The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 770, 17 May 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1881.

■ ' ;■ # , ~ . ." The action of the Minister for Education in notifying that after the i end of the current quarter no capitation grants will be paid for children under five years of age will (writes the H. B, Herald) meet the approval of all sensible: men.;' "The Education'Aclj" it adds, "provides that 'school age', shall mean between the ages of five and fifteen, reckoning from the last preceeding birthday. Mr,- -Ballance,; >when in power, sent'round a circular stating thatjihe capitation- would. be- paid oni children between the ages of three and five, in violation of the terms of the Act, and the colony ;at that time inloan,expenditure and.'the

large sunls realised from the sale of the public estate, did'inot; remonstrate at this piece ;of extravagance. ;,.When, ; howeve'ri, : we;panie to set'our Muse inorder this should have been one of the first items of expenditure dealt with, and it is surprising that such an easy •iKthTd'of'retreniihm-ent'shoiild-solong-have escaped notice," Apart from the legal 'aspect of the question, we- hold "thatthe payment of capita-ion fees on such young children was simply throwing away public money. Its effect was to turn what.should, have, been infant schools into mcrejiufseries. to the benefit of no-one.butihe masters. who received the capitation fee, and the. ease of some jarerits ; who thus managed to get rid .of their babies' during' the' greater partoltEelay? r ~Our conTenT porary does not, grasp the real'meaning of the; reduction,- which affects children above five years of ageas well as under it, Take the case of a school whe're,~say r there -have., been hitherto ten children under the age of. five Here is a direct saying apparently of £37 10s in this one school. If, how-' eyer, we trace out the result of the economy, we shall find tlmfitdees not begin.and end with the little.ones.'W do not believe- that- the instruction which children'under 'five years of age receive costs in teaching power-and-in - school accommodation a pound a head per. annum. . Therefore if, say, a saving of £37 10s be made in a school where there are ten of these infants, only, £lO of this amount is made on them, and the balance of £2710s has to be realised out of children over 5 years of age.- ; While we quite agree with a saving beii.g effected, we deprecate the somewhat misleading principle on which it is now being obtained, The Minister of education claims credit for only slaughtering innocents under five years, as a matter of fact his recent manifesto affects children of all ages, A hard and fast line for the admission of very young children into our public schools is practically a mistake. .Susan we will assume is a girl of nine years who ought to attend school regularly but she has to look after Sally.an infant of four. Now, if tho latter is prohibited from attending school the former has to stay at home. The general result of the present alterations in the regulations of the department will be to reduce the number of elder as well as younger children attending our schools, and to weaken the teaching staffs for the various classes all round.

Mr Wardcll, R,M., sits at Groytown today. Tho Loyal Masterton Lodge, 1.0.0. F., meet this ovening at the Empire Hotel.

The Featlieraton Debating Society hold their first tournament of the season this evening.

Mr J, W. Leahy, bootmaker, of Queenstreet, Masterton. has a fresh announcement in our advertising columns. Notice is given that Mr E. Bezav is appointed Ranger and Poundlceepor for the Borough of Masterton. A case was heard in the R. M. Court Featherston yesterday Lairnbeir v J. Gray, assault, The defendant was fined 5s and costs.

We are glad to notioe that Cr James Russell is laying off the work to he done in Church-st,, in connection with the oxtension of the footpaths. The noxt English and European mai via San Francisco will close at the Masterton Office on Saturday noxt,

Mr Macandrew addrosses liis constituents at Port Chalmers next 'Thursday night. J, lorns & Co. wish to draw attention to the sale of a few special lines to-day at 2 o'clock, such as safe, shop fixtures, &c.

A meeting of a sub-committee of the Masterton Horticultural Sooiety was held yesterday to revise the programme for the ensuing season's shows. Laery and Campbell report that there is no great improvement in the market, buyers taking only hand to mouth lines, but there is a steady business doing and prices are hardening for oats, maize and wheat; theic is good enquiry for fresh butter, which may bo quoted at lid to Is; cheese, 4d to 4id; eggs, 2s 3d to gs Od; bacon and hams, guaranteed, 9d; fowls at to-day's sale realised 3s 3d; ducks 4s; potatoes are worth 50s 555; onions, £4 10s to 15.

