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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1868, 9 August 1886, Page 2

We need hardly remind our Greytowtl readers of the concert at the Town Hall tonight. To show what can be gained by wattle bark culture, we may say that 200 acres of land iu South Australia, useless for any other purpose, have this year yielded a profit of ihiOOfrom wattle bark.

The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa Institute Committee will be held this evening at 7 o’clock.

Mr I\ •ess suggests that each sessio statutes should b,; supplied to the variou libraries iu the colony.

It will be seen by advertisement that a concert is to be given in the Tauherenikan schoolroom next Friday evening to raise funds for the purchase of prizes for the school children of that district. Wo are glad to see the Tauherenikau folks “coming out of their shell,’' and hope they will get a bumperhouse and a goodly sum towards the purchase of books.

We beg to direct special attention to M Caselberg and Go’s revised price list of groceries wbich'appears on the front page of this issue of the Standard. The general public will find it greatly to their advantage to study the list of prices of this firm. A meeting of the Greytown Gospel Temperance and Blue Bibbon Society will be held to-morrow evening, and it is hoped that this Society will hold on its way and provide many a pleasant evening’s entertainment for its members. We are glad to hear that some persons who need the cheering and protecting influences of such a Society have joined and are keeping steadfastly ou in the new track. It is in stretchiug forth the helping hand and in encouraging and strengthening all such that the Society will do a great and noble work. As one of the fine arts, painting occupies a prominent place, and of late years it has been studied extensively by ladies; so much so, that it is now set down as one of the necessary accomplishments of a young lady who goes much into society. Country townships have not the advantages of large cities, where the different branches of this beautiful art caa be learned, and therefore when an opportunity presents itself to country residents it should be taken advantage of. Foonah painting has many attractions for some, because the articles can be used iu so many ways iu decorating the house, and we are glad to find that Miss Johnston, who has thoroughly studied this branch of artistic work, and has travelled in many parts teaching, announces that she will be in Greytown for two or three weeks and will be glad to receive pupils for Foonah painting (painting on satin, Ac). We have inspected some of her work, and must testify to its excellence both in form, light and shade, and color. This lady informs us that five or six lessons is quite sufficient for any person of ordinary ability. Further particulars will be found in advertisement. A Maori war dance was given at the Thames in aid of the Botorua fund. It realised £lO. The sawmilling interests of the Taranaki district are endeavouring to get an alteration made in the railway charges, in order to enable timber to be exported at a profit. Truth says “ Spofforth’a mantle seems to have fallen upon Giffen. Never has the South Australian bowled so well as recently; in fact, it is doubtful whether, for a series of matches, his figures have often been surpassed. Australians claim Gillen to be the best all round man iu the world, and while we cannot, so long as W. G. Grace and A. G. Steel are still to the fore, admit the claim, it must be owned that the skilful colonial has at present few equals.

An accident, which terminated fatally, ocourerd at Pahautanui bush between 10 and 11 o’clock on Thursday morning. Two brothers named William, and Arthur btace were working together at bushfalling, and the latter had occasion to eat through a sapling against which a large pine log was resting. Immediately the sapling was removed the log commenced to roll, and before the unfortunate woodman could step aside, it had struck him, with the result that it completely shattered his left thigh and caused a compound fracture of the right leg below the knee. lie was removed to the Wellington Hospital, where the doctors decided to amputate the limb. The long journey and the operation, in addition to tiie poor man’s sufferings, were too much for human nature and he gradually sank and died from collapse. A five acre Pahiatua village selector named Alfred Muon, was brought down to Mastertou by Constable Healey on Thursday, as he had showu signs of mental aberration. His wife and children who are perfectly destitute, have found shelter tempoiarily at Stewart’s Pahiatua Hotel. Munu was formerly employed ou the Mauricevillo railway section. — Star.

Says the Wanganui Herald In Woodville they have a schoolmaster who rightly enough insists that the hoys attending his school shall salute their masters and mistresses when meeting them in the street. The same lively little township, however, possesses an intelligent “ parent ” who objected to his son bowing to the teacher, as it was a “ token of servility.” The School Committee’s services are now to be called iu, as the irate father is determined “ to see further into it.” The pity is that he cannot see far enough to be able to discern the difference between servility and civility, between bringing up a boy Jas a boor and a gentleman.

