The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1884. SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1757, 9 August 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1884. SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Why the Atkinson Ministry should resign on the day that the new Parliament met 1 !-Why the late Premier in handing in his resignation proffered no advice to His Excellency?— Why Sir William P. J ebvojs did not ask Major Atkinson for advice? are questions which might be readily answered if we were behind the scenes and understood the negotiations which have no doubt already taken place amongst leaders of parties and the understandings which have been arrived at, No one will question the propriety of His Excellency resorting to Mr Ormond for advice, or the sagacity displayed by Mr Ormond in recommending Sir Julius Vogel to be sent for. The general election defeated the Ministry, andcrushed, we are happy to say, Sir George Grey and Mr Montgomery, It is a positive pleasure to feel that at last a cabinet can be formed without consultation with the great pro-consul. It iB a great satisfaction to know that Sir Julius Vogel is virtually Premier. He may be an adventurer, but he is quite capable of discharging the responsibilities which he is undertaking, and few who knqw him in former days will be disposed to under rate his capacity. Sir Julius Vogel is urn doubtedly a man of genius! • Ab a rule we do not oare for brilliantly clever men because they usually possess some glaring defects which make them less reliable than ordinary mortals, but there are times when the services of men of this class are needed, and the present period in the history of .New Zealand-is a caße in point, The colony has not made that progress which it Bhould have done during tho few years, lc has been almost in a siokly condition, and the remedies applied and suggested by Messrs Atkinson, Grey, and Montgomery have only tended to make the patient worse, Dr "Vogel comes on the scene, correctly diagnoses the complicated disorders, and indicates the remedy. He may be' more of a quack than our other learned pundits,' but then in our opinion he is right and. thoy are wrong, Ho can cure the patient and they cannot. When Sir Julius Vogel shortly after his arrival

