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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2017, 14 January 1887, Page 2

'lue Ch'oytown Lille Volunteers on Tuesday ui; iu next, will go ihrougu “ sentry go ” and piclietduty. 'i here ig a proposition before the Victorian Cricket Association to alter tiro number of bails bowled in an over, irom lour to tive or six. The rule regarding l.b.w. is to be altered, it is supposed, to read “lithe ball would have taken the wicket.” The Wanganui Jockey Club have decided to issue a circular to metropolitan clubs, calling attention to tbo great increase of small gate money meetings, with a view ot suggesting means for immediate abatement ot the evil. A grind bote 1 , to cost tifty or sixty thousand pounds, to bo conducted on the American system, is to be built ia Auckland. A series of complications between the Macula School Committee and the bead master (the Lev O.- age Wilks) culminated in tlv committee deci bog to lock up the school. D.o committee had previously appealed to the Board, and considers the Board's answer ■ unsatisfactory, heuoe this action. We acknowledge the receipt from the broverument printer of a handsomely-bound volume entitled, “The Official Becord of the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, 1885.’* A meeting will be held at Morrison's Bush schoolroom, tomorrow (Saturday) evening, to take steps to form a cricket club. Four mote, deaths occurred at the Sydney quarantine station on Wednesday afternoon from smallpox, and several other patients ate in a critical condition.

The Sports Committee of tho Grey town Fim Brigade are busy in preparing the ground for their sports on Anniversary Day. There is great interst taken in the bicycle race, which will be quite a novelty for this town.

Thomas Dwan, auctioneer, of Wellington, has filed a petition to be adjudged a bankrupt. A telegram from Dunedin states that P. B. Boult, late clerk to the Lake County Council, was arrested for larceny of the missing rate book. It is reported that the defalcations exceed L2OOO. There are six separate charges against him.

At tbe inquest on the body of William Henry Organ, a lad aged 15, drowned while bathing in the Omaka River, Blenheim, a verdict of Accidental Death by Drowning was returned.

Owing to some informality in the writ issued for tbe arrest of Waters, the Welling, ton bankrupt, he was discharged from custody yesterday. A new warrant for his arrest was however granted by tbe judge. News baa reached Rotorua of the outbreak of a powerful geyser in tbe vicinity of the Paeroa range, on the Ratoreka Plains, within a mile or so of Waiokahibi settlement. Volumes of mud have been thrown up, and the plain for several acres around tbe geyser was covered with ejected matter. A loud explosion and an earthquake accompanied tbe breaking ont of the geyser. Some thirty years ago Hoohstetter predicted a volcanic outbreak at this point, which would cause tbe subsidence of the Ratoreka Plains, On Wednesday afternoon, says the Post, a sawmill, owned by Parsons and Silberman, at Papatn, near Ormondville, was totally destroyed by fire, caused by a bush fire burning in the vicinity for some days. The mill was bought about a fortnight ago from the trustees of the Firth estate for L 3500, and was insured in the New Zealand office (or L4OO. A quantity of gear was saved. Bosh fires are burning all round the district. The Brazen Serpent.—Like the brazen serpent that the great Jewieb leader lifted high in tbe sight of the perishing followers, whereby they were saved from death, the discoverers of American Hop Bitters have placed before suffering, ailing mankind, a remedy which enables them to fight disease with conquering advantage. A Northern paper states that theoodlin moth has overturned tbe ideas of all tbe theorists by undoubtedly entering tbe apple after_ fruiting, instead of hatching in and growing with the blossom. Some orchard, ists are destroying their fruit in order to kill the insects. Last year several plentiful crops in the district were rendered almost

worthless owing to the inroads of the moth, which was also to be found in almost every isolated tree in certain parts of the Hauraki peninsula.

Half Asleep 1—" I never,’’ wrote a young lady to a friend, “go to church or lecture but lam half asleep, and I never know afterwards what the sermon or lecture was about.” It was a plain case of nervous lethargy, produced by want of action of the liver and digestive organs. She was persuaded to try American Co.’s Hop Bitters, and now she writes : “ How intelligent and bright are sermons and lectures now, and bow glorious the world we live in is ! Dr Soule’s Hop Bitters ate indeed a blessing to me.” Notice. A terrible accident occurred recently on a farm at Cow Flat, 13 miles from Bathurst. A farmer named Barrett was reaping and driving his own machine, when he noticed his son, two years and a half old, in tbe field, and told him to go home. The little fellow left an open space where the hay was cut, and the father, thinking he had obeyed and returned to the house, continued reaping. Suddenly, in the thick part of the crop, the horse stopped, and something obstructed the knife of the machine. At the same time he heard a scream, end on investigation Barrett found he had cut down his child, severing one leg entirely above the ankle, and the other leg almost so. Tbe child had gone into the crop unobserved, and had not moved when the machine came along. One foot was lying some distance from the. body, and the other foot and ankle hanging from the leg by a sinew. The Clinton Farmers’ Association has resolved : That this Association is in favour of Freetrade between the Australasian colonies and Fiji Islands, also that Protective mea. sures be adopted against all other countries, including Great Britain,” Copies of this resolution are to be sent to all kindred societies in Otago, and to a number of members of the House of Representatives.