A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Musterton Fire Brigade was hold yesterday, Present—Messrs Pay ton, Bish, and Brown. The minutes of the previous meeting (January 31) were read and confirmed. : Mr Easthope, the Secretary, was not present, but sent word that he desired to be relieved of his 'duties, as he could not attend meetings held in the daytime, Mr jSellar was appointed secretary, and instructed to ascertain liabilities and assets of the Committee, and convene a meeting to consider the same at an early date. An accident occurred says the Post, on the railway at the Kaitoke goods shed last Friday evening, which only very narrowly escaped being attended with most serious'consequences. The heavy single-Fairlie engine which takes the 3.30 p.m. Wairarapa train up the steep gradient from Upper Hutt to the Summit, runs back to the former station later in the evening with a goods train, which is subsequently attached to the first train from Upper Hutt to Wellington next morning. On Friday evening this goods train was proceeding at a moderate speed towards Kaitoke, when, on reaching the entrance of the siding which leads to the goods shed, the points were found to have been wilfully altered and set for the siding, the lock having been smashed to enable this to be done, The points can only be changed by the exertion of some force, the lever being heavily weighted, which also renders it impossible for them, to remain at" half : cock." The result was that the goods train was turned off into the aiding, and before it could be stopped, came into violent' collision with three trucks of firewood standing there. The shock drove the trucks with great force against the closed doors of the shed, which were smashed. in and the trucks dashed into the shed, followed by the engine and train, the' former, which was running trailing-end first, entering the shed before it could bo brought to a standstill, Luckily the collision with the firewood laden trucks scattered their contents about the rails, and these fouling the whoeljj of the engine assisted the brakes in checking its onward movement, But for this fortunate check the engine ,and train would probably have gone clean .through the further .end of the shed, and down the embankment, in which case extensive damage, and probably loss of life would have resulted. Ab it was, the damage was comprised in the injuries to the goodshed and trucks,'and to some trifling breakages about the engine, in ; .eluding the lamp, step; etc. It is certain that the alteration of the points .was wilfully made, and.it is "desirable that stringent measures should bo adopted for the detection and punishment of the perpetra* tor of the .;.::'^S'

A warrior ■ ;with 'soar-covered; counter)-. anoe; : at the' public.- meeting liight made a:decidedhit, when, as i ftir Ballun ce .was giving his;reasqn for v thfl,p'rohibi]ion of the. word " rice? 1 'vfherona a!worl|/b'f v philosphy in the word rice. A manXwho can live solely on rice, can drive all com--petition out or the market.—Wauganui -Olirontole.— —— * —-~»»™* One hour after an "old master" had painted the name of a patent medicine on a big rock a"'cow came along,:licked it off, and died before sundown. When the simple name of a medicine kills a cow, human beings want tobewaro of the stuff itself.' "A co\rwas-never"killed by licking the name off a patent medioine iirahews.mended.,. ...... .~r— r-r rs ' . "There. is : sybumaTinJJowJToytjcityV whiclf might'b"e a welcome visitor'in iMiferiffliMrwitrr^Mnitnsf cJieerfulnossTrif there-are.any, such..cltis called The: Shroud,, and.is devoted to; ' flie'lnleresfPof' r " MertaT;ers'. : 'Oii * the' right hand side of the .heading is--an engraving of Father Time',.with his ever-busy-siclde ready-for-the-Btroke,-Onthe-left. hand-side is a, hearse just entering -a cemetery, followed, by the motoners, and above'ai r e" the words "The Hour Cometh." The goneral get .up. of ..the. paper.and. .its.eontents. would chill the soul.of. a.Yorick.

