Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1887.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2049, 30 March 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1887.

The second eleven o£ the Greytown cricket club have sent a challenge to the Morrison’s Bush club, to play a match there on Saturday. Oar Dalefield Wesloyan friends intend holding their annual picnic on Good Friday, April Bth, in Mr John Wateison's paddock, Waterson’s Line, where they held it last year. Wisely they have arranged to have the meals early—dinner at twelve, and tea halfpast three—to meet the convenience of friends from a distance, and as the charge for each meal is only Is, they will probably have a large number. Dr Pembeiton, of Wellington, died yester day, aged 13. We have a good band in Greytown, but we should very much like to see the members clothed in a neat and striking uniform. In order that this should be attained a few concerts are to be given, the first to take place on 25th of April, and the foljowing gentlemen have formed themselves into a committee to work them up ; —Messrs W 0 Nation, Black, Varnham, A Grigg, jun., J Fuller, sen., and J Fuller, jnn. There was an outbreak of fire in the upper part of the New Zealand Insurance Oom< pany’s building at the corner of Grey street and Lambton quay, Wellington, on Monday night Fortunately it was got under after doing considerable damage (abont £500). Major Atkinson has gone to reside permanently at Nelson, his wife’s health necessitating a change. A well attended meeting was held at Mataraw a last night to consider the matter of the Cart Bridge between Matarawa and Greytown. Mr Coif man Phillips presided. The meeting, which was a representative one, was evidently strongly in favor of the project, and a resolu» tion was carried with only three dissentients, that it is desirable that a bridge be erected near the site of the present swing bridge. It is expected that a meeting will shortly be called in Greytown to consider the same subject and there is every likelihood that the Greytown ratepayers will give every facility towards forwarding the movement.

Mr Geo Williams is now in the Wairarapa demonstrating the value of his patent for exterminating rabbits. Rabbit proof wire fences and self acting traps are the means used.

Mr E J Thompson, storekeeper, Greytown, is now fairly established in his uew premises, aud he has a splendid new stock of merchandise in all its branches.

The Ashburton Mail denies tin; truth of the paragraph going around to iheeltor that the prio ’■ !' H ; r ■ ~:o' r?;, hard j ; * •. i Tl.O ■ ■ 1 , m-.'IT m-'t-jin.- ol tird'-'y-toivtl wh •' , illi.t ,■ , held hist lli;;hl. Pn-.ii’ -i I’. i ..«cr jour, (chairman), lir! I( ', ii-.jt.r-,, Tir. mp-mi, tnul liorul low (m ie! o,i). Correspondence ami head master’s repo-d were read and received. The avnare alti inlMicci fir [lm past month was stated to he 17 >>, and for the past week ly2, with doo names on ilie roll. Humify■accounts were received arid passed lor payment. The appointment of Messrs Trotter and Hebley as visitors tot the remaining period of committee s term of office brought the meeting to a dose. Mr A. Gtigg requests orders lor hot cross buns to be in before Thursday, to save disappointment. Mr J. D, Cox, of Featberston, desires the same.

With our Featherston aud Lower Valley issue we enclose a hand bill selling forth the attractions of Ur F. id. Wood’s sale at Feathtrslon on Saturday next. We understand from Mr Wood that he will have a very large assortment oi goods on the scene, furniture being especially well represented, au that those who are in want of household requisites cannot have a better opportunity of acquiring them.

The Greytown Fire Brigade, at a well attended meeting on Monday night, Lieut Bowers in the chair, resolved to institute the usual weekly dances for the ensuing season, at the Town Hall every Thursday night, upon the same terms as lust year. A committee was formed consisting of Captain Maguire, Firemen Amos, Lewis, 0 Humphries, and C Higgins, secretary. It was resolved to initiate the dancing season with a long night’s dancing on Thursday night fortnight (April 14th), and to hold dances every Thursday night alter, until the close of the season. The first meeting of the committee takes place on Thursday night.

The Grey town Volunteers who intend tojgo to the Taranaki encampment should send in their names at once to the captain or the secretary (Mi 0. Higgins). An inspection parade take i Lee on Tuesday night next.

The Waitaiapa Brass, Band contest at Grey town on .lubilee Day is likely to be curried out. The various bauds in the Valley will no doubt enter for competition. To the Inhabitants of Martinh- ough cu 1 the Lower Valley : Please don’t forget to call at the Town Hall, lot Cheap ami Good XTapery, on and after HAXUEDAV, 2(>th . *«.t 14 days,— Advt, Hod 6 ust., .

