The Defeat of the Home Rule Bill.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1843, 11 June 1886, Page 2

The Defeat of the Home Rule Bill.

Mb Gladstone’s proposals for Home Rule in Ireland have been defeated in the House of Commons, the Bill having been rejected by 311 to 311 votes. Mr Gladstone must either ask Her Majesty for a dissolution, and then appeal to the country, or else resign. As we write, further news will probably arrive by cable, showing what course the great chief of tbe Liberal party in England has elected to adopt. This much may be said : William Ewart Qlidstone has done all that an able and coniageous man might do, to effect a settlement of the Irish difficulty. He struggled him . ‘ '""TV a measuae which, in his opinion, would have aetimu ’ hat di “ y ,** « ivi,, « the Irish peoples large aim.. measures of self-Goverument. But Mr Gladsto... * schemes have been rejected, sad his Government has suffered defeat. It may be that an appeal to the country—should such be granted—would reverse the decision of Parliament, and leatore Mr Gladstone to power. But should Mr Gladstone be refused a dissolution, and thus require to resign his office, the heavy task will be left to a new minister, of dealing with the difficulty of the Irish question.

Pigs at the Woodville factory this season j gave an excellent return. Settlers in that district netted £7 per cow for their miik. Some gentlemen in Melbourne have decided to form a land company to speculate in the Kimberley district. The proposed capital is Further rich finds of quartk-bearing gold have been discovered at a great depth in the mines at Stawell (Vic.) In Hawke’s Bay Provincial District there is a great preponderance of male natives, the female infants dying off rapidly from some unknown cause.

According to a Taranaki County Councillor Sir Robert Stout had a good deal to go through during his stay in New Plymouth. At the Council meeting Cr Smith said : “ Mr Stout came here on Saturday night, and went away on Monday morning, and during that short time he was asked for no less a sum than £BO,OOO. (Laughter,) There was not a man who said 1 good day’ to Mr Stout, but asked him for a grant of money.’’

A Rangiora farmer applied to his landlord, who is a draper, to reduce his rent, and met with the reply : —Oh, Mr. So-and-So, 1 hear you have been working the life out of the land ; lam told that since harvest you have ploughed the land and harrowed it, and after that you put a thing they call a scarifier through it, and after that harrowed it again. If that isn’t working the life out of tbe land, what is it ? and now I shan’t be able to let it again."

A telegram from Dunedin says : —The case of Miss Ross, known as the fasting girl, attracted great attention some 16 years ago, when she lay in a trance for about six weeks. Since then she has been confined to bed. Last week she showed considerable improvement, and on Sunday she had an interview with a lady who claims the power of.healing by faifh. It is reported that on her ordering Miss Ross to rise, she got up from the bed where she had lain for nearly 16 years. Miss Ross had been paralysed on one side of late. On Monday she was able to have a drive out. The affair has created some excitement in the district.

Laery* Campbell report Flour, £g ros to £lO ; bran, £5 ; pollard, very scarce, £5 10s to £6 ; oats, 2s 4d to 23 6d ; wheat, 31 6d to 3s 9d ; barley, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; potatoes, £3 to £2 10s; onions, £7 to £8 ; cheese 3d to sid ; butter (fresh), last lot sold by auction realised yd to 8d with difficulty ; salt butter, qjd to rod ; lard, 3d to sid ; hams and bacon (mixed), yid to Bid ; fowls, 3s to 33 3d per pair ; ducks, 3s 6d to 4s per pair ; geese, still unsaleable ; turkeys, 3s* 6d to 4s each.

At his Carterton Auction Rooms tomorrow, Mr F. H. Wood will offer a new and well assorted stock of drapery, clothing, boots, shoes, groceries, tancy goods, &o. After which will be offered the goods, chattels, and effects in the estate of Mr N. Rasmussen. At 2 o’clock a valuable freehold property on the Carterton Main Road will be submitted.

Mr F. Muir advertises special lines for the coming fancy dress ball. The next weekly entertainment, which will take place in the Town Hall,* Greytown, will doubtless draw another good house, as the two gentlemen—the Rev Mr Western and Mr W. C. Nation—who were elected to prepare the programme, have taken some trouble to make it attractive. From Waihakeke they reckon upon the assistance of the Misses Braithwaite, Mr Parker, Mr Moncrieft and Mr Connal, “ the irresistible." The Misses Jackson, of Stonestead, will also take part.

