Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1887.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2013, 5 January 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1887.

It will bo seen (bat a change is made in the date of (1 p i vocal ami instrumental cooi ti ! to 1 e j ivi.i next week in Foatherstcn, It i; to be given oi. Thursday, tomorrow week, the ll’.th instant, instead of next M oday. Tickets are now being distributed f-r l.ilo, giving the amended date. The ct’i.oit is to be given p f Mustcrtou tkxt Mondnv.

A boy of 12 years old, Wm Turner, has been diowned atWanganui; he was at a picnic and in bathing got earned down the stream. Jonathan Golding, bootmaker, was found dead in a paddock at Milton, Otago, on Monday.

The shop and residence of Walter Martin, storekeeper, Christchurch, was burned down early yesterday morning.

The Qolconda Hotel at Coromandel has been destroyed by lire.

The Secretary of the Greytown Hospita desires to acknowledge with thanks, the receipt oi £3 12s 6d from Mr Buchanan’s Xupnrupurn station, the amount having been collected through the kind efforts of Mr D. Kennedy. About 800 gallons of milk are received daily at the Greytown Cheese Factory. The directors of the Greytown Butter and Cheese Factory will be held on Saturday evening, at 7.30, to arrange for the payment of milk and general business. The first quarter ends on the 11th instant. At the Criminal Sessions, Wellington, yesterday, gamuel Bennett for breaking into the shop of Mr Coogan, in Manners Street, Wellington, was found goilty, and remanded for sentence till this morning. George Biddiford and Henry Watson for breaking in the , premises of J and B Shine, were sentenced to 18 months and two years, respectively. The wholesale price of beef in the old country baa not been so low for thirty years prime carcases being sold at 4|d per lb.

The farmhouse of Mr Brown Hunt, of Mikimiki, near Mastertou, was burnt down on Monday. The estimated loss is £450, and the insurances are £2OO in the London and Liverpool, and £IOO in the South British. The origin of the fire is supposed to ha re been a spark igniting the shingles. A meeting of Greytown householders will be held at the sohoolhouse tomorrow evening to discuss the action oi the committee with reference to the bead master. The meeting takes place at 8 o’clock. The 120 yards Hurdle Handicap at the Wellington Caledonian Sports was won by Mr F. Fairbrotbar.

Mr J. Bart has returned from Kimberley to Featherston. He arrived home on Friday night. A very handsome wedding cake was “ built ” tor Mr Wm. Hammerich by S M Maxton and Sons. It was of remarkable proportions, stood two feet high, and weighed over 501ns. The “ structure ” was beautifully ornamented. The Waipapa run, Clarence Biver, 70,000 acres has been sold to T and A Bell, of Wairuu Valley. T’Uc price is £OSOO. The run was taken over by the Government 18 months ago for the eradication of scab, aud the sheep killed off. The property is now clean. There is reviving activity in station property in Marlborough.

A boy maned William Tannahill met with hie death at Kilverstremn last Thursday. The boy was: 'dint ’’ion a load of firewood, while his father led .no home by the head. Mr Tannahill •■■tumbled, r id the jerk which was thus caused on the reins seems to have any wd the child off the dray, the fall to the iniui.d Ineakinpr his necl. The jury found , verdict setting torth Uw* the cause of death mis accidental.

The Victorian revenue during the past quarter has increased by L 1.'32,351, and during the year by L-t1.3,099. Customs receipts during the quarter increased by L50,(j00, and the railway revenue by L 14.000. It is considered certain that the year’s estimate of revenue will be fully realised. The mining returns for the past year show a decrease in the yield of L 129.359. The revenue of Adelaide for the past quarter amounted to L 421,028, and for the halfyear to L 529,857. During the quarter the revenue from taxation has decreased by Lib,7oo. and Customs receipts have decreased by 7.47,000.

The St Louis Globe-Democrat says: " Alpha Cents utii, the leading star in the constellation of the Centaur, is the nearest star to the earth, so far as known. Its distance is usually placed at from about 20,000,000,000,000 to 29,000,000,000,000 miles from tbe earth. A star called Sixty-one Cygni is classed ns second in distance, being put at about 54,780,999,000,000 miles distance from our globe. Most of the stars, however, are millions of times further away from ua than these. Light travels about 196,000 miles in every second of time ; and yet with this inconceivably rapid velocity, it would take light about twelve years to traverse the space separating ua from that star. From the greater portion of the stats light would be many centuries in reaching us. That is to a iy, in these pailicular instances the stars which we see arc not the stats as they exist tonight, but as they existed before Columbus sailed on his voyage of discovery, r. even before the creation of Adam,

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