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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 16, 3 August 1886, Page 2

It is rumored that another butchering business is about to be started in Pahiatua, Mr (1. Hottomley’s name being mentioned as the proprietor. Tenders fur undersembbing and bush felling at Pahiatua Village Settlement are invited by Mr .John Webb; to be in on Saturday, 7th inst. Editing a newspaper is like carrying an | umbrella on n windy day. Everybody thinks ho could man.me it better than the one xvho has hold of the handle. Messrs Briggs ,x Gibbs' auction on Saturday was fairly attended, most of the articles submitted finding a ready side. The piano for tiio Templars' Hall arrived on Friday. A quarter-acre section adjoining the present Star preiui s lias be n sold by Mr Crewe for X7O c,i di. The midwinter h di lays a: the Pahiatua commenoed on Friday. In the mc-aiitime the necessary alterations to tho building will be complet' d, which are expected to take a month, and Mr Yeates anticipates re-opening with at least 100 children. A man named Patrick Sixon had his leg broken at Oluki oil Wednesday by a truck running over him. He was placed in a carriage fur the purpose cd being conveyed to Wanganui, but i \p red on the way. An iuqui :*. was In Id, and a xerdict returned of “ death by accident,” accelerated by the long train journey. It is announced that as a result of the parleying which inis been pr iceeding between the British and French Govern* incuts, the latter has expressed its readiness to order the withdrawal of the French troops from iho New Hebrides as soon as the present emergency has passed. Members of the singing class will meet for practice in iho Templars’ Hall on j Wednesday evening. A convention inis been signed at Pekin, j between ihe Chinese and iuumh Governj mi nts, under which Chum formally recognises British rlue in Burrnah. A shocking tragedy is reported from Penzance, Cornwall. A man named James Hawke, who recently returned from Australia, mortally wounded lus sister, brother-in-law, and a neighbor by shooting them. lie then committed suicide. M. do Lesseps' report on tho Panama l anal shows a b 1 nice of 241,000,000 francs. He jdedges lmnself to open the canal in 1189. Moukhtar Pasha will shortly procood to the Armenian frontier to assume command of the Turkish forces in that district. During his remarks last night on the Amended Band Act, Mr McCardle said that the revenue derived from the land i should only be used in surveys and road- . making, as this was tho true solution of successful settlement. Mr Kuewand's disappearance from hi* usual haunts lias gri viously vexed a Pahiatua resident, who - cut his watch to Woodville for repairs so n- weeks back. Probably aim ng the etl ts which ibc i [Miliee are taking care of there are a numl>er 1 of articles awaiting repair, and we would I Micgesi that an attempt la- mode to return them, as Mr Ituexvand cannot possibly I proaeeub > for i hi time. 1 It hies 1-e.jii decide 1 that the Parliaj menlary ball shall take place on Friday, j 10th (September. As some are anxious that it shall be a plain and fancy dres* ball, the coimuiuee have deemed it advisable to ascertain the feeling of the whole of the members of the Union before settling the question, and as next Monday night is expected to be last night of the session, wo have been requested to ask all to be present, in order that individual opi: i uis may be taken as to nature of the ball. Our attention has been directed to the state of the approaci - , to the two bridges on the Ti it a Puket ii ro.ul, which are so bad Uld settlers hud it impossible t«> take vehicles that way. The whole of the road is of course very soft, not yet having been metalled, but it would be )*js»ible if s. a. tiling were alone to tlx apptxiai lies of tiie bridges. At the present lia.o mud holes exist on cither It) -i.'i r for lioi>. , on the bridges, the animals come down on tin ir knees, injuring themselves, and I isiblv the vehicle, ill tile struggle. Perhaps a fexv loads ..f AVel would set the •natter right. The 1! ad Board might see to it.

