The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1884. MR MONTGOMERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 14 April 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1884. MR MONTGOMERY.

Mr Montgomery, the respectable dummy who is tlio nominal Leader of the Opposition, has spoken, and few people will be the wiser for his utterances. Probably tha only man in New Zealand who considers him a leader is Mr Montgomery himself. His friends esteem and treat him as a sorb of acting-leader who can be displaced as soon as they can obtain a competent man to'fill the office. Mr Montgomery's speech on Friday was milk and wator, the latter, element being particularly noticeable, but then all his speeches are mild and innocuous. He expressed a number of general sentiments on various subjects in such vaguo terms that the only reputation which his speech is likely to assail is his own. It would be idle to follow Mr Montgomery through the items of the bill of fare which he sot before the electors of Akaroa, If we tako up any one of them at random a very tasteless dish will be before us, For example, he believes in a special tax for absentee proprietors. Now, putting on one side the expediency ,of such a measure, it is obvious to any politician that it is impracticable to levy a tax of this character iu such a way that it cannot be evaded and abused. ■ If Mr Montgomery had to prepare a Bill to giye effect to, .such a proposal, he would "fail utterly in the task, Why does lie dangle foolish things like these before the public 1 Ho must know that such a'sclieme is unworkable, and if he doesn't know it, he must' be more verdant than tlio youngest member in the House. The Opposition should not allow Mr Montgomery to spoak in public. If. lie would only be silent he might enjoy a reputation for political sagacity,;/ 1 '

A new time table is about to come in forco'on the Wellington and Masterton Railway but we need hardly say that the alteration which required 'at this end of the line, viz,,, si longer interval betweon the arriyal of tho morning train;and the dejiavtui'e oftlie afternoon troii) is not conceded, In tho interests of the fiublic and of tlie department, tho .alteration should have been effected. When our -railway.; "is managed on commercial "-principles we shall not have to wait, for it. ...

The treasurer Wairarapa East County Council at its'late meeting formally reported that , the amount •paid ouiof the county fund for salaries daring the past yeiir was £251'53 '6d. This official record gives the lie to the .rumorsindustriouslycirculated throughout this district as to the rates being swamped by salaries, The ratepayers have now the exact amount paid by the County for. salaries .before them. They have been humbugged and deceived on this,point in the' past, but we." trust they will not- again allow themselves to' be fooled by misrepresentation and trickery., Each ratepayer can verify for himself, the fact that the total charge foi l salaries for the past year is £2sl' 5s 6d because he has tho privilege of examing tlio boob and records of tbe Couiity CoanciJ.- We trust that we haye now heard the last of tho lies about bounty salaries which have done, bo much mischief in the past. ,

The Waipoua is a- small river which runs through illo"town of llasterton, and it is absolutely essential to the health and cleanliness of the public that-this stream should be kept absolutely pupe and sweet, • We wore surprised to hear the County Council express an opinion the other day that a small local wool-scouring industry was of more importanco than maintaining the purity of this stream, We were hardly prepared for such a narrow and shortsighted view of an important sanitary question, We have every respect for local industries, and would do all in our power to foster them, but when the question arises as to whother ono man should be compelled to wash his skins below the bathing sheds, or that tlie hundreds of men and boys \rlio frequent the bathing sheds should be made to povrup the river for the convenience of; the one manwhen it also,-.'becomes a. question whether the river ii to .be. fouled before it enters Masterton or after it.has passed through the town—there cannot be much doubt as to tho anspr. Under any circumstances the • river must be kept pure as. it passes through the toyvn, and we will do all in our power t6 assist those who have-protes-ted against its being defiled.

Tenders aro invited for the construction of about 30 chains of roadon the Waiiiuioru line.

The Oarterton Friendly Societies held an Eaßter parade at St. Mark's Ohurcli yesterday, / ;. •" Mr J. W. Laimbeer announces that he has been appointed sole agent for the North Island for Messrs Joseph Soler & Oo.'s puro Wanefauui wines, and is in a position to supply them in any quantity on tho shortest notice and most favorable, terms.:].

