The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 65, 22 January 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1879.

A carrier calls our attention to the difficulty under which the trade is carried oh in the Wairarapa since the railway has been opened to Featherston, He Bays they have to pay the freight ' of goods from Wellington at the Featherston depot in cash before they can load their wagons, and that as a system" of giving credit to storekeepers' and others prevails in the Wairarapa, they are placed at a serious disadvantage. The railway freight too, he urges, is the principal item in the carriage. A carrier, for example, has to pay down in cash 30s in order to earn 20s, and to place in his books an account of 50s. The introduction of a railway system into the district necessarily makes changes in old established customs, and it is hardly reasonable to expect the onus of prompt payment demanded by the department to fall altogether on the shoulders of the carriers, Storekeepers and the public are now getting their goods conveyed to their doors at a far lower rate than heretofore, and it is not unreasonable to expect them to pay cash for freights as a setoff for the profit they now obtain under the new arrangements. The most sensible course for carriers to adopt would be to agree to a uniform system in collecting freights. If they can only agree among themselves in demanding cash on delivery they can as easily obtain it as the Eailway Department. If they cannot agree among themselves, the trade will necessarily he conducted on two different principles—one by the capitalist, who can afford to give credit, the other by the man of smaller means, who requires cash payments. It is evident, however, that the former mv\st charge a higher rate of freight than the latter to cover his outlay, Not only in the carrying trade, but in many other businesses, extra profits have to be added to pay the cost of credit, and it is impracticable to all at once change existing modes of doing business. Time and the railway extension, will, however, slowly but surely put matters of this kind on a better business footing, and we must be content to wait on a gradual improvement. We tr'ust,.however, that the hardship which carriers ' sustain in having to pay cash to the 1 extent of 60 per cent, on the sums 1 which they subsequently have to collect ' at uncertain intervals, will stimulate ; their customors to adopt a more prompt i method of settling for freights than has , hitherto prevailed.

We have received a plan of the Kopuarangi Small Farm Estate,' which may ho seen at our office. It is notified that a first and final dividend in the assigned estate of Mr P. Donnecker will be paid on the Gth Feb. The Kuripuni road requires widening, as everybody knows. On Monday morning the second coach was capsized in a ditcli through the horses shying at a threshing machine. Fortunately, no one was hurt. We regret to have to announce the death of Mrs Wood the wife of Mr F. H. Wood, of Greytown, who died yesterday afternoon at twenty minutes to three. The funeral take 3 place to-morrow, Almost everyone knows that dock roots grow to a great-length, but the longest we have seen was taken out of a garden at Greytown, a few days ago, The root was 4ft. Gin, long and only about an inch in circumference at the largest part, It will be seen by our telegrams to-day that Mr Cumberworth, of Christchurch, has been appointed second master at the Featherston School. Mr Gordon assistant master at Masterton School; Mr Wakelin successor to Mr Austin at Kaiwaiwai; Mr Kilpatriok is appointed to Gladstone. Mr Blackett the Government Engineer, accompanied by Mr Beotham chairman of Wairarapa County East, yesterday inspected the Ruamnhunga at Opaki, with a view to determining the sites of the proposed railway and road bridges. We mentioned the other day that a gas apparatus had been imported into Greytown, Wo may add that Masterton has been equally enterprising in the same direction, Mr T, Lowes having just received a plant with which he proposes to light up the Eailway Hotel. Other plants have, we understand, being ordered by

Mastcrton settlers. From the Ist February, Messrs Wilson and Richardson announce that they will close their establishment at 5 p.m. on Saturdays They make the following announcement:—"lt is hoped that this arrangement, which is made for the benefit of the assistants, will commend itself to every right-thinking person, and that our customers and the public will do their part by abstaining from Saturday night shopping. Every business, physical and moral, consideration points to the Saturday half-holiday as being in every way most suitable. It is the. only halfholiday in the week that can be successful in the long run. And it is a success all over the world, in every trade and occupation where it has been tried. We respectfully call upon our customers particularly, and the general public, to assist the movement, and with their approval ■"nd. countenance, we hope, in a few nioii&b. t. O c i oße a t 2 p,m, on Saturdays." The wiclted people ; n Wellington say that His Excellency George ti, e M ar quj g of Normanby would fain revert to the practise of hanging for sheep stealing, being firmly convinced in his vice-regal mind' that death is the best deterrent against crime. With a bucolic look and a bucolic mind they consider it a pity that' he did not adopt squatting on the public lands instead of the public purse to obtain a livelihood. This conservative feeling has been evoked by the case of commuting the sentence on Walsh. Death like doth cover in his mind at all-events a multitude of sins. A novelist .said that the worse use to which a mal could be put wm to hang him-but theii tho novelist was not a Governor. In the.old'Tasmanian days it was asserted that Governor-Arthur banged a _ hundred men per annum, during his four years term-st office, and foiiv over for luck. So stringing-up may ri'n in Governors it would appear, like Ssrofula in royal, and the King's evil in Cucal families. What,. however, is the value of a plebian's life in an aristocrat's balance 1 k rot le vtt.

We have In type a full report of the case heard at Featherston on Monday laat, J. liarr v O. Itevans, which will appear in our next issue. lisTlm WAIRARAPA DAILY can be read in WELLINGTON at tho Athemcmn, the 'Empire Hotel, Barrett's Hotel, tho Queen's Hotel, tho Now Zcalander Hotel, the Royal Hotel, and Mr W. Freeman's Dining Rooms, Lambton Quav.