Waste Lands Board.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1855, 9 July 1886, Page 2

Waste Lands Board.

The Waste Lands Committee Lave recom" mended that Sir George Grey’s Elective Laud Boards Bill be permitted to proceed with certain alterations, the chief being that iu the event of failure to elect the full number of members the Governor is to nominate to the vacancies, and instead of six members being requited the number is to be not leas than two or more than five,; as decided by the Governor.

The Greytown Quadrille Assembly held the usual weekly dance last night la the Town Hill. The attendance was large and the dancing spiritedly sustained until the usual hour for closing. Mr J. Maguiro as usual was M.O.

Tenders are wanted by Mr John Fabian for painting and paperhauging.

An attractive programme is offered for Monday evening’s concert. Mr Matthew Barnett, temperance lecturer, is meeting with great success so far in the North Wairarapa. On Sunday afternoon he speaks at Matarawa, and on the same even< iug at the Wesleyan Church, Greytown. There is every promise of a very enjoyable entertainment to be held at Usatherston, en the 22nd inst.' The town band, assisted by some of the leading vocalists, will take part. If our Featherston friends succeed iu getting as good a house as the Greytown people do every Monday evening, they will have cause to rejoice, A dance follows the concert.

The annual meeting of shareholders of the Greytown Butter and Cheese Factory Company, Limited, will be held at Mr P. H. Wood’s office on Mondny next, when the usual formal business will be transacted.

Tenders for ploughing 100 acres at Longwood must be in by the 26th instant. Mr Wm. Benton, of Featherston, advertises wire fencing posts at 42s 6d per 100; also house blocks, shingles and timber.

We direct attention to the sale of all sorts of merchandise at Greytown to-morrow by Mr F. H. Wood. This week Mr Wood has disposed of an immense lot of stuff under the hammer, and great bargains have been the rule.

The Melbourne local manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealapd, Limited, reports on the grain market as fallows -.—Shipping wheat is firm at 5s Id to 5s 2d per bushel, malting barley quiet at 3s 9d to 4s 3d. New Zealand oats —Feed sorts meet with a modetate enquiry at 3s 2d to 3s 6d per bushel, while milling descriptions have a decidedly firmer tone at 3s 5d to 3s 7d per bushel; New Zealand oats under bond are quoted at 2s 6d to 2s 8d per bushel.

A house belonging to Mr John Bon, Otauto, near Patea, was burned to the ground on Monday night. Nobody was at home at the time, the family being at the circus. Everything was lost. The cause of the fire is unknown. There is an insurance on the building of £l5O in the Union, and on the contents one of £IOO in Manchester office.

A man named Walter Trioker was arrested at Masterton on Wednesday morning on a warrant issued by the Wellington Bench, charging him with failing to provide his wife adequate means of support. In the course of argument at the B. M. Court the other morning, at Masterton, Mr Stratford pointed out that a baker suing for loaves of bread supplied to a customer would be nonsuited, as the law did not recognise loaves, but required all bread except “ fancy bread ” to be sold by weight. At the Melbourne Police Court the other day a masher thief was convicted of stealing a watch valued at £2O, and before sentence was passed he applied in this manner to the stipendiary magistrate “ Excuse me, your Worship, but before you go on any further might I request you not to give hard labour, as 1 have really never done any in all my life.” The coolness of the request seems to have stupefied the stipendiary, for he omitted the much dreaded clause, and the masher 11 went up ” without hard labor.

The Wairarapa auctioneers have been “ running each other ” during this week at Martinborough, Featherston, and Carterton. Messrs Lowes and lorus and Mr F. H: Wood have held sales of merchandise at each of the above places, and the public have secured many bargains. 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 6d. 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 has ever given such a proof of its merits. Druggists recommend it with perfect confidence and physicians prescribe it regularly. Price for full sized bottle 3s. fid. Sold by all druggists. A telegram from Waipawa says The remains of the man Westaby, who was drowned two months ago while crossing the Tukiki river have been found near Tamumu. They have been indentified by the clothing and by a watch in the pocket. The remains had been reduced by exposure to a mere skeleton. An inquest was held and a verdict of Accidently Drowned returned. A sad occurrence happened at New Ply-

mouth the other morning. A party of three went out on a|fishing excursion aboutgo'clock and when about a mile out, one of them,

Hugh Batchelor, well-known as Mr Walker’s barman at the Imperial Hotel, suddenly dropped his oar, complaining that he felt faint and was not so good as be used to be. Soon after saying this he fainted, and the party made for the shore as quickly as possible, but the unfortunate man expired before getting in. Batchelor looked a healthy man. and his death, which is supposed to be the result of heart disease, was totally unexpected. He leaves a wife and nine children.

