The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884. MAJOR ATKINSON'S ADDRESS

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1656, 9 April 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1884. MAJOR ATKINSON'S ADDRESS

Major Atkinson's address to his constituents reads very like a lecture, The very tone of it is almost aggressive, and financial reverses- do not appear to ) have impaired the amour propre of the Premier. During the past year his ■ estimates proved to be very unreliable, so ranch so that a less self-confident financier would have been overwhelmed by such a miscalculation. The Major explains the thing very simply. His estimates would have been accurate but for the low price of wool. He may , believe.this, but he is sanguine if he expects others to accept this view. The Major still rides the high horse, is firm p in his saddle, and is using his spurs. He, in a measure, let us into the * socrefc of this when he jeers at Mi Montgomery, the Leader of the Opposition, as being reduced to a dummy by Sir George Grey. He plays off Grey against Montgomery, and Montgomery against Grey to secure Jus own ' parly in power, but in doing this he appears to us to sacrifice the inUi'ests of the colony to his own ambition to retain power. Sir George Grey appears to be a sort of " old nun of the sea" to Now Zealand. In that most fascinating of books, the "Arabian Nights," Sinbad, the sailor, describes 3 how ho ; once ' procured an old man who appeared to be broken down, and who made signs to him I to take him on his shoulders, The sailor took him on, but when he desired him to alight this old nan, whe appeared so decrepit, nimbly threw his legs ovei his neck and seated himself fast 'on his shoulders; squeezing his throat so violently that he wis nearly strangled, and only losing bis hold sufficiently to allow him to breathe. B New Zealand has long had its :( old man of tho sea" in Sir George Giey, and still bears him on its shoulders When he first mounted as Premier wo carried him cheerfully, bul after a tine when we wished him to alight we found thai we could not get rid of him. He is still master of tho situation, and the key of the political problem which the colony is trying to solve, Tin Ministeria) party is virtually in a ninority, . but it cannot go out of office niless dm i " old man of the sea" orders ifc : so. The Opposition' is practically in t niinoi majority, but it cannot take oftce. without his consent. Major Atkhsox and Mr Montgomery are mere puppets in the hands of Sir George Grly, whe still holds the balance of powa' in the colony, and appears likely to ntain it, Does lie desire again to be Premier! We cannot say, but ot ono tling we are certain, that the House md the country will never again trist him i with tho power of place. He cai neyei again be Prime Minister of Ney Zealand, but he can be, as he noy isa standing menace to both tho iMinis terial and Opposition partiej We would like to see a coalition formed between the two political parfciej of the 1 colony to break the power exerosed by Sir George Grey. With littli more than half a dozen members at h's back ho manages to control the jolony, Nominally he is but a private nimiber, but virtually .lie is ;diotatoi\ le is' a common enemy "to political government, add it would be worth wlile foi .ill parties to unite in order to etprive him of his scat on the neck oj New Zealand. If Major Atkinson 1 were anxious to establish efficient paijy government in New Zealand he |vould help Mr Montgomery to fret the Opposition from the fetters if Bit George Grey. It seems almost'as il an understanding existed betwee| the Premier and the Knight of Kawai by which the former retains office ant the latter retains power. But surii a coalition, if it exists, cannot be jthei than mischievous to the best interests of the colony. | Mr Henry Bunny addresses! the Thorndon eleotors on Tuesday eveling next. Harvest thanksgiving services wit be bold on the 20th inst. in St. Mik's Church, Carterton. ' 1 Last evening the Maaterton Boroigh Council refused a request made by! its Library Committee to reduce the quolim of members from five to three. As th'ire are eleven members on the Conmntoe, the Council was justified in insisting u|on the quorum being a substantial one, 'Jhe fact is that the Institute Committe duthg the past year has rather neglected its duty and reducing the quorum is not 'U proper remedy, for Biich a fault. In he preceding year a greater number if meetings we're held of the Committee and they were more numeropy attended than is tho year now closed;'

Mr F. H. Wood conducts a sale in ti bankrupt oatito nt the Crimp, Faatheniton to-morrow.

