The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1884. "COMING UP SMILING."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1636, 17 March 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1884. "COMING UP SMILING."

We Lave read in sporting records that when; the. 'Brurrimagem Pet and the Tipton Slasher meet in the ring, and the Slasher receives a knock-down blow which obliges him to return' to 1 his corner,' he: does not, wlien time is called, begin.-the next rotad by calling his adversary names, hut' "conies up smiling" It 13 a pity that, the manly rules ofthe prize ring ;could not he introduced ,into ; -our County arena; Tliero is now proceeding a fair fight between the County party and the suspenders,.. In the first, round •the latter got the best of it, and presented* in triumph their petition. In the second rouhd, however, they received m the scrutiny on their petition a severe fallout.do they come up muling for. the next round ? Judging troin the columns,of our contemporary, ibeyido anything hut this. They have flrt thoir temper, and manifest their lisappointmenfc by. t: • lding like a fish:.ar,i. - McGregor. Our coniomporary i? not satisfied with coloring n iM .report the .speech delivered 1 by Hr McGregor at the late County ne'eting and. nutting words into his nouth:which''he never uttered, but loldstheCounty, Chairman up to. ridiilia ( in every possible way.' No ten'can better afford than- Mr IcGEEdOR .- to treat with' con: emptuous indifference.the petty miserable slurs -which are cast upon him. to Bpnie ten years he' has beenbefore -ouncil he worked his way up from lie foot ofthe ladder'to the top rung. Q the County he has done the same, ettjers. may differ ,\yith: the opinions M':he.liol(lii;'Dut',.we do *ot believe

(lint-there is a single'one ot'.tlicm who has watched:his past career who does not admit his integrity and ability ns a public man, and who is not proud of the position which he'has made for himself.in the ranks of the public men of NewiZealand. It is a small matter that ,in the columns of our contemporary he should be 'pictured as a Maori chief, as a Chinaman, as a Femanj arid,-,among other strange things, as « dancing a reel of Tullochgorum on the imaginary carcases of the ratepayers." We admit the felicity of tli© last illustration,-only it has been wrongly applied.. Is ibj not reported that at a recent race meting a prominent County suspender gave a performance of this national dance during the "wee sma 1 hours," which no doubt suggested the idea to our contemporary; but is it fair to take a feather from the cap of a Oounty:.suspender in order to decorate the County Chairman< Wo do not object to the innocent amusements of the suspension party but they should not attempt tocovoi other people with their own warpaint, ,Of course the sorry old)joke aboul is again, produced tor tin benefit of Mr McG-REaoi But tin following chaste and delicate references may fairly bo greeted,as,the besi sample of our contemporary's eleganl rafllery-; " Wewoiiidsugijest," wife Unseed poultice, to Ms (Itr-lf (jGiiegdr'b' intellectual faculties, a olisti]' ibjiis ear, for the bine/it of.Kii eyesightflnclpoppy head fomentations to alky\Kismmia yasms," Who would notjbeapubli "lat he, migl

man so that..he. might obtain, for anj services ho miglit render, such felicitoui

compliments? It .Mr MoGitEGOß.re.quires to be blistered, poulticed, and fomented, the discomfitled county suspenders must need all tile drugs in the phai'tnacopfflia; nud.-an imilimibed supply of sticking plaster. | Mr Mo--Geegok' lias been too smart! (or them, and they have>■ gone back to their corner badly mauled. It is all very well to shriek that the objections raised were frivolous and vexatious. It Js for the Government to determine the value of the objections, and wliufc the suspenders should do Would Ins'to. "come up smiling," and prove to the Hon Mr Dick that the objections are invalid. Is it because they cannot do this that they rage so furiously 1 'Did they go-recklessly to work, to capture signatures, and when they' could not get them by hook secured' them by crook, trusting not to le found out 1 There are .83 blemishes on their petition, and no amount of scolding, will erase them, Let them" come up' smiling," and'do their best to win the next round. If they succeed we will give them three cheers, and applaud their prowess; but don't let them, like some small boys, spoil a fair Sght by running away out df arm's reach when they happen to get " a Roland for an Oliver," and begin to call, name sand fling stones.

