The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883. STILL THEY COME!

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1403, 13 June 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883. STILL THEY COME!

\ r E had- another bankruptcy meeting a that was tot remarkablo ,or.'sensational from any. ipint of-view.-' Still,-it"reminded'"axb" I the. many vihitth'. have 'preceded it, ,nd suggested the. jthpughYoi " morejto ollpw," •;' tye-are gettingivery sick ,pf inprofitable bankruptcies iri this'town, ,nd : would not-again jefer to theuv vere H not thatjfe- feel.lliut the compunity.fails.in its .duty when it derates Buch a number, During. the last; year ; sonie.', forty persons, have bund relief.hi' the .'Masteftbn" District j 1 6urt by'filing the. proverbial schedule, [hey have,.as it were laid>tlie burthen >f thwr/debts -down at this portal if and.'gbne Pn'their'way "ijejoicSgiyMitfie forty, estates .brought into 3ourt'iwhat has bicome'bfthejni-? Have ihey-been divided amongst the thou-' Sans 'Breitmah's lagetybeer 1' Occalionalfy, it is trneV'a microscopic divilenMias been•declarddj 1 but how;.few uulfafbeUvee'n'l has become )f .thefortyrestatest;They have passed way. .by some peculiar procees of. slow, jombustion; they have• : aiaap'peai ; eid, from the vision of the creditors, who, happily, have never expected much from'; them, and consequently .have:. never been disappointed! In; most instances • the.. estates, have been' "small, ! ranging, with few exceptions, from one to five" hundred pounds/ so ! that- the | town and district has been fairly able to bear the cash loss.pf : the few .thousands of,- pounds' involved ih/theni, ' Still there have'been other losses whicfi ' are" Ms easy to bear. The place by ' frequent;.aiid-'.in' flagrant, , bankruptcies, has lost credit; ind its code,-of commercial morality ', has become i degenerate., Men find the filing process so ridiculously .easy that they resort to it. without due cause or necessity,. Many-a man by signing his name,' and possibly paying a five pound note to a lawyer,: relieves himself from the trouble and bother of providing for some two or three hundred pounds worth of liabilities, which he is.; well; Me to meet. This practically is what filing a 'schedule in many ! cases is reduced, to. Sometimes of course at the first:; of creditors awkward questions are asked ;and' indignant threats arei leyiedat a debtor■ vvhohas,; it 1 a little too 'smart withi hisfcreditora, but,it is .well under; etoodjthat and ; 'such; threats ;are;?entireb/;S evanescent,'; that the bar|iß ; ;nej|erj^ Ihe;djs^ turn; andas a, : : cobbcm s; of !hißv.yii^e;|r^^ ttac^iipfMi^ ijiuffa^

' their debts, wo would ask is it not time to put some check to the process 1 Of course much might be done by new bankruptcy legislation, but without i this- more still might be accomplished by the commercial community appointing a sort of vigilence committee, to watch the schedules which are filed. We do not overstate the case when we say that during the past two, years in many instances if right -were done debtors would have been punished in : stead of Venefited. Tker? haaj Iwwever; practically been no one ;to investigate^ • no,Vpne;; to 'report/ iand no one'.to proseoute, It would be easy for a business organisation in Mastertbn to provide for a due investigation'.of every ; case, of bankruptcy, ahd, ;wiiere ; wrong or: fraud was revealed, for a public prosecution. If the commercial; community of Mastertpn have lost money . in, ; considerable sums by' numberless , failures it has itself in a great measure to blame. If it will not doits duty by* helping the fair dealinglruan through : ; his difficultie^and,:ty;^i|okading, the '.' man frbm*the y cate>who^deserves to be' gazette/i. as scabby, it deserves all,it,get?,•; It rests ; practically with'" the -public: to say '. whether during'the ensuing tvfo years schodules.should be filed at the rate of ; berestncfce'd'toalarloraraverage. If the'public will .adopt and "tiarry out a ) fair standard of commercial morality • bankruptcies will dccrease'-in number/ but. with the existing low standard tho • only wonder is that there are not more; of them.