The Fasterton Borough Council is about to Bue systematically and continuously for all rates in arrears. % (': The train arrangements'for the Easter holidays are published in another column. Excursion tickots will be issued at low rates,

Mr Charles Benzie opens the Theatre ltoyal, Masterton, as a skating rink this evening. As he will supply linkers with first-class skates, ho ought to bo liberally patronised.

_ Dr Sinclair tho famous dentist arrived in Masterton last ovoning and.opened consulution rooms this morning at tho corner of Quoou street and Perry street. Ho brint<s with him nil the latest dental' mechanism and appliances and is accompaniod by a staff ot specialists. Tho Banki will, we understand, be closed on Friday, Saturday, and Monday next. A certain amount of"inconienionce is experienced in paying wages when Banka are closed on Saturday, but the Banks are tho masters of Ilio situation, and the public must be resigned to accept the inevitable.

Tho second sories of Evangelistic services wns hold in the Presbyterian Church last ovening, a fair congregation being present. The Rev Mr McNeill conducted the service, and preached a very eloquent and improssive sermon, laking his text from the Second Epistle,of Paul' to the Corinthians, fichap, 14ver, j At the last mooting of Hospital Committee a question was put as to whether ladies could visit the hospital, and an opinion was expressed that visits from ladies would always be welcomed by the Committee, and by tho matron and that any interest taken in the institution by tho ladies of tho neighborhood must ho beneficial to it,

The annual Good Friday toamoeting o the Wcsleyan Church, Masterton, will be held as usual in the Sunday school room. After the tea the usual public meeting will ba held, at which addresses will be fiiven by the Revs. Young,. Stewartj McNeill, Stono, Isitt, and others. Such anJntollectual treat as that which may be anticipated in. listening to so many talented and oloqiiont speakers is not often obtainable m Masterton, and the Church should be more crowded than it has'ever boon on previous similar ocoas'ojs,

The ordinary monthly meeting of tb Mastorton Hospital Committee was held yesterday. Present—Messrs Bqddington (chairman), Perry, lorns, Paige, Bennett, and Payton. Tho Treasurer reported a debtor balance of i'2 lis 4d. The follow-, accounts were passed for payment:—Mrs Yates, £7 10s; M. Caselberg & Co., 17 10s 3d; P. Hourigan, Bs7d; F.Gray,2s 6d; J.-Rnis,2a6diT. O. Moron, £6 Os 3d; Moeller & Co,, 19 18s j Evening Post, 133. Mr Bish was elected a member of tho Committee to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr G. Fannin, and the Rev Mr Isitt was appointed visiting member for the ensuing month,

Erard. Broadwood & Oollard aro manufacturers of pianos, whoso fame is worldronownod, but m this colony it is not so generally known that Geo. Wood & Co. hold in the United States of America and in the Home markots jnst tho same position for their ortrans as tho other firms named do for their instruments. We have no doubt there would be a flutter of excitement in the musical world if it were advertised that there were some fifteen to twenty pianos to be sold-on their own marih we wore going to say-but wo should put it better by saying that they were to bo offered at auction for compulsory sale' to close accounts with a Home house; such, howover, is the case with regard to Messrs Geo. Wood & Co.'s organs, .as will, bo seen by an advertisement of. Messrs Laery & Campbell's in this issue, who tell us that on Thursday, at half-past two o'clock they are going to sell a large number of iheni upon exactly those terms, and which, on inspection, shows us that there aro organs adapted for tho church, a gentleman's drawing room, or for the smallest cottage. We should certainly advise our readers not to allow so oligible an opportunity to pass, as they aro one and all of sweet tono, and veiy handsome pieces of furniture.

