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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1860, 21 July 1886, Page 2

The annual meeting of the Wairarapa Literary Institute takes place to-morrow evening, when we hope there will be a good attendance of members. The condition of the Institute should be thoroughly discussed and steps taken to lift it out of Us moribund condition. It is hoped that the concert in aid of the Town Band to be held at Featherston tomorrow evening will be largely attended. A capital programme has been submitted. A meeting of the members of the Greytown Gymnasium takes places this evening. The Greytown Amateur Dramatic Club are actively rehearsing their parts this week in view of their forthcoming entertainment on Monday next. The farces selected are very mirth provoking, and as a large number of tickets Lave already been disposed of, no doubt the local football club will find their funds much benefitted by the friendly exertions of the amateurs. The Fire Brigade have promised to rendsr every assistance towards the success of the undertaking. An effort was recently made by one of the Institute Committee now running the Greytown Winter Entertainments to get together a minstrel troupe comprising ladies and gentlemen. It was not intended that the fair sex should hide their beauty behind burnt cork, but for all that they were backward in coming forward and steps are now being taken by Mr Campbell to get together a few gentlemen for the practice of some songs, and to appear in about three weeks’ time before the public. We hope the selection of songs will be genuine negro melodies. If the chairs are well filled and tambo and bones well represented, we predict a big house when the company appear. Reply post cards are now used. The card is a double of the old one, that is to say simply two cards instead of one, except that they are not detached. The communication is sent on one card, and the receiver can then tear off the portion used and return the other half with his reply. On Saturday next a football match will be played on the Greytown Reserve between the following te&ms Wanderers —J. Maguire, A Smith, A Maguire, J Ryan, 0 Varnham, A Collier, F Hawke, A Wakelin, E Humphries, R Qrigg, R Terry, H Udy, T Haigh, F Cotter, M Jacobs, G Hawke, H Brooks, andDßaillie. The following is the opposing scratch team—H and W Mitchell, W Burch, J Phillips, J Lewis, A Mitchell, E Collier, W Humphries, T Saywell, P Tocker, R Welch, M C Tully, T Fisher, D Cameron, J and 8 Harris, Giddy (Maori), and J Hobmau. Play commences at 2 o’clock sharp. The Greytown Rifle Volunteers met for drill last night. Lients Cameron and Porritt were present and the bayonet and other exercises were practised at some length. After the usual company exercises had beer performed some Morris tube shooting took place and some excellent marksmanship was the result. The corps has decided to hold a Church Parade on the first Sunday morning in August; the Papawai Volunteers have unanimously resolved to be present and the secretary has been instructed to invite the Featherston Volunteers, The Private Brass B ;ud have kindly volunteered their services to play to church and it is hoped that every member will be present as the Hon Chaplain has always taken a lively interest in the local companies.

Sir Julius Vogel recently gave notice of action for libel against the New Zealand Times and Evening Press, claiming damages of £SOOO in each case. More lately he has laid a criminal information against the Wellington Advertiser for “ the publication of an alleged libel concerning him in his office as Colonial Treasurer.” A summons has been served upon Mr Hoskins, the proprietor of the Advertiser, and the case will be heard in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Wellington on Wednesday next, the 28th in it. The Advertiser published a strong leader on the railway scandal affair, but it is the general opinion in Wellington that the article simply consisted of fair comments on the evidence given before the Select Committee which dealt with the matter, and reported in condemnatory terms abont the action of Sir Julius Vogel and Major Steward. The Advertiser also had a cartoon about the affair, in which Major Steward is represented as getting a cheque for £1035 from Mr Slee, the Secretary of the Waimate Railway Company. It is said that the proprietor of the Advert tisor will fight out the case vigorously. Mr Travers acts for the prosecutor and Mr Gully has been retained for the Advertiser. There will probably be a great fight in the Wellington K.M. Court next Wednesday. The destruction of valuable farms and paddocks in Bungaree (says the Melbourne Age) by the spread of a large variety of thistles known as cardensaivensus is causing much alarm among agriculturists in the district named. Already many hundred acres of land, which four or five years ago was valued at £45 per acre, have been rendered worthless by the weed. In some paddocks the thistle grows to a height of between 6ft and 7ft, and when a strong wind blows the seed is scattered broadcast. It is feared that unless the Government assist in some way or other a large hitherto prosperous agricultural tract of land will be overgrown by the pest. Bungaree la ds have suffered to the extent of many thousands of pounds, but* now the thistle is beginning, to make its appearance over the boundary line in Buninyong Shire. The peat grows as thick as corn, and any amount of cutting down and horning il unable to check its ravages.

