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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1859, 19 July 1886, Page 2

The programme for the entertainment at the Town Hall, Greytown, this evening, is a varied and well selected one, and there will no doubt be a large and appreciative audience.

The new organ which has been purchased for the Morrison’s Bush Church was first used about a fortnight ago, and adds much to the enjoyment of the services. Messrs W. McLean and Co., auctioneers, Wellington, announce that the whole cf the valuable mining plant and stone cutting machinery of the Caswell Sound Company (now in liquidation) will be sold on Thursday, sth August next. At the Magistrate’s Court, Greytown, this morning, before J. Tully end F. H. Wood, Esqs., J.P.’s, the ease against James Smith, charged by W, Pole with attempted afson was remanded, on tbe application of Mr Gray for defendant, until Wednesday next. A charge against Pole and Ryan for assaulting the man Smith was also remanded for Wednesday. Smith’s bail was fixed at two sureties of £SO each.

A little girl, daughter of Mr John Martin, jun., of Huang&roa, has had her shoulder dislocated through being tossed up in play by a servant. Mrs Ayton, the postmistress, who is also our agent for tbe Morrison’s Bush district, has, we notice, opened a shop for the sale of small articles moat frequently wanted. The entertainment to be given by the Greytown Amateur Dramatic Club next Monday evening will be in aid of (he funds of the Greytown Football Club, and : ot for the Fire Brigade as stated by us in cur last issue.

The mystery connected with the disappearance of Mr A. L. Levy, J.P., and secretary to tbe New Zealand Temperance Alliance, still remains without any solution. Nobody seems to know where Mr Levy has gone to, either in this world or next.

Job Bassett, of Masterton, laborer, has filed a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. A deliberate attempt was made the other

morning to burn down the large block of buildings in Woodville, known aa Sowry’s block, comprising four shops with dwelling houses, a large temperance hotel and two shops. The attempt failed.

A telegram from Hawera states that the natives express a fixed determination to start ptonghing shortly on land in European occupation. They say they have clear instructions from Te Whiti to do so. There is keen dissatisfaction among them concerning the management of their reserves.

Tbe annual sheep returns were presented to Parliament last week. The total number of sheep in the colony ie stated at 14,646,801, as against 13.978.520, or an increase of 568,281 on the return of the previous year. In the several districts the increase or decrease daring tbe year has been as follows; —Auckland, increase, 30,465 ; Napier, increase, 64,496; Taranaki, decrease, 3712 ; Wanganui, increase, 10,970; Rangitikei, increase, 7626 ; Wellington, increase, 43,837; Nelson, increase, 25 : Marlborough, decrease, 14,179; Canterbury, increase, 331,213; Otago, increase, 97,510.

Singular legal proceeding* have recently taken place between the Blenheim Rifles and the Government. The Collector of Customs imposed 15 per cent duty on uniforms imported from London, whereupon the Rifles paid under protest and sued the Collector in the Supreme Court for a refund. The time given by the writ expired, and the Rifles entered up judgment against the Government in default of appearance. The money has not yet been refunded, and the Rifles intend to apply for a mandamus against the Collector, They claim that Uniforms being accoutrements, and goods imported for the use of Her Majesty’s land forces, are exempt under the Customs Act. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Hawkes Bay Herald understands that revelations of an astonishing nature are being made b/the Public Accounts Committee, to whom has been referred the question of the purchase of Mr Starke’s property for defence purposes at Auckland. It has transpired that less than twelve months before the purchare by the Government the whole property was under offer for 417000, while the price arranged and paid by the Government officer was £17,000.

The Test of Actual TrialTh s 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 a're sold at 6d. This enables doubters so try its virtues at a trilling 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 ol its merits. Druggists recommend it with perfect confidence ard physicians prescribe it regularly. Price for full sized bottle 3s. 6d. Sold by all druggists. They must have funny ideas in England as to the means of getting ashore on arrival in New Zealand. The Boojum is bad enough, but we never heard of a speaking trumpet. However, a Loudon journal has the following :-‘An emigrant lady, on arrival at the harbour of Otago, had six offers of marriage made to her from shore before she got landed through a speaking trumpet.”

Flies and Bugs. Beellet, [insects, roacues, ani's, bed bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chip munks, cleared out by " Bough on Bats.” Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

A Southern paper estimates that every penny per lb for wool represents upwards of £360,000 to our colonial flock owners.

