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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2018, 17 January 1887, Page 2

An Agricultural and Pastoral Association has been formed at Woodville.

A new weekly paper, to be called “ The Liberal,” is (o be published at Wellington shortly. The Auckland Justice of the Peace, who was charged by Hie Bell with persecuting a poor widow who would not yield to his importunities, baa been struck off the roll. He was a chemist.

Henry Gladstone, the ex-Premiet’s third son, who is serving with the Biiiish Army in Burmah, had a narrow escape recently. With a party of boatmen and some soldiers, he was compelled to run the gauntlet in a hunch on the Irrawaddy of the sustained fire of 15,000 armed Dacoits. At the Dunedin Court the other day, a Chinaman was fined £SO, or one month, for netting thunders under the regulation size. The Carpenters’ and Joiners' Society, Dunedin, are tending home a statement of th« condition of the labor market in the colony. The Governor, with Lady Jetvoia and snite, arrived in the Hinemoa at Dunedin last Monday. They will remain there two months. A bailiff named Walsh arrested a jockey or horse-trainer named Laiug at the North Shore, Auckland, fur debt, and was bringing him across to Auckland, whin the latter suddenly jumped overboard from the ferry steamer to escape. The bailiff got down to the stringers of the wharf and recaptured him. The other afternoon a boy of 18 months old, a son of Mr Peter Thompson, of Sydenham, Christchurch, was accidentally drowned ia a tub of water. An elderly man named George Charles Anysn was knocked down on Thursday at Feilding, by a mob of young horses. He died in a few hours from concussion of the brain. At (he annual meeting of contributors to the Wellington Hosprtal the other evening. Mr F. H. Fraser, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, alluded with gratification to the fact that the amount expended on alcoholic liquor duiing the twelve months ending 31st December last was about £4OO less than the cost of the previous year’s supply. The same gentlemen also drew attention to the fact that it had coat oyer £ISOO less to main* tain the Hospital last year when the institution was under the management of the Go vernment. 'The number of patients for the past twelve months was as large as dating any previous year.

The Warden at Teetulpa reports that many men are turning their attention to the reefs, as the washings are poor. A crowded meeting was held at Napier last Thursday night at which the arrangements for carrying ont the ceremony in connection with the bnakwaicr demouttration were dis cussed. The Icllouiug resolution was almost unanimously carried : That this meeting views with regret the fact that the Governor has not been invited to lay the first block of the breakwater." This resolution : looked upon as a direct vote of censure on , >e Harbor Board.

Mr W. C. Cuff, of Grey town, has coui' mnnicated with the traffic manager of the Wellington railway, asking that a train may be so arranged on the ‘i'iud instant from the Wairarapa that it shall arrive in Wellington about 9 or 10 o’clock in the morning, leaving Wellington in the evening about ’/ or 8 o’clock. In Wellington there will be attractions for country residents, such as the regatta, races, cricket match (Greytown v Phoenix c;uh), and a rifle mutch between a Gieytowu and Wellington city team. It is to he hoped that a special excursion train at cheap fares available until Monday, 2-liLr, will he urovided.

The following are the present ollice bearers of tile Tntuia Lodge, UAOB, Carterton;— Arch Bruid, Bro <J H Gayfer; Vice Arch, Lire) A Levick ; Secretary, Bro 11 S Horn; Treasurer, Bro G M G.tdeucr, PA ; Arch Lards, Bros G Mason and K Benge ; Vice AiOil Bards, Bros Knckaoa and Nicol ; IG, Bro Bash ; OG, Bio Hannah ; Lodge Surgeons, Bra Smith ami Johnston ; Grand Lodge Representative, Bro W K Bishop. Christian Glsen has been divorced from Iris wife, Lise Marie Glsen, on the ground of her adultery with .Targen Merkilsen. The parties reside at Caitriton. Frederick Voss, aged Id, died at Tai Tapu near Chrisuhuicb, on Friday, from sun* stroke. At the Onchn;-;a races. Auckland, Mitrail. leusc. won the (Jun. Pretender 2, Orlnan 3, At the Palmerston North Police Court on Fri iay, William Johnston was brought up on n charge of rape on a girl 15 years of age. Tb - hearing of the case lasted all day till *|)-..c midnight, and accused was eventually committed lor ttial. Another death from smallpox occurred at Sydney on F riduy. This makes twelve at that port. The outbreak has been stayed. Tire numiuatiens for the principal events at the Wimai'iipa Jockey Club's annual meeting, m I « held on the 28th cad 29th instant, close on Wednesday, the filth. I'arsh evictions in Kerry are exciting the Peasantry. Mr Lance, MHP», was banqueted at Kaikoura on Friday evening.

