The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1883. THE REPRESENTATION OF WAIRARAPA NORTH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1570, 29 December 1883, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1883. THE REPRESENTATION OF WAIRARAPA NORTH.

Tiie numerous ripples which have latterly troubled the usually placid waters of North Wairarapa politics may'be regarded as a prelude to the general election of next year. Though other causes tend to produce them, the coming campaign ia clearly in the minds of those who are busily engaged in fanning them. At the last general election the Radical party succeeded with some trouble in obtaining a. candidate to lead them, Mr RENALL.was the fly who was tempted into their parlour on that occasion, but it may be taken for granted that " once bit" with him is "twice shy," and that twelve months hence another fly will have to be baited. There will probably be less difficulty i.i finding a tenant for the Radical parlour then than two years ago. Several flies are spoken of as only being too eager to respond to the invitation of the spider. Opinions differ as to who will be put up to securo that political fight which is deemed to be essential to the welfare of the district. To a great, extent the eyes of the public are fixed upon the President ■: and Vice-Presidents of tho North 'Wairarapa ' County Settlers' Association, and we should not be at all surprised if the Radicals picked their candidate from the trio. Mr Hawkins is freely spoken of as the coming man. Of course it is objected that he is a rnnholder, but this Would not be fatal to his prospects if he were prepared to spend money. The Radicals would receive him with open arms and change the war cry against large landed proprietors which waved on their banners at the last election. ..';■ Mr Hawkins, however, has virtually; pledged himself not/ to come.: forward next year. Very many people, regarding all political promises as mero'pie crust, do not accept this assurance. They regard liis coming forward as,a certainty. - lor :dur..own : ;part V ;:we voga.ro! Mr Hawkins aslanhonorable man in politics as well as in'-private' 'lift ■ Webelieve that he wllnoti after.

tllO' assurance; whichJie lias given; come a t;tts-;noxt" olectioh,;andi'we dornotscOiiht: principle ; : bHe Vcoming irayv. The next ofrthe list is-Mr anpther. runhplder, •;. It: is thei: tuiiei noi ; the ofthe Sttdical that they should have so rriniiy. large landed: proprietors among; their court wd&; "Mr; MpEpiTn^a't::the : ;last ; election,; ■' liesitated as to wliethei*, lio would come forward. riWe should hot;* be at all surprised if he took, tho'fieldJ at the next oiio. ■ Tho' Radical party could not hope to win a battle with him, but he would answer their purpose well enough for an election fighfc We are not in any; way.behind j the; scenes in the deliberations" of the; Eadi-, cal .party,,- but, ".coming,'events cast; :their shadows 'before," and "we cannot' help fancying that they will select the othei\ Vice-President, Mr Lowes, as their trump card when" the riext election comes ofF. Some seven or eight years ago when it was supposed that Mr Bonny would accept a Government billet, the Grey Ministry selected: Mr Lowes as: his: successor.'; This arrangement fell through, but, it, brought Mr Lowes before, the public; as a'man who was likely to take'the'' position of a legislator, He is probably \ the only candidate who could • be: brought forward by the Radical party! against Mr & Beetham with a show; of success. Of course it is early yet to discuss an - election which will not' be held, for another year, but a good; many men in this district.are already' making pjans for the campaign. It; may be assumed with certainty that; there will bo a contest on this occasion,; though, necessarily, there is a consider-' able amount of doubt and difference: of opinion with respect to the men who will be brought forward to do battle.

