AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 835, 2 August 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

SMALL POXSPEEADING, Sydney, August 1, Another case of small pox lias broken out, thia time iu Clarence-street, People are becoming completely terri6bd, not knowing where it may appear next, precautions appearing useless. IRISH NEWS. ——« i ANOTHER LANDLORD SHOT. "■"Dublin, August 1,

Mr Swauton, landlord of Ballydehoe Estate, in Ireland, has been shot, and his mipikm'sij as, usual, have escaped.

4TOIGAN NEW ■'■ •._/_ . ♦■. PRESIDENT (OTIEW) SAFE. INDIANS FIGHTINGIN BRITISH' COLUMBIA. ' Washington Aug Ist President Garfield is now certain to recover. His case reflects great credit on tlj§ medicos wbp attended liirn, as it §eenjed at first hopeless. Several Indian trifyes'jn British Columbia }iayg taken to the war path against eaclf pther, afld s,oaJgs ara jit a dj§op]ii}t The fighting js reported as very fierce and determined, ENGLISH NEWS. w» ' ■ INTERNAL '^AOHINES. DIABOLICAL PLOT FRUS--2ULUAFIAIRS, ■FRESH INSURRECTION. BOER AFFAIRS. SETTLEMENT QE CONVENTION, London, August 1. An alarming discovery of infornal docjfs and'dynamite bombs has been made aboard twq'Amorioan steamers at Liverpool. The authorities sank the dannorous packages in deep water. The plan was, evidently to destroy the wharf and surrounding • people \v& shipping when being landed. Another insurrection'has broken out in Zululand, but, it will be promptly put down, The convention in. Pretoria:' has been concluded and documents signed. Mr Hudson, the Colonial Secretary) has been appointed British President. THE "BUNNY" TO.THEFURE, ■' s' ' • '■ (To the Editor of the Wairarapa Daily.). Sir,—l see by your paper-that,the .Masterton Rabbit Trustees have made a second attempt at rating,'and I am told that it is worse thaii the ia'ct, there are two Errors, either of which would ve'ry likely" be e'noiigli singly to upset' the rate. H'this is correct, the sooner se. matter is righted fhe better.Error Nfl.'l 'j's tyat the.place appointed for % JWctJQt) pf't))j) was not within the Rabbit District; error No. 2 is tho result, prpbably, pf the deli: ciously loose Rabbit Act—it is that the Trustees should, by their Chairman, give the notice of the rate, as they have no power to appoint officers, , I would also, while on ; this subject, ask, whether the rabbit,inspectors we hear so. much of are not, in a'false position? : ; The. Act, it appears, throws .;the.;,onus of inspection on sheep inspectors,, who only! are styled inspectors for rabbits, and it seems the sheep .inspectors have failed to oany out their'duties; The Act noes not contemplate, any other inspectors than the scab hunters! Yours, &c, Settler.

•s the;:cgmlnG:eleotion. '■'s .••'■ '■■■'' .':'■•' - --•- [To' the the, Wairabafa Daily.] £Sib,t-As ybuthaye-kindly named me,as aptpbable:oandjdatfatihe coming general f eleotionpit;ipydue to you and the.eleotora that Tahould intimate at once that I shall not, at the next election, seek the honor of representing the district in 'Parliament/- .■'■'"'"..".:•-■*-^crx;:^- - Yours, &c,, . -. ••'.... H. S.'Wardeli, '-* ,'; f countylSalga^ation.'• •■;— -.« ''••'■■ i (To the Editor of the Daily.) [ ■ Dry River, July 27,1881. . Siiij-I Mch regret that I was unable, to attend the late conference touching the amalgamation of Counties East , and West. The arguments- used. thereat against amalgamation, fail to convinceme/of its.ihadvisability.;; In; my opinion, there.- are. not jtwb. counties in New Zealand that require amalgamation more, than Counties East and WestWairarapa. The ..-outcome' -.of. the conference /will, however, do one good. It will serve to. prove-to-the Government ;how'impossiblei it will be to arrive-a't -i- proper system of local government when the question is entirely left to the localities to Settle.' Here we have two counties, which ought ,to be one, refusing to amalgamate., In the North we have thirty-six- Road Boards petitioning Parliament to sweep away the counties; in the South we find counties sweeping away the Road Boards. Well, indeed, is' it,'-that. Parliament, has brought the Government face to face with •the local government question, and refuses to consider the question solely off a .money, issue, or to leave it entirely to the localities to decide. • ■ Councillors Hawkins and McGregor are truly "arcades ambo," and-stand shoulder to shoulder. I join them, and take up the gage which Major Smith has thrown down... In thatgeLtleman'B speech rests the whole question: " County East had been, in former times, plundered pf its . revenue, and seeing l)ow much they 'had suffered in the past, they might wp)l he suspicious pf any change." - This is the question; this fear of being "rated/ And What is it ? A chimera-ra nothing; As impalpable a fear-as'the one held by those who maintained that if County West took over tlje Forty: Mile Bush road we should have to - rate ; ourselves for its support. Councillors Pharazyn and Beetham I regard with v.ery graye suspicion. The one is a " double-barrel'' councillor (if he will kindly excuse me saying sq) who is compelled to take two sides; and the other- is top gqqcjaman to be" iu the opposition" upon thp quesr tion. Yet glad am I tp see that sp far back as 187Q Mr Ijeetham. himself proposed this very amalgamation. Now, as tp the fea'v pf the County West people unfairly rating County Bast. Sir, I think better tilings of County West.' I know jt'contains broad thinking mep, who would no more dream pf oppressing their County East neighbors than they, would oppress th<4i! own constituents; and this, too, if not one single man from County East attended a unujed Cpimoil,' Major Smith thinks of the' old Prpvinoial days, when all the best men lived in the towns, Times are ohangod now, There are men in the country districts—upright, honest, fearless men—able to hold thenown against the men iu the towns—able to deal fairly with their surrounding settlers. I guarantee, sir, that when the question of amalgamation really comes on for consideration, these men of County West wjll offer County East four things—1. To guard-County Easl's infects; as. they would' their'own'? 2,;^d : ll&rij its' debt; 3. To' abolish toll-gates'; and' : 4, To strive their utmost to give County East metalled-roads'to tlie Coast:'

N(ji) dg I fear tijayjlje'people in the townships', 'along the) ujain of wiirpi ; eveht''tnom'feni bo acting, for li is essentially "to their. 1 interests' 'to'' see County 'fiast prosper. There" 1 is not one '(lifit'd'fies pt Barfly" dgpeii}c| fgr support upon CpunfyEfisfj §n<ilhavpa better qpinipn qf fqwii resents, tljaii tp suppose that ibj. would willingly injure their' own interests; Every road made into County East brings the settler more quickly into the town, I'cannot conceive a more harmful state of society .than when one section of a community groundlessly fears another—for the fear of unfair rating is uttetfy gtp.iracjje&s,. I fljt'QW t])o blame : of separatioif entirely ppob the shoulders of a few' leactiijg iiien rp'Cimnty East, fys Opiipiy West is "ready to'join and do ifs bpst fp sjjyaiipfl" Op'unly Ejipf's interests. The yjowg ygu,. 'fji.y'hayß so often pxpressod—the' views thaji' ors Hawkins," McGregor, aud others hold—aroasuffloientguaranteetorthis, Times are changed.' The settlers east of the Ruamahunga can, without fear, trust themselves to their fellow-settlers of the Wosi, and benefit, top, ]iy-the. change. '■"".' Tami'M', '■'' ' v ! COLEMAN EhILLIPB,