Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18,1886.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1898, 18 October 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18,1886.

Mr Von Sturmer, the new R.M. for the Wairarapa, has been 19 years at Hokianga. A debate, .“'Temperance v Teetotalism,” will take place to morrow evening at tne Greytown Bine Ribbon Society’s room. The New Club Hotel, Greytown, was opened for business on Friday last. The Committee of the Wairarapa Institute meet tomorrow evening. The Lower Valley Jockey Club have issued the programme for their summer meeting on Monday, December 27. The events comprise a Handicap Hurdle Race of 60 sovs; Hack Hurdle Raee of 15 sovs ; Flying Handicap of 30 sovs; Hack Race of 10 sovs ; L.V.J.C Handicap of 80 sovs ; Hack Race of 15 sovs. and Martinborough Handicap of 30 sovs. There is every prospect of the meeting being a successful one. Arthur D. Bennett, accountant, of Auckland, charged with perjury in regard to an endorsement on a promissory note in Robert Fitzroy Bolton’s estate, was acquitted; The Judge expressed regret that he should have been subjected to the inconvenience of the trial, and animadverted strongly on certain evidence given for the prosecution.

The entertainment at the Town Hall this evening will not be all music, and the change will no doubt be welcomed.. A piece entitled “ The Stage Struck Yankee ” will be performed by our Amateur Dramatic Club, and as there is |a good amount of fun in the piece those who visit the hall will no doubt enjoy themselves.

Dr Barnardo has again forwarded us, in common with many ethers, an appeal for aid for his home for Orphan and Destitute Children at Stepney, and elsewhere in London and the vicinity. There are thirty different institutions comprehended in the work, and 1600 poor boys and girls are at this moment under the good doctor’s care. Since he began the work nearly 8000 have been rescued from poverty, misery, and vice, and are now occupying positions of respect, ability, and usefulness. Over 2000 of them are in Canada. The work was commenced nineteen years ago, and arose out of the sympathy aroused in the doctor’s heart by the case of one poor boy brought under his notice.

Government have accepted a tender for the ; erection of the first portion of the new lunatic asylum at Porirna, 15 miles outside the city boundaries.

From iB6O to 1885-86 the Governor has cost the country £51,450, the Ministers have entailed an expense of £51,264, the luxury of parliamentary government baa been en- ' at an outlay of £158,124, and the departments under the control of the various ministers, have been maintained by the modest expenditure of £5,625,889. It is now pretty certain that the wheat crops in Western and Central Europe, the great wheat importing areas of the wort will bo of less than average amount. In Prince the yield is estimated at 38,500,000 •'uabels, against 40,000,000 bushels in 1885, and 41,400,000 bushels in 1884. In England the out-turn will probably be 15 per cent less than that of 1884. In this country, however, the land under wheat is not more than 5,500,000 acres, and the yield is not of essential importance, except in a few districts, whether from the farmer's or the consumer’s point of view. In Italy and Austria the wheat crops are about ten per cent below the average ; and in Germany, though fairly good, they will hardly reach an average. By the destruction of ‘Cameron’s tobacco factory in Sydney, nearly 200 hands have been thrown out of employment. This is very suggestive. Cameron is not the only tobacco manufacturer in Sydney. Dixon has a place larger than his was, and there are several others. All these enormous establishments are sustained, and those hundreds of men and their families supported by smokers and snuffers. Enough men to form a whole regiment constantly employed in ministering to the demands of as useless a habit as was perhaps ever invented or indulged in. If all the drones were taken out of the hives of civilisation, if all the men and women who produce absolutely nothing useful, who bring no grist whatever to the common mill, were suddenly stricken dead and buried, the remainder of ths world’s population would not find overmuch difficulty in locating themselves in New Zealand without being inconveniently crowded. —Brace Herald. About ten days ago (says Wednesday’s Lyttelton Times) we commented upon a rather sensational rumour which was being circulated of a great rise in the fei. iits on wojl from Australia to London, pointing out that the enhanced rate only applied to the steamers

which were tinned to catch the London November sales. By our Australian letters, received last night, our remarks are proved to be correct, the current rates of freights being quoted at Id to 1} per lb by steamers for the November sales, Jd to £d per lb by slower steamers, and |d and fd lb by sailing vesels.