Have you heard the latest from America Enter Ethel to Laura: “You look radiant,” remarks the latter. “Oh, such splendid news,” says Ethel. " Papa has been bitten by a mad dog, and we are all off to Paris. Isn'tJ’it delicious ?” Skinny Men. 11 Wells’ Health Renewer” restores health and vigor, cures, Dyspepsia, impotence, Debility, At druggists. Eempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. Christchurch. A Wonderful Printing Contract.—H. H. Warner and Co., Rochester, N.Y., have just made a contract with the Feister Press Company, of Philadelphia, for printed matter, which involves over hall a million dollars, It is for 40,000,000, 36-page pamphlets, 400,000,000 4-page. circulars. To fill the pamphlet order'will require over 480 tons of paper in all. The Feister press takes plates in two by two, the paper is fed from a continuous roll, and when the machine is running it turns out, per hour, several thousand printed, folded, pasted, bound and trimmed pamphlets. It is a new invention just perfected. This tremendous amount of printing will be done partly in England, partly in Germany, partly in Australia, partly in Philadelphia, partly in Canada, and is for distribu tion from H. H. Warner and Co’s laboratories in those countries and places respectively. Besides this vast amount of advertising matter sent through the ui ’’ls, Warner and Co. do the largest news spaper advertising business in the world. “ Rough on Corns.” Ask lor Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, porraanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. “ Let him go,” said a fond father as his son was about to embark on board the Triumph for Kimberley; “ I’ve had him examined! he’s as sound as a roach ; let him see a little of the world. It won’t do him any harm, and he oau oome back if he doesn't like it,” It struck the listener that “ seeing the world,” in south latitude ISdeg with the sweet companionship of fever and ague, alligators, black fellows, mosquitoes, and vhe rainy season, was scarcely preferable to other mere common place methods of gaining worldly wisdom, bat he said nothing. Don’t Dio In The House. “Rough on rats ’’ clears out rats, mice, beetles, roadies, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, jack-rabbits, insects, gophers, Eempthorne, Prosser and Co., AgCßtn,

The conditions and provisions embodied in sections four and five, Appendix A, Land District of Auckland, known as the " home stead system,” are now made to apply to the whole colony, provided no greater area than three thousand acres in one land district shall be set aside in one year. (See Section 89 of the Land Act). Under this system the settler makes no payment for the laud, the only cost to him being being the expense of survey. On the fulfilment of conditions, which are five years’ residence, the erection of a house, and the cultivation of one third of the selection if open land, and one fifth if bush, the Crown grant is issued. Bach person of the age of eighteen years or upwards may select from seventy five to fifty acres, according to quality of land, and a person under eighteen years of age thirty to twenty acres; Provided that no family or household shall have more than two hundred acres of first class or three hundred acres of second class lands. In Westland the conditions are the same, with the exception that fifty, twenty, and two hundred acres are the limits as above irrespective of quality of land. Selectors on the homestead system are debarred from obtaining laud on the deferred payment or perpetual lease systems, nor can any one who has obtained land on these systems or who is the owner of freehold land obtain land under the homestead system. At the Featherston B. M. Court yesterday James Morton was charged on remand from Greytown with unlawfully shooting and wounding William Sunnez. TheJ evidence went to prove that the occurrence was the result of accident, and the prisoner was discharged with a reprimand from the Magistrate for the careless manner in which he handled the weapon. There were, in addition, one or two oases of trespass by cattle disposed of, and some civil cases, the most important of which was W. Toogood v G. H. Houghton; Mr Gray for defendant; claim £56; defendant’s wife disputed some items which were allowed, the plaintiff protesting that they were undoubtedly delivered. The following list of casualties are given in late telegrams William Barr, farmer at Ambetley, died from drinking carbolic acid in mistake for brandy. A child 13 months old, daughter of Mr Thomas George, Dune din, was drowned by falling into a tub of water. At Oamaru, William Leitch, a baker, committed suicide at the Criterion Hotel, by taking 4oz of chlorodyne. He leaves a wife and five children; bis life was insured in the Government Association for £2OO. William Holmes, coach driver at Hokitika, fell down an old shaft 35ft deep, while pigeon shooting, and was killed. Joseph Halligan, a storekeeper at Eanieri, was found dead in his store, apoplexy was the cause.

The management of the Qreytown Band of Hope have arranged to hold a “ spelling bee ” on Monday night next at the Wesleyan school* room, Qreytown. The entertainment will no doubt be amusing, instructive, and in every way attractive to the young people ; and if they do not exert themselves and be present in good numbers, the absentees will loss a great treat.

