Woodville Examiner. (PUBLISHED BI-WEEKLY.) FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1886.

Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 281, 3 September 1886, Page 2

Woodville Examiner. (PUBLISHED 81-WEEKLY.) FRIDAY, SEPT. 3, 1886.

The Wairarapa and East Coast Agricultural Society hold their annual show at Carterton on November 3rd.

George Harding for using obscene language in the bar of the Abercorn Arms Hotel on Wednesday, about midday, and John Potter, alias “ Bricky,” for refusing to leave the hotel at the same time were given into custody. They were brought up yesterday morning, before Mr C. Hall, J.P. Harding was sentenced to seven days in the Woodville Gaol, and Potter was disenarged, it being his first offence. Thomas Hall and Margaret Graham Houston were again brought up at the R.M. Court, Timaru, on Wednesday, on remand, charged with attempting to murder the prisoner Hall’s wife. Dr Mclntyre was the principal witness called, and his evidence was of a very important character, clearly proving that antimony had been administered to Mrs Hall. The further hearing of the case was adjourned till the next day. The Evening Press says; Still another discovery in the way of gold has been made. The North Otago Times reports that after the storm of a few days ago the sand of the sea shore between the Awamoa Creek and Kartiki has been found to be impregnated with gold, and a number of men are at work on the beach. We are told they are earning good wages. As a proof of this two men have left good situations to work on the beach. The appliances required are of the simplest character.

From the Star we learn that the inhabitants of Pahiatua have presented Miami Mrs Yeats with a handsome marble 14-day clock, with glass shade; cruet, with cut-glass battles ; salt cellars ; biscuit barrel—the last three being oak and silver; and a complete dinner service. On the clock was the following inscription, very neatly executed : “ Presented to D. M. Yeats, Esq., by the residents of Pahiatua, on the occasion of his marriage. 21st August, 1886. Tcmpus Fug it.” Mr McCardle made the presentation, and a vote of thanks was passed to Mrs Crewe for her preparations. For brazen effrontery it would bo hard to match Mrs Sarah Hand, who recently fio-ured in the Launceston Police Court on a”charge of bigamy. Three years ago, when nearly nineteen years old, she married Hand, but, tiring of the companionship, left his house at different periods. On August (last month) she presented herself, together with a fresh bridegroom, at the Baptist Church, York street, and requested Pastor White to perform the marriage ceremony. Pastor White recognised her, and asked if she had not been married by him to her former husband. This she denied, and said it was her sister who had been the bride. The marriage ceremony was then completed, and the bridal pair, instead of leaving the town, spent their honeymeon within its precincts. with the result that the rightful benedict heard of his wife’s second marriage, and laid an information against her. She has been committed tor trial.

The time lor inspectin'; the Wiiirnmpn. County rolls is entendi'd till October Ist, 1886. '

Ilindooism has continued now, without interruption, more than three thousand years, and is at present the creed of one hundred and ninety millions. The Committee of the Tirnumea Association have instructed the Secretary to endeavor to stop the firing of rata trees through the block. During last, season the Tarntnlii Dairy Factory made a profit of nearly 1(1 percent on the capital. During this season did per gallon is to bo paid for the milk.

Air Miller Smith has given the Horticultural Society a special prize of 10s. to be awarded for the best collection of ferns, competition to be open to all under sixteen years of age. The cost of the Biel rebellion is stated in the official report of the Minister of Militia, presented to the Canadian Parliament, to be 4,700,000d015. The casualties were—killed, 20; wounded, 200.

A printer, whose office is two miles from any other building, and who hangs his sign on the limb of a tree, advertises for a boy. He says, " A boy from the country preferred.”

Mr Mundy was the successful tenderer for the erection of an office in Affigel-strcet for Mr Hubert Burnett. The contractor has already made a good start with the work.

Four 11 drunks ” were brought up at the Police Court this morning, before Mr Haggon, J.P., P. McClasky was fined 10s or 48 hours’ imprisonment ; J. Potter, J. Brown, and Alfred Carr, 5s each or 24 hours’ imprisonment. The Pahiatua Boad Board are acting very discourteously to the Tiraumea Association. The Association asked them to supervise the road construction and to call for tenders for the purchase of the totara on a certain road to the block, so that funds might be used to assist in road-making. The Board declined to do either.

