RETIREMENT OF MR. PIRANI.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 51, 7 February 1902, Page 4

RETIREMENT OF MR. PIRANI.

In his speech at Palmerston North' • on Monday night (says the N.Z. Times correspondent), Mr F. M.H/R., 'referred to his intention.to retire from politics. Mr Pirani said ' that in the course he was taking he was acting purely on his own opinion of what was right and what was wrong. Every friend and every politician he had mentone 1 it to had counselled him to reconsider his decision. Mr Pirani jpro- .' ceeded to say that at the next general election he would not, for family reas ins, be a candidate for the Palmerston seat. He continued by reading a letter which he had received from Captain liussel, in which the writer urged Mr Pirani to reconsider his decision to retire from political life, and-complimen-ted him highly on his work in Parliament. The expressions of the writer were loudly applauded. The speaker sketched briefly his political life. Referring to the announcement of his retirement, Mr Pirani said it was the saddest announcement he had ever made. There was nothing he valued more, except perhaps those beloved, .than the right to participate in political life, and the right to endeavor to make this colony what it ought to be, the fairest and most prosperous land upon God's earth. He did not think that either in bis political or his business life there was anything they knew to his discredit. There had been many scandalous stories circulated about him during the course of his political life, and he had given his detractors every - opportunity to prove their statements. He had never during the course of his political or private, life done anything' that any man or woman could regret.

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The hulk OeearL Bird, vv'-ich wns blawn up i Lyttelton Harbor on New Year's Day, has an inteie: ting history, and one event is of a very tragic nature. In 1873 the vessel was passing between D'Urville Island and Stephen Island, in Cook Strait, and capsized. The: occurrence was by a shepherd on the land close by. The crew, comprising three or four men, were drowned, and no signs of them were discovered The mail steamer Phoebe, sighting the derelict some time later, reported the master at Nelson, and Messrs N Edwards and Cos steamer Charles Edward went out and brought in the Ocean Bird, bottom upward. It is thought that the capsize was caused by the loading of the cargo of oats and chaff being faulty. The vessel was afterwards repaired, and became one of .the fa \->chor Line, and afterwards, in her old became a coal hulk in Lyttelton har-

of the Government, has found it to speak out forcibly on the subW l ect of the fatlure of the Government to £.. -ettle accounts. Referring to the accounts ""■' or special furnishing, etc., at the Mayor's residence, our contemporary says : " A mild and courteous reminder, repeated three or four times over, failing to produce any effect, he adopted a more insistent tone, and after several promises that the matter,would be 'looked into,' was finally assnred that the claims would be paid without any further delay. But the assurance seems to have been only another device i for keeping the tradesmen and servants out I of their money. A great number of the ac- : counts, incredible as it may appear, are still unpaid. Butchers and bakers, cooks unci housemaids, if they have notabandoned *heir claimt as< hopeless, are dunning the Government as if It were an impecunious private emploj'er. The fact that they have not taken legal proceedings for the recovery i»l the amounts that are owing to them only proves that they have a far better sense of what is due to the Royal visitors aud the Alayor than have the authorities, whoever they maybe, who are treating them in this scandalous fashion. We are sorry to have to meution the miserable business oursel-

ves, but every other means of obtaining a settlement seems to have failed, and iT is quite time the weight of publico iinion was brought to the assistance of the long suffering creditors." Wellington is determined to have anefficient 1r unnav service. Plans have bee 1 pprovei wiii-h provide for an express ser vice from Berhampore, beyond Newtown, light through to the Hutt road, at north < nd <>i the city, escaping crowded streets by running along the harbor fronta -e where A slower service will be provided through the centre of the city and to Upper Cuba street and W. 1 ace street, also mrough Upper "WMlis and Aro streets to Polhill Gully. A lir.e will also be laid ■ p Moles.vorth street and Tinakori road, and 1 lght around Oriental Bay to the end of the < *ity boundary. Tins will mean a complete 1 evolution in the city transport service. The nea- order of things it is supposed will be ; 1 iuil working order three years hence. the work is to commence forthwiih.

The Rotomahana made another of her record breaking trips on the 2nd February covering the distance from Wellington to Lyttelton in 11 hours 2,0 minutes.

" I vcntnre to say again, that if capital and labor would join hand in hand, we would improve the condition of the workmen, improve our own condition, and confer benefit on the State." said Mr Anderson, who presided at the conference of iron masters in Christchurch last week. Mr Lawrence Webster, son of Mr M. M. Webster, of Nelson, has been appointed Superintendent in charge of the new office of the Eastern Extension Cable Company at .Adelaide. This office will be the terminus in Australia of the Cape cable, which will be in full working order in a lew days. The most popular thing said by Mr F Pirani to his Palmerston constituents was in reference to pensions to South African soldiers. Under the amended Bill, said Mr Pirani, a lieutenant's wife or widow would receive a year, while the wife , ot a trooper would only receive something jjlike £S a year.' The troopers they were ■feeding to South Africa, he said, were every ssood as some- of the officers, and in -many respects he believed they were "a '.jolly sight better." The statement was greeted with loud applause.. The Kegerangu station (Marlborough) wool clip this season is stated to be the b.cst for that station during the past thirteen vears-

_ There are alreads three candidates in the Held lor the Ashley seat at the nextgeneral •election, viz., Meredith,, Puiley (Cheviot), and Renner. •

An extraordinrry bowling feat is reported ■ola Ceylon. At the end of October, the •er first eleven played the next eighteen, niien A.. Smuts, of the eleven, secured 20 wickets-for 20 runs, in the.-two innings of the eighteen.. Sixteen.;of the side, were clean bo;.v.led„

An.extraordinary batting feat, quite without parallel, was performed towards the end of October, at Baberton, by Captain A. C. Richards, of the Hants Regiment. Playing in a match between E and A Companies, Captain Richards scored 101 out of 106 from the h.-it.'in the first innings, and 185 out of 205 in the >eemd, making .in all 286 ut of 311. N » bat.-maii on his side made double" figures in either innings; and there were in all twelve ciphers. In the whole match, four innings comgleted, 369 of the 488 runs were made by two batsmen, Captain Richards on the one side, aud L'eut. Ashby on the other. Ca.pt. Richards also took eight wickets in the fi;st innings of A Company. The Empire Hotel, Wellington, is now completely out of the builders' hands. The recent re-building and renovations have been done at a cost of L 73,000. It is now a magnificent structure of four stories in height, and contains 125 rooms. It is one of the finest hontelries in Australasia.

Sir Joseph Ward stated at Greymouth that the extension of telegraph hours had not been appreciated, and it was intended to revert to the old hours all over the colon.v.

Tom Mann upset a theory some people hold true, when he said, "all through last eeoturv, along with the increase of population in Britain there had been a more than e >rtesp Hiding increase of wealth."'