The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 903, 19 October 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1881.

When it was first proposed to separate North Wairarapa from the southern division of the district in electoral matters, we objected to the disunion on the ground that Masterton would be placed in a somewhat equivocal position in the new district to which it was assigned, If Masterton had been populous enough to have a member of its own, it would as a matter of course return a representative of town interests. Possessing, however, but half the number of people necessary to constitute an electorate, it was placed in the position of a partner with the country settlers in the North Wairarapa district, having only a half share in the representation. Were all the voters in Masterton unanimous, they could return a town representative; and were all the voters in the country unanimous, they could carry the election with a representative of rural interests. It is very natural for the town to seek its special representative in an election and for the country to do the same. We recognised long ago a possible conflict between town and country parties, and hoped that the proposal to divide the Wairarapa into two electorates would foil through, so that a contingency which would be adverse to the interests of [lie district as a whole might be avoided. Our policy has been always to promote unity and harmony between both town and country, and it always will be the same. Town and country are mutually dependent, and those who try to separate their interests and to breed disunion between them are inimical to both. We have, wu maintain, been loyal to Masterton in being true to the country districts which surround it, and on which its trade and prosperity are based. In the present election it is impossible to ignore the phase of it in which the relative claims of the town and country are preferred. We do not hesitate to declare that the only solution of the difficulty is the return of a representative who will bp, acceptable to both town and country. On the one hand we object to the town being directly represented at the expense of the country, and on the other we object to the country being specially represented at the cost of the town, The partnership which exists between town and country is an inevitable condition which must be accepted. We do not expect persons holding extreme views on either side to agree with us in this, but we do confidently anticipate that modei ate men in both town and country will agree with us, and that when the election takes place their votes will constitute a majority. Of course there are other considerations which must be taken into account in any election—some larger and some smaller—chan the one lo which wu are now immediately reftr ing, and we shall from time to time deal with them separately, There is, however, no local question connected with the coming election of greater importance to onr mind than the maintennnce of friendly relations between town and country settlers. Efforts are being made—and further attempts will be made—to disturb the good understanding which has hitherto existed on either side, but we trust the common sense of the bulk of the electors will frustrate any movement which has for its object setting class against] class. '

Mr Wuidell, KM., sits at Carterton today. The s'o'town Town Lands Trustees meet this ufieinoon, The Sun Francisco mail is expected in the Wairarapa this morning. Mr Travera has retired from the Te Aro contest. The Auckland Meat Preserving Co. are about tu send a trial shipment to Eiig land, Mr A. W. Renall invites the electors of thin district to meet him in the Town Hall this evening. The electoral rolls may now he inspected daily between the hours 10 a.m. and 2 p in. at the office of the Registrar. The Master)on Rifle Cadets parade at the diill shed this evening, the Rifle Volunteers on Friday evening. The Masterton School Committee meet this evening, but in view of the counter at'raction of Mr Renull'a meeting there will prohahly he no quorum. Messrs F. H. Wood & Co. huvp tnken into pintneiship in their Carterton business Mr W, Keinher, who has for some time managed that brunch for them. Tenders are invited by Mr C. Pharazyn for tho carriage of 100 bales of wool from Awhea to Featherston. Greytown is now tranquil I Dr Spratt whose matrimonial intentions baYO for some time been a chief topic in its local circles led his bride to the altar of St Luktfs church yesterday morning.

Yesterday Ors Dixon, Bish, and Price perambulated the town, escorted by bis Worship tho Mayor, on horseback to review the boundaries in No 1 district for the proposed ahelatious in the building regulations, The Carterton Ritlas paraded on Mondny evening. At tlie meeting afterwards it was arranged that those going away sheaiiui; cnuld fiie for Company prizes on the 20ih ins!,, instead of the 3rd prox. Ciptain Snodgrius, Lieut, Potts, and Private Welib were appointed a committee lo select a new site for t he butts.

The complimentary concert to Mr G. Palmer, which was to have been given in the Town Hall Greytown on Friday evening next, has been postponed until Thursday H7th inst. The committee not being able to obtain the assistance of several well known amateurs this week, but hope to be able to do so next, when from the interest taken m the movement a bumper house may be relied on,