Doctor Gahill', M.D., of Wellington/, can now be consulted daily at Mrs MacKay's, Queen-street, Masterton. His speciality is cheat diseases. Mr R, Hannah, of Wellington, celebrated for boots and shoes, has a price list on our front page, whioh will, no doubt, prove interesting to all who read it. Messrs Sellar and Bish have recently made a canvass on behalf of tha Masterton Fire Brigade, which has resulted in subscriptions amounting to nearly forty pounds. -

.Theaeoondot the series of entertainments held at the Wairarapa Institute, Greytown, took place on Monday evening last, and was m ell attended. Mr Nation ocoupied the chair. Miss Hornblow, and Messrs Heard and Udy gave solos, and the Udy family rendered two anthems in a creditable manner, Some capital readings were given by Messrs Nation, Blaok, Ward and Bell. Miss Nation and Master W. Udy presided at the piano. . The usual practice of the Greytown Fire Brigade will be held tomorrow evening at 7.30 p.m., The usual quarterly meeting will be held afterwards. The Masterton Rifles fire the return match with their late Wellington opponents on Wednesday the 20th inst. ~ Mr James Clayson we understand, "entertains his friends at a' private soiree this evening, prior to hie departure fur {Giiborae,

■ ( Travellers to Wellington yesterday enjoyed a novel sight on the way of a snow landscape atrefobihg from the summit of the Rimulaka to Kaitoko.

The B-inemoa has left Auckland with the plowing "members;-Sir George Grey* Sir .Maurice O'Rorke, Messrs Dignan, Seymour George, and Hamlin. , "At Masterton on Monday a young woman who said Bhe. had .been married eight yoava was convioted of, importuning porsona in Queen-ttroet after midnight on Saturday, She saidshe.was'soexcited! that she knew nothing about it, Is this"

aßks our contemporary, "one of the results nf the 11 o'clook system)" We may point out that the 11 o'clook system does not take effeot till the end of tho current mouth,

The ordinary ninthly, meeting of : the Masterton Hospital Committee was held yesterday afternoon, Pres'ent— Boddington (Chairman); Perry, lows, Fannin.jand Payton. -The minutes of the previous meeting having been confirmed tli.e Treasurer imported ut credit balance ef J18.95,4d, and stated that a personal' canvas was about to be made an the'town and neighborhood for farther subsoriptinnti. A letter-was read from the local registrar suggesting that particular! should be taken of the ago, parentage, iSeo., of every patient, and it was decided to comply with hii wishes. The following accounts :-T.Jago, £B, and M. Caielberg & Co./ SI 18s 9d, were passed for payment. _ Mr •• Payton was appointed visiting member for the ensuing month. ■ • Mr DeCastro, Deputy Clerk to the District Court presided yesterday..at a meeting of creditors of Mr J. JJ 1 . Ward) fruiterer, of Masterton. The debtor was in attendance with h ia '.solicitor, Mr Parker, and three oreditora made up the meeting, Mr Payton hiving]been voted to the ehair a statement of assets was read amounting, to £417, : 'aud liabilities which came id£B7l'l7s 6d.. On the motion of Mr Thompson eeoonded by Mr G, Ward, Mr Sellar was appointed Creditors' Trustee at the usual commission. ;In answer to the Chairman .'the debtor stated that he had been sued by Mesa's Zohrab Nowraan & Co, and in consequence ijad found it necessary to tile his soWdule.. He had given a bill of Bale to Messrs Rapp and Hare for some seeds they had indented for him, but that firm would not claim under it m the seeds were not as yet delivered.

A_ mooting ,oi Christian Madsen'a creditors yesterday afternoonwas attended by Messrc Heard, Hare, and PayW;' An offer of a composition of fire shillings in the pound was made and accepted.