The New Zealand correspondent of the Australasian Banking Record says “It is stated that no less than 1000 mortgaged farmers in Canterbury are unable to pay interest and that in the majority of oases their estates will come to the hammer shortly. Hansard records the fact that the expense of preparing the Address to the Queen, on entering the jubilee year of her reign, cost £l5O. “ That’s the way the mouey goes.” The Sydney mail of 2nd October says: The Metropolitan beef market is likely to be strongly supplemented by New Zealand shipmsnts. During the last six weeks several small lots of bullocks arrived and brought up to £23, but on Thursday no fewer than (id head from New Plymouth were landed, and sold at Homebush up to £2l. The average of the lot was £l2. We are informed that it is intended to charter a couple of steamers to bring fat stock from Maoriland. The freight at present is rather high, being £4 10s pet head.

Mr B. T. Booth, the temperance lecturer, has broken down in health in Queensland, and has gone inti retirement for several months.

The Dunedin Jockey Club have decided to recognise the Wellington Jockey Club as the raet-opoMtsu (or its district, it being the older of the two.

Waring Taylor is said to he oook io the Hokitika gaol, the responsible dutlesof which he fills well. He is said also to be stout and hearty.

Feels Young Again.—My mother was afflicted a long time with neuralgia, and a dull, heavy, inactive condition of the whole system, headache, nervous prostration, and was almo.-t helpless. No physicians or medicines did her any good. Three months ago she began to use Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters, with such good * fleet that she seems and fe eta young again, although over seventy years old, A Lady io RX V.S.A. Look up.

The floods in August and September cost the llailwsy Department between £IO,OOO and £20,000 for repairs, besides the total interruption ot traffic on some parts for a week.

Mr Kennedy, the senior member of the Kennedy family, well known throughout New Zealand in connection with " Twa Hours at Hame ” concerts has just died in the old country.

Mr Lee, Inspector of Schools, is examining the Featherston school today. The following interesting figures show the present position of Foresters throughout the world :—When the last returns were compiled the number of benefit members was 647,077 ; number of courts, 4730; number of districts, 294; average number of members in each court, 131; number of honorary members 14,917 ; worth of court funds, L 3,314,346 ; worth of district funds, L 405,844 ; total worth of funds, £3,720,190 ; courts with graduated scale of contributors, 4345 ; increase, 163. The following are figures in connection with juvenile Foresters Number of members, 61,987 ; worth of funds, LV8.089 ; members admitted, 813,416 ; members transferred to courts, 4127 ; increase of members, 3210 ; increase of funds, L6SI3. The adult branch of the Order numbers the following honorary members of note in its ranks Peers, 36 ; Sons of Peers, 19; Bishops, 6; Baronets, 41 ; Judges, 7 ; Knights, 15 ; Members of Parliament, 173.

The forest laws of Switzerland contain provisions which might be adopted in New Zealand to great advantage. Every newlymarried couple are compelled to plant six trees immediately after the wedding. This is a most useful arrangement, but the Swiss authorities, not content with the mere utilU tarian idea, have succeeded in embodying something very apt and suggestive in the regulation. On the wedding day the trees to be planted are the sombre pine and the weeping willow. Possibly this is intended to note that eyen in the happiest moments ot life thoughts of the possibility of sorrow and death should not be entirely banished, and is ’perhaps founded on the old Boman custom of introducing a skeleton at every feast. But upon tbip birth of each child, the happy parents have to go forth and solemnly plant a birch ! The idea is realy beautiful. They are reminded then and more forcibly so as the tree grows, that their precious infant will stand as much in need of the judicious application of the pliant limbs of that tree as be will of his daily bread. Pity the Parliament of New Zealand does not pass a law compelling every parent to cultivate birches, and subsequently to use them in the cultivation of their olive branches. There would not then be a tithe of the larrikinism there is.—Exchange.

