The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 247, 25 August 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1879.

Three Candidates out of four held last week their principal meetings in the Wairarapa, and doubtless by this, they are duly thankful they have got so far through their work. We think they will all agree with us that their trump cards of Manhood Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, and a Property and Income Tax have been played to unappreciative audiences, and that the extcntion of the franchise in particular requires to be positively pumped into the electors, who apparently are neither so eager or so expectant in the matter as the Premier would have them to be, Past services and sfcaighttbrward speaking and acting have really been the chief merits of the candidates, and it is these points which have evoked mainly the interest which has been manifested at the large meetings which have assembled in the various townships. The Wairarapa is divided into two parties, both of which, however, do not appear to take a very lively interest in moasurcs, but concentrate, then' attention mora on men. The one party is composed of land proprietors, the other ot the settlers in the townships. It might almost be said that it was town versus country, were it not that a very friendly feeling prevails, wc are happy to say, between all settlers in the district, However, it is amicably admitted that there exists some slight diversity of interests, and it is evident that the Grey party finds its adherents in the townships, and the Pox party gets its principal supporters among the larger landed proprietors of the district. Mrßeetham is a happy man in having the confidence of all classes in the district, but no other candidate enjoys a similarly enviable position. Mr Bunny's chances rest entirely on the townships and on Small Farm settlers, almost all the large farmers and stationholders bein" dead against him. All Mr Bunny's" opponents, on the other hand, are pretty certain to vote for Mr Phara/.yn, anil the result will indicate in a "reat measure, whether town or country influence is in the ascendant. We rather regard Mr Carter as out of the running. He is not likely to draw votes from Mr Beetham, and he will not spoil Mr Pharazyn's chance, his sentiments on large estates and the laud tax being quite sufficient to deter the country party from supporting him. His only chance is that of gettin" a slice of Mr Bunny's small farm and township support, and this is a poor one, as in most cases the small farmer and the town settler will probably give Mr Bunny the preference, Were, however, this chance successful, he might boast that "he had eaten his friend." We do not think that Mr Carter, if he goes to the poll, will do more than weaken Ins own party by giving the opposition a favorable opportunity of returning two members. Thatthe Groy party connot possibly return two candidates must be obvious to everybody, and the probable result of its attempting to do so will be its total discomfiture, as far as the Wairarapa election is concerned. Its chances of returning one would not be great, were it not that Mr Pharazyn usually commits some indiscretion while electioneering, by which he spoils his own prospects.

We cannot regard as satisfactory the arrangements! made for the Wairarapa election by the Returning Officer. While acquitting Mr Wardell of any intention of making them in the interests of one party, the fact that they are so appeals to our mind incontrovertible. The interval given between the nomination day and the polling day, is only three days, a period during which it is practically impossible to communicate the result of the nomination to a large number of couutry settlers. The result is that they will be disfranchised by the action of the returning officer to the benefit of the ministerial candidates. It may be urged that the names of candidates are already known to the electors, but in answer to this we would point out that on the nomination day one of the four at present canvassing the district might retire, and possibly a new candidate be added, so that a change might on that day be effected which would altogether alter the list to be submitted for the electors, As things now are, any alteration of such a character will be absolutely unknown to many electors till after the polling day. While we would not for a moment imagine that the Returning

Officer was biassed by party considerations in rushing the election through in an exceptional .manner, we none the less hold 'that his act will benefit ministerial candidates, and bo prejudicial to those who are in opposition.

Mr Pharazyn addresses the electors in the Town Hall this evening. Mr G. Beetham invites the electors to meet him at Gladstone, on Tuesday next, at 2 p.m. A new Liberal organ has been started at Napier, named the Star, and lias proved to be a great success.

Th 6 Carterton Rifle Volunteers parade on Thursday, 28th inst., instead of Tuesday. f. H. Wood &Co., sell on Wednesday, at the Featherston sale yards, _fat cattle, draught, and hack horses.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Masterton Library Committee takes place to-morrow. ( The Post states that a branch of the Scottish Masonic Lodge is to be opened at Masterton, and that Bro. A. D. Cowan is to be installed first master.

Messrs loms and Fergussonholdan unreserved sale of furniture, in the Town Hall, to-day. Mr J. M. Girdlcstone soils at York House, on Wednesday next, furniture, etc., without reserve.

' A public meeting will be held at Carterton, to-morrow, to discuss matters relative to the Local Board.

Messrs Bishop and Hawkins, of Greytown, have received a notification that their tender for the Police Buildings, Greytown, lias been accepted. The Greytown Borough Council meets on Tuesday next, and the Wairarapa Institute Committee the same evening.

We understand that Mr E. S. Maunsell, of Waihakeki, has again accepted an appointment under the Govemmsnt as their agent in the district,

We trust our correspondents till the election is over will be as brief as possible in their communication. Long letters must necessarily be held over or passed over.

