The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1884. ATKINSONIANA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1665, 21 April 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1884. ATKINSONIANA.

Major Atkinson is now engaged in fulfilling his self-imposed task of travelling to the principle centres of'population in the Middle Island, in order to' deliver political orations. This practice of-a Premier stumping the country is one that we have been wont to look upon'with suspicion. It was initiated in New Zealand by Sir George Grey, who claimed, we believe, Mt, Gladstone as his. model, Mr Gladstone, however, was not in office yhen he made bis'celebrated tour, and ye.' may fairly regard Sir George Grey as the originator of the idea of making itinerant lectureship a part of a Prtmicr's public duties, There are many'points of comparison as well as of contest between Sir George Ghey and Major Atkinson. In general politics the} have been antithetic, but in the regions of Socialism they appear to convergij, Sir George Grey, when he stumped the country, preached Greyism, anil the present Premier will no doubt jinculcate AtmnsonianA; Greyism \ye take to be an ideal Commonwealth, in which all men would be equal) except Sir George Grey. Atkinsonuna we should assumo to boa political lltopia, of which the Major would bo tho sole architect. Both the Premier and exPremier are dreamers, though the former is also a worker. He is also clever at finance, whereas his rival shines more in finesse, ]f, as has boon darkly hinted, the pair went into ■ partnership, a political Sankey and Moody, firnr might be. established, which would trouble' New Zealand and be Svorae tii^esii'tliquakes. ; , ; When Sir GEORO^|GRB® : was : in power he professeditpilM -UiGiiieoplo.into his confidence by direct 'Speech with them, ignoring tho representatives of the people specially elected to debate the very questions which he was wont to debate upon, Major Atkinson in a similar manlier emasculates the Parliament of the colony by holding, as it were, private sessions in Cliristchurch and Dunedin, It is no compliment to the members for Christclmrch who are supposed to bo the political guides of the community in which-they reside that Major Atkinson should call their constituents together to meet him, It is a slur on the very able newspapers published in Cliristchurch, that Major Atkinson should jump their claim as political expounder. • It might be said that Major Atkinson only visits those, centres Of population to discuss public question not to expound them, .but it is quite evident that, after he has spoken for a couple of hours at any meeting ho may attend, any real debate will be out of the question, At I such meetings the address of. the evening is to all intents and purposes a lecture, . There is another aspect too, from which such addresses are objectionable. Half of tho dwellers in New Zealand are settled in towns, and the other moiety are scattered through the country.' To address exclusively that section of the people which neither owns nor occupies land, on questions vital to the .other-half is not .the act of a statesman. To stir up the non-pro-ducers of the colon}', to change the condition under which the producers labor by altering a land tenure on the faith of which New' Zealand has been founded and developed, is not a task to which a/Premieifought to stoop. If [ Major Atkinson is a- convert to Land Nationalisation tho. House of Repre : ;sentativesa iig. the^•• plptcd" in which;! lie should brinw forward.his views, If he cannot gain' his objects by his legitimate influence inihe Cabinet, and the Ilonsc). let him resign his office, and . then stump the country as much as lie likes as a free lance When he now makes a speech his words, carry with them the weight of | the Cabinetiiitd : tho:House.and when lie goes beyond the lines sanctioned by his Ministerial colleagues and by the Assembly- lie- places himself in an unconstitutional position. It never has been, and weitrusfc it never will be, the function of a Premier to be an itinerant lecturer ,on politics. ; The most charitable' construction to put upon Sir Geohge Grey's and Major Atkinson's efforts'in this : direction' is to attribute 'them to. an enthusiasm which has clouded' their' judgments and blinded them to the grave responsibilities of their high positions;

• Persons interested in forming a Jockey Olub in the Cftatlepoint district ate requested to m'eet Tinui Hotel at 7 p.m, on the 26th inst. „ A new time table cornea into force on the railway to-day.. The alterations made by it are specified' in our advertising columns. "■ A Professor Hugo,.an able phrenologist, ia laotarlngm ;Weliington, The funeral ; of. the late Mr W. P. Fflllingham yesterday afternoon was followed by'a 'very large number of settlers. We hear that the .-business (f the late Mr Mingham will be carried on by his widow.

