The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MAY 2, 1881

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 757, 2 May 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MAY 2, 1881

There is a gentleman residing in Masterton who was born and brought up in a town, in Wales, where woollen manufactories constitute the staple trade. He is thoroughly familiar with the various processes connected with this industry, and was instrumental in establishing the well-known factory at Kaipoi. He lias suggested the establishment of a factory at Masterton, and, coming from such a source, the proposal is worthy of serious consideration, and is likely to more or less engage the attention of settlers in the neighborhood till it is decided whether orno such amindertaking can be successfully launched. In the first place we may explain that the gentleman we have referred to, and from whom we have obtained valuable 'information respecting the woollen industry, occupies an independent position, has no interested motives in promoting a movement of this kind other than a desire to see the community in which he resides prosperous and progressive. He has expressed an opinion that a capital of £5,000 would be sufficient to carry out a manufactory on a moderate scale, and that of this sum one-half could be raised at home, leaving, only £2500 to be. raised locally, Of course it is a question whether a sum of £5,000 will be adequate for a venture of this 'kind, and this is a point that will require careful consideration. At the same time we haveno'reasph'.'todpnbt'.thfeknoTr-ledge.or-.experience'flfjjbe^^enlJeman

we are assured, viz., that he would not' knowingly mislead us on so important a'phase of the general question.?; The moietyito be raised at home, will,; we understand, be ample to cover cost of. introducing machinery and operatives. One or two thousand pounds will go a long way in the neighborhood of the Waipoua in securing a suitable site, and in erecting the numprous sbeds ■which are necessary for such-an enterprise. If for working expenses an extra thousand pounds or so were required it would be very easy to raise, by. ordinary financial arrangements, such an amount. From one point of view the small amount of capital suggested is not unattended with advantage. It ought to be quite' within our means to raise ,£2,500, but it might not be equally convenient to raise a much larger sum. It is unnecessary todilateon theimpetus which this establishment of a woollen factory would give to the trade, and : prosperity of this town. The advantage ' of-introducing twenty or thirty families which would be permanent settlers amongst us, and who would be essentially producers cannot be over estimated. It is such working bees that are wanted in our little hive.. As a manufactory town, Masterton at present is nowhere, and we would: point out that without manufactures; any centre of population cannot bei permanently progressive. It is equally, to the interest of station proprietors to ; encourage such an enterprise as the: one we are speaking of. By doing so,: they will establish a local market for' their wool, and it cannot be doubted that if a practicable scheme be pro-: posed, their co-operation will b'e.cheerfully given. The establishment of a woollen manufactory at Masterton is a proposal which must be popular. At the same time it is none the less the duty of one and all to look on both sides of the question, and to anticipate obstacles as well as advantages. The latter are tolerably evident, so much so indeed that no small obstacles should be permitted to check the enterprise, The first thing to be done is to count the cost, and obtain as far as possible the results of similar enterprises in other parts of the colonies, We shall be glad to give expression to public opinion in our columns, both in favor of and against the scheme, The present time is one for discussing it fully in all its details, so that when the time for action arrives, we may be prepared to go to work, with a certainty of success.

The Grey town Football club commenced practice on Saturday last. The Greytown Rifle Volunteers parade for inspection to-morrow evoning. An important meeting of the Carterton Rifle Volunteers takes place this evening. Mr Bridges formerly Inspector of the National Bank, Manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington, and an old resident at the Hutt, has died in England. Mr Ormond has just returned to Napier, from the bush settlement, where he has been enquiring into the position of settlers. He finds them in great distress. Even where the railway penetrates, settlors cannot get their timber to market owing to the scarcity of trucks, while freight rates are so high that they absorb nearly all the profit, leaving only the barest subsistence to senders. Tenders are invited by Mr J. Vile for the purchase of suburban sections adjoining his property on the Te Ore Oro, The land is of splendid quality, is situated a convenient distanco from the town, and will be well adapted for suburban residences.

A meeting was hold at Greytown on Tuesday last to organise a concert in aid of the Greytown Horticultural Society. Present-Dr Henry Spratt, in the chair, and Messrs W. G. Beard, Bock, and Porritt, It was decided to hold the proposed entertainment on the 13th inst., and to invite the co-operation of Masterton amateurs in carrying out the programme. The Committee of the Carterton School met at the schoolroom on Friday evening. Present—Messrs Fairbrother (Chairman), Parker, Yickerstaff, Anderson, White and Armstrong, The minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, letters were read from the Education Board re repairs and alterations to the school building. Mr Samuel waited on the Committeo ro admitting children under six years of ago, stating that there were several applications at present. It was resolved to write the Board re school accommodation during the course of repairs to the school, and stating thiit the Committee were making arrangements which would be submitted to the Board as soon as they were informed by what date the contractors would complete their work. The following accounts were then passed for payment:—Mr Price, books and stationery, £*! 19s 3d; Messrs Payton & Co., advertising, 15s; Mr Cutt, chimney of- school, £4. Mr Samuel also stated that he had furnished the Board ivith particulars as to the remuneration to Misses Giles and Carter, but to date had received no reply. Mr Samuel liaving laid before the Committee a report of the late fire at the school, it was resolved that the report be forwarded to the Board, and that it bo pointed out that no damage had been done. The meeting then-adjourned.