A six roomed house owned by Thomas Sutton, and occupied by himself and family was destroyed by fire the other morning, the occupants having a narrow escape with their lives.

In connection with this year's Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral show, Mr T. S. Western has offered a prize for the best salt butter, to be delivered into the keeping of the secretary of the Association one month prior to the show, the object being to encourage better packing of,butter for export. The same gentleman offers a prize for the best colonial made Stilton cheese.

Mr H. K. Alport, for over thirty years auctioneer at Christchurch, died suddenly last Thursday night. He was 65 years old and had been in failing health for several months.

. The Masterton Horticultural Society has appointed a committee to revise the programme for their next Show to bo held on Thursday, November 4. It is time the Grey town Society appointed a similar committee.

The unusually high tide and heavy sea last Thursday night damaged seven chains of the sea wallJif the Marine Parade, at Napier, and destroyed thirteen chains of wall. The damage is estimated at £i too.

A few nights since a gentleman was passing a shanty in the Main Street of Hreytown, when he noticed the glare of a hro within ami heard the voice of a lad evidently addressing an asscmbalge of some sort. He took the liberty of going round to the Luck to see what was going on, whan lie Hund about a do/,en hoys from the ages of ten to sixteen seated around a comfortable lire and another mounted on a box reading to them. It was an interesting sight and the gentleman learned that they had gathered together for mutual improvement. They had loul off a party to get wood from the river bed and were enjoying tire warmth of a good tire in addition to the recitations and readings with which they favored each oilier, buch an incident is v.vith chronicling, and tho.-o lab will gmw un lo be list fui ni: inkers of society if (hey continue in II e course they have marked out. How many lads of an older age only ffnd enjoyment at the billiard table and mentally cun only say “ Ho ” to a goose.

Drunken Stuff.—How mnpy children and women are slowly and surely dying, or rather being killed, by excessive doctoring, or the daily use of some drug or drunken stuff called medicine, that no one knows what it is made of, who can easily be cured and saved by American Co’s Hop Hitters, which Is so pure, simple, nod harmless that the most frail woman, weakest invalid, or smallest child can trust in it 1 bee

“ Bough on Corns.” Ask tor Wells' "Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, porma nent cure. Corns, wans, bunions. Keraptliurne, I’rosser A Co,, Agents, Christchurch

Decline of Man. Nervous weakness, dyspepsia, impotence, sexual debility, cured by “Wells’ Health Renewer.” Druggists Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Cbristchuich.

T'i one of tin' Home pavers there is an nec' imt of a prophesy male by a Herman profi-ssor of geology, who has made volcanoes iiis study. In (lie course of a lecture delivered at. Trier, on the Monel, he predicted the St. Thomas’ earthquake three years ago, which came true. He, at the same time, said that either in May or June, 18815, ami September and October of the same year, there would be terrible upheavals and volcanic eruptions, reaching to the north of Wellington, New Zealand. He further stated that the mouths of September and October would witness tbe worst earthquakes which had occurred for over 3,000 years past. The paper in which the above appeared said that the professor had prophesied a number of minor eruptions, which had ail come to pass.

Pacts.—Close confinement and careful attention to all factory work gives the operatives pallid faces, poor appetites, languid, miserable feelings, poor blood, inactive liver, kidneys, Ac., and all the physicians and medicine in tbe world cannot help them unless they get out of doors or use American Co’s Hop Bitters. None need suffer if they use it freely. Bee

Wa are sorry to learn (says an American paper) that a German chemist has succeeded in making first-rate brandy ont of sawdust. We are a friend of the temperance movement, and want it to succeed ; but what chance will it have when a man can take a rip saw and go out and get drunk with a fence rail? What is the use of the Prohibitory law if a man is able to make brandy smashes out of one of the shingles of his roof, or if he can get delirium tremens by drinking the legs of his kitchen chair ? You may shut an inebriate out of a gin-shop, and keep him away from taverns, but if he can become uproarious .on boiled sawdust and window-sills, any effort at reform must necessarily be a failure. Skinny Men. “ Wells’ Health Benewer” restores health and vigor, cures, Dyspepsia* impotence, Debility. At druggists. Kemp, thorne, Prosser & Co., Agents. ChristchurchThe singing of Miss Emma Abbott in New York was heard in Cleveland quite distinctly through the Turnbull telephone. The distance is IGOO miles. The Trades and Labour Council of Adelaide have passed a resolution to the effect that all women over the age of 21 should be enfranchised. The coni resources of Australia excite much interest among the Indian visitois at the New South Wales Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition.

