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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1874, 23 August 1886, Page 2

Tenders for laying 60 chains of tram for the Stonestead sawmill, closes with Mr Burt, at Feathersten, on the 26th instant. pi; Sir W. F. Stawell has resigned the position of Chief Justice of Victoria, and it is expected that be will be succeeded by Mr Justice Higiubotham.

The San Francisco Mail arrived at Auckland on Sunday morning. Splendid rains have been experienced over the whole Australian continent.

Mr Amesbury, dentist, will, weather permitting, be in Greytown on Thursday. The death is announced of Lady Fitzherbert, wife of Sir William Fitzherbert, K.C.M.G., Speaker oj the Legislative Council. She died at the Lower Hutt on Saturday morning. Lady Fitzherbert had nearly completed her 70th year. She came to Wellington, via Sydney, in 1843, and has resided there ever since.

The demand for the great American remedy, Hop Bitters, in this part of the world has become so great that the Hop Bitters Co., whose headquarters are at Rochester, New York, U. S. A., have been compelled to open a laboratory in Melbourne. It is in charge of Mr. M. H, van Bergh, a gentleman of several years experience with this Company and' the trade may be assured of receiving goods equal to the parent house, and the most courteous treatment. The H. B. Co. have establishments at London, Paris, Antwerp, Breda, Holland and Toronto, and their American Hop Bitters are probably the best khown medicine in the world.

George Thomas & Co. report produce prices last week as follows Business has been considerably effected by the unfavourable weather which has prevailed. Flour, £ll to £l2 ; (owls' wheat, 4s, scarce ; bran and pollard, £6; wheatmeal, £io 10s ; oats —potato and Tartarian seed, 2s 8d to 2s gd per bushel, ordinary feed 2s 6d to 2s 8d oatmeal, £l3 ; maize, 3s rod to 4s : feed barley, 2s rod 103s ; potatoes, £3 ios to £i 15s ; onions,.£n ; field peas 4s 6d ; beans, 3s 8d to 3s gd ; cheese, prime CJ, second class, to 3d per lb ; ham and bacon, yd ; honey, 3id to 3d; lard 4d ; eggs, plentiful at iid per doz; salt butter, neglected, 8d ; fresh do ,is to is id. The demand for poultry is weak ; fowls, 3s ; ducks, 33 6d ; geese, 7s ; turkeys 8d per pair. Mr F. H. Wood held a sale of furniture and general merchandise at Maslerton on Saturday. The bidding was spirited and the attendance good. A farmer at Lincoln, Canterbury, had 150 acres entirely bare of feed, and 35 head of cattle had been starving upon it. Five of the catt'e died recently. One of the neighbours had given some hay which had been doled out to the poor beasts, but it was not nearly sufficient* for them, and some Jdays they were entirely without food. ino farmer, W, Neill, was proceeded against for allowing his cattle to starve, and in defence he pleaded poverty. Mr J. Ollivier, R. M., held that he had been culpable in not dispossessing himself of the cattle even at a loss rather than to allow them to starve. A fine of is with £3 5s costs, was imposed. It is reported in sporting circles that the horaea Pasha, Rumor, Honeysuckle, and others (including two year olds), belonging to the same stable will be run this year in the name of Mr A. J. Hoskiugs, and that the horses will be located at Taratahi. Mr A. Lyford has commenced training for Mr Tancred at Tauherenikau, and our sporting representative will at intervals report progress.

Seven men who were arrested in oonnection with the Lake Shore Railway riots at Chicago in Juue last have been tried and sentenced to death.

The Committee of the Greytown Bifl® Volunteers considered their rules on Saturday night, and they will be submitted to the Company for revision at a meeting to be held shortly, and will then be printed as early us possible. Some excellent alterations are suggested. We need scarcely remind our readers of the concert to be given in the Town Dali to night when a large array of musical talent will )>e presented to them. The programme, com» prising 21 items, appears elsewhere and is of a high class character. The curtain will rise at 8 o'clock sharp, so that no time may be lost in getting through the performance. If the weather holds up the visitors may expect to be greeted by the largest house of the season.

The following is a copy of a letter received from Mr Knakiu in reply to a circular asking him to subscribe to pay all'the debt upon Duke street Chapel, Richmond, S, W. —llantwoud, Cunislan, Laukshire, May kj, 1886. Sir, —1 am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give yon a far thing. My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is “ Don’t get into debt. Starve and go to heaven—but don't borrow. Try first begging—l dont mind it if is really needful—stealing ? But don’f buy things you can’t pay for I" And of all manner ot debtors, pious people building churches they can’t pay for are the most detestable nonsense to me. Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges—or in a sandpit—ora colehole—first ?

