The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1884. SELLING THE RAILWAYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1698, 30 May 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1884. SELLING THE RAILWAYS.

A northern, contemporary, "Labour," diacusaea the advantages and disadvantages of selling our railways, It is pointed out that we pay for their use twice—once when we commit our bodies to -be jilted' in . their superior carriages, 'and secondly, when we are taxed to pay interest on them; but even with this drawback, ourcontemporary holds that it is better to keep our railways and the evils we know of than to cell them and get evils we know nothing about. It seems to us that ijajcr Atkinson has made a grave blunder in not selling the railways long ago, He might have disposed of them to ao'rae English syndicate for ten or twelve millions of money, and then introduced a Bill to tax the syndicate on the property it would have acquired Wo wonder this obvious expedient never suggested itself to him. It would have been bo easy to have got rid of ten or twelve millions of debt, and created;'at -the same,time,anew-, taxable property, which might be made for all time to produce some hundred thousand pounds or so pur annum towards the Consolidated Revenue, It might be urged that if the Government had sold the railway? and then taxed the persons they sold them to, they would have been guilty of bad faith, and that they would absolutely be robbing the unfortunate purchasers. This objection is easily answered I Sir George Grey with his land tax, and Major Atkinson with his property tar, have both done exactly tho same thing with Crown Lands. They sold them to the public as freeholds, and afterwards put on a Crown rental in the shape of a speoial tax, which virtually made the freeholders tenants of the Crown. If it would be wrong to sell our railways in the manner we have suggested, viz,, to increase the taxable property of the colony, it has been wrong after selling land to- tax it. Of course it is too late to sell our railways now I The. Government by impairing the value of tho freeholds " after gale anjl delivery" have let the cat out of the bag. No syndicate would purchase from the Goveanment. The only regret is that they were not sold at a time when English capitalists had faith* in the common honesty of the Colonial Legislature, and. when they could have been drawn into the net in which all the. freeholders of New Zealand are now -kicking. It is good to be honest and true, but if anyone had to be cheated would it not have been better to " lot in" English capitalists rathpr than the. freeholders of New; Zealand 1 Either way the result is unsatisfactory! Tho fact that the freeholders, of. New Zealand have been nnjustiy dealt with has frightened the English, capitalists jiist as much as if theyVthemselves, had" been the victim!,' It is too late to sell, our railways now that the State has sold its own freeholders I . ...

Mr Maoaiu wjII run a speoial coach to tho Coursing match in the Lower Valley on Monday mornine.

It ia reported that Bishop Abraham, canon of Lichfield, will probably be appointed provost at Eton College.; The Wuimrapa Jockey Club's halfyearly meeting'takes place to-morrow (Saturday) at Elhotte's 'White Hart Hotel, Carterton, at 3 p.m.

Mv B;'Budden, of.Te Ore Ore, has discovered a ferret m his poultry yard, and expresses hia opinion on Vthis natural enemy in our open columns.,

At a meeting of the College governors yesterday.one tender was received for the lease of a section comprising 6160 aores in the Bangitumau Blook, viz , at £lO for the first seven years; £2O for the second seven; and £3O for the third seven, The tender was not accepted. Messra Lowes & lorns hold at 2 p.m. to-morrow an Important land sate on behalf of the Exeoutive of the lata Michael Dixon and in the estate of Mr E. H, Ohinclton. The list comprises some of the best town and suburban properties in Masterton. The interest in the lease of the Waipoua woolacouring works will also be disposed of at this sale with Biock-in-trade in the estate of Harvey aiid Hons,

Our local contemporary .understands that should lie arrive from Europe in time a requisition will be presented to Mr C, J. Pharazyn asking him \to stand for one of the Wairarapa Constituencies at the ooming general eleotion, : arid that in case he accepts it, BJr Pharazyn will receive the blook vote of the temperance organisations. We presume our contemporary refers to Mr O. Pharazyn, as Mr C, J Pharazyn occupies a seat in the Upper Housb, Were Mr 0.: Pharazyn present at the next general eleotion, lie would we feel sure, come forward, if he cared to contest a seat, on a muoh broader platform than a temporaßce ticket.

