The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1883. BUSINESS TACTICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 6 October 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1883. BUSINESS TACTICS.

' The Parker case has created a con siderable amount of interest in Mas*terton during the past two days, and if it is to be taken as a revelation of the manner m which business as a rule is conducted in this town, we have some reason to bo ashamed of ourselves. ! We believe that this is not the case, and we are glad to observe that public opinion is unanimous in condemning the practices that have been revealed in this particular case, The extraordinary letter published in our report of the proceedings yesterday would have deemed an exaggeration if it had appeared in a work of fiction. The writer of it apparently regarded it in two lights, one as a specimen of business tactics, and the other as a piece of original humor. He certainly deserves more credit for it from the latter point of view, It is perhaps hard to determine the exact limits within which business tactics are justifiable. We have high authority for holding that men may be wise as serpents, but then the same text enjoins that they shall also be harmless as the colored pigeons which were an incident in the Parker case. There is, probably, wherever business competition is keen, a tendency to sacrifice principle to expediency, and to resort to practices which are as wrong as they are unwise. In this colony, as in other countries—in this generation as in past generations—business enterprises which thrive are those which are founded and conducted on right principles. Momentary advantages are often obtained by expedients which are inconsistent with any | high standard of morality, but they I become in the long run sources of ' weakness rather than of strength. A j good name in New Zealand is almost f the best capital a man can have. The | tradesman who thinks more of being ! smart than he does of being truo is his own enemy. We would like to see Masterton bearing a good name in commercial circles, and do not for a moment desire to defend or extenuate any practices which are open to censure. Commercial morality throughout flew Zealand is not what it should bo. "The trail of the serpent" is to lie found not only in Masterton, but in every other centre of population, It is, however, our business to take the beam out of our eye in the first instance, and when we have done this we can, with a clear conscience, endeavor to set our neighbors right.

To-morrow theKov Mr Bavin, president of the Wefileyan Conference, preaches two sermons in the Wesleyan Church, Masterton, in aid of the Home Mission Fund.

Our weather reporter s.i.ys:—The week began with unpleasant, weather, and continued so to the first of tho month. Since that date the weather has been delightful. We have hud splendid sunsets since Monday, which would charm the eye of the dulleßt of mortals. Earn fell on iwo days, giving n rainfall of .995 inch. The barometer mean reading for the week is 29 695inohes, and tho menu reading fur the thermometer is 50.5 Fah, The wind has been lif>lu die whole of tho week and principally from a S or SW direction,

The ordinary num-hly meeting of the Masterton Town Lauds trustees was held last evening. Present—Measrs Feist, Hare, McOardle, Gapper, Perry, and Bish. In the absence of Mr Feist, who arrived lute, Mr Hare was voted to the chair. The buainflSß was merely routine in character, excepting a long discussion which took place as to the best means of obtaining possession of Chapman's aootiou No 2S), A logol opinion luivinj! heon obtained on this point, Messrs Feist, Perry, and Hare were appointed a committee to carry out the steps that were considered expedient. The Trustees gave instructions for town acres 42j and 106 to be let for a twelvemonths by tender, and then adjourned till Friday , bveniug next, nhen ; ihey meet Mr. McGregor to consider, improvement clauses in leasehold property held by Mm.

The (Jreytown S'ring Band, under Mr Luridqvist, has now attained a fair state uf proficiency and discourses some very excellent music We hope soon to have the pleasure of hearing them in public • Mr E, Whitehead has an announcement to farmers an»l chaff cutters in another column. . Mr H. Flockton announces that he has opened a branch cheap furniture store in Mr Davidson's old premises, Mannersstreet, Wellington. On Monday evening the annual Home Mission meeting will be held in the Wesleyan Church, Masterton, when ad dreßses will be given by ministers and others. Our Greytown friends are talking about l respecting the ranges. One strong prospeding company in which all parts of the Wairarapa might unite would probably prove a success, but we tear that email or weak associations for this purpose would end, as they did formerly, in disappoint nient. We would recommend a Wairarapa Prospecting Company with a capital euy of ±'sooo, tu test the ranges thoroughly from one end of tho district to'the oiber.

The Wellington Meat Export Company are busy freezing another lot of meat ior Messrs Shaw, Savill's chartered steamer Triumph, nnd the Now Zealand Shipping (Jompnny'B chartered sleamer lonic, both of which are expected to leave Wellington in November. The lonic will take about 5000 carcases nf minion, and the Triumph about 4000.—Evening Post. The Supremo Court and Goal Reserve, Feathei'sinn, bus been proolaimed by hi< Excellency the Governur a public reserve "for purposes of recreation," Thu Hope of Carterton Teui, situated at Caita'ioii, has been registered as a branch of the Now Zealand Central Distriot of the ludependaut Order of Beehiihiies Friendly Society, under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882," as from tli9 20lliuli.