" Vulcan" has openod his consultation on tlie Dunedin Quecnjsßitthday Races. Particulars will bo found in our advertising columns J.' A general meeting .of shareholders in the Theatre Royal Company takes place this evening. Another railway hand, viz,, John Gray, was admitted to the. Masterton/Hospitjal ,to day, suffering' from-a sore hip. ! Mr James Cavanagh annoguoea that he will be in Masterton to-morrow (Tuesday) for the purpose of buying well bred horses suitable for tramways. •• '; 1 .We regret to hear of another death in our local circles. fil'rs'ilaumber, of Masterton, having, passed., away. The deceased has been an invalid, for several years, autlfor some.,,t(ra'qipa?t has boon totally blind. •The Post does not,regard.Mr Dwans candidature forThorri'don'as serious and strongly supports-Mr Bunny against Dr Newman for the seat.

Tenders are invited by Mr fanning architect, for the erections of addition?and alterations to a hope near Greytown for Mr W. 0. Buchanan, M.H.R, ; A steady young man in good circumstances advertises in our wanted column that lie wishes to correspond with a youiig lady with a view to matrimony, fancy this young man.must bo irus't-. worthy, at any rate he -has paid for his advertisement whioh'in itself is a certificate of character. , .. . . i '

•; .Mr H. S. Wardoll, It M., has arranged to Bit at Mastorton to-day, ; at iGiaytown and' Carterton on-'Tuesday)'" 'and'^at'' Featherston on Wednesday, going dpwn to Wellington by the late train that' day. He will preside at. tho cily Court foi';.the remainder of the week, and return to the Wairarapa on Saturday afternoon. He will remain in Masterton on Monday, and come down to Wellington the same night, staying here until the following Saturday. This will ho the order of his visits during Mr Hardcastle's year of absence, At a meeting of the Maßterton Rifles' Shooting Committee held on Saturday evening, the following team : ' ; was chosen to represent Masterton in a friendly con* test with the Wellington Navals, ti be fired on Saturday next, 2Gth inat, Manaia ButtsCapt Donald, Lieut. Wilton, Corpls 'Mathewfe', Anketell, Kib ut blewhite, Mclachlan, Viils, Bright; C. Bentley, G.•Bentley,"Kummer. Emergencies, Col.'.'Sergt, Dixp'n and Vol, Gy. Blane, Referee, s Yjql. J.'Bentley, The fourth competition for Captain Donald's enn came oil on Saturday at the Manaia Butts, the weather w#'b beautifully fiuo. But again our crack shots doomed to disappointment, tliev appear a little " off color" at present, Again our ammunition is blamed for tho scores. The following are the three highest acqres that were made Vol. Scliultn. C added; 50 points; Vol, Bright, scratch, 45 points, Lieut. Wilton, scratch, 43 points. The " Press" correspondent sayslt is, perhaps, not generally known that Mr Bryce's action against Mr Rusden for a libel contained in ihe " History of New Zealand I 'iß still in.fall swing, and is being pressed on by Mr Bryce as vigorously as jiossibie. His legal representatives are instructed to use every effort to bring the case to trial as soon as possible, 'Mr Bryce is determined to pursue it to the bitter end. Il is very likely be will have to go to England about it after the session, as the case will bo tried in London, but this is not definitely settled, About 30 years ago a Canterbury farmer, while making his way home, disappeared in a very mysterious manner, and-. nothing was ever heard of him until a few days ago; when an old man naraod Hubbard, over 80 years of age, while lying upon his doath-bed, confessed that. ho and.'';two other men murdered him, buried'the murdered man, and agreed that tho ; nmn who survived the other two men sliopld .confess the crime.

