The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 26, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 525, 26 July 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 26, 1880.

Many of our readers are doubtless aware that the Government propose to introduce a Bill to ensure a redistribution of the representation of the Colony. The true contents of this Bill are, we believe, only known to the initiated; but as regards the boundaries which affect the representation of the Wairarapa we are—from an official sourceable to give a few particulars, • Some progress has been made in marking off on the map of the Colony the various electoral divisions into which New Zealand is to be divided. We understand that one principle in the Bill is that towns are to lie divided into wards and the country into districts, each having but one member. This, we think, will be more convenient and give greater satisfaction than the present arrangement. It is proposed that the Wairarapa district, which at present returns two members, shall be divided into two parts, one to be called South Wairarapa and the other North Wairarapa, South Wairarapa will retain, on the'south, its present boundaries, but will be cut off from Masterton and all the northern part of County East by aline commencing at the mouth of the Pahaua River on the East Coast, and running up the said river to its source, and then continued in a westerly direction till it reaches the Huamahunga. Up the latter river it is then carried till it reaches the Waingawa, which river forms the extreme northern boundary of South Wairarapa, North Wairarapa takes in Masterton and the whole of the remainder of County East, and thus, in territorial extent, forms much the largest district, having as its north boundary a line extending from the river Waimata on the East Coast to far into the. interior, so as to reach Woodville: its (southern boundary being the northern boundary of South Wairarapa. The Wairarapa electoral division, as now constituted, is estimated to contain a population of 8263 souls. By dividing this district as we have indicated there will be about 4000 souls in the Lower' Valley, Peatherston, Greytown, and Carterton—in outh Wairarapa: while the largest town and the greatest extent of pastoral country, and a population of, say, 4000 souls will be comprised in North Wairarapa. It is but right to say that these conditions and boundaries may be altered before the passing of the Bill, or, what is more probable, the Bill may not pass this session, liven if it does, it is not likely to Come into; operation until the termination of the present Parliament in 1882.' We at present simply consider it our duty to call public attention to the matter. In conMotion with this electoral «übjeot, we may venture a few,remarks return;

the year 1879 there were 1,826 electors, •but for 1880' there we only 1,596, shewing a decrease of 230, This diminutiveness may arise from the names of persons being on the roll who had no business there, and consequently have been struck of ;• and, also, from apathy of those who have had th.e privilege of an extended suffrage recently conferred on them. This may be altered shortly, for instructions have been recently issued to the various Registrars to place all .names on the roll entitled to be there, We think all eligible persons should see that their names are placed on the roll, If they do not the Wairarapa will show its weakness, and the settlers will have only themselves to blame if our future representatives do not turn out as efficient as they ought to do, We commend 'these remarks to the earnest attention of our readers, for if they desire that our country should prosper, and our Government should be founded on the suffrages of the many, instead of the few, and that thereby the greatest happiness should fall to the lot of the greatest -numbers, they, and the rest of the electors of New Zealand, must take a more active, a more unselfish, and a more patriotic part in politics than they have hitherto done.

Mauk Twain recently penned the following reply to an exuberant American official. It might be addressed without any material alteration to Mr Conyers by the Civil Service Commissioners: "My callow friend, when you have outgrown the effervescence of youth,-and acquired a bit of worldly experience, you will cease to make mistakes like that. This is, you will recognise, the simple wisdom of minding your own business. You seem to think you have been called to account. This is a great error, It is the post office department of the United States that has been called to account. There is a difference here which you seem to have overlooked. I will point it out. You are not the post-office department, but only an expensive and unnecessary appendage to it. Grave, elderly public instructors like me do not call private secretaries to account, The mistake you have made is simple; you imagine yourself the dog, whereas you are only the tail. You endeavored to wag the dog. This was injudicious. You should have hung quiescent until the dog wagged you. You seemed to have gathered the impression somehow, that you are a member of the Cabinet. This is an error. Your chief is one of the guns of that battery; you are not. You are not a gun, nor a a load, nor even a ramrod; neither do you supply ammunition; you are only served as a stick to firo it off. You are not a barrel of molasses, but only a faucet through which the molasses is discharged. You are not a boot, but a bootjack, Do you perceive 1 The thing lam trying to Gonvey to you is that it does not become you to assume functious that do not belong to you. The newspaper slip which you enclosed me I will return by one of my private secretaries. I keep eleven of these things, not for use but for display,"