A writer in the'M.Z, Presbyterian dea cribos in the following- terms a Cliinoso medicine chest:—l looked, said he, through a medicine chest at the "Exalted Arrival" shop. The chest is 0 feet high and 12 feet long, containing 100 small drawers, each divided into two or four compartments. Here are complote tortoiso and turtle shells, part of a tiger's jaw, rhinoceros' horns scrapings, dried centipedes about eight inches in length, gummed to strips of bamboo; three entire dried snakes, each from 3 to 4 faet long, coiled up and skewered with strips o: bamboo; a black sickening mess called "dried scorpions," out of which claws and jaws of those animals may be picked; entire dried lizards held together by • neat bamboo frames; dried snails, fine yellow sea sand, cicada's cast-off skins, and sufficient slrychnos nuls to poisdn all Bound Hill. These examples give only a faint idea of the disgusting things which enter into'lhe Chinese pharmacopeia, Among the " mythical" remedies in the same cabinet aro "dragons' teeth" and "drains' bones." Theso'latter look as if thoy had been underground for years,

Out of ft population of 26,000,000 in Great Britain, females are in excess of males, to the extont of 700,000, ■:

Spurgeon'a Pastors' college has grndiuv tod 652 men during the last 27 years, 48G of whom are now Baptist preacher). Its expenses-are overiGOOOa year,

Seventy five per cent of Hie paper made in Germany is manufactured from,wood pulp. Even for the better qualities ;of paper wood pulp is used as a substitute for rops.

Among the sight? of Philadelphia has been "the Living Skeleton," Among the most beautiful of Philadelphia's daughters is, or wag, Miss Bertha Clear. Onco Miss Clear heard of the exhibition in which the" Living Skeleton" paraded his. thinness. She •went, and saw, and lovo conquered. Day after day she visited the exhibition, remaining from one till five, with her eyes riveted on the object of her affection. Whether the attraction was the "skeleton's" delicate arms and legs, no thicker than a pipe-stem, or whether < it was the contrast he presented to the crowd of robust admirers who thronged about her in society, is not clear. The only thing clear is that Miss Clear was unable to exist without her beloved "skeleton." She called on Lira—at his private residence, Responsive to the call he proposed, was accepted, and is now her husband tenderly attached to her as she is tenderly attached to him. The wedding was private, the only specta-. tor besides near friends being an armless girl from the same exhibition as the "skeleton." She pleaded so earnestly to be present, that the happy bride was fain to comply with the harmless re quest of the armless one.

Mr (WardeU, 8.M., 'hold a sitting at thoGroylown Oouvt yesterday afternoon,

Tho next B.M. Court sitting at Mmterton .is fixed for Monday, the 21st instant,

The- Court at' Masterton was crowded yesterday morning during the hearing of the case Ellera v Ellera. The informant is one of tho most prepossessing native ffomon in the district,, and a daughter of a loading chief, and the' defendant is a welleducated,good man. A poll is advortised to take! place on tho 24th inat for the election', of, two trustees for tho Masterton Town Lands. The nomination day is fixed for tho 16th nut. The annual meeting ol the Trust is appointed also for tho loth inst, A Gazette Extraordinary was published on Tuesday.summoniim Parliament to meet for " the despatch of business" at 2 o'clock p.m. on the sth Juno next,

Mother Swan's woßiisraup. tastes, harmhss, catharthio; for feverishneas, restlessness, worms, constipations. Is at druggists, Mosos Moss & Co., Sydney General Agents,

This year the call for men for the Spanish army is reduced to 45,000. . After several years experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have observed the need for a.thoroughly sound English Lever Watch at a lower price than that usually paid for such watches, It is only bj the judicious di\ ision of labor and by the manutactuio of largo quantities' on a uniform plan, that we are onablcd to moet this want We have now the pleasure-of introducing our Six Guinea Hunting Silver Lever. ' This watch, being simple in design durable, highly finished, and acourate,iulfils, all tho requirements of a pocket timekeoper. A written guarantee for two years will'be given with each watch. Sent by post, securely packed, on receipt of Post Office order or cheque.-(Advtl Goiioed Livers. Bilious conditions, constipation, dyspepsia, headache cured by "Wolls May Apple Pills," 5d and Is boxes it druggists. Moses Moss & Co., Syduey General Agents for Australasia.; BENEFAOTOR3.-"When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announoed the diaoovery that by combining some well-known valuable remedies a most wonderful medicine was produced, which would cure such a wide range of diseases - that most all other remedies could be. dispensed with, niany were skeptical, but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day tho discoverers of that groat medicine Hop Bitters, are honored and Mossed by all as bonefactors," Head