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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 21, 20 August 1886, Page 2

Tenders close at Mr Doran’s store on Monday, for bush felling. Mr Walsh will show intending tenderers over the ground to-morrow. Tenders close to-morrow at the Tahiatun Hotel for bush-felling. Remember Messrs Briggs & Gibbs' auction sale to-morrow, commencing at 1 o clock. An addition has been made to tlie entries. Chambers’ Encyclopedia in ten volumes, and a spring trap, will also be submitted. The deferred payment, village, and small farm lots included in the 60,000 acres now advertised by tho Commissioner of Crown Lands, w ill be dealt with on Monday next. The tenants in Tyrone arc now paying their rents. It is believed that tho Salisbury Government will not demand any unusual powers for the government of Ireland. Wo are informed by the Rev. Mr Wrigley that Mr Horace Baker tin*kindly offered the United Methodists a church site in l’lihintua, situated at the corner of Regent and King streets. The offer is conditional on a church being erected within a reasonable time. At tho meeting of Mrs Marshall’s Glee Class on Wednesday evening, the following committee was elected to make tho necessary arrangements for concerts in aid iof the Public Library funds: Mrs 1 Smalley, Misses Gregory, Sedcole, N. Sedcole, Messrs Yeates, Godfrey, Miller, and Wilson. The first concert will be held next month, at a date to be fixed. The Times advises the Government to re-model tlie Church and the House of Lords, and to deal with the land question and local government. Parliament was prorogued by Commission on Wednesday afternoon. Mr A. \Y. Cook advertise* for a lost dog. Out of those who havo beon convinced bv Mr Burnett of the error of their way* at Palmerston North, aro several clergyman, local preachers, and about 20U cnildren. Mr Manns had a slight rniHhap with his brake on leaving Woodville for Pahiatua l on Wednesday. One of the horses btv came very restive, and in the struggle threw itself on to the pole, damaging it so much that Mr Manus had to loave the conveyance in Woodville and ride home on horseback. Mr Biraie was up the road to the Village Settlement in his trap on Wednesday ! afternoon, and his experiences may be described thus :—Road very muddy; drain full of water on both sides ; man cutting bush ; tree fell ; horse scared; trap upside down in dram ; driver ditto, just heels showing; horse trap and driver got out and t-crapi d ; no damage done ; all doing well. Tenders are invited for felling two 60ncro sections in the Mangatainoka Block, to close at Woodville on Monday, at 7 p.m. Mr McDonald, surveyor, will meet intending tenderers at the Pahiatua Hotel to-morrow, at 1 o'clock, to show them over tho bush. For further particulars sec advertisement. The practice indulged in by horsemen riding through the town ut a break-neck pace should be put a atop to before Home accident hapjiens. It is bad enough in the day tune, but at night it is doubly dangerous. Last evening (it being very dark) two horsemen were tearing along the road, scattering more than a dozen pe )ple. These unfortunates were not only splashed from head to foot by the horses, but many of them got up to their middles in tlie sulo drains ill their endeavor to escape being ridden down. If horsemen have not better sense, they must be taught. In order to preserve cut flowers, they should be placed in tea water. It is not necessary that it should be fresh, water on leaves that have been previously infused makes a solution sufficiently strong. When flowers are sent from a long distance, and ate not very fresh, they should ho put into tepid tea water. Flowers from a warm climate should never be nut into cold water; it kills them. Every day the vase should be filled up with tea water. Watering jails of flowers in rooms with tea water does them good. The ltepuhlique Francaise ha* lengthy articles n the New Hebrides question It it dares that England wants the islands, an l t* therefore augrv with the French Government, but it ridicules England's claim, and asserts that there is not the slightest justification for it. France, continues the paper, has practically aunexed the islands. That being so, she will never withdraw- her flag nr her •r )'►, despite all llinl may be siud ats.ut I her action.