“Oh, by the way pa, dear,” said a Birkdale young lady, as' she bade him good morning, “ don’t forget when you come home to bring one of those—one of those—you know, those potato mashers.” “ Oh, no indeed. Anything to encourage you in the household arts. Are you going to be the cook?” “Why, no; but you know I’m going to paint a lily of the valley on the masher and a clematis vine on the handle and send it to the church bazaar.”

“ Smokers may be pleased,” says a medical paper, “ to know that an antidote has been discovered which will enable them to enjoy their pipes and cigars without any fear of being poisoned by nicotine. It appears that the watercress destroys the tonic principle of tobacco, preserving at the same time its aroma. It is sufficient to wet the tobacco with the juice of the watercress, which will completely deprive the tobacco of its deleterious principles.” The adjourned meeting of those interested in the proposal to take over the Woodville Examiner and printing business will be held at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday next, at 2.30 p.m. A full attendance is requested. The committee’s report, showing that they have gone through the books, and that the business shows a profit of a thousand a year on the estimates of the working of a company, will be submitted. Mr Douglas _ McLean, who takes an active interest in the progress of the Woodville district, will attend the meeting. Owners of dogs should be on their guard just now. A young man having heard that a number of dogs wore required on a run near Waipawa, and that 2s Gd per head would be paid for the animals, immediately searched the town, with the result that he was seen leading no less than fifteen up McLean-street, where he tied them up, awaiting the agent’s approval. On his way home he discovered that he had been hoaxed, and at night lie slowly crept to where the dogs where, cut the strings, and liberated the animals.

Says a contemporary : —“The piers of the wonderful bridge over the Hawkesbury river, N.S.W., the building of which is now being commenced, will descend to a depth of 170 ft below the water, a greater depth than those of any other railway bridge yet constructed. The deepest point at which men can work in the cylinders, with compressed air, is 100 feet; but special scientific arrangements will be made so that no danger will attach to the employment of men at a greater depth. There are six piers, and the length of the bridge will be 3,800 feet.

A practical cooper, Mr E. Lewis, gives his opinion, in a letter to the Taranaki Herald, on the best wood for butter kegs. He says:—“ Allow me to state that after thirty years’ experience in the colony in coopering, and daring that time I have had a deal to do with the making of batter kegs, that any kind of pine wood is very injurious to butter. The best for that purpose is tawa. You cannot beat it, try what you will. I have tried all Eew Zealand woods, but the same results remain. If the farmers of this district wish to get their butter turned into cartgrtase, they cannot do better than get kegs made of any pine wood, but white pine in particular. The heavy rains which have fallen during the past few days have flooded all the low-lying parts of the district. Yesterday the barometer was lower than it has been for the past four years. The Gorge road was blocked this morning by several slips, and the mail coach was unable to come through. It was not even possible to carry the mails through. Later in the day, however, the mail hags were brought in by Mr Jones, who deserves credit for carrying the mails to Woodville. There are two heavy slips and a number of smaller ones. A portion of the road is reported to have given way. A number of men were taken to the Gorge to clear the road.

A sad spectacle was witnessed (says the Melbourne Age) at the City Police Court, where John Grahan, formerly a solicitor in extensive business in this city, was brought up on a charge of vagrancy. For a long time Mr Grahan, by his dissipated habits, has ceased to have any business, legal or otherwise, and latterly he has wandered about the streets, literally starving, begging his daily food and shelter from the lowest class of persons in the slums around Little Bourko street. His appearance in the Court was pitiable in the extreme to those who had known him in his better days of prosperity. The once well-dressed popular lawyer now shuffled into Court as an old broken-down man, dad in wretched rag;, and wearing old dilapidated boots which left his naked feet exposed to view. His long uncombed hair and his dirty rainment, denoted the utter neglect of his person which he suffered, whilst his hollow cheeks told a painful tale of privation, tic was sent to prison for 12 mouths.

Blotting paper is now manufactured at Dunedin.