Money to be ‘Made.—lt is said that doll times are not known by the agents for the publishing house of George Stinson & Co., of Portland, Maine. The reason of this exceptional success is found in the fact that they always give the public that which is keenly appreciated and at prices that all can afford. At present we understand, their agents ate doing wonderfully well on several new lines. They need many more agents in all parts of the country. Those who need profitable work should apply at once. Women do as well as men. Experience is not necessary, for Messrs Stinson & Co. undertake to show all who are willing to work, not hard but earnestly, the path to large success. It should be remembered that an agent can do a handsome business without being away irom home overnight. Another advantage—it costs nothing to give the business a trial, and an agent can devote all his time, or only his spare moments to it. Stinson & Co. guarantee grand success to all who engage and follow simple and plaiu directions that they give. We have not space to explain all here, but full particulars will be sent free to those who address the firm ; their full address is given above.

The Melbourne Age publishes a telegram stating that a schooner which has arrived reports that many who had started for the Kimberley diggings had returned, learning that the field was unpayable. Three hundred men were working, but it was doubtful wh etber they were making wages. A telegram from Dunedin states that a •trolly loaded with timber, iu which a man named Henry Lewis was sitting, was precipitated into the sea at the works at the Heads, Lewis received such severe injuries that his recovery is doubtful.

George Thomas & Co. report produce prices this week as follows “ The anticipated firmness in oats have been fully verified by the advance of prices in Australia. Our market stands at as 8d to 2s gd, and there is every prospect of values ranging still higher. Oatmeal is exceedingly strong in demand at /13 to £l3 ss. Flour maintains last quoted rates, and, if we may accept the statistics given by the Christchurch Press respecting the small stock of wheat now; held in N.Zq it is almost certain that prices will materially increase before the end of the year; roller mill’s rule from £l2 ros to £l3, and stone do, £ll to £ll 10s. Pollard and bran have decreased in demand slightly, and are now steady at £6 ros and £0 respectively. Whole fowls' wheat almost unobtainable, in consequence however, of the extreme prices asked, 4s to 4s 3d, there is only limited enquiry. Barley at as rod has, to a large extent, taken the place of wheat as a feeding grain : maize, 4s The following lines are unaltered in values and demandDerwent potatoes, £3 15s ; kidney (seed) £6 10s ; onions, £l2 : oaten chaff £4 ; peas, 4s 6d ; beans, 33 gd ; cheese, 6d to 6Jd ; hams and bacon, yd ; farmers’ cure, 4d to 6d ; fresh butter is to is id ; salt butter, no sale, nominally worth 8d ; eggs, 153 dtois 4d per dozen. Poultry —business in this direction is somewhat brisker, turkeys realising Ss to 9s ; ducks, 3s 6d, geese, 6s 5d ; fowls, 33 per pair.

The Secretary of the Lower Valley Jockey Club has called a meeting of members and stewards £at the hotel. Martinborough, on Saturday night, August 28. The Greytown Rifle Volunteers have in their chaplain one who takes a warm interest in their welfare. Coming from a family standing high in the military profession, and brought up among military men. the Rev Mr Western, when in the company of the Volunteers feels himself one with them, and his offer a few daye since to present another prize CUi to the Greytown Rifles for competition shows that he is no mere talker. The men much regretted on Sunday week that the rev gentlemen could nt lunch with them after parade, but other duties prevcated. Wo commend Mr Western for bis earnestness, and for the kind and encouraging words lie spoke to the men on the Sunday iu question. If there were more like him the world would he better for it. In his work outside the pulpit, among all classes, he has few superiors.