" Bough on Corns.” Ask for Wells' ‘ 1 Bough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent care. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser Co., Agents, Christchurch. A Manawatu paper hears that a six roomed bouse and eight acres of land in Foxtoa was reoently put up by order of the mortgagee and knocked down fee £BO sterling. The mortgage on it was £6OO.

. Catarrh of The Bladder. Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buohu-paiba.” Drug-, gists. Kempthorne, Pr: aer & Co., Agents

The following gentlemen have been elected office bearer* of the Tutara Lodge of Druida for the ensuing year :—Bro G. Yule A.D., Bro G. it. Gardener J.P.A., Bro A. Eddie V A IX, Bto Horn Sec. (re-elected), Bro T. C. Birnard Trees, (re-elected), Bro T. Hannah 0.G., Bros Armstrong and A. Dayah A.D. Bards, Bros Subell and Cranford V.A. Bards The New Zealand Shipping Company’s E.M.B. Aorangi arrived off Port Chalmers Hoads at 11.16 on Thursday night, after a remarkably fast passage of 39 days 3 hours 39 minutes, including detentions (the quickest on record by 8} hours. She landed her mails four days in advance of contract time, notwithstanding she was e day late in starting. A late English paper states that about the middle of May, 1886, the wholesale price of fresh butter was from 9d to lid per lb. The Liverpool cheese market was reported thus: —“The demand for cheese has been slow, and buyers of last autumn makes have been able to operate at quite 2s pet cwt under last week’s prices, but sales have been small. Holders ask 46s to 48s for finest September and October make. There is very little medium or low priced old cheese here. The email arrivals of new, which are arriving, meet with a steady sale at 46s to 47s per cwt. Batter continues unchanged. There is really no stock of finest American and Canadian on the market, which we quote as a nominal value at 90s to 955. We quote medium grades at 60s to 75s per cwt." Never Return.—lt ia said that one ont of every four real invalids who go to foreign countries to recover health never return, except as a corpse. The undertaker, next to the hotelkeepers, have the most profitable business. This excessive mortality may be prevented, and patients saved and cured under the care of friends and loved ones at home, if they will bnt use American Co’s Hop Bitters in time. Bead The Secretary of the Maeterton-Mangahao Special Settlement has received a letter from the Crown Lands Office stating that before sections in the Block can be balloted for, one tenth of,the purchase money must be paid. Indigestion.—The main canse of nervousness is indigestion, and that is oansed by weakness of the stbmaoh. No one can have sound nerves and 'good health without using American Go’s Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach, parity the blood, and keep the liver and kidneys active, to carry off all the poisons and waste matter of the system. See The Maaterton Star says a genuine ghost story comes from Clareville. The man’s hat on the estate of a well known and prominent settler there has of late manifested signs of being unmistakably haunted by something “ uncanny.” At the dead hour of the night the slumbering occupants are aroused nightly by unearthly noises—kaockiugs, rapping and deep groans as of some one in terrible agony and distress. The doors rattle, the windows shake, hollow sounds float from the roof, and distressing sighs and groans seem to proceed from some subterranean cavity under the floor. At a regular time each night three loud steps are heard on the verandah. For several evenings a strict watch was kept, and directly the noise of footsteps was heard the door was opened but nothing to account for the sound could be seen. The moonlight, however, baa lately developed a figure on the verandah at the moment when the tramping is beard. It is that of a stoat thick-set man dressed in dark clothes. Directly door is opened and the figure is seen it disappears suddenly as if vanishing into the atmosphere The proprietor and bis men are not alarmed but puzzled, and all kinds of conjectures have been formed. A few of the sceptics are inclined to think that the disturbances are due to some mischievous tramp, and they are trying the effect of a vicious bull dog on the premises. The majority, however, are inclined to the belief that the noises are dne to some poor ghost in deep trouble over something which it wants to communicate. There are fine blocks of totara timber, some of considerable size, on the banks of the Buamahunga between Papawai and Waihenga. Mr Hendeison, who baa recently settled in our midst, has obtained the right to cut totara on these Hicks and has commenced the erection of a large and powerful sawmill. The mill itself is not being erected close to the timber, but at a place which ia convenient of access at the corner of the road at the eastern end of Morrison's Btfth road, on the side of the road opposite to the schoolhouse. A considerable party of men have been working for the last fortnight preparing . the foundation. There is already a 25 horse power engine on the ground. There is a considerable stock of bricks, <fec., and parts of the machinery on the ground also. We believe that the timber is to be conveyed to the mill by a tramway and not by junkers. The tramway will be over half a mile to the nearest block of timber. The demand for timber is so large that we have no doubt the mill will be fully employed, especially as the recent great rise in the price of wool is causing greater activity in all iudustrial undertakings.

