The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1884. MR COLEMAN PHILLIPS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1672, 29 April 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1884. MR COLEMAN PHILLIPS.

"And to the present day we may thank our Anglo-Saxon forefathers for many such standing points of freedom" writes Mr Coleman Phillips in the April number of Lyon and Blair's review, but we must confess that, judging Mr Coleman Phillips by the letter published in our columns of yesterday, we doubt whether he is entitled to claim Anglo-Saxm ancestors, Of course we do not suppose that Mr Coleman Phillips would say a word that was untrue, but he is evidently cursed with a powerful un-Anglo-Baxon imagination, which explains everything. Mr Coleman Phillips gravely informs us that a slander is a false statement, and that ho is not in the habit of making false statements. We admit that a slander is a false statement, and if Mr Coleman Phillips is not in the habit of making them he has certainly in the letter published by us yesterday made a very good attempt. We will briefly point out the slanders in Mr Coleman Phillips' letter, "fairly, dispassionately, and without bias," Mr Coleman Phillips says his pen shall expose everything in the shapo of public corruption 1 Our pen shall do the same, and in Mr Coleman Phillips' letter we have a mass of corrupt matter, Wo shall not insult our readers by refuting the slanders in Mr Phillips' letter against Mr Bunny and Mr McGregou, They are so miserably childish that, in pity to their author, we pass them by and say a few words about the more circumstantial slanders against Mr Booth. Our readers will, after reading Mr Coleman Phillips' loiter bo surprised to learn that Messrs Booth k Co. havo no timber wharf at either Lytteltoii or Wellington, and never had. We have heard of a mote being in a man's eye, and even of a' beam being concealed within it, but it is reserved for Mr Coleman Phillips' optics to have a couple of wharves in thorn. Again, Messrs Booth ifc Co,, do no business with the Harbor Board as tho llailway'Wharf is managed by the Government. The only result of Mr Booth's appointment to the Harbor Board as regards his timber business is that formerly his firm were in a position to tender for timber supplies to the Board and now it is not so, We may also point out that besides Messrs Booth, six others of our mills are directly or indirectly connected with the export timber trade. The railway

tariff was fixed years ago, and lias never been altered but to be raised. It was lowered in 1882 to farmers, butnot to mill-owners, and in the recent alterations it lias in some instances been 'advanced. During the past year Messrs Booth & Co. have paid railway freight on timber to the amount of "about £5,000/ and' our readers , can estimate from this item the sum paid in wages. Our Anglo-Saxon Coleman Phillips threatens to stop all this; to raise the' lates till timber tracks are no longer required and'' mill hands are sent about their business, We might go on at length taking Mr Coleman Phillip's letter to pieces bit by bit, and showing in every section of it false statements,"but we fancy our readers have had'enough of it. The letter, taken as a whole, is a spiteful, silly slauder, of which no other Anglo-Saxon in the community could have been capable of, isave and excepting. Mr Coleman Phillips.

Mr Feilding has received a large quautity of locally grown outdoor grapes, which he is selling at cheaD rates. " At a meeting of the Featherston Farmors' Club held on Saturday last, the question of sending milk and cream to tho Wellington market was discussed, Mr Thomas Arthur, the well known manufacturer and importer of 'oilskins, clothing, waterproof corors, guiu' boots, fla»8, twines, &c, Willis-st,' Wellington, has an adyertinoment in our wanted .column for farmers, minors,'and others. A spocial late mail by the Tongariro closes at Masterton up Friday next. Tho Masterton Oddfellows meet at tho Empire Bote! this evening. We need hardly remind farmers and stockowners of Messrs Lowes and lorns' market sale to-morrow, which is expected to be the biggest Wairarapa sheep auction on record, An unusual number of funorals in the Masterton Cemetery have been recorded during the past few weeks. Yesterday two more were added to the list, one a child of Mr Eobort Donald's, a victim of diptheria. and the other Mrs William Feist, whose coiUn wjs followed to the grave by a considerable number of the old settlers of the district. The service at the grave in this instance was conducted in a very impressive manner hy the Itev J. Fulton, pastor of tho Presbyterian Church, of which tho deceased lady was a mcmbtr,

Messrs O'Malley & Pepperell inform the Post that tlioy intend to enter an action for £20,000 damages against the Wellinatun City Council in connection with tho Te Aro reclamation contact, The gnund of tho action, wo understand, is that the letter was not a lep.al contract at all, and Messrs O'Malley aud Pepperell allege that they have been wrongfully deprivod of £BOOO by the Council under the supposed " contract." Mr George Hooper, of the firm of Hooper and Dodson, brewers, Nelson, died on Friday morning, aged 78 years. He arrived at Nelson in tho ship William Harrison in 1842, and a year later started business as a brewer, which till death he has been actively engaged. Deceased was taken with a fit on Tuesday morning, from which he never recovered. Mr George Hooper was the father of Mr Hooper, tho well-known draper of Masterton. The experiences of a bushmau in Central Australia aro published by tho 'Tlmaru Herald," Tho writer is a Canterbury'born young man, Ho nnd his partners hold 2,000 square miles of country, half of which is ll really good,' 1 but tho remainder is inferior sandhills. Cordollo Downs, tho name of their holding, is in latitude 2(idog SOmin, and enjoys a temperatare of 120deg in tho., shade. He goes on to say: "You will see that wo aro far enough away into the interior, being 800 miles from Adelaide, and on the Queensland boundary. Cartage is one of our difficulties, everything having to bo brought 450 miles on waggonß from the nearest railway, When the seasou is dry this means great exponse, aud very often supplies are unobtainable at any price. Fancy £IOO per ton for Sour. This is the price that is often paid when rations are at a low obb on the stations, If it woro not for the camel trains we' 'should bo in difficulties on tlint score now ; but fortunately they arrived in time to save us from being reduced to meat and water ouly. You have been having a very backward season in the South, I see by the papers, and have been having any quantity of rain, which you could have comfortable halved, and have given us one moiety without slightest inconvenience,"

