The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1885. GAS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1901, 29 January 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1885. GAS.

The Masterton Borough Council proposes to construct gas works within the town, to raise the sum of £IO,OOO for this purpose under special loan, and to pledge such gas works for the security of the loan. Wo have not been a very warm advocate of the course now adopted, because we did not believe that a sufficient number of votos were likely to be obtained to carry the poll, but How that it is absolutely decided that a poll shall betaken, we will do all in pur power to aBBiBb in bringing it to a successful issue. The statistics of the Aahburton gas works published in another column indicate that an enterprise of this character may be mado profitable to a Borough the size of Masterton, and relievo rather than increase the burden borne by the ratepayers. We do not, however, anticipate that gaa works in Masterton will yield the profit that the Ashburton balance-sheet indicates, but we do expect that they will pay interest on the loan and possibly a surplus of one or two hundred pounds per annum, If the poll can be carried it is decidedly more advantageous for the Borough Council to supply gas than for any private company to do so, whether it be a Wellington company or a local consumers' association. The real difficulty will be to get a sufficient number of ratepayers to vote in order to carry the loan. The promoters of the movement must work hard to secure this. A good many of the ratepayers of the Borough Jive in the Suburbs, and their support cannot be

expected. There are also übseiitjo owners of property who cannot bo made, use of at the poll. The sooner, those who are anxious to secure tho sucecs. of the movement canvass tho town and ascertain the number of votes they- can' depond upon,.being polled, v thp- better. They will then know, the additional number of names that will bo required to carry tho proposals, and will have ample time to work- them up also, Taking a Jji'oad.view of-tiio.question- it-is to-the interests'of tho" town that the proposals should be carried,, and even, 'a/suburban *farnfer,'.lf' lie studies'tho question a little,' will not say " I don't want gas'aiid' won't vote for it," but will ask himself'' will the introduction of gas benefit tho Borough and'tend to increase the value of property, within it, If so, it will pay me, as a holder of property, to vote for it."

The Phoenix Lodge, 1.0. G.T. meets tliis evening lor the election of officers.

Tondersaro invited by .the Castle Point Road Board for repair and metalline at the Flint Cutting of the main line of road. Messrs Lowes & lorns add to thoir stock sale for Wednesday next forty head of mixed cattle. We call attention to the special bargains advertised in another column by Mr W. Bell of Denison House, ■ Wo understand that arrangements aro being made for 'ivo' to deliver a series ol lectures in Masterton, The monthly meeting of the Masterton Farmers Club will take place at the Council Chambers on Saturday next Jan 2oth at3.3op.m,

The adjourned regular meeting of the Masonic Lodge 1430, 8.C., takes place on Monday next, at the Masonic Hall, Bannister street.

Great complaints are being made in the Carterton district about the destruction of the turnip crop by the fly or some other insect, Can anybody hit off a cure, As the first day of the races of the Wairarapa Jockey Club falls on the 18th of February the day fixed for the sale of rams by Messrs Lowes and lorns, that firm have decided to hold their 6aloon the preceding day, February 17th. Messrs Benjamin Smith & Cave are instructed by the Mortgagees to offer for immediate sale a superior farm of 899 acres on the Taratahi Plain Block of good level agricultural land, also 3728 acres of land in the Paliaua and Wainuioru districts,

Messrs Ordish (chairman), Gallon, Jones, Zillwood, Brown, Maguire and Zillwood, have been elected a committee for the Matarawa School, and Messrs W. S, Wakelin (chairman), Woods, Mitchell, Hodge, Dick, Ward, and Waite, a committee for the Kaitara School. '

Harvest operations have commenced on the farms of Mr W, Francis, and Colonel Ferringdon in the East Taratahi district. All that is now wanted after the last rain is a continuance of fine still weather which according to Captain Edwin we are not likely to get. Let us hope that, he will at least in this case prove a false prophet,

The Masterton Cricket Club will play a match, married v single, on Saturday afternoon. The following are the teams; —Married, Hathaway, Harrison, Fitton, Jaques, Beard, O'Connor, Moore, Williams, McKenzie, Matthews, and Hare; Single, Slceman, Beaufort, Perston, Bethune, Whatman, Minifie, Hirschberg, Ebblewhite, Bruce, Chennells, Pern, Emergency Porritt,

Mr F. H. Wood advertises an entirely unreserved sale of first class dairy cows, horses, farming implements, &c, at Papawai, near Greytown, on Tuesday next. This presents agoodopportunityto persons requiring any of the abovo. On February 12th Mr Wood will hold a stock sale at Feathewton.

