Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1887.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2027, 7 February 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1887.

A general meeting of. the members of the Permanent Investment aud Loan Association of Wairarapa will be held at Greytown at 3 pm tomorrow. The South Wairarnpa Rivet Board met at Featberston ou Saturday afiemoou. Mr James Donald iu the chair Seme correspondence was received relative to the lake questions, which the Board resolved to consider again at the next monthly meeting. The Oreytown Fire Brigade will meet tonight for the puipose of electing ollicers for the ensuing year, and also to wind up matters connected with the late sports. A vestry meeting iv,U be held at Greytown on Tuesday (tomorrow) night, at 8 p.m,, in the vestry of St Luke’s Chore.i. All the vestrymen ate requested to attend. A vestry meeting will be held at Featheiaton on Monday (rod ay), at Mr MacShane’s office, BNZ Business important ; all the vestrymen requested to attend. Two six inch guns have arrived in Wciim::. ton from England ; one is for that p.-H and the other is lor Auckland, The pruicetde they tire wid go through seven mein's ui 6 imil Upn at a uistauce of neatly three miles, Soil' TLsidents at Mattinhorongli are contemplating an endeavor to loim u local volunteer corj"". Ohio pilpele >llO bill of _■! .'lJ'h'C "blits of one of tile iu...-t i.oirihie and heurm lining accidents by a eoiosioa on,rails that over occuired in th.it State. It happened near Republic, about eight miles west of Cleveland, at 2 o'clock o" ihe morning cf the 4lh January. Tbonirtein b> und express traiu, running at the hgiitni;.,; speed of lid miles per hour, sltuck a fi. ;glu train which wag -tatiouury on tin- li■ e ' iio engines of the two trains reared ini" the air, and then settled down upon .ne track, driving into each other till tbe e> in • touched. The force of (he colh-n.'i j m-d the baggage cut into the lender I- first train, an express car into a bi, . or. aud u smoker into the express. Th- n w i.- a mass of wreck, Wflieii w less than !iu- minutes took fire, toast tog -hive fhr .mb-riuiiste occupunfi. Their etui, us, ut.ieh were heard amid the i.i-r of the fliitu"-, i-iil ■drriost a maddening sit'oct on the .-iitviun- When all was over, .‘f-ih glid theie coui i ' e -een pools of blood, aim pi, '‘-A Pi half burnt, half frozen human th »ii, and tho 'WJfkmvu still dragging portion- e.f the holies horn smouldering sr-ck. Bnijit- 2d or men v.,.| W (,q:o7 bv i :-i nor burn, Ito ,u ~th. ■■ Buchr. Quick, compl-D* cure, nil im.rymg kidney, bladder and urinary diseases. At chemist# aud druggists. Kempthprue, Prosser «• i>, t Agents, Daoedin,

| A Welcome lio'.V'l , M I,;!', vi > I ( r- It!i ■■ | I dislrit i-:; ' , I:;.- i v j A v.i n.:i'i ;,ir ,1 - . . r i:. Mlicul. li.v (a! u; 1 M, i i(i ): t.- n. ;vl;on on Friday. A young man named Suliivanfwas drowned in tlio Opawa River, Marlborough, oii Friday. The Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association are to have new grounds for the annual exhibitions at Addington. The ship Invercargill, from London, arrived in Wellington on Friday. The fine weather changed to an excep» tionally heavy gale Hokitika last Wednes l * day night. Some old cottages were blown, buildings injured and fences destroyed. Samples of gold of a very coarse character, studded with quartz, have been brought from the coast between Martin’s £ay and Milford Sound. At the head of the Awatere river, MarU borough, there has been a heavy fall of rain which caused many slips and destroyed sheep, fences, die. Typhoid fever is still prevalent in Victoria and the death rate is high. The hotel at Wbangarei and at Tahebe, Rotorua, were burned down last week. Rev Mr Comings, Melanesian missionary, will give a lecture in the small room of the Town Hall, Oreytown, on Monday, 21st instant. Last week there were extensive grass fires at Morrison's Bash and Eaiwaiwai, and a large quantity of fencing has been destroyed. The man Campbell, who disappeared so suddenly at Martinborongb, is believed by some to have committed suicide by drowning in the Buamahunga, as he was in a very low state of mental and bodily health. The mail steamship Ruapehu arrived in Wellington harbor from London and Southern ports on Saturday morning. For the time being Mr E. W. Porritt, late of Masterton, has been appointed clerk of the Blenheim R. M. Court. George Thomas reports that potatoes, with itocks accumulating, are now ruling from 60s to 70a; onious £7 per ton; rye grass 2a 9d to 3s ; cocksfoot 3fd ; oata 2a to 2a 3d ; chaff bo'.h sheaf and strew, new season, in fail Bnrp'-y. hum 80a to 90s the former and C3a to 7oa for (he hj *er. fresh butter, iu consequei.ee of the pm,riling '*ot w-ntlier, is very scarce, unit) wen bH ~ quite imalie to forward mpp jes in nii.vibii ■ like marketable copdiliou ; prices i!iw nils Lorn pi; there is no demand lor euR cutter; cneese bacon aud bams unalteied. The English Government has decided to purchase 40,000 additional horses and 500,000 Manchester repeating rifles. Over wide areas in the south and west of Irelaud the population is in e state of lucre* dible privation, thousands of men, women and children in the remoter districts being destitute of money, foo l and clothing. They are sunk in the deepest misery, and are dying of starvation. A sailor belonging to a vessel lying off tbe Auckland heads attempt* d to reac'i n boat which had got adrift bv swduming to it frem the v.«< I. Il- 1 ,'d : ■ hun he : yaids or ,11; n. when ! ise ol ,; o.V l;iiU * llu ..A';-’ -n V iler wi;.. s in - nn.-een f.,e, >■■ ■ip 1 •• . > V -rcr Ml There vvi.s 1 1 .i:u uU that u slmik h.ul taken him, but in the ,’aee of tin -, a not her sailor, whoso rime has nut transpired, sprang oveiboard to the rescue. Nothing was, however, to be seen of the poor fellow, and his plucky would be rescuer swam half a mile and got into a boat. Tho distribution of the vote of £4OOO for libraries takes place tomorrow. At the inquest a verdict of Wilful Murder against soma person or persons unknown was returned at Gisborne m connection with the Dative murderers. A great deal of evidence was given at the inqniry|which connects some of the prisoners with the deed. The four native prisoners arrested on a charge of murder have been remanded for eight days. The Fisk Jubilee Singers will appear at Greytown on Friday, 18th instant. Tbe war rumors are affecting the wool market adversely.

Mr W. H. Speakmau, baker, of Featberston, will have a new announcement in our next. Mr Speakman wishes it to be generally known that only one ether baker in tbe colony is manufacturing bread upon bis new principle. At the special meeting of the Featherston Road Board held today to pass resolution making special order for the rating district of No 5 and 6 sob districts tbe resolution was confirmed. An express train ran off the Hudson River Bridge on to the ice, took fire and 40 passengers were burned to death. Tbe new school at Firinoa will be opened in a few days. A gentleman who has just come in from the Bast Coast says that no rain has visited the back country. A meeting of the Greytown Cemetery Trustees was held on Wednesday night, when it was resolved to band over the management of the cemetery to tbe Borough Council. The Trust will meet on Wednesday afternoon to receive tbe balance sheet and arrange other matters connected with the transfer.