The compositors ou the staff of the Thames Advertiser are ail females.

Mr F. W. Connell Las been gazetted Post' master at VVaibakeke.

A contemporary points oat that in connection with the action of Russia in closing tin port of Batoum, in the Black Sea, as a free port, it may be stated that Russia has largely added to her navy since last year, no less than 26 vessels of various types having been begun, completed, or equipped, of which several were for the Black Sea fleet. The Russian newspapers predict that the revival of the Black Sea fleet will place matters in the East under the control of Russia.

The famous volcano of Eilauea, in the Sandwich Islands, is again threatening. On the Ist June a very bright reflection was seen shining up from the crater, which lighted up the whole chasm and the surroundings, and on investigation it was found to proceed from molten lava, The manager of the volcano house reports that the place where the fire has broken through is to the right of Halemaumau proper, from one of the holes which has been emitting heavy columns of smoke for the last two months. The molten lava, being a little below the edge of the rent, could not be plainly seen. The opening, which was only four or five feet in diameter, has increased to about 50 feet. The reflection is plainly seen from the volcano house, nd it appears to be very steady. One of the guards, an authority on volcanic action, says the fire is too great to disappear again, and be is confident of an increase.

Everyone owning fruit trees must have noticed a spherical pod hanging from the branches of some of the trees occasionally. The substance of which this pod is composed is about the toughest material which it is possible t« conceive, a very sharp knife being required to cut it. Inside is a grub, and it is this insect which has wrought such havoc among the pious insignia and other kindred trees, and which also works great barm to fruit trees. If the top of the casing is out off close to the head of the grub, so that grub and casing fall to the ground, the grub may be observed to come half out of his house and to climb the trunk of the tree again, carefully drawing up his residence behind him ; and as soon as he has reached a congenial spot, he sets to work to weave himself a new top to his cottage and to suspend it from a branch as before. In summer, the grub, by some mysterious means, opens the lid of the casing, and comes out at night to feed on the soft part of the leaves; and as soon as daylight comes he returns intobisoaseagain and shuts himself up once more. Clearly a good squeeze of the pod between the fingers is to be recommended as a judicious course of treatment.

Commenting on the recent volcanic out break in New Zealand, a Melbourne weekly remarks " Geologists regard the volcanic islands of the Pacific as the surviving landmarks of submerged continents ; and in regard to the present outbreak, it is note* worthy that New Zealand, the Kermandecs, where earthquakes and volcanic movements are not infrequent, the Tongo Group, in which an island was npheaved some months ago by volcanic action, and the Sandwich Islands, where there has been a collapse in the crater at Kilaumea, all lie on the same line."

The following are wires in connection with the Mount /Etna eruptions, Catana (Sicily), May 21.—The eruption of Mount ißtna hourly increases. The molten lava was only two hours’ distant from Nioolosi, eight miles from here, on the slope of the volcano, where the inhabitants fled. Many dwellings were destroyed, but no lives were lost. Earthquake shocks are constantly occuring. Catania May 25.—The eruption of Mount /Etna has greatly increased, and the destruction of the town of Nicolosi now seems inevitable. The entire district is enveloped in darkness, and showers of stones are continually falling.

The People Want Proof:—There is no medicine prescribed by physicians or sold by Druggists, that carries such evidence of its successjand superior virtue as Boschee's German Syrup for Severe Coughs, Colds, settled on the breast, Consumption, or any disease of the Throat and Lungs. Any person afflicted can get a sample bottle for 6d. and try its superior effects before buying the regular size at 3s. 6d. Its wonderful cures are astonishing every one that uses it. Three doses will relieve any case. If you have a Cough or Cold that will not yield to other remedies, try German Syrup and you will be surprised at the result. It has cured many cases of so called Consumption which doctors have given up. It is sold by all Druggists in the Civilized World. About 100 Carterton settlers met the train from Wellington last night, and greeted Mr Freebody with cheers. From the annual report of the Masterton Rifles, we learn that there are 54 members on the roll. Last year 43 men qualified for capitation bringing in £3B to the funds of the corps.

J. Stenberg, while bush falling on Friday at Woodville, got bis leg broken and his back badly hurt, by a portion of a falling tree, and died on Sunday. T. F. Hue wand, jeweller and watchmaker, the occupier of one of the shops in Lowry’s block, Woodville, was arrested on Saturday evening on a charge of having attempted to fire the building. Ho was brought before Messrs Carlile and Hall, Justices, the other morning, and remanded for a week, bail being refused.

