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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1796, 17 February 1886, Page 2

A conversazione will take place next Monday evening at Wellington, at which Cardinal Moran will be welcomed.

The Central Club buildings, Lambton Quay, Wellington, narrowly escaped destruction by fire on Monday morning. On our fourth page will be found an advertisement by Signor Remind, who as an author and medical practitioner has mado a name for himself. As Signor Renaud will not undertake a case where he is not sure of success and says sufferers can be treated equally as well at a distance, we shall be glad to hear of some suffering ones having been relieved by his treatment. The annual Ram and Ewe Fair is being held at Carterton to-day. The opening of the new native school at Papawai will take place on Friday. The ceremony will commence at 12 o'clock. There will doubtless be a good attendance of Europeans ; the elder scholars of the Greytown School will also be present to assist with some vocal music.

The Special Settlement meeting takes place at Mr F. H. Wood’s Boom, Carterton to-night, and aa a number of members and intending members, we believe, have signified tbeir intention to be present, there should be a large attendance.

The annual general meeting of the Wairarapa Rifle Association will take place at the Marquis of Normanby Hotel, Carterton, on Saturday, March 13th. The Government has agreed to grant 5 acres 14 perches, being part of the Wellington Hospital and Lunatic Asylum reserve as a site for the proposed home for the aged and needy. The Railway Department notify in another column that in consequence of the Bam and Ewe Fair under the auspices of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral Society, having been altered to one day, extra trains will ran on this day only. One of those always successful entertainments which have frequently been initiated by Mr Parker, of Featherston, will take place on Wednesday next, 25ih inst., at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Featherston. A most attractive programme has been arranged, which appears in another column, and as most of the best amateur talent has consented to perform on the occasion, a bumper bouse may be expected. In our last we reported the death of Mr Thos Donelly at Masterton through a runaway horse. It appears, from the Daily, that the trap wag occupied by two men name ! Thomas Donelly and James Burke, and Donelly was driving at a moderate pace. A dog, attached to the trap by a chain, startled (lie horse into a bolt and Butke was thrown out,, receiving a severe cut on the temple. When in front of Cftselberg’s store Donelly made n jump out of the trap, but unfortunately alighted on his head, Ha was picked up insensible and shortly sfter expired. Ho leaves a wife and four small children, the youngest being only a few months old. The horse continued the bolt until it swerwed round Renall street, where it broke a shaft and damaged Morris’ corner shop. It then rushed to the other side of the road where there was another collision. It was then captured.

By the new railway route the distance between Woodville and f ahiatua will be only

We have been asked by previous exhibitors when the Greytown Horticultural Society's Autumn Show will take place. We are informed that the beekeepers have alreadvgone to some considerable trouble and expense in preparing for the event, and it is anticipated that the exhibits in this department will, both in quantity and quality, exceed even those of former shows. . As the fruit crop in this district has been a fair one, it is also anticipated that a large display of fine sam pies in this department will be forwarded. We are also informed that notwithstanding the dry season, the vegetables are very good, and some excellent samples will be sent in. In horticulture there will probably be a good display. A meeting of the Committee should now be held to make the preliminary arrange' ments.

A Sydney Cable message of February 16 says the Linlithgow colliery has taken fire. The exertions made to rescue the mine manager and two miners who had been unable to effect their escape, resulted in the recovery of the mine manager in an unconscious state. .The other two men were brought op dead, having apparently been suffocated by the smoke.

Says the Napier Telegraph : —How the present Ministry is making the money fly may be inferred from the fact that the travelling expenses for themselves and attendants daring tlie first six months of 1885 amounted to £2,096, a earn which has never been approached by any other Government; in fact, lor 1879 the Grey Government, probably the most extravagant we have ever bad, only totalled £3,630 for the year. Stout. Vogel, and Co., it is evident, do not believe in the depression ; at any rate, it must not concern tbem personally.

Writing of the drought, the Mount Ida Chronicle says “ Streams which in former years always carried a large volume of water at this part of the season are in several instances mere runnels, and in others a seiies of muddy waterholes. The Manuherikia is simply an insignificant rivulet ; the St Bathan'a creek carries very little water, and the Idaburn is nearly dried up, and trout in hundreds are dying and rotting under the burning rays of the sun. In the waterholes trout and eels can be caught with ease, one that was secured the other day turning the scale at over 111b. The upper reaches of the Taieri river are about diy—simply a series of lagoons. The young trout are lying dead in thousands. What little water is left the big ones mono poliso.”