The Loyal Maaterton Lodge of Oddfellows held their usual, meeting last evening when a good attendance \took place, The Soiree Committee^ gave ;in their report whioh was unanimously adopted, The business was purely formal

There are twenty-four Justices- of the Peace in the Wairarapa 'who may be classed as (1) useful, (2) ornamental, Of the former there areseven I ,' and- they jive in towns where they are accessible to the police and the public 01 the latter tliero are no: less than aeventoen. We do not object to the number of the oraamenUl ones, but we think in increasing the roll the Government might have recognised utility ai well as decoration, :

..The ordination of the Rev David Fulton takes place to-morrow afternoon at 2,.0'c10ck. : .: The Rev. 0.8, Wellington, will preach and ordain; the Rey, •Ji Piletion, of will addreu the Minister; and the Rev. J. Stewart; oi Waibenga, will addreis the Congregation. A public tea will be held in the eveaingat 5.80, after whioh » p&blio meeting will be held, at_which. ths above Ministers and others - will. deliver addressei, ' •** . \ . . !

The Wairarapa East County Oouncif holds its ordinary monthly mafltiogtot morrow, ' The various English and Continental papers published in April were full' of accounts'of'tbe preparations taking p**Cß for the coron'ation, >

Wagner had an income of' £SOOO from his musical copyrights. '' A coat (rf arms with' two, wolves as supporters has been'adopted by Lord Wolsely, showing the derivation of the 1 name, ■.*'•' \{ :;' ' , A despatch from Braidwood, Illinois, announces that twenty-two bodies have been rtcovered from the Diamond Coal Mine, which was flooded on Feb, 17 last. ( ' vz-r- 1 ;'? At Turin, in 1884, a general exhi-. I bition will be opened, The exhibition will embrace physios and chemistry, with their applications, and'mathematics, . .... .-j -^... The Earl' of Rosebery will, iiftis ■understood,.shortly erite the Cabinet as Lord Privy Seal and as Minister for the Scotch'affairs. } n that.-event he will resign the Uhder-Secretaryahiip of tho Home Office. A report by the French Minister'of i Public .Worn states that, the total mileage of French ■ railways : on Jan, 1 last .was: 770 miles "were contacted during ■' .■;'■■ ',;:■;":;■(■:;■ ''"The distress in the West Highlands is said to have attained an appalling magnitude-pr.Cameron stated in the .Houseof Commons that in Lewes alone persons"'..were in absolute want; and in'Skye, Harris, and Uist, it is estimated! there are' fully; 3000 more. ■-•A'cdop oftfild prairie hens from the : 'Western ofAmerica:has been I forwarded to the Queen at -Windsor, ■ A similar consignment has 'been; senl ijo'the Prince of Wales at Saridringham ,'The birds are to be turned into tin 1 Royal preserves, in order to try t< acclimatise them. Baring the performances in a, circui tent at New Orleans a few weeks ago a leaking lamp set the tent on fire Theflaraes were at once extinguished; but'"apanic ensued;the crowds rushed towards the exit, trampling upon each other, and two persons were killed, and eight injured, several of them fatally. The ice trade of New York is an important industry, giving employment to several thousands in midwinter, and yielding a good return for the outlay. Last season about 10,000 men. were employed in cutting and storing, the ice of the Hudson River, ■ and more than two millions and a half tons were housed.

The most destructive fire ever known in Buenos Ayres broke out on the night of Feb. 25, at the corner of the Calles de Europa and Chacabnca, ending in l the total destruction.of nine houses, comprising a boot shop, where the fire commenced through the explosion of a kerosene ; lamp. The total loss is estimated at 3,000,000 dols. i •

During the first two months of the present year, there was an increase amounting to more than £1,000,000 inthe imports into Italy, and an' increase to about the same extent in the exports from the country as compared with the figures for the same.period last year. The increase on the'expbf ts has Icen principally in wine and oil.