An opinion has long prevailed, writes the Aucklan Observer, in some quarters that ninny of the so-called " ruling families" in the Colony possesed some occult means of exercising extraordinary influence upon the administration of justice. The latest interest that has come under our notice is m a certain town on the East Coast- In the circular of the Napier agency of the New Zealand Trade Protection Society there is a record of a bill of sale, No. 498, by a certain barrister-at-law to Mr P. F. Ormond, of all and singular the goods, chattels, effects, pictures and plates now in and upon the dwelling-house occupied by the said barrister, to secure 1400 at T WENTY PER CENT, dated 24th December 1878 filed 12th January 1880. The important features in this 'ransaction are that the barrister is also a District Judge and fills other influential offices, while Mr F, F, Ormond is a brother of Mr Ormond M.H. K., and acts as agent of the latter. Twenty per cent! The source of Mr J. D. Orraond's wealth is no longer a mystery,

A company is being formed at Montreal, with a capital of £2,000,000, to develop thu mining resources of Canada,

The death of Lord Hatlierley leaves Lord Cairns the only ex-chancellor in England in receipt of pension, a state of things which is almost unprecedented in recent times,

The grandnephew of the discoverer of vaccination, Mr Stephen Jeimer, who was so often the subject of his uncle's experiments in his childhood, is living in poverty, at lhe age of 88, in Heathßeld, near Berkeley, England. A crown of steel wrought from a cannnii captured at Plevna was used at the coronation of the Kii'g of Roumania, and ihe royal couple drove to the coreinony in a carriage representing a basket of flowers.

The late composer Offenbach is to have a bronze statue elected to bis memory in the garden of his villa at St Germains, by a few friends, James Gordon Bennett of ilieNew Yoik Herald, being among the number.

A photographic opera glass has lately been invented by a Parisian. It is not larger than an ordinary opera glass, and by its aid the photograph of a group, or a monument, or anything else may be taken instantaneously.

During the last 30 years was advanced by the Public Works Loan Coimnbsioners for public purposes in L eland, of which £1.479,006 has been repaid. Of £'11,078,000 advanced from ihe Exchequer, £8,907,000 has been tepaid. At the recent sale of the Double collection in Paris, one of the Rothschilds bought a pnir of small vases, ordered by Madame De Pompadour for her matol piece at Versailles, decorated with exquisite paintings of scenes in the battle of Fontenoy, for the trifling sum of £OBOO. A table of official statistics shows that the wages of thirty-six different trades in France in 1877 averaged 52 per cent higher than in 1853, The lowest increase uiven is 40, for colliers, and the highest 74, for bakers. The compiler notes that the rise has been the highest in those trades in which machinery has come largely into use. The price of bread has remained stationary.

A careful examination of the criminal code of the District of Columbia shows that the penalty for an assult with intent to kill may be ten years imprisonment and a fine of £2OO,

The Citv Directory of Chicago shows that the city's population is 540,711, The population ot the county is 654,000. According to this directory lost years loss is less than the census showing.

A veteran who fought under the great Napolen in (Germany in 1804 George Lessard and who only three years ago married a wife of sixty summers is living in Montreal, in his one-hundred-and-fifth year, and. in full possession of his faculties.

A collection calculated to please smokers is on exibition at the Alexandra Palace in London consisting of numerous German Turkish, and Scandinavian pipes more than a hundred specimens of Japanese, and seven hundred English ones, all belonging to a Mr Bragge, In Edinburgh a shipowner of Glasgow has accepted a tender of £SOO from the Caledonian Railway Company on account of injunos.received in a collision in Sept. last.

The Schlosse, or castle, of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Drinnstadt is antique and solid, atid bus been the castle of the old Counts of Ellenbogen. A cottage with tiny windows was built into the fortifications nf the Schlnss, its owner having refused to sell; tho air above its roof helonaed to (lie lord of llie land, but lie had no power to take the cottage from the peasant, so he built bis wall over it.

The latest novelty seen at Brighton is a uneral with a hearse drawn by grey horses,

At a meeting recently held in Rome a motion was passed calling for the abolition of the Papal Guarantees and the disestabof the Church of Homo. The grandfather of Prehidsnt Garfield went as a soldier to the Revolutionary war from and took part in the battle of Cambridge. The main Centennial Exposition building at Philadelphia, has been sold to W. C. Bullet, a lawyer for £19,400. It is rumored that the real purchaser was the Pennyslvania Railroad Company, The building originally cost £72,000. In its construction 75,000,000 ft of lumber and 8,500,000 pounds of iron were used The structure was 1830 ft long and 4G4ft wide. M. Gambetta and Madame Adam were once friends, but ■ became separated by political differences. But at one time M. Gambetta being threatened by a person who had letters in her possession which would prove of serious danger to an ambitious man, Madame Adam took pains to secure possession of the package by paying 1200 for it, and sent it sealed and unread to her enemy, It is stated that among the more important recommendations decided upon by the selee j committee of tho Imperial Parliament on bills of sale are the follovingTlmt every bill of sale shall be invalid until it is registered; that no bill of sale under 150 shall be registered: and that in cases where extortion by money-lenders is proved, summary relief shall be granted bv the County Court judge. There is now a dog infirmary at the west end of London, controlled by a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. The wards are complete with every modern convenience for the health and comfort of patients. A sanitarium has been arranged for the reception of healthy animals, when owners have no convenience for them. Special wards are also provided for cats and birds, Annual subscribers of II have all the privileges oi'the infirmary.

