The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 91, 22 February 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1879.

In our last issue appeared a curiously complete collection of letters in defence of Dr Hosking, and, wo need hardly add, attacking ourselves. The set consisted of—lst, the Doctor; 2nd, Joscph Bailey; 3rd, E, Braggins; and, 4th, W. 11.I 1 . Smart, The Doctor's epistle was short, and merely introductory to the communications of his followers. We are. however, pleased to learn from his own mouth that he is consulting his dignity; and we should be still better pleased to learn-that he was consulting his humanity also. We have, however, we hope done with the Doctor, We considered that he deserved a reprimand ; and because lie happened to be a man ol some influence and importance we did not, as too many journals do, consider it advisable to hush the matter up. Even now wc feel tempted to say harder things of him than we have yet uttered, were it not that we believe that the Doctor has already been sufficiently worried by the Press and the public, and that the question might now with advantage be allowed to drop. In what we have , said we have not been actuated by personal motives, and would take far greater pleasure in praising than in censuring the Doctor. But before dismissing the subject, wc had better say a word or two to the Doctor's followers, Mr Braggins we know to be trustworthy, and if his letter was a voluntary one, we would be apt to take for granted all he says. But if his letter was written at the instance of the Doctor, and say after a certain amount of pressure had been brought to bear on the writer, we should attach less value to the communication, Of Smart and Bailey wc cannot speak in too high terms, and they have, we think, expressed a very proper feeling of gratitude to the Doctor in a whole-souled manner. Smart is the Custodian who supplied a sick woman and her husband in the most generous manner with 651b of moat in a fortnight —not common ordinary joints, but juicy steaks, with occasional bits of lamb thrown in—and did all this regardless of cost at the public expense. Smart and the Doctor have run a store account up amounting to about £SO in less than a month, and no doubt it was very wrong of the Committee of the Hospital at their last meeting to make such regulations that the Doctor and the Custodian will be unable to exercise in the future the unbounded liberality which they have displayed in the past. Then comes Joseph Bailey, who, by virtue of his being the husband of an invalid, has been fed at the Hospital (by order of the Custodian or Doctor, we presume, but at any rate lie has been fed) for the past month, And such' feeding! Assuming that his poor wife consumed 151b of meat in the particular fortnight to which we alluded then Joseph Bailey had 501bs on which to regale himself. No wonder he blesses the Doctor 1 No wonder he is wroth with anyone who advocated the cutting off of this sweet supply. Joseph Bailey no longer lives at the public expense, his little rations have been stopped by the Committee; " not for Joe" now arc unlimited beefsteaks provided from the Hospital larder, and we forgive him for calling us untruthful. On the whole we think Dr Hosking should not have appealed to this pampered menial to help out his case, and trust that his next effort to support his dignity will be more successful. Dr Hosking has given currency to a rumor that he will take legal proceedings against us, We venture to express a hope that lie mil do so. We are not at .all afraid to submit the case between the Doctor and ourselves to any Jury, nor will we be deterred from saying what we think is right on any public question by an apprehension of legal consequences.

Mr W. J. Prentice notifies that he has reduced the price of bread to Bd, cash. ! The Eev Father Halbwachs preaches at Masterton in the Town Hall to-morrow at 11 a.m. .. .

. Mr James Cotter has again started the old saw-mill, near Greytown. It is in full working order and he is prepared to take ordera at once. •

Tlio Rev Father Halbwachs will hold Divine Servick in the Town Hall tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.

Mr G. W, _Sohw»rte lias,, reports; tho' Standard, disposed of the goodwill in the lease of the Waihonga Hotel to Mr R. T.. Bennett of Featherston.

Tho following notico appears in the Evoniug PostSinclair.—On tho 18th February, at Wainui-o-mata, the wife Of D. Sinclair, of twin daughters—all well. Father delighted.

The boiler of a small ongino used on the Railway Works, at Tauhorinakau, in sinking-facinos, burst and seriously burnt two Inen, on Thursday last. This came to our cars indirectly .and we do not yet know the extent of the injuries. Harvest Thanksgiving Services will be

held in S. Matthew's Church to-morrow. The Holy Communion will bo colobrated at the eleven o'clock service. The offertory, as in all the other churches in the diocese, will be in aid of the Melanesian missions.

