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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2022, 26 January 1887, Page 2

The Carterton Oddfellows held their annual soiree at the Town Hall on Friday night. It was well attended, and the music supplied was excellent.

Prayers for rain have been offered in some of the Wairarapa churches. An inquiry into the cause of the late fire at Mr Moriarty’s boot shop at Greytown will be held shortly. The Greytown Borough wells are well supplied with water should a fire occur.

Mr Geo Beetham, MHB, addresses his constituents at Eketahuua on Friday. MrVarnham, of Fapawai, had a narrow escape of having his property overrun with fire last week. Fortunately, he saw the grass on fire which had been ignited by sparks from the burning bush at the back part of his property, in time, and he was able to beat it out. Had he not been there the fire most probably would have travelled up to his bay stack and destroyed it.

The beat in Wellington has been, and is, most oppressive, but the temperature is moderate when compared with what it is in Australia. In Melbourne the thermometer has registered 104 in the shade and 134 in the sun. On Saturday last at Wellington, according to Captain Edwin, the glass at 9 a.m. stood at 85 deg in the shade.

The annual election of a committee for the Papawai Native School took place on the 22nd, when the following were elected Mr C J Jnry (chairman), Martin Te Ore, Komini, Robt Manibera, and Koehe. The duties of the committee ate to see to a proper supply of firewood, and that the attendance is kept up. The school reopens on Monday, 31st. After the satisfactory examination it is to be hoped that the attendance will be a large one. The committee are about to make the trial of boarding children ..om other parts of the Valley, with the hope that when the attendance is large that the Government will put up a suitable building for boarding out children. A child was burned to death last Saturday afternoon, with a house, on the Denbigh road, between Waipuku and Midburst, New Plymouth. The Greytown Friendly Societies are arranging for the usual St Patrick’s Day Sports, and the committee appointed will do their best to draw the public and provide a good bill of fare.

It (Several accidents have occurred through a broken spring cart lying on the side of the road between Taratabi and Masterton. It has been there about six weeks. Mr Von Stnrmer, R.M., attended at the Magistrate s Court, Greytown, this morning, and there was a clean sheet. Some one should have presented our worthy B.M. with a pair of white gloves. The Eon Mr Buckley told a deputation from the Wanganui Jockey Club that he was of the opinion that something should be done regarding totalisators, otherwise they would be discarded altogether. The metropolitan clubs will no doubt have a conference con* cetuing the matter.

The trustees of the Greytown cemetery meet on Friday evening to consider Mr D P Loasby’s notice of motion re handing over the cemetery to the Borough Council. The death is announced of Sir Joseph Whitworth, England, in his 83rd year. A fire occurred on Friday morning last at Whiteman's Sawmill, Waikanae. T he build* iug and machinery were insured for LSOO in the Colonial office. The mill was totally destroyed.

Mr Eayner Greeks, formerly of Featherston, but recently residing near Greytown, died suddenly on Monday night, about 10.30. Deceased bad been ailing, more or less for some time having, a few years ago, taken cold while engaged in athletic sports, which resulted in an affection of the lungs. The Mayor of Greytown, in answer to a request, iuvites the burgesses of Greytown to observe Friday, January 28th, as a public holiday. Sander & Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminent powerful effects iu coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is instantaneous. Iu serious cases and accidents of all kinds, bo they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy—no swelling —no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, intlammaiiou of the lungs, swellings, etc. ; diarrhoea, dysentery ; diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs. Iu use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by Ilia Majesty the King of Italy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition. Amsterdam, Trust in this approved article and reject all others. Professor A. J. Cook says, in the New York Tribune,,that one application of kerosene mixture is a complete cure for lice on plants. He likes best tbe following mixture: One quart ofsoli soap,one gallon water, and one pint of kerosene. The soap aud water are heated to the boiling point, the kerosene is added, and all are well stirred. The mixture is permanent. In every case where this is tried it has killed all the lice, and restored ail the vigor ot the trees. A compound of .'.etose'e and mdk is ;tul so easily gut, is not so readu) mixed, is not sopeim.ineat as a mixture, and docs nut seem to give (ne trees and shrubs such a seiuLuli as does die soap and kcioseiie, Professor Cook uses tlie kerosene and milk ten to one. J.l mils die lice instantly.

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Good Resolutions.— At the commencement of every new year hundreds and thousands of young men—and old as well—form resolu tious for their guidance for the coming year. Many keep them, while others break them. To such we wish to give a word of advice. In order to sustain your determination of leading a better life in the future you should use Hop Billers. The j a. ll. ions use ol Hop Bitters fliwiethens, clviin.ts. and purifies the ft'im-icb. bowels, üb'oi, livin', nerves, and kidneys, and is just what you waul U, build i-p and invigorate yourself. Grcenbush U.8.A., Dem. Read

We learn that there is a prflEnbility.’of Mr Click, of the Greytown post and telegraph office, recovering the L2O paid away in error some days ago. The individual to whom the amount was paid has been traced, and he acknowledges having received the money, but he evidently did not consider honesty the best policy. A girl named Jessie Bamier, 9 years of age, was trying to get in at a window near Stratford New Plymouth, when it is supposed the sash came down upon his neck. When found she was dead.

