Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1887.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2048, 28 March 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1887.

A delightful lain commenced to fal! in (his district about sundown and continued through the night. It was the best downfall we have had for months and will do a vast amount of good. A meeting will be held at Featherstnn tonight for the purpose of taking ii.t> cons',deration the adrisableness of o>tabli h;ng a dairy factory in that dis‘ ret '1 he moe'ing should be well a ‘ended as the settlers generally in t hat part of the Wairarapa are much interested in the pursuit.

The Premier spoke at Waipawa on Friday night. The adjourned meeting of settlers at Matnrawa to consider the question of the bridge between Greytown and that district will be held tomorrow night. Every one concerned should be present.

The cricket match between the second eleven of the Q reytown Cricket Club and a team from Dalefield which was to have been played on Saturday did not come off, the Dalefield meu not turning up.

The sale of tickets for the coming hospital soiree on Easter Monday is being vigorously pushed in all directions, and really whether one has the desire to spend an enjoyable evening or not, the irresistible pleading of the fair ones who have tickets for disposal leaves no choice but a graceful capitulation and a mutual transfer, whereby the hospital, at any rate, benefits. If an unlimited supply of unreserved goods of every conceivable kind is at all attractive to the public, then Mr F II Wood’s general sale at Featherston on Saturday next, the 2nd April, will cause a little interest in that township, for besides the extensive list already advertised, Mr Wood is still receiving entries of all kiuds, the latest being a lice of choice cheeses by one of this island's prize makers.

As Messrs Bidwill Bros were having their crops thrashed the other day, a spark from the engine caused two valuable stacks of oats to be destroyed. The machine was, with difficulty, saved.

The Waihenga bridge is now being screwed up under the supervision of Mr Deering, overseer to the Featherstoti lioad Board. At Timavu, at auction, the freehold on which Mr Jonas’ fine block of buildings in the Main-mad stands, was sold for £ISOO. Some years ago the same laud was sold to 11. Wilkin & Co. for £12,000.

The Greytown Constable has been vigilantly watching for some time ; sometimes all night, and to an early hour in the morning, for some midnight marauder who has made it his mission to plunder the orchards in the borough and neighborhood. On Friday night Constable Ecdetoa met with his reward mid captured his quarry iu the very act of relieving Mr Mead of some of bis apples. After a good chase the constable threw his baton at the runaway and then brought him io bay, and promptly conveyed him to the lockup The plunderer turned out to he one of our very undedrahle reside, is in the town, and iif. era search in aback street the con - s'alilo limi.d I'ie swag, which consisted ol ii.nl a si* e a I'm I ci good apples. Our reporter met the emistahlo staggering under the load and he lirmly refused to divide the spoil.

Miss M. Murphy, of Morrison’s Bush, is about to start business at South Greytown as milliner, dressmaker and habit maker. We have no doubt Miss Murphy will find plenty of work in the above lines.

Owing to the Dalefield cricketers not being able to get a team together last Saturday, the match with the second eleven of Grey town fell through. Practices will be held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings tins week. Palmerston North not being able to get a team together to come to the Wairarapa a match will pro* bably be arranged with a Wellington club.

Three little girls, aged 3, 5, and 7 years appeared at the Court at Napier last Wednesday charged with breaking windows. 20 in number. The two younger children were dismissed (and well they might be} ; the eldest was fined 10s, costs 235, or three hours’ imprisonment.

A resident in Greytown met with a bad accident in crossing the rotten platform on Saturday night; he was riding across when bis horse went through one of the numerous holes. The horse escaped with a grazed leg, but the rider is now very lame and threatens to go for some one for damages. On Friday night there was a hole in the middle about the size of a man’s body in circumference. This was patched up by Mr H. Benge. It will not pay any person to cross this man trap at present without they bold a policy for a, substantial sum in an Accident Insurance Company. A young man named Parsonage, who bad been suffering from delirium tremens was lodged in the Napier gaol on Wednesday night, to be medically examined in the morning. He became very violent, knocking bis head against the wall, and the prisoners shouted out that he was knocking his brains out. At last a warder went to his door and spoke to him, but did not enter the cell for a minute or two. Parsonage was then quieter, but soon renewed his violent conduct until nearly midnight, when he was heard to fall on the floor of his cell. When his cell was opened at 6 o’clock next morning, he was found dead from the injuries he had received.

The new municipal buildings at Christchurch were opened on Thursday afternoon with a luncheon pro vided by the members of the City Council. It had been expected that the Mayor would have acted as host, but ho declined to do so, saying he would, instead of providing luncheon, give 50 tons of coal to the poor of Christchurch and the suburbs during the coining winter. Tho councillors accordingly got up the luncheon and invited the Mayor. He declined to be present.

The news from Afghanistan is watched with considerable anxiety. It is reported on good authority that Wussian emissaries are displaying considerable activity in Cabul and other parts of the country. Iheir object is suspected to be to foment a rising. An agitation is being vigorously carried on in Bulgaria in favor of throwing qff the yoke of Turkey and declaring the independence of the country. Tho r n pulace everywhere shows great enthusiasm on the sub ject, and is urging the Regency to take a bold plunge. Intelligence has been received from British Columbia of the discovery of an extraordinarily rich goldfield.

Mr Wood has fresh additions to his Featheraton stock sale.

An English hackney horse breeder says : —I hare invariably found a sire gets better stock after ten years old than before that age; and mares, as a rule, show better colts after ten years old.

There have been in Melbourne lately five days of terrific thunderstorms. On one day two inches of rain fell in twenty minutes. At Daylesford it hailed masses of ice from three to six inches square, some of which turned the scale at a pound Immense damage has been done to fruit trees—not the fruit and loaves only, but the very branches being stripped, and vineyards have been utterly ruined.

