Opposition to Mr Gladstone.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1847, 21 June 1886, Page 2

Opposition to Mr Gladstone.

Colonel Walker has been nominated by the Conservative Party to contest Midlothian at the general election against Mr Gladstone. We venture to predict that the heads of the people of Midlothian will remain true to Gladstone, and that Colonel Walker will undergo a crushing and defeat in the coming election contest.

To-night the fourth of the series of enter* tainments in aid of the Greytown Literary Institute takes place at the Town Gall, and tlie programme published in our advertising columns is a good one. Two Wellington ladies will take part among others, aud tho evening will close with a local song, the utterances of an enthusiastic young man just off to Kimberley, telling what he will do for Greytown when he comes back with his pile. Messrs Hart Udy, sen., and Hart Udy, jun., offer themselves as candidates for seats on the Waiohiue River Board.

The fust issue of the Wellington Advertiser has just reached our hands. It is a capital little Saturday paper, the proprietors being Messrs A. J. Hoskins and Co., of Cuba St. Mr Hornblow, well known in Greytown and Masterton, has also given bis valuable aid to the venture. The political, literary, and social articles are ably and trenchantly written, while the higher features of the journal, in tbe shape of random shots, notes and comments, gossip, sketches and dramatic criticisms, make very pleasant and attractive reading. If the Advertiser maintains its present standard of trenchant vigour and racy humor, it ought to attain speedily a prosperous and well assured position. We heartily wish our contemporary the fullest measure of success.

Three dwelling houses were burned down at Kaiwarra at one o’clock last Saturday afternoon. The ;house in which the fire started was occupied by Mr. Joseph Barlow, Mr Gartner dwelt in the second and a Mr Holmes in the third.

Heavy rains continue to be experienced in Sydney and country districts. Sir John Robertson has resigned his seat in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. It is understood he will retire into private life.

The ratepayers holding lands surrounding or adjoining the Wairarapa Lakes and Lower Rusmahunga river intend, at the expiration of a month from to-day, present a petition to the Governor praying that the lands described in such petition may be created a river district under the “ River Boards Act of 1881.” Tenders are invited by the Government for leasing the Kaitoke and Featherston Stations refreshment Rooms.

To-morrow, at Peatherston, Mr P. H. Wood will hold an important sale at Featherston. Mr J. Barr is leaving the district, and has placed the whole of his valuable freehold property, horses, traps, harness, furniture, Ax., under the hammer. This sale should draw a good concourse of buyers. Nominations for five conservators for the Waiohine River Board takes place on Thursday next.

There is no fresh news to-day from the Hot Lakes district.

. George Thomas and Co. report a general rise iu all leading lines of grain and breadstalls. The market during the week has become quite excited through the constant changes in quotations, all being of an upward tendency. Flour has advanced from Lll toLI2. It has been found that the wheat crop (New Zealand) in comparison with last year’s yield is deficient by quite one half, although the acreage has slightly increased, this being due) to the ,late extremely dry season, which has greatly affected the result* for both oats and wheat. Fowls’ wheat is exceedingly scarce, and fully '.worth 3s 9d to 3s lOd for good samples. Pollard and bran are almost unobtainable at £7 and £6 10s respectively. Oats have advanced to 2s 6d per bushel for feed, and 2s 7a for seed samples. Oatmeal is firmly held at £l3. Oaten ohaff briskly enquired for at £4. A slightly better demand has sprung up for fowls’ barley at 2s 7d to 2s 8d for retail parcels ; maize steady at 4s ; beans, 3a 6d to 3s 8d ; peas, 4s Od ; potatoes have a slight upward tendency, good samples being valued at 70s; carrots, 455; good onions are scarce, £1) ; other qualities from £7 ; pearl barley, £l7; black oats, 2s ltd ; hams and bacon, new cure, meet with good demand at usual prices ; cheese is scarce at fijd, salt butter with much demand at 8)d to lOd ; fresh do, Is ; eggs rapidly decreasing in value, present price Is fid ; honey, from 3d to fid per lb. The market is quite glutted with fowls, and sales are now being effected at 2s fis per pair ; ducks are more saleable at 3s fid ; geese, fis ; turkeys, 10s per pair. Tenders are invited for the erection of a Wesleyan Church at Palefield.