The tail of a large comet has been visible in some parts of New Zealand in the southwestern heavens. We have had so much smoke in the Wairarapa that any observations of the nightly visitor is impossible. Mr W. Moriarty intends on Saturday to bold a great sale of salvage stock at his Greytown establishment, and promises some rare bargains in order to get rid of the stock, before repairing the premises. The Java Government has passed a law against the enlistment of laborers, and thus virtually stops the importation of Javanese labor into Queensland. , -

We regret that two errors occur in the report of the sports in last issue. It was Payne who won the mile race, not Baker as printed, who came in third. Jonah Harris won the hurdles. It was not through any mistake of the reporter that the mistake occurred, but through one of the compositors, who had a strong idea that the names were wrong and transposed them. The other morning Leonard Thomas Pavitt, aged 17, son of Mr T Pavitt, merchant, Christchurch, was drowned in the river Heathcote while bathing near Wilson’s Bridge. He was unable to swim, and was washed off his feet and carried into a deep pool. The body was recovered half an hour afterwards, but life was extinct. The orchards of Messrs Hollard andßarratt at Moroa, has been this season what is called 1 * sun struck ” acd it is quite lamentable to see the fruit trees which about a month ago gave promise of such excellent yields now quite withered up and the fruits being nothing but stones and skin. If the blight or scald had not visited these plantations with such baneful results this summer these persons would have had an immense harvest of plums and apples, the plum trees in particular were literally loaded with fruit and it cannot be looked upon but a great misfortune to these enterprising fruit growers. The scourge appears to have gone through the plantations in drifts, and many places that ate sheltered are smitten by the visitation but some trees that are cut in the open and more exposed to the scorching rays of the sun have escaped. In some instances one side of a tree has been struck and blighted while the other side of the same tree remains unscathed. There is another trouble which has affected some of the trees, mostly cherry and cherry plum, and that is the leech, an insect that strips all the coating off the leaves—this, to an extent, is commencing to disappear, but it has caused sad havoc during tins season. Mr John Hollard, Sears and Barratt are sinking wells in different parts of the grounds for the pur* pose of getting water to soften the crust of the land, but it must take a great quantity of water to be of any avail. Theory everywhere in the district now is Rain, Rain, Rain ; some are praying, others ate swearing, but all alike cry for rain. On Sunday nigbt, Mr T. Kempton junior’s residence at Moroa had a very narrow escape from being consumed by fire; it appears that Mrs Mitchell, Mr Kempton’s daughter, and her husband and baby, who ore visiting at Mr Kempton’s, retired to bed, leaving a lighted caudle burning neat the window, when the sleepers occupying the room were aroused by the crackling sound of flames. The wall paper all around the zoom was eaten off by the fire, the window curtains were destroyed, the ceiling was damaged, acd the lining boards just succumbing to the flames. Prompt alarm was given, and the fire subdued, but the narrow escape of the bouse and inmates was indeed a miracle. Mr Kempton’s residence has had several narrow escapes from the same cause, and once before the window curtains were destroyed. Mr Kempton was only on Saturday relating to our reporter this circumstance acd the providential escape from being rendered houseless.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Carterton, yesterday F Beid was fined L 5 for failing to destroy rabbits on his run. A S Grant for the same offence was, upon the information of Inspector Orbsll, fined LlO and costs. We are informed that the match reported as between Bamboo and Supplejack at Martinborough was no race, but the horses were simply exercising, and the jumps were of no importance. On account of Sir William Pox’s temperance meeting in the Town Hall on Friday evening the practice for the cantata, Under the Palms, will be further postponed for a week.

Thousands of sheep have been drownad on the Canning Downs, and other stations, Brisbane, by the floods, and hundreds of people cut off by the waters, have been rescued by the police ; some are missing. A heavy gale attended the floods,

Sir Robert Stout addressed tbe electors of Dunedin East last night. He declared against borrowing and large expenditure and was in favor of strict economy, self reliance and independence of foreign money lenders. We would again remind our readers of tbe large Temperance meetings to be held this evening in tbe Town Hall, Carterton, tomorrow evening in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Featherston, and Friday evening in the Town Hall, Greytown. The speakers, as before intimated, are Sir William Fox, K.C.M.G., aud Mr T. W. Glover, of World-Wide Temperance fame. These gentlemen are travelling through New Zealand, and speaking on behalf of the New Zealand Alliance for the suppression of the Liquor Traffic, of which organisation Sir William is President. We hope to be able to report crowded and successful meetings.