It is riirisldercd improbable that any st<>jit4 will K- towards prosecuting Sir Charles l>ilki for peijugy m pounceturn with hi* evidence in the recent Crawford divorce *uit. Great excitement haa been enusod in Tiinani by the news that a well ki own ami highly respectable resident hit-1 been arrested on Monday night charged with having attempted to murder his wife bv administering antimony. Tlimnas Hall, nephew of Sir John Hall. ex Tretaier of the Colony, is the man accuaeJ of the crime, and Miss Margaret Houston wax arrested at the same time. Hull and Miss Houston have been brought before tho M agfatrate at Tiluaru and remanded. When arrest -d, it war found that Hall final a quantity of antimony in his posset, lion, and also “ Taylor on Poisons,” the well-known standard book of medical jurisprudence. The Daily News, commenting upon the personnel of the Conservative Ministry, inmaks in terms of commendation of Sir J. Ferguson, but characterises placing Mr Edward Staninore in tho position of Secretary of State for the Colonies as a ‘"monstrous'' appointment. Georgo Johnston, Into brewer, blew out his brains at Gisborne ou Monday. Deceased was found in his bed, holding a ritle in his hand, the trigger having been pulled with his toe, and his brains literally blown over tho bod. At ail inquest a verdict was returned that he shot himself while of unsound mind. It was a most determined deed. The gun was clasped with both hamU, and the muzzle placed up to his loft eye. The trigger was pulled by his toe, and his brains were blown out. The bed clothes were drawn up over his head, evidently to deaden tho sound. Mr Dargaville, M.H.R., who arrived at Auckland from Wellington on Tuesday, has sent an urgent telegram to the Premier strongly urging the appointment ol a commission to inquire into tho Stark property purchase, as tho only means ol allaying the foaling of suspicion which pervades all classes of the community. When Parliament assembled on the Oth tho Marquis of Hartingtnn and othei loading members of the Unionist party sat on tho front Opposition honchos, an* exchanged friendly greetings with Mi Gladstone. There is a belief prevalent in well-informed circles that Mr Gladstom is hopeful that the Home Ittilo agitatior will presently subside, and that he wil succeed in defeating the Conservative Go vernment on an outside issuo. The following is a summary of casual tics to Shipping and Seamen rejsirted t< the Marino Department, during the tinun cial year, ending 81st March, 1880 Strandings—4l vessels; tonnage, 10,808 lives lost, 4. Foundoringß—"2; tonnage 428 ; lives lost, If). Collisions—lß; ton nago, 0417 ; no lives lost. Miscellaneous 14; tonnage, 0085; lives lost, 1. Tota number of casualties rejiorted, 85; ton nago, 88,112 ; lives lost 80. Mr Gladstone has announced that hi intends to retain the leadership of tin Liberal party in the House of Commons Ho states, however, that the severe oxer tions of the recent election campaign ha so effected his health, tluit he will requiri to seek temporary repose; and he finds i necessary also to permanently reduce hi labors in the way of attondiug to corrcs pondeuce. The Otago Daily Times says that M Collin Allan has written to tho Govern ment to say that he will in all probabilit; be able to send out a number of Skv crofters to New Zealand. There is som probability of the crofte settlement beini formed near the mouth of the Waikawi River. A meeting of mombers of the Hotm Rule party in the House of Commons lm been held, at which Mr Parnell wa elected chairman and leader of the party It was decided that the party stioulc strenuously oppose any scheme that migh be proposed by the new Ministry whicl offered a smaller measure of autonomy 1. Ireland than was providod by Mr Glad stone. The Maoris aro asserting that the dcatl ■ of the late native wizard, Tuhoto nt Roto rua, was accelerated by the cutting of hi hair, by his European guardians, and en deavor to establish the truth of thoi superstition by stating that Samson o ancient and sacred fame was deprived o his extraordinary power by having hi hair lopped. The rule nisi granted by tho Divoro Court in the case of Crawford v. Crawforc and Diiko has been made absolute, ant the dissolution of marriage formally do creed. The Chelsea Liberal Association after disctision with regard to Sir Cliarlo Ihlkes connection with this case, hai passod a resolution, with five dissentients recording its belief that the co-respondeni was innocent of the charges laid againsl mm. There is a great deal of nnfavorabh comment, Masterton wav, at the verj small amount of money proposed to be spent on the main road through th< Forty-mile bush (says the N. Z. Times) The road has degenerated into a very bar state; is almost impassaMo in places and as it is one of those high roads that come within Government maintenance and an important highway to boot, it ii thought that the Government ought t, keep it in proper condition. If the cost for this road maintenance lias been undo! stated, it is to bo hoped tho mistake will be rectified on tho Supplementary Esti. mates. We quite agree with the Tost regarding tho vote of i." 2000 to Sir William Fox Our contemporary says : —We are aston I ishod that the Government lent themselves to pro|>osing or supporting such a vote in the present circumstances of the colony. In any case it was tin error to class if mider the head of Miscellaneous. On* member was quite right in saying ii should have apjwared under the Clmritj able Aid v ote as “ Compassionate allowj ance." It is n singular anomaly that Parliament should thrust i'2<KX» of public money in the not badly lined pockets ol .Sir William Fox, while the care and supj>ort of tho really suffering and indigent is thrown on the shoulders of the people, tbe provided for by voluntary contributions or a poor rale. The following tall yarn, which recently api wared in the Detroit Free Press, is going the rounds of the colonial l‘re»* : Thirty five years ago three sisi. re worked in a cotton factory in Isuicaalhre, England. They ail married machinist*, and one went to Australia, one to Now ‘ Zealand, and one to America. The kilter 1 wa» Mrs William Shearer, whose husband 1 s* tiled ill Atlanta. Sim never heard a word from her New Zealand *ist< r until recently, when a letter informed her that her seller's husband hail made LIOO.OUO Mid had died childless, ainl last December the sister had died leaving 180,0011 i nch i to in r sister* in Aiuurah I a.id Aliieri-a.