The annual general meeting of tho Masterton Football Club is convened for Saturday next in upper room of. the Institute, A practice' Will be held in the afternoon of the Bame'day, when it is hoped that all who interest in the game will turn out, V

Last evening the Salvation Army had a monster audience. at their Masterton barracks, and the services went off with great opirit, several new conversions beina reportod, Two members of the army, recently out from London, took a very prominent part id the proceedings, One a Hallelujah Lass, said that she was accus tomed to beat a drum at the corner of a street to attract attention, and would beat a kettle at a street corner in Masterton if it would do any good, We do not think that onr loeal" tin kettle brigade" needs strengthening, The third competition for Capt, Donald's cup came off at the Manaia butts on Saturday, The weather perhaps ,wns;tt little too bright, for good shooting,.,whish together with the new imunation whioji the oracka pronounced doubtful,, may account for the low scores made, (hp following are the three highest scores Oorpl, Mathews, soratoh, 45 points, Col, Sergt, Dixon, 5 points added, 45 points, Vol. Blanc. 3 points added, 44 points, Corpl. Mathews winning the tie at the i longest range.

Dr, Lemon visited the Taueru on Saturday with a view to erect a telephone office at that place, but, owing to a sound

prcof room nut having been prepared, he was'unable to complete the arrangements necessary for the opening of an office, It was, however, definitely arranged that Mr C, Rogers ia. to. have oharge of the telephone, and that the requisite, felling &o, will be completed in about a fortx night's time, when Dr Lemon on bis return from Palmerston, will fit up the telephone and open the office to the public,

The man, Tim Long, admitted to the Masterton Hospital from the railway wol'kß on Thursday last, is doing very well. The report that he waß detainer! half an hour prior to admission to the institution wo find to be correct, Mr Bulpit, the custodian, at the time the patient arrived, was in Masterton on business. There wore plenty of men to lift the sufferer out of the cart on to the bed, bat it-was thought better to wait half an hour fur Mr Bulpit's return, as his experience in moving eases of this charaoter would enable the transit from cart to bed to he accomplished with less suffering to tho patient. Tim Long expresses himself very well pleased with the treatment lie is receiving at the hospital. We hear that Mr 6. Coker is negotiating for tho appearance of Dunning's Opera Company (now performing in Christchurch) in Masterton, at the close of their Wellington season. Should he succeed, playgoers will have a rare musical treat, as the company is even larger than the one now playing in Wellington, and includes 22 of the best exponents of opera bouffo ill the colonies, with a chorus of 30 performers, and a splendid orchestra under the baton of tho celebrated maestro Mr Charles Van Gholl. The repertoire includes the following new comic operas,!— " The Black Cloaksi" " Manola-,"' "Boccaccio," "Tho King's Dragoons," and last but not least, the very latest, production of Planquette and Farhi'a "Kip Van Winkle," It is proposed to have a subscription season of four - nights,. Bhould suflioient inducement offer, and of course tho appearance oi so larue and talented a company will depend entirely upon tho amount of tickets takon up.

Tlio following is a synopsis of the examination of ihe Opaki School of which Mrs Tait is the mistress, and taking inlo consideration the existence ofdiptliena at the Opaki, which thinned the attendance and closed iho school for a month, and the long holidays, together with the fact that the examination came immediately afterwards, we think great credit is due to the school mistress, Mrs Tait, who took oltargo of the school Bir.ce last year's examination, for the large percentage of pasßeß. 2(5 were presented for examination, and the followingpassedStandard I.—Florae' Welch, Maud-Welch, Mary Harris, Willie Douglas, Standard 11. Ellen E,' Cade. Standard lll.—Hose Campbell, Kate Campbell, David Brown, Arthur Hunt, one failed and one came iindor the number of half days. Standard iV,—Dolly. Welch, - Lily Campbell, Maggie Campbell, Maggie Smith, Ernest Hunt, two failed, : Standard V.—Harold Welch, Effie Welch, Bessie Brown, Mary Campbell. Standard Vl,—Walter Welch, Archie McPhee, Esther Douglas.

Some fifteen months ago two gentlemed visited Masterton as agents for ah Art. Union,' in which every subscriber was to receive a copy .of Hollar's celebrated engraving of Old Jjondou, mounted on'.oalico, and bound up with descriptive letter-press, The . binding of ' these engravings,. which measure Bft by 21 inches, and which fold up into a very handsome drawing room book, was entrusted to Mr W. J.Lankshear, the well-known bookbinder, of Wellington, but the proprietors of the engravings' decamped, having collected a certain number of subscriptions, leaving tlie- : hooks in the hands of Mr Lanksheaiv : Tho latter, by an ordinary legal process* has now become the owner of them,;and,, is now disposing of them at the.low prices' of ten shillings per volume, to cover the, cast of the binding. A copy of thi'ff unique work has been- forwarded to usj ! and anyone who takes an interest in l London should secure one, Mr Lank-' shear will be in Mastorlon to-morrow.

