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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1862, 26 July 1886, Page 2

The usual weekly Quadrille Assembly was held at the Greytown Town Hall, Mr Maguire was M.C., and ihe attendance was good, but the gentlemen were rattier tardy in puttiug in an appearance. It is to be hoped that on Thursday night next our male friends will not allow the ladies to outnumber them, but if possible they will turn the scale. Wc regret to hear that Mr A. M. D. Whatman has met with an accident to his hand, resulting in the loss of part of one of hie fingers. Mr Whatman was to have played in tbe Union Football Match between Wellington and Wairaiapa, ibut it is feared tbe injury to bis band will prevent this. He being considered one of the best forward players, bis loss to the Wairarapa team will be seriously felt —Daily, In his speech the other night, Mr J. W. Thomson stated that tbe expenditure on public works had gone on increasing year by year, and gave the following figures in proof of his assertion 1882, £783,000; 1883, £897.000 ; 1884, £1,303,000 ; 1886, £1,287, 0Q0 ; 1880, £1,836,000.

The committee of the Otm Club met at the Foresters’ Arms Hotel, Greytown, on Saturday night. There was a full meeting ot members and all the accounts passed for payment. The committee passed an unanimous resolution thanking Mr E. R. Jones, of Carterton, for the painstaking and efficient manner in which he conducted the important duties of referee at the late match, and trusting that he may long fill the position for the club. The committee will meet on Saturday next to arrange the next match, which will probably be at Carterton, if the show grounds can be obtained. The Martinborongh Brass Band intend to hold a ball in the Town Hall, Martinborongh, on Friday night next. There is no doubt that this affair will be as successful as usual.

A torchlight procession by the Greytown Volunteer Fire Brigade, headed by the Private Braes Band,will take place to night, leaving the Post Office at 7 30, and proceeding to the Town Hall where the Amateur Dramatic Club performance, in aid of the Greytown Football Club, will take place. It is expected that the Hall on this occasion will be well filled as a number of tickets have already been sold. A special {general meeting of the Greytown Butter and Cheese Factory Company will be held at Mr Wood's office this evening at 7 o’clock for special business. A local Christy Minstrel Troupe are at present practising together and will appear at one of the Greytown winter entertainments. Their songs will take up one half of the evening’s programme. A few lads are also coming out in a national marching song. The Dramatic Entertainment at the Town Hall, Greytown, this evening will be a change from the usual order of things from the last few weeks. The oasts of the pieces to_.be presented by our local amateurs appear elsewhere, and it is evident that they have struck out a hard night’s work. We wish the company every success, and hope the public will turn out handsomely to-night and encourage our local talent.

Nine hundred and fifty-one threepenny bits were gathered on two Sundays reeently in one place of worship in Auckland.

The Government has decided to ask Parliament to vote £BOO,OOO lor the immediate purchase of new rolling stock and locomotives lor the Victorian railways. An Otago paper calculates that those who have gone to Kimberley from that place have taken £40,000 with them in cash. It ia suggested that what has hitherto been regarded as a burning coal seam at Point Elizabeth, near Greymouth, is in reality a volcanic fire.

A Lady’s Wish.—" Oh, how I do wish my skin was as olear and soft as yours !” said a lady to a friend. You can easily make it so,” answered the friend. " How ?” inquired the first lady. "By using Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It did it for me, as you observe,” Bead

A deputation, consisting of Bishop Kenion, the Chairman of the Wesleyan Conference and the Congregational Union, and other representative ministers and laymen, waited upon the Attorney General oi South Australia to urge upon him to oppose the passing of the Totalisator Bill now before Parliament. Mr Downer said the Government would treat the Bill as an open question ; but he would oppose it, as he had opposed before, on the ground that the Legislature should not interfere with horse rat -’4 anymore than with religion. The People Want Proof: —There is no medicine prescribed by physicians or sold by Druggists, that carries such- evidence of its success}and 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 maiy cases of so called Consumpt.on which doctors hare given up. It is sold 'ey all Druggists in the Civilized World.