One of the funniest things ever done—according to Canterbury ideas at all events has been perpetrated by the Lower Heftthcnte School Committee. That body (says the Lvtb-lton Times) required the services of an assistant lady teacher, add made its requirements known by the usual process of advertising in a newspaper. The advertisement, however, contained a stipulation that applicants must “ enclose photos.” The advertisemeht of the Committee produced some astonishment, aud not a little amusement, at the meeting of the Board of Education. Tim Secretary informed the Board that several ladies, intending applicants, had complained to him of the very unusual requirement, and tbe Chairman remarked that the C> remittee bad taken a course which was some • but objectionable. The members, though tiny laughed, were of the same opinion, and it was decided to write to the Committee informing them that the Board did not think it necessary that applicants for employment in its service should be required to forward their photographs for the inspection of school committeemen.

In the early days of the colony what is now thought to be a very long passage between Wellington and Sydney w«e spoken of in terms quite the reverse. Onr readers will smile when they read tbe following from the Wellington Independent of January 28. 1846 " Our old friend the brig Bee arrived in port on Wednesday. Captain Unthank has been very fortunate whilst running the Beo between Sydney and this place (Wellington), having made some twenty trips without meeting with an accident, and the avetage time of each trip lw« not (receded dr nr srrcii ueekf. This is highly creditable to bis skill and seamanship, aud mast be gratifying to bis employers.” The same paper contains ” News from the Noitb, via Sydney!"

By the overwhelm!nt! majority with which the advocates for additional hole accomniodatim have been elected ou the Masteitnn Licensing Committee, it is certain that the Jlaeterton residents, or the greater portion o( them, have seen and felt the necessity for new houses. There is one house aheady built, viz , Phillips’ Hotel, and ready for business, which for comfort, situation, and accommodation far exceeds in every respect, those already bolding licenses. It it furnished far and away better than the other Masterton hotels. Its bedrooms are appointed with an eye to the comfort and convenience of their occupants. One of those rare essentials in some country houses is civility, and a desire to please can be found at Phillips’. It has been said that recently some gentlemen were in earnest conversation in a hotel in Masterton, when the waiter rushed into the room and said, “ Now gentlemen, time is money ; give me your orders please without delay, or I cannot serve you." Perhaps if the proposed new houses get their licenses the over-worked and preesed-for-time attendant will get more leisure time, aud have a chance to treat customers with some consideration. Competition in every line of business is beneficial to the public, and no doubt that the conducting of Phillips’ Hotel alone will be conducive to the bringing about of better accommodation to the travelling public who have occasion to visit Maatertou.

A navvy named Frank Park was killed at Nenthorne on tbe Otago Central Railway on Friday, He was engaged with others blsstand returned after it was thought tbe blasts had gone oft, when one which hung fire, exploded, hurling a tremendous piece of rock which fell ou him, and look eight men with crowbars some time to remove Park wa« fearfully crushed, aud died some hours after

Mr Glever, tbe temperance advocate, has come to New Zealand not as on the previous occasion merely as a temperance advocate, addressing meetings on his own account, but under an agreement for three years to work for the New Zealand Temperance Alliance. Mr P. H. Wood, auctioneer, will be busy with the hammer at the Ram aud Ewe Fair to-day. He will also sell several lots of sheep at tbe Pastoral Society's yards to-morrow. Messrs O'Brien and Co., of Willi* Street, Wellington, are now opening 179 packages, comprising all tbe latest novelties in ladies', gents’, and children’s boots, shoes, slippers, <£o. They also announce a large stock of colonial boots of their own manufacture. Mr F. Jones, the manager, is long aud wellknown in connection with the boot trade and will be glad to receive a call from Wairarapa visitors.

The Kev Father Lane, who has for Borne time been in Marlborough, has been sp pointed priest in charge of the Bomau Catholic congregations of Upper and Lower Hutt.

Some time ago the Temuka Dairy Com pany forwarded a few hundred weight of cheese to Brisbane, via Lyttelton, and it cost about Hi more to carry it by railway from Temuka to Lyttelton than it did to c.irry it from Lyttelton to Brisbane bywater.

Respecting his defeat in Australia byBeach, the ex champion (Edward Hanlan) writes to a friend : "If I had been in the condition that I was when last with you, I do not believe that Beach or Teenier would of had any chance with me, but 1 have been traveling and receiving too much hospitality,” which I could not refuse and in Australia they almost killed me with kindness. I will take a good rest at Toronto this winter, and try again next summer ’ Respecting his defeat by Teemer, Hanlan contradicts the American newspaper reports that he “capsized, ' and states that the current carried his boat against the turning skiff, which was a large row-boat with two men in her, and that when nis

that he ever asked Teemer, or any other sculler in the world, to allow him to win.