Mr Wardell, R.M., sits at Peatheraton to.»iay. , .. ..,...■ ■ It i'b rumored that Mr ; Walter JohnBton, M.H.ft,, will not go.to England till after the coming aoßsion, nThe Hon John Martin and Mr Andrew Young are about to revisit tho Old Country. .;/ . ~., „,,„.., . ;.-,i

We need hardly, again remind our readers of Mr Marsh's lecture in the }Ves. leyan Church this' evening on ", After Dark in London." The, subject is the topio of the day, and the lecture/ a grand and earnest speaker, who coinon to ub from the scenes which hodepicts., Masterton is fortunate in obtaining a visit from'a lecturer lib 'Mr'Marshy who possesses almost a world wide reputsilon, and we trust ihnt it will show its appreciation of the privilege whioh is accorded it this evening Daniel 0. ■Maimaell, chawed with the embezzlement of £267 belonging tn the General Government, of which he was a servant, was brought up beforo Mr E, Baker, J.P,, at the Resident Magistrate's Court at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, and was formally remanded till Tuesday next, when his case will .be proceeded with. Bail was allowed in his own reoognizance of £SOO and two sureties of £260 each. Not being able to find ihe:.necßßßary securities the 'prisoner was subsequently ■lodged in the Terrace Gaul,'' Prisoner occupied a good position in'the Civil .Service, being Private, Secretary-'to the Premier, and in receipt of about |4OO per annum.-Post.

The past week, writes' our .jwenther .reporter, has been dull and dump,. Eain fell ou four days, which, without doubt, interfered very much with, harvest operations. Total rain fall for the-week ■is 2.035 inches, The mean the barometer is 29,455 inches, and for the thermometer it is 68.5 Fah. The wind has been mostly light and from a southerly direction. Previous to the wet Betting in thsre were two remarkable sunsets, both of that weird yellow hue whioh has attracted the attention of many scientists; but one of these sunsets, in the writer's opinion,, did not favor the idea-that'these yellbw'hu'es are produced by theiritys of 'light from the sun being refiected'inpassitlg through fine dust supposed to be existing in r the higher parts'-"of'' our atmosphere, unless this dust is unevenly distributed in the higher, strata, of.the at/ moephere." J 'lt was noticeable' on this particular occasion, that, yellow-rays •wefe thrown out in many (eighlXiirec 1 - i.tipns,: but between these rays, orintervonlng between them,, the sky was blue and clear. So. that if the yollow. hue is produced in the manner described; the writer fs not able to account for the intervening blue between the yellow rays, unless the dust ii very much denser, in some parts than in'oiheilpf'the atmosphere.-, May we not cbnceitfe'this yellow liiie is owing -principally -<to a greater degree of huinidness in the atmosphere than usual. • • . . : ■■<■■•■■ *-

-■On Saturday evening last a CadijtTn the Salvation Barracks said that in Wellington ■latterly they had been having '''vi religious fuddle." If this term is appropriate, there must have been a- religious fundle in Mastarton yesterday. In the forenoon •Mr Marsh, an exceptionally able preacher made a lively impression on'- the' congregation in the Presbyterian Church, and in ,the evening .he preached a still.more Vigorous and stirring homily sermon to the •Wesleyans. Mr MrniK is something more than a cultivated speaker, he is an orator to whom it is a pleasure to listen. But even yesterday the Salvation Army drew the congregations. They have doubled their sitting accomodation, in the old school room, and sll there.is'nt room. Upt;_Smilh was not there but Oapt, Kate iiee. Sergeant Bayntori and a cadet from the city gave fine full-favored programmes without the aid of their chief. They kept the pot boiling" in a wonderful manner. Kom ten'a.m. lotenn.ni. the army is on the alert, and soon old. fashioned people to" go>itt fawning fo'r quiet

Messrs Lowes and lorns add. to their etock sale 50 Lincoln Rams from 2 tooth upwards, bred by lljessrs Beetham,i- '■' '■

