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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2097, 27 July 1887, Page 2

Mr F H Wood hold! a large general sale at Marlinborough on Friday, 29th instant, and ou Saturday he sella in the Oddfellows' Hall, Featberston. Both sales include a large variety of goods, and furniture will be a specialty at each. The Featherston sale is on Tuesday, 2nd August, and the Taratahi sale is on Thursday, 4th August. A fatal gun accident is reported from Helensville, Auckland. A man named Nicholas Hope, a gum digger, and a lad named Thomas Mack, aged 16, were out shooting at Batanra, two miles from Helens* ville, when the boy’s gun accidentally went off, and the charge entered Hope’s head behind the ear, blowing out his brains. John Clements was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Masterton on Mon» day for larceny. Mr F. H. Wood held a very successful sals at Mr B, L. Leaks’ residence, Olareville, yesterday. There was a good attendance and the effects fetched fair priees. The 189 •sore property at West Taratahi was bought by Mr Qeorge for £470. The other farm-house and 29 acres at Olareville—is in Mr Wood’s hands tor sale privately. We hear privately from Dunedin that Sir Bobert Stout will have all his work to do to get re-elected for Dunedin East. His opponent, Mr James Allen, is a most popular man, and a wealthy one too ; while the fresh and vigorous policy he has declared himself in favour of, in opposition to the faded, sickly fads of the Government has met a hearty response from the electors.—Daily Telegraph.

Just now when so much is hsard from a certain class of New Zealand politicians in favor of rigid protection it is interesting to note that the Farmer’s Institute of Renfrew, Oanada, passed a resolution on the 13tb June last in favor of [freetrade with the United States, ahd pledged the institute t a do its utmost to carry such a policy to a successful issue. It is said that this trade question is the all absorbing issue of the time in Canada. Palmerston is to be shortly lighted with gas.

It is reported that Major Walmsley, the manager of the New Zealand Stud Company, who ie at present on a visit to England, has purchased on behalf of the cumpany, the stallion Limestone by Wenlcok— Dareiimy, and lull brother to Quicklime. Entries for Mr P H Wood’s coming stock sales should be sent in as eaily as possible so as to secure publicity. fling Kalakaus.ot the Hawaiian Ist*ads, is Ukmg active steps in the direotiou of forming a Navy.

At Rockhampton, the othc day £6 per share was refused for a parcel of 1000 shares ia the Mount Morgan mine. Count de Lesseps, a son of the famoui French engineer, has reached Chicago from an inspection of the Panama Canal, fie states that 10,000 men ate kept at work, with the hope of finishing the cut in 1880. Capital is accumulating in England so steadily and rapidly, notwithstanding the talk of depression, that for the first time in his« tory investors are satisfied with; 8 per cent, cbove the inoome tux. The Press generally throughout the colony condemn the action of tbe Liberal Association at Christchurch in organising opposition to prevent Mr Bruce getting a hearing. The aooahed Liberal Association had handbills priuted and distributed amongst its members, requesting their attendance, and there is no doubt that the rowdyism and yabooism displayed werejpieviously planned. Large numbers of people are taking advantage of the rpcciul trains running from Mcl* bourne to tue Adelaide Exhibition,

The Carterton Poultry Show tomorrow at the Town Hall. The Waihenga bridge will be cart traffic lor a tew daye daring the pro** of pile driving. Horseipea will be allowed to cross. Since Cardinal Moran has been in Sydney —some three or four years—he has let con-; tracts for baildiug edifices in connection with, the Catholic Ohnroh to the eztentot £350,000 Mr J. P. Webb, undertaker of Timarn, Id; down in a fit the oher morning, and di»i within a few minutes. Qreytown has fallen into the hands of tin drapers. Mr P Dickson, of ths Wholesale Drapery Company, oamo down like a wolf on the fold, and looked as though be was going to absorb all the trade. His parade of wellfilled oases through the town put one in mind of a oirous show. Then appeared some thunder and lightning bills from the bouse of M Caselkerg and Co., announcing a clearing sale (or tbirtyi-one days. Mr Mnir set hi. house in order and fires away through the Standard telling the public of hi* bargains, and intent upon doing “a good stroke of business.” Messrs Veiled and Allan have now issued a very attractive price list cf goods, and if the public of Oreytown and vicinity do not lay in a stock of drapery and clothing goods, it will not be because they have not been invited to bay at very low prices. The export trade in cattle earned on between Queensland and Victoria has been discontinued, owing to the low prices ruling in the Melbourne market.

