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Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3903, 27 May 1899, Page 2

Stock quotations, commercial and telegraphic Down and a lett-r from our Onga Onga correspondent will bo found on our fourth page. Iu another column will bo found pr.rticnlars of the Alphaleticil Puzz which is now creating n sensation in America A priz) of £1 is tffered for the correct a swer. The comm t tee of the Waipawa Racing Club will meet in the Empire Hotel, at 2.30 p m, on Wednesday. A rehearsal of “ Our Boys ’’ will be he’d iu tho Oddfellows’ Hall, at 8 p id, on Tuesday. Among tho items in the “ suggestion book ” kept by our local library is tho remark, •* Any books (bar Kipling) ” And this in spite of onr boasted eduoation ! So far os Wellington ia concerned the mouth has thia year at leant lout its playful title an •* M»rry May,” for its record so far is 20 wet days out of 24. The secretary of the Waipawa Distriot Hspitfil begs to acknowledge moat tbaokfuliy the receipt of £6 Is sent ae a donation by Mr 8. Williamson, of Maugatera.

There w.i a large attendance at tho gymnasium last night, fully 50 being present. Thia speak') well for tho success

of tho institution during tho preaonl s asm

Two sailora belonging to tho Mary Haabronoh had a drunken qnarrel in a street in Wellington Inst night, and one, Alfred Lebrun, stabbed the other, Alfred Taylor, rather badly in tho faca. Tho fortnightly praotico of the Volunteer Fire Brigade will be held on Monday evening at 8 o’clock. A moating will he held afterwarda to arrange matters iu

connection with the ball to bo hold on tin 22ud Jane.

Mr Jollicoe has served a writ of £SOO on tho Post, for a libel alleged to have been contained io a leading article commenting on his euyponiion. A public meeting is called for next week to present him with an addresß of sympathy. Tho work of extending tho telephone line from Mangawtka to Moawhango—a diHtanco of about 28 miles—is almost completed. Wh«n the line has been fin-

ished telephone offices will be opened a Tuihape and Utiku, two settlements b • t veon Maogaweka nod Moawhango.

At a meotiag of Mr George Hunter’e hold at Ormoodville, oo Tuesday laet, a strong oeutral committee wan

formed, with branches at Noraewocd. K «piia, Makotnka and the Waikopiro, for Ibo purposo of again returning him to the Houao of Rjpreoentativos. Mr Georgo Hunter, M H R. for Waipawa will shortly addroes tho el-dors iu

tho diff ront centres of his coantituonoy. 11a baa drawn up the following programme of bis tour :—Porangahau, May 30th ; Makarotu, Jun-> lit ; Norsswood, June 2nd ; Tukupau, Juno 3rd ; Dane-

viike, Juno sth; Waipawa, June 6th; Waipukurau, June 7tb. The revonne of tho Wellington Napier Now Plymouth railway for the year was £381,753, «qual to £846 per mile, and an increase of £39,054 over tho previon* year. The expenditure was £264,364, equal to £224 per mile. Tho previous year’s expenditure wae £234,985 The number of pasaongors carried was 1 377 671, and the total tonnage railed 422 098.

Ah will ho seen from tho announomeot in ano'.her column Mrs Harrison-Lee i* about to pay a visit to our district. She has been aptly describe I ns “ The Queen of Temperance Speakers,” and is one of the fiaest lady speakers that has over visited tho colony. She has just completed a tour through the Auckland, Taranaki and Wellington districts, where she has had magnificent meetings. Her mission hero will open in tho Roohabite Hall, Wai >nkurau on Friday, Juno 2nd, and will >o continued in tho Presbyterian Church, Waipawa at 11 a m on Sunday Jane 4th, and in the Oddfellows’ Hall at 815 pm. She will also deliver a leoture in the Roohabite Hall, Kaikora North, on Monday, June sth at 7 30 p.m.

~Tho Promioi’s big meeting according to tho very full report in tho Pahiataa Herald, could not have been an unmixed joy to the Right Hon gentleman. There wore many interruptions that were rot of a complirnonlßry character, and tho fiual vote came near being challenged. Describing his visit, a correspondent writes that th) Premier had a very cool reception, that the meeting was not with him, and that it was folly ten minutes before ho coaid gef a hearing. “ He had several

deputations on Sunday, and on- on Monday morning, aud when ho left at 1.15 p in for tbo train it was in silence—not a ohecr even from bis own few snpporU-ri at the hotel door. . Tho men who were s>nt op from Wellington a fortnight ago for road making were all down to the mooting.”

Wherever the Premier goes, be makes a point of informing bis hearers that when the wick-) i Tories provided relief works for the unemployed in 1887, a period of •ovore depression, the rate of wages was 3s 6d a day for m.rrhd men an 1 2) 61 n day for single men, when the work was near tho towns, and a r,billing a day extra when the work was in the coontry. Tuia, he has frequently denonnood as a“ miserable pittance” and would lead his audience to believe that the Government of wbioh he iB the head, and which lovee the wo kora well-aooording to bis statements pay* a mnoh rate of wag°a. Such however, is not the case. A return furnish ed by the Linds and Sarvoy De; aitment abowa that in Auckland 94 men earned 3* 2J per day, 34 in Taranaki lid, 144 io Hawke’s Bay 2i 3d, 28 in Wellington Is 7d, 54 in Westland 4a 3d, 10 in Otago 2s 2d, aud 4 in Southland Is 21 par day Bat Mr Seddon was never noted for accuracy.