Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1886.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 2003, 10 December 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1886.

A case came before the Greytown Court on Wednesday, before Dr Bpratt and His Worship the Mayor, Mr F.H. Wood, J.P.’s, charging an individual with threatening to destroy himself. The evidence was not very clear as to any threat or even action to do so. It appeared to be a case in which excitable language had been used, bnt the Bench thought the accused bad been guilty of no offence, and therefore dismissed the case. There is to be a grand Fire Brigades Jubilee in Melbourne next year, and in connection with it there will be a gift distribution, 200 prizes, £750, the first being a villa residence value £450. Mr F. Muir, of Greytown, has tickets for this gift distribution, Is each, for disposal. The B.M.S. Aorangi, from London, via Plymouth, Madeira, Capetown, Port Chalmers, and Lyttelton, arrived at Wellington on Wednesday.

A serious accident occurred the other morning at Milford, Timatu, white a number of men were excavating at the eide of the Milford Mill. A man named Cleridge was working under the pnmp, digging earth when the earth gave way, the pump falling on his head and splitting it clean open. He succumbed to his injuries during the afternoon. Messrs Laery and Campbell report wheat, maize, oats and barley, remain at last quotations, and sales are for only band to month lots. The same remarks apply to bran and and pollard. Old potatoes are done, and the new crop is coming in freely, and realising from 5s 6d to 7s per cwt. Onions are scarce at £ll. Eggs, lOd. Fresh and salt butter with a glutted market, unquotable. Sir Julius Vogel says there is gold enough in the Clutfaa river alone to make every one in Otago rich. The soiree in connection with the Matarawa Quadrille Assembly on Tuesday evening was well attended and was a most enjoyable affair. Dancing was kept up until the next day dawned.

Mr Pope, the Inspector of Native Schools, visited Papawai this week and examined the children of the native school there under the teaching of Mr Britain. Mr Pope expressed his satisfaction with the progress of the children and the result of his examination was 63 per cent of passes. This is considered very good where the children are principally native and are being taught the English language.

The Fish University Jubilee Singers are drawing crowded houses in Auckland. Their wonderfully correct time and the cadence of their music seem to electrify their bearers. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr Brown, was banquetted the other evening. We learn, says the Wellington Press, that the Education Board has informed pupil teachers, living in the country, that they will be refunded their railway fare for attend* ing the weekly classes in Wellington. This rules is retrospective, so that these young people will be minus £4 each this Christmas. Perhaps it is not too late for the Education Board to make the regulation come into force from the Ist of next year instead of applying it for the past one.

The Napier Telegraph says that the supply of lunatics from Wanganui is falling off, as nearly the whole town population have embraced teetotalism.

A correspondent of a Southern paper writes concerning protection " Would you kindly show in your next issue the benefits New Zea , ' n d farmers will derive if England and all other counT.' 1 * 8 theii : P° r “* against our wool, frozen meat, ®ratn, Ac, ? An answer will much edify. A Freetrader?

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The tenders for Lower Velley Jockey Club privileges close tomorrow.

Mr F H Wood has additions to coming sales in today’s issue. The Belvidere Sunday School Anniversary tea and public meeting was held on Wednesday. The good things to eat were contributed by friends, and at the’meeting Messrs Cox, Hart, Gaulton, Weston and Eev J Ward addressed those present and the choir, with Miss Cfaallis at the harmonium, rendered some good music. We hear that Mr W. Buokeridge has taken over the Victoria hotel, Featherston. Two ladies and a gentleman were driving leisurely into Greytown last Monday evening from Carterton, when they suddenly saw a large glare of fire in the main street. “A fire has broken out,” exclaimed one of party ; “ drive on and let ns see it.” The whip was applied and the horse was going at a good pace, the occupants of the trap meanwhile looking ahead at the conflagration. Then suddenly there was an exclamation from one of the ladies, " Pshaw, I know what it is. It’s the torchlight procession going to the dramatic entertainment.” And so it turned out to be. The pace of the horse was then slackened, and the party felt rather disgusted for a while to find it was nothing more than a procession of flaming torches.

At the meeting of the Land Board at Wel« lington yesterday a letter was read from the Greytown Borongh Council and the Waiohine Biver Board asking that the Crown Lands north of Greytown should be vested in them as they had determined to pay Messrs Fnller and Gallagher the £34 for improvements. The Board decided that proof be given of such payment and that a survey be made before the land is vested in the local bodies mentioned. Mr Coleman Philips applied for a fencing boundary at Dry Biver, adjoining sections 86, 76, 15, and 74. The Board resolved to survey the land and offer it to the public, road access to be provided. Mr W. H. Beetham and the Wairarapa East County Council wrote objecting to the Ist lands in the Waingawa Biver being leased or otherwise disposed of. The Board resolved to cancel previous resolutions to lease the islands.

The Taratahi Jockey Club have issued their programme. It comprises Handicap Hurdles 35 sots, Maiden Race o< 15 boys, Tara« tahi-Carterton J.C. Handicap of 50 sots, Novel Race of 15 sots, Hack Race of 10 sots, Olareville 'Handicap of 30 sots, Forced Handicap of 20 soys. An Auckland Presbyterian Church is taking a poll as follows :—The voting papers, which are to be returned on Sunday next, and the Sunday following, give the option of voting lor one of the three courses Ist, that the present position regarding sittings be oon< tinned; 2nd, that the seat holders pay for their sittings as at present, but throw them open to the public at evening service—this practice, if adopted, to commence on the first Sabbath of 1887 ; 3rd, that pew rents be abolished after 30th June. 1887. £IOO Reward.—They cure all diseases of the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, nerves and kidneys, and £IOO will be paid for a case they will not cure or help, or anything impure or injurious found in them—Hop Bitters. Genuine only made by American Co. The promotion of Mr George Whitmore to the rank of Major-General in the New Zealand Militia and Defence Forces is formally in the Gazette.

Mass will be celebrated in the R.C. Church, Greytown, at 9 a.m next Sunday morning. At the Supreme Court, Invercargill, F, H. Dale, who this week pleaded guilty to four charges of stealing post letters, was brought up for sentence. Counsel asked if the application under the Probation Act would be entertained, but Jndge Williams said it was out of the question, and would never do it the public gave a man license to sin once, and that, because of his previous good character, with comparative impunity. Evidence as to previous good character was given by the Chief Postmaster and others. Dale was sentenced to two years’ hard labor on each charge, the sentences to take effect concurrently,