The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1881

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 737, 7 April 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1881

The New Zealand Industrial Gazette speaks in high terms of approval of the efforts which the present Ministry are making to encourage) local 'industries. "It is satisfactory (writes our contemporary) to see that, the Government fully recognise tho importance of doing all in their power to stimulate the industries of the colony, Indeed it , becomes move and More apparent every clay that they look upon this as their paramount duty at he present juncture of affairs. Tho Governor has evidently entered into the sprit which animates his ministerial advijora, for we find him both in word and died ably supporting , their policy, In hi&Excellency's recent ', visit to the South bland he made a special point of infracting as many of the Otago and Canterbury factories as was possible in the limited time at his disposal; he readily consented to open the Ashburton Mistrial Exhibition, and by his presences that ceremony materially contribute to the success of the undertaking. At the banquet held in his honor at Jhristchurch His Excellency made, as le usually does, an eminently practial speech, and expressed his conviction that Now Zealand, owing to her wonderful resources, would rise tiumphantoutof her struggle with tliep esent depression if those resources wcrep'operly developed. At the same banq et the Hon the Premier, in alluding t the general improvement in the colidition of the colony lately, ascribed it mainly to the extension of productive enterprise, which ho said had been going on to an extent which observer) not possessing special means for intimation could have little idea of. It las a feeling of confidence that the natiral advantages of the colony would bring her through her difficulties, which hid buoyed them upintiie depressed /bate of things which existed when tlfey took office. The Hon Mr Dick, Colonial Secretary, at the Oddfellows' banquet recently held at the Empire Hotel, 'Wellington, dwelt very fully upon tho importance of encouraging manufacturing and productive enterprise in the colony. He said this was the principal aim of the Government at preseut. It had been his duty to look into the state of the industries of the. colony, and he knew that Parliament had given them its earnest attention, and had done a good deal towards developing them, Going more into detail Mr Dick referred to the new manufactures which were being prosecuted, including sulphuric acid, linseed oil'land cake, earthenware, die. Tho production of these articles would keep a lot of money in the colony. Marble quarries and gold discoveries were also bein" opened up in various parts, 'and only recently Mr Ashcroft, of Wellington, had invented a new machine, for crashing quartz, which was likely to be ofgreat value on our goldfields, It is obvious from utterances of this, description, especially when taken 1 in connection with their action in' ofTerin" bonusses, that the Government are earnestly striving to increase the producing powers of the colony, In carrying out such a line of policy they will be doing that in which they should receive the cordial co-operation of every good citizen and settler of New Zealand."

: Tendons'.are invited, for bush-falling, Btumping, etc,, on the Kuripum .flagstation; ; .'';' .'.'• '- > ■ ; S/'-,

•.; : A meeting of members of.tlie Mastertpn Union Club convened; for last evening fell through'from the non-attendance of mombers. A meeting- to; wind up the Club is likejy to bo called at an early date, Inspection parades of • the Masterton. Volunteers are called for Friday and Sunday next. The Cadets .paraded last evening, and were carefully, drilled by Sergeant Bezar. A small mob of sheep were taken to the Masterton railway'station for transport yestorday, but there being only two sheep trucks at this terminus, half of them had to bo taken back to the paddock,

The opening match of the Masterton Football Club, which was to havo taken place on Saturday next, has been .postponed, owing to the continual dry weather and tho hardness of the ground, till Saturday, 30th April, The additions to the railway station at Carterton, to be used for Post Office purposes, aro now under way, tho piles being dmen, and part of tho frame made.

A working " bee" was held at Carterton yesterday for the purpose of putting the School playground in order for the winter. Tho people acted most liberally in the matter, some contributing labor, others horses and carts, and some money, the result being very satisfactory, shewing the interest taken in school matters in that locality,

On Tuesday last a child of Mr Robinson, who resides on the Belvidere Road, Carterton, fell down tho well on tho premises of her parents. The' father ran across to the White Hart Hotel, and Mr Elliotte returned with him and lowered him by arope, and the child was brought', safely to tho surface, having sustained some cuts about the head, a severe fright, and sundry bruises in tho descent. Fortunately the well was only about 11 feet deep, and; owing to the late drought, had barely two feet of water in it, and the child somehow or another landed on her feet.