Tiic game of football just now 1 appears to have gio.it attractions for youths of all ages notwithstanding 100 dangers incident to it. The schoolboys of the different townships are never so happy as when out iu a paddock with a ball, and judging by tho play of some ol them lucre will bo some players of a high order fiom their ranks iu a few years. Though tnere is the danger of a broken bone occasionally, it is the general opinion that for iner asmg the growth of muscle end keeping our hoys m good tiim for exerci.'. of any sort, tue game of football cannot be tcng' e.i.

Editing a newspaper is like carrying an umbrella on a windy,day. Everybody thinks he could manage it better than the one who has hold of the handle.

Considerable laughter was caused at tho School Committee meeting, Wanganui, the other evening, when the caretaker’s upon, was read. He stated that he had been particularly careful as to the fuel used during ihe late examinations—be had weighed it, with the result that there was 150lbs of coal and HOOlbs Ot wood burnt. The nicmhcis were at a loss at Hist to know how in c uirge the Education Hoard for the quantity of wood used, but an old Taranakiite, who had in war times sold wood to the forces by weight, came to their rescue, and told them 800 ibs would be a cord as nearly as possible.

Mr Huchanan is to ask the Government on Tuesday, Whether they intend fgrajj.tng any compensation to railway employes at Cross ’ Creek,"who have bin t houses there and who may be removed from time to tim« to other stations along the line ?

At the annual meeting of the Hawke’s 13 ay Jockey, Club it was decide! to increase the stakes for the ensuing year from /5000 to £5560. The Autumn meeting will be a three days’ meeting instead of two, and the Burke Memorial Stakes Handicap of £2OO, six furlongs. will he run then. All Hack and Hack Hurdle Races have been abolished, and Selling Races substituted. The Melbourne Telephone Exchange Company value their buKiucss at £78,750. The purchase of the business is being considered by the Government. The cricket match Australia v. Gloucester shite was drawn.

We have had over n week of most inclement weather in the Wairarapa, and as we write Aquarius is still emptying his watei bottles upon us. The rain commenced on the night of Sunday week and with little intermission has continued ever since. The weather down South has been very inclement and there will be serious loss among lambs il is feared. Strong gales are expected before the weather clearsMessrs Lowes and loros, will hold a stock sale at Carterton to-morrow. There are some good entries. Mr F. H. Wood has added still more entries to his stuck sale at Taratahi to take place on Thursday next; the extra entries comprise a number of ewes in lamb, dry ewes aud Romney Marsh, ditto. This sale will be one of the most important yet held this season, and buyers should roll up in large numbers.

A meeting of the Soiree Committee of the Greytown Volunteers was held at the Forester’s Arms Hotel ou Saturday last and arrangements were made for a ball to be held at Greytown on September Ist next. As the Volunteers «re now in full vigor, there is every reason to expect that this affair will prove a “ big success.”

A meeting of the Wairarapa' Licensed Victualler’s Trade Protection Society, was held at Hammerich’s Hotel, Greytown on Friday last. There was a good attendance of members and important business transacted. To suit the convenience of members from all parts of the valley the quarterly meeting was arranged to be held at Jones’ Forester's Arms Hotel, Greytown, on Saturdsy, October Ist next.

The Greytown Quadrille Assembly will hold its usual dance to-morrow (Tuesday) evening instead of Thursday, the hall being engaged on tbat night. The Greytown Private Brass Band will play some selections in front of the hall.

A special general meeting of tbe delegates of the Wairarapa Rugby Football Union will take place at the White Hart Hotel, Carterton, on Thursday night at seven o’clock Business : To elect a match committeeman and a management committeeman, and to transact other ;business. Tbe first practice of the Representation Team with the Eighteen will take place ou Saturday next at Masterton.

The Greytown private Brass Band had a good muster ou Saturday night, and gave an outdoor performance on Maxton & Sons balcony and made that part of tha town appear quite cheerful.

Arrangements are being made to hold the next shooting of the Gun Club at the Pastoral Society’s Grounds, Carterton, on Saturday, August 21. It will be seen by advertisement in another part of this paper that Mr Drury has started business in Greytown as chimney sweeper and nightman. We have no doubt, if he is prompt in obeying orders aud do his work well, that he will be well patronised.