Tim Peat is highly pleased that the J Property Assessment Act ha* b«-«-n amended so a* to render Church Endow nients liable to property-tax. Our con temporary state* that the amendment will add between £3OOO and £4OOO to the revenue. The New Zealand Time* understand* that a writ has heel: served on the Even, ing Post, at the instance of Mr Jelliri*. claiming heavy damages for certain alleged false ami injurious ntfloction* cant upon him in a report of a case tried at the Supreme Court at the beginning of last week. Says tho Manawatu Time*'The , action of Mr Matthew Burnett in visiting the pe.blic schisds and inducing children te put on the blue ribbon has been very 1 adversely criticised by many parent*. It i» thsir contention that Mr Burnett's j 1 labors might be fittingly confined to the , 1 reclamation of those who have fallen vie : tun* to the vice of intemperance, or at Ilea-.t among those win- have arrived at year* of discretion. Many who syuip.x thise with the temperance movement feel ! that it is somewhat farcical to take I pledge* of abstention from thoiM- who have DO -pi'ort-mity for indulgence. At Downpatrick,CountvDown. Ireland, four boy* ware recently sentenced to three months' imprisonment under an Act of Edward 111., which prohibits " disorderly shouting.” The offence of the boy* consisted in their cheering for Home Rule at a late hour of the night. During the discussion of tho Supplementary Estimate* on Monday afternoon, Mr Fniton asked if the Government would provide a stun of money for the widow and family of the lato Mr Eustace Brandon. The Frontier said the Government would make as liberal provision as po»sible out of unauthorised expenditure. Tho Napier Harbor Board (say* the Post) | seems to have got into a position of c.>ni siderable dilliculty by commencing it* : harbor works before obtaining the formal assent of the Governor to the plan*. Very large expenditure has alrea ly been incurred in these works, and the Provincial District Auditor refused to pas* the balance-sheet a* tho ex|>emliture was clearly illegal, the members being ] ersoually liable for it, and subject, al*o, to n penalty of £IOO per day for every day i during which they have carried on the unauthorised works. A clause in the Special Power* and Contracts Bill was introduced to legalise the expenditure and indemnify the member* against penalties, j Graham Berry, .an ex Premier of Vici toria. onoe told this story about hiiMs. ll —“ When I first obtained a situation as a shop boy, tile innster somewhat abruptly ; inquired my name. 1 hesitatingly sail. , ‘ Sir, Graham Berry, sir.’ 'Oh well. Sir Graham Berry,' ho haughtily said, ‘ go , round and sweep out tho back store.” 1 Those who heard the anecdote laughed at it as a good joke. Now they discern that that shopkeeper was a prophet. > The steamer Pelham, wrecked at the ■ Bluff, broke up on Monday owing to the . strong easterly gale and sen. The forward part has turned bottom up, and the i after portion has been thrown further ashore some thirty yards from the other. ; Tim engines and boilers have broken from i the wreck, and lie where the steamer first struck. The wreck, gear, and fitting* were sold separately, the former for £2O, and the latter for £147. The inquiry into the cause of the wreck resulted in Captain Greager's certificate being suspended for three months, and he was ordered to pay the cost* of the inquiry, amounting to ’ £'2s 19s. , In tho House on Tuesday night Sir Oeorge Grey moved for a return showing ( what persons were employed (together i with their salaries un.l expenses by the Government in endeavouring to induce people to locato them.selves in village j settlement. The following information was furnished in reply:—Auckland, J. Lundon, no salary, £B3 19s claimed for | travelling expenses, but not yet [mid : C. Hill, £275 and travelling enpense* ; Wellington, V. R. Maokay. £275 and ex peuses; Canterbury, J. B. Month. £212 i 10s and expenses; Invercargill. H. G. Winsen, £275 and expense*; Otago. 