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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1889, 27 September 1886, Page 2

Mr A. Booth and Mr J. H. Braun, the caterers for to night’s concert at Carterton, have submitted a good programme to the public. As showing the dangers of the game of football it is stated that nearly half of the last Auckland football team was prevented from phying last Saturday through injuries received at the former match with Sydney. The usual Monday nighf concert held at Greytown will not take place until to-morrow evening, the hall being engaged to-night by the Volunteers. The First Offenders’ Probation Act was taken advantage of by a Justioe at Dunedin on Friday last, who discharged under its provisions a young man charged with stealing a saddle.

The Oarterton Volunteers commence class firing at 7 a.m to-morrow (Tuesday) morning. In the case of McCardle v Taylor, an action brought in the Masterton District Court to recover £2OO damages for the illegal detention of nursery stock, His Honor Judge Davy has reserved his decision. Judgment will be delivered at the usual sitting of the R.M. Court next Monday. At the District Court in Bankruptcy, on Saturday, Adam Armstrong, of Carterton, sawmiller, was granted an order of discharge.

On the eve of the departure of Mr L. Wilson, who is about to start in business at Woodville, he was entertained at the White Hart Hotel, Carterton, by a number of his friends, says the Daily. Mr W. C. Buchanan, MHR. occupied the chair, and presented ‘him with a purse of 50 guineas, which had been subscribed by a number of friends as a mark of esteem to the recipient. Mr Wilson returned thanks for the favor in a few well chosen remarks. The Groytown Amateur Dramatic Club intend to produce the sensational temperance Drama, entitled •• Ten Nights in a Bar Boom,” on Monday, the Bth of November next. No pains or expense will be spared to render this undertaking an unprecedented success, and all the scenery and effects will be new and complete. There is a New England tradition that when Dr Franklin was a boy the longwinded blessings asked by the father at table seemed to him tedious as well as long. In order to avoid wasting time, and gstill secure the Divine benediction, he begged his father, at the time pork was salting down for the winter’s use, to say grace over the whole supply once for all. The recent rise in the price of wool has had the effect of causing farmers to make an early clip. We (Advocate) know of one large sheep owner in this district (and we presume there are many others ) who intends to start next week. The Postal authorities intend to hold a sale shortly of property accumulated in the Dead Letter Office some of which has been in their keeping since 18fi2. The valuables are chiefly gold dust and nuggets, tings, cash cheques, and other monetary documents. There is a large quantity of books and papers, which will be handed over to the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions. A correspondent of the Taranaki Herald l writing about the woods most suitable for Waking butter kegs, says: -Allow me to state that after thirty year.-.’ experience in the colony in coopering, and during that time I have had to deal with the making of butler kegs, that any kind of pine wood is very injurious to butter. The best for that purpose is tawa. You cannot beat it, try what you will. I have tried all New Zealand woods, put the same results ramain. If the farmers of this district wish to get their butter turned into cart grease they cannot do better than get kegs made of any pine wood, but white pine iu p,:r! inlllar -

The story is told on the Pacific Slop.' a Chinaman, discharged on account of the boycott, turned to his late employer with an air of genial regret; " Oh. yes ; Ilbshninn ask * Melicau man send away Chiuam.m ; that all right. He go back to China pretty good. Bime»by Ilislimao send ‘Mclican away. Where you go? ” Can’t Preach Good,—No man can do a good job of work, preach a good sermon, try a lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or wrila a good article when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unslmog nerves, and none should make the attempt in such a condition when it can be so easily m d cheaply removed by ft little American Co 't Hop Bitters. Look for The Hobart Mercury, writing of the grain market, says : -From the present outlook, shipments of wheat from New Zealand must soon cease. From returns, it appears that the average quantity of wheat grown in New Zealand is 6.000,000 bushels. The quantity grown last season only amounted to LOOo.OOO bushels, the supply thus falling short by 2,000,000 bushels, and this vast quantity must make a very marked difference in tue exporting powers of the colony. The general impression in commercial circles is that New Zealand will soon have to start importing to

supply her own wants, as she has already over exported, and apply to India or California for supplies. Wise Folly.—" For ten years my wife was confined to her bed with sooh a complication of ailments that no doctor could tell wnat was the matter or cure her, and I used up a small fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an Am fir i ( ’ BD ff*B w American Co’s Hop Bitters on it, and I thought 1 would be a fool onoe more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her, sbe is now us well and.strong as any man’s wife, and it cost me opl* two dollar)*.”—HW-| gftWty

The nearing of the charge against Charles Hodgson of having embezzled £59 9s 10d, r.M-ivcd by him in February last on account oi ili ■ (John Bank of Australia at Wellington has in'll d in hia being committed for trial. The old man, Archibald Smith, who about two weeks ago at Auckland attempted to cut his throat, made another unsuccessful endeavor to commit suicide on Thursday, at the Governor Brown Hotel, by swallowing a quantity of vermin .killer in a glass of beer. On being removed to the hospital, ho stated that he has a cousin who is a wealthy solicitor iu Queensland, but he is tired of his life, and mad with grief. Three thousand people witnessed the foot ball match, Auckland v New South Wales played on Saturday. Auckland won by 11 points to 4.

