Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weakly, Price Id. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2057, 20 April 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weakly, Price Id. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887.

A meetisg to consider the question of building a bridge oyer the Waiohine River, between Matarawa and Greytown will be held at the Town Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr Buchanan, M.H.R., will address the electors at Featherston this even' ing, at Greytown tomorrow evening and at Martinborough on Friday evening. How to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee will be considered by the Carterton people in public meeting on Friday night. The dates for the cantata “ Under the Palms ” are now announced. They are Greytown, Wednesday, 4th May ; Featherston, Friday, 6th May ; and Carterton, Monday, 9th May. Measles are very prevalent among the young people of Masterton at present. Mr F H Wood notifies that Mr D McMaster’s sale has been postponed until Thursday, 19th May Mr F H Wood’s sale at the Greytown Rooms, on Saturday next, is assuming large proportions, effects in the estate of Mr B Kimberley being now added to the previous already comprehensive list Mr F H Wood advertises a long list of stock for his next Taratahi sale on Thursday, 28th instant. He asks that additional entries should be sent to

him as early as possible. Sir Thomas Gore Browne, at one time Governor of New Zealand, is dead. His age was 80 years A slip of thousands of tons of earth buried one man and broke botb legs ol another near Westport, yesterday. The dates for the production ol ‘‘ Under the Palms ” have now been definitely fixed. They are: Greytown, Monday, 2nd May ; Carterton, Wednesday, 4th May ; and Featherston, Friday, 6th May. At the Carterton R.M. Court, on Tuesday, C. H. Giles was fined 20s and costs for consigning dangerous goods by rail. Geo. Vickerstaff had to pay 14s and costs for deserting bis wife. A charge against Walter Morrison, by Mr Seymour Tancred, for libel, was dismissed. The Rev. L. M. Isett, of Wellington.

is visiting the Wairarapa this week. Many of his Greytown friends will be glad to know that he will preach this evening, at 7 o’clock, in the Wesleyan church The Carterton Fire Brigade mem* bers are having contests for a silver medal. The medal has to be won three times, and the award is for smartness. Mr F. Tyler, on Saturday, earned the medal for the time being. We are requested to ask all the performers of the Cantata “ Under the Palms ” to meet in the Town Hall, Greytown, next Friday evening, at half past seven, for rehearsal. A full attendance is specially desired. A meeting was held at Carterton on Saturday night for the purpose of starting a Juvenile Lodge of Oddfellows. in connection with the Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge. Mr Buchanan, M.H.H., presided and spoke of the success achieved by the Greytown Juvenile Lodge, and other matters Mr Loasby, P.P.G.M., explain il the working of these societies, and hoped that the proposed juvenile Lodge would be established. Mr Win Booth also addressed the meeting, dealing with the necessity of providing recreation and instruction for the young. Several names were given in to Mr Manning, the secretary, and a vote of thanks was passed to those gentlemen who had shown an inteiest in the object of the meeting. A threshing machine and elevator, the property of Mr G. Herm, were destroyed by fire at t'e Ore Ore, yesterday morning, also a straw stack and a hall uothresbed wheat slack c-snl. i ling about 000 bushels. 100 bushels of (iue.-hed wheat was saved with dil'iiciriy X»e machine m l elevator were insured in Urn N, w / 1 c m i miieo for Moil On Tues.by next, 27th hist. Mr F. ii Wood will .-i ii mi belief of the directors ol the Greytown Butter and f'h r-sc Faclorv it (ne Company’s paddocks next Ciiecsr Factory, at i o'clock, 120 ddry ted nigs tie (ilf, fo; tin' lull; sof 'ole'erljj U- divide i and classified as Ai:p..-. /me pork, and bacon : iig ~ tie. These pigs mi never hud othei h,;u nary fond aud should command lii> attention of bacon carets and others Sandkb & Son’s Eucalypti Extbact. Test its eminent powerful elfects in coughs, colds, mliuenza ; the relief is instantaneous. In serious eases and accidents of all kinds, be they wounds, barns, scaldioga, bruises, sprains, it is the suiest tomtdy— no swelling -no inflammation. Like surprising effects produced iu croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, inflammation ol the lungs, swellings, etc.; diarrhoea, dysentery ; diseases of the kidneys aud urinary organs In use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the Jung of Italy ; crowned with ■usual aud diploma at international Exhibi* ton Amsterdam. Int.t to this approved . and n j-j/l. all others. Skinny Men “ bill; Ho mb Henewer restores health aud vigor, cures, Dyspepsia. Impotence, Sexual Debility. At chsmists aud druggists. Kempthorne. Prosser A' Co, Agts. Dunedin