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i in- .1 il.iiii .1. ly r.ne under con sidci at ion a m-Ikviiu! suggested itv Aduin.ii Trvou for (lie dclence u( me colonic*. li:oy recognise the great importance hi piovnling an etlective defer,re cin.i-i.i -: I: with a moderate esjieiv.iiture. hut ilitnk that a modifi* call- n id \dmiral Trvou's scheme dmirable. and they accordingly intend ,'o propose that instead of a number of vessels o! the type of the Archer, ,t torpedo cruiser ol doDO tons, which ,s I).-in; 1 , built at Ik vonpoi i, the lice! should eoMsi.-t of fewer ships than bul svvitter, ol larger n.'ooir;,. iii.d earning (l heavier !i I* believed that such a ;ici. w oiio ...... ra.iio useful,

;. n i rouio I•• pi.)\ idl’d St the same i-vpctige as that propo.-ed by Admiral Tryorj,

Tim Loy ul Pride of the Valley Ju voile Lodge ol Oddfellows met at their room, Greytown, on Monday evening. There was a good attendove of members and two fresh ones u re added, ft was decided to hold the anniversary on Queen's Birthday; a tea meeting to be held in the afterpart of the day.

Some of the settlers at Featherstou have decided to form a dairy company for the manufacture of butter and cheese. The capital is fixed at £2OOO in 400 shares of £5 each. Mr P, H. Wood will hold another sale of stock at the Taratahi to-mor-row at one o’clock. - A concert was held at Cartertou on Monday night to aid the funds of the band, but although the programme was a good one and well carried out the attendance was not what was expected. The public should support our local musicians freely, for they are worthy of it. The Committee of the Royal Geographical Society has resolved to ask Sir Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, to invite offers from shipowners for a whaling expedition to the Antarctic Ocean on the lines previously approved; and to solicit the advice or Sir Leopold M’Clintock, Sir George Nares, and others, as to the conduct of the same.

Mr H. de Clifton intends giving up business as butcher in Greytown and stating at Eketahuna. We wish him every success in his new venture, and believe he has a host of friends who will echo the sentiment. During Mr de Clifton’s residence in Greytown—some years —he has proved himself a good friend to those in distress, for he has helped many in a quiet way. The Greytown Mutual Improvement Society last night arranged for an evening’s enjoyment on Tuesday week.

Boys who have a longing to go to sea should read some of the thirty-four cases in San Francisco and New Tork wherein captains and mates are charged with cruelty towards the men. In ten cases men and boys were beaten to death, and in thirteen others were made cripples. I'he average sea cap tain comes as near being a brute as anything moulded in human form. This is extracted from an American paper. It does not apply to the sea captains of the British Empire. It is not often that there is anything very amusing, informing, or suggestive ti fi'.nkrunic/ !!-i! t.|it the Now ;, ii:: i'■■urii • .Him: A.-signn- : cm

but a . in , in; . f these d. "urn- n:,s which is wol! worth Icing preserved. The unfortunate debtor is one Him Wing Koe, a Chinaman, as bis name indicates, and the Official Assignee in inviting tenders for the purchase of the bankrupt’s property says “ The late owner’s unfortunate position is due to losses on butter, and to his imperfect acquaintance with the English language, which led to his giving large credit to persons of small means and easy consciences.” Scarcely a man rises to eminence whom the Scotch do not claim as being more or less related to themselves They have laid hands on Count Von Moltke uow, and it is shown, or attempted to be shown, that lie is a Maclean, and his grandfather was a son of one of the lairds of Coll. We shall not be in the least surprised (says a contemporaryJ if Te Whiti is not declared to bo a Scotchman. Perhaps the safest way would be to say right off that our Father Adam was the first Sandy, and that all the rest of us are brethren of a world wide clan, A traveller in one of the hotels of Bangor, Me., put his false teeth in a glass of water when he went to bed the other night. In the morning the water was frozen solid, and as the water pipes in the house were also frozen, he had to take the glass in bed with him and thus thaw the ice before he could go to breakfast

Two Chinese warsnips are expected in Australian waters shortly. They bring the members of a Commission charged by the Pekin Government with the duty of inquiring into the political and social relations of Chinese in the colonies.

The Napier ‘ Evening News’ says : —“ThoJfcvJ. G. Patterson, in the course of his address said “Of all the contemptible creatures that crawl on God’s earth, I don’t know one more utterly contemptible than the one who, having sprung from the working daesj looks down with scorn and contempt upon’t. Apiti? the manners and adopting the tradicioiiS ot the class that looks down upon him with score and contempt.—And everybody in the congregation fitted the cap on somebody or other !”

A shocking tragedy has happened at Posth. Five olficcrs ami some young actresses from tho Orpheum entered a coffee-house late at night. There being no room for all at one table, a bustle look place, and an old. or, in tim, ordered Rosa Taciano, a little songs!ress of nine, to give her place to him. When she refused he drew out a pistol, and, pointing it at her, said ; “ Go awav, or 1 will shoot you.” The little girl said saucily L shan’t,” and the olticer pressed the trigger, when to his horror the little girl fell lifeless to the ground. He had shot her through the heart. He stared at the frail corpse some moments, and then quick as lightning directed the revolver against himself, and shot himself through tho head. In less than two minutes both were dead. The dead man’s name is Schneoweiss. He was twenty-eight years old.