During tin debate on the I*>iui Bill ■ i . - I ■• 1 .i • Napier-Palmerr* u Hue, it was absurd to talk i f carrying it u> u paying point till the Gorge line was completed. Why did *.Hi h'api' r ;■ ipV n *. ok f>r tbe Gorge line? Be Mine they knew that i» would take away their trnffii*. He could sec Unit tin tudden completion rf the Gorge lire was simply giving a premium for those who wo ..hi, he »«« • .rc. sinmnt to force the Government to buy the Welling. If •> iv.: si s large price.”

It is thought tlmt I’arl.ament will be prorogued early next week. The appearance of Pahiatua would be g: i-atly altered for the belter if the bush »< close to the town were cut down A range of hill* runs along close to the back of toe township, and it the bush leading up to thi* wore removed, a more pleasant view could not be imagined. Resides addin# to the beauty of th. town it would undont>t< dlv increase the valne ot prol perty around it; but there i* still another ! reason why thi* bush should come down, and that i* the danger of fire, for with a

very dry season it is likely to he a source of great trouble. We do not wish to see *uch scenes here a* occurred at Stratford last summer, ami therefore hope tho*e living verv near the bu*h will at any rate *ee to their own safety. Had the Stratford jicoplc anticipated any danger from fire, they would have made preparation : and our position is somewhat similar to theirs, but with this difference—wo have their experience to guide us. There was not a good attendance at the Parliamentary Union last night. This is to he regretted, as one of the most im portant measure* of the session was dealt with. Mr McCardle introduced a bill to amend certain portion* of the present hand Act, and We hope the time is not distant when some of the suggestions contained in the bill will occupy the attention .of the New Zealand Parliament. We propose in next issue to print the hill in - , full, so that the general public, as well as those members of the Union who were absent last night, may have an oppor- ‘ tunity of criticising it. The Bill will be committed at next meeting. The proposal to separate the Wairarapa from the Wellington and Horowhenua charitable districts came up in the House on Friday, in the shape of a clause moved by Mr W. C. Buchanan during the committal of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act Amendment Bill. The clause was rejected after discussion. A ntunber of motions for separation were made by members from different parts of I the Colony, but were nearly all lost. In the House on Friday, speaking in committee on the Loan Bill, Mr .1. B. Whyte said it was stated that the Govern--1 ment could have defeated Captain Bussell's 1 motion last year had they been so disposed, and now history repeated itself, and as the Government had been carrying everything by large majorities perhaps they could also have carried the motion to-night had they been so disposed. The Government wanted something to trot out as an excuse when they wore asked for works. A more humiliating thing could not be imagined--Ministers pleading their own weakness. The Treasurer had called

Major Atkinson a baby in finance. Well j if the egregious blunder made bv the Treasurer the other day was a sign ol 1 maturity or manhood, then he preferred | the babies. (Laughter.) The Telegraph says:—The revenue of the Hawke's Bay .lockey Club from the j totalisator last year amounted to X 2534 16s, as against some 11300 the previous year, an enormous advance, and proving conclusively that the depression affected Hawke's Bay but slightly. As showing the respective cost of the police administration for this colony and Australia, the following return attached to the Commissioners’ report furnished to Parliament recently is suggestive :—New Zealand has 1 constable to every 1266 of the population, and the cost of maintenance is its 2d per inhabitant; in New South Wales the figures are 1 to 672, at 5s 7d per head ; Queensland, 1 to 502, at 8s 8d; Victoria, 1 to 803, at 4s 6d. In South America the pro|>ortion is 1 to 718, at a cost of 6s 6d per inhabitant. It must be stated, however, that while the statistics for New Zealand are compiled to this year, the figures given for the other countries mentioned are taken from statistics for 1884.