The inhabitants of New York and Chicago are about to be supplied with a new kind of milk—a superb article manufactured from glycerine, nitrate of potash, and other nice ingredients, The people of San Francisco, or some of them at least, had been fed on this compound for several months, and did not find out the fact until a little while ago, as the bogus article so much resembles the genuine that only the bottle-fed baby can detect the difference ; and, unfortunately for the rest of mankind, the baby cannot talk, al though its digestive apparatus rebels against the vile stuff. The sin of this sham is all the greater because a physician furnished the recipe.

“ Bnchn Paiba.” Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and urinary diseases. At Druggists. Eempthorne, Prosser & Go., Agents, Cfiristchurch.

It appears that an English agricultural journal has been seriously urging that in time of abundant and cheap wheat it should be purchased in large quantities by the Government, and stowed away in public granaries, in order to insure the country at least one year s supply in any contingency. It argues that the home food production iu Great Britain is now so very deficient that, in case of a war, prices would go up at a bound and cause terrible distress among tbe people before a source of supply oou l& be developed. This measure, involving the purchase of grain for storage would, it is said, relieve the market so much as to change the present agricultural discontent in England and put an end to the demand for protection.

11 Rough on Rats.” Clears ont rats, mice, roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists, Eempthorne, Prosser ,t Co., Agents, Christchurch.

Here are some statistics that piay prove interesting to ladies. An observer writ ■» to ” Science ” that he saw on the hats or bonnets ef eleven women out of thirteen in a New York horse oar--(I) Head* and wing* o! three European starling* ; (2) an entire bird, specie* unknown of foreign origi ■ ; ;3) seven warblers, representing four species ■ (M a large tern ; (5) the head and wings of thtee shore larks } (6) tbe wing- of seven sho*r lark* and gross finches ; (7) one-halt of a gallinule; (8) a small tern ; (9) a turtle dove ; (10) a virgo and a yellow breasted chat; (11) ostrich plumes. Decline of Alrn. Nervous weakness dyspepsia, impotence, sexual debilitv. cu id by “Welle’ Health Benewer.’* Druggists Eempthorne, Prosser at Co , Agents, Christchurch,

The rumor that Sir W. Stuart Forbca, of Carterton, is missing is without foundation We learn from Mr Sandilands, solicitor, tha‘. he was in the above named gentleman’s com pauy on Monday last at Carterton. Splendid rains have been experience?! throughout Adelaide and all parts of the colony of Now South Wales.

Owing to the dense fog prevailing in Auckland on the Bth July the tramway drivers, ssys the Herald, were obliged to keep constantly blowing their whistles to prevent collisions or accidents to foot passengers. In several oases the drivers could not see from one aiding to the ether, and tho result was that the cars met in the middle necessitating one or other to return to tho siding.

At Napier yesterday the Resident Magistrate gave judgment in tbe ease of Mr Lasoelles, solicitor, v Mr and Mrs Pratt and Mr Alley, for a-sanlt. The case arose from questions put to Mrs Pratt by Mr Lasoelles, which the Resident Magistrate characterised as tending to degrade her. Tbe defendants afterwards committed the assault complained cf. Mrs Pratt was fined L 3 and costs, L 6 13s ; Pratt was fined L 10; and Alley received one month with bard labor, without tbe option of a fine. All three defendants were bound over to keep the peace for six months in sureties of L 25 each.

At a general meeting of the members of the Parkville Special Settlement Association, held at Masterton on Saturday evening, it was resolved that tenders be called for felling the timber on tbe township block in ten sections, ranging from fifteen acres to twenty one acres, tenders to close on 7tb August, and that the allotments of the rnral sections be postponed until May, 1887. A general Committee meeting of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Saturday. Present: Messrs W C Buchanan (Preaidant), H B Bunny (Vice-President, Jas Stnokey, W Booth, 0 Pbarazyn, A Matthews, H Braithwaite, J Reynolds, F Gray, E W Dorset, B Boys, J Raynor, and R R Armstrong. The horse parade was fixed to be held on tbe 18tb September, and Messrs R B Armstrong, N Grace and E W Dorset were elected stewards to tbe same. It was resolved that tbe gate money be given as prizes to the owners of tbe horses respectively the same year. The general show was fixed to be held on tbe 3rd November, and the Committeemen were appointed for the same. It was also resolved to hold a Pigeon, Poultry, and Canary Show on the 14th August, and another to include dogs, flowers and dairy produce some time at the end of November or tbe beginning of December, the Committee to fix the exact date.

