The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 772, 19 May 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1881.

One of the-great social facts of tbe present day is the employment of females in' situations of public trust, which were formerly occupied exclusively by male officers. In, many countries, such as England, the United States, France, Russia, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, the postal and telegraph offices, if not manned by ladies, are to a very considerable extent in some of their sections monopolised by them, and it lias been found that in competition with the lords of creation they can hold their own and do a larger amount of routine work on smaller rates of wages, This is essentially a movement of the nineteenth century which tends to slowly and surely revolutionise tbe old social code of the world. Its progress is already marked in Australia, and if in New Zealand it is less observable tbe reason is plainly to be found in the very active and healthy demand for wives and mothers which at present exists from one end of the colony to tlie other. Still, in our principal towns there are indications of a surplus fenjale population accumulating, which, sooner or later, should swell the industrial feminino army'which is now to be found in the countries to which we have referred. To train and educate a girl for only one career, and this one so dependent and uncertain that it is commonly spoken of as a lottery, is doing an injustice to the intellectual and business capacity which she so frequently possesses, Til} she marpps she is dependent on her parents for her livelihood—afterwards she has to rely upon her husband. The right of an independent career, which is more or less tho privilege of every man, is altogether denied to her, although in ofcfyer lands her sisters have proved that they jp capable of taking an independent stand, cavning their own living, and fashioning thefy' qjyn lives after their own plans and wishes, It is no secret that a vast number of girls in the cjfes of Ney Zealand are merely trained to b/3 successes in general society, and when by ppyej'se of fortune or other contingency they niay no longer carry on thst little social [display which "rounds" their limited j existences, they are unfitted to take a I part in the battle of life, We welcome therefore the movement spreading through the world which extends to women new avenues of employment, and which promises in time to endow with independent labor a sex which has proved itself in innumerable instances worthy of a higher mission than mere domestic employment, As a sweetheart no doubt woman is admirable, but this stage of her existence is necessarily a limited one, As a wifc and mother she is of course incomparable, but even the duties incidental to these capacities only to a limited extent absorb t)je lpntal activity, and the restless energy of many yomei), The lesson the nineteenth century is teaching is that to worthily fill out the lives of many of the sex they must be fellow laborers with men, This position has been more or less demanded aind conceded in Europe and America, The time will come when it will be demanded And conceded in New Zealand.

A cheque has been lost on the Upper Plain road, for the recovery of which a reward is offered, Payment of it is stopped. Messrs J. lorns & Co,, are instructed by Mr J. Tuck to offer at their yards on Saturday next 400 Romney Marsh hoggets and young ewes. Mr W. W. Corpe gives notice that all accounts remaining unpaid to him after the end of this month will be sued for;

The old Pioneer Hotel at the north end of Carterton had a narrow escape of being destroyed by fire yesterday morning. About 11 o'clock smoke was seen issuing from the side of the chimney, and the skirting and lining were found to be on fire. The brigade was on the ground in a few minutes, and'about half an hour's work served to extinguish the flames, The buildings were insured in the National Insurance Company. The lower woodWork is burnt right through.

.It is announced in another column that the Rev W, H. West will preach the anniversary services in the Presbyterian Church, Masterton, on Sunday next, and that on Queen's birthday, the annual tea moating in connection with the Sunday school will take place, to be followed by a lecture from Mr West, on "The Art of Conversation," The lecturer is a gentleman of scholarly attainments, and his address should prove a attraction,

: A publio meeting of ratepayers of the Carterton Local Board district will be held on Friday evening to consider the action of the Government in ,removing the post and telegraph offices to the ..railway station. The Government made one foolish economy when it absorbed the Grey town constable; it has made a second .one in swallowing up the central post office at Carterton. .We hope the settlers in the latter township will be more successful in convincing Ministers ,of.their blunder than the settlers jn the former township have been,

The usual, fortnightly sitting of the R.M.; Court takes place at Mastertoii' ib-i % h J,: .

