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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1865, 2 August 1886, Page 2

The entertainment advertised for to-night at the Town Hall, has been postponed. Mr P, H. Wood’s fortnightly stock sale at Taratabi will take place on Thursday, 12th inst. ' There are a great number of entries, including horses. of all classes, Berkshire pigs, spring cows, ewes in lamb, fat wethers, two year old steers, &o. This will be a very important sale.

A local sixpenny concert will take place at the Lyceum Hall, Carterton, on Monday evening next, 9th inst.

At the monthly meeting of the Standing Committee of the Wellington Diocesan Synod, which took place last Friday at Wellington the unpaid stipends due on 30th June in the Wairarapa were shown to be :—Masterton, with Whareama, £94; Carterton, £39; Qreytown and Martinborongh, £4l. According to the Paris correspondent of the Sydney Herald, the American colony in Paris is divided in opinion as to the preponderant beanty of the two reigning American belles, Miss Adela Grant, and Miss Marion Langdon, who created a sensation at the brilliant soiree given by Baroness Alphonse do Botbohild. Both these young daughters of “ The Great Bepublic ’’ are so lovely that it is difficult to say which is the more beantifui; but votes, if taken, would probably give a majority to Miss Grant. The causes which led to the rise in wool it is a matter of difficulty to name. Woolbrokers themselves who have had years and years experience in the wool trade are unable to say definitely. Mr B. B. Bonald, one of the London Board of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company, states that the wool market is of all markets the most difficult to understand, rises and falls in prices taking place with almost electric suddenness. The cause of the present rise, however, he explained in the following way :—“ The effect of the long winter has worked off the stock of woollen goods, and clothiers and cloth merchants have gone to the manufac turers with orders in their hands, and the manufacturers, taking these orders when the price of wool was so low that it would not da for them to run any risk, determined to buy as much wool as would supply their orders |[or ojoth. Our representative had also interviews with other gentlemen intimately acquainted with the squatting interests. From them he learned that the general opinion was that the present rise in the price of wool was similar in character to that which took place in 1870, when, along with a general break-up of a disastrous drought, wool suddenly increased in value in the Loudon market. Already the rise will mean £2,000.000 of money to Australia. While there are not wanting voices counselling care and issuing warnings that the favorable features may not be permanent, the majority of those entitled to form an opinion agree in predicting a long run of prosperity.—Melbourne Telegraph. A London correspondent writing of one of Mr Gladstone’s late Saturday dinners, says : —“ It was really a dinner of reconciliation. Lord Hartington, Mr Bright, and Mr Chamberlain met their old chief, “ just to show there was no ill-feeling. The Duke of Sutherland was asked, but would not come, though Mr Gladstone, who is the most charming of hosts, and whose absolute rule it is never to talk politics in society, might fairly complain that his old, but very crotchety, adherent might nave done him the grace to attend a purely non-political ceremony.”

The Rev J. Benson Hamilton, of New York, illustrates his sermons by means of a blackboard at the rear of the pulpit. He is drawing large audiences. In his article dealing with Australian hotels, Mr Sala, in the London Daily Telegraph, makes the following reference to what Dunedin has to offer to visitors “ Structurally, the Grand Hotel. Dunedin, is the finest, not only in Maoriland, but in’ all the Australian colonies. It is splendidly and tastefully furnished throughout; the private rooms are numerous and luxurious, and the public dining-room is a most gran'dios department. The establishment is conducted on strictly Transatlantic lines, one of the Messrs Watson having spent a whole year in the States'journeying from city to city between San Francisco and New York, for the purpose of studying in situ the American hotel system. Electric emdiem scrvive —nearly everything that a traveller can possibly require he finds ready to his hand at this exceptionally commanding and commodious cravauseria. Great Britain with a population of something like 34,000,000 has .1093 newspapers one to about 16,000 of the population. New Zealand rejoices in 268, or one to about every 3300 persona.