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 gll civilized countries. Two doses will relieve you. It costs only ys. 6d. a bottle. Sample bottles 6d. All steal articles can be perfectly preserved from rust by putting a lump of freshly burnt lime in the drawer of the case in which they are kept. If things are to be moved (as a gun in its case for instance), put the lime in a muslin bag. This is especially valuable for specimens of iron when fractured; for in a moderately dry place the lime will not want any renewing for many years, as it is capable of absorbing a large quantity of moisture. Articles in use should be placed nearly filled with throughly pulverized slacked lime. Before using them rub well with a woollen cloth.

Minister (fashionable church wedding)— " Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. Let us unite in prayer," Bride (kneeling whispering)—" Remember George, we are to pass down the right aisle, and do try and not be awkward. Yon mortify me to death sometimes,” Rev. Walter Dunlop, while making Ins pastoral visitations among the country members ol his flock, came to a farmhouse where he was expected, and the mistress, thinking that he would be in need of refreshments, proposed that he should take his tea before engigmg in exercises, and said she would soon have it ready. Mr Dunlop replied, “ I aye tak’ my tea better when my wark’s June. Ml just be going on Ye can hing the pan ou, an lea’the door ajar,’ and I’ll draw to a £lose in the prayer when I hear the haam fuzin'. Decline of Man. Nervous weakness, dyspepsia. impotence, sexual debility, cuied by " Wells’ Health Renewciv’ Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser di Co., Agents, Christchutch.

" Bread services' 1 are being held at fom places in England, each person attending oburch bringing one or more loaves to he distributed to Ibo poor and mifui|.lined. Buohu Pallia." Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and urinary diseases. At Druggists. Kemptborne, Prosser Jfe Do., Agents, Christchurch,

There will be no railways in China at present. The Empress and some of the lending oUicinls approve of them, but the Board of Revenue and some of the Censors oppose on the ground that they arc dangerous and likely to cause a rebellion.

• • Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, dies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists. mpthoruo, Prosser t Co., Ageuts, Christ oUurou.

The following letter has been written to Mr Bosworth Smith by Lord Tennyson on the subject of his recent letters against disestablishment December 13, 1885. —Dear Sir, I thank you for your collected letters on tbs subject (if disestablishment. The letters, as they have reached me separately. I have read with the greatest interest. With you, I believe that the disestablishment and di» endowment of the Church would prelude tbe downfall of much that is greatest and best in England. Abuses there are. no doubt, in the Church as elsewhere, but these are not past remedy. As to any 1 vital changes in our Constitution,' 1 could wish that some of our nrominent politicians, who look to America as tboir ideal, might borrow (mid her an equivalent to that conservatively restrictive provision under the fifth article of her constitution. I believe that it wonld bo a great safeguard to our own in these days of ignorant and teckless theorists.— l am, yours truly, Tags won,"

it the Masterton RM. Ccor; on Mon ay the Kcv J. C. Andre v was chimed ly lug sector Diumm imi with Iming to destroy rabbits on the lea s’atiun. When the defendant rose to oniss-exiniine the Inspeo* tor. hie first question was “ How old ate you j" Tins "ms ot jected bv Mr Stiatfonl. R M. Mr Andrew ex ilaiued thatnoder the 9th section of tbe Aci t jc fine waa variable from £1 to £2O. but as ilie amount was to be determined by the value of tbo opinion cl tbe lospector, he (Mr Andrew] had a right lo show if he ooi'd that the Inspector was iguorant, incompetent, prejudiced, ni a mere puppet with no opioion of hia cwn, but acting automatically by atringe milled elsewhere. Tbe RM. ordered tbe Rev defendant to sit down. Later on Ml Andrew demanded under the 44th Section ol the Act that as the onus of proof lay on the defendant he should lie put into the witness box and sworn, as aho any witceis who might be in Court in his favor. His Worship remarked that tbe 34tb Section was a farce ; that his mind was made up and that any defence waa utterly useless aud be should give judgment for £1 aud 7a coita and refuse to bear further.