A resideut in this district has received the following communication re tho mongoose from Mr R. Maunsell, who is now travelling through India" As I under" took to obtain information upon the question of procuring the mongoose in India during my travels in the country, I write to let you know the result of my inquiries, The mongoose, I believe, would be a very useful natural enemy to import into Whareanm for the destruction of rabbits, Everyone I spoke to upon the subject say that the mongoose is very blood-thirsty, and will kill vermin of any kind, I was told by a Queensland aquaner that in Australia the mongoose is taking readily to the business of killine rabbits, and that the P. and O. steamers are taking great numbers over to Australia, When in Ceylon I went to Bee a commission agent, who said that ho would be prepared to supply mongoose to our association, giving him my name and address and yours, I also saw agents m Madras upon the same subject The following are their addresses E, B. Creasy, Colombo, and Oakes & Co , Madras. They estimated that mongoose could be delivered on board for about five shillings each, so that if your Committee should be disposed to obtain mongoose, by writing to the above named gentlemen you will be able to get what information ynu require about the cost of importing the mongoose, I think that it would be as well for them to adopt a plan for the construction of suitable hutches as the ; habits of the mongoose are like that of ferrets." Of the countless good stories attributed to Artemus Ward one of the best is that which tells of the advice he gavo to a Southern railroad conductor soon after the war; The road was in a wretched condition, and the trains consequently were ran at a phenomenally low rate of speed. When the conductor was punching his ticket Artomus remarked, "Does this railroad company allow passengers to give it advice, if they do so in a respectful manner J" The conductor replied in gruff tones that he guessed so. "Well," Artemus went on, " it occurred to me it would be well to detach the cowcatcher from the front of tho engine and hitc|j it to the rear of the train. For you see we are not liable lo overtake a cow, but what's to prevent a cow's trolling into this car and biting a passenger ?' A CARDINAL VIRTUE In any medicinal preparation, is purity in ingredients. The alchemist, who docs .not shrink from publicly exposing; tlie amalgamations ot his alembic, need not appreheud tho ordeal of scientific analysis. All of the components of UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AItO.WATIC SCHNAPPS are of ostrorae, original purity, not compounds purged of noxious elements, but constituents, iu themselves perfectly haririesi, and of tho highest po:sible quality and proof. , i

Messrs Lowoj & lorns add to their stock Bale a splendid young draught marc. Messrs Owon, Schroder, and Co.'s new advertisement of winter-goods and; of seasonable novelties will bo found on our front pago tosmorrowi being 100 late'for this issue. ■ *. v A meeting of the Phranix Lodge of Good Templars was held last night in the 'lemprance Hall, Masterton, There was a fair attendance of members,! but a more important meeting will be held'next Monday night when the installation' ofofficers and the consideration of building a new hall in Dixon street will be proceeded with ;/. The clerk of the District Court at Masterton having been intimated that His Honor Judge Davy would hold a sitting of the District Court for bankrupt cases this morning, opened the Courthouse at the usual hour. As there was no appearance of tho Judge he adjourned the court till half past twelve.o'clock No public inconvenience whb apparently caused by tho postponement, as bur reporter was the only person present on the scene.

A now and valuable addition to local stud horses is now in Masterton. The thoroughbred Lord Manderville having arrived by tho Wukatipu from Sydney. He i 3 a lhrcenycarno!d hy Yattendon out of Lady Constance, and was bought by, Mr T. H. Hill, during his vacant trip to New South .Wales. He will probably travel during the ousuing Bsason. He washed in New South Wales, and comes frijm some of the best blood in Australia, boiug full brother to Lord Burleigh and Lord Lisiiar. '. . It was reported at the Police Station at a quarter to eleven last evening that a li'tle girl named Elizabeth Scadden was missing from her homo. It appeared that Bhe went to school in tho morning and was guilty of somo childish misconduct, Fearing that it might be reported to her parents, it is supposed that abe absented herself from her home, near St Patrick's Church, Kuripuui,' Two Constables, her parents, and Mr Grundy, the master of the school, were up half the night looking for the lost child, but could find no trace of her, The following is tha translation of a loiter left by the unfortunate woman, Plumbridge, who committed suicide after destroying her children I—"' To Hawke I —to the husband'that has caused pain to my heart, —I salu'e you and your anger towards me. You stop with your women. Your evil wife will die from your conduct. I givo hair from my head, enclosed in this letter, to you. 0, Hawke 1 you are the cause of my death, and (hit of my children, and your child in my womb ! I kiss yon in my thoughts. From your wifo who 13 'evil in your thoughts.—fliHEMOA Hawke," Mr Jones, fruiterer, announoes that he lms,received a ton of peanuts to be sold cheap. The annual meeting of ratepayers of the Castlepoint Road District is convened for Tuesday Gib May at the Public Hall Tinui at 2 o'clock.

