Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1887.

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

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1887.

Special excursion train to Wellington tomorrow. Another meeting of the Featherston Butter Factory will be held on Monday next, when the report oi the building committee will be considered. The Greytown Rifle Volunteers intend having a soiree on Tuesday night, 31st May. Tomorrow Messrs Maxton and Webster will make their debut as auctioneers before the Featherston public and will submit a large consignment of general merchandise. This evening the Greytown Amateur Dramatic Club will re-prodnoe “ Lady Aulley’s Secret ” with the Maypole Dance at the Town Hall, and conclude the evening’s entertainment with the laughable farce “ Box and Cox.” We hope the Club will draw a good house. The Carterton Fire Brigade has been invited to take part in the torchlight procession in connection with the next Monday night’s popular entertainment at Greytowu. The Greytown Football Club has accepted the challenges of the Masterton Clnb to play first and second fifteen matches at Greytown on Saturday next. The following teams will represent Masterton : —First Team—Back Roydhoose, three-quarters C. Perry and H. Dyer, halves R. Thompson, W. Perry and Holmwood, forwards Whatman, W. E. Welch, Hounslow, Kibblewhite, O’Connor, C. Bannister, Cox, F. Felling, W. Day; emergen* cies—Back D’Arcy, forwards F. and G. Welch. Second Team—Back D’Aroy, threequarters A. Welch and Hemmingway, halves E. Felling, H. Perry, and E. Welch, forwards F, G., and Walter Welch (3), Simeon, Bodmin, Miller, Emmett, T. Bannister, and McKenzie. The second Greytown football team must be on the ground by 2 p.m. on Saturday. The first fifteen by 3 o'clock sharp. Mr|F. H. Wood will offer for sale by public auction at bis Greytown rooms tomorrow a valuable section of laud being Mo 91, Greytown, w'th all improvements, now in the occupation of Mr 8. Jackson. Good Words—From good Authority,— * ' ' We confess that we are pmfeotly amazed at the run of your Am. rioau Go’s Hop Bitters. We never had anythin.! .ike it, and never heard of the like Tire writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has seen the rise oi Hostetter’s, Vinegar and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, iu their best days, begin to have the run that American Hop Bitters have. * * We can't get enough of them. We are out of them half the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co,, U.S.A., August 22, ’7B, from Benton, Myers & Co., Wholesale druggists, Cleveland, 0. Be sure and see

A correspondent of a Wellington paper calls attention to footballers travelling in the tram cars with unclothed legs, which are not always clean. It is a pity that all footballers do not wear stockings iu public and not offend public decency. Good for Babies, that our baby was permanently cured of a serious protracted irregularity of tbe bowels by the u-e of America Go’s Hop Bitters by its mcthor, which at the same time restored her to perfect health and strength.’’—The Parents. Bee 11 Bnohu Baiba." Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder and urinary diseases. At chemists and druggists. Kemp* tborne, Prosser & Go., Agents, Dunedin. When Moiiarty’s Jubilee price list was read, Itcreated tbe greatest sensation ; Ail the small dealers unitedly said " He'll certainly ntartlo the nation,” They were right indubitably—wait and you'll see, 'Tis tbe best celebration of our Queen's Jubilee. \ou have no doubt raid the price list ; its that you now examine the goods. m ' ‘ Bough on Goms," Ask for Wells''' Rough 3u Corns." Quick relief, complete, permanent ;are. Corn warts, bunions. At chemists »ud druggists. MAYOR DUFFY SAYS ; Buodabeig, Queensland, July 17, 188(5.—I linefeed two imttlee iff Warner’s safe cure, l! "I ‘' l ''' ,lS ' vt '' puls, and can testily to .mm i idee, v i.s a i,. u - iy f.n Idle on 'the council, oi indigesti .0, It will always afford me very great |iluusu>e to recoin men J the medicine to my Mends and my acquaintances -AUOHABL DUFFY, Mayor of Bundaberg.