The word "fast" is as great a'contradiction as we have in the . language. The Delaware was fast because the ice was immovable; and then the ice disappeared fast for the contrary reason—it was loose. A clock is called last when it goes quicker than time, but a man is told to aland fast when he is desired to remain stationary, People fast when they have nothing to eat ; and eat fast consequently when opportunity offers to eat. _ The following is a letter of introduction given to a well known American actor who is proficient in other arts besides those of his profession! " Dear Sir. This will be handed to you by my friend, Mr M'Kean Buchanan, tin actor of much merit. He comes. to your town on professional business. He plays Vu'ginius, Richelieu, Hamlet, Richard,'Hl, Shylock, and poker. He plays poker the best. Your Obedient Want, 0. W. COUUDOCK. . . ' '

Missouri has at times a very free press. Hear the St. Louis Globe Democrat talk about its own commonwealth" A state with 80,000'Demdcfatio majority is in no condition, to: become'a-part of tho kingdom of heaven, because it is already a part of the other kingdom. John the Baptist woujd stand very little chance in Kansas City or in Jackson or Clay country, They'd turn Frank James loose on him to hold him up for his locusts pd wild honey." Mdrne Marie Roze recently received a flattering letter from a firm of tobacco manufacturer, complimenting her upon the happy style in which she Binokos her cigarette in " Carmen" and enclosing her a box of tho Dil Kooska cigarettes. The prima donna's husband, Oolonel Henry Mapleson, explained that; his wife smokes in '■ Oarmon" medicated cigarettes which contain no tobacco whatever, and /are cooling to the throat, but that tho oigftrettos sent will como in very handy for him. . . ;

Tito editor of the " Times' 1 '(aayi/fhe Pall Mall Gazette),'people used-''to say, was as good as a Cabinet Minister, and on that showing oue must almost go back to the times of Pitt for a parallel to the new appointment, for Mr-G.-'E, Buckle is only just over thirty. He went up to Now College with a Winchester-scholarship twelve years ago, and his Oxford rocord is evidence alike of industry and; of varied attainments, Ho went in, we believe, for two schools in and subsequently obtained two firat-olasses in " greats" (Classics and History), as well as the Newdigate.Prize Poem (on Living : stone), and a fellowship at All Souls. Mr Buckle had • not long takon his degree when he was offered an important post on the " Manoh6stßi('Gnardiin ! ;"and the confidence in hia.-fiiture which he showed by refusing- thisfofifei; was'instified by his appointment as'as'Sistailt'epor under Mr Chenery. Mr Buckle'hasnow the chance of ft great career before him, and every one will hope, in the interests of EnErliah journalism, that he will make the moat of il ' ;■ ' . .. American cities are constructed ior the most part on mathemetical principles) Washington, for instance, is laid out after the fashion of a wheel, with the Capitol for the centre, and-broad avenues for the spokes. The newer parts of New York, next to London perhaps the busiest city in the world, are formed of straight lines and right angles. Chicago, the real wonder of Amerioa, has been treated in much the same way.

can't pkeaoh good.—No man 'ean do a good job of work, preach a good sarmon : , tryEl lawsuit well, doctor a patient, or write a good article when he feels miserable and dull, with sluggish brain and unstrung nerves,: and none should make .the attempt in such' a condition when it can be so easily removed by a little Hop Bitters, Look for