'".. An ' aboniinablo .practice,. says _ the Thames Advertiser, is, wo are sorry to !ietice,.cojung into voguojrnjoni;st tho fashionable youm; ladies of theT-'hames in the shapo of a new stylo of in». _ The beautiful flowing tresses which almost every maiden possesses are cutoff, andiho hair worn quite short. The appearance of tho head of a young lady-who has adopted this fashion is anything but becoming, and we are sure if she could see hei-solf as others see her, she would not care about making herself present such a masculine appearance. Wo wonder what the next fashion will be like 1

'J'ho London Agricultural Gazette has discovered'tho "coming sheep." The Ootswold, it says, is going out, the Southdown ceases to lie a rival for popularity with larger and more profitable, if less shapely breeds, the Shropshire have hud their day, and the Oxford Downs, nlthoimh their rise has been rapid, have an unfortunate predisposition to lameness. The coming sheep are the Hampshire, which, although they have not been pushed or taken up by the great (whoever they may he), huvo it brilliant future bofore thorn. There is no race in England, or in the world, says our contemporary, which can vie with them in the production of lambs of from six to eight months old. At this ago it is not uncommon for them to realise as much as sixty or even sixty-live shillings per head. Their enthusistic chronicler is confident that, if. instead of selling lamb? at the autumn fairs, breeders kept them till ten or, thirteen months old, they would make prices which no other race of sheep could touch. ' ;.•-';

The- Registrar-General estimates i that the population of London will be found t6 have increased from 3,254,260 in 1871 to 3,707,130 in the middle of 1881. Brighton is estimated to have increased from 90,011 to 100,062 ; Portsmouth, from 113,509 to 130,671; Norwich, from 80,380 to 80,437; Bristol, from 182,552 217,185 : Plymouth, from 08,758 to 75,700; Wolverhampton, from 68,201 to 70,850 ; Birmingham, from 343,087 to 400,080; Leicester, from 95,220 to 135,358 ; Nottingham,Bo.o2l to 177,964; Liverpool, from -493,405 to 549,834 ; Manchester, from 351,189 to 304,445; Salford, from 124,801 to 194.077; Oldham, from 82,029 to 119;(!58; Bradford, from 14p30 to 202,544; Leeds, from 259,212 t0'320,158.; Qhelljeld, from 239,940 to 312,043; Hull, from 121,8,92 to 152,080 ; Sunderland, from 98,242 to 118,927; and Newcastle from 128,343 to 151,822, taking the municpial boundaries in all cases except Loudon. The density of population of the largo towns varies very greatly, namely, from 12 persons per aero in Norwich to as many as 106 in Liverpool; thus : Norwich, 12; Leeds, 15 ; Sheffield, 16 ; Nottingham, 18 ; Wolverhampton, 23; Oldham, 20; Bradford, 28; Newcastle, 28; Portsmouth, 3.1; Bedford, 38; Leicester, 41; Hull, 42; Sunderland, 43; Brighton, 40; Birmingham, 48; Bristol, 49; London, 49; Plymouth, 54; Manchester, 85; and Liverpool, 100 persons to the statute aero.

" A Play upon Surnames" is the title of a quaint article in Chambers' Journal for February. The writer aims at introducing 53 many nctiml names as he can, making them sorve as verbs, nouns, aud adjectives* In the following extract it will be seen that he indicates them by capital letters;—" Messrs Cflass and Ohrystal, should be easily seen through,, , . , , Swift, Speed, Trotter, Hurry, and Hastie would mako excellent messengers, , , , We not unnaturally look askance at people who Grouch in a Corner, Mutter and Ogle, are given to Howling, or behave in other Strangeways, And it seems Hard to believe that we have really in sober seriousness to call respoctable neighbors by such names as Pagan, Lawless, Oonquergood, Looso, or Cram, or by such extraordinary appellations as Gamgee, Inskip, Shirtsinger', Spinks, Tuting, Caskey, Dishihgton, Dott, Groundwater, Dowdy, Twatt, and Grummetts," A grouping of strange names might be gained from the signboards of almost any English or colonial town.

