THE KAIAPOI WOOLLEN FACTORY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 985, 28 January 1882, Page 2

THE KAIAPOI WOOLLEN FACTORY.

• !r (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Ohmstchukch, Jan. 27. The , balance-sheet of. the Kaiapoi Woollen Factory shows a profit for the .year jjf. j66OlL_ A dividend. of 6-por.ceut. has been declared for the half-year, ; making 10 per cent in all. L 1235 ..was;. carried jorward.', 'All (JhK new , shares . issued, when, the Company wan enlarged ■ have been taken up, and L 25.000 spent on new buildings ; and; plant, the total outlay on which will reach The clothing factory U almost 'ready for. work-, i .and will.employ 3000 hands. ;IThe report and balance-sheet were ado'oted unani--;

CORRECTION (To the. Editor Wairababa Dm;) Sib,—Kindly allow me space in ypur i paper to correct an error 'which appears : to your report of the Taratahi-Carterton - -| Races. Referring to the accident which j befell my Bon and the horse Orphan, yoUr. j reporter says he cannoned against Senori-' ta and was knocked'down, Ming on' his . rider. How does he make this out, for at i the time the horse tall Senorita was about: • two chains behind, so how was he to tan- : non against her?' My opinion, from knowing the way the boy rides, is that ■ he saw, on coming up from behind, that' the other horses had a bit wide, and he tried to take advantage of this'to get up on the inside, nnd'in doing bo, ,by the sharpness of the corner, the horse either struck or crossed his fore legs and fell, but it could not have rolled over the. boy as he was lying on the outside of-the course, (from which he was carried .by myself and not Mr Feijt) while the horse was on hiß near 'this'particular race your reporter says they all went "prettysteadily" (lshould say. I "very fast") around the first time, Orphatt and Dan last.. Surely he could beqn, looking at the race, for it is weif known' the acoident took place on coming to this corner the first time. ' As to the condition of my ion, I ain sorry tosay at present he is lying at Mr Ray's.in a very precarious' i condition, and a long way from being out of danger. ■ linh|&c,, J. 0. Hayward. {Our reporter states the rider of Senorita informed him. immediately after the ! ■ race,,that the horses cannoned, • an'd Senorita was thrown" out of her stride by the blow. Whether this is true he was not near enough to see. With re* gard to the latter portion of the letter, . Mr Hayward has mis-read the report, which ran as follows" They all went pretty steadily around the first time, beitig spread out a, littlo at the far side, Maire leading, Co'mus close to him, the - others not far off, with Orphan and Dan last. Bounding the corner by .the gate '• they all closed up, and Orphan came round'with a good rush, cannoned ' agiunat Senorita, and was knocked •■' .down," It will be seen it was the first . time of rounding the corner which was -referred to, and that the pace increased at that spot, and that the" reporter took the same view as to the intention of Orphan's rider as Mr Hayward, . On rounding the corner the first time there was no horse ai chain behind: With' regard to the whole race and the accident itself, a reporter taking notes would be more likely to be correct than a .spectator trusting to'his memory arid impressions formed after ■ the event. We regret'to hear that the the unfortunate lad is still, in'so dangerous a condition/ -ED.W.D.] . ' PROPOSED. ABOLITION OF THE. r CLAREVILLE'SCHOOL; [To the Editor of the Daily . | Sib,—l notice in your issue of the 27th. irist. that the late Chairman of the Clareville School Committee is reported. to have said that some parents'had preferred to Bend their children to Carterton than let them cnrno to Claroville. Another member, who rejoices in the euphonious name of Collihwood Goodin, stated that when they,-a.few yoars ago, had a good teacher at Clareville, the children were seot from Carterton. . In your iuue of the 26th inst. a looal appear) commenting on the fact that the "only schoolmaster in the Whareama district has had his salary, reduced to ; 'i!l6o per annum. ■ It appears to me that tfie evidence vol-: untarily tendered by Messrs Bairstow and Goodin, of Clareville, proves beyond, the slightest, doubt that the school at Clareville is uuneceßaary, as is evidenced by the fact- that parents Bond their children from Carterton to Clareville Schnol, and from Clareville to Carterton, as the whim suits, them. Under these circumstances would it , not be .better if the Clareville School were abolished, and the money saved; thereby given by the Board to the. Whareama School; • and I feel certain that after fair comparison, and: after con--siderinz the evidence as-tendered by the Clareville School Committee, there ca'irbe • no doubt aa.to what district has claim on the Boardi ; 5 : " Yours, &o a ; ; _ ~•• * .

THE LATE INQUEST, . ■; "* " ', jTp the Editor of the Dahy.] Sib —It is with' feelings of the deepest regret, that I- feelj :1. am obliged to. .wield-r my pet) : in self-defence, and shield siys'elf "... from a ppssible.stigma on my reputatioifj::, .if allowed to : pasr.unnoticed. I. refer to-; [the on the body of the man . . Jord, held at the Empire Hotel on Wed- j nesday last. At that inquest I thought it '. my duty jas a juryman to. ascertain full particulars as to actual cause of death. I took the precaution, as far as in my power lay, toproteot the man's character from'" any unnecessary inference that might have' been gathered from the evidence of the witness Tooby, and. a satisfactory verdict according to the opinion of the majority. of the jurymen was"arrived at—but deoi- . Jedly not an unanimous one. Sir, in my opinionj jurymen are 'not. empanelled to return a verdict according to their personal feelings or favor; but, on the otherhand, according to the evidence adduced. / Now, Sir, yesterday Mr Kibblewhite, of the Temperance Hotel, and Mr Hathaway . made it their business (to use a colonial . ' . phi : ase). to" bail me up" at the Post-office, and abuse me'for having the impudenca to.say anything.at ali as ajuryman, and - told r me ihajb I ought to have known better. , I fail to Bee why outsiders such as theit . .. should have the' impudence to arrest and addresß me in - such a manner. The elabor?ty. report given by. yourself and your, contemporary undeniably shew '• whethel;!,had any other.end in view.ex- - cept that; of honest prudence, and of a fairand impartial inquirer; and, Sir, if a man chosen and summoned as a juryman . dart; not. use hiß best energies to bring about a satisfactory result, the sooner juries are done away with the better, I shall leave your, readers to note partiou? larly the comments of the Coroner in the first part of your report, and to judge , whether I was justified in taking the part' in the proceedings which I did. ■ ■•;' • 1am,&0., '■ Jas. Claysojt,