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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 604, 26 October 1880, Page 2

The Railway Celebration Committee •meet this afternoon, < . A 'summoned, meeting.of the' Loyal Masterton Lodge, M.U., takes place this evening. The usual fortnightly meeting of. the Masterton Borough Council, fakes place this evening, Tenders are invited for leasing a paddock opposite the Catholic Church by the Masterton Town Lands Trustees. The Mayor of Masterton, at the request of the Railway Celebration Committee, proclaims tho Ist day of Nov, a public holiday, Messrs Yile & D'Arcy received only 72 dozen rabbitskins last week,' Skins are evidentlyjgetting scarcer. ; ■

■ Mr ft. H. Chinchen anuounces that lie has on sale a roport on New Zealand: and its prospects, published by S, Grant: and J. S. Foster, the delegates to the Colony from the tenant farmers of Lincolnshire. The wet weather has considerably de ; . layed tho progress of ballasting and the completion of the Maslerton railway, station grounds. However, it is quite understood that whether ready or not, the line is to be opened on Monday next. H. Weatherly, a roadman, was found drowned in a creek on the Folding and Ashurst road last Saturday morning. He leaves'a wife and large family totally un-, provided for. Deceased's hands were tied together at the wrists. He had been wandering in his mind for some time past, necessitating watchfulness on the part of his wife. The matter was reported to the police, ; ;

Our local prophet in Masterton has left ns, tho prophet business turning out very unprofitable. The author of the Book of Remembrance, finding his home life disturbed by the non-angelic visit of a bailiff, has departed, having behind him his fumily and his works. Some say ho has gone up in the mountains, but it ia more probable that he is seeking abroad for some other township in which he can work at his trade. His father, the late Mr Goldev, of tho Hutt, was a worthy but eccentric person, the son is still more eccentric, though like his, father, he is (an honest, well-meaning man.

Several fflio lnvß lately left this colony die reported to have purchased farms in California and to be doing well, ;

At a meeting of the preliminary committee of the proposed new Lodge of Druids, held, last- evening,Dr Hosking was elected surgeon and Mr Mason; chemist. It was decided that the opening meeting should be held in the club room of the Empire Hotel. Arrangements have been completed in England for a match between Laycdck, of Australia, and Hasmer, of Boston, America, which will take placo on the 2nd November next. Eleven days afterwards, Laycock is engaged to Hawdon, of Newcastle, England, over the champion course, for £2OO a side. Still another tunnel is about to be constructed through tho Alpine ; ranges in Switzerland, .and this time it is to be Mount Blatic that is to be undermined. The French .Government have commissioned M. de liepinay'e to-draw up a report on the Bchenie, and the estimated cost is set down; at £3,000,000. The length of the tunnel;,would-be about eight miles.

A meeting of the Committee of the Carterton Volunteer Fire Brigade was held on Friday evening to arrange as to tlio reception of tho engine purchased for the use of rhe Brigade. Present—Captain Fisk arid all members. It was decided .that a torchlight procession, to leave the engine house at 1 p.m., to be followed by a concert in the Public Hall, should take place on Friday, the 29th instant, and that the co-operation of the Carterton Volunteer Rifle Corps, and Greytown and Masterton Fire Brigades, should be requested. Tho secretary-was instructed to insert necessary advertisements in all the Valley papers, and to convene a .special meeting of the Brigade for Tuesday, the 26th iust., at 7 p.m,

The Rev. G. W, Warr, of Childwall Vicarage, Liveipool, writes to one of the local papers Many of your readers will, lam sure, be interested in the fact that the telephone proved completely successful in transmitting to the room of an invalid parishioner of mine, whose house is about half-a-mile from the parish nhii.rch, the whole of the ithd afternoon service, rip.-■stfifday.. The semi-choral services, the hymns, and the sermons were followed word by word aa though the worshipper had been in church. I ought, in justice to tho inventor, to add that Bell's instrument was used without any extra effort on the part of the officiating clergyman, or, indeed, without any disturbing consciousness of its existence- in the church,

