Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1886.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1813, 29 March 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1886.

A meeting of the District Hospital Board will he held at the Institute, Greytowu, next Saturday. A farm of 150 'acres with eight roomed dwelling house, dairy and other buildings thereuu is advertised for sale to-day. It is said that there are 1300 empty houses iu and arouud Dunedin. M. de Lesseps says he will sail through the Ltlimus canal on the 31st of December. The railway journey from Adelaide to Melbourne is to be done in eighteen hours. The Evangelist (American) laments that the 600,000 members of tire Presbyterian Church are not yet giving a halfpenny a day to the foreign missionary work.

The Commercial Bank of South Australia lost £l2o.fioo over one station, partly owned by an ex director. The Bins Ribbon Gospel Army in Sydney is doing pood work amongst the prisoners who are daily dischargedfrom gaol. Mr William Noble, the founder of the Blue Ribbon movement, is to visit Sydney in April, to conduct a Gospel Temperance mission. Five Feilding eheep farmers were each fined £1 and costs for having offered lousy sheep at a stock sale. The trial at Melbourne of Mrs Hampton and her daughters for the Coburg murder is concluded. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, ou tbo ground of insanity. Dr Duncan McGregor, M.A., B M., M.S., Univ Ediu., is gazetted Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, Hospitals, and Charitable Institutions. Mr H. A. (Stratford,' K.M., is appointed Judge of the Assessment Court under the Bating Act for the boroughs cf Greytown and Masterton and the town districts of Carterton and Featherstou. Beach, the champion sculler, was to leave Sydney for England on Saturday. Tiie llille Volunteers at Featherstou, held a most enjoyable soiree at the Oddfellows' Hull, which was handsomely decorated for the occasion, Messrs Darker and Lundqvist (piano and violin), supplied the music, and Major Bunny was present. Mr W. H. Speakman supplied tho confectionery and refreshments ns usual in a most liberal manner. Tho Committee desire to thank Mrs McLennan of the Victoria Hotel for the valuable assistance she rendered. A welcome rain has fallen and settlers are rejoicing at it. On Friday it set in heavily and continued throughout the night accompanied with a diivmg wind. The appearance of nature is ijmte changed and no doubt the cold weather will now begin to be felt. A com-.-pendent suggest* that much cxtia amusement could be arranged for the Greytown public if other tradespeople followed the novel example of Mr W. Morinrty, and gave goods ;n kind to be competed fur. A man named Alev McOueen, hung himself at Dunedin, by tbruwingLim.-e.l? o |V a rafter with a rope round ins nick. The Dalelicld School Committee have decided to bung into force the Compulsory Clauses of Education Act on Thursday next (April Ist.) The re xv.il R; (low practices held this week, by the numbers ei the Greytown Cricket Club vu . - ihi Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday eu-uungs. commencing at about 4 p.m. In the twoccnliiries after the discovery of America the axemen destroyed more trees than did the inhabitants of Southern Europe tu the rooo years following the foundation of Rome. T'ao letters from (Greytown residents, i ( posing the sale of the Grevtown Channel Reserve, are held over till Wednesday for want of space. A slock of earthquake was fell in the Wairarapa on Friday afternoon. Parliament will meet tor tho despatch of business on 13th May. On Saturday next the cricket match hi’Avtfn the fiist eleven of the Greytown and tti« I.ower Yabey eleven will take place at Greytuwn, when wickets will be pitched at 10.30 a.ju. sharp.

Last Thursday night a tin* lioko out iu the dwelling house of Mr It. JVuiiimi at Waikari, Canterbury. Trueman, who is a bootmaker, set to work in the first place to secure the safety of liis family, anil us hthought he had pot ihem all out he then proceeded to save the articles, furniture, &c , from the front of the building. Suddenly it was discovered that a child had been left in the parents’ bed. Horrified at the thought, Trueman's iustaut resolve was to save it at all hazards. With this intent he rushed into the burning portion of the house, hut himself fell a victim to the flames. At about six o’clock nest morning those who searched the blackened ruins found the remains of the father, but of the child they saw no trace.