1 i Vaughan and W. 11. Valpy, each £275 ■ and expenses; 11. M. Adam, £IOO and ‘ expenses, r - The Flawura Star lias been shown t'v violins and a violincello made by Mr 1 James Johnson, one of the employees at the loeal Snob and Door Factory. B-'t.-i 1 violins have the belly of kauri, and tn ■ back and side* of taw'a. In the 'cello tho belly is kauri, the- back rimu, and the sides tawa. All three instrument* are beauti ' fully made, and are of excellent tone. The whole of the workmanship h»s been done by Mr Johnson in hi* spare time, and what is more remarkable still, without any instruction in the business. One of the violins is more than two years old, but there is not the slightest flaw or crack in tho wood, thus bunring testimony to the suitability of our w oods for the purpose in question. At a meeting of shareholders of the South British Insurance Company, held at Dunedin on Tuesday, the following I resolution* were carried: —(lst) That * i delegate be ap|>ointed to proceed to A tick • | land to confer with the Directors as to th. present unsatisfactory state of the Company's business, and lav before them th. shareholders' views; (2nd) that it be a recommendation to the Directors to close all business ill England, both fire and marine, except such as is connected w ith Australia ; (Brdi that the same course be adopted with the Eastern trade; i4thl that no new agencies be iqs-ned in foreign countries ; (sth) that a competent ins|. ctor he ap|s>intvd with a view of having all risks estimated and supervised ; (6th) that no further issue of shares bo male ; 7th that the delegate obtain full information os to how the capital and reserve fund* are invested. About 600 were present at a meeting of the unemployed at Auckland on Tue*<Uy niomuig. including many res pee table persons. The chairman said he had seen i the District Engineer, who could not t do on more men at the railway works till in. creased sleeping accommodation wo* pro i vided. One hundred men w ere at (resent | employed, and he would soon take on or. | other 50 men. Hr had sent three tele- ! gnuus to tlie Hon. Mr Ballonc* re lands i for tile unemployed, and he had received no replies. It wo* resolved to adjourn i the meeting till the return of the members from Wellington, when these gentlemen j would be invited to address a meeting. j The intelligence officer of the .American warship Mohican has forwarded the ful--1 low ing to the Auckland Pres* ;—lu com- , pli»uce with instructions received in July I from Admiral McCauley, the American J corvette Mohican. Commander Day, made I a special trip to on island formed by vol- ' ranir action since October lost. At a disI tame of 15 miles steam c .11 la- discerned i ngiij in tin an above tin I-autvf site '

the Falcon Shoal. On <utitirg at the »|>ot the Mohican round. tak g i . aring-a of lU piwitiona. and •kelrbe'. and pkotaMki m it* com mm n I pe u tnn. Tlie i»laua u> of circular *hi*ie. ojtl feet high and a mil> ao.i aha » r It ha* a ateaming crater mthi n- 1 • To the eitrenir mat t'nar.- a t ■ ■ »' lc wreath of am oka. On taking a«• . good anchorage arai found o*l t! e i- Hi a: !«• at the frlnttd. Ha 1 Tide* ‘JOtnui weal. and th. lv : ; The ialand inilaa N.N W. of Nokab-f. T ■ •ion conveyed br lt» apjw a: . the bed of the ocrar. ha* been iij ' of the mifc r. The Rotorua rorreapondmf of tee | Auckland Herald aaya ■— ** A f | phenomenon which i* attracting _ 1 1 leal of utlcntiml m thia part of th c t"'r» [ia nightly to !»