An Oamaru farmer who rented 100 acres of land, and grew a crop of wheat upon it, has harvested 10 bushels to the acre. After paying all expenses he will have a clear profit of £2OO. This, the ‘ North Otago Times ’ wisely remarks, is equal to about £4 » week for a year.

Tito house of Mr Bowles, near the rail.vay station, Carterton, was entered ou Monday night and robbed of some clothes and books. The Carterton Town Board have resolved upon a public meeting to test the feeling of the residents as to the most fitting way of celebrating the Royal Jubilee. Wairarapa South County Conncil invites tenders for work on Gladstone and Wainuioru road—ll3 chains for mation and culverts.

Mr Andrew Douglas, of the Lower Valley, has sent in a claim upon the Carterton Town Board for £l2, the value of a horse that was impounded and afterwards sold. The contention is that the brands were not correctly advertised and the owner did not know anything of the circumstances. The Board has determined to resist the claim.

The royal palace at Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, is now lighted by electricity, and Honolulu is soon to have an electric light plant, the contract for which has been awarded to an American Corporation.

The sporting world at Home arc in high glee at present over the running ot a “sprinter” named Jennings. Some of the sporting writers aver that he is the coming “ Hutchens ” of England. He jumped into prominence by winuiug, with the utmost ease, the ail Sugland 130 yds Handicap, from the, <5 to 4 yard mark. Weight, 13 stone, height, 6ft. He is 23 years of age and a native of Hastings (England).

We hear that Foatherston has been chosen by Mr Coward, a musician, as a desirable place of residence, and will therefore be an acquisition to the town. At Hawera and Waverley Mr Coward was always in request for dances and concerts.

The Nelson people have resolved to celebrate the Royal Jubilee by re christening the local recreation ground “ Queen’s Park.” This will cost the good people of that sunny clime nothing and will no doubt please her Majesty very much. The individual who suggested this mode of celebration should be knighted. A Southern paper thinks that the suggestion made by a correspondent of this journal recently, that all creditors should agree to score off all outstanding debts in commemoration of the Queen’s Jubilee, is a good one, but is afraid that if our creditors over the water agreed to score off, Sir Julius would go in for new big'cans to ins heart’? content.

A trade journal, io giving a ties eruption oi: a new design in stoves, waxes eloquent over some specially beautiful cast iron work, in which birds are represented, and declares that “ Minute attention has been paid to detail, even the fluttering of the feathers being exactly reproduced.” In the fifty years of the Queen’s reign the numbers under her sway have increased from 126,000,000 to 252,000,000.

The Panama Canal channel will have to bo widened to twice its present capacity. The ground is broken from ocean to ocean and men are working at intervals along the entire survey. The heaviest and only cut of moment is at Bulebra, which is about eleven miles in extent, and when finished will bo 367 ft below the surface. This cut begins nine miles and ahalf from Panama, and is about one quarter finished.

The possibility of a war with Great Britain on the fisheries question has led to investigation of the condition of the forts and other defences on the American frontier facing Canada. The forts are found to be in a most dilapidated condition, and what war vessels there are are rotten old tubs that a single well directed shot would sink.

An eight year old child, named John Macc, of Gardrons, Otago, has been burned to death in attempting to lift a kettle off the fire.

The religious persecution at Tonga continues. Two schooners have arrived at Suva full of Wesleyans, and a small steamer lauded 29.

On February I9tb, the first Handicap ever run in the world under the electric light was brought to a most satisfactory conclusion on the Carrington grounds, Sydney. Seven teen heats were decided, and were witnessed by fully 4000 people, the night being beautifully fine. The handicap resulted in a win for F Hum, in 12 9-lotb secs.

Hancock, the pedestrian, who was in New Zealand a short time ago, and suffered defeat at the hands of young Scott,.has turned up iu England. On November 27th he had al2 hours’ walk with J Hibbard, in the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, fora modei ate stake. Towards the end of the contest he went “ all to pieces,” Hibbard, finally winning by about 300 vards. He covered G(j miles and 5 nips in the allotted time. I !" c Tongariro, which arrived from England on Saturday, brought for distribution in Otago, Canterbury, and Wellington, a large quantity of salmon and trout ova. Included in the consignment are 120,000 Scotch ova, and 100,000 Rhine ova. The former have arrived iu excellent condition, but the latter have come to band in rather bad order. The Scotch ova is for the Otago Acclimatisation Society, and the Rhine ova will be placed partly in the Maiterton ponds and partly in the Christchurch hatcheries. In addition to the ova mentioned, there are 10,000 Loch Leven trout ova, 250,000 Rhine brook trout, 250,000 Alpine charr, and 25,000 Carpian trout ova. The whole i'f the trout consignment is to bo divided between Masterton and Clmd ■ church.—Post.

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