town Private Band to a match. Patrick O’Sullivan, landlord of the Spring* lauds Hotel, was charged at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Blenheim, with stabbing J. O’Sullivan, the landlord of the South Star Hotel. Both men were drinking together on Saturday when a quarrel arose. John struck Patrick, and the latter, who had an open clasp knife in his hand, inflicted a severe cut at the )>ack of John’s left ear either whilst returning John’s blow, or whilst raising bis hand to protect himself. Dr Porter considers Ins life not oat of danger, the cut extending from the lobe of the ear four inches towards the spine. The wounded man lost a great quantity of blood. Accused was remanded for eight days. The monthly meeting of the Peatherston School Committee was held on Saturday evening. Present—Messrs Bunny (Chairman) Matthews, McDougall, Keys, and Robertson. The balance in the bank was reported at LI!) Is 3d. The Chairman reported that the quarter’s capitation, LIS 2s 6d, bad been paid since the last meeting. Two accounts were passed for payment. A letter was read from Mr Buutiug, complaining of several boys being allowed to absent themselves from school. The Chairman was requested to instruct the police to enforce their attendance. Messrs Matthews and McDougall were appointed visitors for the present month. A piece of railway iron fell npon the foot of a man named Charles Wallman yesterday on (he Qaeen’s Wharf, Wellington. He was taken to the Hospital where the big toe was amputated and the others dressed.

Mr Ballanoe is down South and was to have visited Stewart Island to-day. It is to be hoped that his visit will bring this Island into closer relations with the rest of New Zealand.

Major c ßunny, the District Commandant, swore in the members ol the Native Rifle Corps at Papawai to-day. At Dunedin Alfred Harley has been committed (or trial (or illegally pawning jewellery which he had received to sell on commission. Fifteen pawn tickets were found on him when arrested.

“ German Syrup.”—No other medicine in the world has ever given such a test of its curative qualities as Boschee’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 relieve any case.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the publishers, Wm Inglis and Co., of Melbourne, ol a copy of the Presbyterian Monthly and Messenger, a newspaper issued in the interests of the Presbyterian Churches of Australia and Tasmania. The number received, in addition to a large quantity of entertaining matter, contains portraits ol the Right Reverend D. M'Baohran, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria; and of the late Reverend John Cooper, of Coburg, who died on the 23rd ; as well as an illustration of a story, ” The Cripple Boy.” We are glad to see that the Presbyterians ol Australia are so well represented. We well remember the first periodical published in the interests of Presbyteriauism in New South Wales. It was called “ The Voice in the Wilderness,” and was edited by theßav Wm Mclntyre of East Maitland. The Rev Geo Maokie and the Rev A lex Salmon were regular contributors. If we remember rightly the first issue was printed in Sydney in 1845, and i' continued its existence for many years, Mr Nation, sen., now in this town, printing it. Mr Nation also printed in Sydney the “ Christian Record,” another Presbyterian journal, which was edited conjointly by the Rev Jas Coutts, of Parramatta, and the Rev Dr Fullerton, of Sydney. Then in 1854, ” The Australian Witness.” was started by Mr Waugh, a Sydney bookseller. These periodicals, a file of which is slid in Mr Nation's possession, are valuable as „-h owing the early history of the Free and Establish 1 1 Presbyterian Churches of New South Wales. “ Rough on Bats.” Clears oat rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists, Kempthorne, Prosser ,fe 00., Agents, Christchurch.

Two extremely severe shocks of earthquake took place, the first at 1 BO a.m., and the second at 9.45 a m., on Sunday at Gisborne. They were of long duration. The apparent direction was south to north. No damage is reported.

Samuel Haworth, son of Mr Robert Haworth, was diiving near Caversham, Otago, on Saturday afternoon, when his horse was frightened by a kite falling on its head. The animal bolted, and the occupants of the buggy wore thrown out, Mr Haworth receiving injuries from which he died a few hours afterwards.

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Three men were injured last Saturday at Kelson by the collapse of a brick bridge in course of construction in Kile street. William Hollyman, a bricklayer, and Horton, a laborer, were buried beneath the bricks, die., on the work collapsing as the centres were being removed. Both were got out. The former sustained a compound fracture of the leg, and fractures of the arm above and below the elbow. The bone and trendous were laid bare. Horton was not so severely injured, and a third man, Hooker, was knocked into the water, but not much hurt. The accident is attributed to the removal of the centres before the cement and mortar bad set.