• aatn : i our ! jiiat over the Heine Gorge. A • ■ jof tire or a will-o' th* « i*|> —I do*t t km'» I which—make ita regular arTeer*:;. lurcn 7 and 0 o’clock, and dm | tii*. iiujet ecceiiti.c itiOVdUv;.: ‘ j aide; darling hither and th -wr • > j and with agyiatorr motion, a-- a* jit pm th* nn»l beautikl e*-' -t l’iaa t« ino ilhiaion. Ndarlv every -re hi it tleuienl liar aeen *t. and »» are t ■ • a J loaa to know what it :• ..■ . * ' ap|>carance ia trthe see nii.v 1 t*-r The Wellington corrtM on lc it t ire Anatralneian wntea to t.iat *■ • i I

follows:—I thuik that Sir livh "• Stout 1 is almost anxious to get r. 1 vr * ’nt* j Vogel, but is at bit writ* and to know * j to manage it without Iweaki- g up n * Ministry and er ottering ht» pi tv. A hat | he is ninst afraid of is that he nz-J ho * Government wiki be dragged down into tbs 1-iir-- :’-.r-.ugh tbs 1 | incorrigible propensity for i ‘ * vr ’ ] dork and tricks that are ir:- »< 1 , he may be. for there have K»x n* f rer than tiires separate cominitt-—* at - 1 this session to impure into tj:. ! quite iui questionable Os tils', of ' '' trict Railways purchase. Iw- I ' • I committees have yst to report 1 tresn si! I bear their re|>ort* will la | but pleasant for the Government. It t» simply a question of how long Sir t Stout will |*it up with a colleag e » i always getting the Ministry into 1 l or how long Sir Julius Vogel will 'u . > office after he ha* l>a4 all ja.wer and IXell reos.-d to be treated w itli ordma.x • - t

by his chief. \ corr.-sjKindonle of th* W. .1 I . ' I . ing rsreq.t (or lann.no Cu '.. si. .J . ... t other skins with the hair i : or -‘ T "lake Jo* pow.ler.sl alum. Jib j/. sulphuric acid. 2* gall.- <f w . r fat . 1 fallow X. e•l. I t mgr.-licnts ml- tlie »«: r ml- r 1--natuoil. Place the skin t is Usai ...I the surface of the iiuxt u. tn'-x f me-'t lbs look ado d.-w u, lb will pa hair to retain it* uat .r.v » . • la t th. skin remain in the mix*. u< *S h nr xfter which hang it over a p to dre f-r half an hour or in.ire. a:. . which b at r hit it with light strokes - t t .i '.or . 1 \ stick until quite piiai. . It - -: f: .-r i pliable enough with to fij . -'.rplace the skin in th. h . .1 *< - main for a day. after » i it . I

: treat os before; care ■\ • i 1 • v to let the sun sh: - • - - wV ic it* I ! such case the *km tvs '• i * -t' .-ra’k ami shrink up. If !. t. skin a dark color. ; t into t) - u..xt 2oz of tincture of in i. If t..- g i mixture after use is p it aw ax ir : vessels it will retain its *.:< ugtti i i again ami again." I Tho pukeko, or mine w it.r • 1 »■ . come under the heo.l of n.»;.v, * recent Gazette, nud us s i- h !•> Ka p

tected. The Feilding Star t i isqur-t.. * the ad\ of to- -i. -As tin* bir 1 is not n rsul in th! . table, while its I taint* a, e i> - -, 1 are at a loss to iinderstr. i. , i 1 ' bo included in the esa TV li Farmers who have cult., swampy or wet land, have ithe pukeko a* most destine*.: crop*, os well as bold 1.. n■. j when in the stack*. In f.. .. f liume hir-b< living ui a “ atal. liou," near a cerial farmer, . r the latter ui two or litre. —.. ' stance* are known in Cam- * r - hundreds of acres had to be r. - wi-.c rin to these birUs hating Con., in l) •t . morning and picked up every gr.o:. i . sower )iad cast Uie preset ling . . i rabn.t, winch ins* cause.i *o and desolation in part of t’-.e ilu Island, i* no; a greater to) t* aa t . beautiful but imjiri.i I«. i p ,„e„ \V< expect atts- the ... .i. ■ t | horn*, and oettle . - ..i o |i- . the fartuerz aim g thtr » 1 i. .« • . wail ” on tin* ai.q,• • i.