Two distinguished writers have expressed decided opinions concerning Voltaire, and it is interesting to see these opinions in conjunction. Thus Buskin : ' “ Voltaire—His work is, in comparison ! with good literature, what nitric acid is to I wine and sulphuretted hydrogen to air. Literary chemists cannot but takearcount j of the sting ami stench of him ; but he has no place in the library of the thoughtful scholar. Every man of sense knows , more of tho world than Voltaire rail tell j him ; and what he wishes to express of I such knowledge he will sav without a ; snarl.” Mr Lowell, looking back upon i literary history from another point of ( view, mentions the Frenchman as one | “ who, if he used to ridicule too often for tho satisfaction of personal spite, employed it also for sixty years in the service of I truth and justice, and to him, more than j to any other one man, we owe it that wo | can now think and speak as we choose. Contemptible ho may have been in more * ways than ouo, hut at any rate wo owe . him that, and it is surely something." 1 The Now Zealand Uifrigerating Com- ! pany report the profit for the year to be X 2024, out of which it is promised to pay a 10 per cent, dividend, and carry forward i X 209. ' r he number of carcases frozen j and shipped at the Coni|>any's works at j Dunedin was 100,981. The Shaw-Savtll i Company have intimated their intention ! to charge freight at ljd per lb., which is I considered excessive. The Hon. I>r Pollen's pension, we (Post* ' believe, is X 420 a year, in addition to ! which he draws £2lO per annum as ! honorarium as a member of the legislative Council. The claim recently rejected by the Public Accounts Committee was for X 1260, which Dr Pollen contended | was due to him for three years, during ' which he held office as a M ouster, part of 1 the time drawing £1250 salary ana Xl5O j house allowance, and part of the time when he wss Premier, drawing Xl7soand ' house allowance. This prejwisterous claim had been previously rejected by a former Government. Yet the bon. gentleman, who has done so exceedingly well ont of the public, and tru It do better, dives not hesitate to sneer at the industrial classes as " My Isml Fight Bob a day.” and to refer to them, miners especially, in the most contemptuous manner, evidently regarding them as common people whose ’ interests and feelings are ipnlc beneath the consideration of the “ up|>er ten” of ■ society, as represented in the Legislative { Council.

Deeply imbued ns the Maoris are with l their To Whtti fanaticism they are not ; above making a joke upon the subject I says the Tarsnaki Budget). Ilia. a rhirf. and a faithful adherent of To Whili, was driving from New Plymouth to Part* tiaka the other day in company with a . European. Some distance from Pimga { rehu they overtook a swagstuan. Ina. ui a i|uiartng humour, asked the individual i on the tramp what lie thought he was doing. The man answered that he was (■Miking for work. " Well " said Ina m j his best English, if you isi on to the nett * I.oum - mil tiieu turn to xour all van

I>r Stehbins It. an < Id W.i.rivrspn settler, died on Saturday. He lift Canada for new Zealand in lMtt, and has n-aided in the Wairara)* with his brother uxor since he arrived. His age wi* seventy-nine, and within a short time of his death he was able to walk long distances with little fatigue. James Keames, who hail been missing I a week, was found dead in the Otaki Hiver on Saturday. The verdict recorded j at the inquest held on the body was •• found drowned.' This makes the third fatal accident within a week.

will come to Parihaka. When von get there go and see Tv Whin, and he will give you some Work." *• Will lie.” queried the swagsman ; •• what kind of work ?" “ Ploughing." said Ina. “ But I can’t plough," returned the swagsman. "Oh," said Ina. "you can plough as well as anv of us ran ; at any ran-, you ran plough well enough to plough yourself into gaol." The Manawatu Times says: -We mentioned some time ago tliat Mr Thus. Bush, cabinet maker, Ac., had completed to the order of Messrs Wooleock A Husking some beautiful designs in woodwork for the Ranges turned out by the firm. The one handicraft is de]>endent on the other in the matter of designs, and skill in each is requisite to success. Mr Hush in his branch acquitted himself with every satisfaction, and Messrs Wooleock A Husking have been no less successful in ; repriiducing the designs in the mure enduring iron. They have just turned out of their establishment a range which f.r beauty of design and honest workmanship compares most favorably with the uu !>orted article, and in*]>ection of it should ead to many orders being secured. We understand the one under notice has already found a purchaser, and will shorly be seut to its destination at PahiaIna.

