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Wairarapa Standard, Issue 2067, 13 May 1887, Page 2

The Gieylown football teams, to the strength of about 30, turned out for practice last night, and some excellent play was the result. Some of the new men will tbit yew effect a surprise. Mr F. H. Wood's stock sale at the Taratahf yards was held yesteruay, and a considerable number of stock changed hands at prices as under Calves and yearlings steers Vss, two year old heifers 30s to 455, do steer 40s to oOs, three year old steers 71* to dOs, cows 40s to IOSs, lambs 2s 3d to 3s Id, ewes 2s fid to 4t, wethers 4s to fis. An advertisement it now published for the next sale at Ih ■ Tara* tahi yards and further eutriea may be tent in fo the auctioneer. Ur Ormond's Bill to amsnd the Governor's Salary and Allowances Act will provide lor the limitation of the Governor's salary and allowances to £4OOO or £SOOO year. Tha ben gentleman’s Members Honorarium and Members Privileges Bill proposes to rsdos* tbs honorarium of members from £2lO to £l5O or £IOO.

Mr F H Wood'* sale in the Greytown rooms tomorrow starts at one o’clock (harp. Th« outside lota will b« taken first. Tbsy comprise 20 couples ol iowli, and a plough and set of harrows. An adjournment will thm be made to tbs room where a very long catalogue has to be gone through, and which by reierence to the advertisement, it will be seen includes almost everything that is at all marketable. A section ot land in Main street, Greytown, has also to be sold. Women serve as jurors in Washington Territory, and, according to a correspondent of a Chicago legal periodical, the lawyers ot the territory, who were opposed to the innovation at first, declare that they are now quite converted. They never saw cases tried before more intelligent, clearheaded, and reliable jurors than the women. Five out of twelve jurors in one case, and twa out of twelve in another were women.