The Masterton Football Club opened the seifson on Saturday afternoon, in Mr Drummond's paddock, by a scratch match, about 20 players beintj present. Messrs Allen and Harrison picked sides, and play commenced. The ground was very hard, the recent rain making scarcely any difference to it. A most enjoyable game was, however, played. Considering that this was the first practice, and a good many fresh men amongst the number, the play was very fair. From the manner in which two or three of the new hands shaped, we believe the Club will produce a much better team this year than it had last. In the evening n general meeting of the Club was held at the Empire Hotel, about 20 members present. Mr A, R, Bunny was voted to the chair, and the minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the following were elected .—Mr ¥, B. Chalmers, President ; Mr W. McKenzie, Captain ; Mr 1, S. R. DeCastro to the Committee, vice Mr F. W, Green resigned ; and Messrs A. R. Bunny and W, Wardell, delegates, A vote of thanks was passed to Mr Jago for his presentation of boundry flags—these being turned out in Mr Jago's well-known style,, and being far before anything we have yet seen on a Wairarapa football ground. After the usual compliment to the chair the meeting separated, From the interest displayed, it is quite evident the Club will this year be a credit to the town. On Wednesday nflxt a praptice will be held at 3.30, when we hope to see players turnoutingood force,■ Saturday, is the regular practice day, and weMie've 1 the Committee intend-trying tnjtfipgffi

We received this morning a New Zealand -Gazette, dated April 25th (these gazettes usually take a week to come from Wellington to Masterton), containing a notice'to the effect that Mr Heaphy will hold a court to-day to consider certain native claims:—l., Native Bosom of 200 acres at Opaki; 2. Horo, area unknown; 3. Reserve of COO acres lying between sections Nos 612 and 202 the Mangapakia river, and section 032; 4, Land known as Harawira's ReservG or Te Aruhe-o-Pohatu, at Wainuiom; fi. Land known as Nikorirna's Reserve at Makara; G, 500 acres of land atAwhea; 7. Land known as Rainapakia Reserve of 100 acres at Makara; 8. Reserve at Tauera; 9, Land called Putuga-a-Matangi, near Ponui;-10. Reserve, called- Hikurangiof acres, near the old pa of Hikurangi; 11. A piece of land called Nga Hukurere, at Whareama, area not given; 12. A piece of land called Tongakq in the Whareama district, area not given; 13, A piece, of land called-Waihora in the .TWhareama district,.said to contain 500 acres; 14. Tho'reserve called Mangapiu, near Waikaraka, area riot" given; 15.! The Poroutawliao,--Eese.rve, in the Puketol District, area not given; 10. 'I,OOO acres said to have" been reserved'by Araina Waimiij.intkePahoa District. We suppose it is immaterial whether the Court comes first, and the notice "afterwards, or vice versa, In the present case certainly the Court sits to deal with the reserves before the general public have any intimation of the fact. '-■ .. ••■•"

■ The Roman .Catholic Archbishop, Dr Steins, is so ill that he is "going to Sydney for change of climate, and-possibly to, Europe. • ; ;.. .■•: •. _ Edward .Williams, of : the Bay of Islands, Hying on a retired pension, .has been appointed Judge of the Native Lands Court,, '■' '; ■-. Dawson habitually whipped his" wife atPuducah,Le. Wyatt, his neighbour, said to him. "If you don't ■ stop the practice I'll lull you." The next time Mrs Dawson screamed, Wyatt went in and kept his promise by shooting her husband through the body, though the wound did not prove fatal until a week later. The Hawke's Bay Herald says:—"An Irish 'patriot' has we are informed, been distinguishing himself in Napier of late. He carried round a subscription list in aid of the funds of Ihe Irish Land League, and collected samething like £BS, in Bums varying from Is Gd to 10s. The collector has suddenly disappeated—so has the collection."