Robert Nicoll, baker, was charged at the Arbroath Police Court lately with having contravened the provisions of an Act passed by the Scotch Parliament in 1662, by selling a bottle of lemonade and a bun to a costomeron Sunday. In fining the baker £lO, the Provost made the following sage observation :—“ If we were to allow this to go on, drapers and other classes of men might open their places of business, aud by and by we should have no Sabbath observance at all.” It would get so that mills would be opened. Would it surprise this stern judge that buns and lemonpde are sold in England on Sundays, without either drapers or mill-owners opening their places of business. George Thomas & Co. report produce prices lust week as follows “ The near approach of the new potato season is having some effect upon prices of old samples, and holders of large parcels, being anxious to avoid serious losses, are quite overstocking all available markets ; the demand, at preseu t, does not nearly absorb supplies, and prices are ruling from £3 per ton. Oats, though unaltered iu prices, have a tendency to weaken, and if we can only accept the statements contained in Southern reports, a decrease oi from Id to lid per bushel on feeding sorts may shortly be anticipated ; oaten chaff, on the other hand, is somewhat scarce, and in some growing districts stocks are quite exhausted ; we quote £4 15s as a fair market value. Flour is unchanged at £ll to £l2 10s ; bran and pollard has only retail enquiry at £6 6s and £5 10s per ton, respectively. The market is still bare of fowl wheat; barley is in request at 2s 9d per bushel and upwards ; feed beans, at 3s lOd ; peas, 4s 9d to 5a ; onions, £11; maizeßs lOd to 4s; and oatmeal Ll3, are unaltered. Stocks of salt buttere are being cleared at almost any price, as farmers aud merchants are recognising the futility of holding any longer, the season for last year's potting being almost at end ; we quote from 3d to Bd, according to sample. The value of fresh lias decreased to 9d ; cheese commauds 6}d per lb readily, and bacons and hams have usual business at 7d to 7Jd all round ; eggs are firm at 9sd to 10 per doz. Poultry is in good demand at following rates : —Fowls, 3s 6d ; ducks, Is; turkeys, 9s ; and geese, 7s per pair.”

From Blenheim there comes another story of a queer scene. On a tiny little island in the midst of the swelling flood there stood a sheep half way up its sides in water, and on its back were a rabbit and cat that had sought refuge from the rushing torrent. Here was a fine opportunity for giving an illustrated lesson in natural history after the fashion of the popular story of the House that Jack built. Close by, on the river bank, was the grass on which the sheep feeds, there was the rabbit that eats the grass on which the sheep feeds, and then was the cat that kills the rabbit that eats the grass on which the sheep feeds and so on. I believe the incident did actually occur, because it was told me by one wbo wouldn't invent such a yard on my account. A meeting of the Taratahi Dairy milk suppliers will be held at the Taratahi Hotel on Wednesday evening next. The Queen will have a merry time with her jubilee next year 1 It’ll all be taken np receiving and replying to addresses of con* gratulation 1 They won’t bother her much 1 They’ll all be shot into a bin and acknowledged by A lot of temporary deputy-pro-sub-acting private secretaries taken on for the occasion 1 I suppose her Majesty will receive any number of presents ? Bather I They’re going to give her a diamond bigger thau the Kohiuoor I That won’t be muoh good to her 1 She musn’t sell it, and she doesn’t wear such pomps and vanities now 1 It’ll just have to be shut up in a glass case in the tower with the rest of the Crown jewels 1 What a haul some fellow’ll make one of these days cracking that crib.—Pr ess Cigarette. The Highgate bench of Magistrates have sentenced a clerk named John Williams to U days’ hard labor, without the option of a fine, for plucking four roses iu Highgate Cemetery. A novel strike has been organised in Lith* gow (New South Wales), the local publicans having refused to reduce the price of beer to 3d. The miners have formed themselves into a three-penny beer union, and a severe struggle is anticipated. Did yon ever notice the broad, comfortable shady-looking leghorn hats in the milliner’s window ? Just buy your wife one, and the first thing she will do with it will be to double up her dainty fist and punch a three cornered dent on the right side ; then she will pinch the front rim down and the back rim up, and then stave in three or four more big dents at odd corners ; and .when it resembles in shape an old tin pan that has been a target for a stone throwing match, she will remark upon the “ elegance and grace ”of the affair. But let Johnnie serve bis new straw hat in the same way, and he will be stood up in a dark closet, and forced to go without marmalade for a month. It is becoming every day more evident that the lot of the squatter is no longer to be much envied. The rise in wool will, it is to be hoped reinstate many in a sound financial position, but a few years longer of late prices would undoubtedly land large numbers in Bankruptcy. The ‘ Sydney Morning Herald’ (says an exchange) recently gave particulars of the affairs connected with four runs. During three years the total losses amounted to £103,501. The rentals were only £lO,lOl. If they had held their stations rent free, the runholders would have sustained a loss of £93,000 on working them.

