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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 565, 10 September 1880, Page 2

Messrs F. H Wood <fc Co. hold an &x----tensive sale of furniture at Cartel ton to< morrow.

Over one hundred Armed Constabulary have resigned on account of reduction in pay. Messrs J. lorns & Co. hold at their yards at noon to-morrow, an unreserved sale of agricultural implements, stock, and pot plants,

The donation box of the Christchurch Benevolent Association, was recently opened, and found to contain two buttons,

It has been rumored that Sir George Grey has purohased an interest in the Timaru Herald. Is the ex-premier buying up the newspapers of the colony to influence public opinion i Doea the great pro-consul hope to found free institutions on a degraded and renal press ? We have received Messrs Lyon and Blair's monthly review for September. This number iB above the average in general excellence,

The Australian cricketers made only 149 in their first innings against All-Eng-land. In their second they scored 170 for the loss of sit wickets—Murdoch 79, Bonnor 13, both not out; McDonnell 43, l.b.w.

The following are the numbers of votes polled by the respective candidates for the office of Councillor for the Borough of Greytown:—Baillie 80, Gallagher 34, Haigh 72, Kempton 69, Thompson 76, Udy 66. Messrs Baillie, Thompson, and Haigh were therefore declared duly elected.

A man named Jenkins, who withdrew from this district about a year ago, after appropriating to himself certain goods and chattels, which belonged to other people, has been arrested at Napier, and is now en route for Masterton to answer for his misdeeds.

There was only one case heard at the sitting of the Court at Featherston on Monday last, and that was one in whioh, John Clifton was charged with having failed to comply with an order of the Court to contribute towards the maintenance of his mother. Defendant was ordered to pay the amount due in seven days or to be imprisoned for one month,

The oatmeal mill (writes the Times) to which we alluded as being manufactured at Mr E. W. Mills' Lion Foundry was completed yesterday, and was at once forwarded to the railway station, in order to be conveyed to Masterton, where it will be erected by Messrs Bacon and Wrigley, who have already completed many of the works required for the manufacture of oatmeal, which do not come within the scope of foundry and millwright work. The mill deserves particular notice for several reasons. In the 'first place it is the first that has been made in this island, if not in the colony, and the proprietor of the establishment as well as his foreman, Mr Cable, therefore, had a good deal of extra work with it, yet the various parts are turned out in perfectly workmanlike manner, and as if the patterns had been in use for years, while the price of the whole does not exceed that which would be charged in Melbourne. In the second place, the mill will be the first on this side of Cook Straits, and the enterprising firm whioh has launched out in thia industry will therefore be the means of supplying a local demand by the manufacture of local products. The last harvest yielded a large surplus of oats in the Wairarapa, and as farming is on the increase, Messrs Bacon and Wrigley are likely to forward considerable quantities to the city market. The machinery, which has been made at the Lion Foundry, does not consist of a great number of pieces, but the majority of them required very careful casting or fitting. There are two pairs of stones, measuring 4ft in diameter. One of these is of Australian stone, and will be used for Bhelling j the other has been made of the French stone generally used by millers. These stones form the only part of the mill that has not been manufactured at the foundry; every bit of the running gear, including two pinion wheels of 18in diameter, and two cog wheels of S6in having been made on the premises. The oog wheels just mentioned consist of an iron frame with apertures, in whioh woodeu cogs, sixty-five in number, have been fixed. The best seasoned black maire has been used for the cogs, which were easily cut into shape by machinery, no hand-fitting being necessary, The gear for adjusting the stones-a heavy, yet delicate piece of workmanship —has also been found to work perfectly. Now that the' manufacture of machinery has been extended in this direction there is every Jikelikoo'd of orders from other parts of the colony being forwarded to the Lion foundry. :,; ; ' 'r-

The Rangitikoi Advocate thus refers to a recent case wherein certain Maoris have again levied black mail;—"Mr John Stevens, of the firm of Stevens and Gorton, had purchased 200 head of cattle in the Wairarapa, for sale in this district He was driving them over, and the other day the mob reached the Manawatu ferry on the other side of Woodville. Here they were incontinently bailed up. A horde of Maoris.demanded_.that.tlie.men | in- charge of.the~cattle should, pay the i sura of £ls for leave to' drive them'iicross the river \ their demrhd. was merely- for allowing the cattle to go over, The men refused, of course. The Maories there-'' upon threatened to drive the cattle into the bush, and showed convincing evidence that they were in earnest. The men then tried to cut the demand down ,and at last, succeeded in reducing it to £lO, which they very reluctantly paid. A shilling a head on two hundred cattle would have been an exorbitant charge in any case, Threepence a head is about the usual charge. But the Maoris had no right to make any charge at all, The control of the ferry was some time ago handed over by the Government to the Wairarapa West County Council, the road proclaimed, and all the legal formalities gone through. The Council sent their official to work the ferry. The Maories, however, forbade him to interfere in any way. The Council then applied to the Government;, and the Government still has the matter ' under consideration;' but the natives are yet in possession of the ferry, and levying tolls at rates four times as high as those that are usually obtained. Six months hence,when the Government have had the matter long enough ' under qonsideration,' these monstrous and wholly illegal exactions may be stopped; meanwhile Her Majesty's liege subjects are to be robbed by a set of Maori highwaymen, and when they appeal for protection to the' strong arm of the law' they find that that arm is no longer a strong one—where Maories are concerned,

• Some little interest was taken yesterday in the election of three Councillors in the Masterton Borough- Council, and for which office Messrs J. Russell, J. Vile, D. Donald, H. Bentley, J. E. Corbett, and J. Wrigley had been nominated. All day long burgesses were to be seen wending their way to the Hall to record their votes, and a good deal of moral suasion was used in order to obtain votes. At half past six o'clock the Returning Officer, Mr Wilsone, announced the result, and we were glad to find that it confirmed the recommendations we made yesterday in favor of Messrs Vile, Russell, and Bentley. The official return was as follows— Vile 156, Russell 155, Bentley 131, Wrigley 107, Donald CO, and Corbett 33. Mr H. Bentley mounted the steps of the Hall and thanked the burgesses for placing him where they had. Although they had not placed him at the head of the poll their opinion had been that he was worthy of a seat in the Council. He could only say that they would never have cause to regret tlieirvote that day, as he would serve them conscientiously, and, above all, with pleasure. He was glad to see the poll result as it had, as they had again placed Mr Vile in, and also Mr Russell, who, he thought, was one of the hardest working of the whole of the Councillors. Mr Russell had, in his opinion, saved the Borough £2OO since he had a seat therein, by preparing plans, &c, for nothing. He only wished they could recompense him for his labor in some way. Mr Bentley conoluded.amidsfc applause, one gentleman asking;him "to come and shout, and commence serving them at once."—Mr J. Vile thanked the burgesses for placing him in the honorable position they had done. He would always servo them as he had done in the past.— Mr Russell, who was greeted with cheers, said he had just arrived and was out of breath, but thanked them heartily for the honor they had again conferred upon him. It was all very well for a person elected to say; he would do this and that, but ratepayers "must remember he was only one amongst the body and things could only be done by the majority. At any rate hie would do his best. A voice: "If you only do as you have done in the past it will be sufficient.") Masterton as a whole would always have his best services, and in saying this he could say no more. "