In a report by the Superintending Sheep Inspector, the following remarks occur : On reference to the returns of the past few years it will be observed that a steady decrease in merino sheep is taking place, and that at the same time this deficiency, together with the whole annual increase, is no iu the longwool and crossbred in excess of former classes, the latter , «■«.- the year, returns by over 700,000 sheep As more land comes under cultivation so does the demand for this class of sheep increase, they being specially adapted for both butchers’ use and freezing purposes. It is satisfactory to again be able to report an increase in the frozen meat trade, 574.192 carcases have been exported this year, an increase of 83,126 over th» previous season. 97,579 sheep have been used at preserving works, or a decrease of 2911 ; 62,214 boiled down, or an increase of 17,000 : 8004 were exported alive (these, with the exception of ao, were all shipped to the South Sea Islands) ; and 496] were imported for Aus* tralia and Tasmania. Mr Muir’s announcement in out last issue that he was offering drapery at wholesale prices, drew a crowded shop on Saturday. He requests intending purchasers to call early if they want bargains.—Adv.

A ball will be held at Gladstone in the •eboolhouse on Friday next, August 6tl>.

It will be notified on and after to-day in the columns of this paper that about 60,000 acres, comprising sections nnder the deterred payments, vi'lage, small farm, perpetual lease, small run, and cash systems in terms of the

“ Land Act, 1885,” will be offered for application, tender, and sale. Full particulars can be seen in the advertisement.

Last year in New Sonth Wales, one patent was applied lor every 5880 cl the population ; in America, one for every 2570 ; in Victoria, one for every 1700. At Patea last week a settler was fined £lO and costs for driving 800 sheep over a neighbour's land, and omitting to give the proper notice as required by the Sheep Aot, 1878. The prosecution was instituted by the Sheep Inspector, who is determined to put a stop to such illegal driving, and it is generally the means of spreading disease and preventing its eradication.

_ Tasmania, after a long period of depression, is now in a most prosperous and healthy state. The Government announces that after providing for all contingencies no new taxation will be neoessarv. A new railway has recently been opened, and public works have been prosecuted with vigor, and there is a million in hand to be spent during the remainder of this year. The general state of the colony is so satisfactory, that instead of occupying themselves with tinkering old laws, and experimenting with new ideas, as is the fashion in the New Zealand Parliament, the next session is to be devoted mainly to consolidating legislation. Five years ago Tasmania was in as bad a state ae New Zealand now is. Perhaps our Government would communicate with the Tasmanian Government asking for advice. Archbishop Croke, in acknowledging an address at a national sports meeting at Thurles lately, is reported to have said “ We owe the successful progress of our national spirit to the trnly great, thoroughly sincere, and wonderfully able, and hitherto more or less unappreciated, but now thoroughly approved of and universally admired man who stands at ths head of her Majesty’s Government—l mean, of course, Mr Gladstone. I always admired him. I believe be has an English head and an Irish heart. No Englishman’s picture ever entered my bouse. I have now in my most prominent room, a life-sized picture of Mr Gladstone. He is, 1 believe, Ireland's greatest friend. He has been her only friend. I ask you to give three cheers for bim, and to assure him that, however loved and admired in England, he is even more loved and admired this day in Ireland, and in no part of Ireland more so than in gallant Tipperary." At last that wonderful prohibition which has for so long been regarded as the best joke in the common Prayer-Book—that a man may not marry his grandmother—has come to a practical issue. The event occurred at Ipswich, England, and came about this way: An old man married a young woman, and as most old men who act so foolishly do, soon afterwards died. The widow, who was under thirty years of age, then espoused the old man’s son by a previous wife, who was about the same age. The union is one which from any point of view is not commendable, but it would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer to discover the remotest trace of blood relationship between the parties. Hovever, they have both been committed for trial.

A telegram from Dunedin states that the New Zealand Refrigerating Company report the profit for the year to be £2024, out of which it is proposed to pay a 10 per cent dividend, and carry forward £209. The number of cases frozen and shipped at the Company’s was 100,971. The Shaw Savill Company have intimated their intention to charge freight at l}d per lb, which is considered excessive.

The Volunteer regulation requiting hall the entire strength of a company to vote lor a candidate in order to ensure his election as an officer, is one of questionable advantage. It is calculated to breed indifference, except among partisans, and to keep elections hanging on indefinitely. It presents an apt illustration of the operations of the “ exercisable ” vote system. For instance, at the last meeting of the Wanganui Bifles, Volunteer Anderson was favored with 31 votes for the vacant lieutenancy, a good majority of those present, bnt it was found that he could not be elected unless he could run in enough absentees to give him a majority of the whole company, present and absent.