England has got a brand new bowler who, to believe a" is to wipeout Spofforth, Peate, and all other great trnndiers In no time. Ploughcr is his uneuphonic name and he hails from Leicester. Against Surrey the other day, the redoubtable Plougher got id out of 19 wickets at an expense of 54 runs, and in addition caught out 8 men from liylott's bowling. The next week against Warwickshire ho got 12 wickets for -IS runs which is not so dusty. Thus in tl-e two matches he got 25 wickets to 98 runs, which ;a a recot cl that will take some beating Wc have on several oeeisions written upon tlto advantages which would detived by farmers if they paid some aitenii.■>> to growing fiax. We are now able to ip o*o the actual results of an experiment tried by Mr Postlethwaite, of Geraldine, and submitted by him at a recent meeting of the Temuka Linseed Factory. 'lhe area sown with linseed was 82J acres. The following were the preliminary expenses Ploughing and bars rowing, L 5 19s 2d ; disc harrowing, L2 5s ; 50 bushels Riga seed, Lls ; pulling, LSO 2s 9d ; tying, LlO 5s ; stocking, LI 12s 6d ; carting to factory, L 25 los. The produce vyas 75 tons 5 cwt 8 qrs, which at £3 per ton, brought L2J9 17s Bd, or a balance of LIOB 17s lOd over expenses.—Bruce Herald. I

7 Don’t Die In The House. "Rough on ’ rats ” clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, jaok-rabbils. i insects, gophers. Kemptborne, Prosser and i Co., Agents. A Papawai Maori was asked the other day if be belonged to the Mormons. He shook his head with a laugh and replied " One wife 1 quite enough for any man." " Rough on R(its.” Clears out rats, mice roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, hpotlea, insects skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists. Kemptborne, Prossei A 00., Agents, Christ-

The sculling match for £SOO aside and the championship, between Beach and Wallace Ross was rowed on the Thames on Saturday. Beach led from start to finish, ultimately winning by five lengths. A football match was played at Carterton on Saturday between ilic Greytown and Carterton first fifteens. The ground was ver> hard, and the game resulted in a draw by a try on either side. One of the Greytown backs (Tooke r ' got his ancle sprained. The programme provided for the entertainment at Greytown by the Rev Mr Western and Mr Wyett for to-morrow evening should draw a good house. There is a probability that in addition to the attractions advertised the Scotish bagpipes and dance in Highland costume will be introduced, but as there is a doubt about it, it has not been entered upon the programme. Mr Thompson will give illustrations of Ventriloquism. The Downard Brothers will sing in character, and so will Mr Tnlly. There is an additional item added to-day : a song upside down (whatever that may be) by a resident of Martinborongh. We have heard it said that the singer stands upon his head to sing it, but we cannot say for a certainty that this is so. Referring to the importation by the Government of stoats and weasels, a Wanganui gentleman informs us that while on a visit to the Old Country some time ago he himself saw one of those animals attack and kill a lamb in a populous neighbourhood. The same gentleman furnishes ns with the folio w ing paragraph on the subject extracted from a home paper :—Mr Maolaren, gamekeeper, while engaged in sotting mole traps en the home farm, Stirkoke, Caithness, on Friday, was surprised by a strange noise as if coming from a hive of bees, and immediately he was set upon by a swarm of weasels, which attacked him with great ferocity. With a stick which he earned, he succeeded in killing nine of his assailants, bnt not before he was severally bitten. There appeared to be two young broods, and as many escaped as were killed. This is the second occasion on which Maclaren h-.s been attacked by weasels in the same district.

The Greytown Rifle Volunteers will meet for inspection to-night (Monday) at the Towu Hall. Tbe Private Brass Band will be present, and will play some marches and other selections. It will be very necessary for all tbe new members to be on parade so as to secure their oapitation for the ensuing year. On Saturday afternoon a working bee of the volunteers was held at Papawai, and the bntts were shifted to a more convenient position. All the members present worked with a will, and a quantity of good work was effected. The work will be resumed next Saturday, and other members are particularly requested to be on the ground to assist in completing the alterations. The Melbourne Argus says that a warrant has been issued for tbe arrest, on a charge of bigamy, of a certain “ Professor Gilbert,” a physiognomist, who is said to be at present travelling in New Zealand with a third wife, Nos 1 and 2 being in Australia. Can this be tbe gentleman who lectured on “ Sexual Physiology ” and “ Who are tbe True Freethinkers,” in the Wairarapa ? We are told that the delay which has taken place in the delivery of the late J.B. Gough’s last book, 11 Platform Echoes,” in this district, is explained by advices received by tbe mail by the New Zealand agents. The publishers state that the success of tbe work is unprecedented, that although they have employed an extiemely large and efficient staff in the various departments, they findi t impossible to keep puce with the enormous demand. There are now several thousands of copies in arrears of the orders already sent in, and they will have to make extraordinary efforts to fulfil their engagements. Tbe New Zealand agents cabled in time for a large consignment, and will be able to supply all their Wairarapa customers during .this week. Some idea may be formed of the demand when it is said that the present edition will reach fully 2,000,000 copies.