Experiments with the telephone at Portsmouth (England) have demonstrated its great usefulness oa rifle ranges. The click of tbe rifle could be distinctly heard, thns preparing the marker to watch for the bullet mark. The marker was enabled to give the actnal result of each shot, whether to the “ right," “ left," •• above,” “ below,” or a “ miss,” and to give tbe exact result, whereas the flag system of signalling gives but imperfect information.

“ Advertising,” said the Bight Hon W. E. Gladstone, speaking apropos of this subject, “is undoubtedly very effective. II a power is enormous. If appears, if we consult those who have made use of this extraordinary instument, that it depends wholly on producing an impression upon the public mind by irritation or by constant repetition of the same thing. This shows a very singular state of the public mind ; it shows there is relative to those matters a certain amount of dullness, a great eagerness to compete for attention, and no one gets it unless it is by giving, as it were, so many strokes of the hammer to compel people to notice what is going on.

The Defence Department has now received from Home the electric light apparatus to be used in connection with the defence works at the port of Wellington. It consists of an arc light of Brush’s patent, and is of 6000 candle power.

A New Zealand paper says that a singular will has just been proved in the Middle Island. After the division of deceased’s property, the will goes on to express the testator’s aversion to costly funerals, and says.— “ I would ask that the plainest coffin be procured ; that it be placed in a clean spring cart; that my friend J should drive the horse ; and that H , F R , and M , in two hansom cabs, should form the only procession. Further, that when they return from the cemetery, they shall sit down to dinner at the Hotel, and drink heartily to my memory. Also, that they should, if possible, do the same annually. And I promise to return and join them, if at all possible, from where I am.’’

One of the moat cruel retorts ever heard in a play house is reported from California. A vocalist was warbling, to her own great satisfaction, “0, would 1 were a bird.” A miner in the pit replied, " 0, would I were a gun.”

All have heard of, or seen, some wonderful oases in which dumb animals have been trained to go through certain performances after years of care on the part of their owners and managers, but an instance of a selftaught performance which was related to us a few days ago, caps all we have heard of. A well known character up the coast is a onelegged native known as “ Irish Whiskey,” a beverage of which he is remarkably fond. This celebrity is the owner of an equally renowned horse, named " June ” aged about 19 or 20 years. While stopping at the Manutabi Hotel a short time back a gentleman got into conversation with the hero on the attack of the convoy at Kakaramea, and knowing his penchant for liquor, asked him ho w he got on the horse when drunk. Nothing pleased the native better than to show how it was done, and forthwith he commenced staggering about as though “ drunk as a lord.” In a short time he fell to the ground, and to all appearance, insen. sible, but holding on the bridle. The horse soon began to go through his part of the business, by pushing his owner about until he was got into a kneeling position, when it quietly went down on his knees, drew its hind legs underneath, and lay down comfortably. " Irish Whiskey ” raised himself op and got into the saddle, when the horse rose, and “ Irish Whiskey ’’ smiled beuiguautly once more on his audience. In answer to a question as to how ” June ” was taught it, the owner could give no other reply than " I don't know, but the horse knows me,” and some of the " cratur ” which the native likes brought the show to an end. The most remarkable thing about it is that the horse must have taught itself the practice, for a drunken native could not, and it does not appear that he evet troubled himself about it when sober, as he then has quite a different manner of mounting Wanganui Herald.

" We have been raising up a privileged class iu this colony," said tbe Hon Dr Pollen lately in tbe Legislative Council. '• We have been creating an aristocracy of labor— Peers of tbo Pick and Shovel. My Lord Eight-bob-a-day is a Tory de la plus belle euu of the very purest water,' - The Hon Mr Holland said “Mr Fronde may have made mistakes in bis book ; bull do not suppose he has made a mistake in repeating the w,.ids of a poor man—Sir George Grey's head boatman—who said, “ A poor man eannot g. i land in New Zealand." And are those mmi ;o be laughed at, to be sneered at, ss the ariatooraoy of labor, and spoken of as • My Lord Eight bob-a-day ” * I think it is :n .n) honorable to be spoken of as My Lor J lv;>ht bob-a dnv than as My Lord Thekrent. oi MvLotd Gridiron,— for some of tbe landed piopiietors of this country have unfairly got .•osseflflion of lands by "gridironing "them. It is said that the Bill (Limitatl'm of Votes) will pnt tbe Ignorant a-d intelligent on a level, — as if moneyed men iu this colony, men who have got rieh Imre, were not often ignorat t. What education have some of them ? 1 have met with ign-irauea and vulgarity amongst men who ate looked up to aa leaders of society. What talent have ih«y t Tba talent of getting rich k one of tbe lowest kinds oi tslent,"