The Lower Valley Race Committee settle up to-night, '- His Excellency tho■Governor is. about; to visit D'uncilin; ami the Woat- Coast; Sounds,

,'.Messrs Grigg Eros', phantasmagoria; exhibition was postponed last' evening,; owing lo the inclemency of the weather! It will now he shown on Monday evening in St Malihew's Schoolroom,

At ibe summoned meeting, of the; Masterton Lodse, 1.0.0. F.i last ovoning,; tbero was a small attendance. Bro; Lowenthal was elected N.G., Bro Maxton V. G.' and Bro Bisli ilelegato for Ihe next; district meeting.. Ordinary business was; postponed ' Wo are informed by tbe Eev A. Halbwaehs that Father'. Tracey, his. Buceessov, will not arrivo in' tho.Wairav rapa.til! the 10th of January, In consequence of this tho farewell,address: "of iho Rev, Fathor Halbwaehs will bo delivered, on Sunday week instead of to-morrow as previously announced.' Sermons will be preached at St, Patrick's Church at 11 a.m, and *J p.m. to-morrow by thellev.Th. Lo MenautDes'Ghesnais. Our weather correspondent writes: The past week has been a fairly pleasant one, Eain fell on three days/but only in slight showers, The total rain fall fur the week is '355 parts of an iuch. The mean readin« fur the barometer is 29'175 inches, and to-day (the 28th) it is low, indicating rain. The thermometer mean reading is Co 5 Fab. Wind is generally light, and principally from a south or north direction.

The traffic on the Greytown branch railway line lias increased to the extent that an assistant guard has been added to .the stan. ;'

Tho Eev. W. Dukes, who will bo attending tho Wesloyan Coufercnco at Wellington next month, lo receive his ordinal ion, will conduct the services at thcMastcitoM Wosleyan Church on the 20ih pros. He will receive a hearty welcome in t his town The treasurer of the Mastertnu Hospital acknowledges the recti'C of a donaiion of £l9s Gd from the Masterton Christy's, being a uortion of tho proceeds of the late entertainment.' ■A young man named Charles Korth, a Pole by birth, has boon arrested on a charge of forging Messrs Rapp and Hare's signature to a cheque for £7 10s. The information is laid by Sergeant McArdle, who, we understand, on hearing that' the accused was trying to change a suspicious cheque, took him into custody, and found upon .searching-him that a cheque, as described' was in one of his pockets, but was torn into small pieces. Korth will probably bo brought 'up before. Mr Wardell this afternoon. L We hear that tho services of the Masterton Vopinteer Band have been engaged for tho Presbyterian picnic on New Year's %■ '. On Thursday next Mr F, H. Wood sells the plant of ihe Featlierstou Cricket Club. The samo auctioneer announces a general sale at Carterton for Saturday, the sth January.

A lineal descendant of Oliver Cromwell; late.Cromwell Fleetwood Varley, devised the first successful Atlantic cable, it is said, and foretold that it would bo used at the rale of fifteen words a minute, as the result of bis experiments with an ingeniously contrived artificial line wherp : by he could obtain resistances and induction equal to these on, long cables.

There is scarely a spot throughout the whole world that is not intimate telegraphic connection with England. To oai'ry out the' ti'ornendous undertaking, and bring about this amazing result, no less than thirty million pounds have. been expended, and there is no less than eight thousand miles of cable at the bottom of the ocean,, '.;;;.■'•'..

Jane Johnston, aged 84 years, known in the Salvation Army as the " Champion drunkard of tho world," and who has been convicted of drunkonuesß in Yorkshire more than two hundred times, was recently sentenced .in-Leeds' to three months' imprisonment for creating a disturbance. , ,

- On the occasion of the presentation of the Vega Medal at .Stockholm, Swedon, by the. Society of Anthropology ' and Geography, to the American Minister, Mr Stevens, for the African traveller Henry M. .Stanley, Dr Oscar ;Monteliusj. who. tendered it, begged that: Stanley should bo told that, in the. northern part of Europe live a people who with/great interest follow all that he does for the spread of civilisation in Africa,-

A remarkable phenomenon has been observed lately: at several places in the Madras; and Bombay Presidencies, and has caused much interest, mingled; with riot a little alarm among the BUperatitibus ForVsome. dajS;:tho":.sun -presented, a distinctly greQii' corpur. : Seyeral' oxplan* ationshave boeji put'forivard,'of;which tho most plausible'■■appears to _ be that bfferedby the{Government astronomer, that lhV;p'assage..'aoross Sou: thernllndia;: b(; .clpndfl^pf' Bulphurbui vapbife from-the* Jam^