The Druid's Ball at Carterton las! Wednesday night ojmeoff wjth marked success, there being'aiout four hundred and fifty peraons present, Mr Gardener is to be congratulated on his taste indecorating the Hull, Tae entertainment commenced at 8 o'clock with the Grand Druids' March, and . then cam# the tableaux called " The Druids' Grove " A tableaux interspersed between every two dances; Messrs Quiok aid Gardener, as Stage Managers deserve jreat praise, fur the promptitude shown by them. The gallery presented a hrilliait aspeot as the. ladies seemed to try anl eolipse eaoh other in their oosturaes. About £ls waß taken at the doors alone, independent of what was received from tickets,

The usual fortnightly concert in connection with St_ Matthew's Church took place last evening, andi h is generally the case, there was a very fair audience. The IW. Mr Paige in iairoduoing the i programme stated that it always fell to his lot to make excuses on behalf of some of the gentleman singers, iittt Very seldom had he to do it on behalf of a lady; arid that evening he had to atoloeiae fur the absence of three gendemen—Messrs Gilmer, Clarke, and Ripp—who, from various causeß, were unable fo attend. Mrß Paige played a piece from Hondo'ssohn in htr ÜBUal brilliant style, Mrs 0. Freeth then singing " The raurmor of the shell" very nicely. Mr Gilpin followed with "The Scout" m a very effective manner, for which he received a well merited encore. The ohoir boys assisted by Messrs Bunny and Moore, then sang the glee "See our oars," which was followed by a recitation from the Rev. W. E. Paige, " The Death of the old Sergeant, This was given in a very impressive manner, A pianoforte snlo was then played by Miss Beard entitled " Mes Souvenir d' Ecosse," in a very ariis'io manner. Mrs Palmerson and Miss Atkinson sang a duetj' " The Happy Hunter," which was well received. A reading, "Josh Billings upon the Prince of Wales," was then given by Mr Beard ill- bis felicitous style. Mr P. G. Moore's song "The Poaober's Widow," was well Bong, and in response to , the en core, he gave a comic Bong, being'assisted in the chorus by the choir boys. The piano solo by Miss Atkinson entitled " Clnlperic" was" played with groat verve and precision. • MrCrant followed with a song that is new to MasUrton " JEhren on the Rhine," for which ho received a vociferous encore. The National Anthem waß then given, bringing a pleasant evening's entertainment to a close.

The largest private library in Australia will lie shortly dispersed. The law hon, Mr MoOregor w»s a large book collector, and his general library, exclusive of law books, numbers more than 10,000 volumes Mr Alexander, bookseller, is now engaged in preparing a catalog for the auctioneers who have been entrusted with the sale. We are informed (says the Herald) that a large portion of the books will be sent to the London Market, where it in anticipated that they could fetch larger prides, Colonial book btyers, it appears,_ do not appreciate the value of first editions; whilst in London on ' odiiio princeps' of Dickons or Thackeray would fetoh six or seven times the amount of the original price,

At 9.30 on Saturday evening, March 15 Weston completed his task.at the Royal Victoria Coffee. Hill, London, of walking 5000 miles in 100 days, amid much enthusiasm. He performed the last mile in 9 minutes 17 seoonda—the fastest of the 5000. There wsb a meelin? at the finish—Dr Normsn Kerr preßidinz, Dr Eichardson and Canon Duckworth gave addresses thereat.

According to the last report of the Panama Company's chief engineer, M. Dingier, the works are now being pushed on actively on fourteen seotiona of the canal. M. Dingier hopes that the oanal will be entirely finished in three and a half yearn-that is to say, a little before the period first announoed by M, de Lesaeps. The total numher of mon now engaged on the works is 15,000. There is a new social movement at Oxford, Many of the undergraduates have deoided that the title of " Esquire" has become so much vulgarised that ii ought to be abandoned by gentlemen. Parents and guardians are astonished and somewhat amused by 6olemn injunctions from the young men at oollege never to address ihem as " Esquire" any more. An effort is being made to get up the same agitation at Cambridge. Plain '' Mr" is henceforth to be the distinguish ioj? badge of social eminence.

* At Shiffnal, in the west of England, there was recently burried a man of iirand stature named J, L. Stubbs. • His coffin measured 27n) across the shoulders, 7ft in length, and 2ft in. depth. It required the united strength of ten men to lift when the corpse was placed in it ■ Planks were placed against the bedroom i Window, and the coffin lowered, down to a truck, and was thus wheeled to the •churchyard. The ground was cut away at "the head of the grave to form , an incline, permitting the coffin to slide into its resting place.; The weight of Mr SStubbs was ab'out'B7slbs. : It is Worth a Tbial.—" I was troubled for many years with, kidney' complaint gravel, &0., my blood'beeametliin, I was duii and'inaotive, oould hardly crawl about, was an old worn-out man all over', and oould get nothing to help me until I got Hop Bitters and now my blood and kidneyß are all'right, and'l am as active : as a man of thirty although I am seventy-two, and I have no doubt it will do as well for others of my age, It is worth the trial,"-(Father.) Notice

Woodvillo has at last secured a medical roaident, a Dr Atterbury, ox tho good ship "Northumberland."

