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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1881, 8 September 1886, Page 2

I Mr P. H. Wood will sell a quantity of , stock at his Taratahi Yards to-morrow at 2 | o’clock. i The Ngatiporou natives will giro a series i of natives dances this evening at the Town > Hall, Greytown. Mr Amesbnry, dentist, will be in Greytown to-morrow, if the weather is fine. A good lambing season is anticipated in Hawkes Bay, 1 in the year 1860 New Zealand spent £2,541,507 on strong drink, or £lO 10s per head of the population. In 1885 the expenditure on intoxicants was £2,380,514, or only £3 16s per head. There are three vacancies in the Greytown Borough Council and four candidates have been proposed, viz., Messrs W, Armstrong, C. E. Fabian, L. St George, and H. Udy, jun., the election will take place to-morrow between the hours of 9 and 6. There is a probability of a good string band being formed in Greytown in a short time. In the Sydney Parliament the other night a member swore be would pass the New South Wales Customs Duties Bill, or keep the House sitting till Hell was frozen over.” The steamer Coptic arrived in Wellington yesterday from London, and remains until the end of the week, when she leaves for Port Chalmers, Lyttelton, and London. The Native Land Court has been put oft till February next at the request of the Natives, ft was urged that it would iuteifere with their ordinary work if held this year, and iu February they will be better off for I provisions. The Court will sit in Greytown, The ordinary biennial election of five cotuI ■ *«* the Featherston Town Board missioned... ' "‘haw teu candidates, has brought out no less t*... -• - \y viz., Messrs W Buckeridge, J G Cox, Oumly, J Donald, A Donald, W Hodder, J D Oakly, G Reynolds, J Smith, and J Yiles. •Tho householders of Featherston are now somewhat exercised in mind as to who to put in. The infant daughter of Sergeant George Cooper, of tho Armed Constabulary force, at the North Shore, Auckland, died from iudamation of tho larynx, caused by catching hold of a teapot and drinking hot tea out of the spout. Judge Broad has been appointed Judge of the whole of the District Courts of the Middle Island, and will hold sittings at Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika. Ashburton, Waimate, Timaru, Oamarn, Queenstown, Lawrence, Invercargill, and Nelson. A man named Thomas B. O'Donoghue was found in his bedroom at Knigge’s Welcome .Restaurant, Wellington, yesterday morning in a state of stupifaotion through taking j° ™®°h opium. The usual remedies were administered to bring him round and consciousness was restored. He was then removed to the hospital hot died during the day. A petition to the Government in favor of tho remission of the remainder of the P. K. Watty’s sentence is in course of circulation at Wellington, and is being influentially signed.

A Lon hj n correspondent writes tint it is uuvv pracucu.ll,) certain W. (j. Gnu-o will accompany the English eleven to Australi-i in October next.

Mr J. H. Parker announces a popular and i teresting lecture on music, with a grand ounce, t, itl’eathercton on Wednesday, September 15 A number of ladies and gentlemen will take part, and the whole will wind up with an hour or two of Terpsichorean music. The celebrated Cogill Minstrels are like some other travelling companies that have made our acquaintance ; they have omitted to settle their “ little bill ’’ before leaving the district. It is also reported that they have served others at Masterton in the same manner.

Says an Exchange Somewhere in the South Island, the byciolists bad their annual dinner the other day, at which fifteen attended. They passed a jolly evening, bat when they started to get home, there were quickly thirteen bycicles and would-be riders all tied up together on the ground. Two of the company, who had been endowed with the wisdom of the serpent, had not brought their machines with them, and they were the only ones who reached home safely. This shows how vindictive the byciole can be upon occasions.