avowed himself aB opposed to property tax, land tax, and income tax we felt i that at last the right man had come to j the colony to correct the foolish blundering of both the Ministerial and Radical parties. With Sir Julius Yoqei, as Premier the New Zealand Parliament will accomplish better work iii the future than it has been possible for it to d 6. in the past. We may be somewhat anxious to know by what sort of coalition Sir Julius will establish a Ministry, but we have sufficient confidence in him to believe that he will obtain a sufficient following to form a strong cabinet, and that he will make no very serious mistake in selecting his team. Sir Julius Vogel had a long interview with His Excellency the Governor this morning, and it is understood that he has accepted the task of forming a Government. Sir Julius Vogel is. now in consultation with Mr Stout. The Wairarapa West County County meets to-day. We understand that Captain Francis is the successor of Captain Bowerman to the charge of the Salvation Army at MaateJton, Mr Peter Lain?, of the Red House, Lambton Quay, Wellington, has an announcement in another column, which will interest epicures. We hope to Bee a full meeting of members of the Maaterton and Opaki Jockey Olub this evening as business of the first importance is to be discussed, A brother of a well-known Maaterton resident writes from the Crystal palace by last mail describing the festivities there in honor of King Tawhiao, Ho finishes his narrative with the following lament, " But, oh, what an ugly looking man he is!" Rumors of" jold," are still in the Maaterton atmosphere. For some weeks past two men have been camped in the ranges hunting for reefs, and subsisting on a meagre diet in whioh the main ingrodient has been the succulent heart of the moun* taiu cabbago tree. One of them came into town yesterday, and intimated that they had " struck oil," and that next week thoy would divulge the srood nows of an aurifereouß discovery. The Wairarapa is about to be visited by Fisher's Burlesque and Pantomime Conb pany. The Press in various places speak in high terms of the artistes conneoted with it, They have just como from Ohristohurch, and the Lyttelton Times and Christchurch Telegraph Bpeak in warm terms of the abilities of the company taken as a whole. The troupe consists of ton performers, and they bring their own Bcenery with them. They commence at Featherston on Monday night j appear at Greytown on Tuesday, and at Carterton on Wednesday. From thence they come to Maaterton for three nights. We are given to understand that Mr Bellmaio, the Gladstone schoolmaster who has mot with such a sad end at the Hutt, had some years .ago a very startling experience. It seems that he bad a severe fall, dislocating his jaw, besides other injuries, and was supposed to be dead, So convinced were his frionds of this, that all arrangements were made for interment, when it was discovered thai he was only in a trance. In this state he continued for three weeks, Anally recovering. In consequence of this he extracted a promise from his wife that in the oase anything happened to him in the future, she would not allow him to be buried until thoroughly satisfied that he was really dead, In consequence of this a gentleman left Carterton by train to-day for the Hutt, for the purpose of bringing the remains up to the Wairarapa for the satisfaction of the bereaved lady, Our weatbor reporter writes;— The weather this week has been severe in frost, wet, and cold. On Sunday afternoon a dust Btorm, followed with rain from tho south, occurred, Your correspondent has reason for remembering it, because he was in it, and poor eyes, nose, and mouth, had a bargain which they did not appreciate. It was wet on two days, The total rainfall for the week is .300 parts of an inoli. The mean reading for the barometer iB 29.53 inches, and for the thermometer it is 40 Fah. |t has been frosty all the week, and the wind strong at limes. Your readers remember that it was predicted that , the year 1884 would be a very unhealthy one. Ap' parently this prediction is likely to be only too true, In almost all directions smallpox is spreading, and in Europe cholera is making headway, and these are two of the most dangerous diseases we can have amongst ns, It behoves one End all to use the beat known means to prevent the spread of these (viz,, cholera snd small pox), viz,, cleanliness in both house aud person, - By the giving way of a scaffolding in a tunnel on the Pennsylvania railroad, Ligonier, Pa., on May 29, nine men, principally Italians, were killed, " Marry in Lent, you'll live to repent," is an old proverb, and English Church people seem to be still of this opinion. During the whole si* weeks of Lent the Times front column recorded only 170 weddings in English Churches; while on the four closing days alone of Easter week 141 marriages were recorded. In Burmah, when a young woman is ill her parents agree with a physician that, if he oures the patient, he may have her, for his tronble; but if she dies under his medicines, he iB to pay them her full value. It is stated that sqme successful physicians have large families of females who thus become thoir properly. Rabbits fight in a very singular manner. Each endeavors to leap over the other, and to kick his adversary's head in doing ao. These tactics, though amusing to a spectator, often, inflict much pain and injury on the combatants, and they spring over each other so qmckly that the eye can scarcely follow their movements, A contemporary says that there is a woman in Tasmania who has one blue eye and one brown one, This is not so much of t wonderful thing, There is a woman in the next yard to U8 who hss frequently a blue and a black one, and sometimes both her eyes are black. But that is only when her husband comes home unusually late, and finds that she has removed the keyhole, Frederiok Albert and George Nye have for years worked together as minerß jn a colliery in the village of Burnside, About a week ago they oommunioatea to each other that their married lives were unhappy. Nje finally suggested that they Bhould exohange wives as a possible way out of their troubles, ' Albert consented and the women did not objeot. Mrs Nye packed up hec personal effeots aud went to Albert's house, while Mrs Albert sought the hone of Nye. Both women seemed perfectly satisfied, and their husbands remain as firm friends as ever. The largest and best 3tock of men's porpoise hide hand-sewn walking boots, especially adapted for winter wear, arc to be seen at Kapp & Hare's Emporium, (Advt) Flies and bugs,—•Beetles, insects, roaches, ants_ bed'bugß, rats, mice, gophers, jackrabbits. cleared out by " Rough ou Eats' Wd, MosesJMosß &Co,, Sydney, General Agents

The general committee of the Maaterton Horticultural' and Industrial Society meets this evening at the Council Chambers at 8 o'clock, to aettle the programme for the Spring Show, A brake-load of juvenile footballers left' Neill'a. Btables at 11 o'clock this morning in charge of Mr Grundy and Mr Bethune to play in the matoh Master* ton ,y. Grey town. -

Mr Lowes, J.P., heard a somewh ß ' tedious and complicated case in the R.M. Court this morning in which Mr Collier sued Mr Ewiugton (or 4a poundage fee paid by him under protest, Mr Beard appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Bunny for the defendant. The case for the plaintiff was that the servant of the defendant had taken his horses off an island on the Waipoua river bed, which island ■ m not ths property of the defendant, The defendant claimed the island as his property, The Court reserved its decision. The Finance Committee of the Masterton Borough Council sat in conclave last evening over outstanding rates. It was resolved to recommend the Council to adopt such measures in the future as would reduce to a minimum the long lists of arrears which have heretofore prevailed. *

Messrs Caselberg and Price, two useful members of the Borough Council, retire .shortly by rotation from their office as Councillors, and we regret to learn that they do not intend coming forward for reelection.

A French dramatist makes one of his characters in a recent play declare that he is" holding up the trousers of despair with the braces of hope." Hood, in an artiole of singular humor states that the phrase, '■ republic of letters" was hit uoon to insinuate that, taking the whole lot of authors together, they had not got a sovereign among them.

Mr Dawsou, Liberal member of Parliament, speaking at a meeting at Glasgow said the agitation conducted by Parnell in Parliament, and Davitt outside, had resulted in a gift of £45,000,000 to Ireland.

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