The Life of an M.P.—An M.P., deploring the evil effects of London habits on the health, said that were it not for the American Co' Hop Bitters he could not live through with the irregular hours he forced to keep. Said he : "As soon as I feel weak and exhausted from long night sessions and meals at irregular hours, I resort to my Hop Bitters instead of stimulants. They regnlate my bowels and keep my appetite good, my brain clear, and my strength and health are preserved.” See

A contemporary says there are tons of the old telegraph forms on hand, and wants to know who is responsible for bringing out new ones when the financial position of the colony demands the mostrigid economy.

Alcoholic Fatuity.—The chronic debauchee feels that be positively cannot exist without bis alcoholic stimulation. To quit drinking or to continue the habit brings death all the same. Such a man can find in American Co's Hop Bitters properly used, a perfect panacea for the drunkard’s cure. Bead

The story of the phantom canoe, which was seen by several persona, Europeans and Maoris, on Lake Tarawara, just before the eruption, has been the subject of discussion in all circles of society. In connection with the story we give the following clipping from an American paper, the Boston Herald “ Last summer, as a party of Canadian gentlemen, three in number, were walking along a road where some years before a railway line was laid and trains ran regularly, but which had not been used save as an ordinary road, they heard distinctly the ramble of an approaching train. It came nearer and nearer and yet nothing was seen, As it came close to them they all involuntarily jumped off the track, and the invisible train passed them, going towards the beach, the sound growing fainter as it went on. The gentlemen were much frightened, and one was much overcome by the occurence. He could not shake off the impression that had been left, and declared that he knew some thing terrible was going to happen. That very afternoon he received a dispatch from his friends in Montreal, telling him that his wife and only child had been killed by a railroad accident that very forenoon.”

Catarrh of The Bladder, Stinging irritation, inflammation, all kidney and similar complaints, cured by “ Buchu-paiba.” Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents.

Writing on the Taranaki Harbour Bill, the new paper published in Dunedin says “ New Plymouth is the capital of Taranaki, ft stands on the margin of the sea, and is a charming semi-formed, semi-built, ilemi-semi-settled little town, where it seems always afternoon—where to-day it is very much the same as yesterday, and to-morrow nearly -*aia to be the same as to-dav—but very pheasant to those’ w bo regard their geese as better than other folks’ swans, 22 doing little for themselves, expect the Sta’e to doa great deal.” Flies and Bugs. Beetles, (insects, roaches, ants, bed bugs, tats, mice, gophers, chip mucks, cleared out by " Bough on Bats. ” Kempthorne, Prosser dc Go., Agents. Christchurch.

Included in the manifesto of the TongarirO, which left Lyttelton on Frldiy for London, are 13 boxes of gold, shipped by the Bank of New Zealand, and containing 16.0970z5, valued at £61,111.

“ iiough on Corns.” Ask for Wells''' Be Ugh on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent care. Corns, warts, bunions. Kenipthorn", Prosser & Co., Agents, ChristchmcuTbe annual balance sheet of the Qreytewn Fite Brigade will appear in our next,

A large number of passengers proceeded to Wellington on Saturday morning last by the cheap excursion train, the majority of whom went for the pleasure of witnessing the football match, haring a look at the Empire City, and to see the play of Faust in the evening, the late hour at which the train left at night enabling the travellers to visit the Theatre. A large number of persona went to Wellington who seldom visit that place because of the high price usually charged for the journey down, and we therefore think that the manager of the Wellington-Waira-rapa Railway should run such trains oltener. When anything particular is going on in Wellington let the department announce a special Saturday train returning home late at night, and we will guarantee that the result will be financially good, besides giving country people in these bad times an occasional opportunity of enjoying themselves at a small cost.

Tbs main street of Greytown on Saturday night was enlivened by a very orderly procession of boys and young men who carried an effigy bearing upon its breast the significant words “ The Sweep who perjured himself," evidently having reference to the late alleged arson ease Pole v Smith. The procession, headed by a blazing torch, made it way to a paddock opposite Pole’s bouse where a large crowd collected. After a comical funeral service and amidst roars of t lauf hler the effigy was committed to the flames as the just punishment for its alleged perjury. Mr B. J. Macalifter, Chief Postmaster at Blenheim, and twenty years in the service, has retired in order to enter business as an auctioneer.