The Loyal Greytown Lodge of Oddfellows held their halfyearly meeting on Wednesday, July 14th, when the balance sheet was read, which showed that daring the half year twelve subscribing and two honorary members had been initiated, and the sum of £9 3s 4d had been spent in sick pay, and the credit balance of the lodge funds now amounts to £437 18s Bd, and the roll numbers 43 members. The officers were duly installed for the ensuing halfyear, all of them being filled. Brother Maguire is the N.G. for the next term; Brother Loasby was appointed delegate to the District Meeting to be held at Wellington.

Sir F. Dilke has admitted that there were indiscretions in his conduct some eleven years ago, but denies any familiarity with Mrs Crawford.

The whole of the English elections are now completed, and have resulted in the return of 316 Conservatives, 78 Unionists, 191 Gladstoneites, 85 Parnelites. We have just looked through a finely illustrated and new work entitled “ Platform Echoes; or Living Truths for Hoad and Heart.” Anecdotes, incidents, personal experiences, startling facts and disclosures, tragic scenes, amusing episodes, comical adventures, side splitting stories, humorous situations, and wonderfully graphic and fascinating tales of the most touching pathos, by the late John B. Gough, the well-known temperance orator. The book contains 327 engravings and is well bound. Mr Jones, as representing the publisher of tire work, is now travelling through the Wairurapa cauva-siog for subscribers, and we feel sure the name of John B. Gough is enough to recommend the work without any words of commendation on our part. The work in question will form a valuable addition to the household library and give au idea of what Mr Gough was, and we hope Mr Jones will have a successful canvas through these parts. The Rev C. H. Spurgeon, I speaking of this noble man, (Gough) said “ Mr Gough far surpasses the famous story teller of the Arabian Nights. He turns from one tale to another as if he stood amid a host of them, half buried in delights, like little Mary in a field of butteicnps. Don’t think of him as writing a book, but as pouring out a shower of stories, and you will be glad to be saturated with the golden rain.'' Messrs Brown and Rogers, of Masterton, are the successful tenderers for Mr Nicols’ new building at Reatherston. Ocean won the grand National Hurdle Race and Game the Grand National Steeplechase at Melbourne. It is stated that the Hon Sir Julius Vogel has instructed Mr Travers to issue writs against the New Zealand Times and the Weiiingtou Evening Press for libel contained in recent at tides pullGhed in their columns iu regard to the District Railways Debentures Committee’s report, la each ease the damages are laid at £6OOO. We have read the articles complained of and think that they were perfectly (air comment* and altogether free from libel, Bir JuliusJfogel must have lost his head altogether ifha expects that any jury will give him a veidict wiih damages against oar Wellington contemporaries. We notice that the Wellington Advertiser has an article on the same subject which J| even more outspoken than the comment* w the Xi»eioißT#oin§Pte»» «

Mr Matthew Burnett had a large audience at Carterton on Friday evening, Mr W. Booth being in the chair. On Saturday another good meeting waa held, Dr Johneton in the chair. It ie proposed that Mr Barnett shall lecture in Greytown on Thursday evening next, when Dr Johnston will be asked to take the chair. If this meeting takes place it will be advertised in Wednesday's Standard. 270 pledges have been taken in Carterton, during Mr Burnett’s mission.

It is proposed to have a Cricket Associa tiou for the Wairarapa district next season to forward the game of cricket. A meeting will probably be called at an early date, at which delegates from the various clubs in the Valley would attend, each club sending one. Consideration would be given as to the most central place, say Carterton or Grey town ; cup matches for the first and second elevens of the various would be initiated, the cups to be either subscribed for*by the contestants or presented by patrons and admirers of the game, and rules for the guidance of the cricketers in the district formed. Mo doubt a copy of the Wellington Association’s rules could be procured, which could be adapted to the Wairarapa. One rnle would probably be, that no member of any club could play for more than one club in a cup match; clubs might be required to adopt a color, as is done in other places, though no great expense would be necessary with regard to this. The various clubs will have time to think the matter over and decide on their colors, or allow their delegate to do so at the meeting. If the meeting of delegates decided the matter no two elnbs would have the same color. Timely notice will also enable them to put their grounds in order. The patrons of cricket might probably offer some trophies for the clubs in their particular localities, for the best batting and bowling.