Theleoture at the ; Kurupuhi Hall oil" Saturday evening. fell; through, theve being no audience nt the advertised time/ • MrF, H,.Wood's auction of the pigs! fattened on »ram and whey at'the Tarato Cheese Factory, takes place at Mr •Kay s yards at lp.rn,to-morrow, ' : _We direct attention to Messrs J, Dothie & Oo.'s advertisement of guns' and sportsman's requisites in another column, from which it will be seen this firm has the most-extensive and superior Btook yet advertised in this dißtriot, The Taratnhi Dairy Factory ia repoftl* to have consumed during the season, which br, now closed, 67,850 gallons of milk at a cost of

Mr George Fairbrother holds an important land auction at Carterton on Saturday, next. In our advertisement columns will be found a list of twenty.fivetown and country properties that he will submit on this occasion,

Jqhn Pryor and Jamos Macken were charged before Mr W, Lowes, J.P. this morning with drunkenness. Macken was awarded twenty-four hours; and Pryor, against whom twelve: previous conviction's wore on record, got forty-eight. We observed an Maori booking with a stick at a Bank door this morning and we triedt'6 explain to him that it was St. Patrick's Day, and that Banks were martyrs to Saints' days, but he would not balieve us, and wo left him "Knocking r knocking 11 nt'the door." '■:;• . v ; .

-We mo' requested'. to state ''tuai'.'jtfr' Marsh's le.Qfcur.o -this evening, commences! Nt 8 p.m. We give the following synopsis of it :-Work among, thieves and robbers —Fiddler Joss-Whore is my watch?Among the lost children: Found and provided with homes-British workman's public house: . drunken teetotaller re-' claimed ! Who will resc-iu ihe children V Annie .MafiPliersbu-Dr Barnardo and his boys. Wo wonder whether the Government askod Mr Johnston to wait upon them]' It is reported.that,-"Mr Charles John*

•ston, M.EE. for Te Aro, waited on the 'lOvemmen't recently,and.drew attention to the delay in commencing operations with.regard .to the new Government for ivhich £2OOO was voted byrParllfttnont last aession. Orders have now been.'issued;for the immediate probation of'the necessary plans, &c„ and His hoped that these will-shortly bo in si forward a state as to enable tenders to he invited for the work." ■■

■ " Beef tea baa b'ecoire a popular barroom drink in Omaha," says the Louis-: ville Courier. " The demand, which began jo be lively jn autumn, has now attained suob proportions that the prohibition folk aro .perfectly .delighted.. Said a. philosophical barkeeper to a reporter the other day: 'At first wo laughed at the idea of going to the trouble of making.itj but now we laugh because we do make it, We sell over 100 drinks per day, and as it is. a 15-cent drink, there 1b no reason why' we should not smile. Who drinks it did yon say? Why, everybody; the mail about town who has been out with the boys comes here in the morning and calls for .beef tea; the business man comes in in the afternoon and braces his system with beef,tea; the temperance man who drops in With a bibulous, friend takes beef tea; and, in fact everybody is becoming a slave .to it.'"

■An interesting experiment has been tried in the'S.S. lonic as to whether'' salmon and ..trout ova can safely be carried,from England at a low temperature by.making use of one of laslam's freezing machines.? Sir James Maitland Bhipped through the Agent' General tiifthe New Zealand Govethme'n'tl2Poo 'salmon and 12000 salmon,trout ova, Most of the salmon ova were sentry tho old process; that, is in '. chests- carefully insulated by non-conductors from the outside temper-' ature and packed.with ice, but aorae of the salmon ova and all the salmon trout' ova wero sent, in »cold moist air chamber invented by Mf.'HasLim, into which cold, air is driven through a perforated metal ,pMo_ with water running over it, thus wealing'».'cold dewy moisture, at a temperature varying from 32 to 35 degrees. One of Mr Haslam's inspectors —Mr Cnmbpell—came out in charge, kept a daily log of temperature, and carried ont_ his minute instructions in a most praiseworthy manner, taking every precaution to;keep the temperature and moisture right, knowing that a very small variation, either above or below the tight temperature, or the admission of dry cold air, would be fatal to them. On the arrival of the stoamer at Wellington it was decided to send, the consignment to the ponds in Southland, and Mr Clifford, a gentleman sent up to take charge, inspected the boxes will Mc Itutherford, who found that, though every precaution had been taken, the salmon ova, Bent out by the old process, were nearly all dead. In the cold chamber, the salmon were in slightly better condition, but the salmon trout were, for the most part, healthy and m good condition. The'new machine seemed to havo been a success, and we May hope that with a few improvements in the maohinery a way has been opened for thoroughly stocking our rivers' with that beautiful hut delicateish, the salmon. A small quantity of salmon trout ova wore left/or distribution in the North, and our bocietymay.be congratulated on having obtained them... On opening;the case for theWairarapa four layers of eggs were iound to he/jtrexcellen't condition, and put into the batching'boxes at Masterton. i.wo of the layers had been badly packed and were dead;; Wtie'n' shipping the s#on;ova.in England'some of thomdid not look healthy, ail'd it is probable that they were injured before the steamer left,