During a dense fog a Mississippi steamboat cami) to a stop. A traveller, anxious to go ahead, came to tho unperturbed mauagor of the wheel, and naked why ithey-stopped, " Too much fog; we can't see tlie rivor."' "But you can see.the stars overhead "Yos," replied tho man, " but until the bilor busts we are riot going that way," The passenger went tu bed. A New York rag-picker Bays there is no demand for scraps of sheet iron, though a few years ago quantities of it were manufactured into buttons, Old wireis'wbrth nothing. Old boots and shoes used to be gathered, burned, and crushed, and the powder sent td-spibe mills to adulterate spices with. , Wpnderwhat they've found to use that is worse than old boots 1 If a littld'''baby .that don't 'know .any better sits all day on a pillow and is as Rood as a child' Can be, people say he is just like his mother; but when he gets on a lautrum at night and howls and kicks and awakens everybody in the neighborhood, then these same people assert that tho youngster, is for all the world like his- father, If we had an opinion we should endeavor to stick lo :it, At ihe Thames Police Court, Mary Rushbrooke, a good looking girl, was charged with stealing 50s from Peter. Eossimon, of Mile End. The prosecutor previously stated that he met the prisoner anil as sho was destiiuto he.(|took' her home and provided her; with'food and; lodging. During his absence sho rolled' hitn. Prosecutor now said Jjft'liacl taken, a liking to the girl, and-if the Magistrate', would .discharge tho prisouer lie would marry her. The request was acceded'to.

A farm in the town of Elfot, Me., has been the houao of nine generations of one family, having been handed down from father to son for nearly 250.'years. The first house was built of bricks imported from the old country, but in 163G it was so shaken by an : eiirthquake' that, it was torn down andthe present structure built of heavy oak timber. Upwards of seventyfive children have been born and brought up here, and it is recorded that only one unmarried person has ever died in it, except, one. .child, who was accidentally killed. After.a recent tornado on Mono Lake, in California, tho foam on the lee shore was piled up 20 .feet high in places, and in it we,ro'hundreds of dead wild ducks, which ha'd b'eoii killed by being dashed :against tho rooks. At Melbourne it has been suggested that Donald Dinme, before, he dances any more reels, should provide himself with an indispensible article of dress, so as not to shock modesty. Howard Vincent, tho chief of the London detective force, will resign hiß position shortly, as ho aspires to a Beat in, the Honse ot Commons, He married a rich heiress, and was tho Bulgarian war correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph.

A political parson in Sydney, juat prior to_ an election in which (bo N.S.W. Minister of Education was defeated, prcacoed a sorraou from the text," What wont ye out to see.? "A lleid shaken .by tlio wind ?" • ! Apropos of Dr Cameron's proposed Cremation Bill, it may be worth while to mention that a New York grand'jury has recently declared for compulsory 'cremation iji case of epidemics, and that the Austrian House of Deputies a" few days since handed over a motion forpremissive cremation to its Sanitary Ctimmitteo, only the Clerical Party voting ngainat it. In a treatise by Karl Blind oh the" History and the Poetry of Fire Burial among our Germanic Forefathers," issued some time ago as a shilling pamphlet by Longmans, the corre9pancling Anglo-Saxon, German, and Scamlanavian customs are iully explained,. _ Fire burial, after all, was an ancient institution among the ancestors of tlio English people, very ' much resembling the heroic custom which is recorded in the Iliad,— Eclio,

An old gentleman who detested smok» ing saw that Scrnbbs, after'the train had started, had taken out his pipe" musn't smoke hero," at once said the old gentleman, "I know that," replied Scrnbbs, He then calmly filled his pipe, " Did I not. tell you," said the o.g, again, " that you can't smoke here 1" "I lmow that," gloomily replied Scrubba, taking out his fusee bux,. He lit a fusaoe, but now the wrath of the old gentleman was dreadful. " YoU shan't smoke here, sir 1" lieehriekod. 11 1 know that," ausivered Scrubbs, allowing the fusee to exhaust itself, when he lit another and another; the stench was awful, the smoke suffocating. 'The o.g. coughingandspluttering struggled for words. "You'd better smoko," said he, " I know that replied Scrubba, applying tho blazing fusee to the expectant pipe., .