It is related of an assistant to a quack doctor that he was once sent into the woods to get some of the inner bark of a certain tree. Tom,” said the doctor, as he departed, I want you to this bark downwards. It is for a cathartic. Don’t scrape it upward or it will be an emetic. And whatever you do, Thomas, don’t scrape it both ways. If you do, nobody on earth can tell how it will act. The Chinese Government intend to send a commission to report on the social relations of Chinese subjects in British colonies. Some correspondence on the subject has been received by the New South Wales Government. Mr. J. H. Angus, of South Australia has decided to present 40.000 Testaments bearing the Queen’s autograph to the Protestant State school children in the colony in commemoration of her Majesty's Jubilee.

The Temuka Butter and Cheese Factory is in full swing just uow, taking in over eleven hundred gallons of milk daily. The company has just procured a new press for the manufacture of loaf cheese, which will be in working order in a day or two. Germany sends over seven million gallons of intoxicating liquor to Africa every year, England sends about 900,000 gallons, and America about 900,000 gallons. Land-snails are a common article of food in France and Germany, They are specially cultivated, and are cooked in a variety of ways. They are fried, made into hash and soup’ and in every way are accounted delicious. A renowned tenor singer, M. Lahorde, suffering from weak chest, was cured by getting the snails from his garden every morning, taking them out of their shells, rolling them in sugar, and swallowing like pills. The Spaniards hang a lot of snails up in a bag, collect the froth which drips through, and take it for consumption, Even in England snails are crushed, squeezed through linen, mixed with milk, and sold as cream, One London milkman did such a stroke in tliis way that in a few years ho was able to retire on the profits.

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At the Supreme Court, Dunedin, in the case of John Kelso v. Peters and Moßrearty, a claim forL2oo damages ; the statement ol claim sets forth that the plaintiff, a ploughman at East Taieri, on 6th November, 1886, employed the defendants (Peters, a chemist, and MoDrearty, a medical practitioner) to extract from him a decayed tooth; that the defendants so negligently and unekillfully went to work that they extracted a sound tooth and broke the plaintiff's lower jaw, whereby he had snffered, and will suffer, great pain, and inontred medical and other expenses, and was unable to work for a long time, to his serious loss and damage. The jury returned a verdict lor plaintiff lor L 6. A Freethongbt Association is to be established in Carterton.

True bills have been returned against Caffrey and Penn tor murder. The trial will probably take place on the 17tb. Thomas Brown, draper, Hawera, has (ailed. His liabilities are set down at L 3574, and assets atL2III.

The Greytown Inspector of Nuisances is now ranging about the town looking for a lamp lighting ladder taken away from its resting place at the corner of Frederick Street by some sportive individual on New Year’s night. Perhaps the patty who transferred the missing article to another location will kindly return it to its proper situation.

The installation of officers of the Masterton Druids Lodge took place on Tuesday evening, when Bro Jones. President of District No. 18 'Wellington, performed the ceremony, and installed the following brethren :—W Carey AD, W Eobins VA, J H Kibblewbite Treasurer, G S W Dalrymple Secretary. Masterton is at present suffering from a most unusual visitation—a plague ol mosquitos.

A cricket match will be played u- Dalefield on the 22nd Inst., between t Dalefield Club and the employees at Booth’.) mill. Master Walter Ernest Buokmidge, of Carterton, a clever little rider, reouived a flattering testimonial in the shape of a handsome silver chronometer, from some gentlemen admirers of his pluck and horsemanship iu the riding of Marquis in the Te Aro Handicap iu 1886, at the Spring Meeting at Island Bay, after being seriously injured by a kick from (be horse Administrator. The testimonial was suitably iusotibed.

