The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 225, 30 July 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1879.

Yesterday a majority of fourteen was scored against the Grey Ministry by the Assembly, and its sins of commission and omission will soon be things of the past. We are taught to believe there is good in everything, and on this principle it is possible to believe that the colony has benefitted by the Ministry which for the last three years has governed the country. In the good old time's when Major Atkinson was Premier it was generally supposed that some half-dozen sagacious individuals ripe in years, honors, and emoluments were the only men qualificfi to govern the country, and it was rather a shock to preconceived ideas when a batch of new men like Macandrew, Ballance, Stout, and Sheehan were taken into a Cabinet, We think

it was n decided advantage that the spoil which bound us to ancient politicians was broken, and that young blood was so frocly imported into the highest places in New Zealand, it is true that Mr Bnll.uice and Mv Stout were unable to hold out to the end, that Mr Sheehan, who was supposed to be the Elislm of that great Elijah, Sir Donald McLean, has rather dragged in the mire the mantle which ho assumed ami .that only the more experienced and staid member of the quartette, Mr 'Macandrew, has been able to hold his own throughout the piece. But at the same time, for a first attempt, the performances of Messrs Shcehan, Stout, and Ballance have been such as to justify their promotion, and to induce men to think that under better auspises and with a more reliable chief they will be able to take office again at some future period and do good service to the colony, We now i'cel some assurance that we need not depend upon politicians trained in the mother country altogether, but that our colonial article is equally suitable, and will, now it has obtained a footing, gradually take the place of the English manufacture. All honor to the mother country for giving us many able and accomplished gentlemen who have .served New Zealand well and faithfully; but the time is arriving when our own offspring, the children of the New Zealand soil, are beginning to grow in wisdom as well as in stature, and it is only right that they, as the natural guardians of the colony, should guide and control its future destinies. The inauguration of the Grey .Ministry marked in this respect a. new departure, and each Ministry which succeeds it must necessarily more: or less follow its example. From any other 'point of view there is little to be said in favor of the Grey Cabinet or its chief,

Stewart, Bros,, sawmillers, Tavatahi, have called a meeting of their creditors. A first and final dividend in the estate of P. Domieckcr is announced in another column. Sergeant Donnelly, formerly at Masttrfon, has been appointed gaoler at Gisborne. The Treasurer of the Mastcrton Hospital has received from the Treasurer of the YVairarapa County West a grant-in-aid of £SO/17/10. In another column will he found tlis programme of the Lower Valley ploughing match, which will take place on Wednesday next at the Waihenga. It will be followed by a diuner at the Waihenga Hotel at 0 p, in, We publish in another column the programme of the entertainment to bo given in the Town Hull, Mastcrton, to-morrow evening. We believe it is about the best amateur performance which has yet been submitted to a Mastcrton audience. The Mastcrton Hide Volunteers now possess arms and atcortrcincnts. Should Friday evening lie tine the' Corps may be expected to march through the town for the first time. To-morrow Messrs lonia and Fergusson hold at Opaki their grand sale of stock on Mr Bannister's farm. A ] llV go number of horses, sheep, and cattle are to be offered on the occasion without the slightest reserve.

Yesterday a man named J. Daly W as charged before Messrs J. V. Smith and A. \Y. ftenall, J.P.s, with malicious injury to the property of Mr K Green, of the Ekciahuua Hotel. It was proved that the prisoner, while under the influence of liquor, had damaged the windows Ac, of the hotel to the extent of -t'l3. The ,„.[. soner was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment with hard labor.

We Delicvo that the Engineer appointed to report an alternative railway line with Mastorion which would connect with Wocdville, via Alfredton is not likely to give a favorable account of the line. It is said that four tunnels would be required by tin's route and that there is in addition a very impractiable river. Of course the t'|UC:'.tion docs not rest on Eug'meerin» points, alone but as tiie Mauricevdle route lias theaddiiioiialadviiiitagoof.i larger resi dent population as well as' that of \ level country, presenting hurdly any engineering difficulties, it is extremely probable that it will be adhered to.