Mr Retiall lias, we understand, received overtures of support from members of the Liberal Party iii the Lower Valley, if he will come forward, but we believe his reply has been unfavorable to the wishes of his friends.

On Saturday last the officers of the Masterton Masonic Lodge proceeded to Wellington, to rake part in the installation of Mr Toxward to his new dignity in the craft.

The only cases tried on Saturday, before Mr Ward ell, R.M., were Telford v Meredith-Breach of Scab Act-dismis-sed ; and same v same, same offence, withdrawn.

A meeting was held on Friday evening last, at the office of F. H. Wood and Co., to form a committee to secure the return of Mr Beetham, Several gentlemen attended, and Mr Wood was elected Chairman,

lorns' and Fergusson's sale of jowelery on Saturday, was very largely attended and good prices obtained throughout. The balance of the stock will be sold to-day, after which they will sell a quantity of furniture, drapery, etc, "vEgjes," in the Australasian, writs : "Pidgin English unskilfully applied sometimes leads to Chinese misapprehension. A prominent member of our Legislature, remarkable for his rigid Sabbatarianism, lately visited his station in liiverina. On Sunday afternoon he was conscientiously improving the shining hour by reading his Bible, and (by way'of mental mortification) perhaps examining bis wool accounts. Upon the station there was a capital Chinese cook, with a nice taste in curry making, and altogether a man not easily to be replaced. Looking up he saw this valued servant, who explained that a flock of geese had alighted en the lagoon at the back of the homestead, suggested, "You get him gun, me shoot him goose along lagoon.' Here was an opportunity to impress upon a benighted heathen the purport of the Fourth Commandment. Closing the Bible—with the wool accounts between the leavs at the Book of Lamentations—and assuming the sagacious attitude of Lord Dundreary about to count his fingers, lie thus addressed the wouldbe Sabbath-breaker :—'One day you shoot him goose, two day you shoot him goose, 1 and so on to 'Six day you shoot him goose, but (impressively) seven day you no shoot him goose,' The saffron, countenance of- Kno Savee assumed a mystified expression, and then, as apprehension slowly dawned upon its ample surface, he astonished his pious master by exclaiming, 'No fear! garnishing the expostulation with a verbal decorative adjective which it is superfluous to reproduce, He had come to the conclusion that in addition to his ordinary culinary duties he was to undertake goose shooting six days in the week. And next day Straitlacc lost a capital cook,"

People who have any experience of family quarrels about money must sympathise with the wives and offspring of Mr Brigham Young. Mr Young had about 23 wives, who bore him an average of five children. Say he had 140 infants, and that brings him near 164 of Rameses 11., which Mv Gladstone thinks too many, though it falls far below the total of August the Strong of Saxony. Many of these children in turn were very much married, so that Young is quite a common name in Utah. When Mr Young died he left most of his property, and how much that was nobody knew, to the church, and only provided for a few of his elder offspring. The " rank and file" of his family are unprovided for, and his thousands of heirs are expected to contest his will. The case will be one of the most colossal on record. There is an original prc-Mormon Mrs Young sail surviving, There are all manner of favourite wives of beloved grandchildren, of descendants married "in and out and roundabout" in the most complicated way, The whole Bar will beexhaustcd in providing counsel, and no mortal Judge can expect to hear more than a small part of the case, which will increase in difficulty at the rate of compound interest, as the value of Young's investments and the number of right heirs go on multiplying., America is likely to outvie with the utmost ease our petty Tichborne trial, and will be able to boast the largest lawsuit as the biggest waterfall in the universe. The religious complications of course will be numerous, and the contemplative mind is overwhelmed—as in the attempt to conceive of infinity—by the prodigiousness of the affair—Daily News,

Dry Toast—A teetotal one. Whatever good an umbrella barforas, jt" put up" to it, Why is the success of the Artie expedition certain I—Because they cannot get into hot water.

Mr 0, Pharazyn's meeting at Carterton, on Saturday was very successful. Our reporter has given us such a lengthy report of it, that wo are compelled to hold it over till our next issue.

Here is not a bad story, and it is a true one, In the course of a case which was tried recently in Auckland, the public prosecutor asked one of the witnesses, a young girl, to what religion she belonged. The girl hesitated to answer, when her mother, who was seated amongst the spectators, sang out, " She's a mixture, your Honor, Her father's a Catholic, and I'm a Protestant. " Police magistrates do not laugh often, but this one gave way this time. The consistent Sir George Grey, before going into office said:-" lam not one of those who would advocate letting a man off the land tax who has a cottage and garden. If he has an acre of ground let him pay his threepence or whatever the tax may bo. It will not hurt him. On the contrary, he will never feel that if he does fall into a state of destitution in his old age and requires relief he will be a pauper. He will feel as every one is entitled to feel who contributes to the revenue of the country—that he has contributed to a guarantee fund which is to suppoH the destitute, and that if he falls into a state of destitution through the failure of his health and energy he will be entitled to receive a share of that fund without feeling that lie is, as we have been told, communist or a pauper."