Two ; gentlemen (oiie a Spaniard and the' other a German), who had been recom- 1 mended, by their birth and services, to the Emperor Maximilian Il„ both fell in love with, and paid court to the fair Hcleue, the Emperor's daughter, Scarfequin, whom each sought in marriage. After a long, delay Maximilian one day. informed the two lovers that esteeming them equally and not being able to bestow a preforonce, ho should leave to the force and address ot the claimants to decide the question. He did not mean, however, to risk the loss of the one or the other, or perhaps, of both.; and could iiot, there, fore, permit them to .encounter with offensive weapons; but had ordered a large bag to_ bo procured, and had decreed that whichever succeeded in putting his rival into the bag should obtain the ( hand of his daughter. The .two .gentleSjnetf'expressed their willingness to engage in even so ridiculous a contest for so superior-.a prize, and fought in the presence of the whole court,"the contest lasting mnre than an hour, the Spaniard finitlly.yielililig, having been put fairly into the bag by tho Gorman, Baron Ehberhard, who took it and its Castilllan contents upon his back, and very gallantly laid them at the feet of tho young lady, to whom he was married the following day. This is the only duel or tournament f the kind on rocora.^

The " cream of.. Philadelphia society" has had a genuine, leap-year ball at the house of Thomas M'Kean,. Invitations were sent by Mr-M'Kean instead of his wife, and) ;arr(\ngpmijiilß were reversed throughout.. -[The women wore coats cut man-fashion, and a similitude of regular shirt collars; bosoms, and ties, while men made desperate attempts to rig the upper half of .their'persons in feminine gear, some even appearing with corsets, bare arms, and with ear-rings, Women escorted mon in, asked them to dance, and gave them flowers 5 and men carried flowers, It is a relief ,to be told that women stuck to skirts and men to trousers. • Don't die ih the house,—"Eough on Eats" clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bad-bugs, Hiss, ants, insects, moles, jackrabbits, gophers, 7Jd—N.Z, Drug Company. wise FoitY,—"For ten years my wife was confined to her bed with sncha complication of ailraeats .tliat no doctor could tell what ■was the matter or cure her, and I nsed up'a small-fortune in humbug stuff. Six months ago I saw an American flag with Hop Bitters onit, and I thought Iwonld.be a-fool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom, Two bottles cured her, she is now as well and strong as any man'swife, and it cost me only two dollars," H W Detroit, Mioh, Head

At ono of. tho- hotels in San Francisco the other day, a drummer ordered mst beef of the Waiter, Pretty soon' that functionary; brought in a piece the. width of his linger. The drummer continued conversing with Lis friend, apparently uncoiißQioua that the order had iieen served, •- Soon .'he called ! the waiter jigain and asked why his order had not been attended to. ; "Here's your roast beef," said the waiter; ,! I Served 1 it some time ago." j' Oh, indeed 1 So you did.. I- thought all the time it was a crack in the plate. y ' The Nice Journal continues to report further tragedies 'both at Nice and Monto Carlo. In a recent issue it stated that a rich stranger 'had blown out his brains at the Hotel de Paris, after haying lost all his fortune at play, On Jan, 13 it records the case of a commercial clerk at Nice, who, from a similar .cause, put amend to his life by shooting himself through the head, On the same day-a man committed suicide behind the Hotel de Londres at Monte Carlo, ■ : ' • ■After Beverat years experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and Son, of Lambton : Quay, Wellington, have observed.the need for a,thoroughly Bound English Lever Watch at' a lower price than that usually paid {or such watches. It is only bj ,tho judicious division of.labor and by the manufacture of large quantities on a uniform are''.enabled to moet .the of intV6duoiu|fVur'.Six Si (iMitiea Hunting Silver Lever, This 'w|tch ( '.fteing,' simple in. design .durable, .highlyfinished, and accurate,fulfils, all the' timekeeper. A written igijimmteei fqr two' years will be given with;' each' wsoh.' Sent by post, ECnurely packed, oil receipt of Post Office order or cheque.-(Advtl !