The Greytown Borough Council meets this evening. Mr Dudding, Tauherenikau, advertises hay for sale at 50s per ton. TheMasterton Library Committee holds a meeting to-morrow. Applications close to-day for the office of Inspector to the Carterton Rabbit District. Tenders are invited up till to-morrow for removing and re-erecting a fence in the Oemotary paddock. Communication with Rsngoon is interrupted. Charges on telegrams will be collected accordingly, A London correspondent thus gossips of Mr 'and Mrs Gladstone She is a clever, pleasant, earnest wbman, but she dresses badly. Her bonnets are of the dowdiest, The provincial ladies quite resent her bonnets. Gladstone himself is not a' buck.' He wears trousers that are baggy at the knees' His coat never fits him. His gloves are always to long at the fingers. But when, he goes down to the House of Commons prepared to make an important speech he is always well brushed, and wears a flower in his buttonhole. Mrs Gladstone always revises him when he leaves homo on important occasions. Mr Barlow, of Carterton, complains that dogs running at large in the neighborhood have been committing sad havoc among his sheep lately. Out of forty sheep penned behind his building about twenty-six were lying about the paddock, mutilated to such a degree that the meat iB quite unsaleable, and the remainder have been shamefully worried, We think •if customers want the price of meat to run equal with the times they ought to be more careful in keeping their canine pets secured. Mr Barlow is not the only sufferer by a great many, for we hear that other persons, who are not so able to contend with such losses, are also victimised.

A little after six last evening the fireball at Majterton rang out an alarm, and there was a rush to the premises occupied by Mr Quirtly-, the well-known ; painter and decorator, of Queen-street. From the roar of his shop amoks and flame were issuing. The part of the building which was on fire was a small lean-to, formerly used as a stable, and right against the larger premises pf Messrs lorns & 00. At first sight it appeared aa If the whole block would go. People there were in plenty, but buckets and water there were none. The shingles on the roof were blazing merrily, and for nearly five minutes no obeck to the flames was applied. At last a few buckets of water were available, and used with effect by a fireman 011 the roof, and Sergeant McOardle from below. Then the hose from Mr Caselberg's tank was brought across, but the man who brought it forgot to turn the tap, and another minute was lost, The moment, however, the hose was brought to bear properly on the building the-fire was at an end. - There was no body in it, the building being unlined, and'the weather-boards being so old that they absolutely would not burn, and it was not till the shingles were reached that there' was any show of flames. The .Masterton Fire Brigade turned out in full force. It took, however, about ten minutes to bring the engine down to a point from which a supply of 'water was obtainable, the present engine-station not being quite so , conveniently situated as it might be. By the time the Brigade hose, was charged the'water from Mr Caselberg's tank had fortunately extinguished the fire. The origin of the fire is a mystery. Had a man been s'ent with a boxof matches to set the &hed alight,, he would, we think, have been unsuccessful, .- The .shed, forms a part of an almost valueless cluster of old buildings,' which might be very well condemned as dangerous .and pulled down. An adjoiniag tenement of t simk Jw.characl^r;w^ by tKi nion Bah k of JA uislral !■ 1 to wfibtn

: The late Rev J. J, P. O'Reilly was buried with great state .yesterday in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Wellington. Messrs P. H. Wood' & Co. sell on Thursday next, without reserve, at the Rising Sun Hotel yards, a double-seated buggy, .with horse and harness, A meeting is about to be held at Waihenga to arrange for the usual-annual ploughing match competition for th* Lower Valley. A meeting of the stewards of the Wai-1 henga Race Club is convened for Friday , next at the Waihenga Hotel.

The bill to enable, the Government to retain in custody the' Maori prisoners till October 31, has been carried in the Upper' House. The Deceased Wife's Sister Bill;has passed the Legislative. Council, and will be brought forward in the Houße of Representatives by Mr Moorhouse at an early date. At the meeting, of the Featherston MutuallmprovementandDebatingSociety to-morrow evening, the Rev H. V. White will give a lecture on free trade v. protection. i

We understand that Mr B. Green, of Eketahuna, has found it necessary to meet his enemies at the Supreme Court gate. The Masterton Boys' Football Club will hold a scratch match in Mr Drummond's paddock on Wednesday next. Play commences at 3 p.m. sharp. The elub held a good practice on Saturday, and possesses some very promising players. Ten native prisoners, Te Whiti's last batch of martyrs, were lodged in the gaol at New Plymouth, on Thursday last. Four more have been subsequently arrested.

On Friday last after a long discussion the memberß of the Lower House agreed to reduce the honorarium by ten percent. Mr Beetham supported the reduction and Mr Bunny opposed it.

The Masterton Football Olub had the satisfaction of scoring its first victory in the match played at Carterton on Saturday lait. One of its players, Mr Barnson, succeeded in kicking a goal, and as the Carterton team had only scored a try it lost the day. It will be seen by our telegrams that the Railway Commissioners recommend the continuation of the Wellington and Masterton railway to Woodville and Bunnythorpe, and are of the opinion that the construction of the Wellington and Foxton railway should be postponed. On Friday last Mr Kelleher, surveyor, formerly of Masterton, died at Timaru after a long illness. The deceased gentleman was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity in this colony, and we understand that the Lodge at Timaru are making arrangements to bury their late brother with thejusual honors. Colonel Leckie, in hit annual report of the Greytown Rifles, Carterton Rifles, and Masterton Rifles, saysl inspected these companies on the 7th and Bth May. Men well turned out; arms and accoutrements clean and in good order; attendance good. Companies drilled at .manual and firing exercises by their own officers fairly. Bayonet and skirmishing order by drill instructor. Corps lately raised. Masterton Rifle Cadets—Well turned out and clean.