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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2093, 18 July 1887, Page 2

The Qreytown Mutual Improvement Society hold their meeting in the Oddfellows’ Hall, tomorrow night, at 7.30. We hope to see a good attendance of members and friends present, as the meeting will be devoted to indoor amusements.

The nsaal fortnightly meeting of the Temperance Society takes place tonight at 7.30. A discussion will take place as to which can* didate the Society shall support at the forthcoming election. All who can come are invited to da so.

Mr Wood’s list for next Thursday’s sals at Taratahi lards is now well filled, with both sheep and cattle. Farther entries can be received up to time of sale.

We regret to report the death of Mrs Pound of Qreytown, which took place last Friday evening. She leaves a husband and a family. We learn on goad authority that the Carterton constable had nothing to do with Mr A Douglas’s case which came before the Carterton B.M. Court last week. The constable was not present and was in no way responsible for the summons issued against Mr Douglas. It was issued by the direction of the Magistrate.

A wall known medical man in Germany states that he has discovered a new disease already firmly established among telegraph operators, bat fortunately confined to them. The continual tapping on the telegraph key causes the operator’s finger nails to drop off. Several oases of this new disease are already noted among the older Berlin operators, but whether it is infections or likely to spread among non-telegraph people has not yet been determined.

The Wellington Opera Home on Saturday afternoon was packed with children from floor to ceiling te witness the Lynch Family Bellringers. Tbe!sheeptarmers|ot Hawke’s Bay exported 99,000 sheep last season, apportioned as follows Wellington, 20,000; West Coast, 29,000; Waikato and Auckland, 47,000. Daring the same season more than 1,000 stud sheep were imported into the district.

The Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association is a nourishing concern, as it made a net profit of L 6804 on a turn over of L 35.000. The Association declared a divi. dead of 7 per cent and a bonus of 2J per cent on share capital paid np, A further bonus of 21 per cent was agreed to be paid to shareholders on their purchases and commissions paid during the year. The staff were voted a jubilee bonus of LIOO, to be divided among them pro rata.

You can be Happy if you will stop all your doctoring yourself and families with expensive doctors or cnre.alls that do only barm, and use Nature’s simple remedies for all your ailments, you will be well and happy and save great expense. The greatest remedy for this, the great, wise, and good will tell yon, is Am. Co’s Hop Bitters. Speaking lately In the H.B. district, Mr Sutton perpetrated a regular “ bull.” Speaking of taxation, he said, “ Yon cannot collect taxes from a naked man. Yon must take it from something be has in bis pocket.” The audience began to simmer at once and in ten seconds were in a violent ebullition of laughter, while the perpetrator awnug round on his heel and retreated to the back of the stage to mentally box hie own ears. Return* ing to the front he fairly bogged the bull and caused more laughter by explaining—” You must take it from something he has in his possession—if he has anything.”

A Home paper says that society at the present time cannot be said to be progressing in a heavenly direction. The scenes in the Divorce Courts are scenes indeed; there seems to be no shame. One gentleman, an old north countryman, was seen sitting in the morning room of his club, by the fireplace, weeping copiously, after an unsatisfactory verdict in the Divorce Court. A friend went up to console him, telling him not to think of the disgrace, as it would soon blow over. The reply of the aged delinquent was—“ Disgrace I It is not the disgrace I mind—it is the costs my dear friend—the ennfcwunded expense of the whole concern 1 * Benefactors.—" When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the discovery that by combining some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would onto such a wide range of diseases that most all other remedies could be dispensed with, many were skeptical, bnt proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and today the discoverers of that great medicine, Dr Soule’s American Go’s Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by all as benefactors.” Bead The American Dairyman says:—Let a drop of fresh milk fall Into a glass of pure water. If the milk promptly disseminates itself through the water, the cow that yielded that milk is not with calf, bnt if it sinks to the bottom of the glass as it falls upon the water, and does not produce but little of a milky cloud, the cow is pregnant. The specific gravity and viscidity of the albuminous milk being heavier than water, thns retains the drop of milk and causes it to sink. If reliable, the above information may be of great value to dairymen.

Down in the Oamarn district a gentleman recently discoursed to some children in one oi tbe Sunday schools on "Precious Things,” and in tbe coarse of his remarks be said tbe Bible was more preeions than gold. He then, with tbe object, no donbt, of testing their susceptibility for tbe Bible admonitions, asked them which they would prefer, the Bible or gold. All but one, who cried out for gold, elected to take the Bible. The little fellow who preferred gold was asked afterwards by bis father why he preferred gold, and tbe answer was—” Way if you have the gold, yon oau buy the Bible, and have the ebauge out.”

