Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, OCTOBER 25,1886.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1893, 25 October 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, OCTOBER 25,1886.

The entertainment in the Town Hall, Greytown, this evening, has been termed a “ Duffers’ Effort,” and will be the last of the series of entertainments which has been so well patronised during the winter months; Both the Literary Institute and the School Cadets have netted a good sum and the public nave had many an evening’s enjoyment for very li tie expense.

The percentage of passes at the Greytown school last week at the examination was 81 per cent.

Mr D Cameron, coachbnilder, of Greytown is about to add a shoeing forge to his establishment for the convenience of the public and an announcement to that effect will appear in our next issue.

Mr F W Good, late dispenser of the Wellington Hospital, has commenced business at Featberston in the medical and perfumery line.

Mr G H Houghton of Greytowu has been adjudged a bankrupt. The Inspector of Weights and Measures is now visiting this district. A meeting of the Greytown Horticultural and Industrial Society's Committee v«s held Saturday night, Mr Nation in the chair. The Secretary submitted the list of subscribers to the special prize fund from which it was seen that the public had responded moat heartily to the efforts of the »üb-ootcnjh " in their attempt to make the show this year mors than usually attractive, and tbe interest in

by the residents of the Valley as general as possible. The sub-committee submitted thair report and many suggestions in the w>.y of additions to the catalogue were added, Hinoog them are best homemade bread, do. candles, the Simpson honey plant for bee feeding, penmanship by native children, Ac. Mr Webster attended by invitation and gave some useful information. Mr Johnson of Matarawa was authorised to collect ooutribu tians for special prizes. Mr Skeet was elected chairman of committee. Messrs St George, Johnson and the secretary were elected to prepare a catalogue for the poultry exhibits. The committee then adjourned to Thursday even ing.

Last week the Bev D. J. Murray, of thi Wesleyan Church, visited this district, and both at Carterton and Greytown delivered an interesting address entitled “ Mind Your P’s and Q’s.” At Carterton Mr H. Oallister took the chair, and a good audience was secured ; at Greytown Mr W. C. Cuff took the chair, and there is no doubt there would have been a large attendance but for the inclement night. The Hev Mr Murray gave much valuable information and his hearers at both places picked up some very useful hints. The choir of the respective churches furnished the musical part of the programme. Mr P. H. Wood announces a stock sale at bis Taratahi yards on Thursday, 4th Nov., the day after the Show. This will be a good opportunity for exhibitors who may wish to dispose of their stock, to find a market. Particulars will be found in advertisement.

The Western Australian Government have received a report from Kimberley giving a more encouraging account of the goldfields.

Unless evidence can be obtained showing a good case, Hall will not be charged with the murder ot Captain Cain. The AttorneyGeneral has determined to enter a nolle prosequi in the forgery oases. The Union Company advertise an exourtion trip to Christchurch, to convey visitors to the Christchurch races and Agricultural Show on the 9th, 10th, and 11th November, The returulare is £2.

A correspondent writes as follows Sin—- , Loi oou greengrocer has confided to the paper c lled Society the interesting news that daring the past season he has sold more "•arret? than ever before, because the ladies have disooveted what was known long since among the French, that carrots are a good specific for the complexion. May I suggest to the Committee of the Greytown Horticultural Society, with a view of encouraging the growth of carrots and consequently of improving the complexion of our young ladies -this includes all ladies I believe that inducements be held out by way of special and general prizes, for the best exhibits in carrots. The matter is a moat itn nor tact one. It is of interest to both sexes, and I hope the consumption of carrots will from this time forth be far in excess of the past. Whether a carrot diet will affect the color of the hair is not said. It would not matter if in the search for beauty we went beyond the color of auburn for the hair; we could make it the fashionable color.”

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The following yarn in the Marlborough Express is altogether too good to be lost; A deaf and dumb hawker who trades between the Wairau and Kaituaa was crossing the flooded river with his horse and covered cart, when the ocrreat swept the whole concern some few hmdred yards down stream. Man, horse, and rehicle all got safe to the bank, but so exasperated was the hawker—who, by the way, Gjoices in the classic name of Sam Weller—at the horse for not keeping its feet at the eroding, that he determined to give it a piece if his mind. Being deaf and dumb, and the animal being unaffected by a mere grunt, he man got out a slate, which he used to rammunioate with his customers, hastily sciibbled a few expressions, and placed it before the horse’s blinkers. Whether the horse ras able to read the “ cuss words •or not, we eannot say, but from the audible chuckle ot satisfaction which the deaf and dumb nan gave he was certainly under the impressicn that bis nag was as wise as himself. And so perhaps it was. " Deserved,” in lirge letters, attached to a railway carriage, generally indicates that some high andmigtty individual, condescending to use the Hue. desires to have a carriage to himself. The otuer night there was one carriage so marked and the occupant was— Mr Maxwell. Why this autocrat of the New Zealand railways should have a reserved carriage we do not Jnow, but as Mr Maxwell can toll so much better than anyone else why it is that our line dees not pay, he might give an opinion on the cost entailed on the Government every tme he takes a "reserved " callage, when tbecolony would be as well served by his travelling like an ordinary individual.—Wanganui Herald, An advertisement in the Morning Post states that a lady veil born and well educated, an orphan, without encumbrances or debts, wishes to meet with someone above the age of SO to take a real interest in her, and to provide her with a home. The someone besides being 50, must be a Conservative, a member of the Cburch of England, and a communicant with High Church views.

