The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 262, 11 September 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1879.

| We commented yesterday on the municipal addresses of Messrs Francis and Corbett. In our present issue we propose to say a few words on the views of Messrs Donald Donald and Fergusson, which have been subsequently published. The question of vital importance in all the addresses is the financial one. Mr Donald proposes raising half the, authorised loan, viz., £4OOO, We doubt whether it would not be easier to raise £20,000 than the smaller sum, and we question whether £4OOO would suffice to construct half the public works in the Borough which are urgently needed. The result of raising £4OOO would be to satisfy a portion of our needs and to leave a large proportion of houses in the Borough without suitable approaches. Haifa loaf is better than no bread, but if it be as easy to get the whole loaf we do not see the advantage of merely taking the moiety. Mr Fergusson does not even go as far as Mr Donald in the direction of devising ways and means, but considers that in the present depressed state of the country the question of drainage and water supply cannot be entertained, He, however, advocates several important local works which would involve an expenditure of at least one or two thousand pounds, and which are utterly impracticable without the aid of a loan, We are, on the Yihole, convince.d that it is better to take the " bull by the horns" and say we must have drainage, we must have a water supply, we must have gas, we must have roads to every house, and in order to have all these we must raise a loan of £20,000. In four years' time we would have to pay £I2OO or £I4OO a-year interest on such a .loan, but not before that period; and .confidence assert that Master-

ton will, lour ynars hence, have double its existing population, and that its rate roll, assisted by ordinary water and gas levies, will easily bear the burden ot the interest we have named, Mr Donald says that the probable discontinuance of the Government subsidy has been overlooked, We contend that with a large loan we would be independent of the Government subsidy, and that it will be easier to float a loan while we are backed by the subsidy than it would be in twelve month's time when we shall be without it. There is now a favorable opportunity of borrowing money at a low rate of interest in the English market, and provided the money be raised at a low rate and spent carefully and judiciously, there is no apprehension of a large loan proving other than a profitable transaction to the borough.

F, H. Wood and Co. hold an extensive sale of general merchandise at Grcytown on Saturday next, at 2 p.m. A meeting will be held at the Club Hotel, on Saturday evening next, to form rules for the forthcoming pigeon shooting match. A meeting of stewards of the Moiki Races, Greytown, is announced to be held at Hodge's Bush Inn oil Friday oveuini; next. We call attention to an advertisement of the Catholic Depot, Wellington, conducted by Messrs Whittaker Bros,, which wiil bo found in another column. A man named Stanford was fined £5 the other day in the R.M. Court, Musterton, or in default 2 months imprisonment. As he had not the money he was forwarded to Wellington. Yesterday Mr T, H, Hill raised by small subscriptions a sufficient sum t ofree the prisoner. It was one of the most intelligent of the Victorian Ministerial supporters who thus remarked (writes iEgles in the Australasian), "My good friends, the Ministers said they would burst up the large estates—l begin to be afraid that they will burst up the country," At the close of a sheriff's sale which took place at Mansfield, Victoria, lately, Mr J, C. Campbell (of M'Culloch, Campbell, & Co.) a buyer from Melbourne, took advantage of the occasion to advise the residents —a large number being present—to form themselves into a farmers' union, as lie considered the present Government was ruining the country as fast as they could ; audit was therefore necessary that all farmers should establish unions, and resolve to vote for no candidate win injured tlieir interests. A violent mutiny has broken out among the troops at Cabul. The Ameer, Yakoob Khan, who did his utmost to queil the rebellion, was besieged in his palace, The mutineers, joined by the inhabitants, attacked and fired on the British Residency. The fate of the British Embassy is unknown. The British advance force at Shutar Gardan Pass, under General Roberts, will march on Cabul immediately. . General Stewart has been ordered to :hold the Kandahar and Kyber Passes. Another force will operate from Jellalabad. In the current number of [the Medical Record. Dr Hammond says that when you poke the end of your finger in your ear, the roaring noise you hear is the sound of the circulation in your finger. This is a fact, as anyone can demonstrate for himself, by first putting Ins fingers in his ears, and then stopping them up with another substance. Try it, und think what a wonder of a machine your body is that even the points of your fingers arc such busy workshops that they loar like a small Niagara. The roaring is probably more than the noise of the circulation of the blood. It is the voice of all the vital processes together—the tearing down and building up processes that are always going forward n every living body, from conception to death