Mr Wardell.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1877, 30 August 1886, Page 2

Mr Wardell.

Wm;;v Mr Wa rih 11 w.is promoted from b : s position us Resident in the Wair.»rapa, to a similar position in Wellington, he got a very moderate increase ol pay. Novfut Ur Warded is coming back (to bis old pcei n the Wa’rrrapa, we do not think it would be fair or right to make any reduction in the salary which he has been getting nt Wellington. Mr Warded, in point ol length of service, is the oldest Resident Magistrate in the colony, and the time therefore cannot ba far distant when he will have to retire on his well earned pension. If Mr Warden’s salary is reduced just now, his future pension will bo made all the lees. For the sake of a very slight saving, it would not be worth the while of tha Government to deal shabbily with jan old, faithful, and loyal public sem rant.

MV ’lm. Vu<ss ii. j i.; M : rroju-rty t M.nu,o.. - ;j - i for Bare n lea. '•Huntedin in . a— -lent locality it is u■; by of the attention of persons wishing to find ;• good homestead. The new moon which oame iu between li last I’V-it and 1 a.m. this morning, has brought the much desired change of weather which everyone in thedistrict sincerely hopes will continue for at least one month.

On Thursday week (9th inst), Mr P. H. Wood will hold his usual fortnightly stock sale at his Taratahi yards, and there arc already a number of entries, consisting of ewes in lamb, hoggets, dairy'cows, yearlings, cows near calving, good heifers, 2 and 3 year old steers. Now the turn of the season is approaching buyers should take advantage of these sales to secure bargain'’

The Greytown Rifle Soiree on Wednesday night will be, weather permitting, one of the most enjoyable and best attended gatherings of the description yet held in the town. The most Jelaberate (preparations ate being made by the committee, and the ladies of the town and suburbs have responded, in the way of contributing refreshments, in a very liberal and praiseworthy manner. The best music obtainable has been engaged, and Mr and Mrs Reynolds will attend in tho supp r room. Messrs Lundqvist and Kaisenber, will supply the music. The death sentence passed upon Rowlands for the murder of Mr Ncave at Gisborne was last week commuted by his Excellency the Governor to penal servitude for life.

The death is announced of the Rev Charles Fraser, Presbyterian Minister of Christchurch, aged 63. We balieve that if every one would use American Co’s Hop Bitters freely there would be much less sickness and misery in the world, and people are fast finding this out, whole families keeping well at a trifling cost by its use. We advise all to try it. Read

A man named Jack Herrick was fonnd in a whare at Wallaceville on Thursday last with his throat cut. He is supposed to have been dead about 24 hours when discovered. He had been drinking heavily. The Captain of the Spring Creek Rifles (F. Mayhew) has been charged at Blenheim with embezzling the funds of the corps. The deficiency amounts to over £IOO.

The following Napier scandal is from the Telegraph : —Many months ago a young tradesman of tbe place was keeping company with one of the charming girls of Napier. He was young in years, only 19, and the father, getting a wrinkle of how the land lay, got an introduction to the son’s sweetheart, and, to make a long story short, soon succeeded in displacing the son from his posit tion, and eventually married the fair one. Abc-t ten days ago the husband had in the e' • business to spend some time in the t j , and took his departure, leaving his wile and son iu charge of the household goods. His back had not been long turned when, as if by magic, the attachment between the son and his now step-mother revived, and the husband had scarcely reached his destination when the pair packed up their belongings and made tracks South, where they bow are. Tbe fond father and doting husband acquired this valuable information some three days ago, so what the upshot of the elopement may be we know not, though a divorce suit with a son as co-respondent would be a decided novelty.

There was a heavy fall of snow down South last Friday. For twelve years the like has not been known in Christchurch ; the tramcars were seriously hindered, but not the railway. In Dunedin it was a bitter cold da v and the fall of snow in the back countiy w»s exceptionally severe. At Auckland they had thunder, lightning, and heavy rain. A thunderbolt struck the earth at Newmarkrt displacing about a ton of soil. Mr R. J, Duncen, an old Wellington resident, is about to marry a Miss Strong of Nelson.

It is said that the Resident Magistracy of Wellington has been offered to Mr Lowther Booad now R.M. and District Judge in Nelson.

The Greytown Borough G "’ll are calling tenders for certain works in Cotter and Hirschburg streets. Particulars can be found in another column.

A man named John Craig was brought up from the Lower Valley and charged this morning before Messrs Tally and Spratt J.P.’s, at Greytown with lunacy from drink. The prisoner who appeared to have had somewhat recovered, was discharged with a caution.

It having been reported that ConstabL Darby would shortly be transferred from Carterton to Fetone, we wish to inform the public that there is no truth in the rumor.

The traffie manager of the Wellington* Masterton line of railway telegraphs to us this morning to say that cheap excursion tickets will be issued from all Wairarapa stations to Wellington on Saturday next the date of New South Wales football match.

A Wise Deacon.—' 1 Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how you kept yourself and family so well the past season, when all the rest of us have been sick so much, and have bad the doctors running to us so often." pother Jay lor, the answer is very easy. I used Hop Bitter; '" 1 Um e j and kept my family well, and saved large doctor’; Pour shillings’ worth of it kept us all well and aulc to work all the time, and I will warrant it has cost you and most of the neighbors £lO to £IOO apiece to keep sick the same time. 1 fancy you’ll take my medicine hereafter.” See The following birth notice appeared in a Christchurch paper recently : — Crowe —On August l?th, at Eastern Bakpry, Mrs Waller Crowe of a son, Brief was its stay, For at 10 p.m. it was born, But ore the no rning dawn It’s little life was gone. An American paper contains the following highly veracious narrative " The body of James Jackson, wljo was drowned recently by overboard in Boston harbor, was rei few days afterwards and handed to i... iiiitbor relief physician, who soon restored him to consciousness. Seventy two hours elapsed between his drowning and resuscitation. One hundred years ago they would have buried the man as soon as they found him.” The elixir vine is not far off when a sojourn of tl' r ea days and three nights under water only serves to illustrate the skill of (American) physicians. The case beats that of Jonah.