Tenders; are. inyited- by Mr James Russell, architect ;for building ahouse.on the Opuki. Plans may bk Been at/the' Council Chambers Msaterton." " nS^The first load of timber to be used in the.re-erection of' tlieWealeyaiii ehurofi" at Featherston, was put on the ground on Tuesday, so that the building recently destroyed by fire will shortly be replaced.

It is mooted in Featherston to removethe Church of Eugland building from its present site under the'hil), to a more central position," next to 'the school house. The nomination for.a warden of the Castle Point Highway Board, iii place 'of Mr.JJulters, who has resigned,-w-fiited-by Mr McHutphpn/thereturnil)'® officer., for., the2sthiust'.,at'nobh.' •••■ --' "■ '• " Meaara Harvey Murray, of' ;th^ •poiia Works;. m sendiii"-tV the.',Wollirigton industrial Exhibition, the'.'following specimens of their manufactures: One dozen, door mats,.assorted, colors ;- ono dozen pieces o( white leather ; one dozen brown basil skins, and three dozen basils, assorted colors.-'-

~ The revenue of the Borough of Masterton last year was.£l,Bos. The revenue of the Borough of New Plymouth was bat £1,352. The -smaller borough has a 125,000 loan for waterworks and public works, Surolj'Masterton is not exactly iii the .van among boroughs of. about its own size,

"It has been suggested that when!the new school at Masterton is built .the present buildings should be - let to' • the iiliti'ister of Justice as a courthouse. They are certainly more commodious and convenient than the shedifice in which justice ia now administered,

The Masterton Football Club lmda fair practice yesterday afternoon in Mr Drummond's paddock, about eighteen players taking part in" a scratch match. The following fifteen will play all comers on Saturday next. Messrs W, McKenzie, E Smith, M. Meredith, E. S. K, DeOastio, F. O'Connor, P. Cowan, C. Morrison, E. J, Allen, H. Jones, A, Smith, W, Perry, B. Perry, W. Andrews, F. Smith, and 6. Harvey, The ball will be kicked off at 3 o'clock. We believe there will be a large number of all comers present, and a spirited game is anticipated, Members can now obtain copies of rules from tho secretary, Mr Harrison, a perusal of which would be of great service to them. In obedience to an advertisement calling an estpa special parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers, $ fw number of members put in an appearance. Lieutenant Wyllie was in command, Captain Ruck being prevented from attending through indisposition. The Cadets also held their usual parade, and'both corps were formed into two companies, and exercised in batallion drill by the Instructor A long and satisfactory parade took placp. Another parade will be held to-morrow evening, whep p should like to see both Rifles and Cadets turn oi|t it) in full force, and earnestly,second tjie efforts of the instructor tfimake them thoroughly efficient bodies, so that they may bo second to pong at the forthcoming field-day at Taratahi on the Queen's Birthday, in which the wholb of th.e Wairarapa Volunteers will tako part. The Greytown Volunteers rolled up well Jo the usual weekly drill on Tuesday pvening last, after which the mazy dance w?8 ijidfjlgpd in, the band of the corps providing thp niusic, ]Yq are pleased to see these assemblies patro.nised iff tjip way they are, for it will be the means of raising th§ strength of tho corps very considerably. The saltatory exercises are confined strictly to Volunteers and lady friends, so that any non-members wishing to tako part in the dance must first be enrolled in the ranks. We think if they wore not quite so strict in this respect it would lie' the means of increasing the pppulffity of the corps.' A great many npn-njilitants pouhj like to join in the dan.ce3, but their business jjther arrangements would not allow them to enter the ranks, Some aro too old, but would tako theip daughters- to -see the soldiers flrill, and would'have a dance with tljenj after, Qthers too might be living out of the tqwn, cfliuein on these occasions and bring w^tli' theiii their "sisters, their cousins, and tlieir aunts/' )Y§ pijde).' whether other corps will prove as gallant a? tl|e Qroytowu one and wind up their parades by a charge on tho fairest of enemies?