.Mt.Jpseph Bennett, of Otahuao, adverhaes for sale GOO Cotswold lambs, chleuy wethers. , : . , ' :v

. In the Graphic ..of-January 26th there is a sketch of-scenes in the Hot Lake District, contributed %■ Mr ( E; Wl ; Paytoo, recently a resident in Maßtertph. ; business so great that they (are,obliged to resort to evening meetings of the' Cabinet, in order to -find, .time and freedom fronrother cares. There was a Cabinet tiieotinir last evening.—N.Z. Times.

Forty men are to be sent up from Wellington on Monday on to the Opaki section ,of ,the. railway line. Considering M the Government have recently been Jismissing Rood hands on this contract she action they are now taking seems, to lay the least, to bo extraordinary.

A consignment of salmon trout ova brought oat by the lonic reached Masterton on F.iday evening,' and' Messrs Bish, Ruherford, and Parsons, mombers of the Wairarapa AcolimatWtion bociely, ; received it ■ at the statioo and..placed the eggs in the habbv mg boxes prepared for them. Many of the eggs were dead, but.a very large wportion look thoroughly healthy, and a«e just on the point of hatching, A Scolding WoiUN.-The barbarities.-of the ducking-stool for the cure of sliding, women, though abolished by law, ; are now oftentimes practiced by a kindof serial barbarity none the less reprehensible. Women .scoldjwflen they are ill; instead of .Diamine them, we should prescribe Hop Bitters, Tie > entire system will undergo a geniaVpleasant change, ...rhe. nerves will be.pieted and acerbity.of word ana..thought, wiU give place toaffiiapuityaadaffection. Healthywomen toWmtibti, Bead ' a^yworaeD

I "At.this season—justthe close of summer and with whiter near at hand-tliero ia-'.al-coriflidernble, activity .amongst 'the .drapers, many of them are stock-taking, and " moat- of tHomj selling the balance .of their • ;Sdmmer Btook to make roomJor winter goods.,;S6me few;while;stocktaking find' . -that from theamdunt ot patronage they hare rsoeiveidurmg the summer ■season they are enabled to sell the balance o! their stock far .oheaper than any, competitors ia the.same line; in fact Messrs Owon, &ouroder & Co., Hallof Commerce, opposito the Club Hotel .' at-Masterfcon..are,aUhe'present moment . offeiing a splentlid selection of drapery at English cost price—ADVT.

Gorobd,Livers, Bilious conditions constipation, dyspepsia, handacho cured by " Wells May Apple Pills." 5d and 1. boxes at druggists. Moses Moss k Co,, Sydney. General Agents for Australasia.

Win™ NovELim-Uooruß. & Co are ■now opening up their new season's goods for the winter trade, Special novelties in every department, L.J, Hboruii & Co., Boti Marohd,—AbvT. - ■>

After Bbveral years excellence in supplying watches for.the colonial markot,Littlejohn. and Son) of Lambtoh 'Quay,' Welline;ton, have observed the need for a thoroughly sound English Lever Watoh at a lower price than that usually paid Jorsuoh watcneV.'' It; is only bj the judicious division of''labor and by the manufacture of largo quantity on v ! a : uniform plan, that we are enabled to meet this want We have now the pleasure of introducing onr Six'. Qninea Hunting Silver Lover, This watch, being simple in ' design durable, highly finished, andaoourate.fulfils, ■all the requirements ot a pooket timekeepei. A written guarantee for two y«ars will bo given with each watch. Sent : by post, Seourely packed, on receipt of Post Office order or cliequc—(Auvri .