The following story appears iu a Southern paper;—ln a National School, not one hundred miles from lliverton, one of the home lessous given an upper class was to state the resources and industries of the different parts of Scotland. The result shows that tire budding colonial mind is being imbued with the accepted estimate of the whiskey.drinking propensities of that nation. The , matter of fact way in which this impression is brought out is delicious. Thus, amuugat other places, we are told that 11 Aberdeen is celebrated for its granite ; Dundee, jute manufacture ; Greenock, sugar refining and shipping ; Paisley and Kilmarnock, woollen goods, carpets, fie. ; and whUJietj everywhere !" Puir Scotland ! The Wanganui Education Board evidently exercise an active supervision over the control of the school buildings m their districts, as witness the following advertisement in a local paper :—“ With reference to the advertisement appearing in the Wangauui Herald of the 3rd instant, notifying that a dance will be held in the sehoolhouse, Aramoho, on Friday evening next, notice is hereby given that the Wanganui Education Board refuse to allow the school premises to be used for such a purpose, and all persons are warned not to attend, or they will be considered trespassers and prosecuted accordingly. —A. A. Brown, Secretary to the Board. A Fact Worth Knowing—Are you suffering with Consumption, Coughs, Severe Colds, settled on the Breast, Pneumonia, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs? If so, go to your Druggist and get a bottle of Boschee’s German Syrup. The people are going wild over its success, and Druggists all over the country are writing us of its \vonderlul cures among their customers. It has by far the largest sale of any remedy, simply because it is of so much value in all affections of this kind. Chronic cases quickly yield to it. Druggists recommend it and physicians prescribe it. If you wish to try its superior virtue, get a Sample Bottle for yd. Large size bottle 3s. Od. Three doses will relieve any case. Try it. The following is translated from the Magenee Tagblat as having occurred iu America : —A preacher iu a small town in Michigan took leave of his flock iu the following address ; —“ My dearly beloved, out separation from each other is not particularly painful, and for three reasons—you do not love me ; you do not love one another ; and the Lord does not love you It you loved me you would have paid my salary for the last two years. You do not love each other. If you had I would have had more marriage ceremonies to perform. And the Lord dozs not love you, otherwise He would have called many more of you to Him, so that there would have boon more funeral services. Tim congregation did not press him to stay.

The Southland farmers have been having had times. The late boisterous and unseasonable weather (says the Western Star) is retarding harvest operations greatly, and damaging a large quantity of grain in stock. The rivers are very high, and many of the flats on the hanks are flooded, and sheaves of grain are seen flouting down the Jacob’s River. On the New River Flats stocks may be seen half-covered with water. Many of mir farmers will be heavy losers through tiro tickle weather of the past season. At one lime the crops are withered up for the want of moisture, anon they are nearly shaken out of the ground by high winds, and now at tins critical time of year their complete ruin is threatened by floods..

In a letter to the Christchurch Press “ Ex- \ oluntccr ” deals with what he considers a hardahip to men who have given years to Volunteering. He writes:—An ex-Volunteer. notwithstanding the highest efficiency, cannot compete for the prizes offered by the Government at the New Zealand Rifle 'Association Meeting. Could not the rules be relaxed to allow all ex Volunteers of the colony holding a certificate, to take part in the contests for public money, for thereby a practised hand would ho k pt iu readiness for defensive purposes. , I’ l Bis recent speech to his constituents Mr Turnbull, the member for Timaru, in advocating the settlement ef the people on the land, said he would give an instance of what he meant. At Beaconsfield, a place about seven miles from Timaru, the Government cut up about 100 acres, and sold it out in small holdings, and that land now supported 170 souls, who were out of debt and prosperous. The same section of 400 acres carried a greater population than those, two large estates—the Levels and the Pareora, each containing several thousands of acres, buch a state of affairs should not continue. Heavy rains have fallen in New South Wales.

The demand for the great American remedy. Hop Bitters, in this part of the world has become so groat that the Hop Bitters Co., whose headquarters arc lit Rochester, New York, Ld-i A., have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr M. 11. Van Bergh, a gentleman of several yens experience with t; . ■ Company, and the trade in ty bo assured of re ceiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most colwteons treatment. Tin- U.B. Co. have establishments at London, Paris, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Holland and Toronto, aud their American Bitters are probably the best known medicine in the world.

“ Luchu Paiba.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder aud urinary diseases. At Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser Jillo., Agents, Christchurch.

The Sydney Mail writes It is worthy of record that a lady, Mrs Sarah M'LelUml, has died at Kiama at the ripo old age of HI. She was sister of the late Mr Armstrong, of Kiama, who died at the ago o( ill. A sister hied at 98, and a cousin at 103. Thov were natives of too County of Fermanagh, Ireland, but were long residents in tiro Kiama district. The cousin, a Mr Walmslv, died a(. Wingocum dee Mrs M'Lellftiul's intellect was ui impaired till within a few weeks of her death, when cancer pet iu, which terminated her life. Her sight was perfect, enabling her to thread too finest needle.” ’’ Bough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice*

.vae'ues, dies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insect* rkuiii.s, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists Kempt..orne, Prosser -t Co., Agents, Christchurch.

Stoii this sci uldie Iv.isin.'iu wVi-ve it is, and don’t let it go any fmiher. It is robbing life vf all Unit is worth living for. Only a short time ago one of these scientific chaps analysed a tear Unit hud trickled down upon the cheek of a young woman rho wanted e pew dress ; and lie found it to contain phosphate of lime, chloride of sodium and water. Ever since rending that analysis we have lost faith in tears, and no matter what a person is grieving about, we can only look at the tears ns they flow over beauty’s check and think of the phosphate of lime, chloride of sodium and water. The analysis has knocked all tlie poetry out of tears for us, and we feel as though we warned our money back. If the scientist will refund what he has taken from us he can have his old analysis. We would like to throw him in a corner and jump on him. Oh, j'ivo us back the days when tears were tears and not chloride of sodium and other-nauseating drugs,—American paper. “ Rough on Corns.’’ Ask tor Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser * Co., Agents, Christchurch.