The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883. THE NEW ARRIVALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1356, 18 April 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1883. THE NEW ARRIVALS.

We welcome with some pleasure to Masterton Messrs O'Malley and Pjpperell with their railway plant ami their staff of experienced workmen. When first the amount of their tender for the Opaki section of the MastertonWoodville railway was revealed some surprise was manifested in the district, as it was 25 per cent lower than the lowest of our local tenders, The fact was not immediately grasped that the contractors from the Middle Island understand tendering for railway work and carrying it out better than our own local men. There has been an impression abroad for some time in this district that our public works are carried out by slow and laborious processes which are out of date in other parts of the colony, and that we wanted waking up a little to keep abreast with the times. Some time ago a settler who is a keen observer, we refer to Mr.. Hawkins, of Bowlands, pointed out that wo should aim in the future at making two miles of road at the price which one has hitherto cost us. We 1 rather wondered at the time how this was to be done, but since the arrival of Messrs O'Malley and Pepperell we begin to see that we have a lesson to learn in this district. We are satisfied that the new arrivals can beat us at making railways, and we have a suspicion that if they chose they can show us how to make roads. The plan we have been pursuing of breaking up every inch of surface with a pick, and lifting every ounce of soil with a shovel is evidently an obsolete one in other districts. The plough is put in on the the railway track or the road line, and after it comes the earth scoop which does the work of many meu, We hope our County Councillors and Road Board Wardens will take|tho troubles to note the methods of working followed by' the men from the South. We have undertaken the expenditure of very large sums of money in all parts of the district, and though we may not as yet be able to get two miles of road out of the money which hitherto only availed to construct one, yet it may be possible to get a mile and a third or a mile and a half out of the sum on which a mile of road has been calculated. It has been agreed that settlers must find by extra rates a portion of the ways and means, and in some instances the whole of them for the works which are to be carried through. An economy in making them will be a sensible reduction of the burden which will have to be borne by men who in many instances can ill afford the tax, but who living in outlying districts must at any sacrifice obtain access to a market.. It has long been said of the Wairavapa that with splendid natural advantages it is behind hand with less favored districts in other parts of the colony, The new arrivals will teach us one lesson at least if we have sufficient common sense to learn it. We trust their stay amongst us will be permanent as they bear the reputation of being one aud all, masters and menj.of the right stamp for country life, There

is certainly l-oom enough and work enough for them and for many more' like tliem, For. their sakes and our own we welcome them to the Wairarapa,

Mr Hans Hanson, shoemaker of Masterton has filed a declaration of insolvency. Mr T. W. Shuts. advertises a few boxes of bees for sale. Potatoes ore now being imported into the Wairarapa, A special meeting of the Greytown Borough .Council was held on Monday evening to confirm the: rate of one shilling in the pound on the rateable property in the borough for the ensuing year. | Messrs Fabiau Bros, commenced busiI ness 'yesterday - at- Greytown as general storekeepers, etc,, and have a very fino Btook of both drapery and grocery. . They oooupy the premises next the Bank of New Zoaland pending the time when tbeir their new store is to be built. Messrs Lowes and lorns are instructed to sell on Saturday next the. lease of several sections of town acre 85 under the new' compensation clauses, by which lessees can protect themselves from surrendering'the value of improvements they may have made, at the expiration of their terms. The firm will also sell on the same afternoon new and secondhand furniture and sundries. Bishops hre generally looked upon as well blessed with the world's good. ' This belief, howevor,. is not always correct, as wns shown by the Bishop of Dunedin'at the Synod yesterday. In answor to. a puestion he stated that his quarterly income was 190, and out of that, last quarter, £75 wns deduoted for law oliarge, and other expenses I His Lordships therefore, had the sum of £ls left as his income for tho quarter. We need oi>ly add to thia that, having Ho see-house provided, he had to pay about .£>2oo a year for ront I—N.Z. Herald, Mr Wardell R.M. sits at Carterton today. Borne six months ago the Masterton Borough Council sent in to the Government the name of a gentlemen whom they reoommended for ine. appointment of Coroner in the North Wairarapa. Nothing apparently has been heard of the matter since. Has tho Government sat on this expectant Coroner. We believo that both Messrs Beetham nnd Buohanan, M.H.R.'s are about to make:arrangements for addressing their constituents.