A correspondent of the Tiraaru Herald has been writing about corporeal punishment in schools and quotes what he calls “ the maxim of Holy Writ”—“Spate the rod and spoil the child.” The Bruce Herald says he must be first cousin to tfae Lancashire man, who, in commencing a prayer, apologised to the Almighty for dating 10 approach him, but he was encouraged by the Scripture which says—“ Faint heart never won fair lady.” To the Inhabitants of Martinborongh and tho Lower Valley : Please don’t forget to call at the Town Hall, (or Cheap and Good Drapery, on and after 8A TUKDAY, 26ih nst., for 14 days.— Advt. 231) 6

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A.n exchange remarks that Brazil has a population of 13 millions, and if once a trade with that country were opened up nearly the whole dairy produce of New Zealand could be exported thither.

The Salvationists in New Zealand have raised bv special effort £419 as a “ Self Denial Fund” in order to clear off some of the liabilities of the Army. Burketown, Queensland, was visited on March 9ih by a cyclone, which lasted ten hours. Nearly all the buildings in the place were either unroofed or blown down, excepting the Custom House and the Court House. Destitute families were provided with temporary accommodation in those buildings. The river overflowed its banks, and submerged a portion of the town. Mrs Catherine Williams, Mrs Higbman and two children named McGann, a carrier and his mate (name unknown), and a Chinaman were drowned. There wore heavy losses in horses and stock. Telegraph posts were snapped like glass, and the line totally destroyed as far as can be travelled along. The post and telegraph office was wrecked. Many business people have been hopelessly ruined, add the loss is variously estimated at £12,000 to £20,000.

Franz Erdman, alias Horning, a Kimberley digger, has been sentenced to death at Western Australia for the murder of his mate named Johnston. Erdman shot Johnston while the latter was lying in bed, buried the 'body, took possession of Johnston’s effects, and fled for Derby. A digger passing the spot where the murder took ploce, felt the ground soft. He dug for rations, and found the body. The defence was that the prisoner shot Johnston at the latter’s request, after he had made a futile attempt to commit suicide.

At Oxford, Canterbury, last week, a six roomed house was burned down and Mrs Anderson and two children were burned to death. Myers won the 1000 yards race at Sydney with George. The Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase was won by Game Cock at the Spring Meeting, March 24. The foundation stone for the Burns statue at Dunedin was laid on Saturday. The Greytown Mutual Improvement Society meet tomorrow evening at the Oddfellows’ Hall. The Greytown footballers turned out on Saturday for the first kick of the season. The frauds committed in Melbourne by Charles A. Smyth, for which ho has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, have attracted more than usual attention on account of the magnitude of the sums involved, and also owing to the position which the prisoner occupied in connection with the Wesleyan Church. The accused was convicted oi having cheated one Thomas Retallick out of jG[2()<), and there was evidence that he had robbed him of an additional £2500. Smyth’s confession, which was extorted from him by threats of prosecution, was made with so much dignity and with such an i-jured air as to make the auditors Ice. tuat they were criminals and the accusers. Ho laid the blame of his transgression entirely on the “ devil.” It was the devil who had tempted him to tell the first lie, and had gradually enfolded him in a net-work of falsehoods, until he was compelled to keep on lying, though it was a practice quite foreign to his nature and his principles.

Financial reasons hare prevented a parcels post being established in the colony during the current year, but the arrangements are now forward for bringing it into operation during the ensuing financial year. Before its benefits cau be extended over the sea the sanction of Parliament will be necessary.

At the Grey town K.M. Court this morning, before his worship the Mayor, Joseph Higgiesou was charged by Constable Eccleton with being illegally on the property of Mr Joseph Mead. The accused had removed a quantity of apples, which were found on a back road. Sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with bard labor. The following are the names of the Greytown Kifle team to shoot against the Featherston Kifles on Saturday next, April 2nd, at Featherston ; Captain Cameron, Lieut Johnston, Col Sergt Willason, Sergts Trotman, Gooding and Humphries, Vols Fisher, Harris, Sayers, K. Hall, senr., and C. E. Gooding.

The Army and Navy Gazette furnished a few interesting facts about that gorgeous outfit—the fleet on the Australian station. There are ten vessels in all and not ono could overtake an armor plated bullock dray, thirteen knots an hour being their busting ultimatum. The Diamond and Opal are obsolete corvettes, armed in some bow and arrow fashion of long ago. The Haven and Swinger are obsolete gunboats, and as they can neither sail nor steam they must rely on their oars if they go into action. The Harrier, Undine, and Dart, ore three slow going schooners without steam power, and two «f them condemned in the hast Indies ns utterly useless, and the Dart figures in the Navy list as a steam yacht. Austral! ) has been relying with childlike confidence on this mass of wreckage, but for actual service we vote for a black tracker armed with nitro glycerine and a good, old fashioned canoeSydney Bulletin. The Colonial Secretary has refused to grant a warrant to the Working Men’s Club at Pahiatus. The Palmerston Times makes the following remarks Working men owe the! Colonial Secretary a debt of gratitude. The average ‘working men’s clubs ’ simply exists to provide a lazy custodian with an easy life, and m enable, 1 the working man to waste his time ■ and lose his mouej, 1

The Soutb’Australian cricket match was drawn.

TheOreytovrn Brass Bandwi'ip’ny on Mr Udy’s balcony at Kuratiwhiti on Wednesday night. Mr TJ. Bunny had a lengthy interview at Greytown on Saturday, with the natives in connection with the Lake difficulty. Piripi and a number of the native chiefs were present and some very imp >rtant details were discussed. Eventually the meeting was adjourned until the Native Committee have ascertained whether they have been duly gazetted a properly constituted body to deal with the matter. It was understood that the next con ference will be held shortly in the Lower Valley.