Tho Rev J. F. Teakle acknowledges with many thanks the receipt of a Postoffice order from Wellington "from one who Sympathises with the way in which it is left to the option of the congregation to offer as they feel inclined—not compulsory as.in the renting of pews," Wo understand that the dispensation for a new Oddfellows Lodge, atGreytown, has been granted, and that the district officers attend this evening to open it. The meeting will beheld at Quin's Hotel, where the proprietor has very gonerously given a rooni free of charge fir tho first twclvo months.

A passenger by a train from Wellington this week complains that the engine was so overloaded With goods as well as passengers that it had to leave the latter behind till it had conveyed the former up an incline, and that the driver on his return for tho passenger carriages shook up the inmates in the latter by the careless manner in which he ran the engino on to them,

At a meeting of-tho Presbytery of Wellington held on Thursday last, at which tho Rev James McKec acted as Moderator, Mr Robert McGregor was examined in Theology, Church History, Greek, and Hebrew. We learn that Mr McGregor sustained the examination with approbation, and has entered upon his last year's study. The Moderator was appointed to take the necessary steps to have the Rev Mr Brown permanently attached to the Lower Valley charge.

The New Zoalander writes as follows: Our respected fellow citizen, Dr A. K Newman, was married yesterday morning to Miss Octavia Featherston. daughter of the lato Dr Featherston. The ceremony was performed at St. Paul's Cathedral by the Ven. Archdeacon Thorpe. The Misses L. and N. Featherston acted as bridesmaids. Dr and Mrs Newman left for Featherston by the afternoon train en route for Napier. The happy pair intend to spend the honeymoon in Hawke's Bay.

The Mastorfcon Male and Female Servants Registry office weekly report:— Female servants in great demand, immediate engagements can be had for about twenty good housemaids, general servants and nurse girls at wages from £2O to £45 per year. Engagements for men have not been so brisk this week. Good men for clearing bush can get work readily. Wages, station hands, 20/- to 25/ ; Ploughmen, 25/- to 30/-, per week; Shepherds, £65 to LBO, per year; Married couples, L 75 to L9O, per year. The compositors in Wellington have given noticeof a strike. The Government office and the four newspapers offices will not give way and it is expected that next week over 100 printers will lie out of work, and their places will be supplieitby labor imported from the neighboring colonies and from othertowns in New Zealand: —Employers in Wellington for some years past have been under the thumb of the Society, for the future they intend to recognize no Society and to refuse employment to any men connected with it. The Assessment Courtsat yesterday from 10 a.in. to 0 p.m. For the Masterton Borough thirty objections were made by the public and the majority of these were thrown out as objectors got tired of waiting, in many instances and did not appear when their names were called. On the part of the Borough ninety eight objections were .made and in most cases sustained. .'For Counties East aud West but two objections were made and for the Masterton Highway • Board, there were nineteen.

A meeting was held at Greytown on Wednesday evening, to .take into consideration the formation of a Young Men's Christian Association. The Rev J. B. Richardson presided. It was resolved 011 the motion of Mr Rush" That such an association lie formed, and that it be called ' The Greytown Christian Association,' and that membership bo open to both sexes, and that the object of tho society be the religious, moral, and intellectual improvement of its members furthered by Essays, Lectures, and discussions." It was also resolved that tiie Society be undenominational. The Ilev J. B. Richardson was elected president, Messrs. Udy, senr., and Rush, vicepresidents, and Mr J. Tockor, secretary. It was resolved that the Society meet every alternate Tuesday, beginning on Tuesday next, the 25th inst., when the president will give tho first lecture. The WAIRARAPA DAILY can bo read in WELLINGTON at the Atlicuieiim, tlic Empire Hotel, liarrctt's Hotel, tho' Queen's .Hold, the New Zcalander Hotel, the Ocdldontol Hitel, the Royal Hotel, and at Mr \V. Fenian's Dininir Rooms, Lambton Quay.