Hia Excellency the Governor left-the for Wellington in the s,s, Hinonma yesterday morning, Mr Henry Anderson gives a graphio account of api iiiialistio phenomena 'iu Grejtown tbrougli the columns of the N.Z. Times. 1

H/Lawßon intimates' that His drapery sale in Queen street will continue for ten days longer, dnnng ' which ; time the' whole ;of -hia stook will be disposed of regardless of cost,

• Muir and Dixon havo jußt turned .oW from their well known establishment a handsome brake, guaranteed to oarry two tpps, wbioh Mr IJarley, the oarrier ( intends substituting for one of his heavy vehicles, and which is , oalo&lated to enable him to contend with "winter roads." ; '

The New Zealand football team opened theiroaaipaignstParramattaon Wednesday against the county of Cumberland team. The weather was fine, but the ground was bard. At the close of tho day'* play, the New Zealanders had scored 38 points, and homo toam none,' For tho visitors, T. Ryan seoured one Roal, and O. Helmoro three. Eoberts, RobevfeOn, O'Donnsll, and Lucky eaoh obtained two trios, and laiaroa and W, V, Milton (captain) threa each. The' Parramatla team displayed. poor play, but that of the New Zealanders was much admired.

On dit that, from a social point of view —' wntes a contemporary—the coming session will be very dull, Very fe» persons aro likely to entertain largely. It is said M.H.E.'a will be very anxioni '' to get back to their oomtituenoies, and, therefore, will do their utmost to have, a short session', and will be in no mood to, indulge in gaieties,

The return matoh between the Wellington Guards and Magterton Riflea was fired at PoHhill Gully on Wednesday morning, the. visitors winning by 50 points, Five ■hota were allowed at oaoh range, the posstole total being 75, The Maaterton men made C 01; E Kibblewhito being top soorer. with 55, while Anketoll and Gi Bentley were well up with 52 eaoh, The Guards responded with 451, A. Ballinger and Hale scoring 55 and 64 respectively. The former ruatoh was won by the' Mastertop team by a larger majority.' ;;

We have been favored wi'li a story of a Waterloo veteran, but we can give a better one of our own. We knew lum well. He served at Waterloo, and got shot in the bead. The surgeon loosened' the ball, but could not extract it. Thon it used to go travelling around his omnium, He only shook his head once, and wo immediately elected him night, watchman and ratilo oombined. One night the ball got down in his throat, and we only saved him from choking by turning. him up by the heels and heavily bumping bie head on the pavement, Thiß is a true ato*y.

Colored preachers may not always get the words of scripture, but they generally understand its spirit. One of them wanted to quote the text, "The harvest is past, the summer la over, and we are not saved" but not beins; able to read, he gave the gist of it thus.—"De oorn has been cibbed, dere aint any more work, an' old Satin is Btill foolin' wid dis community." The total effeotive strength of the Frenoh army during 1883 was 530,132 men of all ranks, the total number brought before the rpgolar courts-martial was 4934, or one in every 107 ; 4122 were condemned, and 812 acquitted .Of the condemned, men 41 were sentenced to death, 86 to penal servitude, 1 k to im« P'isonment with hard labor, 'IBB to 'inclusion,' 495 to labor at the publio works, 3242 to short periods* of simple confinement, and 49 to fines. The charge against 1862 was desertion or military disobedience. Of the 41 sentenced to death, 82 had their sentence commuted, one of the other nine committed 6uioide in prison; 14 of the accused who had fled to foreign countries had been brought back.

It is " good business" to be apjpular preacher in America. Mr Beeoher'a stipend for this year is £SOOO, and. that of Dr Talmage is £3000.'

. In 1882 over 253,0001b of ostrich feathers was exported frnm'the'Cape of Good Hope, the value being i1,0?3,989. This is sevenfold what it'was ten years l>gO.

