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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2002, 8 December 1886, Page 2

Money must be surely getting plentiful in Featberston as the B.N.Z. there has just received a new safe of large dimensions and oi C'.ir informant states, about a ton weight. There was quite a crowd of tradesmen helping to get this big “ sugar box "into the bank the other day. The Kaitara School Committee met last Saturday evening. Present—Messrs Ward (chairman), Mitchell, Enapp, Wood, and Mclntyre. Letters were read and some small payments authorised. The Inspector of Schools’ ‘‘ Inspector’s Report ” was read. It was generally satisfactory. The school had improved in the management; the oral instruction was good, writing was weak, were perhaps the most important points. The head master reported 73 on books and 63 as the largest attendance in one day. Me stated that next year further maps and some scientific apparatus and chemicals would be required, and that the Education Board had sent up specimens of drawing books, the Board pushing this matter of drawing vigorously and clearly on attention of teachers. As the seating in the school was insufficient it was decided to apply to the Education Board for some dual desks. The treasurer gave details of payments and receipts. It has been found necessary to remove Mr, A. B. Jackson, of Woodville, formerly of Grey town, to the MonntView Lunatic Asylum. At New Plymouth, Miss Thompson, daughter of the Collector of Customs and bar cou. sin, Miss Todd, saw a little girl fall into a lake in the recreation reserve last Saturday. Being expert swimmers they swam out to the child and caught it as it was sinking for the third lime in HO feet of water. Brave girls. Mrs Newton, daughter of the late Captain Cam, and who is said to be an important witness, has arrived from Melbourne, and been interviewed by a detective and others. She displays much nervousness and agitation, and her statement given in the interview was •’"important and valueless.

The capiat Gainsborough has been arrested at Meibom"® growing his child overboard when at sea. u.’f also been arrested as an accessory, because' she knew her husband was verging on insanity at the time the child was drowc . .1.

At the Teetulpa goldfield at piescnt every, thing points to a permanent fic.d, hut the men are evidently largely in excess ol the number who can find profitable employment, William Eades, builder and contractor, Wellington, has been adjudged a bankrupt. He has filed the following particulars of the position ol his affairs :—Liabilities—Unsecured creditors, £2328 18s ; secured creditors, £IOOO (estimated value of securities, £lB2 13s) other liabilities, £3Bl os lOd ; total liabilities, £3227 Us Bd. Assets—block in trade, £932 10s 3d ; book debts, £3Bl 10s fid, estimated to produce £200; cash, £1 Is 23 ; furniture, £6O ; property, £682 0s 6d; total, £1925 14s lid. Defioiency, £130116s 9d. At the Resident Magistrate's Court, Feathers ton, yesterday, before Messrs, J Donald and C. Pharuzyn, J.P.’s, William Harris was committed for trial for latency from the person committed at Featherston on the sth iust.

The laige wooden tail way goods shed opposite the Union Company's offices, Dunedin, was burned to the ground at 9 o’clock on Sunday night. Twelve loaded trucks were destroyed. The shed was used as an export shed, and the bulk of the goods contained previous to the fire had been removed on Saturday night ; the goods remaining chiefly consisting of sheepskins, hides, and wool in trucks, and some groceries. The value of the tropes destroyed is variously estimated, and the hi'h I,e ßt figures given are £3OOO. The orgin of the u' a « unknown. Wells’ Hair Balsam. !< grey, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifies. No oil nor grease, A Tonic Restorative. Stops hair coming out; strong. •;beas, cleanses, heals scalp. At lairs in relation to Madagascar Are again K«;<umiu g a dangerous aspect. The Hova Government refuses to recognise, under the treaty recently entered into, any right on die part of France to intermeddle in the international affairs of the Island. A rupture between Franco and Malaga soar is believed to be imminent.

Skinny Men. “ Wills’ ilaaUh Renews*” restores health ami vigor, cures, Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual Debility. At chemists and iirif '••‘s. J&}Bjj.ihoruc i Prosse* dt Co, Agts, Dunedin,

A young man named Theodore Behrews, only a few months in the colony, blew out his brains with a pistol in a boardinghouse at Auckland yesterday morning, in a fit of depression it is supposed. At the Magistrate’s Court, Greytown, this morning before F. H. Wood, Esq., and Dr Spratt, J.P.’s, Toki Paori, a native, was fined, on the information of Constable Eccleton, £2 and costs lor being drunk while in charge of a horse on the 4th inst., at Greytown. Defendant did not appear until the case was heard. A person was charged with threatening to commit suicide and the case was adjourned until 4 p.m. An unimportant civil esse was heard and the ceurt adjourned until 4 p.m. The members of the Greytown Fire Brigade meet at 7.30 to-morrow evening. The full catalogue of the Greytown Horticultural and Industrial Exhibition to be held to-morrow is published in another column. This will enable intending exhibitors in outlying places, who have not been able to secure a catalogue, to make their entries in accordance therewith. A man named R. Vial, who has been suffering from religious mania for some time past, went out in the scrub, on the property of Mr R. Linton, of Haloombe, the other morning, and has been found with his throat cut almost from ear to ear.

An unusual point came up at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin, in a claim of £IOO, money lent. The plaintiff did not pay his Court fees, and stated that he had given all his money to his solicitor. The Magistrate said that the case could not go on till the fees were paid. The plaintiff’s solicitor urged that it was never intended to deprive onyone of justice because he was unable to pay the fees, but the Magistrate said that the section 127 was very explicit, and the case was not proceeded with. The cricket match, Napier v Australia, resulted in & victory for the latter by 23 runs. Napier 92 runs, Australia 115 (ten men only). The match, Auckland v Australia, com menced on Monday. The Australians scored 104 first innings with ten men ; Auckland scored 114. Australians lost one wicket for 98. The game is proceeding. Mr and Mrs George Beetham have returned to Rotorua from Rotomahana and Tarawera. Mr Hutchinson, the engineer, who acoom; panied them, considers that the White terrace is merely buried. The party ascended Mount Tarawera, and had a full view of the crater. They state that the scene of desolation was indescribable.