A reward of five pounds is offered, to any one who will give information leading to the detection of llie person who stole salmon trout fry from the breeding ground of the Wairarapit Acclimisation Society on the. night of 25th inst. We are pleased to notice that Lieut. Kear in another column denies that a domestic servant was kept out late at night by instructions from the officers of S'alvatioH Array. Wo call attention to Rapp and Hares new advertisement in another column, announcing men's clothing, grocery, and ironmongery at wholesalo prices. No doubt the prices published will result in a gooi business being done by that firm, Lowes and lorns add to their slock sale for Wednesday next a line of 250 fat wothers and 20 head ofcaitle. This will briny up the entries to over 5250 sheep beside cattle beiug the largest number -of sheep over offered in the Wellington District at any one sale. ' ' The Masterk'U Borough Council holds a special meoting on Wednesday next at 7.30, p.m. to determine objections lo the new burgess list.. People who have not paid their rates up had hotter settle them before the burgess list is Bigned or they' will have no vote on municipal matters for twelve months.

A lady of Louisiana, U.S. has lately applied for a certificate of license as " master of a steamboat." The American solicitor of the Treasury has declined the application as a matter of propriety." Win« Lee, a hideous-looking Chinaman, and Nellie Burton, a handsome girl, eloped recently from Louisville, and were married by Justice Douglas, of Jaffersonville, Ind. The marriage created quite an excitement, Mr Abraham Hayward stood, without doubt, among the foremost essayists o to-day, And, "though ftlways at work,' the World stales that "hi 3 income earned by his pen never exceeded £2OO a year," One of the oldest members of the Sandhurst (Victoria) Cavalry Corps, now disbanded, has jumped the orderly rooms in that city, on the ground that by the disbanding of the Volunteers, all property held by them was annulled, JohnF. Jones, or " Uncle Jacky," as he was most familiarly called, died in Greencastle (0.), Jan, 25, in tho 85 yea of his age. He was widely known te the travelling public of this' and adjoining States, having kept a hotel here and also at Columbia, Ind.. during tho greater part of his life. When a boy he drank through a mistake a decoction of lye, which caused a contraction of the gullet, and prevented his taking food in any other than a liquid ferm, Even that was attended with difficulty, and he succeeded, in forcing it down his throat by external means. For over sixty years, though a Boniface himself for a greater part of the time he had not eaten a moutlifull of (odd, a statement which bis guests were not disposed to credit without an explanation, Despite his affliction, which was supplemented by a most aoiite attack of hernia, he had an inexhaustible vein of humor in his composition, which found vent in numerous " jokes and gibes that were wont to set his table in a roar." His remains wero taken to Columbus; Ixio,, for interment.

The legislature of lowa, on January 15tb, presented Kate Shelly, the young Irish-American heroine, with a handsome gold medal and 200clola in money. Tho medal tells what for: It was prepared by Tiffany aud Co., of New York, and represents Kate in the act of crossing the railroad bridge over the Des Moines River. Above are the words: ■' Heroism, Youth, Humanity," On the reverse of the medal is ihe following inscription : " Presented by the State of lowa to Sate Shelly, with the thanks of the General Assembly. In recognition of the courage and devotion of a child of fifteen years, whom'neither the terror of the elements nor the fear of death could appal in her efforts to save human life during the terrible storm and flood. in the Des Moines Valley on the night of July 6 1881," An effort is. being made to add to this recognition a more substantial reward, as the family is poor and Kate's widowed mothor has to struggle hard in bringing up her five children, Thick heads.—Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions-" Wells' May Apple PillB"-anti« bilious, cathartic. 5d and Ib, N. Z, Drug Co.

Fiieß anD bugs,—Beetles, insects, roaches, antal bed'bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jaok;rabbits, cleared out -by " Bough on Bats; 7|d Moses Moss &Co„ Sydney, General Agents ■ After several years experience in supplying watches for the colonial market, Littlejohn and" Son, of Lambton Quay, Wellington, havo observed-the need for a thoroughly Bound English Lever Watch at a lower price than that usually jiaid for suoh watches, It is only bj the judicious division of labor and by the manufacture of large quantities on a •uniform plan, that; wo are enabled to meet 'tins' wairt,,We haye now.the.pleasure of Sk ;Guinea Hunting Silver Leverl This witdh,-being; simple in design durable, highly finished, and accurate, fulfils, all the requirements of a pockot timekeeper, A written guarantee for two yearß will bo given with each i Sent by post, securely 'packed, on receipt of Post. Office order or cheque.—[Advtl