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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 917, 9 November 1881, Page 2

The Mußtprtnn Town Lands Trustees have an income of at least £250 npr annum. Deducting from this ?B0 for management ptpbospr, there remains'a balance nf £2OO for division nmnnt! ih.osp local b'idiea wbnsi cl«ins hai-n heen rpcngnised bv the Trust as Ipgifcima'p ■These local bodies are the Maatertnp School Oiimmittpp, the Opaki Siihool, the Park Trnsteea, and the Institute Trustees. Mr Hare propose.* that the grants to these hodies should for the future be as f.,)lnws:—Masterton Schnnl, £25 ; Park 120; Opaki Suhno', £10; Tnslitu'p, about £25, malting a tnt.il of .180.. Now. we consider that these bodies have a claim for £200,' to he distributed among them, nnd that Mr Hare's proposal to divide only £BO is priiinently unsatisfactory. Tfif he urged that the ■ overdraft..o' ; the Trust, tjpoppa'tiiei'R 'edudinn in thegrants, it may be shown that the arrears

(if runta'are quite sufficient to provide for this item. The special arrangement over the exchange of school aores cannot make 8«oh;a reduction;necessary because the Towii Trustees got the heat of the bargain, and witirgood inaniigemerit must increase rather thaii diminish their income, by this transaction, The affairs-of the Trust seem to have got more or less into a muddle, and the School, the Park,.and the Institute are to be the sufferers., The income of the Trust is a fixed one; and will never he less than at present, and we do not see why the distribution of its funds to such bndie» as may he entitled to claim them ah<>uld be flnctuntory and irregular, or why only 50 per cent, ok the available income should be apportioned,

Pro Mr Renau curße the working men' at Opnki ? We i;avo in our Inst issue an account of the scene as we heard it, hut. his satellites, who were there on the occasion, say that we invented the whole thing; that ihey did not hear him say anything of the sort. This deafness on their pint jvaa very sudden and deplorable. No doubt it prevented them from recording what Mr R-mu did say, and no doubt Mr Renau, when they consulted hiln on the suhject, found his memory completely at fault, This is very sad I There were fortunately, however, a considerable number of settlers present who' werenoi afflicted with doafness, and we will niake it our business to take the evidence of some of them with a view to show-that the members of Mr Renall's body.guard, till after they have consulted an aurißt,sre unfit to gather up the pearls which fall from his lips.