The Napier Herald says It has been reserved for a Ministry, composed of a Jew, a Catholic, and some Freethinkers, to crystallize for modern uses the outrageous Sunday trading clauses of the English Acts of Charles 1. and Charles 11., clauses that are practically obsolete in the country that gave them birth. Under this latest union of hypocrisy with tyranny a man named Daniel Loader was yesterday charged before Mr Q. A. Preeoe, with the benious crime of taking a photograph on Sunday. The breaker of a " Liberal ’’ Ministry’s laws pleaded guilty, urging that he acted in ignorance of the statute, and he was fined 2s and costs. The hypocrisy and humbug underlying this precious law are of the most stupendous kind. The Government run trains and send telegraphic messages on a Sunday, but a poor man who takes a photograph on the same day is fined as a criminal, and a tobacconist who dares to sell an ounce of tobacco on Sunday is in danger of beiug hauled up at the Police Court 1 What a grand thing is liberty 1 The following dialogue is related to have occurred during the late Wellington Criminal Sessions between a well known barrister and an equally well known resident of the Wairarapa : —You ate a man I believe of considerable importance in yonr district ?—Oh yesin my own estimation ?—I mean that you are held in high esteem ? • [ believe so—by my wife. The accused has always borne a good character ?—I don’t know anything about his character, Will you swear it ? Witness—(turning to His Honor) : Your Honor is it necessary that I should be sworn afresh at every question ? His Honor Certainly not. The object of the counsel I presume is simply to impress on you that being on your oath you must be certain about your replies. Certainly, your honor, but I have been sworn to speak the truth and I am afraid I am not giving satisfaction, because I am not exceeding the truth. Counsel—You’re a JP. I believe ?—Yes I And sometimes you sit on people?—l’d like to sit on you. Why?— Because I’d slate you. Will you swear it ? I believe I'm on my oath. Well, you know Mr Blank in your district'?—l cannot say. You mean to tell the court you don’t know Mr Blank ?—Which Blank do you mean 7 There are 108 in the family in the Wairarapa. I mean— Mr Blank ?—Ah yes, I know him. You have not sat on him now 1 Unfortunately I did the other day. Where ? at a meeting of creditors. But bankruptcy is ' 'mirk of respectability in your district is it uot ?—Beg pardon—in Wellington, I think.— Star.

The steamer Doric arrived at Hobart last Friday and will probably arrive in Wellington to morrow evening.

George Thomas & Co. report produce prices last week as follows " A continued decline in value of old potatoes is the most totioeable feature of this week’s grain and produce summary. The market is still overstocked, and prices rule from 25s to 40s per ton. From the present outlook we see no indication of more satisfactory prices daring the remainder ot the season. Samples of the new crop continue to come forward iu moderate quantity and quotations are now steady at l)d per lb. Onions are scarce, and sell readily at £l4 per ton; American picked samples are worth 2d per lb. The following lines are steady at former quotations ; Maize, 8s 9d; fowl wheat, 4s ; barley 2s 9d to 2s lOd; beans, 3s lOd to 4s ; peas, from 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; oats, 2s fid to to 2s 8d ; oatmeal £l3 ; flout—stoce £ll to £ll 10s and roller process, £l2 to £l2 10s; bran and pollard, £5 to £5 10s : pearl barley, £l6 ; cheese, fid to 7J ; hams and bacon, fi.Jd to 7d ; fresh butter, 7d: salt do from 4d per lb ; eggs, 9d per doz; rhubarb, 5s to 5s fid pet doz. Supplies of fruit have been limited. Poultry is iu request at same prices as last—fowls, 3s fid, ducks 4s, turkeys 9s. aud geese 7s per pair. Trade in produce Hues generally s quiet, and sales are coufined to actual requirements.

Mr F H Wood advertises additions to his stock sale on Thursday week, the day after the Pastoral Society’s Show. He also announces a sale at Greytown of general merchandise on Saturday next. Up to Saturday night the sum of £2O was subscribed for the coming Greytown Horticultural Show. The name of little Miss Biddiok was omitted in thejreport of those who passed iu the 4th Standard at the Featherston School,

The letter of the lady which appeared in Friday’s issue, signed " Only a Woman,” has drawn forth two replies, but want of space prevents our publishing them to-day ; they will appear on Wednesday. The subject of the higher education of womeu is au important one, and we have no doubt " the hrda of creation ” who have taken upon themselves to do battle with oui female correspondent will find that they have no mean foe to deal with.

The sale at the Featherston yards to morrow will commence at 11 o’clock when Mr P. H. Wood will submit fat sheep, Merino wethers, fat steers aud heifers, dairy cows, horses and pigs.

Dairymen understand the importance of supplying their herds with pure water. It has been truly said that you might as well drink the water from a barnyard as to allow a cow to drink o' it, and then use her milk. Whatever impurities there may be in the water are taken up by the system of the cow, ah' 1 are given ofl in her milk, and pass into the system o.‘ u,a consumer. Owners ofoows, then, should be vt.’® a ,J°. w them only pure water to drink ; anu . u . just as important that their food be pure and wholesome also. It is a matter in which cleanliness is next to godliness. Ten Obiuese gardeners were liued in the Sydney Police Court, recently, for working on Sunday. Place—say Wellington wharf—Dramatis personae—several of the Array Soldier leaving bids his frieuds on the wharf goodbye. saying " Thank God, if the steamer goes down, we go up. 1 ' The other passengers Wt uncomfortable lor a little, but were somewhat compensated on seeing the soldier go fclef tod bearing something come op.