The Carterton Fire Brigade's monthly meeting took placo at the Secretary's offices on Tuesday evening, and it is highly probable that it will bo about tho last general meeting that will be held there. Neaily the wholo of the material for the new building has been voluntarily given to the brigade, tho members give their services for its erection outside the contract free, and tho edifice is therefore likely soon to be up, and wo think the brigade can now fairly claim outside support, as they have riskod the thing themselves without much assistance from the general public to date, but they freely give their thanks to those who havo assisted them,

There has been another festival at Te Ore Oro, a sort of wind up spree, in which the solemn and tho ludicrous were admirably blended.' Information was circulated privately in Masterton yesterday that a grand haka would bo held,' Maori charioteers " carried the news," and plied for passengers with considerable success, Between two and three p.m., considerably more than a hundred Europeans, including many leading settlors, were on the ground, Lady visitors were numerous among them. Tho first thing on the programme was the celebration of a monumental stone, which has beon placed in tho big pah, This stono comes from tho well-known stone yard of Mr Helyer, of Wellington, and is of an ordinary comotery pattern, but in point of sizo, is evidently the biggest obtainable in tho Empire City. _ It bears an inscription in Maori, intimating the conversion of the Natives in 1841, and how good they have been ever s'inco, When tho representative of this paper gazed on this metamorphosed tombstone, he was requested to stand back, as the Daily had reflected on the Te Oro Ore Nalivo in a recent issue, The following is the paragraph, published in our issue of March 18, to which they objected:-" We have received a letter from our eccentric friend, Mr J. 0. B. Golder, of Waipawa, which concludes as follows: ' For I am born as among a brood of chicks among which appeared a young duck, an egg of that nature having been placed secretly by the Lord because ho promised to send a lonepromised duck, and it was hatched; and because it differed in nature to tho rest, and crossed water to others of its nature, and went to places unknown to others, whore they could not go, and because its voice went quack! quack I alone, while" its fellows went chick I chick 1 they all suspected it was mad. But neither its mother nor its brethren could stop it from quacking, nor chango its nature. It died, and when it was revealed that it was the promised duck, many wondered what it haddono to merit the title; but tho Lord said everyone has a right to the title of their nature. It crossed the water and followed the course of its own nature, and I bavo another feathered bird. Watch for the coming of a gander,'" The sagacious natives at To Ore' Oro will luvo it that this letter of Mr Golder's refers toPaora their prophet, and to them this particular paragraph is as great a conundrum as tho mystical flag. Thoy are certain it means something but they don't know exactly' what. A Maori service taken from the church of England prayer book was held in the pah around the stone, and then a nativo delivered an address stating that the Pakehas had reported that their present meeting would end in a disturbance, and denying that they ever quarrelled excepting an occasional mild difference over laud. Mr J. V. Smith wr.s_ called upon to respond, and in reply advised them not to be too credulous conj ceming every, idle rumor which reached them, The real event of tho day then came off-" the haka". A ring was cleared and Europeans were exhorted to stand hack as if the Queen was comiim, Tho To Ore Ore natives gave the dance. There were four ranks of them with 14 or 15 in each row. _ The front rank of course had all thoir picked mon and the rear rank dwindled down to very small fry. Numerically it was a strong haka, .time and tune were good, and it was exceptionally a moral haka. Physically, tho To Ore Ore natives do not show well when stripped for tho dance—they display too little muscle and too much fat. After tho To Ore Ore' party had fairly danced itself down-and we must admit that two or three members of the troupe deserve great credit for the way in which they turn up the whites of their eyes, put out theirtongues, and twist their bodieß—they sat down like lambs, and were photographed by Mr Price. Then a small Napier party came on the scene, and there was a rush to soo how the Napier men and women haka'd. As far as liveliness went the Napier Maories carried off the palm. Tho crowd hurrahed vigorously for the latter performance, and when it wound up with a finalo of a somewhat disgusting character the enthusiasm of the spectators was unbounded. The.Maori who devoted himself to collecting shillings from Europeans did well with his hat after this spectacle. Five minutes later t a cow-bell was rung, and the audience was expecting some further manifestation of a highorder. It, however, transpired, that the cowbell' was the signal for evening prayers, and the visitors-dispersed ; in all directions. We •are,informed; that there will'be a great haka to-morrow to celebrate the breaking, up of the meeting, in wjiich four hundred Maorief will take part,