“ I say," said the smart Utile son of a country printer who had just started a local paper, as ha entered a shop m the town, ” do you keep knives?’’ "Oh, yes,” responded tue shopkeeper, " we’ve kept them for years !" " Weil," remarked the boy, starting for the door, "you ought to advertise and then you wouldn’t keep them so long

To morrow at Featherston Mr. F. H. Wood will sell two freehold properties on b-;ha ! fol Mr M Biggs, who is leaving the district. On Thursday he will sell a quantify of Sock at his Taratahi yards. On I riday he will be at Featherston again, and the sale on that day will doubtless bring together many intending buyers. Mr Burt being about to relinquish business has placed his horses, traps, brake, and general merchandise in Mr F. H. Wood’s hands to dispose of. On the 4th September Mr Wood will hold a saleof general merchandise at Greytown. Notwithstanding the dullness of the season Mr Wood’s hands are full, and judging by the sales he effects privately as well as publicly business in his line must be brisk. The Greytown Volunteer Soiree committee were almost fully represented at their meeting on Saturday night, aud made all the necessary arrangements for their forthcoming annual event on the Ist of September. The ladies in the district will be canvassed as upon former occasions lot assistance in the refreshment department, and as many have already promised help, there is no doubt that the response will be as liberal and general as on former occasions. The committee meet again after drill to morrow night. Tickets may be obtained from Captain Cameron, Lieut Porritt, Lieut Trotman, Sergeant Willason, Corporal Magpire, Corporal Humphries. Vole Hebley and T. Ingley, Vol Higgins (secretary), Messrs Loasby, St George, Jorgensen, A. Grigg and other residents in the district. Captain Cameron and Corp Maguire were appointed by the committee as M.C.’s for the occasion. An Englishman had managed to pass the Civil Service examination and obtained the important office of “ ganger ” in one of the Western islands of Scotland. The locality was noted for smuggling, and as “new besoms sweep clean," ha was very desirous of making a seizure. He met Tonalt in the principal, or rather the only, hotel in the island. They had several “ wets," and were becoming quite confidential. Says the Englishman, “ Now, look here, ole fello’, 1 understand there are a number of private stills about here. Now, I would like to lay my hands on one. If you can put me in the way, Tonalt, I wouldn't mind giving you a fiver to yourself.” “ Och, ay 1” says Tonalt, II Maybe’s ye’ll be needin’ yer fiver tae yet namse!.’ Be the ‘ Paps o’ Jura ?” my laddie, stanu’ a hanf mutohkin, an’ I’ll show ye what ye want.” The drink was produced, drunk, and paid for. “ Noo,” says Tonalt, “ here’s my son ” (alluding to a strapping fellow who was home on furlough, and was standing beside them), “ be listed in the 93rd sax years ago, and he’s a private still. A good story is told of an old Scotchman living near Peterboro. He has a small independence, and is not exactly a horny handed son of toil, although he has corns on the inside of bis thumbs from lifting beer glasses to bis expressive month. He studies economy, and hit on a clever plan of obtaining coal without paying for it. He had a tin monkey, made with his thumb to its nose, and gyrating its fingers in derision. He placed the thing on a pole in his garden in view of the passing trains. The firemen on the locomotive resented the insult conveyed by the attitude of the mokey, and hurled lumps of coal, thinking the derision was intended for them. From every passing train the aggravated stokers hurled chunks of coal into the garden of the old Scot, who went out after the trains and gathered up the fuel. All winter long he sat by a nice, warm fire, aud toasted bis shins without any expense to himself.

The day following the eruption of Tara" were (June nth) the London ;Standard had the following paragraph on it. Perhaps some of our scientific readers may be able to trace a connection between the phenomena. A very heavy gloom hung over the city and the suburbs of the metropolis yesterday morning. The darkness came on very suddenly at about ten o’clock, and artificial light had been resorted to. For upward of an hour the darkness resembled that of night and it was not until considerably after noon that lights could be dispensed with. The darkness was not of that character .usually experienced with an ordinary winter's fog, but was clearly attributable to a dense layer of clouds formed by the meeting of two opposite currents of wind—the easterly which had previously prevailed, and the westerly which was struggling to displace it. It was not until much of the cloud was dispersed by a heavy downpour of rain that the atmosphere was restored to its usual clearness, after which a gentle westerly wind was experienced, and fine weather set in for the remainder of the day.