It is gratifying to find that the Railway authorities have resolved upon running a train from tbe Wairarapa stations for Wellington ou Sunday morning next. This will enable country residents to attend tbsir respective churches in Wellington morning and evening, and to be present at the opening of St Patrick's College. The train leave* Masterton at 545 am., Carterton 6.15, < iicytowu 6,35, Featheraion 7 7, arriving at Wellingten at 10.25. The return train will leave Wellington at half past ( J in the evening. The (ares are very low, and there is no doubt a large number of persons will go down, lo addition to tbe above tbe resident* of the Wairarapa will be able to take ticket* by tbe ordinary trains on Saturday, *he excursion train on Sunday, and by any train on Monday and Tuesday at reduced fares. The people of tbe Wairarapa will fully appreciate these arrangements, and we hope tbe Railway authorities will see their way clear to run trains at reduced rate* occasionally.

A terrible explosion occurred at the ioe works. Ballarat, last week, by which two persons lost their lives. The whole o( the buildings were completely wrecked, and Thomas Jenkins, the proprietor, has been so gerionsly injured that it is considered doubtful whether he will recover. The ice making machine wss one of Va&s and Letman’s, known as tire direct heating, the refrigerating being effected by means of ammooiaeal gas. The representations made on behalf of the Victorian Government in the caae of MajorGeneral Downes have been considered by ihs English Army and Navy authorities. It has also been urged jointly by the Ageuts-G»neral for the Colonies that officers belonging either to the British navy or army and on the unattached lists should be permitted to draw their pensions while holding appointments under Colonial Governments. The Imperial Government hat now decided to permit British offices to accept civil positions in the colonies without foifeiting tlieir pensions. The regulations of the army and nary bearing on this point are to be assimilated, hut the alteration will not affect Major-General Downes.

A meeting of the Amalgamated Friendly Societies Sports Committee was held at the Council Chambers. Greytown, on Monday, Kith iuot, Mr E. Gray in the chair. Metara C. Beard, H. Udy, and U. Bright were eleotod a committee to draw up a programme. .Messrs Beard, Amos, and Bragging were elected a ground c iramittee. The Secretary was instructed towiite to the trustees of the Recreation Reserve asking for the use of the ground on 17th March, also intimating that if the Reserve Committee would endeavour t<> get material for fenciug the front of the Reserve the Sports Committee would assist to

The sale of privileges in connection with the Taratabi Carterton rapes was held on Monday by Mr F. H. Wood at bis auction room, Carterton. Nob 1 and 2 Poblioan'c Booths were passed in, but sold privately afterwards to Mr E. H. Bnekeridge for £ls; Refreshment Booth, Mr A. L. Whyte, £•); Fruit and Fancy Goods Stall, Mr Smith 38s; Horse Yards, Mr Smith L‘J ; Cards of the Races, Mr Barr, L 5 19s. The Committee retain the gates in tbeir own hand*.

In another column will be (ouod an advertisement by Ur F. H. Wood in which he announces a sale oi 3000 Lincoln ewe* Iron two to full tooth, from the celebrated flock of Mr W. C. Buchanan,M Htt .of Tupurapuru. The sale will take p'aoe on Friiav, the Sdth instant, at the Pastoral Society's grounds, Carterton, and it is almost unnecessary to point out the advantages of a selection (roa this flock to sheepowners.

Ad entertainment will be held in the Lyceum Ball, Cartertou, on Tburadey night, in aid of the Friendly Societies’ recreation fund Some exceedingly clever juvenile talent will be among the performers. Bishop Barry, Primate of Australia, preached in Wellington on Sunday, taking hit text from Isaiah, “ Lengthen thy cause and strengthen thy stakes." A sporting man insists that this would make a capital motto for country racing clubs but he mistakes the word “cause" lor "course,"—Manawatn Times.

An aui.usl eclipse of the sun, partly visible in New Zealand, will take place on the 6th ol next month

On Sunday in >r:,iug hi* ! Mr Lin lop discovered come ruhi.;-u mi tire miner the Cartertou Public livl. 110 tln« wou a quantity of water, an i so pro cnti d wh it muht have been the desliuutiou of tie whole block.

Mduie Ferdinand de Lessees, ( n Dec. 1, presented her husband, who is m .os ilsl year, with a twelfth olive t-i iiieh, ao 1 die whole of Paris is iu ewtagi a; th- event. But at the li.'k of havi..,’ tV-ir ta'.iiilism doubted Frenchman sh iko t i -u lea Is a-ii say, “It is very we i 1 r i w . ■yru . i ,ika the celebrated engineer t,> hi\-- :o meny hostages to fortune, lull tie- ex,• time ti* a tash one for pe ipie not so la ■■•;>-iy ea iotvel with wo r ldly goods."