Things are being 11 cut very near the bone ” just now, as the following instances will show. Tenders were opened yesterday for the erection (labor only) of a shop and lean-to bouse, when no fewer than thirty persons or firms were found to have offered. The prices ranged from £l2 10s downwards, and the lowest at £3 was accepted. There was another tender at £8 16s. It is calculated that the job will provide three weeks’ work for one .man, so that the “ successful ’’ tenderer will work for rather lower wages than the society rules allow.—' Auckland Star.’ The Queen’s Jubilee has been celebrated by one sensible step, at any rate. The Boyal portrait on the coinage is to be brought down to date, and the Queen bas given Mr Boehm a sitting for the purpose. It is inconceivable why this was not done years ago. The image and superscription- of the Sovereign becomes meaningless if not true, and the “ Queen’s head " on the coinage and postage-stamps has had no pretensions to be considered a portrait for these forty years past and more. Dr W. P. (larver, the well known rifle shot, says "It is not generally known that an orange bit iu the exact centre by a rifle ball will vanish at once from sight. Such, however, is the fact, and that is my way of making an orange disappear—shooting it through the centre, which scatters it into such infinitesimal pieces that it is at once lost to sight. Try it yourself and see if what I say is not so.” A bank teller waited on an elderly gentle man recently, and informed him that he had overdrawn his account to the tune of a hundred pounds. “ Well, I know that," replied the veteran, " so what’s the necessity of boring me about it ? Why uot treat me as I do you ? I don’t go to you when I have that amount in your institution and shout, Mr Manager, you hold a hundred pounds of mine! Such statements are superfluous either way. Good morning.” Hindooism has continued now, withou t interruption, more than three thousand years and is at present the creed of one hundred and ninety millions.

A new hotel is to be erected in Wellington by the Colonial Mutual Assurance Life Society, and it is said it will be the largest and most complete in New Zealand, considerably exceeding the Grand Hotel in Dunedin. It is said that the manager has already been offered £I,BOO a-year for the lease of the hotel alone. The premiums for the best and second best designs were secured respectively by Wellington architects (Mr Chatfield aud Mr Turnbull), against competitors from all parts of New Zealand and Australia.

The electric light is to be employed for the illumination of fhe Wellington Telegraph Office before the commencement of next session of Parliament.

A meeting of the Feathcr"cn School Com. mittee was held on Saturday, when there were present—Messrs Cox, Donald, Keys and Robertson. The books showed an average attendance for the past month of 137. The Chairman reported that trees had been planted and the school yard metalled. The resignation of Miss Medley of the position of assistant teacher was received. It was left to the Head Master to decide whether another assistant or two pupil teachers should be appointed. Messrs Cox and Donald were appointed visitors for the month.

The Featheraton Temperance Committee have been granted the nse of the Town Board office for their meetings.

1 The Greytown Fire Brigade will play the Lower Valley Football Club on Saturday. The following are the names of the players. Lower Valley—Hume, HHuma, J Tucker, C Vallange, C Bidwill, F Pearce, Q Tully, F Tally, Wm. Harvey, H Mitchell, Wm Mitchell, T Cameron, J Cameron, J MoMaater, Held. Emergencies—F Maunsell, J Ross, H C Dowman. Fire Brigade—Full back, W Burch ; three quarter, Boydhouse, Cameron ; half, A Udy, J Ryan, G Humphries. Forwards—E Udy, C Beard, T Fisher, W Humphries, C Udy, J Beard, R Gtigg, C Varnham. J Maguire, sen., R Terry, Emergencies— J Phillips, F Hawke, Wakelin, Lewis, 0 Amos, W Yates, J Hawke. The Fire Brigade team are requested to turn out for practice to-morrow afternoon, and the emergencies also. A man named Quilleci met with an accident on Monday while on a trolly on the railway noar Armstrong's siding. The engine of the special train from Masterton to Featherston struck the trolly and threw the man over the embankment. He was picked up and conveyed to Wellington. His cheek was badly out and two ribs on the right side and one tooth were broken by the fall. Dr Cole does not think the skull is fractured, and he entertains little doubt of the man's ultimate recovery. The decrease in value of farm lauds in England continues to excite the gravest apprehensions, as the loans made on inert gages by the great fiduciary companies arc no longer represented by the value of the estates, and being unable to realise on property, the financial credit of some of these associations is being gradually undermined. A large property iu Kent could not be leased on any terms, and now it is let for five years, rent free, the proprietors paying one half of the requisite repairs to the buildings on the estate. Even the most eligible property is suffering from the same depression. Thus Swinton Grange, an estate of 137 acres of first rate grass and arable land, situate near Cast's Kovyard, Yorks, has just been offered —•«nn, god, the spur of £7OOO only was b V being £OQOO. Seven bid for it, the reset... ; '-0n.600, years ago the estate was sold fur Strange to say, that despite the troubled times, and tho depreciation of agricultural produce in Ireland, land is there in better demaud in some districts than in the English Counties. Thus the leasehold interest iu a farm containing 25 acres, situated near Patrickswolt, subject to an annual rent of £42, was sold recently for £450 and fees. It is a rude problem to find out the means of making a decent livelihood out of such a property ; but the rapid overbidding fur land iu Ireland, according to the local journals, is at the root of all the agrarian troubles of the past and present times.

