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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2086, 29 June 1887, Page 2

We draw ateention to the fact that Mr H. Bunny will address the electors at Featherston and Marlinborongh on Thursday and Friday, 7th and Bth July, instead of Wednesday and Thursday, 6th and 7tb, at the respective places as before advertised. Three very desirable properties are now in Mr F. H, Wood's bands to find purchasers and tenants for. Two of them, which are to be let, are at Carterton and contain about 100 acres each with houses and various improvements. The other is an estate of 650 acres at Gladstone, having house, eottage, orchard, and everything as it stands in working order is to be sold on easy terms. Full particulars and amounts of rents are stated in the advertisement.

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices " The Jubilee festivities combined with the still prevailing storm; weather has had a marked in quite stagnating trade, and the market for all descriptions of grain is dull, with prices unaltered. Milling oats are stead; at 2s Id to 3s 2d ; fair feed, Is lOd to 2s ; common do, Is 9d ; southern advices anticipate an earl; advance, but these prognostications ace not borne out b; the Austra lian markets, which are overstocked, and prices show a decline. Oaten straw chaff, L 3 10s ; maize, 4s 4d to 4s 6d ; feed barle;, 2s 9d to 2s lid per bushel ; beans, 3s 9d ; peas, 4s ; fluke seed potatoes, L 5 ; Derwent do, L2 15s ; table potatoes, L2 10s ; onions, L 7 10s to jLB ; rye grass, 8s fid pet bushel. Butter, 6d ; no demand; fresh butter, 9d to lOd, market rather over supplied ; eggs, Is 5d par doz. Adverse Criticism —The Committee of the Victorian Bible Society want LI3OO to LI4OO to carry out a project of giviog the State school children New Testament, with the Queen’s autograph. The Age says “We are not surprised at the little support the project is meeting with, (or we cannot conceive a more pitiful waste than to gjve what nobody wants, because everybody has a Bible, when so many are in peed ol what nobody can do without, namely, a meal.” The Greytown Druids meet tonight. The Greytown fiifle Cadets last night mass t-red fur parade id (he Town Gall. There was a good attendance considering tbqt many were absent at a (ea meeting being held at the same time.

At the inspection parade held last night Captain Cameron informed (he company that the New Zealand war medals had arrived at Greytown. The recipients areVol D Cameron. senior, and Vol D Taylor of the Greytown Kifles. Ti ia medals will be presented at the inspection parade of the company on Saturday night, July 9th, at the Town Hall. Other members of the company ate entitled to medals, but the; have not yet come to hand.

A long night’s dancing under the auspices ol the Greytown Fire Brigade, will be he'd in the Town Dali tomorrow (Thursday) night.

A number of landslips bare recently occurred on the Marticborough to Pahaua road and now travelling in that direction is a work of difficulty.

At the Greytown B.M. Court this morning before Mr Von Sturmer. K.M. John Iverson was charged with furious riding on the public road at Morrison’s Bush. Defendant, who collided with a horse and cart, was fined £5 and costs, £7 10s in all. A man named Williams was fined for being drunk, and several unimportant civil oases were disposed of.

Yesterday was the 49th anniversary of Her Majesty’s Coronation, Mr F H Wood issues an inset today referring to the general sale to be held in bis Greytown rooms neat Saturday. There is a large stock of goods and a quantity of fruit trees, forest trees, and potatoes entered for this sale. We must, however, reler our readers to the advertisement for more detailed iafoimation regarding its attractions. A man named Arthur Carter, after having had a difference with a woman with whom he had’been living, stabbed himself with a pen knife at Wellington yesterday. The injur; was not serious.