To-day (21st Jane) ia the shortest day. Mr Parker’* Plain and Fancy Drees Ball, which passed ofl with such success some weeks since, will be repeated at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Featherelon, to-night, when there will doubtless be another rery pleasant and numerous gathering. Mr Robert Wilkio, of Wilkin and 00., OhnetouurCl:, yesterday.

The Taratahi-Carterton Jockey Club Stewards met on Saturday night to consider the protest in the Nottnanby-Okato case, and we understand from a Carterton resident this morning that they conceded the stakes to Hormanby,

In the cricket match, Australians versus Gentlemen of England. the latter in their fii>t innings have scored -471, a I out. The Australian Eleven scored 488 iu their first Toe Gentlemen played two men short iu the SocouJ innings and scored 105 and as the time was up lor drawing the stamps the game was drawn m favor of Australia, who only required to get 89 runs to win. The Test of Actual Trial This is what proves the merit of a preparation. The proprietor of Green’s August Flower, knowing its valuable properties, meets this test boldly by preparing sample bottles of this remedy, which are sold at fid. This enables doubters so try its virtues at a trifling expense. August Flower is a panacea for Dyspepsia and all disorders of the liver, including Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, &c., &c. Three doses will relieve any of the above, and a faithful use will certainly cure. No medicine in the world jhas ever given such a proof of its merits. Druggists recommend it with perfect confidence and physicians prescribe it regularly. Price for full sized bottle ys. fid. Sold by all druggists. Chinese ladies are said to be so sadly demoralised by the pernicious influence of European customs that they are actually beginning to revolt against the secluded life hitherto rigidly enjoined upon them, and not only appear openly in the streets, but visit restaurants and places of public entertainment. This deplorable state ol laxity has caused the widest alarm throughout the Celestial Empire, (and an official bearing the terrible title of " Chief Censor of Morals’’ has been moyed to petition the newly-manifested spirit ot feminine independence in his dominions. It is much to be hoped that the Emperor is sufficiently enlightened to discourage the interference of the “ censor" with the legitimate freedom of his female subjects, and that thecomplete emancipation of Chinese women from the position of inferiority and degradation that has hithero being their lot will follow in the near future.

The excavation of the Egyptian Sphinx, so far as it has gone, has proved most interesting. The figure is now free from sand as far as the feet, which are nearly intact, although the breast is considerably damaged. In spite of the loss of the nose, the face has become most expressive when laid bare, having a calm and serene look. The statne proves to be of rough rook covered with masonry, the face of the stones being painted red, and the joints picked out with yellow. Now the workers are to attack the beds of sand which have not been touched since the first centuries of our era, and are hardening into stone.

“ Bough on Corns.” Ask for Wells 1 " Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent care. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. It Depended on Circumstances.—Frivolous young lady to guide How deep is that hole ?”—Guide; "Never been measured, miss.’’—Frivolous young lady : ' Suppose I were to fall down there, where do you suppose I should go to Guide : “ That depends, miss, upon how you have lived in this world 1”

Catarrh of The Bladder. Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney aud similar complaints, cured by “ Buchu-paiba.” Draggists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. The Rev Mr Wills, of Gisborne, Wesleyrn clergyman, has a dry humour of his own which does not disdain a practical joke. An advertisement was inserted calling a meeting at the Wesleyan Church “ for the purpose of assisting young men to the * goldfields.’ ” With Kimberley on the brain, and not giving the rev. one credit for a device worthy of Beecher and Talmago, some forty would-be Kimberley adventurers turned up, only to find that they were taken in. The " goldfields of Mr Wills were heavenly not worldly goldfields, and tbe iniquities of " laying up treasures where moths, &0., may corrupt, were duly dwelt upon. Flies and Bugs. Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chip munka, cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.