A paragraphist in the ‘ Tuapeka Times ’ has a word to say about tea-meetings, or soirees as they are generally called. He sums up the whole business in three words —“ tea, toast, and twaddle.” The toast is evidently put in by way of alliteration. Without going the whole length our friend does, we still think that it is*about time this tea-fight business was reformed. As for the feed itself, there is no harm in that, and probably not much good, save that it draws people together. It is very singular that among all English people who interest themselves in Church matters, the tea-meeting should be so popular. There is nothing enjoyable about 'it, but yet it is an institution which seems indispensible to success. But the after proceedings are often most objectionable. The writer referred to may well call it “ twaddle.” Every speaker seems to have it laid on his conscience to be funny. It is really a pitiable sight to see a devout and holy clergyman, whose Sabbath prelections are the driest of the dry, almost bursting himself in the endeavor to make the people laugh, but oftener at his folly that his wit. These meetings are often so conducted as to be most enjoyable, instructive, and useful, hut it is au undoubted fact that in the majority of oases the whole proceedings ara infinitely contemptible, and the wretched buuff retailed from the platform is more calculated to make angels weep than to edify human beings.—Bruce Herald.

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An amusing but very edifying book might be written upon the remarkable ingenuity manifested by thirsty dead beats and others in their efforts to raise drinks. The prohibition law which is in operation in some of the American States has called forth the inventive genius of the citizens, and furnished new illustrations of the old adage that “ necessity is the mother of invention.” It was recently decided by the postal authorities that liquids might be sent through the mail. This at once led to the contrivance of a paper bottle. Bottles of this description filled with whisky are regularly posted to customers in the prohibition States. The bottles can be used over and over again. This remind us of the old practice in the British navy. The introduction ot spirits on board ships, except for the officers’ messes, is strictly forbidden. Each Thursday and Sunday afternoon, however, are visiting days, and Jack’s sweetheart or wife, as the case may be, goes off to visit him. It would not bo safe to risk taking a bottle of grog aboard, but suspended in various convenient places iu the lady's attire there are generally several small bladders filled with spirit. In the days when crinolines were worn, very considerable a titles were taken on boar.; *; ie men . ofsW a‘r iQ tllit manner.—Bruce Herald.

" Bough on Corns.” Ask lor Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” Quick relief, complete, permanent oure. Corns, warts, bunions. Kempthorne, Prosser & Co., Agents, Christchurch. Washington is threatened with a profes. sional beauty craze during the coming winter. While the United States have furnished pro fessional beauties for both London and Parisian society to rave about, the idea of showing off the prize beauties in competition with each other seems never until now, to have taken root in Washington. The beauty ami general attractiveness of the President’s wife seems to have giyen birth to the idea. Several of the senators’ wives are sure they know a young lady or two possessing charms of face and figure quite equal to those of Mrs Cleveland, and they propose to bring on their beauties during the season and show them off.

“ Rough on Eats.” Clears out rats, mice roaches, flies ants, bed bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack rabbits, gophers. Druggists, Rempthorne, Prosser .fe 00., Agents, Christchurch.

The Royal Agricultural Society of England base adopted the excellent plan of appending the judge’s remarks on the various classes to the official report and prize list. The public are thus placed in possession of ranch valuable information, and the same course might be adopted with much advantage by the agricultural societies in this colony,, Those remarks would bo a guide to breeders uud give them an idea of what they ought to atm at. In respect/ to sheep especially such remarks would be valuable. Don’t Die In Tbe House, "Rough on rats ” clears out rata, mice, beetles, roaches, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, jnck-rabbits, insects, gophers. Kempthorne, Prosser and 00., Agents.