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At a sale of Crown lau I V.llinglon ou Thursday, under thepeipcia n lease, cash and deferred payment and village, and small farm and small run svstem-, about 10,000 acres were disposed of at a price ranging from 6d to 4s per acre. A large number of tenders for land under the perpetual lease system in the Mangahoa and Makuri districts were received and about 1800 acres die posed of. The Ven. Archdeacon Stock is lecturin ’ in Wellington. The subject on Mondav night was "Astronomy,’' and formed the first ot a series of four cheap popular science lectures, viz., *’ Astronomy,” " Psychology," ‘ Sea Monsters," " Magnetism and Electricity.’’ The admission is one penny. The walking championship was concluded at Launceston last Saturday evening, in the presence of 150 spectators, Great interest was manifested. Scott started in the morn, iug stiff in one shoulder and knee, but improved, and in the evening, when the pavilion was swarmed by the crowded audience he spurted grandly. At noon the record stood—Harrimen, 410 miles; Scott, 407 miles 6 laps. At 11 pm. the match was concluded, Hardman scoring 448 miles 10 laps, Scott being exactly one mile behind.

Of the seven scullers who entered for the Great Sculling Sweepstakes, Perkins and Bubear are Englishmen ; Teemer, Lea, and Wallace Ross, Americans ; and Beach and Matterson, Australians. Beach gets £I 2OO for first prize, Teemer £4OO, and Matterson and Bubear £l5O each. The ship Orari fsays the New Zealand Herald), which left London (or Wellington on 27th June last, has on board torpedoes for the New Zealand Government to the value of £BBBO. The ship should arrive about the end of September or beginning of October. Another batch of informations were laid yesterday morning against Thomas Hall, of Timatu, for having commitied forgeries, numbering seven, namely six for promissary notes amounting in the aggregate to £3OO, and the other a transfer of mortgage. One of the alleged forgeries is a curiosity. It purports to be a promissory note given by two partners named Robert Forrest and W. Geddes, of Waimate, to Wm. Larabie, of Ashburton, and made over by the latter to Hall and Meason. There are, therefore, three forged signatures on one document. It is generally understood that several other people desire to lay informations against Hall but it is doubtful if the police will make out any more. So far the forging of the prisoner seems to have being very systematic, and some of the persons whose signatures are imitated can scarcely tell whether it is their handwriting or not.—Post. The members of the Loyal Greytown Lodge are requested to attend early to-night as after the usual business is over, there will be some harmony indulged in, seveial members haviug premised to give songs, readings and recitations, therefore it is hoped that the members will uot only attend in time bat in numbers. Some time ago this Lodge used to hold some very enjoyable meetings, and it is the intention of the members to try and revive those evenings again. The annual meeting of the Mastertou Farmers’ Club was held on Saturday. Correspondence was read from the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Society intimating that the charges for threshing in that district were 3Jd for wheat and 2}d for oats, owner of machine finding labor ; from Timaru Society on same stating that the charges were 3J and 2Jd for wheat and oats. The balance sheet showed receipts £62 lie Id, and expenditure £49 2s sd, leaving a credit of £l3 8s 7d. The liabilities still outstanding, amounted to £22 21s Cd ; the assets, including credit balance, to £25 8s 7d. The following notice of motion was given by Mr T. Chamberlain ” That the Farmers’ Club amalgamate with the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Society.”—Star. Mr Steffort has been appointed ranger and Mr John Welborn baa been appointed poundkeeper to the Featherston Town Board.