I' The following story is told of a twostorey brick house in the suburbs of Boston, whoso doors and windows are nailed up, and which has novor been occupied :-" Nearly 80 years ago a young man built it for his bride, intending to mortgage it and pay for it gradually, as his worldly goods increasedj to all of whioh she agreed. When the wedding day was appointed, the trosseau ready, and the house finished, he took the lady out from Boston to inspect it. After going over the house ho presented her with a deed of it for a wedding gift. The lady, knowing his circumstances, was astonished that he had actually paid for it. He explained that, buying a ticket in a lottery, ho had drawn the first prize, which just cqvered the cost of the house. Tlio Puritan maiden protested that she would not take a house obtained by gambling, and refused the deed. His arguments were of no avail; she remained obdurate. When they left the house he locked the door and threw the key into the brook near by. The next day he boarded up the windows, and only the spiders and mice have ever occupied it. The man never married, he became rich but is a wanderer on the faoe of the earth. The woman never married, she is still •living, poor, and aii invalid." In the good old days of Masterton, when storekeepers, were scarce and money; was plentiful, large profit.? and exorbitant prices were, obtained, hut now times are different, money is scarce, and storekeepers are plentiful, Schroder, Hooper & Co,, Hall of Commerce, have taken this into consideration,' and have .cut the prices and profits down.toauoh ail'extent'that 1 they completely 1 baffle all 1 ;, competition:, Their stock is very large;' and beautifully assorted in every department, with all the' latest faslno'hs for, winter.wetf ■ from the 'countiT.ar'eVexecutedVwitli, d'espatchiiand as carefuUy.as.if,selected in: person; Purchasers of drapery andclotli, ihg will do well.toinspeot,their ; stock. Their advertisement will he found-on the front page of this paper, audde'serves conv y&

?-Seferjdj toefnbe'rj v of Si. John's Lodge, if fraternal visit to the 'Maa|Jßrt6nVti^d^teL43o > E. 0., last evoninffjM'ei'e HJMwerej warmly welcomed. ,aiWe havejecerveda letter from Mr John AlleffwhwkoMh/to be addressed to the 'Mas.terton Uemetery Trust, as it deals _witha privajte^oj^^yic^gjiewnce.^

Messrs Bacon & Wrigley acknowledge the receipt of £$ from Mr James Wrigley for the benefit of ;Mr^R.,|flgden,iri,eni- p . ployee. iii their establishment, who recently sustained a severe loss by an accidental injury. The population of Dunedin and suburbs is 42,802,' as against 35,028 in _Port Chalmers it is 2181, as against? 1827' jn 1878; while tho shipping—ia^42B r-aa-.i2aifast'632 iu 1878. '_..,

" The"tbtal number of sacks of wheat now •awaiting 'shipmenttfn' liyttelt'6{f'ispisti- s . mated at 2o0 ( Q00/lThe.Lgobjda.. through the • Lyttleton tunnel during the •year ending ■ 31st .March aipuntedjlo" 496,037 tons. - ■ " "*

Wellington has decided -'to'vpnly-Khold? one-Horticultural show during the coming season. The .\WaTrarap~a intend haying" four and proposes-a- fifth!- • -While' theempire cityhanyaa little in thebritch-.,. ings, this district is. slightly too ardent,"'

After the Mastertonfbotbairp'ractice'oT Saturday last, Mr A. R, Bunny was: unanimously elected president of the'' club; 1 We remind-members oHhe practice in Mr Drummohd'sj paddock 5 to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. A'fter'thiS'practice' a fifteen witl'be picked to play.alL.comera. on Saturday next.. ~,......•., .-.',.. r

. Mr.A. Ai-mstrong held'a sale-qf.h'qrsesj broken and unbroken, at the Pastoral Yards on Saturdays .The sale commanded,a fair attendance of bidders. »The animals, .brought average ipfices,-and were all disposed of. The'-same'gentleman disposes of about a quarter of a million feet of timber on the ground at Mr, Price's ''pul\{ Arnold's line','Carterton, 'oh''Thursday next. .

