The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1884. THE RAILWAY ROBBERY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1792, 19 September 1884, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1884. THE RAILWAY ROBBERY.

A few days ago we stated that this district was about to be cut off from the North Island Trunk line in the interests of a private company, The announcement has been received with comparative indifference, and though the question is a vital one to the Wairarapa settlers, they seem careless about il, This means that the contemplated robbery is pretty certain to be consummated. There are two aspects from which the proposed spoliation may be considered, It is our duty to ask how far it will effect colonial interests in the first place, and in the second to what extent it will injure this district. What is about to be done, as we understand it, is that a sum of £150,000, more or less, which is required to connect Kopuaranga with Woodnillo, is to be diverted to link Woodville with Palmerston North. This sum which has hitherto been supposed to be appropriated for opening up a ricli fertile country, is to be spent on the construction of a loop line through a barren and infertile district. Again, by constructing the loop line, the Government will divert the through traffic of the North Island from their own line to the railway of a private compauy. Tho consequence will be the making of the fortune of the private company at the expense of the colony. Possibly, the Government will find it necessary to take over the West Coast Railway trom the private company, If they do this, no doubt the colony will pay dearly for its whistle, and shares in the private company will be at a high premium. Of course it may be urged that the proposed diversion of the trunk lino at Woodville will connect the East and West coast of the North Island, but, if this alone were the object of the Government, it could be effected at less than half the cost of the Gorge line by crossing a low saddle in the ranges at the hack of Pahiatua. It is however well known that the object of the Government is to secure the political support of Wellington and Napier representatives who have railway axes to grind, The question of the loss which this district will sustain by the proposed robbery is somewhat difficult to guage. The Wairarapa will in a few years time have to depend upon the Forty-Mils Bush for its timber supply, and if the railway line stops at Kopuaranga this important local industry will be materially affected, Were we in a position to open up the Forty-Mile Bush country with good metalled roads the loss of the through line would possibly be not very material, but we do not suppose that the Government in taking £150,000 of railway money from the district will give a single' thousand pounds back to make roads with more especially if we continue to display that apathy and indifference for which we are now so conspicuous. Were the boot on the other leg and the Wellington Company were about to lose a through line for the benefit of the Wairarapa, Heaven and earth would bo moved to stay the transfer. We do not care to see a private Company jump our claim. The least we could do. would be to make terms with the spoilers.

A ploughman udverriaes in our wonted columns for a situation, The Institute Committee advertise for a piano to be hired for the upper room.

MrF, Hi Wood conducts a sale of general raerohandize at his auction rooms to-morrow.

Mrs Palmer's new song J'.-'Twas only a dream," is on sale at'Mr T. E. Pnce'a bookseller's establishment at Masterton, In our notice of this composition the other day we omitted to state that Messrs Book and Cousin's were the publishers of the sheet.

Messrs Elder Bros have an announcement in another column with reference to ft splendid imported horae Crawford Priory, which, from its pedigree onght to give a big lift to racing Btook in the Wairarapa district. This evening Mr J, J. Freetk, who has devoted almost a life time to the study of the Maori language and native characteristics, gives the museum fund the benefit of his services by lecturing at the Institute on " The Maoris—their legends and superstitions." We hope to see this first effort made by the museum committee to give instructing and entertaining lectures to the publio liberally responded to by all classes of the community. His Worship the Mayor will take the chair. An illumination of the Bon Mavche' ocours to-night that the publio may look and lone for what cannot be obtained till the following day.

The Masterton Tent, 1.0. R., met at the Temperance Hall last night for the coudnot of ordinary business, Bro, Eaßthope, 0.R., submitted to the Lodge a copy of the proposed amendments to the Licensing Act. The various clauses were gone through, and the O.R. was instructed to communicate the opinions of the Tent thereon to Mr G. Beetham, M.H.R. for the district.

The report of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Presbyterian Church for the past year shows that it has mission stations in China, Greece, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, and the Indian Country, making 7 missions, 75 out-stations, 23 ordained missionaries, 33 female assistants, 56 native preachers, licentiates, teachers, and helpers—ll2 laborers in all, with 45 organized churches, 1750 ohiiroh members—2l7 having been added during the past year—2s schools, with 545 pupils. The receipts from all sources amount to $70,167, being an increaao of nearly S4OOO, A word tu the wiso is sufficient, Don't think of purchasing men's, youths, or boy's Spring or Summer clothing until you have inspected the large stock now opening at Rapp and Hare's Emporium—(Advt.)

Messrs Lowes and lorns sell furniture and sundries to-morrow afternoon at two o'clook,

Lowos & lorns add to their sale tomorrow a valuable collection of earpeuterV

Mr Stout was not present in the House yesterday on account of indisposition and will not he in the House this afternoon, but will endeavor to be in his place when the debate-comflß on to-night. At the Welliugton Chamber of Commerce Conference yesterday the bankruptcy question was discussed but nothing definite done,

A Woodvilla settler named Wakensen was drowned this morning while crossing the Manawatu river on foot at the ford leading to Puketoi. The body is not yet recovered.

People who busy themselves about the religous leanings of politicians have discovered that the present Cabinet is composed of gentleman of widely different opinions, It is said that there are two Roman Catholics (Messrs Buckley and Tole), one Jew (Sir Julius Vogel), two Freethinkers (Messrs Stout and Ballance), one Presbyterian (Mr Reynolds), and one Episcopalian (Mr Richardson).

We published a letter addressed to Mr G. Beetham the other day io which it was intimated that Mr Perry had perpetrated a mining joke iu Napier aud was consequently to be regarded with bubpicion in this neighborhood. The writer of the letter in question called at our office this afternoon to explain that he had i been raißled as to Mr Perry's Napier antecedents, and that he with-, draws the statement made reflecting on him, finding it, on enquiry, to be altogether unfouuded.

An elderly man, named Robert Hurt, a station laborer was brought up on remand oharfjed with being drunk on the 18th instant, and damaging the property of William Neill to the extent of 309 by breaking a window. It waß known that the accused formerly had had his head injured by a limb of a tree falling and Btrikinß him and that a little drink seriously BlTected him, He was fined Is and costs 7a, and ordered to pay for the damage, 30s, or fourteen days hard labor.

Ono of our religious exchanges gives its readors the following news items: " It is believed by scientists who have given the subject close attention that people live longer than tliey used to live, and there is an assurance that much may yet be done to prolong our lives, Tho late Dr. Ferr, in his description of the march through life of a million children, has given the following results: Nearly 15,000 will die during the first year, 53,000 in the second year, 28,000 in third year, and less than 4.000 in the thirteenth year At the end of forty-live years 500,000 or one-half will have died, At the beginning of sixty years 370,000 will still be living. At the beginning of the eighty years, 90,000; at eightyfive, 38,000, and ninety-five years, 2,100. At the beginning of one hundred years, there will be 223 and at.loß years ]." A few years ago this editor would have been gored by a Papal "bull" for placing "patristic philosophy" where it would be obliged to answer a question relative to the above and which will naturally suggest itself to an enquiring mind: "How about the old Patriarchs? Were they a special creation f

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