We remind our readers of Mr Ooleman Phillipa' interesting lecture at the Institute, Greytown, to-morrow evening,

Tho attendance at the Carterton publio school under Mr E. Samuel, has increased at an extraordinaiy rate during the past six months. There are now 304 on the books and a normal average attendance of 270,

We have received a copy of a speech made by Mr A. Sullivan on the Irish question, and published in a pamphlet form.by Messrs Whittaker Bros., booksellers, Wellington. As an examplo of impassioned oratory it is worthy of a niche in the Temple" of fame with the best efforts of either Shiel Grattan or O'Connel. ■

_ The following is a list of the subscriptions collected at the Union Saw-mills by Mr Corpe in aid of the poorfellow Watson, who got his arm taken off at Messrs Booth and Co.'s Sawmills :-W. W, Corpe, £2 2s; Joseph Corpe, £1; James George, 10s; Robert Nbon, 10s; John George, 10s; Henry Ray'ner, 10s; Christopher Hall, 10s; Thornton, 10s; J. Eades, 15s; H. Nixon, 0s; Richard Geange, 10a.—Total £7 The Masterton youths' football club held their annual meeting last evening after the cadet's parade, The balance sheet showed a balance of £1 to the credit of tho club, and the secretary, W, A, D'Arcy roported that the club had a good practise ball, Ascratch match will bo played in Mr Dr'ummond's paddock on Wednesday next at 3 p.m. to open the season, and regular practice will be held each Wednesday after. We hope to see tho youths distinguish themselves this season, which they can only hope to do by' steady practice, B, A. Gardener & Sons have now completed the additions to their establishment at Carterton, and are to be congratulated on the result, as in place of the unattractive and dull appearance it used to have, it has now a handsome and extensive frontage, with an ornamental verandah the fuiriength of it, They have four largo windows for the display of their stock, and the exhibition of ironmongery and grocery in one division, aud drapery and clothing in the other, is of a first.class character, the two latter lines being very tastefully and effectively arranged. The (improvement will give increased facilities for their trade, and no doubt Messrs Gardener & Son's enterprise will be rewarded.

A shipment of nine tons of cheese is being sent Home by the farmers on Bank's Peninsula by the ship Orari. Some of the shipment took the first prize in the Melbourne Exhibition. The result of the trial will be anxiously looked forward to, Bishop Redwood returned to Wellington, by the steamer Penguin yesterday.

140,000 sacks of wheat are stored at Lyttelton waiting shipment. Stores are crowded out, and there are 7000 sacks stacked in tho open. Botween 400 and 500 persons attended Mr Stout's lecture on the Irish Land Question, at Inveroargill on Tuesday last. The Mayor (Mr Johnston) presided. . Mr Stout reviewed the causes leading to the present crisis, expressing the opinion that go far the Land League had been the means of preventing rather that of occasioning agrarian outrages. Referring to the oppressions that had been practised in Ireland, he remarked that if the same had been done in Scotland, the people would have resisted to the bitter end, and would have conquered too. He hoped for better things under the wise legislation of Gladstone and Bright, and pointed out that to colonists the position of affairs gave a valuable lesson what to avoid in legislation. They had to guard arainst the growth of tho. landlord class, the existence of which in the colony was due to the unwisdom of the earliest legislators. The lecturer held that the remedy for Irish unrest was Home Rule, the establishment of a kind of provincial Parliament, and the reform of the land laws,

The remains of the late Czar of Russia, Alexander 11, were interred with great ceremony. The funeral obsequies were of the most impressive character. The young Czar, prior to finally depositing the remains in thoir last resting-place" imprinted a kiss upon the face of his father, and was greatly moved. The scene was a most affecting one. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh were among tho principal mourners. The arduous nature of his official and duties has affected the health of Mr Gladstone the English Premier. His medical advisers have recommended another sea trip. Arrangements have been made that during the Easter recess Gladstone shall make a short sea voyago.