An inquest wan held on Saturday last by Mr Wardell, Coroner, at the the house of Mr R. Kibblewhite, Fernridge, on the body of a boy named Herbert Kibblewhite, aged eight and a half years, It appeared from the evidtnce that two men named Houchen and Burrell went out in' the morning shooting with deceased and his elder'brother;. ' The. boys were returning home together (haying separated from the men), the younger one was in front, both on the look out for pigeons, when the elder boy fell and the gun exploded, the contents being lodged in the right side of the boy Herbert. Houchen heard cooejs, and within five minutes of the shot being fired came up to the boy and helped to carry him to the slip panels, where his mother and father met him, The boy recovered oonsciouspess and asked to be killed, as bo was in Meat pain. The father was examined merely as to the age of the boy, The jury returned the followin verdict, viz.— The boy Herbert Kibblewhite oame to his death by a .shot'from a gun accidentally fired by his elder brother through a fall.

To-morrow la the last liiormng on which Dr Sinclair can be doiisulted in Maatsrton. ; •

A thousand heavy Romuey Marsh ewes and thirteen hundred Lincoln ewes-art)' advertised for sale by Mr John Living-/ stone.

St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, was tastefully decorated for Easter Sunday, the principal arches leading to the altar looking very.beautiful with fern traceries on a white ground, and the artistic effeok being heightened by the addition of flowors and crimson berries, There were large congregations at both morning and evening' services. ; .

The members of the Wairarapa Coursing Club met at tho Club Hotel on Saturday, evening to make arrangements for the customary annual match in the Lower Valley. MrT.E. Chamberlain.-occu-' pied the chair, and tliero was a very.mtisfactory attendance of members, June the 3rd was fixed as tho date for commencing coursing, and Mr T, Hill was reappointed to the onerous position of Judge. A liberal prize list was aureed to, and further arrangements re coursing quarter were left over for another meeting when information not yet available''will have been obtained by the Secretary, Mr R. J. Fitton, ; • ■

The proposed new timo-tablo on the Wellington and Masterton railway has been approved by the General Manager, and' \vill come Into force on Monday week the 21st inst. The prinoipal alterations'will bo as follows :—The 4,5 p.m. train from Wellington which-stops at all .Stations will not run beyond Lower Hutt, tut it will 'pick up passengem'at all stations for places further than Lower Hutt, transferring them . there into .the through, Wairarapa train which will leave Wellington at, 4,25 and run ' through to Lower Hutt without stopping anywhere, reaching Masteaton at the .same time as at nresent, the saving in 'the time being effected through the avoidance of inter-: mediate stoppages between Wellington and tho Hutt. The train .;now leaving Wellington for Lower Hutt at 55 p.m. will not start till 5.15, and the. trail; now leaving at 6 25 p.m. will atartat-6 o'clock. The train ai present leaving the Lower Hutt for Wellington at 6.46 p.m. will start at 5.10, arriving in Wellingtan at 5,45 The 8 p.m, Saturday'train from Lower Hutt to Wellington will not start till 9 o'clock. Post, While electioneering at Tiverton, Lord Palmerston wap„;greatly bored by a'Radical butcher, who wished him to support a certain Radical policy, '■ Once at the end of Lord Palmerston's speeches the butcher called out, 'Lord Palmerston, will'you give mo a plain answer to a plain question?' After a slight nause the Lord replied, l l will,' The butcher then said, ' Will you or will you not support this measure ?'-a .Radical Bill, Lord Pal" merston hesitated, and then, with a twinkle in his eye, replied, 'I will Immediately the Radicals cheered most tremendously. 'Not—Tremendous Conservative cheers, Wlion these ceased Lord Palmerston finished his- sentence with these words, ' Tell you,' and then immediately retired

Tenders are again invited fur the form' ation of about 80 chains ot roiulon.thi Alfredton District line, .-

The Education Department have appointed the following gentlemen to bo School Commissioners for the Provincial District of Wellington, viz.: Messrs J, R, Blair, and Sir. W. Fox, K,C.M.G, The following mentioned gentlemen have been appointed a Licensing Committee for Masterton, T. E. Chamberlain, R, D. Dagg, W. Everett, 6. Gundoraon, and. C. J, liare,

The Goyemor-in-Oouncil has appointed the following gentlemen' School Coinmissioned for the provincial district of Wellington Messrs J. G. Holdsworth, •0. P. Powlea, and T, Mason, M.ER, On the first of May tho Masterton Druids propose to hold a festival, A number of ladies ; connected , with St Matthew's Church have pledged themselves to appear for the occasion attired in old English costumes— 1 Tho Qneene of Maye,' 1 Jack in the Green,' and the usual accessories of an old English Fnyre will bo produced for the first time in theWairarapa,

The ocean to the West of Morocco and the "Desert ot Sahara is almost of uniform depth. Fish abound at a depth of from 1000 to 1500 metres. . Between Senegal and the Cnpe Yerde Islands the nets of an exploring party lately reached a depth' of. from 3,200 to 3,655 metres, and brought?* up numerous living speoimenß which have not hitherto been- found elsewhere, In these depths the feoandity of life is prodigious, and at one. fraught aa many as 2,500 fish were captured.