The handsome browe poi;y. Admiral by Commodore Nut—Ada, is announced to be in tho service of breeders this season at the Club stables, mid his breeding mid handsome anpearanco will no doubt secure him a large amount of attention. On njjr fourth pnge will he f-mnd a rnpo't of the Trjenrijal (ionclave of thi Knights Templar, A public meeting will be held in the Tbentre Royal this uveniufj to bear and consider tho objects of tho Wairarapa North County Sett lets' Association, Jl r Lowes, J.P, will tako the chair, and it is expected that the speech of tho evening will be an address from Mr 11. S. Hawkins. JJr John ilnssßy advertises for sale a few prime Perwent saed potatoes. This is the mnn{hly pay day of the Masterton Building Society, Wu understand that during the past month a considerable number of now shares have been taken up in this institution,

In defending Ihe ose of Schroder v Piirjtor, in the R.if, Court yesterday, Mr Beard in the course of his address, complinjenlod tl)o pajjoe of Musterton, in not lending ihcir ears to shipments mado at ilia police station, anil using them afterwards against ilie persons accused, Miss Boothyof iho Salvation Army, who made Bii much stir among i||o Swiss by her exhortations at Geneva, is now in Paris, where she draws crowds but has nut as yet been interfered with. An luspeclnr of Ilie Oiumdwn Mounted Police 16 said to have realised i-60,000 by selling hi.a share inaHd urine le cently discovered at Medicine Hut, in Iho Norlh-West Teirt'oyiee.

Tho new law deprives the French army nf the services of the sons of Prince Nnnoleon The Princes Victor and Louis will enter the Italian Service, The older brother will be attached to tho staff i f King Humhort,

The Gibson'own Distillery, in Southwtist Pennsylvania, hag boon burnt, toother with 8000 barrels of whiskey, Tho loss amounts lo 50Q,000dols. fvtvnral explosions occurred, seriously wj ■•■ ing eighteen persons.

Tho amount nf beer brewed iu the United States during the year ending in May, 1883, was 17,348,424 barrels of 87 fpill'iiis each. Counting the population at 50,155,783, that »ives nearly 10gallons lor each person.

The soivin-law of Garibaldi, General Cauzio, has taken the sword of La Tourd'Auvergne, the famous republican hero, which was given to Garibaldi after tho Sicilian campaign, to Paris, in order to return it to the Municipal Council there,

A queer method was adopted recently by the Oldham Salvationists, to show their feeling against the authori-

ties. Having been prohibited playing their Land on Sundays, to the annoyance of other places of worship, they adopted an extraordinary proceeding. The drums and tambourines were draped in black and carried through the streets, but the Army did not play until its members were within the gates of the rink.

Of 4,349,020 Prussian children, 2,723,011 go to Evangelical, and 1,305,980 lo Catholic schools, making a total of 4,129,900 in Christian schools.

A miner at Sandhuist met with an extraordinary accident. While he was standing at the bottom of the mine, where the rope was lying loose, a signal to haul up was given, and the rope caught round his legs, and he was dragged up about 70ft head downwards, He miraculously escaped, any serious injury,

The Melbourne Daily Telegraph has been purchased in the interests.' of the religious education party, and one of the first steps taken by its new proprietors has been to stop all Sunday work. The coinpositers, reporters, and the rest of the staff work till midnight on Saturday, and start work again at midnight on Sunday. There is much growling among the employes, who are thus deprived of their only holiday, Saturday,

" In our country," said the Englishman as he learned back in his chair, " before we marry we arrange to settle a certain sum on the wife." " Yes, 1 know," replied the American, "but with us it is different, It is after we are married that we settle everything on the wife and arrange to beat our creditors," " Haw! I see, And how do the creditors take it?" "They never find anything to take." Mdnie Patti's reception nightly at Covent Garden leaves no room for doubt as to her unabated popularity, Whenever she appears an audience thoroughly representative of all departments of rank and fashion, and with representatives of every branch of'art and literature, There is a suggestion that her uppermost notes show sigh% the effect of five and twenty years' wear and tear, but her admirable method conceals any very percept ible falling off,

Thu cargo of frozen meat by the Malaura, from Auckland, has had to sold for |d per lb for soapboilers' purposes, none of it being fit for consumption.; Visitors to Masterton from the Empire City aro loud in their expressions of astonishment at the splendid displays of drapers' and milliners' goods to bo seeu in the windows of our various business establish.moots. Mr G. W. Schroder's, Hall of Commerce, receives special notice, and his stock of Parisian and other spring novelties is pronounced by, persons who have travelled in all the fashionable cities of the world to be the most recbtrch6. ever seen in a colonial Btore,—Advt. How to Get, Siok.—Expose yourself day andnight, sit too much without exercise, w.vk too hard without rest, doctor all the limp, take all the vile nostrums advertised, mid then you will want to know How to Gkt Weli. -Which is answered ut three words-Take Hop Bitters! Read Juvenilis clothing, just, arrived—Children's navy blue knicker worsted jersey suits, sizes 1 lo 4, and from 9s to 10s 6d.AU parents should see these at To Aro House. Advt.

J nspeo r our boys' Sandown suits in three garments, and very durable, sizes from 0 to ti, 5s lid for all sizes, at Te Aro House,-r Advt. Une hundred boy's Lowestoft Doe suits, sizes oto 12, price from 5s to 7s 7d. This is a suit to make a mother's heart rejoice, at Te Arollou-e—Advi\ One hundred and fifty boy's Sudbury tuits good strong tweed, sizes 0 to 18, commencing at 7s. These are really first-class value, and should bn seen at onco.at Te Aro House,— Advt,

Fifit Young Australian-English tweed suits sizes oto 8. There are grand suits, and will wear like leather; price for No. sis 12s fid, and advances 3d for each am. Inspect them at Te Aro House—Advt, •losr opened, a splendid lot of washing suits, suitable for warm summer wear, sizes 1 to 8, coinmenohiL' at fls Si oaoh, Examine them at To Aro Houso—Advt,

Ywn boy's and youths' sac suits, sizes Irom tj to a superior lot; prices from 22s at To Aro House, —Advt.;