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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1810, 22 March 1886, Page 2

Mr J. W. King, of Wellington ,|is about to publish a history of New Zealand. The Rev W. J. Habeas, Inspector-General of Schools, has been appointed Secretary of the Education Department, vice Dr Hislop, resigned. A general meeting in connection with the Grey town Special Settlement Association will be held this evening at Mr Wood’s Oreytown auction room. Dr Hector has visited the Rimntaka, but has failed to find the reported clouds of steam and sulphurous smells. The North Wairarapa Benevolent Soaiety has been incorporated as a separate institution. The French Government intend to transport 1000 convicts at an early date to the 1 Isle of Pines. The township of Hastings is to have a newspaper of its own. On account of the R.M. and the Clerk of the Court having to make up their anunal returns on March 31st, the Court at Carterton will open at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 30ib, and at Greytown on the same date at 3.30 p.m. In reporting the recent Friendly Societies’ Sports, the Daily says, speaking of the one mile handicap, which was won by O. Jensen, " Smith wag close at the finish, and Collier, had he finished sooner, could have got home first.” | la our report of the Friendly Societies’ • Handicap, the time was given as 59}secs in J error. It should be SOJseos. The natives of Papawai have laid in stores , ; of flour, potatoes and kai of all kinds in i anticipation of Major Kemp’s visit. , . The steamship Hinemoa has just returned i from a visit to the Bounty and other islands, i j where Captain Fairchild built two houses, as | depots for castaway mariners, and left stores. Mr Joseph Ingley, of Carterton, commiai ; siou agent, has petitioned to be adjudged a : bankrupt. Sir George Grey addressed a crowded and ! enthusiastic meeting at the Garrison Hall, 1 , Dunedin, the other night. He strongly ! j opposes large borrowing, and in regard to ' ‘ the East and West Coast Railway said I that it carried on to Nelson it would not 1 j be reproductive for a very considerable ' j period of time, but if the present Christi church railway were united to the Brunnerj ton line it would be most reproductive. i j The ball in connection with the Lower i ! Valley Cricket Club, which was held at r j Martinbncongh some lew nights ago, was a i | great success. About twenty couples were i ; present and thoroughly enjoyed themselves, i ! Messrs F. Martin and Joseph Jackson sup- . I plied the music, and the Martinborongh i | Brass Band assisted. The ladies in the disi i trict contributed the refreshments gratis, and ; I the utmost good feeling and enjoyment prei vailed during the night. 1 The annual meeting of the members of the 1 Waihenga Presbyterian Church will be held on Saturday next, at Martiuborough Church ! The balance sheet will be read upon that 1 occasion, and it is earnestly hoped that the i members of the church residing at Morri--1 sou's Bush will make an effort to attend, > and express their views on matters affecting 1 their portion of the church district. , The residents of Martiuborough and the ( Lower Valley will be asked to attend a Ball , early next month for the benefit of the i Band; which is now progressing -famously. The ladies also resident in the distriet will ; be invited to assist with refreshments, and , there is no doubt that they will respond i upon the occasion as liberally as they have , heretofore done. It is only rendering them | their due need of praise when it is said that , they always perform this act of generosity | most handsomely. i It is raid that -the Hon W. Robinson intends to bring his racehorses now in Australia back to New Zealand almost immediately. Colin McKenzie, a well known settler, was thrown from his horse at Palmerston North the olber evening, and sustained concussion of the brain. The animal was frightened by the noise of the Salvation Army’s band. A child, aged eleven months, named Ford, was poisoned the other morning at Wanganui through taking Rough on Rats. The mother, on going to bed placed the poison in the fireplace ; the ebild crept there betore the fire was lit and picked it np. It is not expected to recover. Ah Cbee, a Chinaman, discharged from the Napier Hospital on Tuesday, hanged himself on Thursday night. Deceased was leprous. An Auckland bootmakers strike is imminent. A case of tuberculosis is reported in this district, but it has nut yet been officially reported upon. Truth and Soberness.—Wbat is the best family medicine in the world to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove costiveness and biliousness, aid digestion, and stimulate the whole system. Truth and soberness compel us to answer, American Co’s Hop Bitters,, being pure, perfect and harmless. See Considerable labor and expanse is thrown away in trying to keep the sides of the roads iu the townships free from grass and weeds, and some experiment should be tried to obviate this expenditure. About four years ago the proprietor of one of the Greytown hotels, after the growth was cleared, saturated the ground in front of the hotel with a solutiou of arsenic by means of a watering can. Since that time the spot has not requited any attention and the one expense has saved a great deal of labor. We recommend the plan to our local bodies. Beware of packages of injurious stuff purporting to make genuine Hop Bitters ; also preparations and fluids said to contain all the properties of American Hop Bitters. They spring up on account of the great popularity of the genuine, which is only put up in largo square panel amber-colored bottles, with the name" Dr Soule," and "Hop Bitters ” blown in the glass, and is the best family medicine ever made. Read The Treasurer of the Greytown Hospital asks us to acknowledge in our columns the receipt of the following further subsci iotions ; —Messrs WC Cuff Ll Is, A Gray LI Is, Thos Kennedy Ss, W Judd ss, J Driscoll bo, W 0 Nation Ll Is, L St George Ll la, and by subscription lists ir- Messrs Jas Baillie Lo, W C Buchanan MHR (supplementary) L 3 3s, A W Wilkinson Ll Is, W Skeet (supplementary) Ll, G Pain 15s, Coleman Phillips (supplementary) 10s, E Gray Ll. It is desired to thank these gentlemen for their kind aid, and we may remark that the institution seems to be supported in a very liberal and gratifying manner, " Rough on Corns." Ask lor Wells' "Rough on Corns.’ Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. . Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. Christchurch. " Buchu Paiba." Quick, complete cure, all annoying kiduey, bladder and urinary diseases. At Druggists. Kompthorne, Prosser i & Co., Agents, Christchurch. , " Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, < skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser ,6 Co,, Agents, Christ- 1 1 church. ' t