At George Kivar, near Hokitika, four men, working 12 days, obt.ii. eJ I- 'ZS of gold and 100 of nickel. The total value was about £SO.

Colonel Fraser stated in the House last week that a gentleman residing in the district north of Auckland bad been left an ostrich farm at the Cape, and was going to bring over 50 birds, for which he was prepared to pay the export duty of £6OOO to the Cape Government. The news is good to all who wish to see the productions of the colony multiplied by variation. “ Big Ben and Little Johnie ” is the subject of Mr Burnett's looture in Oreytowu to. morrow evening. We intimated in our last issue that Mr Burnett would probably lecture here then, and as advertised elsewhere is definitely arranged. The Wealeyao Church we hope to see well filled on the occasion. A number are expected from Carterton, Matarawa, Moroa, and other places. With a view to encouraging the manufacture of jam and preservation of fruit in tbia colony, the Governor has been advised to issue an order in Council to allow the following drawbacks on parcels of not leas than sowt passed for exportOn sugar ooulaiued in jam manufactured in New Zealand. For every ton net weight of such jam exported, LI 18s lOd. On sugar contained in preserved fruit manufactured in Mew Zealand. For every ton weight of such preserved fruit, 19s sd. Leading colonists going to give the Prinee of Wales a piece of plate I Bo they ought I The poor chap'* been put to a tremendous lot of expense on their account I A piece of plate won’t help him much in that respeet I Oh, won't it ? That depends on the value of it I How do yon mean T He won’t pop it, will he ? Of coarse he will, like a shot ? II it's mads of gold or silver, he’ll convert it into tin the first time he's hard np I And he is precious hard up sometimes, they ssy I Yes, he’s overworked and underpaid I Never mind, he’s got a very snag billet and he got it very easily 1 He hadn’t to stand tile racket of au election I No, bat if his billet were thrown open to election to-morrow, Albert Edward would beat all comers ? Yea, 1 believe he would I—Frees Cigarette. Mr Burnett's shows a desire to work in unison with others, for immediately on hearing that an entertainment was to be given on Thursday evening in Featbenton in favor of the local Brass Band, be oanoelled his engagement to lecture there that evening, not wishing to hurt the object for which the entertainment is to be given. From an inset forwarded with this issne our readers in and near Featherston will see be ia to lecture there in the Wesleyan Chnrob, on Friday evening. We expect there will be, as everywhere else, a large audience. At the Qreytown R, M. Court this morning before Mr Stratford, 8.M., two residents were fined five shillings each for allowing their chimneys to catch fire. The case Pole v Smith, for alleged arson, waa then commenced, Mr Sandilands appearing for plaintiff and Mr Gray for defendant. There were a number of witnesses in attendance, and tbe oaae was being proceeded with at tbe time of our going to press. As the evidence is incomplete, we wiil give the report of the case in out next issne. A clause has been inserted in the Counties Bill empowering County Councils to start and maintain model farms, if they thought it advisable to do so. The Premier stated that model farms were maintained by many of the local bodies in America, though be did not think tbe provision would be much availed of in tbe colony for a little time to come.. Messrs R. Brough and Dion Boucicault jun., have become the lessees of tbe Opera House, Melbourne.

The Fisk Jubilee singers are literally coin' ing money at the concerts they are giving in the Town Hall, Melbourne.

The recent proposal that the Victoria and Adelaide Governments should [join in the erection of a rabbit proof fence on the border, at a cost of £&ooo, has fallen through. Mr Burnett has had some remarkable meetings lately. It is thought there were at least 600 crammed in the public hall, Carterton, on Sunday evening. On Monday afternoon he addressed a large number of Mativee in Gladstone, and then a large meeting in the schoolroom. In all, nearly 100 pledges were taken in the Gladstone district. Lsri evening he addressed a good meeting in Morrison’s Bush when a number name forward aud donned what he terms “ The Bonnie Bit of Bine.”