! AVe learn from the. Star that it is pro- ! posed to form a public hall company to take over the Templars Hall at, Pahiatua, ! nnd a committee has bo-n formed to re- ! port. ! Jg r A. AA r . Sedcnle has been sncc’sstul In obtaining 122 signatures to the petition praying Government to erect a Post j Office on a central site. The petition will I be presented by Mr McCaidle while in AVellington. —Star. The Ironmonger (London) stales that the extensive plant and machinery of the South Hylton Iron and Steel AVorks, near Sunderland, are in process of removal to j New Zealand, an enterprising firm having bought them for the purpose of establishing a large iron and steel industry in that colony. The purchaser in question is Mr Sraeliie, Mosgiel, near Dunedin. The Post says Mr Allan Scott, the general manager of the Midland Eailway Company, is a passenger to New Zealand by the E.M.S. Euapohu, due in AVeliington in about a fortnight’s time. Accompanying him are the engineer and two other officers of th« company. Mr Scott will take steps to locate the company, and register it in this colony, as till that is done the work cannot be proceeded with.

The new hotel to be erected by the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society will be the largest and most complete in New Zealand, considerably exceeding the Grand Hotel in Dunedin. It is said that the manager has already been offered £2BOO a year for the lease of the hotel alone. The premium for best and second best designs wore secured respectively by AVellingten architects (Mr Chatfield and Mr Turnbull), against competitors of all Neav Zealand and Australia.

Either the age of miracles has come back or the Government must have a peculiar affection for the Woodville Road Board. A short time ago it applied for a special grant of AIOO for the upper end of Woodlands Road, thinking it might as well ask the man in the moon as the Government, but to its very great suprise it got it. It also asked that the gravel reserve on the Bush-mills Road should be vested in the Board, and expected a polite sort of snub as a reply. But now the Clerk has received a letter and a Gazette to inform him that the section in question has been vested in the Board as a gravel reserve. And folks say there is not a bit of gravel in it. The Evening Press gives currency to a rumor that an interesting breach of promise will soon be on the boards. The plaintiff is an old gentleman residing in another portion of the country, and the defendant is a brisk widow carrying on business in Wellington. The revelations in court will show the romantic disposition of the plaintiff, whose affections haye been sacrificed. It is also reported that the plaintiff not only sought to become the lady’s protector till death did part, but entered into an agreement to assist her to carry on her business, and he therefore purposes seeking damages against the widow for failing to keep even this portion of her engagement. The Wairarapa Obsener says; —We regret to learn that our esteemed fellowtownsman, Mr L. "Wilson, who for the last five years has occupied the position of managing clerk at Carterton for Messrs Beard and Grey, solicitors, is about to sever his connection with that firm, and take up his residence at Woodville, where, we understand, he has made arrangements for establishing himself in business on his own account. We feel sure that while Mr Wilson’s removal from this town will be very much regretted by his many friends, all will combine to wish him a prosperous career in his new sphere. We are informed that Mr Wilson will leave hero on or about October Ist.

Charles Sian will hold a drapery sale to-morrow at his auction rooms. Mr Burnett’s mission at Woodville will commence to-morrow.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Ruahine Lodge of Freemasons will be held on Tuesday next. Sankey’s Hymn Book will be used at Mr Burnett’s temperance mission services. They can be purchased at the Examiner Book Shop, from 4d upwards.— Advt.

Presbyterian services will be conducted by Mr ,T. Miller Smith, on Sunday in the Schoolroom, Woodville, at 11 a.m. and at 6 p.m. when an address for young men will be given. The thoroughbred stallion Morpheus will travel the Woodville and Danovirke districts this season. For terms, see advertisement. Morpheus is. well known. He stands 16 hands 3 inches, and is leaving the biggest stock ever seen in the Manawatu.

Mr Davies, tailor and habitmaker, of Woodville, publishes anew advertisement. Mr Davies invites an inspection of his new cloths, all of which he guarantees of a first-class quality. "Style, fit, and reasonable prices ” is Mr Davies’ trade motto.

Lovely Climates. —There are lovely climates and places in which the evening zephyrs are loaded with malaria and the poison of fever and epidemics. To dwell there in health is impossible, without a supply of Hop Bitters at hand. These American Go’s Bitters impart an equalize ing strength to the system, and prevent the accumulation ef deadly spores of contagon. Be sure and see.