Untitled

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1801, 1 March 1886, Page 2

Mr E. S. Maunsell is taking the Maori Census in South Wairarapa. In the report of Mr Parket’g concert it was stated that Mi Japp played a fantasia. It was Mrs Jupp who played it. Mr Clark, draper, of Carterton, will hare an attractive advertisement in our next. The Band beat Maryborough in the cricket match on Saturday, by 30 runs A full report in our next. Most of the Maoris are down at the Lakes, fishing.

A p ibliu meeting of Waihilo ko settler,-i was held on Friday night at the schoolroom, Mr Brnithweite in tlie chair, when it was unanimously resolved to petition the Government to establish a post office at Waihakeke The price of live stock in Canterbury is exceedingly low, Mr N Stenbouse, for many years a' resident of Greytown, has takes up bis abode in Masterton.

Mushroom hunting has been going on during the past week in the Wairarapa. Sergeant-Major Bezar has gone to Wanganui to be present at the Rifle Association meeting there.

The poultry keepers at Knripuni, near Masterton, are losing their fowls through some sort of disease.

First Scotch Farmer, selling: “ It’s a gnid horse, but I maun tell ye it’s got ae faut—it's a wee gi’en tae rin awa’wi'ye.” Second Scotch Farmer, buying : " If that’s a’, it’ll due fine. Man, the last horse I had was gi'en tae riuiiin’ away withoot me ? ’’ Clement G. Harding, late of Masterton, has been sentenced to one month’s hard labor for obtaining money under false pretences at Wellington. On the completion of the sentence several charges of passing valueless cheques in Masterton are likely to he preferred against him. Paper representing something like £l5O is stated to have been floated in Masterton alone, so the Daily says. The Star says—So great and general is the dissatisfaction among owners of stock in the Wairarapa with the want of proper facilities for the disposal cf their fat meat in the Wei liugton market, that it is proposed to start a joint stock company with a view to opening a meat market iu the city, and should this fail, some of the leading sheep owners inform us that they will establish retail butcheries on their own account- They complain that at present their stock is looked out through the Wellington meat market being in the hands of a small but powerful monopoly.

Ferrets are now becoming very numerous in and around Maitiuborongb. These interesting animals have lately made many predatory visits to the fowl houses in the town, sometimes annihilating the whole of the feathered tribe occupying a hen house The other evening a flue large ferret ran into the gatekeeper’s lodge at the Waihenga toll gale, probably frightened at the approach of some traveller. An another occasion, a short lime ago. a young man was riding along the road near BidwilTs cutting, when one of those rodents ran up the shoulder of his horse, causing the horse to plunge with fright. It is as well that the public should know that any ferrets captured on the road or off the runs, where they have been turned out. if sent to the proprietor of the rnn, the finder will receive 12s to £ 1 per head for them. One runholder offers £1 reward for cud; ferret.

The word consols is an abbreviation of the term couso i hated annuities The English cmiols differ from our national debt in this way:'— The principal may vary in amount, h;u the interest never. They constitute a p rpetual obligation of the United Kingdom, hem log three per cent, interest, and representing and irredeemable principal. The meeting of creditors in the bankrupt estate of W. J. Garnblin was adjourned from Friday last, at Maaterton, to Thurssday next at Greylnwu. To test the purity of water there has been found no better or simpler way than to fill a clean pint bottle three-fourths full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in the water half a teaspoonful of the purest sugar—loaf or granulated will answer—cork the bottle, and place it in a warm place for two days If in twenty four or forty-eight hours the water becomes cloudy and milky, it is unfit for domestic use.

Sheap in Now South Wales are being sold at low prices. The Sydney Globe of the 11th Feb. says:—Yesterday one of our local auctioneers sold several thousand ewes at 2s each.

" German Syrup.’’—No other medicine in the world lias ever given such a test of its curative qua'ities as Boschee’s German Svrup. In three years two million four hundred thousand small bottles of this medicine were distributed fret of charge by druggists in the United States ol 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.

Says the Taranaki Herald :—Konini, or wild fuchsia posts are likely to be much in demand in the future in places where there is any danger of fires. It has been noticed that where pine or the other woods usually used in Taranaki for fencing have been subjected to the action of fire, the pines have been entirely burnt away while the fuchsia has simply been scorched. It appears that the latter wood has great fire resisting properties, and in wire fences where othor timber hai been totally destroyed the fuchsia has not even been so badly charred as to have tbe staples loosened.