Belgium was the Erst oountry on the continent to construct railways, State fetea were to have been celebrated on' the Ist of May, the fiftieth anniversary of the day when the construction of a Belgian railway was first decreed. It is estimated that the numbor of children and teachers in the Christian Sunday schools throughout the world is 15,000,000, A medioal man said—"l found, on examination, a contusion of the integument under the orbit; with extravasation of blood and echymosis of the surrounding cellular tissue, which was. in a tumefied state, with abrasion of the outiole, " The thing thus desoribed was a blackeye. During the last four years importation of coffee ii.to England has undorgone an almost steady decrease, to the extent of about 18 per cent,-while the amount retained for home consumption, after deducting the balance for re export, haj from over 809,000 owl., .to about 285,000 cwt. It is in the importations from Ceylon that the decline is most marked. The number of Volunteers enrolled in England in 1883 was 209,865, that is the highest total yet attained, Theporoentage of efficients being 96 69. Dr Price, the Welsh ' Druid, has announoed his. intention of erecting a crematorium at Llanirisaaut, and persdni who desire to be cremated, or whose executors wish the remains to be bo disposed of; will be accorded the requisite facilities, fie states that all his family will bo creraa.ed there, and poiun out the financial advantage of creiiiatioh over other modes of disposing of, the dead, • '

In the theatre at Weimar, in Germany, j not long ago, there were only seven persons in the hsase; The pit took offence at the miserable ac'iug of .a performer, and hissed liimenergetically; whereupon the manager brought hia company on tQ the Btage and the audience. In Madrid, Father; Mon, a Jesuit preaoher, having denounced, in presence of two of the King's sisters, the fashion" able practice of going to se& the l'renoh .plays,at;the theatres during lent,' the fact waa reported to : tho Council if Ministers; and consequent upon 'the representations to the Primate, Father Mon was ordered, to retire at onoe to: Seville. ' Mother Swan's worm syrdp lafalibla tasteless, hacmlcs cathario; for feverishneea, restlessness, worms, constipation.', Is Moses, Moss' . & Co., druggists, Sydney, General Agents.. Not A Beverage.—'• They are. not -p, beverage, but a medicine, with curative properties of the highest degree, containing, no poisonous drugs. They do not tear down analready debilitated, system,, but build it iip, One bottlo contains more real hop strength than a ,barrel of ordinary-beer Physicians prescribe them.-itocWer fanning Exprm, pa Hop Bittera. Read, Thick nBAD3.-Heavy stomachs,, bilious conditions'—' 1 " Wells' May Apple Pills"—trntibilious, cathartic, 5d and Ib. N. Z. Drug Co.

■ . Tbo.firat printed almanac was published lin Buda-Pesth .in 1475. Twenty years I after it, tho first printed almahao appeared, It contained muoh miscellaneous andgeneral information; but the compiler i was consistently and gloriously mysteri" oua, Others rapidly followed: Twentyfive/iyearaago an almanac was found in an old cheat at Edinburgh, end placed in the Bodliaii library, where it may how "be Been, It has on its-title page, "Flete Sirefe,.bfWy'nk'in da Worde." : 'J:. Digest J' chapter of Herbert Spencer »,nij one# .Thomas Carlylo along in the 'orenoon, B»h a Matthew Arnold's esiay Jjj r Ipich.^M"up yi>h, Emerson and Thoreao, Wtiltdr Whitman, and Joaquin Miller, immediately after dinner, If after this yoa .c»q; j»at your impressions of what foa bpv? read on paper in a clear and IforojbU.style yon have an intellect that is! woi«pjoof jiiifl just' as good as now.— Hartford Post.' ■ - • - 1 18 MADE OP THE STOMACH by.those wboswallow. with avidity, every prescription commended to thoir lipj, Tuo result la' i the system 19 not only irretriavably ruined but really 1 efficacious remedies lose their virtue, If peoplo would only exercise nm Judgement than oredulity, and have lessjaith than circumspection about them. thoy would w»M« only in those measures, that assert their .own supremacy. Tiny would take notiln? into the system but chat, Hlca IJDOLPHO WOIiFB'3 SGHIKDAM I ASUMAIfIO BCHNAPPS, vindicate lit value by its [aCDCfo . M,' U.-. -

After several years experience in supplying' watoheifor th* oolonial maikot, Littlejohn and Cod, of L^jabtou j Quay, Wellington, bwa ob^rviil'thfl-need for a thoroughly sound English Lever Watoh at a lower price thra thst usually psid for such watohes. It is only b} the-judioious division of labor and by the munufcotare of large quantities on a. uniform plin, that we :ue] enabled to meet jhis.wAnt We have poff the pleasure of introiuoiiw our Bix Guinea Hunting Silver Ley»r,; Tflis watoh, ;bailig simple in design durable, highly finished, and aoourate,fulfils, all. the A written guarantee for two years will be wtflh, Sent by post, eourely waked, oh receipt of Post Offioe order dr cheque.-/ Anvil