Walsh, ono of the members of the Land League who was amongst thoso recently prosecuted for sedition, has left Ireland for New Zealand. It is assumed that tho object of his visit is to make arrangements in the Australasian colonies for tho collection of subscriptions on bohalf of the Land League. Proposals havo been mooted for the Alpine Club to visit New Zealand for the purpose of thoroughly exploring the fine mountainous scenery of tho colony. The idea has been favorably received among the members, and it is anticipated that a considerable number will visit New Zealand shortly.

The practical joke of a lively " my lady," who cannot be out of mischief, says a London paper, was to fill the shower-bath of one of her admirers, at a country house they were staying at, with ink. Many lomons.wero used ere tho illused ono could put' in an appearance. He boro it like an angel.

The Wellington correspondent of an exchange says, that Sir E. W. Stafford and the Hon Thomas Russell are expected to arrive in New Zealand about July. Probably one of the Rothschilds may accompany them, in view of home bank interests, President Honorable James Williamson, President of the Bank of New Zealand, also goes home by the April outgoing mail.

Her Majesty has recently purchased a four-wheeled velocipede. In consequence of the safety of these machines they are specially adapted for use in hilly localities such as are to be found in the Isle of Wight, where many of them ate ridden and during the past, two years Her Majesty, has had numerous opportunities of witnessing their action, A few days ago a lady was riding one of these machines near Newport, when Ber Majesty was pleased, to particularly notice it, and to express, a desire to examine it. The machine was accordingly taken to Osborne, where -several of the Princessess mounted and rode witJ perfect ease, and expressed great deligh with it, ..*

Over 20,000 car-loads of live and .dressed poultry are carried into New York city yearly, 'and 25,500,000 dozens of oggs go to the same market. According to the best estimates, the United States produces nine thousand millions of egga annually. This is a nice little item for the consideration of those who call the chicken business-egg-raising-a 'small .thing.: A common pin is a wy little thing, but a paper of pins is worth setting on : while the manufacture of pins, like the production of eggs, is an industry _ worth the' attention' of' men of ability, and the. investment of capital.

In Boston the. receipts at Sara Bernperformances were nearly £IO,OOO for thirteen nights, and the Athena'of America .was.quite.'wild over her...; Her social, success, there 'as elsewhere, was, however, nil. Instead of receiving .her in Bociety, the grave Bostoniahs solemnly discussed in letters to their papers whether they could, without, compromising their own reputations, or imperilling'their individual souls, attend the theatre whore ah "unmarried mother," as they euphemistically call Mdme Bernhardt, was playing. In Montreal the bishops of .the Roman Catholio Church warned their followers to remain away from the frail Jewess' representations, •' but -the warning only served, as might have, been expected, as a prodigiouajfree advertisement. The French of Montreal went to the extreme of enthusiasm.'

_ We hear from reliable authority that it is the intention of. Messrs Schroder, Hooper &. Co. to make their first grand display of Autumn and Winter Millinery, Dtapory, and Clothing at the Hall'of Commerce, on Saturday, March' 19th, consisting of 71 packages and bales. As the bulk of their magnificient stock has been imported direct from the manufacturers, the public can rely upon obtaining .all the-latest fashions and designs of the season at extremely low prices, We would advise all purchasers and lovers'of fashion to make an early call at the Hall of Commerce and inspect their stock. Their advertisement will be found on the front page of this paper.—[Advil.