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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2012, 3 January 1887, Page 2

The Standard Almanac will be leaned in a few days. The Grey to wu Improvement Society will meet tomorrow evening at the Oddfellows’ Hall. The nominations for the Greyiown Pite Brigade sports are coming in freely and there is every prospect of a very successful gathering on Anniversary Day., Messrs Buchanan, M3B and Baillie have been appointed the judges.

On Friday night and early on Saturday morning the (Jreytown Brass Band played the old year out and the new year in, and quite a number of residents were about the streets evidently appreciating the music provided by the local performer!. Several guns were fired and a barrel organ was carried round to serenade those who were wrapt in slumber. A picnic took place at Mr T Saywell's paddock, at Euratiwbiti, on New Tear’s Daj. The party,which was a large and sociable one, thoroughly enjoyed the occasion and mauy games of a most amusing kind were indulged in until the time fur leaving for home. This is an annual institution held at different places near Grey town' and is always looked forward to by a large number of' residents with pleasurable anticipations, By an error in our iasttho name “ Wilson " vas inadvertently printed (or that of Petty Officer Taylor as dancing an excellent hornpipe at the Town Hali on Thursday night last; this correction is due to Mr Taylor * without doubt he is an «cell-.* utl teitainer of company and rea(iv witi ulleerf[l| r(j . parted and natural cleverness infused con., aid era Me life into the proceedings on the range during the shooting on the 29th and 90tli. Messrs Taylor, Hale, Asher and Shaw, all Wellington men, infused much merriment into what otherwise would have been a rather monotonous meeting. On New Year’s Eve, Host Cramner of the Hovel Hotel, Foatherston, who is or.; ,f (he genial kind of old English laudhc.l., gnv a a right royal spread to Ids friends ,md cits-

I l". i. in U.o Urge dining room of bis ho'.i-!. I'm dining room has been tlio scent' of many I nippy :uuJ jovial gatherings, but never upon any occasion has u better supper been put on the uhle of that room or a more appreciative ami sociable company gathered there than upon tiiis last occasion, tn the evening and np lo midnight (be company, which wis repiesented by townspeople of both sexes, held a most lenjoyable dance in (dm Oddfellows’ Hall. Mr J. H. Parker presided at the piano and Mr W. H. Speakmau acted as M.C. When the company dispersed they were unanimous in according to Mr and Mrs Cranmer a hearty vote of thanks for their handsome and seasonable entertainment. At Chester market lately farmers were offering to sell ten hampers of sound potatoes for £l. Each hamper contains jCU2lhe, so that at Is per hamper the price ia well within ■lib a penny. The farmers are complaining that at this price it scarcely pays to dig the potatoes. But against the lowest price on record may be set an enormous crop absolutely free from disease. The owner of a largo estate in Scotland was to have had mci-t of his farms thrown on liil hands next month, as the pu rc-ni tenant.-, were going to take advantage nt hi fairs in their leases to tlnmv them np ; but the propro tor baring wisely Mfcied a revaluation, the leases have just been icuewed at a redno Con of trom iil! to 4i per cons. I.’W" ahurlh"in bulla, a row .."d hj belter, b ive been pure.. l.l act Irom the Queen's farm nt NViudam, mi I have left for the Uuited -Stales, where they are to be used for breeding purposes.

A l-t'ec concernin' ■ tlio !ste Wairarapa ItiHe \ .sedation co.u-.-u :.! (iuytown ig held over until out next. Payments into the P. I A L Association of Wairarapa, are requested to be made between 7 and 9 p.m. to-day. For the Caledonian Handicap at Wclliugton on New Year’s Day, Barker and Scott tied, Monuoob third. About 7000 people were'present. A man named Daniel Grace has been committed for trial at South liakaia for attempted murder. He quarrelled with a man named James Crown at a dance, and as the latter was returning home Grace met him and attempted to shoot him. His gun. however, did not go off, owing to the cap being defective. Thera will be no volunteer parade at Grey" town to-morrow evening. The entire German army is being equipped with repeating rifles. At Sydney twenty-four distinct oases of smallpox are reported amongst the Preussen’s passengers, as well as 31 suspected oases. Good lor Babies.— 1 ' We are pleased to say that oar baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of the bowels by the use of American Oo.'s Hop Bitters by its mother, which at the same time restored her to perfect health aud strength.”—The Parents. See.