The terrible shook which the news o the attack on the President of the United States brought to Ai tomey-General MacVeigh is graphically described. He was at breakfast when the news was brought to him and was so overcome and horrified that lie started from his chair and rushed bareheaded and.aimlessly from the back entrance of his house. It was several minutes before he recovered his self-con-trol and went back for his hat,

There is a Lincolnshire gentleman, aged 83, who is so firmly convinced of the approaching end of the world that he lias ordered an immense balloon, by means of which he hopes to witness the' destruction of the planets. He will take with him provisions, brandy, and creature comforts enough for three years. In carrying out Ins idea, the old gentleman thinks that among the debris of the world will be a fragment on which he will be able to descend and find a refuge for his few remaining years. The shop window beauties are to be entirely excluded from the balls and receptions of the Princess of Wales this season. Not a single professional beauty is to be allowed to participate in the amusements of the annual garden party given .by the Princess to the Queen, But compensation lias been found already by one of the most fashionable of the beauties in her voluntary retirement from the fashionable world. She has taken a villa on the banks of the Thames, to which all the best men in London are anxious to bo invited.

Major Atkinson publishes his address to the Egmont electors in this evening's " Herald." He says Two years ago I promised that I would support the the Native difficulty on our coa.-t. Government that would effectually settle Since taking office I have told you that the Government were steadily working in that direction, and that while they would not be unduly hurried on the one hand, on the other they would not be debarred from enforcing the authority of the law without fear of any consequences. If you will recall to mind how matters stood two years ago, and compare them with the state of things at present, you will seoata glance that a great advance has been made, and I now say emphatically that the time has come when an end must be made of this strong tin eat to the peace of the colony and district, and that it must, and I believe will, be effectually disposed of this summer. The Auckland Free Lance suggests that the Maoris at Purihuka should be utilized as missionaries. The plan proposed is to capture the whole of them and transport them to various isl.mds in the the Pacific, supplying them with Bibles, rifles, ammunition, seeds and tools, and loaviug lliein to their gnod work among the heathen. This would effectually end the Native difficulty, and there would not be much doubt in the " conversion" of the savage islanders.

Auctioneering in Wanganui appears to be encompassed by as many perils as editing in America. We learn from the local morning paper that there was a sale of plants on Taupo Quay, and a dissipated man bid for a lot for which he was unable to pay. The knight of the hammer remonstrated, and the dissipated one made a rush at the rostrum. It did not lust long, for the auetioneer "knocked down the lot" like a flash of lightning. Glaring wildly round the lover of flowers went for another of the assembly who was calmly and critically surveying one of his purchases in the most peaceful attitude. After jamming his head in the stomach of this floriculturist, and hurling the ohciished plant to the ground and filling in time by pitching over a few more plants the auctioneer gallantly came to the rescue and assisted by a few friends took the offender and threw him down tin stairs, It was very warm while it lasted and the proprietor of the establishment sadly contemplated the wreck ventlating his feeling in softly murmuring "Why do summer roses fade."

There are three great advantages the public of Masterton get by dealing at Rapp and Hare's, Ist. They can oblain goods cheaper than at any other store. 2nd. The quality of their goods is the best that can be supplied. 3rd, They always sell at their advertised prices. Those who have never given them a trial should do so at once, and they will not be disappointed.—[Advt,]

It is a fact that Messrs Gardener and Son sold last season more sheep shears than the whole of the Wairarapa storekeepers combined, and this season it is their intention to offer tbe 100 dozen pairs which they have imported at less than Wellington wholesale prices, We cannot understand how this well-known firm sell all their goods so wonderfully cheap Their stock is splendidly assorted, a'nd we would call special attention to their magnificent stock of drapery, which surpasses any we have yet seen in the Wairarapa. —fAnvT.l It is now an acknowledged fact that the Kaiapoi Tweeds are not to be beaten either in or out of the colony. I have them made up to my own measurements at the mill, «nd can sell them at 555, (Jss, and 75s the suit. I have always a superior class of shirts, hosiery, hats,' scarfs, collars, etc., every make and size, Any orders for the above goods entrusted to me will leceive my careful consideration, Alex, Sample, Willisitiest, Wellington.