An apology offered by the Porte for the arrest, without reasonable grounds, of the dragoman to the Italian Consulate at Aleppo, has been deemed insufficient by the Count Collohiano, the Charge sAffaire» in Constantinople, who has drawn':up a fresh form of apology and submitted it to the Porte, to be afterwards addressed to the Italian Embassy. ! -

. United States postage stamps bear the; of Washington, Franklin, Jeffewon) Jackson',-.Clay, Webstoiy. Hamilton, Commodore 0, H. Perry, General Winfield Scott. Edwin M.. Stanton! Lincoln,'and, Garfield. The n.ew,:tW)?-ceul stamp, will boar tlio bead 6T Washington and hot of Grant as reported. , ; TJjaiace.of.no living person is ever put onthese>Btampß. .Oneof the;finest pieces of ancient wooodwork in the West of England is the famous'carved oak 'screen (dated 1 1519) in the old Blunders School at Tiverton. Last week Mr Hems, of Exeter, was invited to purchase the screen, but instead of encouraging the proposed vandalism, be has communicated with the Society for the protec-. tion of ancient buildihgs,and it may be hoped that the hand of the spoiler will he stayed.

An English member of Parliment would be almost appalled by the difficulties which beset Senator Mnngomery, of Prince Edward Island, once every year. The senator has recently arrived at Ottawa, Ontario, to attend to his parliamentary duties, havine crossed the Straits of Northumberland in an iceboat, He is seventy-five years of age, and has been in Parliament for forty-five years, having been first elected to the Provincial Assembly in 1838. ' ' In a Vienna hospital the physicians made the discovery, in disserting the body of one of his patients, that he carried about in his brain an 'iron nail covered with rust that, to all appearance, must have had its singular lodgement since childhood... -The man was 45 years of age, a book binder, and always passed for a throughly intelligent person.. The nail in his brain did nut seem to affect his mental powers in any particular, A few months ago' a cabinetmaker in Gloucester attended the sale or the furniture of a deceased inhabitant of the city, at which he purchased a very old and disgracefully dirty oil-painting for a small sum, Recently it was aotd to a Roman Catholic priest for U, This gentleman had the picture carefully cleaned and restored,.and it was then submitted to the inspection of an expert, who declared it to be « portrait of "St Jerom»," Botticelli. It was then lent to London' and has been purchased by a well-known dealer for #OO/.. :

Bismarck'i paper, the North Gorman Gazette refers reproachfully to the fact that the North German Lloyd Company hai ordered from i well known Clyde firm a couple of iteamen, each of 2200 toots burden and 6000 bone power, Suoh conduct, it surgesti,is both unpatriotic aud anti-protectionist. AtHobert, George Fenmion, J.P., of Tinderboi, Bay, » wealthy farmer, whq has for yian ill-treated hii wife, a delieate lady,i his been bound over to,keep the peace. In the pretence if fnendi, this eminent to the Bench uied languagetowardi hit wife too disguiting to repeat; " threatened to jump her to death from her cheat to her back-tone^ano! 1 , only wiibed the roof was higher that he could more {effectually jump her through and through, Bethen'itruokher twice, and turned her and her lady friuudi out in an almost nude condition, ""

The Finance Committee of the Musterion Fire Brigade meets thii evening. , Thomas/Williams, a new arrival ex! British "King, (pond his way; into the Masterton'"'lock-up last evening, and appeared before his" Worship the Mayor this morning." It appears that he had not only got drunk but had been yelling about the streets, and the Court pointed out that it intended to severely repress demonstrations of this character as they were becoming too frequent in the town, and though the present offence was a first one the acouied mUBt be fined a pound, Th 9 new arrival expressed his inability to meet this call upon his resources, and 1 accepted twenty-four hour's and a oaution jai an alternative. "' ■ I ' '• i ' The lonio leaves Wellington at noon to-morrow. Three or four of the soameri have been sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment for 'refusing duty .on the voyage, It haa been deoided that Mr Edwin Shaw, the member for Tnangahua, will move, and Mrß. J, Lee, member for Selwyn, will second, the address in reply. • Parliament will be opened to morrow by His Excellency the Governor, I Mr G, M. Drumraoud announces to bush bands that he has, from 50 to 60 aoros of bush for immediate falling at 'Otahuao. it i Lowes and lorns aro instructed by the , irußtee in the estate of Mr J. F. Ward , to sell by auction on Friday next at 2 p.m,', the confectionary, fancy goods, ka„ forming the atook-in -trade of-the insol- ' vent, . ■••...£.-•.;.■ 'The Taratahi Dairy Direolors met at the registered,officeon Tuesday afternoon, i the sitting being almost entirely taken in i considering what further plaut would be ,'■ required to put the factory in an effioient working basis, One small account of £5 1 waß passed for payment and the meeting i then adjourned for a fortnight for further , information to be obtained in the interior.