One hotly was recovered last Saturday afternoon on the scene of ilieiTararM disaster having tho name of JBOII written, upon the shirt. No news has been received from the beach this morning. The. diamond ring found upon Mo of the female i bodies recovered • early -,in 'the' .week'has been identified,' by it "female friend, :has having belonged to the late Mrs-Campbell. . ( ~ ~. ,- Mr.Uoseph Bennett has.retired from the chairmanship of the Masterton Highway Board in favor of Mr W. 0. Buchanan. While those settlers who have business with the board will be glad to see the 'vacancy so well filled, they will misswith regret tho services of the late chairman, whose excellent judgment, diligence in business and courteous attention to all matters brought under his notice haye been proverbial, ; ;■ ■ , ; ~- J A meeting of the Featheraton School Committee was held on Monday, Present —Messrs Cox- .(Chairman),. Oobhain,-. Donald, Toogood, and Williams. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, the Treasurer, reported; a balance in tho-ißank, of.-JSI3 14s. 4d. The following aocountsiwere. passed for- payment :—Mrs' .Skeman; cleaning'school,>L4 lis; Riddiokj glass,&e., 83 6d ; do, inspecting school, 16s;' do, for A. Sheede, 10s; do, fence, L 6 10s; J. G.Oakley, 2s,

A man was found; dead.'at 1 -Abbott's' Creek, on the Rimutaka, on Sunday last, and removed to the : Royal Hotel;' | We are indebted to the police for the following description of him. He was about sft Oin high, medium,, build, age about 50 years, fair complexion, gray hair, and small-gray whiskers, full face,, upper lip and chin shaved, good looking, respectable appearance, wore tweed trousers, patch on right knee, blue' 'diagonal plotli singlebreasted, waistcoat, blue' paget :: coat, blue striped cotton shirt, black-silk tie,-black tweed cap with flaps.buttoned in front,on right foot wore woollen sook and-heavy water-tight boot, on left striped merino, sock and (Oxford pattern) shoe, .the,,left ancle sore and bandaged,' and an ' old wound on the left knee like a'bullet wound. As yet he has not been identified. An inquest on the body was held yesterday by Dr Spratt, the district coroner. The jury, of which Mr H. 0. Williams was foreman, returned the following vordict, "That the mail, name unknown, died from apoplexy on the 14th inst," A.t a recent meeting (says the N,Z. Herald) of the Cambridge Farmer's' Club, when its financial position 1 was being discussed, and the fact pointed out that a money demand was at present pressing ■upotfthe club, Mr J..Sheehan,;M,H'.R;',. urged the club to increase itsjubscHptibns and hunt up its'members. Vln.the South they had farmer's; clubs.at which-visitors could put up their horses and obtain luncheon. : If the-large landowners in,.the, district would not put their hands in'their pockets and support; the, club he would have to join Sir George Grey again, and go in for cutting up. the waste lands into 100 acre blocks (Laughter); /They should double the subscriptions and make it a real club. They must popularise the club. It was nonsense to say that a mere sum of £75 was a serious 'difficulty. K He would knockdown that amount in billiards in the course of a night. :

His Lordship Bishop Hadfield recently administered a gentle but rather cutting rebuke to a.coriceitadan'd self-opinionated, individual. The Bishop'was waiting at the Balmerstpn railway Htatioii. for a train, anq. w he was sitting,, down an individual whose religious' zeal outran his discretion walked up .to him and proceeded to deolaim against the Ohtiroh, its oeremonies, &C;,;; and . informed the Bishop ■ that his opinion was.that -his Lordship was trusti Jg in forms and ceremonies &c. The Bishop listened with a very amused smile, and when his interlocutor paused for want of breath, his Lordship quoted from the New Testament a short passage ,expres'sing;his view otthe very earnest individual and his arguments. "Ahl'" said the ; hia : n,(.' ( that's''hoi'a correct translation I"'.'. The Bishop's'tuvn was now He! suddenly produced his Greek Testament, and handing it to Mr Zealous, he said,- "Well now,- there is the passage; you translate it as you think it should read." With a confused face the man stammered out, ". Well,. I don't know anything of Greek' myself, but" my friend; ..said the Bishop, "remember this—lf a man is to be a carpenter or Anything else, he must be trained, and so it is with a clergyman," and his lordshsp in 'a few sentences gently admonished that man to' learn more before he proceeded to teach others. The zealous man will probably riot reckon without; his! host in futufe.— Manawatu Herald,