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Masterton Sciiool Committee was held last evening. Present,—Messrs Soddington (chairman), D'Arcy, McCardle, Russell, and Payton. The treasurer reported »credit IjaJaijce of £lßlos lOd. The correspondence \vp nierply of a routine character. The 'h.ead-mjster reported that owing to bad weather the average attendance had fallen during the past month from 330 to 305, and that eight children under 5 years of age had been sent from the school, in consequence of the instructions received from the Education Departs/it, An application was received from the secretary of the Masterton Debating Society, for the occasional use of a room, but it was docided that the limited accomodation of the present building would make such an arrangement inconvenient. The Chairman reported that Mr Turnbull the architect had inspected the site, and was willing to consult the wishes of the local committee on certain minor points, It was decided to hold a special meeting of the committee on Wednesday next on the site itself. Messri) McOardle and Payton were appointed visiting members for the ensuing month, Mr j, Vile sent an apology for non-attendance,

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Wairarapa Institute was held on Tuesday last. Present—Messrs Skeet (in the chair), Whit?, forritt, Brooks, Book, and Stonhouse. (flip minijtps of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. It was resolved tljat the suboriptions for the English newspapers be sent at once, Circulars were received from census enumerators, re returns of Institute. The sooretary was instructed to furnish the required information. With respect to the deeds, Mr Skeet said that they had been taken, but by Messrs Izard and Bell, Mr Book moved, and Mr Forritt seconded that the secretary write to Messrs Izard ai)d Bell, asking them for information as to the deeds of the Institute taken out of the registration office by them, October, 1872.-Carried. It was resolved that the secretary be instructed to write immediately to Mr. O. Rees-ljogfy asji)g liira to give a lecture in the Institute room on a? early a date as convenient to him... AlsotpMr Bhara-. zyn, asking him to give the date of hii promised lecture late in June or early in July. Also that the vacancy in the committee, caped by the resignation of Mr Thomas, be filled, that. If p Ijlaclf be appointed. The secretary was instructed to inform Mr Black of his election. After considerable disoussion it was arranged that a fortnightly entertainpptj be arranged, to. .consist of lectures,; (readings, ,music, &c. , and thai the ladies' be asked to assist: that a Bub-committee.be appointed to consist' .'of" Mesara:-'Porritt, Blqck and Book, to make all arrange: raents. proposed by Mr Porritt, seoonded by Mr Book, tjjat a sub-commit-tee be appointed to revise the rules, and submit to the next annual meeting, oon» sisting of Messrs Bock,' White/ Skeet. fftenhouse, Brook»,and tfy mover, , ,

: r. At tlie wool sales on May 16th, 10,000 bales were offered, and there was a £?ood demand.

; Thifdllowing insurance companies have .paid' tKe amount of their policies on the i%r.ua!'—Colonial, £3500; New South Wales Marine, £sooUnited ot Sydney £500., ™

An outrage was committed by three larrikins at St. Kilda, on the 6thinst,'on :a.Ghiaaln%n7^Whl^9i^^teiFtHeif'-fialnla , were coveredSvith blood,—..

; A Nihilist manifesto has beei/placarded in different parts of St. Petersburgh, lauding the assassination of theQzaraud threatening the life/«f/ i tl{ej Emperor.

i John Bright,.in a-letter-on Irish affiiirs,arguos that the Irish laborers are -betVer off at pre3ent_thau . laboreiis,. in, England- , that .tlje^only;ho^&for the datter lirasthe development of industries. ; At Rockcastle, Kentucky,'Utut'edßtates" recently, r hen flew into XhousV and knocked down a rifle, that whanging .onthe wall. The weapon was. jiiaoharged and killed/ablerjgyman who. was- 'Visiting the family, J-j v j \ ) ; = ■ A telegram- from London dated, May. 12. says that Ireland is'in a very'disturbed state, and the number-of—-rages is increasing at an alarming rate.. In consequence of : the Land LeAgue-agi-i tators, Dublinhas been proclaimed Sunder, theptovmohs 6f th&Ooercion Act. .iThere is jnten'se exciteinent.ithroughduttHe.cityl and in the country) as well as a feeling of great anxiety. It is "expected that rhum"' ber of prominent leaguers .will be. arrested immediately.?/. Among -oth&rs mentioned, as likely to be seized is Dillon, member for Tipperary.': It is also rumored that" the Government intends to-'attack : the League unsparingly, and v liave . everyone. arrested who' is kiiowh; ! tb bo donheoted' with it. The Times declares that the state of Ireland is more.serious now than it was before Parliament met. . ■