An inquest held on Thursday on the body of Mrs Catherinc Roes, w ife of George i Manning Kel t, a painter resi ling at Knightstown, a suburb of Christchurch, resulted in a verdict of manslaughter • against the husband. Tho evidence ! showed that Mrs Rees had died rather | suddenly* on Wednesday evening. She ! hml been ailing for some months, and hail been discharged from the hospital six weeks ago. Rees was in the habit of drinking too tnneh. and his wife hail complained to n constable shortly before | her dcatu that he had struck her several times when sho was ill and handled her | roughly. Tho deceased had sometimes been known to drink excessively. CorroI borative evidence was given as to the , bad conduct of Rees to his wife, but he ■ denied the allegation*. It was Hinted ' that a minister of religion had to j • ivide j nourishment for the woman an 1 her I family in consequence of Rena' m .hot. The medical evidence showed that the wmiitn hail suffered from pulmonary l consumption, and wss in such a state that any rough treatment would hasten death. The jury found that death was accelerated by general neglect. This was tantamount to a verdict of man-daughter, upon which charge Rees was forwith arrested.

The Taranaki Ilornld is responsible for the following;—"One of the queerest kinds of friendships we liavu yet seen between animals of different kinds is that which exists between a cat and some fowls belonging to Mrs Bowen, of Devonstreet. Tho cat is about eighteen mouths old. and when a kitten found out that when the cock bird clucked in a peculiar way he had fiHHI, and was calling the hens. The kitten soon got into the habit of hastening to tho lord of the roost on hearing the call, and has grown up since then entirely amongst the poultry. It eats the same final as they do; goes to the fowl-house with them at night, an 1 sleeps in a nest; and all the day kee|is with them and follows them about the paddock at the buck. It is decidedly counral to see the cat and the hens run up to the cock when he has found any provender, and all eat together, and then for the cat to fondle and purr against its friend, who seem very proud of hi* strango associate. Mr Macandrew has given notice in the House of the following resolutions: (1.) That in this colony, replete as it is w ith every element of comfort and wealth, the existence of so lunch itlle capital in the form of unemployed labour, and the heavy burdens that are being imposed towards providing for charitable aid, are anomalies which do not refieet credit upon the legislature, and which demand the most eanu «t consideration of this House. (2.) That tho granting of an adequate an-a of land, on the sole con dition of beneficial occupation, to every man who is able and willing to work, would, to a large extent, reduce the number of the unemployed. i 3.1 That the placing of suitable hln-ks of land si the disposal of Municipal Council*. County Councils, or District Rued Boards as the case mav be, to be by them assigned in small allotment* to the able bodied p air, and the devolving U|s>n such locel governing bodies tho entire ec*t and rmwtisibility of providing for tho relief cf the |<oor within their respective boundanr*. w. uld greatly tend to diminish and ultimately all but extirpate pauperism. (4.) That, in order to remedy tne evils in question, mom dejs-nds upon executive than upon legislative action; and. in so far as executive action in the direction indicated may bo deemed to be fettered by the existing land laws, the House will readily agree to such amendment of the law as may bo considered necessary. |5.1 'Dial a readjustment of |H>rtfoUo», by which tho time and attention of a separate Minister of the Crown might be devoted exclusively to land administration in each Island, would be higitly calculated hi render the administration more effective than it can possibly be under the existing svstrui. and would rondure to ease off those hindrance* that prar tically aland ao much in the way of people nettling on the land. iC.i That the Government he requested to take the foregoing resolutions into it* «erio i* consideration before the tension cl .era. w as if need be, to obtain the sancl. n of the le r datum to any act; m in the matter that may be deemed requisite.