Good Words from Good Authority.—We oonlese that we are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Oo.’s Hop Bitters. We never had anything like it, and never heard of the like. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise ol Hostetter's, Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, bat never did any of them, in their best days, begin to have the run that American Hop Bitters have. We can't get enough of them. We are out of them halt the time. Extract from letter to Hop Bitters 00., U.8.A., August 32, '7B, from Benton, Myers d Co, Wholesale Druggists, Olevel and, 0. Be lure and see.

Mr Thornton, the " lion hitter” among English batsmen, retains hie brilliancy. Speaking of his innings for the Gentlemen of England against the First Zingari, the Pall Mall Budget said The spectators at Scarborough witnessed a display of hitting for which it would be hard for the most earnest student of cricket history to find a parallel. Mr Thornton was the hero of the second innings of the Gentlemen. He went in fourth wicket down, and made 107 not out. His innings comprised only 29 bits—an average of very nearly four runs per hit. He made four runs for every one scored by his successive partners at the wicket, and his innings occupied only 70 minutes. He hit no less than eight 6's, of which only one was aided by an overthrow. Two 6's, together with a 4, were hit daring a single over off no less a bowler thau Mr A. G. Steele. For that large section of the public who prefer hard hitting to any other form of batnrtnship. this was a splendid feat. When Mr Thornton was an Eton boy lie astonished the spectators at Lords by the ease with which he sent the ball over the top of the pavilliun ; and not a season has gone by since then without his doing some sensational performance.

One of the simplest methods of artificial respiration is that which Mr J, A. Francis has described in the British Medical Journal. The body of the patient is laid on the back, with clothes loosened, and the mouth and nose wiped ; two bystanders pass their right hands under the body at the level of the wrist, and grasp each other’s hands, then raise the body until the tips of the fingers and toes of of the subject alone touch the ground ; count fifteen rapidly; then lower the body flat to the ground, and press the elbows to the side hard ; count fifteen again ; then raise the body again for the same length of time ; and so on, alternately raising and lowering. The bead, arms, and legs are to be allowed to dangle down freely when the body is raised.

Not to be behind in the giddy whirl ol fashion (says JEg’.ea in the Australasian), Wattle flat determined in having a fancy dress ball. One young lady, who “ assisted ” to keep things tidy and " cook a bit of dinner ” at the house of the local Bank Manager, made up her mind, after long deliberation, to go as " Australia.” In order to carry out the character properly, she came to the conclusion that it was necessary that her dress should be adorned with band painted devices. On her “ evening out ” she waited ou the local artist and inquired how much a curtain number of sheep, and earns and kangaroos, and wild flowera would cost to paint. The artist thought it out and finally declared his charge would be £8 3s. This was too much, but a bargain was struck with the mau of colors to paint as many as he could for 12h tld. When the dress arrived home there were but two sad looking sheep and one sick looking kangaroo limned on it. She was equal to the occasion, however, and went as “ The Draught.”

English bee-keepers have made a ornsade against wasps, and an enormous number of queen wasps have been killed. A large number of flies has followed the partial extermination of the wasps, and some people are complaining that a plague of flies is worse (ban a scarcity of honey. Saneeb & Son’s Euoaltfti Extbaot. 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, soaldiugs, 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 urinary organs. In use at ail hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy j ctow<— J . , medal and diploma At National Exhibiftou, AmsU Trust io this approved article aud reject all others. We (Pouthland Times) are informed on good authority (hat a local speculator recently purchased 50 bead of polled Angus cattle iu Southland at L 6 per head, and shipped them to Melbourne at an additional cost of LI each. Xu the Melbourne market they realised from 92 to 75 guineas each, and there is good reason to believe that further shipments would bring equally high figures, as there is a good demand for this class of cattle in the neighboring colony.

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