A case was heard at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Christchurch, on Tuesday last, involving the;riglit to a box seat on a coach. Mr'C. Pharazyn engaged two box seats at Qhriatchm'ch to West Coast and back, expressly stipulating 'for them, and getting them marked on his tickets.. Finding a lady ill with asthma in his soat on the Canterbury side, he gave it up. On returning from the West Coast he found they were again occupied, and lie could not get them, fie alleged that he had gone on a pleasure trip, which was spoiled by the inconvenience thus occasioned, and now sued for the return of his fare, The magistrate said that as he had voluntarily given one up, and. had also made the journey in the coach, he cquli} not claim the return of the whole of the fare, apd gave judgment for £5 and costs. , .

There is an' exceedingly full meeting at Parahaki, the Maoris present numbering in, all over 2500. The 170 returned prisoners, decked in feathers, inarched onin a single file, and established themselves in the centre of the meeting place. Food js plentiful, The speeches were short arid pa'ojno, yet expeasmg- ponfidehce in: the lufinjate success of thg scliemQ erf - jtj Whiti, There is to be no more figlitjng is to overcome the evil iq'theiriew .world, which commences from to-day! the old world, under" the leadership of Johevah,. being aboljshgd, am} p,. new one commenced under the leadership of T§ 'tybiti and Tohu, An entire absence, of the usual inveotiye against Government was noticeable in the speeches/ '

Tlier Dusseldorfe Anzeiger' recently published thefollowing" statement ''At,(} oWflcjf yesterday morning, Prince William, prof the Ijerqdjlary Brince Leopold of Hohengollern, was forcibly abducted from the gardpn. .of the Jager--hofPwlle by (three tyett.''fie was carried to 3 carriage that was hpld inwaitinc< and taken across the Rhine near Yolmer" swerfch, ..The prince, .whoae Imir -was cut and'clothos token' off on the journey, sueof SteuerzelberJ and' the afternoon, Prince William is 17 years of ag?. Tjie perpetrarora of the outrage are not known, but they are supposed to bo Nihilists, and to have 'intended carrying Prince William's younger brother, Ferdinand, who was recently' chosen as heir to the throne of 'Romania." Afi : oQrdi|}g tn some accounts, on discovering heir er : ror thejr sufered .tjjeir prisoner ofhoially stated at Berlin to be deviod of fopdatfofi, ■ . : :

lii 1)13 recent prjroj) Japan, Sir E. J. Reed tells us that in; the palace the old oapital until lately, the god-Em-peror dwelt, Here, was ; . antVironsd,, here married, here lived) here died, When he walked in these gardens, mats Were laid before him .as he stepped ( to keep his feet from touching earth; and when he left them as he rarely did, he was conveyed jnl a (jarraigp closed in by screens j and, as he passed ped and worshipped, i. Any eye'that saw his sacred form would, the people believed, be Winded by the .sight. "Suoh -it appears,was the state of ( things thirteen' years ago only;' and now' the' Mikado drives about the streets of. Yedo, in. an open carriage, dressed in 'diplomatic 'uniform.