A general meeting of members of Iho Wairarapa Coursing Club takes place at the Club Hotel, Masterton, this evening, Hares in the Lower Valley are reported to be numerous. At a quarter lo three this morning the Masterton fire bell was rung as if the whota town «aa in Haines, People dressed themselves hurriedly and went into the s'.reet, but not a sign of fire was visible in any direction. . The engine was brought out promptly and the hose run up beyond the Empire Hotel when it was ascertained that a chimney in Mrs Euington's board-ing-house had caught alight and had been put out again. The good people went back to their beds somewhat disgusted'with the man who had so vigorously and persistently rung the fire bell. Messrs O'Malley and Pepperell's men are hard at work to-day ploughing and scooping on to the line the earth on either side of it. They appear to accomplish very rapid progress with their particular method of making earthwork, Mr C, T. Benzoni, who was assistant to Mr John Enowles, is to succeed that geutleman as XJnder-seoretary of Public Works. ' Mr Milner Stephen in a recent address at Dunedin saidHe might state also that lie had taken inure fees in one day in Ohriatchurch and Wellington than he had during the whole fourteen days that he had boen'm O ino'lin. If lie were able to pay lii.i. uxpenses and his hotel bill while here he should be very thankful. A settler who has been examining the 'new roll of the Masterton Highway Board as supplied by the Property Tax Department informs us that it is a complete muddle and is full of blunders. Apparently the Government is supplying local bodies with rolls and valuation on the cheap and nasty principle, Tenders aw iuvited by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company for 15,000 sleepers, A meeting of the Carterton School Commit tee took place last evening. The business was of an unimportant nature, save a resolution that the Minister of Defence be requested to form the boys into a Cadet Corps. This is owing to the favorable view taken by Majors Bunny and Butts when they inspected tliem a few weeks agoMessrs Lowes & lorns have a very satisfactory attendance at their market sale this afternoon. Their yards are orammed with sheep, and for good stook there is plenty of demand at full rates.' For some inferior lots there was but little competition. The Taratahi Dairy Directors held a meeting at the Factory on Tuesday, the main business of the meeting being to arrange for a water supply. The oreek on Mr Burrow's land and adjoining Beoliona were traversed, and levels taken, and it was resolved that tenders be called for bringing the water from the creek to Francis' line. A committee consisting of Messrs Francis, Vile, Reynolds, and Callister was appointed to lay off the line of watercourse, Tho minutes of the last meeting wero read and confirmed, and a credit balance reported at £11512s lid. Accouuls were passed for payment amounting to £134 2s fid. Instructions were directed to be given to the Inspector to require the contractor to make good defeotß apparent in the building, After a very long dry and warm stretch of Rummer weather, it is bub reasonable to expect- a 'somewhat severe winter. The "oldest inhabitant" prognosticates it, and the unusual severity of the last winter in in the Old Country leaves no doubt but that our turn will come next. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Don't forget your blankets. We can supply you well, as we hold one of the largest stocks in Wellington, imported direct from tho manufacturers' We cannot only give lsige variety, but excellent value, no one better, if so well. Whatever make you want (and we keop all the beßt) we can give you first-class value in English, German, Koslyn, and Kaiapoi manufacture, and in sizes to suit the cot of the infant, the swag of the bushman, the single bed of the bachelor, the double one of the benedict, and some that might almost be large enough for the Great Bed of Ware, Wo have also a very large range of prices, varying according to size and quality, from 7b Od to 50f per pair, Customers will find a great advantage in purchasing from : an extensive, well-seleoted, and direitly imported stock of blankets, such as they will see at James Smith's Te Aro House Wellington, —Ad vx.