. An Extensive Business.—Traveller ;—You can have no conception of the extent of our business. Only imagine, we did not discover till our last stock-taking that two of our cashiers were missing ? In the Peshawur Cemetery in India is the following epitaph Sacred to the memory of the Rev. , missionary, aged , murdered by his chowdidar. " Well done, thou good and faithful servant." " Where are you going, my dear ?” "I’m going shopping, hubby.” "Did you see what Sam Jones, the evangelist, said about women who go shopping ?" " No, what was it ?” “Well he said hell is full of women who spent their time shopping.” “ Did ho ? Why I had no idea it was so delightful a place.”—Chicago Times, The willow is no being largely cultivated in America for medicinal purposes. The willow switches, at the end of 2 years are from 4 ft. to 7 ft. long, and are cut and gathered into bunches like sheaves oi wheat. In the stripping building they are steeped in water, and the bark at the larger end loosened for a couple of inches by machinery. The switches are placed in the mechanical stripper, and with a pair of pliers and pulled through with a sudden jerk. They are then whipped ofipvith a woollen cloth, bundled and laid away to dry. All the leaves and bark are dried and baled, when they command a price of 25 cents, a pound. There are at present 400,000 willows growing on a farm in Georgia, and 80,000 additional slips have recently been set out. The entire levee is to be eventually covered with them, when sixty acres will be devoted to this single crop. The average yield is a ton to the acre. When dried the willows command 200 dols. per ton, and find a ready market.

“ Bough on Corns.” Ask for Wells’" Bough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent care. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthome, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

The following remarks from the Hawera (star apply to this district Those of our readers who are yet in doubt as to the value of the direct trade with Sydney should take a mental note of the fact that Mr Freeman R. Jackson, of Wanganui, has intimated to the local agent of the Union Company his intention of sending 30 horses from the breakwater by the Wakatipu to Sydney on her next trip.” The Star also points out that in consequence of 12,000 horses having been shipped to Sydney during the last four years from Lyttelton alone, good horses are becoming scarce in Canterbury and prices have, in consequence, risen.

Flics and Bugs. Beetles, [insects, roaches, ants, bed bugs, rats, mice, gophers, chip munks, cleared out by “ Rough on Rats.” Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch.

A man was brought before a Justice of the Peace, charged with the offence of kissing a young lady “by force and violence, and against her will,” The young lady, who was very handsome, gave her testimony in a modest and straightforward manner, after which his honor gave the following decision ; —“ The court, in this case, sympathises with the defendant, and will therefore discharge him without fine, imprisonment, or reprimand, because the Court, while this case has beeu in progress, has been obliged to hold on to both arms of his chair in order to keep from kissing the complainant himself.” Captain Jackson Barry took a farewell benefit at the Masonic Hail, Sydney, and bad a capital house.

The bodies of Cameron and the bojr Hansen, buried by the fall of a tunnel at Kawarau Gorge, Otago, were recovered. That of the man,was not disfigured much, but that of the boy was fearfully crushed. It is believed that the Auckland police we on the track of Oafiery, the murderer,

Settlers iu the oulony who require to do wire fencing will no doubt hail with pleasure the invention of Mr J. H. Jenkins, of Carterton, who has applied for a patent for what he calls a “ plug dispenser” for securing wire to the straining posts. The advantage of this invention is that it oan be accomplished with a common piece of fencing wire, about 18 inches long, which is doubled at each straining post as follows; The main wire is turned at about 9 or 10 inches from the post and then the short piece is doubled and hitched into the turned piece ; the turned piece is then, by means of pliers, folded over the elbow of the short piece, the two ends of which are passed through the hole in the post in such a manner as not to allow of slipping or giving way only in the contingencies of the wire being either out or broken. The method is a very simple, but at the same time, ingenious one, and many will doubtless wonder that they have not conceived the idea before. Mr Jenkins assured _ our reporter that his new system is more inexpensive than the old method of plugging, and both time and money oan be saved as well as the work proving more effectual. Mr Jenkins’s enterprise will surely be amply rewarded by his wire fastening being brought into general use. The straining posts under this method cannot be split in securing the wire, and the terms for the privilege of using the " dispenser" will be light in contemplation of its being brought in very general use.

T. F. Redwand, charged with arson in connection with the fire in Sowry’s block, Woodville, has been committed for trial, bail being refused.

With reference to the Great Barrier tragedy, the Auckland Heraldmentions that soma doubt was felt as to the girl who was unfortunate enough to trust her fate with the two men in the Sovereign of the Seas. It was for some time that she was a girl of the town named Reid, but it seems now certain that the name of the young woman was Grace Graham, who was in the habit of ’consorting with Penn. It was probably the intention of Caffrey to carry off Mrs Seymour, but that part of the scheme was frustrated by the escape of the girls, and the panic with which the murderers soon became affected.

A farmer named Dickson, of Long Sledale, Westmoreland, has just tried a novel and disastrous experiment with his cattle. Ten valuable beasts were washed with sheep dip in order to cleanse their skins ; but so poisonous were the ingredients of the dip and so rapid its action that the whole of the beasts died before the veterinary surgeon could reach the farm. The above (says the Bruce Herald) we clip from a home paper, but can equal it locally. A Milton [resident, whose fowls .became infested with lice last summer, thought he would try sheep dip, and prepared a weak solution, wherewith he anointed the birds Result—lice killed, likewise half the birds ; the remainder, after a severe struggle, were ultimately resuscitated by being treated to a short stay in a warm oven.