The entertainment given by the K» Ka Minstrels;on Monday di'rlh at the Public Hall in aid of R. B, Church was a grand bucccbs both as to. the members present arid the; way in which the programme was carried out. The net balance of the evening including takings at the doors, and donatione' in the Hall, amounted to between £l7 and £lB, which was handed to Mr Church by Mr Booth, the. recipient acknowledging his thanks on behalf of himself and family in a suitable little speech, <

• A Vestry meeting of St Marks' Church, Carterton, took place on Tuesday evening. A letter was read from tho Bishop of Wellington staling that lie d.il not think the Church should be shut up for the sum of £25 or £6O, and had further written to •St, Luke's Vestry, Greytown, that he could not appoint another clergyman there under .£250, and £225 must be found by that district. The letter was discussed at length, but no resolution came to. The Ohuroh buildines were direo'ed lo be insured. Mr Lowes, secretary to the Synod, wrote that aftet the 30th June they would not be answerable for any debts incurred by tho Vestry. It was resolved that pew rents be abolished after the Ist July, on which date the annual meeting of parishioners was directed to bo held.

On Thursday evenina a meeting Uktß place in the public Hall Oartorton to receive tho final report of tbe committee and form-the fire: brigade, election of officers, members, &o,

We have on several occasions lately visited the Hall of Commerce, which ii the principal drapery establishment in the Wairarapa, and have made very satisfactory purchases; 'We can confidently recommend our mauy friends to make their drapery purchases in future at the Ball of Commerce, as they can lely on buying new and seasonable goods at remarkably low pricoß.—Advt<

.The question has often been aikod how it is that the public can always obtain at the Bon at such reasonable prices the latest noToltiea. textures, and designs «uoh m are now being worn in all the, raoßt fashiohabio towns in the world, and.' described in the leading Fashion Books of the. day and! nut at; any other shop in Masterlon, and in some, cases not in Wellington ] The reason to us is obvious. L. J, Hooper & Co,, the proprietors, are thorough experts at their business, and buy well, only in the very best markets,. and at auoh prices as will e'hablo them to sell well and cheap, and give their customers the benefit of their knowledge and - Also. not being bound to purchase 1 only from the Wellington merchants they import themselves for cash, thereby getting a large discount, saving all middle profits, and procuring the latest fashions. .We advise everyone to see'their stock of millinery, dress goods, hosiery, men's and boys' clothing; also look on another page of thtß paper for their—ADVERTISEMENT.

,■ We have purchased in tbe colonial market 67 dozen of gentlemen's white, shirts, marvellously cheap, and however unsatisfactory the price paid must be to the importers, tin public will be none the less glad to reap the benefit. These shirts, made of really good material, and honestly worth 8s 6d each of any man's money, we shall sell at 3s 6d. Tho secret of this is that they have not militaiy fronts, but manifold pleats, and do not button behind but before. Nevertheless they ,wil! look every.bit as well, and wear vastly better than one of tho other sort at a .much higher prioe. Many gentlemen of the present day infinitely prefer this style, mi uVis very certain that our ancestors patronised no other shape, If Julius Cresar wore a shirt at all, depend upon it that he would as soon have turned his back on his foes as have wern one buttoned behind, It is morally certain that Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar, won all his victories in a shirt buttoned in front, whilst we may take it for granted that the Iron Duke at Waterloo sang out the command, "Up Guards and at them," from.behind the .bosom of a many pleated shirt. Where ancestors and heroes lead tho way, we may safely follow, and Advantageously purchase these marvellously cheap and excellent quality shirts at James Smith's, Te Aro House, Wellington.-ADVT