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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1896, 13 October 1886, Page 2

The Gun Club meet on Saturday evening to draw up a programme for the meeting to bo held on the Wairarapa Jockey Club race course next month. , T. annual meeting of the Greytown Ilor t culture! Society is to ' c htlJ on Saturday evening next, when the report and balance sheet will Le presented, and officers elec'; ! for the em. i ; year. Messrs Fabian Bros adveitiscs spring and summer g- G, winch they .ire offering at wholesale prices. W uirarapa West County Council advertise tor tenders for 128 chains road formation on Gladstoue-Wainuioru road, and 58 chains formation on Martinborough-Pahaua road. The dance in connectiou with tbe Greytown Quadrille Assembly will not take place tomorrow night. The Featherston Road Board held a special meeting on Monday. Present—Messrs J Tully (chairman), Bowman, Matthews, and Mouckton. The only business transacted was the adoption of tbe new Loans Aet and the Board adjourned.

A soiree will be held at the Town Hall, Grey town, on the 3th of November. The lands are to be devoted to the purchase of school prizes for the children attending the Fapawai School. The Greytown Amateur Dramatic Club ate now actively preparing for the entertain.' ment they intend to give in the Town Hall in November. They have received permission from the Trust to extend the stage to make it suitable for their purpose and Ihe Tru;t will find the material.

The stipend of tho Bishop of Melbourne is £ISOO a year with a house, and an allowance 0 annum travelling expenses. The London Sta:' lat < 1 o fJ°th September comments on the prosper*. 14 tho wool market and the largely increased pr.'C!** realised at the opening sales as compared with those which had for some time previously been experienced. It expresses its belief that’the rise in prices has rescued many of the banks and mortgage companies from a position of serious danger. The Standaid takes the pessimistic view of tho future probabilities of the wool market. Prices, it predicts, have now reached their maximum limit, and it anticipates that a reaction will shortly take place.

It has transpired that efforts are being made by the French ami liuseiau Governments to compel Great Britain to evacuate Egypt. Germany, it was stated, had been invited to co operate in the demand for the British evacuation of the territory, but the invitation was declined.

Mrs Andrew Mercer, one of the oldest identities in Dunedin, is dead.

Captain Baldwin supplies the Daily Times with particulars of an extraordinary loss of sheep in Buenos Ayres between the effects of ■in epidi'inic and drought. The loss is said to amount to nearly twenty million sheep, repn sunling in value i.i.iHIO,OOO.

On Sunday night last, the planing factory of Mr James Goi-s, sawmiller, Christchurch, was totally destroyed by tire. The premises are insured in the National office for a large amount, mostly covered by re-insurance. About 100,000 ft of timber and a large quantity of machinery were destroyed. The tire commenced in the engine room, but its origin is only a matter of conjecture.

The B.M.S. Kaikoura will arrive at WeU liagton tomorrow from London, via Southern ports.

The running of an express train three times a week between Wellington and New Plymouth on the Weltington-Manawatu Line when completed will make the passage be tween the Empire City and Onehunga very •hort, that is if a steamer is run from New Ply-mo"*' l, There is no doubt this will be done, and will then be able to leave Wellington ana After a short journey of say 26 hours’.

A special meeting of the Featherston Hoad Board will be held on Saturday, 23rd last., for the purpose of considering the advisability of applying to the Colonial Treasurer to inscribe debentures under the Boads and Bridges Construction Act. The Greytown Rifle Volunteers met for drill last night. There was a good muster and tbe night being fine the men were marched to a paddock in the south end of Greytown and practised in skirmishing drill extending, blank cartridge firing, &e. This morning a squad proceeded to tbe range at Papawai and class firing lor the year was commenced. The ordinary monthly meeting of the Greytown School Committee took place at the seboolhouse last night Present—Messrs Hart Udy, jun., P. Cotter, jun., Muir and Hornblow, secretary. In the unavoidable absence of tbe chairman Mr P. Cotter was voted to the chais. Correspondence outwards was read, a letter to tbe Education Board covering committee’s reply re gymnastic exercises, as asked for by the Education Board. No reply had been received. The Head schoolmaster’s report was read and received. Sundry accounts were passed for payment. The appointment of Messrs Muir and Trotter as visitors for the ensuing month brought the meeting to a close.

The Greytown R.M. Court was adjourned this morning until 10 a.m. on Friday. The Featherston stabbing case is being heard as we go to press,

A man named J. Lanchlan, at Queenstown, Otago, died on Saturday from an overdose of ohlorodyne. His son died an hour' before in the hospital of rheumatic fever, and bis wife is at present in the hospital with a broken leg. The proposed concert at Featherston in connection with the English Church takes place on Wednesday, the 17th November. Charles F. Hodgson, charged with etubez zlement, was acquitted at tbe Supreme Court at Wellington on Monday. He was yesterday tried on the other charge on which he was also acquitted.

An agreement has been signed by residents in the south east of South Australia not to subscribe to the funds of churches the ministers of which have taken part in the anti-totalisator agitation.' Tbe agreement will be sent to the northern and other dis° triots.

According to the Timaru Herald Mr William Sweet, nursery gardener, of Temuka, claims to have discovered a perfect cure and antidote to that pest of gardeners, the blight. His experiments have lasted over some years, but be is now confident that he can not only cure blighted trees, but can prevent the recurrence of the evil. Mr Sweet’s remedy is very simple. It consists merely of planting in proximity to the affected trees a shrub indigenous to England. How this affects the insect which carries the blight we are uuable to say ; but we have been informed of some wonderful cures affected by such apparently simple means, Sander & Son’s Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is instantaneous. In serious cases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation of the lungs, swellings, etc. ; diarrhoea, dysentery; diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. In use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust in this approved article and reject all others. General Wolseley said he will not recognise Mr Gladstone in any way; that he will not even sit down at the table with him (says the Hawkeye). Oh, well, Mr Gladstone mustn’t mind that. General Wolseley is a very haughty mad. He is just that way in war. He marched 2,000 miles to meet the Mahdi, andtheu, just as he saw what sort of a man he was, turned his back on him and wouldn’t look at him. Wouldn’t even look the way he was ; came right back to England haughtier than ever. Said he didn’t smash the Mahdi, but he cut him awfully ; did, by Jove. Sort of a cruel thing to do, but when it comes to doing a sort of a thing like that you know, we don’t know of a man who can do it more kindly than Wolseley. Where one “man wants but little here below,” three others are within hailing distance who want it all.

Decline of Man. Nervous weakness, dyspepsia, impotence, sexual debility, cured by “Wells’ Health Reuewer.’’ Drngrnsts. Kemptborne, Prosser & Co., Agents, hristchr.