A deputation including His Worship the Mayor (Dr Smith), and Messrs W. G. Beard, W, O. Cuff, M. Oaselberg, W, Bock, F. H, Wood, and G. K. Wakelin, waited on the Hon John Hall (Premier), at the postoffice, Greytown, yesterday, in respect of tho proposal of the Government to remove the post and telegraph offices to the railway .station, Mr Beard asked what the intention of the Government was in the matter. The Hon the Premier stated that for economy it was proposed to combine all the offices, i.e., railway, telegraph, and postal, and in reply to Mr Beard, that mails would be received and despatched from the present office and that telegrams would also be received there. Mr Beard very ably pointed out tho inconvenience that would be felt by the principal business portion of the town in respect of telegrams, and suggested that economy should rather be made in the railway department, Tho Hon the Premier said that the same system ns proposed was.being carried out in the maiiirity of places, but ho would consult with tho railway authorities and see if it was possible to meet the wishes of the deputation. Mr Beard then thanked him, and the deputation retired. . Referring to tho visit of the Hon John Hall and Mr Maginnity to the Wairarapa, a correspondent thus writes upon the-in-consistency of amalgamating the post and telegraph offices at. Greytown with the railway station It will be" extremes meet" if such a proposal is carried out, the present postoffice being in the business centre of the town and about a mile away from the railway station, I fail to see how the inconvenience to the .public, and. tho loss of revenue to the telegraph department would be covered by° any saving, and in support of this view I give the following figuresTo work the offices as at present situated : Station' master, to act in goods shed as well' L 200; postmaster and telegraphist, L2OO ;.' riinner to deliver telegrams, &c., L4O; Carriage of mails to and from station per Quin (say) L2o—Total L 460.. To amal-; gamate the offices it would be necessary, to employ stationmaster actios: as tele-graphist,-postmaster, -Ac., (say) L 230; porter for goods shed, LIOO ; runner for mails' and telegrams,! LSO; receiver of mails', telegram's, <fec., at depot. L 75.—Total, L 455.

' The Time's learns that by; the alleged destruction by fire of one thousand Bank of .New . Zeiland notes ijt the Oroua, Manawatujias led to proceedings being taken on. the.part of Mr Maco of this .city which are, not likely to prove very pleasant to some of the parties concerned. The ashes of what was thought to have boen the remains of a bundle of notes was, analysed by Mr Skey, along with those of notes destroyed' by directors,of the Bank/and it was'at once discovered that thero was no resemblance between the. two, substances. Mr Mace, having reason to be dissatisfied with the cattle transaction made between Mr Simpson, his partner, and Mr McL'ollan, the mana-. ger'of the Oroua.'Downsstation, has taken legal advice, with the result that an in-; formation has been laid against' the par-, ties for conspiracy '.to defraud, and they will appear in the Resident' Magistrate's Court in Wellington' on' the 28th inst. Mr Mace informs us that tho cattle sold for LIOOO numbered 103j' and included 24 pedigree shorthorns,' for one of which LGOO is now asked ( while Mr Mace had refused LBOO for another. The case wiil be one of a very unusual nature, and willprove of groat public interest. -lt

"A correspondent, of -the Lytteltori Times, writing . under the signature of " An ex-Guardiin of the Alcester Union," says:—"Let any reasonable man compare the price of labor with 'the value of .produce, either corn or meat,, and ask' liimsulf which is doin? best for himself—the employer or, the,. employed ? Surely not the employor, who parts with twe bushels of wheat or five of oats, or six cwt of potatoes, or a fat shoop each day to every, laborer he employs. Let your reverend and salaried gentlemen consider what they do, lest, the oak> they wopld plant ,be found a upas. There was no indiscriminate relief in days gone by, when wages were 4s a day, flour 'from £3O to £4O a ton, and meat'.'from 8d to lOd per lb; and I have yet to learn that relief was ever asked for To me it seems to ma that the character of the Colony go favored the borrowing of money extensively,Hhat the spending of 'it in pay and wages has demoralised, so to speak,.a largo section of the population. . This money. spent, the return to' a normal state is first felt* by the day laborer, 'who naturally complains, and objects to submit, Any attempt' to keep up wages, above the value of produce must fail.. I would, therefore, say to the charitableLook to the sick and infirm, and let the able-bodied shift for themselves, There is -plenty' of work, 'but little money to spend in payment."

The number of entries for the coming paßtoral show has not yet transpired, bat it is known that it makes a very satisfactory total, Messrs Beetham Bros,, we believe, head the list with 104 entries,

A correspondent of an agricultural paper in England states that' by careful attention and / feeding' from the day of birth, Hampshire Down lambs, at seven months old, averaging abou*. 201bs, per quarter, can be marketed and sold to the butcher.

The Hon John Hall and Mr Maginnity (secretary to the Telegraph Department) spent an hour in Masterton yesterday, After lunching at,the Club Hotel, they inspected the post and telegraph depart ments and departed without intimating any determination to amalgamate or reorganise them. They left Masterton for Woodville per Mr Macara's mail coach about 2.45 p.m. ".