Whim' ".Rotjoh ox.Cowm.VMfor Wells 1 ' "Bough otr (km"- 'Quick-'re liof,-complete, permanent cure.-'Come, waits, bunions'.. Moses, Mobs (t Co Sydney, GeneralApents, ' ..-

! : e:^rkß;obimmitted> of the Ayairarapa |astpouiity^ l^'clM^;^:^'^:;-v;. ■;;'::■ ; :^'i^'',:':':M s<&n||trat)Kliiiary'funeral took)place at; Bnghtbh; few.weekfl > aßb.iat %hiclrtlie i ;diir|ihearirjg. : the reinaihslwas: drawn by*fourjjgfey Horeeß procured from;; London.; The ciroumsiancesare singolar. Miss v: Caroline-:liouise;Willoby,: who" resided'with- her widowed mother 'in Mompe^ iobemM ments had been; cOmpleteij,: wben'Bhe S was'ceized. with rapid consumption < and. died. 5 lit,win in order;!tp'symbolise the peculiarly;- sad; oircu mat an cos: of tlid. case ■ thati-; fwith r-cbiitinentai; grey,horsoswerb .used in the thefuneratw 'Sumpfithotiofriendsliadl profusely decorated die coffin with wreaths-' and other floral fileviccß. ; ; /"-■ v.. ; '..,

An- .'bldJ.iCrafalgif.-'.vvitoMv; uanied liasviocently-died at Wolverhampton at the age of 100 years; He was born : ' on; AiiEUSt 12; 1788, on board the, Saturn, nil' Gibraltar. He joined the blue jajcki tiwheh a youth, and was/present I! atutip ''-'ebgageiiieht when Nelson lost hiß riuht arm at Santa Cruz, Ho;' look part 'in several : engagements along the Spanish coast, and wlion : 22 years of age was transferred from the. Bolletbphon ;to the ahtp Victory, on .which he Beryed at. the battle of Trafalgar, and' ussisied in the attentions to Nelson to , Nelson when he received his mortal stood close to'where he fell. On leaving the navy ho went'to reside at i'Wolverhampton, where be earned his livlihood.for overlSO years:.:;.-: .' ~:

1 A : priest, in a rich abbey in Florence, narhed.Gruigu'oli, being ii fisherman's son, caused a net to be spread every day on. the tabid of his; apartment, to 'put- hiraj: as-.he; said,, iii'.-mind of his origin. The abbot. dying,, this dissembled humility .procured him to be chosen his successor; and the net was used : no ■more, .'Where's the nefcf said a friend to him the day aftei'wards, /qm'jentering his apartment 'There is no further occasion for the net,' saidGruignoli, 'when the fish is caught.' : -. v ■',-.:,

Honest cabmen are 'in Park In addition to voted rewards, there' is' honorable ; mention. This year twenty-three honest; cabmen got 320dq18 between; them, the first prize being 40dols, and thirty others veceived honorable mention, Statistics gave veryinteresting details.as ,to:this race of cab-driving Parisian's, It includes unfrocked priests, ruined' bankers, broken down cooks out of employment and dishonest notaries out of prison. :,

There is bad news for smokers.' Two well-known French chemists have published an analysis of tobacco smoke in which they find,' ! first', prussic acid and secondly, an alkaloid of an agree able odour, but very dangerous to breathe, and so poisonous that onetwentieth part of a drop destroys animal life. .This alkaloid' appears to bo indo'ntical with collidine, which has previously been observed in the distillation of organic substances, ■ -The trial -of : ' Miss 'Booth, Miss Charleston, and four other Salvationists charged with violating the Swiss law by holding illegal services withiu the canton, has been hold at Boudry. Miss Booth and the other accused .declare they had obeyed their conscience in praying to God, notwithstanding the decree forbidding them to hold meetings. After an eloquent address for.the. defence, Miss Booth and her companions wore both acquitted. 1 , ■' ■'■•■■■'