Wliilo Now Zealand farmers have to complain that frozen moat is only fetching about id per lb wholesale in England, the following prices are being paid there: — Logs and loins of mutton, lOd per lb; shoulders, 9d; necks, 8d; and breasts 6d. Beef is retailed at lOd per lb for sirloins and rounds, 9d for ribs, and 7dfor brisket. Those are taken from an Isle of Wight butcher’s circular, and the prices are underlined a* for cash Hawke’s Bay Herald,

Messrs Maxton & Webster had an excellent auction sale at their Greytown rooms on Saturday last. The attendance was not large, but some good buyers were present. Mr Buchanan will address the electors of Morrison’s Bush to-morrow evening at the school house.

We remind shareholders in the Grey, town Bettor and Cheese Factory Go. Limited, that the annual meeting will bo held at Mr F. H. Wood's office, Greytown. to-night (Monday) at 8 o’clock. Wo understand that there is important business to be dealt With, so there should bo agoodatteadftUWi

Herr Krupp, the great gun manufacturer, is dead.

Inspector Orbell, has wired to Ur H. Bunny, Chairman of the Cattle Board, re Mr Bussell's cattle, as follows The complaint it not the foot and month disease. Xwentyone purebred cattle having been pat into a paddock,(ate large quantities of ergot, and that produced gangrene in the lower limbs. No cause lor any alarm.

Major Atkinson addressed his constituents at Hawera the other evening, on Colonial questions. The meeting lasted till long alter midnight, and alter a long discussion about the Stratford railway and other local matters, a motion of thanks was negatived by 64 to 54 in favor of a vote of no confidence.

The Lynch Family Bellringers appear at the Town Hall, Carterton, on Wednesday ; Town Hall, Qreytown, on Thursday ; Oddfellow’s Hall, Featherston, on Friday next. They present a capital programme. We understand that Mr Wm Udy has purchased the well known Platform Farm, Qreytown. The property was in Mr F. H. Wood’s hands lor sale, and he has lost no time in finding a buyer. The estate is certainly a very nice and valuable bolding, and we congratulate Mr Udy on his acquisition. The price paid has not transpired. The people of Victoria have now the right to forward penny post cards into the whole of the Australian colonies with the exception of New Zealand.

The Wellington Post of 14th instant is exceedingly irate at what it is good enough to characterise as our “ impudence ” in remarking upon its unfair and uncalled lor interference in the politics of the Waitarapa, and takes the opportunity tor a little barmy less blaster by declaring: “ The circulation of the Evening Post, in the Waitarapa dStricts, is enormously in excess of that of any of the local papers.’* We have no especial objection to the interference of the Post in our local affairs, if it confines itself to mat* ters of fact and remains hostile to Mr Buchanan. Experience has shown that the antagonism of the Evening Post is, among thinking men, far more likely to prove a certificate of merit than is its approval. The Post, for instance, made one Wellington man by abusing him. What we objsct to is this paper’s distortion of fasts, garbled information, and unfair editorial comments. These things we shall have the “Impudence’’ to continue to object to. Mr Bunny’s case must be weak indeed when a paper like the Post has to be dragged in to assist the Observer and the Star. The statement regarding the circulation of the Post is on a par for truthfulness with the assertion made in 1885 to the effect that its circulation was as large as that of all the local papers put together. But even granting its circulation is as " enormous ” as it states, thpt surely is all the greater reason why it should state truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

The complete skeleton of a moa has been discovered at Cromwell. There are brownish feathers at the back of the head. A two-yeaT'Old son of a man named Nor> gate, living at Lyttelton, was killed on Fri> day through drinking scalding tea out of a tea-pot. The polling of the members of the Australian Mutual Provident Society on the pro. posal to limit the risk of any one life to LSOOO instead of LIO.OOO, as suggested by the directors, has resulted in favor of the higher limit.

A ball in connection with the Carterton Bifie Volunteers took place on Friday night in the Town Hall. About 60 oonples were present and the affair was a great snceess. At the Steeplechase Meeting on Saturday, Zulu won the Trial Steeplechase Handicap, Kangaroo the Hurdle Handicap; Deceiver the Flying Handicap; Bobo the Wellington Steeplecbase Handicap and Forward the Selling Hnrdle Race. The Welter Handicap was won by Deceiver.