Mr J. B. Davey sends us the following : —About three years ago I was going along a narrow track that runs down the right bank of the Pabau River, from Bush Gully to the sea. It is called the Wood Hen Track. It was a rather hot day, and as the scenery was very picturesque, I sat down to rest a little, and also to give my horse a spell. I had not been seated long, when a man carrying a swag came in sight. I waited to have a chat wub him. He was very intelligent, and we talked on various themes - drink, hard times, Ac., but our conversation eventually turned to religion. He asked ray religion, and I told him I belonged to any church, if the word of God was preached there. “ I am.going to be the same religion as yon,” he said. “ Arid what religion have you been ?” I asked. “‘A I 1 reethinker. But I never was easy in my mind ; I tried all sorts of ideas to got inured to it, but it was no use for me to go against ni> conscience ; I have given it up ; I'll tell >Oll what brought me over coming along the tr ii’k this morning. I picked up a piece of school book ; it has on it a piece of poetry ; 1 shall always keep it ; it is a piece of poetry th at I lonued at '-chocl—" The Graves of a Household." ’lho story of the narrow track flashed through my mind, and the last verse of this poetry has made me a Christian." “ Rough on Eats.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects,' skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists’ Kempthorue, Prosser A Co., Agents, Christchurch.

In a sermon recently delivered by a Mineapolis preacher the reverend gentleman is reported to have said “ The daughters of America are as (air as any on the globe, and, in my opinion, some of them are far too fair. Ami k white complexion may be artistic, but it is also a sign of weak blood. None of your white faced damsels for me, nor one whose face is red with a consumptive or hectic flush. Give me the nut brown girl who abandons her sunbonnet, who can climb a tree with any boy, who prefers good bread to chocolate caramels, and baked beans to angel cake. The kind of angel for me weighs 140 lbs.”

Decline of Man. Nervous weakness, dys. pepsin, impotence, sexual debility, cured by “Wells’ Health Renewer." Druggists. Kempthome, Prosier <£ Go., Agents, Christchurch.

Geologists think that south east of Long Island, New York, there is a great submerged swamp. Peat, foss'l leaves, lignitio trunks and branches are often rolled in npon tbe beach. It is believed; too, that tbe coast in that region is slowly settling. “ Buohu Paiba.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and urinary diseases. At Druggists. Kempthome, Prosser y Co., Agents, Christchurch,

! The man Ktooke, charged s>y Constable | Eecli ton with stealing a horse, saddle and | bri.lie from Mr Vennell, was remanded until to day. It is alleged that he left the horse { n Masterion. and sold the second one, an •• old crock " with saddle and bridle to Mr E. H. Buckeridge, Cartertou lor £2. On Saturday the fencing bee at the Greytown recreation reserve was attended by about a dozen practical men, who worked in right good earnest; and finished two chains in length.

Two Wairaiapa papers have been gushing over the supposed candidature of Mr W. H. Levin for Wairarapa South at the next election. Last week we pooh-poohed the rumor, and now Mr Levin himself flatly contradicts it. Our contemporaries will please trot out another man.

At a meeting of the Waihakeke school committee on Friday night the committee decided to nominate Messrs Blair, Beetham and Dr Newman as members for the Board of Education. The committee had also under consideration the probable necessity of having shortly to get the school enlarged. On Monday, 11th instant, Mr F. H. Wood will sell ewes, lambs, steers, cows and horses at his Taratahi yards. An important sale of dairy cows, <ko., is announced by Mr F, H. Wood to take place on the 18th at Mr Lawrie’s farm, Kaiwaiwai. Full particulars will be found in advertisement.

A telegram from Christolmrob states that a fire on Mr Moore’s ran, Glenmark, has swept over eight miles of oonntry, and destroyed 4000 sheep. Skill in the Workshop.—Te do good work the mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled bis hand or;dimmed his sight, let him at once, and before some organic trouble appears, take plenty of Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters. His system will be rejuvenated, his nerves strengthened, his sight become clear, and the whole constitution be built up to a higher working condition. Bead. Strange Insubordination. Who has experienced : a sort of malady, when all the faculties seem in rebellion, and labor is, absolutely impossible? It is a condition of nerves and stomach and brain that can only be cured by the use of that irresietable remedy American Co.’s Hop Bitters, Read.

Nelson won the Marshall Memorial Stakes on Saturday at Dunedin, miles. Time, 2min 15aeo‘

Sir George Grey addressed (he electors of Auckland City East on Friday evening. A submarine gun has been invented, and is being tested by the Admiralty. The proposal is to fit the gun in the bow of a ship gft under the water line, so as to fire straight ahead from the cutwater. A diaphragm of indiarubber is fixed over the muzzle to exclude the water, but is blown away at the first puff of the discharge. A charge of 2olb of powder is all that is thought necessary for propulsion, and this being placed behind the projectile, the breach is closed, and the gun ready for firing. It is asserted that a range of 300 yards under the water may be relied on, but it is considered doubtful whether the shot can overcome the resistance of the water and retain an effective striking power lor half the distance. The inventor however, has tried his device, and says he ought to know.