Wk believe that if every one would use Hop Bitters freely there would be much less sickness awl misory.in tho world, and people are fast .beginning to.find this ont, whole families keeping well.at a trifling cost by its use. We adviso all to try it. Read Christmas Presents !! Tho opportunity of making an elegant and gratifying present to son 01 daughter; brother or sister is brought within'reach of all by the special importation, of. g6ld and silver jewellery by A, Bisn, Jeweller, Queen-street, for the Christmas'season. Silver presents from Is; goldpresenfs'from ss.' All goods will be marked kplalnjlijiires and a reduction of 10 .percent will ho made on ordinary prices.ditring the holidays.-r-ArjvT. Tho aumrnei' season is now well ad vanced, and notwithstanding the extra ordinaryamount' of rain that has interfered sadly: with outdoor exercise as well an with farming operations, the usual happy''change froih winter furs and ulsters to handsome dresses 1 , and- elegant dolmans lias taken place in tho costume of the ladies, who are fortunate in being aMe to obtain a wonderfully varied selection without travelling from. Masterton, where the stock of drapery, millinery and clothing of nil kinds is exlcmsive'aud choice at Owen, Schroder ,& Co.'s Hall of Commerce; Queen Street.—[ Advt.J

"RucHU-PAiBA.'-Quickj complete cure, all annoying; Sidney, Bladder, and Urinary Diseases. Druggists, Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents. A .Wise DeacOiT-!'Deacon.Wilder, I want you to tell me'how you kept yourself and family so well the past season when all tho rest of us have been sick bo much, and have had the doctors running to us so often." Taylor, the answer is very easy.' ■ fused' Hop Bitters in time, and kopt my family well, and Baved: large doctor's bill's. Four shillings' worth of it kepttus all.well'tmd able to .work all the I time, and! will warrant that it has cost you rind most of tho neighbors,£lo to £IOO apiece tokeep sick the same time, I fancy you'll take my medicine hereafter, See /"■ After several years' experience insupplying watches for the colonial market,' Littlejohn and (Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a. thoroughly sound English LeverWatohat.a lower price than that usually paid'fdr suoh is only by the judioious division of labor.and ;by the manufactuie of large quantities on; a uniform plan, that we aro ehabkd to meet tins -want v We ; havo now the pleasure of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. This watch, being simple in design, durable, highly finished, and accurate,' fulfils all the requirements of a-pocket timekeeper, A written guarantee for'two years -'will be given with! each witch..' Sent' by, post, securely packed, on receipt ...of Post Ofßce order or cheque.— (Anvrj , OnitisTMis iiTi. Aeo House.—To signalise the festive season of thisi present year; of'grace,, wo purpose a departure {romthe usual "distribntipn of; Christmas ■; gifts,; and; shall instead give a -liberal bonus in hard cash on,alt parcels bought.betweea the 15th and 3lst December; and paid for at time of purcha6o, at Te Aro Honso; Bosusiis.—We shall grant a cash bonus on all paid parcels from the amouiit of k to £2O. - From 5s to 18s woshall allow a bonus of Is in the £, The subsequent paragraph ;wilt show the' cash bonuses payable on' caoh parcel at Te Are. The BoNOS.-On a £2O parcel,. bonuß 40 shillings; £lB parcel, bonus 36.shillings j £l6 parcelj bonus 33'shiUings ;-,;£ 11 'parcel, bonus 24 shillings; £ll parcel; bonua 20 shillings; ;£8 parcel, bonus 16s; £6 parcel, bonus 12s; £5 parcel, bonus 10s; £4parcel, .bonus; 8; shillings;: : £i : parcel,; bpriuß 6 shillings:; .£2: parcel j;bpnußi; shillings ;'£l -parcel; bonus 2 shillings;" 17s• 6d parcel, bonuslld;); :15s/ parcel,'bonus ;9d: 12s:M parcel,-,bonus 8J;-l()s parcel, bonne 6d; 7s 6d parcel, bonus-Id; 5s parcel, bonus 3d, All these boiusea payable between 16th and 31st December, at ; Te Aro Hou«e,YCab>: street,