She said: " Oh, yes, lam very fond of little boys," and as a snowball struck her in the back of the neok, she added, "I feel as though I could eat a couple this minute, boiled;"— Calcutta Cuttings. . . .

Miss Ellen Terry lias had £ouv'husbands and the Chicago Times advises her to try an American husband, and get one that will stay- at home at nights, A husband that would stay home at nights when his wife was on stage earning a living,, would not be worth his board,

1 First young lady:" Why, how's thit Dolly?—in morning gown! Aren's you going to eh arch ?" Second young lady j " No; I've, nothing to wear tut my walking suit, and I want to save that,"

.I 'notice in the paper that it is no longer fashionable for the minister to ,kiss the bride at the wedding ceremony 1 'said a >wife to her husband, who was a clergyman. "Yes," sadly responded •-jlis'go'od man with a long 'drawn sigh, "many of the pleasant features connected with the old-fashioned wedding ■peremony, have been discarded, and tliatf demanded his wife curiously. " I—l mean," he then stammered, " that the senseless custom ; of kissing the bride should have been; abolished long ago." " Oh! : " replied the mollified lady, resuming- her paper again,

A Ijomlon physician recommends .lis a'curc for a cold in the head ' a huge pinch of snuff. Then let the sufferer wrap his coat about him and sneeze, the oftener and harder the better. This, he says, is Nature's own remedy for a chill.

If our readers desire to give their fowls an opportunity to forage a little on open days in winter, let them sow a small space in rye. It will not only afford the fowls an occasional picking of green food, but will spring up early in the spring before anything ■ else begins to shoot. Pastures that contain orchard grass will also be found serviceable, espeoially for early spring feeding,. will be useful now and until quite late. Young chicks from the incubators will need some proportion of green food; and there is nothing . better for them than to feed them at least three times a week with finely chopped rye,' It may be Safely claimed that rye is indispensable to those who expect to keep a large number of chicks,

Whilst the. atatipnioastei' at Saltley station, Birmingham,;was cautioning a number of pe6pl6 Spt'to cross the line;; an engine ycamVlup' behind him and hurled hini to the- ground. By fe : exercise of a remarkable amount of self-possession/ jie' tlirmV himself flat upon his face,-and, the. locomotive passed over, hira without so much as bruising him, though he felt the firebox unpleasantly rufflo his coat. _ Last days of Dr Jjinolair's visit I, Dip Sinolair, in roturning thanks for the moat liberal palronatre he has received in Masterton begs to inform intending patients that they must call at once or elae their orders will be refused,... Testimonials from the leading Mastertoii people may be inspected. No less than seventy--seta of teeth'have already been finted in tliia town, and every one of them give satisfaction.: Dr Sinclair's artificial teeth are guaranteed to inastioato efficiently and are unsurpusable in appearance. (invr).

A Rattlesnake's Bite,-The quick venom of tho rattlesnake .has not killed so many people astbemore insidious but deadly poison found in the'air of foul rooms..' The aSration of the blood by the lungs becomes impossible sometimes, and the failing health growing weakness;, and loss of appetite are harbingers of approaching death. For such cases Hop Bitters are tho potent and allpowerful remedy to drive-all fevers out of the system, purifying tHe blood, and giving a new and happy leased life,. Notice several years experience m supplying watches for the colonial market; Littlejohn and SiJa, of Larabtou .Quay, Wellington, have ohseryai tbo .ceeaJor a' thoroughly sound English-Lever Watoh at a lower price than that ■ It is only bj the.jud!cio^®iSis£6&kb'i)r. : and by the manufacture o.Margo .quantities .on a uniform plan,' thljt jye 'enaljrt'd'toVmcet this want'' Weliave now'the pleasure'of introducing-our Six. Guinea ; Hu.nting Silver. Lever. .This Watch;, biirig siinple in design durable, highly finished, and aeeurate,fulflls, -all the. requiionients oU. p'obket timekeeper, A written guarantee for two years will be 'given with eaoh waieh... Sent by post,securely 'jiaoked/on. receipt,,of.Post Office order or cheque.—(Annl .■■■