Doctors Gave Him Up.—“ Is it possible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy ? ” “I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing bnt Am. Co.’s Hop Bitters, and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up, and said he must die.,’ Well a-day 1 If that is so I will go this minute and get some for my poor George, I know bops are good, Kead.

j’iday evening the schoolhouse at l\.iih i.ua;e was well filled, tho occasion being the first of a aeries of entertainments to raise funds for prizes for the school children. Mr Braithwaite was in the chair and opened with a humorous reading. The following ladies and gentlemen also took part Mrs Connell, song (encored) ; Mr Wilkinson, comic song ; Mr G. Gardener gave two reels tations ; Mr Moncrieff gave two songs, and received an encore for his first; Mr W. Hooper also contributed two, and was encored ; Mr C. Parker, song ; Mr J. Parker, reading ; Mr Connell, as usual was much enjoyed, his reading and song being of a Dutch character; Mr Lillington delighted the audience with an American organ solo ; Mr W. Downard, song ; Messrs Parker and Moncrieff, duet; Master C. Downard, song. " Mind yeur P.’s and Q.’s ” is the subject of a lecture to be delivered by the Bev D J Murray, of the Hntt, on Wednesday evening next in the Wesleyan Church, Greytown, W. C. Cuff, Esq., in the chair. The choir is to render several anthems daring the evening. There is to be no charge for admission, but a collection is to be taken on behalf of the Wesleyan Home Mission Fund, in whose interests the lecture is to be given. Mr Murray will deliver the same lecture in the Wesleyan Church, Carterton, to-morrow evening, and Featherston on Thursday evening. The Featherston Bifles meet this evening at halfpast seven o’clock for inspection. The Greytown Eifle Volunteers will muster for inspection tomorrow night. All members must attend. The Fapawai Bifles, will meet tomorrow, at 12 noon; Greytown School Cadets, tomorrow afternoon, at 3 ; and the Featherston School Cadets, on the 22nd. The St Mark’s Carterton Vestry and choir members have presented Mr Leonard Wilson with a handsomely illuminated testimonial, as an expression of the high sense of the valuable services he has rendered the church during his residence in Carterton. There is a curious animal in the Loch Fyne, which dredged up from the bottom of the sea, performs the most extraordinary and unaccountable acts of suicide and self-des-truction. It is a peculiar kind of star-fish, whieh, when brought up from the bottom of the water, and when any attempt is made to take hold of it, immediately throws off all its arms, its very centre breaks up, and nothing remains of one Ihe most beautiful forms in nature but a thousand wriggling fragments. Henry George, author of “ Progress and Poverty,” was nominated for Major of New York on 23rd September by the federated trades and working men’s party. Forty thousand signatures have been obtained, pleging the signers to vote for him. Among the pledgers are the Socialists, James and Bee), of London.

Engineers pronounce the project of tapping Niagara River by means of a canal, and bringing the water to Lockport, entirely practi. cable, and experts have declared that not elsewhere within the known world are there such natural advantages for the creation of a gigantic water power, and that it can be delivered at Lockport to the extent of 300,000 horse power, if so much shall be wanted, at a minimum of expense. Lake Erie and all the great upper lakes would be the mill-pond for this power—the Niagara Rivet the head race, and Lake Ontario its tail race. The supply of water can never be diminished by drought, no spring floods or freshets will tear away the dams—for there will he no dams. The supply of water will be uniform, uninterrupted, and practically unlimited,. Tne Lockport Water Supply Company have commenced work preliminary to the erecting of extensive manufacturing establishments.— Chicago Journal of Commerce.

Mr Bruce, the Chief Inspector of Stock of New South Wales, has been appointed chairman of the Intercolonial Stock Conference now sitting in Sydney. The Minister of Mines of New South Wales, in opening the Conference, said he found that the value of the horses, cattle, and sheep in the various colonies was estimated at £78,984,871, and that the gross income from stock was esti mated at £33,669,973. The capital value of land improvements and plant, with the value of the stock, represented £359,000,000. auadian women bth turning their attention largely to bee industry. Compulsory teaching on temperance is now the law in sixteen of the American States.