A sale of horees was recently held, at which the traditional lowest value of " a pound a lee;" was entirely disregarded. The four animals included in the 'sale by auction (remarks the Lyttelton Times) had been quartered in the ileatlieole Pound, and when they were submitted to the hammer, one was sold for five shillings one at half-a-ciwn, and the twoothers°at a shilling each. Even at these really extraordinary prices one of the shilling animals did not really find a customer at auction, but had to oe subsequently disposed of by private treaty.

A meeting of the creditors of Thomas Evans was held at the .Supreme Court on Monday last, Mr Dimant in the chair. An offer was made by the debtor to pay a composition of ss. in the pound to the unsecured creditors, secured upon Mrs Evans' farm. This property, however, bein<r already mortgaged for £7OO, the creditors declined to accept the offer unless it was guaranteed by s';me substantial man, and gave the debtor a week in which to find such asurety, failing which he is to file Lis schedule.

Hie Globe is l'csponsiblc (lo.i the following :-'• Tho City Inspectoof Kiiisnnccs received intimation on Fri day last, from n well-known citizen residing in Gloucester-street, that a nuisance existed on his premises, the removal of which lie wished carried out withot delay. On the officer attending lie was informed by the gentleman who had invoked his services that the nuiaance he desired removed was a bailiff, whe had taken up his temporary residence with him. The Inspector, after consulting the bye-laws, came to the conclusion that, though a nuisance to the party immediately concerned, it did not como within the scope of his duties.

The German army horses are now fed on biscuits of three purts each of rye flour, oat-flouv aud dextrinated pea flour, and one part of linseed flour. The biscuits are made with a hole in the middle of each, so that they can he strung on a cord and hung to the saddle-bow, or hung by the trooper round his waist. Each biscuit weighs about two ounces, and seven of them are broken up and given to the horses night and morning and twelve at noon. Officers generally agree that these biscuits are better than oats, and each trooper can carry thirty pounds' weight which will furnish his horse with full rations for eight days.

Baron Rothschild holds a mortgage on tho whole of Palestine as a security for his loan of 200,000,000 francs to the Turkish Government.

The London .correspondent of the Melbourne Argus writes:—"lt is stated in well informed quarter that Sir George Bowden is not likely to remain long at the Mauritius, a transfer to another governorship being in contemplation. Mile Grevy, the daughter of the French President, has magnificent, heavy black hair, falling to her feet, It is compared with that of the Empress of Austria,which, brown and silky, reaches to her heels. Like the Empress, Mile Grevy is a huntress,' and has her room carpeted with the slcins of animals.

Some practical jokers encased a carcase of a'.liorse in red flannel, sot it afloat in tho Ohio, just about Madison's, Ind, and passod the word by wire down both banks of the river that Boynton was coming. Skiffs shot out for miles along the river as the dead steed drifted down, and at Madison the entire populace crowded to the wharves. The" sell" was a success.

The little town of Bever, which is one of the suburbs of Pittsburg, is in a terrible slate of excitement. One of its prettiest, wealthiest, best-known, and ro-lly accomplished young ladies of the town left her father's house and deliberately married a negro coal-digger, who is as ugly and ignorant as he is black. She had been wayward and had quarrelled with her mother,

Sir George Bowen (we learn from the Mauritius record) has been distinguishing himself at a " chassc," in which upwards of 120 sportsmen took part, and 70 stags were killed. Of this number, observes the liocord '■ live were shot by his Excellency, who by this fact has at once established his reputiou as a crack shot," A guest at a hotel found a ladies' nightgown in his room, and went to the clerk with it saying " Look hero, mister, this is a hollow mockery, a delusion and a snare. If yoil can't (ill it up I don't want (he darned thing in my room.