The following have been chosen to represent Greytown against the Phoenix Cricket Club, Wellington, on Anniversary Day : W Judd, J Judd, E K Rutherford, W V Cuff. J Beard, J Nation, W J Knell, F Jackson, H Hawke, T A Cox, Henry, or G Jackson, Arrangements as to train, &0., will be notified in next issue of the Standard. There will be practice every afternoon from 4 o’clock, and those who would like an early morning practice should be on the ground not later than 6.30 am. every morning this week. A well is about to be sunk on the ground, when the fire brigade machinery will be used to water the pitch.

Mr John Pickett, late officer in charge of the Carterton post and telegraph office, has been transferred from Foxton to Waipawa. In Masonic and Friendly Society circles at Foxton, says the Herald, Mr Pickett will be greatly missed, as during bis comparatively short residence in the district he has rendered them much valuable assistance, and as a public officer Mr Pickett has given every satisfaction. From the commencement of Mr Pickett’s term of office at Foxton it has been known that be was dissatisfied (and justly so, in onr opin'on) with the house accommodation provided, and would obtain a transfer on the first possible chance, and this determination has been carried ont.

Mr Alex; Hitschberg has been declared a bankrupt upon his own petition, Mr P H Wood holds a most important stock sale at Festherstnn tomorrow, and some good entries have come forward. A meeting ®f the Wairarapa Gun Clnb Committee was held at the Foresters’ Arms Hotel, Greytown, on Saturday night, Mr B Kimberley in the chair. It was resolved that a pigeon match should be held at Carterton some day during the present month, and that the Carterton members be asked npon what date it wonld be most suitable to them to bold the meeting, and at the same time to ask the Carterton members to provide as many pigeons as possible. It was resolved to instruct the secretary to wire to Blenheim forpigeeugj!^

The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to the news from Sydney, says ; —“ There is probably no case on record where nine men were sentenced to be hanged for outraging one girl.” The Ngapan Station, Cast District, North Canterbury, which has been fur many years the property of Messrs Mathesou and Co., the present vendors, and comprises 2145 acres of freehold, 5500 sheep and lambs, and a few In ad of horses and cattle, has been sold to Mr Edmond Wilder. Mr Justice Ward describes the girl Grace Graham, who figures in connection with the Great Barrier murder, as " a person of the lowest character.”

At the meeting of volunteer officers at Auckland, Captain White inquired of Sir George Whitmore whether it was proposed to call out tlie militia soon, as if they were ordered nut the volunteers would retain the services of a number of trained men Sir George Whitmore replied that he could not say what the Government might do, but a deputation of officers had better wait on the Defence Minister, who would be in Auckland shortly. Personally, he (Sir George) would like to see the militia called out, as they constituted a part of the forces of the country, and great advantage would be gained by calling them out once a year. The Kaiapoi correspondent of the Lyttelton Times writes :—Most of us remember the thistle scare of some years ago. The trouble farmers were put to, the expense the country incurred, and the futility of all efforts to eradicate Cardinus Benedictus are happily things of the past. That “blessed thistle,” however, although now without terror to the husbandman, seems, unfortunately, to be likely to have a successor to the full as formidable as he was in his worst days. We have been shown specimens of what is known by the farmers as the “ Canada thistle.” More harmless at first sight than the “ Scotchman,'’ we are told by those who have studied his habits that'he is yet more persistent. His roots, say his enemies, cover an enormous area of ground in proportion to his foliage, and have the evil quality, common to twitch and other weeds, of stalling new growth from the smallest portion of root fibre left in the ground when the parent plant has apparently been grubbed up. The threatened danger to pasture, though happily in its infancy, is great, and we earnestly recommend our farming friends to have no mercy on the iuvader. As illustrative of the precocity of New Zealand children, the Bangitikei Advocate mentions that at a school in the district the scholars expressed their strong demurrence to competing at outdoor sports for cash prizes of 2s fid, alleging ns their reason that the sum was not large enough 1 The Patea Mail says:—“ We often hear the idea ol fungus gathering dertded as an imaginary method of earning money, but it must be admitted there is very strong ground for the imagination when we state that Mr E C Horner alone has shipped over LISOO worth since September last." Fungus is jocularly called " Taranaki wool.” The sum of L 3,200,000 have been expended in defence in Victoria, while about 10 per cent ol that amount has been spent in New Zealand.

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The Harry Power’s Company gave a 1 enteil ainment at the Town Ha l, Gieytowo. nu Saturday night to a fair audience. They were somewhat handicapped coming so sooi after the popular concerts given by MrMaokin tosh’s company this week in the several t"wm in the Wairarapa, but nevertheless they had a good paying house, and their performances were really good, the step dancing particularly so. They will give an entertainment in Carterton tonight, and then proceed to Masferton. Should they receive the patronage of the public in these towns to any extent they will be found deserving of the same. Kathleen Mavoureen was the piece lor Saturday night. TheGrevtown Mntnal Improvement Society meet at half past seven tomorrow night.