Some time ago the Rev W. T. Western announced his attention to give a workboz as a prize to the girl attending the Oreytown School who could most ably out out and make a shirt. The prize on this occasion falls to Miss Alice Kempton, and as the ladies who judged the work remarked that the second competitor, Miss O’Connor, richly deserved a prize for the neatness of her work, Mrs Western has kindly presented to that young lady a second prize. Mrs Western, in the presence of the other ladies who judged the work, presented to the successful competitors the two work boxes yestetday daring school hoars. Messrs Mair and Dixon, the celebrated coach builders, of Masterton, have a new advertisement in : another column. Messrs Muir and Dixon have on hand in their show room some splendid new vehicles of superb style and workmanship. They have the excelsior road carriage, wagonnettes of many descriptions, buggies both double and single, with fixed back seats and turnover back seats, Phaetons npon the most improved princi pies, American side spar carriages, express wagons, brakes, spring carts, <fco., and a visit to tbia establishment will unquestionably prove very satisfactory and pleasing to any person interested in purchasing really first-olass vehicle*. In another column we give the particular! of an aoccident on the railway line, taken from the Post. We have since been given to understand that the train waa intentionally backed clear of the tunnel when the mishap occured in' order to get into the light to see what was wrong. The passengers became alarmed without cause and hence the confusion which followed.

The Greytown Hospital Committee met yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs Caff (ohrirman), Gray, Nation, Skeet, and Bev Western. The Treasurer reported a credit balance of £l2B 10s 7d, and that the Government subsidy of £2B 19s 3d ap to 80th November had been paid. A letter was read from Mr Tullock in which he spoke highly of the treatment he bad received from Dr Bey and the matron daring his stay in the Hospital. A letter was also read from Mr Coleman Phillips re the systematic and regular issue of Hospital tickets. The other business was unimportant. At the Wellington B.M. Court, yesterday, Andrew Black was committed for trial- for stealing a pair of trousers on the 29th January from Mr Hammeriob of the Greytown Hotel. He was also committed for stealing an overcoat the property of Alex Sutherland, a jockey. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Greytown School Committee took place yesterday evening. Present—Messrs Caff (chairman), Skeet, Trotter, Hillier, Western and Hornblow (secretary). The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed, after which the business of the meeting may be summarised as follows The assistant master, Mr Ward, will be shortly transferred to Johnsonville School; Mr Fairbrother will succeed him here. Messrs G. Beetham and Blair were nominated members of the Education Board for the forthcoming election. A vote of thanks was passed to Mesdomes Tally and Western for their report of the girls’ sewing class. A sub committee waa appointed to report alterations necessary to school buildings, with a view to comfort and proper ventilation. Treasurer reported credit balance of £l6 2s 7d. Messrs Skeet and Trotter were appointed visitors for the month. The GreytoWn cricketers are reminded that to-morrow is practice day, when both elevens are expected out in view of the approaching matches- Bolling practice will be held this afternoon, aod while the ground is in a soft condition several good wickela ought to be obtained.

Last Sunday night, about 11 o’clock, just outside Greytewn on the road leading to Carterton, a man, evidently in liquor stopped Mr A. Eraghan who was on horseback, and asked for a match. This was given, bat the man refused to let go the bridle notwithstanding all the efforts of Mr Eraghan to get rid of him. Eventually Mr Eraghan slipped the bridle over the horse’s head and went on his way. There was nothing serions about the affair that we can learn, but it would have served the man right if the horseman had slipped off one of the stirrup leathers and hit him over the bead with the stirrup iron. Persons do not care to be stack up on a lonely road at a late hour, and strong defensive defensive measures are necessary under the circumstances.

Messrs J. Dutbie and J. Petheriok have been elected members of the Wellington Harbor Board.

A challenge has been sent to the Matarawa Cricket Club by a second eleven of the Greytown Club to play a match iu Steward's paddock on Saturday. A telegram from Dunedin says the horse Captain Webster has broken down. The Featherston Road Board invite tenders for metalling 48 chains on Murphy’s Road, Featherston, and formation of 41 chains of Pudding’s Line, Moroa. Mr Murray J. H. Jackson, of South Fea> there ton, advertises for tenders for erection of a sheep dip. *

Cardinal Moran arrived at the Bluff ou Monday. Ha was met by Bishop Moran, of Dunedin, aud publicly received at St Mary’s Church, Invercargill. He is to be entertained at a grand banquet when be arrives in Wellington. The loes of gold by attrition, shipwreck, fires, etc,, amounts to not quite two tone weight, or in actual value L' 280,000. The Great Eastern, the biggest ship in the world, which was built by the celebrated Brunei, aud wi xh has proved to be a veritable '■ white elephant.” has been sold for 1/26,000 and is about to be broken up. An eagle made a swoop on a child two years old iu a Canadian village, and carried it off in its tallona.

A late cablegram, dated London, February 8, says a mass meeting of unemployed was held to-day in Trafalgar Square, when rcsolutions were adopted for an appeal to the Government and Parliament generally to take steps to remedy the existing distress. The addresses were of a very inflammatory character, many of tha speakers propounding Socialist doctrines of a violent kind. The mob dispersed in a riotous manner when the meeting was ended, and smashed a number of club windows in Pall Mall.

A fatal boiler explosion is reported from '! dlarat. The ammonia boiler at the Ballarat icovorks burst, and totally wrecked the building. A ram and a boy were killed, and the proprietor of the factory now lies in an extremely critical condition.