Messrs Maxton and Webster, auctioneers, hold their first sale of general merchandise at Featherston, tomorrow, at the Oddfellows’ Hall. They have a large assortment of miscellaneous articles, such as groceries, farm produce, fancy goods, &o. The Gteytown Amateur Dramatic Club have been goiug to some expense lately in the endeavor to place before the public plays of a taking character, and in reproducing Lady Audley’s Secret this evening they hope to obtain the patronage of the public to lift them out of debt. On two occasions in the past the club had very wet nights which spoiled the attendance and consequently left them with expenses which had to be met all the same. The effort made at the present time will, we hope, place them in a good financial position, which will give the members heart for the future and enable them to provide fresh entertainments for the public. The prices at the Gteytown Town Hall tonight are 2s 6d, Is fid and Is. The Waiohine Lodge of Druids at Grey, town is progressing in a most satisfactory manner, and of late new members have been made each lodge night. The usual weekly dancing assembly took place last night at the Greytown Town Hall, and was well attended, Mr J. Maguire was M.O. and the event was most enjoyable. Mr C. Beard’s football trophy, a handsome silver cup, has arrived at Greytown, and the fortunate competitor that secures it at the end of the season will doubtless be proud of his prize. The Post says—Mr Buchanan is moving in the direction of getting a Registrar of Electors, with a central office in the district, appointed for Waitarapa South, and has on the order paper a question on the subject. The Land Board have resolved on the motion of Mr MoCatdle, seconded by Mr Reese, to recommend Government to allow two persons to become tenants in common of one perpetual lease section. A member of Parliament has given notice that it is desirable the Premier should only have LISOO, that there should be only four other members of the Executive at LIOOO a year each, and that they should receive LI Is per day in addition to the actual cost of travelling expenses. The Greytown Rifle Volunteer Management Committee will meet tomorrow night and some very important business will be transacted. A bayonet team of the corps will soon be formed for regular practice. The Palmerston North tannery and fellmongery was burned down at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. Very little was saved. The property was insured lor £750. Mr Buchanan has given notice in the House to ask the Minister far Public Works, Whether he will reduce the rates of freight for firewood carried on the Wellington-Mas* terton line of railway.

At a meeting of the Opposition party yesterday it was determined to insist on the Representation Bill being disposed of before any debate on the Budget. So fat there is a clear majority of the House in favor of this course. A gentleman who is a great authority in the matter of lire brigades, has undertaken to ascertain the price of a fire engine suitable for the purposes of the Greytowu Volunteer Brigade. On Tuesday next Messrs Maxton and Webster will submit to public auction the whole of Mr E. Gray’s stock in trade, which will be of interest to builders, blacksmiths, and the general public. The household furniture will also bo offered, and there is no doubt the new firm will have a large concourse of buyers. Mr Pearson intends to ask the Government whether their attention has been drawn to some notable instances of apparently excessive charges for travelling expenses of certain members of V/aste Laud Boards in Auckland, Wellington, and Otago ; and whether they do not think a fixed scale of travelling allowances should be made? Or Newman also is going to aek the Minister for Lands, if he will take steps to largely reduce the great cost of the Land Boards by reducing the fees and travelling expenses of the members ?

The Tararna toll gate erected by the Wairarapa North County Council on the Gorge road promises to be a lucrative investment. The Council being unable to make reasonable terms with a lessee appointed a collector and Mr Wm Feist has given details showing the first week’s receipts to be £36 Is or at the rate of £2OOO a year. 'What must the other toll where passengers have to pay be producing ?—Star. The retrenchment in the Public Works Department, which we mentioned yesterday, involve the compulsory retirement of 47 officers, of which, however, only eleven were engaged on the permanent staff of the department. The remainder are, we are informed, temporary overseers, who have been employed on special works, and whose services will not be further required unless extra work are put in hand by authority of Prrliament. The dismissals of officers are not of a summary nature, but notice has been given to each of them that their services will be dispensed with some time between now and September next. The aggregate amount of their salaries is said to be between three and four thousands pet annum. Amongst the numbers are Messrs Enorpp, Eooh, Beatson, and Boohfort.—Post.

A slight error crept into our report of the late meeting of the Featherston Road Board re ttm Awhea Road, the resolution should read " to give Mr Hrrris an opportunity to see Mr Riddiford in the meantime,” not Mr Pharazyn as printed. The directors of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Co. have entered into a contract with Messrs Tyser and Co., London, to run two steamers, each fitted to carry 22,000 sheep, of which the company is to have two-thirds. The period of the contract is two years, or four voyages for each steamer. From the first loaning of the first steamer in .September next, the rates of freight are lid per lb for mutton and lamb, and Ij-d per lb fur beef, with 5 per cent, primage, half of which is to be returned. The NZLifc MA Co have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 11th instant .'—Frozen meat—The market is depressed, and is much overstocked with lamb. Auckland mutton is worth 41 and lamb 5d per lb. Canterbury mutton is worth 41jd and lamb s)d per lb.; Mr John Reid, an old settlor residing in the \ Grey Valley, ou the West Coast, ami owner of a sawmill, started the other morning with three horses and a load of timber for Blackball. Not coming back at night some of Iris men went to look for him, and found him dead under lus dray loaded with titula r. It is not known how the accident occur*ed, except that the dray capsized. Deceased owned a good deal of property in the Valley, He was a bachelor, aud bad been it stanch teetotaller all his hie, aud did a great deal <d good in a quiet way. Another attempt is being made to smelt iron sand, and Mr Hipkuc-, a .Staffordshire j ironmaster ami bis sun. arc now at New i Plymouth to eupeiinteud the experiment. A trial is to be made in the furnace at Henui, which was built some lOycais ago.