A new time-table (says the Post) will come into. force on the Wellington and Masterton railway on and after the Ist proximo. Two trains will run daily to Featherston, Carterton., and Masterton, leaving Wellington at 7.30 (instead of 7.40 a.m.) and. 3.30 p.m., and reaching Masterton in four hours and a half, viz., at 12 noon and Bp, m, The up-trains will leave Masterton at 7.60 a.m. and 1.30 p. m., running to Wellington also in 4| hours. The Greytown branch will be worked by the small 9-ton engine often employed in shunting work at the Wellington station, and a train will run to and fro between Greytown and Woodside junction to meet each train to and from Wellington and Masterton,

A Chicago lady cut a dog in two, to recover an earring which the pup had swallowed. She was a delicate creature—she was.

As an. evidence of the wealth. of the fruit industry in the Paramatta district, New South' Wales, it is mentioned in the Sydney Telegraph that the, single crop in one of the principal orchards was this year sold for £6OOO oaah, as it stood on the trees, the purchaser bearing the cost of its package and removal. The orchard in question has an area of 170 acres." A correspondent writing to a contemporary from Mauritius, says:-"The dense population of this country is a.subject which has for years past pro-occupied the public mind; and the leading English journal in the.island has of late been strongly advocating emigration to the Northern' Territory of Australia by our mechanic classes. A good carpenter or mason can be hired here by the month at about £2, bo that there can be no doubt that they would improyo their position vastly by the change." • According to a recent report, there are in Russia, besides tho cathedrals, about 85,000 churches, of which 30,000 are parish churches!. The services are'carried on by 37,718 priests and 11,857 deacons; there are 65,951 lay church servants, such as sextons, &c. The State contributes to the-support of 17,667 churches (a little more than half of the whole number) the annual sum of 4,384,312 roubles (about £657,000). The total amount contributed by the State for maintaining churches in Russia is about 5,200,000 roubles (about £780,000). A woman in red waß seen at the Coney Island races by a fashion correspondent, who furnishes the following description:— 'She was outwardly clothed in red from top to too-from her red plumed hat to her red leather slippers. The material of her costume was velvet and satin in the main, and the color throughout was a ■ bright scarlet, which glowed and glistened in the hot sun like a big live coal. Her slippers were low, showing red silk stockings of tho finest texture; ■ her jewelry was red carved ivory, her gloves were red too: not a glimpse of anything, but red could be caught about her except her face, neck, and hair.'

Some' interesting telephonic experiments have iuat been made with the submarine telegraphic cable between Brest and Penzance; The Bell, the Phelps, the Go'yer, and the Edison Bystenis were successively trietl, but all failed to carry the voice across the Channel, On the other hand it'would appear that a new system, invented by Dr. Heaz, carried the voice not only to the English coast, but was heard distinctly .at a distance of some three hundred miles inland. A new apparatus by the same inventor, to absorb the currents of induction was also tried, and BUCCBedod admirably. , These experiments were made in-the presence of- the director of the :Fr aii co.- Ame rioa ri/ Sub,, marine Gable Company,'the controller of the' French telegraphic lines, several other State'- functionaries, - "and- 'many specialists.,''

Mr Waddell, an Otagair farmer, has achieved a cross between the ordinary domestic fowL and ~ a lv cockatoo. The progeny bear :unraistakeable evidence of their derivation. Though vary fair layers,' they do not make good brood 'hen's. Tlioso >ho laugh at the idea will, according to the Otago,Daily Times, have ocular demonstration of the -fact by. attending ,the neit exhibition in Dunedin, where they will in, all probability have an opportunity (if seeing "a few of these fowls. : . ! >

The French bankruptcy law is stringent, and "dialioiiest traders and others (remarks an Engliah-paper) do not enjoy the " fatal fuciliti6s" J afforded to such persons, by our very 1 law. In 1870 the bankruptcies in France, with a popylation'of about $ millions more than in England and' Wales', were only about half the-number of. the -liquidations and baiikriiptci.es among us.'. The comparison of the liabilities ifl still more unfavorable to us :—The French liabilities,' about £13,000,000'; English liabilities, about£l2o,ooo,ooo. The amount to about 7s per head . upon the ' population ; the English to-'24s per head. Whilst our Controller in .Bankruptcy..rofers in his report, to the, deplorable insolvents who continue to get rid, of their debts by pay-ing-little 'ol' nothing to their creditors, the-Frcrtch report, says that the number of cases in which the croditors got nothing was only 382. that in 25. cases 76 to 98 per cent was paidj-'and in other bases the dividends ranged from 10 to 15 per cent.-