Professor Haselmayer, 'the. wonderful' export of pveestigi®, rather, astonished; a wive at tl?e fuarangaunj Hotel, Napier, reoently, The simple abowgnal hitched his horse up to oue of the posts at the [ edge of the footpath, and the professor immediately commenced to admire the animal, but whilst feeling its points he somehow touched the saddleflaps when shillings unaccountably fell into his outstretched palms. The Native not oing tlje silver torrent, and thinking he had bepn defrauded pf Borne hidden wealth he had never been aware he possessed, rose to the oooasion, and jumping around, let loose the girth and battered the saddle against the post, but couldn't raise even a jingle, l .Dismay tfas depicted on his bronzed and dark-complectioned face, and rode awav, he exclaimed Iftamp.l! '. '' :

A sensational inpident, says the Sydney Evening News occurred recently on a train forrp J)ubbo to Sydney. In a second-class carriage-were about' a score of passengers, including, some-of the members of the Austrian' band; and, shortly after Bowmtoh had been passed Heer Kuh'r noticed smoke issuing from , under one of the seats,'-Considerable alarm was caused. The carriage was .soon filled lyith smoke, Several members of the party climbed out through the window,and on to the roof of the carriage, when they commenced shouting at the top of their voices to tjie driver* One man named, Alfred" Burgess, fell off ii) the attempt to cljmb; on • to - the roof and was picked up unconscious another, tnore'skilful, njanagei tp get 'out aud niount the roof with a portmanteau and cloak in his hand. Matters began to be very critical by this', time, O an d the shoqts of those on top redoubled. It was not till ' they ' ljafl ! abojit'Uyfenly minutes in this way, ! howevet/: tfyt they were noticed by the drivery-and the train stopped.-p. Mpanwhile^«"tlioß*e c i 4ef were balf^^^tete&ne 4 alarme^f%ii , sooh-'»s : the i t^in t M.lop; ! another carnage' and'the fire was'put -'out. It was discovered that' a large 'hole' had been burned in the floor, Burgess was a blacksmith, resident ■ in Bathurat. He ™ the Sydney Infirmary

It is notified thatthaneW bylawß for the Borough of Mastectpn come into* force on May the 25th. / f ] :\ ' Thecourtcases at Mistertoiv. to-day exceptionally light,, being confined to four of five summonses for debt.

T^3H[?.TBrabuU f the well;kriown arohitont)lnspected yesterday the new School site at Masterton and the alterations now in progress at the Carterton School.-. .

A committee meeting "held yesterday re the proposed Woullen Factory was adjourned till to morrow to enable Mr Renall, who has been appointed chairman,' to attend;,»,, \J 7 "Tenderers for the^newschool building at .Masterton. are ad vised-to post their tenders not-later, than Monday evening next, to insure 1 their being iii time for the next meeting of thq Education Board.;, Thiß-morhing five itriick' loada-of slbep started from tho Mastertoii railway station the'last ten days 2*,500 have •gone through to the order of ='the i.wellfkho'wh V Wellington butcher. tha sheep are from the Akitio .station; ' v;." ' \tj <\ 'ffJQ -The Greylown footballera had an'extra" .practice; on Tuesday afternoon, at which 'about 20 rolled'iip, when some really good work-was done,-they-seeing the necessity ( of no doiibt, to cope with.their 'last, year's opponents, They practice this at 3.30j).m. i I -We hear thefmembers! of ;StJJohn|s Lodge, Featherst'o'n, contemplate erecting .a.Masonie..HalL in that-township. They deserve great praise, for the .energy, they display"in conneptioh with; the jfrateriiityf, iriot the. theyy mUBt. hive s.ustainedihrough tk'e late fire at the mm Pl>®B they held their .nieetinga, They. Jiave. secured a suitable roqmj.at the Royal Hotel, at which to hold •their meetings for the present. ■Jn the goo' 4 Masterton, when storekeepers wete scarce and money was plentiful, large profits and exorbitant prices were obtained, but now times are different,. money -is scarce, and storekeepers .are plentiful.' Schroder, Hooper & Co., Hall of Commerce, have taken this WtO ai}dpi'of}ts tjown to eucii atjexfenf they. .opmpletely -baflje , ji]l ,cflmpetition, Their stock js beautifully ; assorted jij every 'department, with all the latest fashions for winter wear. Orders from tljo oqimiry org exeouted witi] to, patch, iwd ftS Ofti'gfiilly Afl |f iel§o(ed to person, Purohasers of drapery and cloth, ing will do well to inspect theiv stock, Their advertisement will be found on the front page of this paper, auddasewos consideration,—Advt,