Mr F. H. Wood held his nsaal fortnightly stock sale at the Taratahi Yards, yesterday. There being 1350 sheep, and 60 head cattle yarded. The following prices were obtained ; —Fat ewes 6s, store wethers 4 and 6 tooth 6s, ewes and lambs from 4s to 7s, lambs 3s to 3e 6d. Dairy cows 60s to 100s, calves 13s, yearlings steers 255, 2 year old steers 30s to 37s 6d, 3 year old ditto 65s to 755. Bayers were rather shy of bidding presumably owing to the long spell of dry weather, which is seriously affecting the feed. The Carterton Volunteers bad a “ march out” on Wednesday n’ght. There was a good master for inspection, and Major Bunny expressed himself pleased with the appearance of the company. The funeral of the late Mr Heroock took (dace at the Carterton cemetery on Tuesday. There were about two dozen vehicles and about twelve hotsemen following. The deceased was much respected as an old resident of the town.

The Greytown Cemetery Trustees have had the grass ent in the cemetery and carted away, so that there is no danger to be apprehended from a grass lire. Mr Harry Power’s Company, who bear an excellent reputation as clever artistes, play at the Oddfellows' Hall, Featherston, tonight, and the Town Hall, Greytown, tomorrow night.

The new Masonic Hail at Carterton, was opened on Tuesday night. The brethren celebrated the occasion by spending a very pleasant evening in their new hall. The bniiding reflects great credit upon the St Mark’s Lodge and it is quite an acquisition and also an ornament to the town of Carterton. It is well fitted and appointed in every respect and the lodge may be justly proud of their new enterprise. At the meeting of the Match Committee of the Carterton Bides held on Wednesday uight, it was resolved to hold several practices at the local range in preparation lor the probable forthcoming representative match on the 22nd inst., when live men will be selected from each of the lour companies representing the towns in the valley, against four of the senior corps in Wellington. The first practice will take place tomorrow (Saturday).

A shocking fatality is reported from a station near Temora, New South Wales. Mrs Doyle, wife of a boundary rider, had occasion to proceed to the post office, about a mile distant. She left her three children, eighteen months, six years, and twelve years of age, respectively, at home. The children some time afterwards set out to meet her. They were passing by a tank when the baby tumbled in. The eldest girl immediately rushed into the tank, grasped the baby, anil held it above water, but the brave child became entangled in some dead amber in the tank, and could not get clear, .'he other child procured a long stick, ana leached it out to her sister, but, unhappily, the stick was too short. Seeing this, the child dropped the stick, and ran lor help to some settlers, who lived two miles distant. Shortly after the poor mother returned to find her baby in the water dead, and her eldest daughter drowned in the grasp of dead timber at the bottom of the tank.

i We have just had brought under our i notice a work entitled “ The Heroes of New Zealand,” written by Mr Gndgeon. The work is dedicated by the author to those moving spirits who took so active a part in the various 1 incidents of the late war, so that alter generations may look back with pride on the doings of their forefathers (the pioneers of New Zealand). Mr S. H. Howard has been entrusted ; with bringing this work before the Wairarapa public and we trust that he may be fortunate in getting many subscribers. All sorts of American works have been canvassed for and (hey are to be found in the homes of the settlers, but “ The Heroes of New Zealand " is a colonial work, and will be published in March by Mr H. Brett, of Auckland, and is moat valuable as a work of history. What settler does not look back with feelings of deep respect to tho early pioneers of this colony—to the men who fought and died—who planted settlements or took a leading part in the polities or this young colony ? Theirs was a hard struggle, but they fonght bravely and their n ones should be as precious to us as the founders of America are to that people. We recommend our readers to secure a copy of this book. It is pleasantly written, is tilled with many portraits of New Zealand celebrities, European and Maori, and being excellently bound and ornamented is tit for any drawing room table. ■ The following extract from an English 1 paper describes the state of things in MariU- , burg, the capital of Natal ; —“ We are having some very stirring times oat here just now with the goldfields in the Transvaal, where splendid things are turning out, and several people I know heve made largo fortunes. The shares in some of the gold companies are at tremendous premiums. There : s one company, called ‘ the Sheba,’ in which ilia shares were issued at £l, on which a call of 2s (id was made. Their first dividend paid up the remaining amount of the £l, and now those shares are selling at from LBO to to LIOO. Fancy, what a return for 3s fid ! f bought 100 ' Moodie's ' shares at 4s fid, and then sold them a few months after at Xls, which is more than 110 per cent. I | had also fifty shares in a company called ‘ Annie’s fortune,' which cost about LIS, and a month after I sold them for L 36. At present lam in a gold prospecting syndicate -that is. about twelve of us down here in Natal subscribe L 3 or L2 10s a month, and sc ml up one of our number with a power of attorney for each of us, who goes up to the fields to prospect, and it he comes across anything good pegs out a claim for each of us, which he either works or floats oat a company to work it. I know one man down here who pegged on( a good claim in the fields and sold it lot L 60,000.”