Considerable sensation is reported to have been caused in the little village of St. Helen’s, Isle of Wight, by the return of an old man named John Calloway, a native, who a long time since was believed to be dead. Over forty years ago Calloway loft his wife and young family, who, it is stated, beyond receiving one remittance of £SO, heard nothing of him. liis wife died, and hij children gm up, and eldest son and one of his daughters uum ; wnile others had left the place. When the old ina’i.whois now dl years of age, sought out the residence of a daughter still Jiving in the village, she did not remember him ; in fact, she never knew him, being a baby when he left, and the mealing was a distressing one, Calloway had hoped to liad his : ife ahve, but hardly any of those who had known ura Jlv “OW, and his return was almost like tm*! oi an Winkle.

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George Thomas <sl Co report produce prices last week as follows : There is but little of interest to note in this branch o' last report. Business (in consequence of the continued bad weather) has been confined to customers’ actual requirements. A ship n; of carrots, mangolds and potatoes ex ! J ::o, auctioned at the vessel’s side ; the d,. •i.jud and realisations, however, were far from satisfactory, clearly showing that dairy farmers are ceasing to require the usurd classes of winter feed. Oats remain at last quoted, 2s yclto 2sßd ; oatmeal, £l3 ; fowls' whe -1 * is scarce at 4s to 4s 3d ; bran, £6 ; p. .rd, £G 5s ; Flour, unaltered, £ll to (12 53, according to brand ; maize, 3s tod to 4s ; feed barley. 2s rod to 3s ; beans, 3s gd ; peas, field, 4s 6d ; Prussian blue 5s 3d ; potatoes are in excess of demand, end prices somewhat unsettled at £3 10s to £3 153 Onions of prime quality remain scarce and readily worth £ll to £l2 per ton. Cheese at hams and bacon yd, and salt hutter Bd, are without change. Fresh butter is now arriving in large parcels, and quotations have reduced to nd and is. Eggs also are very plentiful, and have fallen to 5d par doz ; we believe at this figure they will remain stationery. We note a slightly better demand for poultry, turkeys ruling 9s, geese, ys, ducks 4s, and fowls 3s 6d per pair. ; To night’s concert at Carterton has been postponed until Wednesday. The pictorial mirror or dissolving views ol the hot lakes, and scene of the late eruptions at Tarawera, was shown at the Town Hall, Grey town, on Friday night. The weather was extremely bad and consequently the attendance small, but the views were well worth going to see. Some excellent views ol parts of Tasmania, Dunedin, Christchurch and many other places were also shown. The exhibition is one of the best ol its kind yet produced here. Mr Sydney Vernon is the proprietor.

Mr F. H, Wood is at present holding one ol the largest general sales that has been held in the district lor some time past, he being engaged in submitting to auction the entire stock ol Mr W. Burt, Peatherston, storekeeper and baker. Mr Wood reports that he commenced the sale at eleven a.m. on Friday with ironmongery, general hardware, horses, traps, harness, &0., and although the weather was then bad the attendance was numerous and was thoroughly representative. The bidding was brisk, and notwithstanding a lot ol slock was got through, the auctioneer was obliged to announce an adjournment till Saturday morning, when telling was resumed with il anything, more persons present than on Friday. Drapery and clothing were the principal lines quitted, good prices being obtained. At the close of the day Mr Wood informed those present that the large and varied stock had rendered some another day's sale necessary, and that ho hoped to see as good a concourse of buyers to day (Monday) when, as Mr Burt is under agreement to vacate the premises, the auction would be brought to a finish, and the remaining goods sold. Today’s sale will include groceries, crookeryware, drapery and clothing, and as before commences at eleven and concludes at dark.

Daring a thunderstorm at Riverton on Wednesday mgbt the house of Mr G. L. Rickards was struck by lightning, which passed through a bedroom and destroyed the chimney flue. It then took and passed along the spouting of the house, down the water tank, and thence along three chains of barbed wire fence, the posts of which were shattered to pieces. Mr Rickards, who was in the act of hanging up a side of bacon to the roof, had a narrow escape, the lightning smashing a Jlamp within two feet of him. Several houses ia the neighborhood were broken and pictures thrown from the walls.

Mr Bradshaw, M.H.R., was seized at Dunediu last week with an apoletio stroke. He is not expected to recover. The sale of Mr Hans J. Knudsen’s freehold property will take place at Greytown next Sn* .lay at Mr Wood’s auction rooms. Fentherston storekeepers are not to be imposed upon with impunity (says the Evening Press) if we may judge from the steps taken by two local tradesmen for the recovery of goods. It appears that a man who recently started business in that township, had obtained goods on the long time system, and it was reported on Wednesday evening that he intended to or had cleared out. A watch was kept on the departure of the trains, but without avail, and as the local constable was absent on duty down the valle", the store* keepers decided to do the detective business themselves. They consequently set about the work systematically, and ascertained that a man answering the description had on foot over the Bimutaka. No time was lost in giving ohase, and they succeeded in overtaking their friend near the Summit. After a good deal of hesitation on his part and gentle persuasion on the part of oaptors, he was compelled to open his swag and hand over the required goods. He was then allowed to go on his.way, with the comforting assurance that if he returned to Featherston others were waiting for him, and that a detective was {on the look out at Kaitoke. The perseverance and determination of the storekeepers should serve as a check on such little games.

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