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Yesterday was bitterly cold and wet. Snow fvll heavily ou the hills and Very lightly in the townships.

At a meeting of the Land Board yesterday it was resolved on the motion of Mr Bunny, to establish a village settlement at Cross's Greek.

The annual ball of the Mastertou Rifle Volunteers takes place on June 28. The Secretary to the Taratahi .Dairy Factory Company (Mr G. Fairbrother) has received tbe silver medal and certificate awarded to the company, as first prize in cheese at tbe late New Zealand Industrial Exhibition. The Canterbury Jockey Club have declined to give a decision in the case referred to them by the Taratahi-Carterton Jockey Club, concerning the protest entered by the owner of Normanby against Okato, the horse which came in first in the Clareville Handicap. The Taratahi Club will meet shortly to consider tbe matter.

The Greytown Quadrille Assembly was well attended last night. Mr J. Maguire was in his usual place as M.C., and the large company spent a very enjoyable evening. At a Church of England vestry meeting of St John’s Church, Featherston, held at the Board office, yesterday, the 10th June, amongst other things it was resolved that owing to the depressed state of the Offertory Fund a sum of £l2 10s be offered to the organist and verger, payable quarterly, for his usual services from Ist July next, also that strenuous endeavors be made by the oolleotors to get in all arrears due to the General Church Fund. The treasurer of the General Church Fund reported that the stipend of tbe clergyman had been paid up to 31st March, and that they should be prepared to remit to Wellington the quartet’s stipend due on 80th instant, which they cannot do unless all arrears to General Ghurob Fund are paid up. The Greytown Wesleyan Church was tbe scene of a numerous assemblage yesterday morning to witness the marriage of Mr Charles Say well and Miss Ellen Wilkie. The .weather was bitterly cold and wet, which no doubt thinned the attendance, for Miss Wilkie has for years been identified with the church and its musical services. The bride was dressed in cream nun’s veiling, trimmed with oriental lace and the usual veil and orange blossoms. Miss Ada Wilkie and Miss Ellen Saywsll, as bridesmaids, were dressed in lavender and cream lace ; Miss Eva Wilkie and Miss Amy Sayweil were dressed in pink and cream laoe, and little Miss Ethel Robinson of three years old was dressed in salmon sateen. Mr B. Burt officiated as best man. Tbe interesting ceremony was performed by tbe Rev J. Ward, and upon leaving the church plentiful showers of rice were received by the happy pair. The whole party were driven off to the residence of Mr John Wilkie, the bride’s father, and in the afternoon Mr and Mrs Sayweil left for the Hutt.

The service of song “ Biddy, the Irish Maid,'’ will be repeated in the Greytown Wesleyan Church next Wednesday evening. In the entries for the Melbourne Cup the names of several New Zealand horses appear viz Winchester, Nelson, Liverpool, Tetford, Locbiel, Disowned, Torrent and Trenton. There are 143 entries against 165 of last year.

The East Wairarapa County Council have struck a rate of one farthing in the £. Mr Lyall, late manager of the Commercial Bank of South Australia, has been acquitted.

The entertainments for the widow and children of the late B Sewell, killed at Booth’s mill Carterton, takes place at the Carterton Lyceum on Thursday ryth inst. Several Masterton Amateurs will take part in the concert portion of the programme and the Greytown Amateur Dramatic Society will perform a comedy. “Werethose guns that were heard last night ?” was the almost unanimous question asked during yesterday moruiug in the Wairarapa, and during the day several persons called at the office of this paper for an explanation of the strange noises. Some thought it was a ship in distress in Falisser Bay .firing guns for help; others had a dreamy recollection of hearing thunder; those who lived near the hills stated that the reports reverberated among the hills, echoing and re-echoing with great power. During the morning conjectures were set at rest by a telegram received from our Wellington correspondent giving particulars of the fearful volcanic disturbances in the North, and which will be found in detail in another column. Our extra of yesterday was largely circulated and caused no little excitement.