George Thomas & Co. report produce prices as follows this week Considerable inactivity is noticed in the demand for grain and produce and sales are completely of a retail character. Some business has been transacted in salt butter, the Wakatlpu last week relieving the market of over 500 kegs. This, however has not affected prices, and the local demand is still completely stagnant. Reports from Sydney are by no means encouraging. Prices here rule from 8d to gd per lb. but these are merely nominal quotations. Oats are still firm at 2s 6d to 2s Bd, with a further upward tendency. Flour is unaltered at£n to £l2 10s ; pollard and bran a trifle easier at £6 10s and /6 respectively ; whole fowls’ wheat scarce at 3s gd to 45; feed barley advanced to 2s 10s. The following products are unaltered in both quotations and'demand Maize, 4s ; potatoes, £4 ; onions, £l2 ; peas, 4s fid ; beans, 3s fid to 3s gd ; oaten chaff, £4 ; pearl barley, £ls ; hams and bacon, yd ; cheese, 6Jd ; eggs, is 4d to is fid dozen ; fresh butter, is; pastry butter, fid. Fowls are nn. changed at 2s gd to 3s; ducks, 3s fid; geese, 6s ; turkeys, 8s to gs per pair. At a meeting of the unemployed, Auckland, a resolution was carried soliciting Government to let the Kuiti contract on the North Railway uNanplujed, fttshort sections. The City Council referred the question to the Streets Committee of providing work for the unemployed, by instructing to select works in the city which could be gene on with. The grand annual show'under the auspices and direction of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society will be held on the Society’s show ground on Wednesday, November 3rd. Entriesclose on Saturday 23rd October. The Society also advertise a horse parade for September 18. The entrance fee has been fixed at ss, and the gate money will be devoted to a prize for the most popular light horse and draught horse, to be decided by ballot in the same manner as last year. The cricket match, Australians v Yorkshire, was a drawn one.

Nominations for the election of one Borongh Councillor for Grey town, to supply an extraordinary vacancy, will be received up till noon on Friday next. The death of Mr John Hyde Harris, of Dunedin is announced. He was one of the oldest Otago settlers, and bis first wife was a daughter of Captain Cargill, the founder of the Otago settlement. On Thursday Mr F. H. Wood will hold an extraordinary large stock sale at Taratahi. There will be a great number of entries in sheep, cattle and horses. One speciality will be nine milch cows in calf, and it is expected that this sale will prove even more successful than the others recently held by the same gentleman at Taratahi. Eight natives have been arrested at Manaia on a charge of stealing pigs.

The dress of Mrs McDonald, wife of a ship carpenter, caught fire at Dunedin, while she was burning some rubbish, and not noticing it, she went outside, when it blazed up, and burned her so seriously that her recovery is doubtful. A most enjoyable entertainment took place at the Carterton Lyceum on Thursday last, in aid of the funds of St Mark’s Church Choir. There was a good and appreciative audience and the programme was an excellent one. The choir rendered the glee, “ Good Morrow” in good style; Mr G. W. Dellar next sang “ We Tars,” and he was, as usual, greatly applauded. Miss Searle induced an encore for “ Clear and Cool.” The Masters Downard acquitted themselves also iu their usual clever style with " What are the Wild Waves Buying.” Mr Downard gave “ Norine Maurine” in grand style ; Mrs Heed followed with a brilliant piano solo, and Mr Bathbone sang very nicely, “A Knight of the Time of Old.” Mr Stansfield’s “ Sweethearts and Wives” received an encore. The members of the choir next sang a glee, Miss Searle following with ” Three Fishers,” after which Mr Potts played a pood vio’in solo, ” Life let us Cherish," which took amazingly. Mr Dellar reappeared with " The Friar,” and was brought back and gave “ The British Lion.” The "Chafers’ Quartette” was sung by Messrs Dellar, Downard, Wilson and Potts which was rapturously encored ; “ Babylon’s a Failin’,” by the Brothers Downard, terminated the vocal proceedings, and a dance followed.

Anxiety is felt ou account of Russia’s evident attempt to renew the difficulties in the Balkans, A large Russian force is embarking lor pcints on the Black Sea.

_ Advices from Chili mention that bloody riots occurred in that country on the occasion of the Fresidsntil election. Over fifty persons were killed, and the Santiago hospitals were filled with wounded.

Mr D. D. Home, a noted Spiritualist, died at London ou 23nd June, aged 63.

Archibald Forbes, the famons war correspondent, and Miss Lulu Meiggs, daughter of General Meiggs, have been married at Washington.