A Melbourne paper says Alexander Boland, a well known fanner of the Sellerst district, was killed in a very extraordinary manner. He was son versing on mechanism of guns with a friend, whan he suddenly fainted, and a loaded gnn which be bod Id his hand was fired ofi, owing to the eonensaioD when falling, and the contents lodged in hi* stomach, killing him instantaneously." Six thousand gallons ol wins from ths Anldana vineyard, South Anitrolia, have been purchased at very satisfactory prices by a large wine firm in England. ' The whole gold raised In the Australian colonies from the earliest records to the end of (1885 was 79,078,15T0u, or about tb* value of £818,000.000 sterling.

The Oamurn Uail bu the following;— “ Mr W H Teeebemaker, Taipo, has a splendid patch of purple top swedes. One of the bulbs now shown measures three feet in circumference, and weighs 841b. From Mr McGregor’s Western Farm there is also * large purple top swede weighing 221bs. and measuring 2ft lOin in circumference. When we take into consideration the dry snmmer which we experienced, these roots are very large.”

Since the last war between Francs and Germany immense improvements have been made in the fortifications in and around Ftfis. A new line of forts, far outside of theold ones, has been erected. In all, 34 forts have been built, and these contain all the improvements of modern warfare. Their barracks and magazines are all below the ground, and they form such a wide circle about the city that it will hardly be possible to besiege it in future. It took 800,000 Germans to encircle the old line ; it ought to require an almost incalculable force to invest the new. The walls of Faris have been demonstrated to be useless, and the French do not rely ou them in any way as a,means of defence.

The Greatest Bleseir- -A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that cures every time, and prevents disease by keeping the blood pare, stomach regulw, kidneys and liver active, is the greatest blessing over conferred upon man. Hop Bill, is is that remedy, and the American 00., the genuine manufacturers, are being blessed by thousands who have been cured by it. Try it. See A correspondent of a Sydney paper suggests that votes of thanks at public meetings be done away witn. We think so too. Anything more of a nuisance than to have a whole list of votes oi thanks drawn out in dreary monotony, after the previous infliction of a long string of addresses by solemn parsons, which are intended to be fanny, but are not, it is impossiule to conceive. The whole thing is an utter farce. If the audience was grateful, the speakers knew it as they talked, and when an audience is not grateful and happy, he must be a very inexperienosd or stupid speaker who does not find it out. There are some other reforms which might well be instituted in the same connection. One in particular, that no speaker be allowed to open his lips unless on previous assurance to the Chairman that he lute prepared a speech, and will deliver that and nothing more. It should also be u strict rule that not a word of apologyjwill bo allowed. If e man Is not properly prepered, it is an insult to an audience for bun to stand np and blatherskite away at anything which may strike him oa tho moment, when people are gathered together, they ought to bo talked sensibly to, even if it bo after a blow out of tea and cake. Speakers should remember that tho beverage partaken was tea, not whisky, and that ther mental faculties on sharpened rather than dolled by what they have drank.— Exchange.

Tomorrow night there will be a bog night’s dancing in the Oreytown Town Hall If as successful as the last one a fortnight ago the building will be crowded with the young Me of the district.

Mr Thomas Kempton, son., was summoned to the KM. Court, Qroytown, this morning for alleged cruelty to a horse. It appears that, for old acquaintance sake Mr Kempton has allowed an old horse, aged 34 years, to wander about in his paddocks until in the natural course of events, ho would succumb to the infirmities of old age. Consequently the other day some persons who knew nothing of the circumstancos happened to see the aged nag lying down, and instead of informing Mr Kempton, they rushed off for the local constable, with the result that Mr Kempton, who had promptly destroyed the horse upon learning that ho was in misery, was this morning fined £1 and costs by the KM. Several unimportant civil cases were disposed of.

Persons travelling to and from Waihenga should endeavor to do the journey just now by daylight, as the newly made road on the deviation is very soft, and the ruts are exceedingly dangerous. On Monday night a party returning from the late Mr Cooper’s funeral at Carterton and driving very carefully, were thrown out by the overturning of their buggy, but fortunately uo serious accident was the result.