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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2023, 28 January 1887, Page 2

On Wednesday next Mr F. H. Wood will hold a sale at tbe Town Hall, Martinborough, of drapery, clothing, groceries, ironmongery, furniture, Ac. The sale is unreserved and should secure a good attendance of settlers.

Fscsons in want of a freehold farm should interview Mr F. H. Wood. He is advertisn one of 189 acres at the West Taratabi, particulars of which will be found in an advertisement.

Sit Wm Fox and Mr Glover will give tern*, perance addresses at the Town Hall, Greytown, this evening.

The Domination of candidates for the licensing committees of the following districts will take place as follows Carterton, Tuesday, February 10th ; Groytowa and Featherfltou on Friday, 11th. The Grey town Cemetery Trustees meet next week when the advisability of handing over the Cemetery to the Borough Council will be considered. It is now in very good order and the ground is opened according to a plan drawn by Mr Porritt, one of the trustees The planting of the cemetery with trees and its being kept in good order has been the work of this gentleman, with whom it has been a labor of love. It is to be hoped that should the Council have charge of it someone will be found to pay special attention to its appearance. The Featherston Cemetery is now under the management of the Town Board.

Heavy rain continues over the country of New South Wale*, and great floods arc reported in the North. As the Upper Rich* mend considerable damage ha« been done, and many persons have been rescued at im* lament peril. The meeting of the Greytown Cemetery Trustees advertised for this evening haa been postponed until next Friday evening, iu order not to clash with the temperance meeting at the Town Hall tonight. The accounts from the Teetulpa goldfields continue discouraging, and numbers of unsuccessful diggers are leaving the field. We hear that Mr Lundqvist met with an accident on Wednesday night op the road between Carterton and Masterton. His horse shied or stumbled and threw him, shaking him seyers.y,

Mr Seymour Tancred, Las presented the Star Boatiug Club with a haudsome silver cup, beautifully chased, for annual competition.

H.M.B. Nelson is expected in Auckland on Monday, and Sir George Whitmore goes up today to meet Admiral Tyron on his arrival. Messrs W Perry, T and B Chamberlain, W Cullen, A Elkins, J Muir, T G Mason, J Heaney, T Parsons, L Carman, S E Gapper, and D S Papworth have been elected members of the Masterton Borough Council. The members of the Oreytown Private Brass Band are requested to master as early as possible this afternoon to perform on the racecourse.

Japan, at last accounts, bad 266 miles of railway in operation and abont 900 nnder construction or survey. Nearly all the rolling stock is purchased in England. In Germany and Switzerland the principals of all schools are required to dismiss their pupils at noon every day on which the thermometer at 10 a.m. registers 77deg. A brewer once built a church at his sole expense, but the atone engraver cut the stone which was to immortalise the brewer’s name with, • Built by , at his soul expense.’ Under the new police regulations no mem> ber of the " force ” is to accept drink when on duty or in uniform. In Timaru the volunteers have decided to hold no parades in future on public holidays, except the 24ih May and 9tb November. The Salvation Army have now 462 stations, 517 officers, and 12,000 soldiers throughout Australia.

A new yacht, the Thistle, designed with a view of winning the American’s Cup in 1887, is building on the Clydo for Mr Bell, of Glasgow. She will be manned by a Clyde crew and commanded by a Clyde skipper. A Hawera settler, who was net a horsey sent the name of his daughter for the •' Maiden ” race. The entrance money was returned.

At the New Plymouth inspection, Sir 0. Whitmore told the volunteers that the officers must carry oat their daties in respect to enforcing fines. A bash fire was raging at Dalefietd last night. Masterton is now lighted up with gas. Air L. Wilson, late of Carterton, now of Woodville, is a bankrupt. The Melbourne farmers speak very favor-, ably of the grass known as Johnson’s grass, the seed of which was recently imported from America. Whilst all th« rt'ier growth has been either browned and dried up in the heat, or vanished with the visit, of the grasshopper. Johnston s grass remains fresh and green The plant grew 18 inches in fourteen dava, and under favorable eiicum«t me* would grow as rapidly as two inches in 21 hours Animals are very partial to it, and cows in particular devour it greedily. Tin following team has been selected to represent Carterton in the Rifle Match nt Wellington on Saturday Lieut Moore. Ser;.tt Fairbrother and Reid. Corp Boys. Vol Jas R -id. Emergency —D Reid. The team leaves for Wellington this afternoon. The Rev Batchelor, who has accepted an appointment in England, left Carterton on Wednesday with his family by the afternoon train, intending to proceed home via Sydney. Sir Wm Fox and Mr (Mover have bad good meetings at Carterton and Featherston. The Hastings Star suggests that it would be easy enough to pay the debt of the colony by imposing a tax on beauty. There isn’t a woman living in the colony who would not demand to be taxed.

The oomet was just visible last night. It was a very faint streak in an almost perpendicular position—the slope of the tail being very slightly towards the east. The nucleus was undistingnishable and at 9 p.m. was about 30 deg above the horizon almost south west. It will probably be too faint tonight to be perceived except by those accustomed to the appearance of those bodies. It is evidently receding very fast from the snn.

Featherston yesterday afternoon wore a very gloomy aspect on acoonnt of the smoke from some very heavy fires on the bills in the rear of the town overhanging the place as with a dark canopy. In the vicinity of the railway station during the afternoon and in the evening the smoke was quite unpleasant both to the eyes and nostrils of persons moving about in it and great fears were entertained that the fire might possibly penetrate into the township, as great volumes of dense smoke was issuing from a gully the north end of the district. Not only were the hills at the back of Featherston in flames but a passenger who came up from Wellington informed us that the fire was so bad on the Bimutaba that the sleepers on which the lines were laid were on fire and the train passed over the burning timber. The whole district around and be.ow Featherston is enveloped in this black smoke and yesterday a strong gale of wind was blowing toward the town. The heat during the last six weeks has been excessive, and for the last twenty years nothing has been known like it. The thermometer baa averaged over 80 deg in tbe shade. Last Saturday it was 95 ;on Sunday it was over that by some degrees. In the Kaitara hchool room- about 18ft by 30ft—the beat has ranged from 80 to 90 degrees duiitg this week. Yesterday with 49 scholars in the room the thermometer on the master’s table stood at not less than 80 deg during the afternoon and ranged for half an hour or more up to 93 deg Fahrenheit. During the last 20 years the average rain fall during January was inches, but during January of this year we have not had a shower of rain worth registering. The look of the country around is as though it had been baked, and the pasture is getting very scarce.

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Cricketers are requested to roll up tor practice tomorrow afternoon, also every evening nett weak in view of the match which takes place here next Friday between an np country team and the local team. The visiting team are considered to be very strong, including such men as Stokes, Fowler, Elder, Selby, &o. A good wicket can easily be prepared now that a well has been sunk on the ground. On Wednesday morning the Maoris at Ngawapuarua polled down the tollgate and bouse in course of erection for the Wairarapa North County Council. Mr Beetham, UHB, addressed his constituents at Fabiatna the ether night and received a vote of thanks.

Mr P H Wood advertises particulars of first entries received for the Bam and Ewe Fair, to be held at Carterton, under the auspices of the Wairarapa and E. C. Pastoral Society, on the 15th February next, and invites further entries to be sent in as early as possible, so that buyers may know what is coming forward. The Waikato Maoris are predicting that there will be no rain till the end of February basing their predictions upon the fact that the ducks this season built their nests low down, in fact on the level of the Waikato river and the creeks.

Mr W. Toogood is about to commence a month's genuine clearing sale, and his announcement to that effect appears today.