For every " ill which flesh is heir to" remedies ad libihun may be found. Amongst the many we have come across is the following :-At the first hint of a cold, soak a sponge in a boiling decoction of marsh-mallow flowers, sage, and borage; squeeze it tight, aud apply it as hot as possible to the mouth and nose, inhaling the stream. For our country readers this remedy is always at hand. To keep potatoes intended for the use of the table from sprouting until new potatoes grow, take boiling water, pour into a tub, turn in as many potatoes as it will entirely cover, then pour off all tho water, handle the potatoes: carefully laying up in a dry place on boards, oniy ono layer deep, and see if you do not have good potatoes tho year round, without hard strings and wateiy ends caused by growing. The glorious privileges of bankruptcy says a writer, of the Marlborough Times, are open to any class. It is the ono thing in the struggle for which all men are free and equal in this Great Loan Land. And the advocates of women's rights will be glad to learn that in this servant girls are equal to men, for among the list of insolvents published in Dunedin last week appears the name of "BridgetToohill," Dunedin, domestic servant; liabilities, 12919s Gd; assets, £ls. To this damsel belongs the honor of being the first of her class who has undergone tho process of whitewashing, Dunedin has also produced a " heathen Chinee" named So Suing, a draper, who in pursuance of his studies in the arts of the played-out Caucasian has gone through tho Court in excellent style, his assetsbeing JC against liabilities of £2OB,

A writer in the Journal of Horticulure says : " I have never found any material that produces roots so quickly, surely, numerously, in all plants that I have tried in it, as sawdust fresh from the forester's saw-mills, and it does its work perfectly for twelve months without being renewed, Pitcher plants, including such varieties as lanata sanguinea, strike freely into saw-dust,and scarcely a cutting of any plant fails in it. I never saw plants make such enormous numbers of rootlet 1) in any other material. I once potted a pineapple in it,and in a very short time the the whole dust was so permeatd with roots that when they were washed they resembled a wig of roots more than anything else.' A camellia was tried in it with the same result. These facts may be nf service to many who are able to obtain sawdust who cannot so easily procure silver sand or cocoanut fibre refuse. The flawdust used here is from spruce, larch, and oakjall mixed together and laid about four inches thick over a heated chamber. Here is & novelty taken from the advertising columns of the New York Clipper: "Adam Forepaugh, proprietor of the largest show in the world, desires to secure the services for thirty weeks during the coming spring and summer, of the handsomest woman living. To that end he offers a premium of JS2OOO, payable in weekly instalments, to the lady contestant' who shall be adjudged the most beautiful candidate. All applicants must forward photographs and full address. All communications strictly confidential. The fortunate lady will be required to appear daily in a .great pageant, and, as beauty and not talent is required, good looks alone will secure the prize. No personal applications or interviews will be granted. No letter answered, No photographs returned.

The. following,which is recommended, is something worth knowing, and should be posted up in every hut or other abode in an outlying district:—Every little while we read ot someone who has stuck a rusty nail in his foot, or knee, or hand, or some other portion of his body, arid that lockjaw resulted therefrom, of which the patient died, If every person was aware of a perfect remedy for all such wounds, and would apply it, then all such reports must cease. ' The remedy is simple, almost always on hand, and can be applied by anyone, and what is better it is infallible. It is simply to smoke the wound, or any bruise or wound that is inflamed, with burning wool or woollen cloth, Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool will, it is said; take the pain out of the worst cases of inflammation arising from a wound.

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, Drapery, 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 publib,c'an rely, upon obtaining all,the. latest,'fashiona. aiid designs 1 of the season, at ./extremely,.,; low;' prices.; We would advise all purchasers and lovers'of. fashion to makei an ; early callat; the Hall of. Commerce iandt.inßpect,-.3heirjtpck. Thoir advertisement, will beiouDdton-the

Tenders are invited for the offices o poundkseper and ranger for theJßorough of Maaterton. Also, for'formation and drain in Kuripuni-street. • We remind our readers that F. H. Wood & Co.'s great sale of ;Mr Fisk's. stock, at Taratahi,' commences to-morrdw atlUiin, sharp, and will be continued till all the lots are cleared, Mr Herring, the representative of the Yorkshire farmers arrived at Mastorton on Saturday Ust. _He speaks in high terms of his experiences in the Middle Island. The only fauli he has -to find down south is the high price of land. We have received a letter from a resident, who complains bitterly that some gentleman says that he (our correspondent) has shot his turkeys, and he.wishes this gentleman to publicly retract the charge and apologise. Wo feel sure from the literary ability displayed in the communication which we have received that our correspondent must be altogether innocent of such a fowl charge, but we regret that it is against journalistic etiquette to settle such little matters in our open column, We should be robbing our worthy R.M., if we permitted such cases to be settled in our little Court,