An ordinary meeting of the Land Board was held yesterday, there being present Messrs Marchant. (in the chair), Bunny Beetham, M’Cardle, Fitzherbert, and Reese. The Chairman reported that Mr G. Beetham had been re-appointed a member of the Board- A report was received from the ranger on the improvements effected by Mr Gallagher on Crown lands near Greytown. On the motion of Mr Bunny, seconded by Mr M’Cardle, it was resolved to ask the Government to hand over the land to the Greytown Board of Conservators, on the understanding that they pay Mr. Gallagher £34. A letter from Mr John Hall, of Greytown north, with regard to the settlement of bush lands, was ordered to lie on tha table. An important discussion took place in reference to the question of residence on deferred payment sections. The Board decided that residence on the land sold at the next sale should not be compulsary until after the expiration of the first four years.—Post.

A meeting was beldfon the evening of the 6th instant at 5 p.m: at the Waipoapoa Pah, Gladstone, by the following natives :—H. P.

Tinniorangi (Chairman), Mikaira, Manoa, Pahura, Iriatara Kingi, Tne meeting was called by Tinniorangi for the purpose of considering Mr Richardson's offer, viz., that of forming a night school for the natives. Alter some remarks Mr Tinniorangi pointed ont to the committee the desirability of embraoingtbe opportunity of improving them* selves in the English language. Proposed by Tinniorangi, seconded by Makaira that Mr Richardson’s offer be accepted. Mr Tinniorangi wishes ns to draw attention to the fact that he with others has called a meeting for the 10th July, 1886, at the Waipoapoa Pah, for the purpose of settling some disputes among the natives. He hopes all concerned will attend.

Steam has been hardly visible from Roto* mabana for three days past. A jet of steam and mud were thrown up in the air about fifteen thousand feet. There were two shocks of earthquake at 3 o’clock yesterday morning.

The Fall Mall Gazette says Mr Gladstone’s defeat is becoming a root. The cricket match Australia v. England.— Australian Eleven, first innings 203, second innings 123, Total 328. All England Eleven— First innings 223, second innings (for six wickets) 107, Total 330, The Englishmen thus won the match with one inn and four wickets to spare. The University cricket match, Oxford versus Cambridge, has resulted in a victory for Oxford. Messrs Fabian Brothers advertise some fresh lines in to day’s issue.

The Featheraton Road Board seeing the necessity of completing the extension of the road between Maryborough and Gladstone by Mr G. Wall’s place, at Riverside, have asked the warden of that district (Mr Monokton) to proceed to that part aud report. Mr Monckton has undertaken the task, and as soon as practicable will, we believe, inspect the route The work no doubt is very necessary. and will be pushed on with as soon as circumstances admit.

The anniversary services of the Wesleyan Church. Greytown, are to be held nest Sunday. The Rev J. Ward is to preach in the morning at 11 and Mr Matthew Bnruott, the great temperance lecturer, ia the evening at half past sis. On Tuesday next the usual tea meeting is to be held—tiie tea in the schoolroom from half past five to seven, aud the public meeting in the church at half past seven. P. H. Wood, Esq., Mayor, is to take the chair, and addresses are to be delivered hy the Revs Buttle, Thomson, Ward, Mr Matthew Burnett and others. The choir have several anthems rehearsed to render during the evening, and altogether a successful course of services is expected. It is just sit years since the present Church was erected.

Mr F. H. Wood held another most successful sale at Cftrtertou on Wednesday, The Public Hall was crowded with bidders, and all lots were quitted at fair prices. The articles put up for sale in the drapery and clothing line were of excellent quality, and splendid t -.'tie was given for money. The groceries ana oilier provisions must also have been from the stock of some iirst-olass store, as the brauds were of the best iu the market. Mr Wood holds another sale of the same class of goods at Oreytown on Saturday (to-morrow), and this should bean excellent chance fur the public in the district to secure bargains.

A committee of the Dnnedin Presbytery have submitted a report recommending that the Presbytery regard itself as obliged I y all constitutional means to protect congregations against the innovating tendency of the times. The members of the Church recommend that a rule be signed by all the members joining that they should neither directly or indirectly seek to introduce, or stir up questions of this introduction of hymns or instrumental music. If they did so, membership of the congregation should cease. The committee was appointed in consequence of complaints made jy some of the Presbyterians at the innovations which were being made in the Utanh,

Mr Pharazyn's tenders close o i the 20lh inst. Sir Samuel Wilson has been returned to Parliament for one of the Portsmouth scats.

Present election returns show 210 Conservatives, 47 Unionists, 121 Gladstones, 56 Parnellites. A traveller in Western lowa, noticing on the wall of the parlor of the hotel the legend "lei on paile Francais,” said to the pr(priator : Do you speak French ?” ‘‘ French No. United States is good 'nough for me." " Then why do you keep that legend on the wall ? That means ‘ French is spoken here.’’’ "Is that so ?" " Certainly.” " Well, I’m « half-breed from up the Missoury, if a feller with a wart on his nose didn’t sell me that for a Latin motto ; ' God Bless Our Home.’"