We are sure (says the Post) that in our prisons there must be a considerable number of persons undergoing sentences for offences already sufficiently expiated aud atoned for by the punishment they have suffered, or confined for trivial offences. Might not the sentences in many such cases be wholly or partially remitted in exercise of Her Majesty’s prerogative of mercy, and in celebration ol her Jubilee ? We are sure that all the gaolers and visiting justices could recommend to the Government many cases where such mercy might be shown without danger to the public, and with every reason to believe that it would produce a most beneficial moral effect on those to whom it was extended. Many families would rejoice over the restoration to liberty of loved relations who had sinned and suffered, and in by no means few instances the breadwinner would once more be enabled to labor for the support of those who had been brought to want and misery by his sin and its punishment. We think the suggestion is one which is worthy the attention of the Government.

On Saturday afternoon a Maori named Tuke, 17 years of age, was riding on a load of sawn timber which he was conveying from Steven’s mill at Longbush, Gladstone, to the Maori settlement at Mangabuia, when owing to the unevenness of the track the dray capsized and the driver was killed, death being almost instantaneous. The inquest on the Bulli disaster has resulted in a verdict that the explosion was caused by gas, and was brought about by a disregard of special rules and by allowing men to work where gas existed. Mr Plyger'S Terrace End store at Palmerston North was burnt down at an early hour on Sunday morning, and was completely destroyed. It was one of the largest and oldest stores in the town, and was a landmark. The loss to Mr Flyger over and above the insurances is estimated at £ISOO. Colebrook and Go’s store at Coromandel was burnt down, with the contents, on Sunday night. The insurance is £250, and the damage £6OO.

It is stated by a contemporary that Hall is dying. He eats little or nothing and never utters a word even when spoken to. The farmers in the English midland counties have decided upon a reduction in the wages of the farm laborer, owing, as they assert, to the great depression in trade. The men are to be reduced 2s a week. The ordinary laborers will now only receive 13s, and wagoners 14s a week. Some natives at Tauranga adopted a novel mode of tendering for some work advertised by the County Engineer. Their tender offered to do the

work at Is 9d per yard if any pakeha

tendered at 2s ; but should any pakeha agree to do it at Is 9d they were then prepared to accept Is 6d per yard. The tender was ruled to be decidedly informal. The pastor of the First Church,

Dunedin, wants an organ, and lately stigmatised the singing as “ miserable wheezing.” Three interprovincial cricket matches

have now been played between Auckland and Wellington. Auckland has won them all. The Government of New South Wales have agreed to increase the vote to the Aborigines Protection Association to £3OOO.

The introduction of the sixpenny telegram system has led to a great increase in the business of the Telegraph Department in Victoria. It is proposed during next session to ask for a further vote of £IOOO for each end of Field’s track, between Wanganui and Botoaira. The Hobart City Council has decided to celebrate the Jubilee by building a clock tower, and by illuminations at the Town Hail. There will also be a feast for school children and a procession.

The duty upon cheese in Adelaide is 4d lb, and in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane 2d per lb. No wonder cheesetnaking does not pay in New Zealand, says an exchange. Could we not get these colonies to take off the protective duties ? A somewhat remarkable fatality occurred iu the Sydney Hospital. During the afternoon a woman named Agnes Crane, a widow, residing in Beattie street, Newtown, was admitted to the institution named, on stating that she had had a tooth extracted ou the previous day and had suffered considerable loss ol blood thereby. She was in a very weak condition, aud although she did" not bleed any more, she sank rapidly, aud died at half past nine p m.

Not long ago the editor of an American paper had occasion to write as followsA present in the shape of a battle of fine old Scotch whisky was kindly sent to this office at 2 p.m on Thursday; ten minutes pest that hour not a drain of liquor remained; ten seconds later the office boy had sold the bottle at the rag aud bone shop next door. At 2.30 three men were charged with being drunk and disorderly. The editor of this paper returns thanks for this handsome gilt, and would feel obliged if the donor o; the whisky would send along scun.U ■ two shillings, a policeman’s bemud, a new effico boy, four panes of gins.-, a new street-door knocker, aud—no more wldskv.

The following persons appeared at the Masterton H. M. Court for breach of the Babbit Nuisance Act;—inspector v Alex Bruce ; lined 20s and costs. Same v B P. Perry ; fined 20aaiid costs. Same vJ, C. Ynllance. This was a second information under the Babbit Act ; lined £5 and costs Same v Donald Cameron ; Tied £5 and costs.

The Otago Girls' High School, not to be outdone bv the boys, liavt established a selimd magaziac It is in every way a most creditable production, and pleasantly distinctive in character from the usual boys’ school magazine.