Calico* is proposed to be used in framing the exhibition building at Wellington, why don't they tiy ' Shoddy i' Great is the talk and heavy the betting (writes our Greytown correspondent) on the match which comes off at Tauherenikau on Saturday between Benton's Welcome Jack and Bishop's Utu. The race is to be ran at three o'clock.

Wo call tho attention of our readers to an advertisement over the leader by Mr 0. Smith, of the cash store, Queon-street, in which he announces a great slaughter sale for fourteen days.

At the close of a case in the District Court at Inveroargill, Judge Ward, referring to the great length of the time occupied in taking evidence, said .• 'There is one reform in the proceedings in our Courts of Justice' which wo may well borrow from American practice, viz., the appointment to each Supreme Court of a sworn shorthand writer, to take down the evidence, in lieu of leaving tlie Judges to write them out at full length, The present practice in New Zealand is simply ridiculous, since what has been stated by a witness at ono trial may be proved, among other ways by the Judge's notes; but to quote Taylor on Evidence, ' This mode of proof is open to very grave, if not insuperable'objections, .as such notes form no part of the record, nor is it the duty of tho Judgo to take them, I nor have they the sanction of the bath to. [their accuracy or completeness" (vide Conradi v Conradi, 1 Law Rep, p, andd. 514, P.K. Wilde, 10), But in Banco, ?n tho motion of a new trial, for instanco, the riotea taken by the Judge at the first trial aro presumed to bo correct,' and no proof of his blunders in taking down the evidence will be accepted, Pratically a Judge's notes are seldom used except in. Banco. It is unnecessary also to point out tho enormous saving of time to jurors witnesses, and suitors that would be gained by the adoption of the American practice, in addition-to' the increased accuracy. The oxpense would be a mere trifle for each Court, as tho shorthand writer would probably belong to tho staff of a newspaper...l ..do trust, that tho present Ministry may see their way to carry out tliis amendment in our legal practice Mr Wade said—l havo often' wondered that Justices have bom the present practice so long. Hi 3 Honor.— It is not tho Judges, they are paid for their time, but juries and suitors are not; the saving of time to them would be great and it is marvellous that the raform has not been effected long before this."

Ten tons of dynamite recently exploded at a factory near Toledo, Ohio. The workmen in the building escaped with slightinjuries except one who was severely burnt.

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The fodktais of rmncAi tooth does not spring exclusively within the confines of classic story. Its fresh and living waters flow to-day from other well-heads/ Tho weak and the. dcbilidated have hut to drink of Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam AnojiAiic Schxapps, and soon they' start to renewed vitality. It. is the modorn rovivifier, touching to elasticity and strength, the impaired in health' and tho suffering with disease.

Mr W. T. Grundy, head muster of tho Misterton High School, has written to tho Education Beard asking for directions as to whether school teachers aro responsible for the supervision.ofchiidroh in tho playgrounds" during recreation hours. Tho Board was unanimous at its meeting, yesterday in casting the responsibility mi the 'teachers.V • / ' ;.'*,..• . v;

The programme of the entertainment to bo given in aid of the Misterton Museum fund in tho Thoatre Royal,' to-morrow evening, ie published in.another column, Inthefirstpa,rttlieciiaracte'rsinthccoiiiedy' '. clrania.aVe.ro bo, Armstrong,.!, Maitland, W r Rapp,A, Thompson, and.Miss Agnes'.-Montagu. In the second part Mr 5,.R.-Wicker.son sings a-ballad, Miss-Agnes -Montagu-gives" s descriptive song, Mr W, Rapp produces, a, local song on the Wairarapa Gold Mine, and Cecil Riverton renders one of those" pieces for which ho justly enjoys ,s'p high a reputation. A screaming farce concludes •a very'attractive programme. . . ,

At a recent coftviviiil' gathering the' following toast was proposed:—" The Bench and the Bar—lf' it was not for thenar thero would be little use for tho bench."

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