The wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1885. TE WHITI.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1931, 5 March 1885, Page 2

The wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1885. TE WHITI.

The past and present proceedings of Te Whiti and his followers reminds us of the stage' instructions in some-of' Shakespeare's plays—"alarums, excursions," Wo have had the alarums' and' areinow having the excursions. The whole pro-, ceedlngs are born of restlessness, and are in strict keeping with the present state of existence in which the Natives are placed, This state of restlessness, which with us has become energy, does not find its vent with the Natives in that necessity for systematic work which the wants of a more civilised people forces upon them. Even the poorest hapus, among the Natives, those drawing no rents from reserves, can by a few months work in the. year raise enough for the rude subsistence their wants require. Buckle has ably shown that if a people have a staple food which is easily grown, rcndering.thenfore: filling of their bellies a simple matter, such'a people, encouraged by a temperate or warm climate, will rarely (unless driven by over pressure, as with the Chinese) cultivate those habits of industry and economy which raise and conserve capital, Such a staple food the natives have in tho potato, backed by fcho caso with which pigs are raised, and the abundance of fish on our coasts, while the climate of this Island, especially in the northern portion, is on the warm side of temperate. It is thon evident that whilo the Natives have theso blessings (if bucli thoy are) and do not aspire to livo more after ourUandard of comfort,: they will have much idle time on their hands, and are likely to be annthor illustration of the truth of Dr Watts' lines, and.'a temptation to their "taipo." The brief period of industry which they bore in the early days of the Colony was only sustained by the urgency of temporary wants. The necessity of obtaining arms and the simpler of our tools was one oause of this industry ; and' the novelty of acquiring European clothes and other civilized adjuncts to reasonable comfort, which the Missionaries hoped to make them feel as a permanent want, was the other cause. Add to this that savages are like children, prone to imitate, and we see why at one period of the Native history-an ordinary observer might think (as many did) that the habits of an entire people were changed for the better. In almost all Native settlements of any age one may see the remains of flour mills, neglected orchards, traces of large plots once 'carefully cultivated to feed the mills, and other evidences of a former industry exerted to supply some of the civilived wants, The question is sometimes asked, ,".In what condition wouid the Natives be in, say in fifty years, if once more left entirely to themselves." We think it may be safely said, a condition of relapse. It is true the ancient Britons progressed fifter the withdrawal of Roman influences but tliey were rather more'advanced when tho foreign occupation took place. They were forced into industrlousness until it became a habit, and the suporior race were a lengthened period with them, bosides having a food and a climato inducing activo habits. We have likened tho Natives to children, and in their improvident habits they are certainly childish. With thorn " sufficient for tho day is the evil thereof," Theso excursions to and from To Whiti's settlement have reduced many hapus to a vergo of starvation—even tho very aids to subsistence having boen largely sold, and sold frequently far below their valuo—bullocks, drays, horses, ploughs' and tools, have boen sacrificed hastily to proparo tho feasla for a never ending swarm of idle excursionists, besides rent' anticipated and reduced for present needs. Had the season on the West Coast not changed when it did tho failing potatoo crop must have been supplemented by some Government aid. Only the othor day the Waitara natives had to appeal to the Government to check the locua-like passage of Waikato pilgrims to Te Whiti's oraclo, their own ideas of hospitability preventing thorn withholding even the seed potatoes from their visitors' yawning bellies. Alarums should now be felt by the natives of these districts, for if these excursions, as now threatning, are to extend in this direction, so surely will impoverishment follow in their wake. Just as in the old days taua, or war parties, for want of honest industry to expend their surplus energy on, set forth to carry devastation among neighboring tribes, so is the same influence felt in these excursions. But instead now of eating their neighbors they eat their substance, (someone has said, "thanks to the taste for poaka having triumphed over the taste for tangata") The laziness, improvident habits, and disease consequent on the Te Whiti mania calls for strong condemnation and discouragement, or these evil seeds falling on the fruitful soil of the half-savage temperament will leavo us with a race of paupers in our midst.

A correspondent in another column suggests the construction of a low level tunnel to relieve the difficulty which iB experienced in carrying ijoods over the Kimutaka. We are afraid such a remedy would prove too costly, What we really want on the line is good management. With thiß, double the present tiaffic could bs carried without the slightest difficulty.

Mr J. D. Oakly. advertises for sale [a Brinsmead piano, nearly new.

400 mixed Merino ewes, and 400 crossbreds are advertised forsalo atLongwood, Tho Nativo Land Court sits at Masterton on the lltK inst. Mrs Lena Cook, a clairvoyant is about to visitGreytown, Mr Micaiah Read, the veteran governor of the Wellington gaol is about to retire on a pension. . . .• The Autumn show of the Groytown Horticultural Society ■ takes place tomorrow. . An advertisement.of. interest to sailors, published by the Salvation Army, will be found in another column.' .The Masterton CricketOlub has received im invitation from the Upper Hutt Club to.play a match there on Saturday, 14th inst. Mr F. H. Wood will sell on Wednesday the 1 ltli inst. the privileges of the sports of the Greytown Amalgamated Friendly Societies. _ Messrs Lowes & loins sell at Mauriceville to morrow the stock-in-trade in the estate of Jens Hansen, including groceries, drapory, horses, harness and furniture. There is a flood in the Waipoua this morning, and the overflow of this river on the Opalri is beginning to cause some alarm, With fine weather there is every prospect of a large number of Wairarapa residents availing themselves of the cheap excursion train, which leaves Masterton at 9 a.m. to-morrow, Too Luong the celestial friend of the Masterton Museum curator has presented that "fossicker" with a thick slice of scented wood from Mongolia which should have been burnt as incense and offered to some other wooden deity. Whether the weather be wet or fine this evening we hope to see the business men of Masterton attend at eitdit o'clock sharp at the Institute in order to take part in the meeting which has been convened to obtain better train arrangements for Masterton. A garbled report appears in tho Post of tho late Rifle match botween Wellington and Masterton, Tho Masterton scores are put down at 408 by our contemporary, whereas they totalled up to 450, and tho Wellington scores are stated to be 364 instead of 404, Corporal Kibblowhite was highest scorer with 58 points instead of 51 as reprosontod by the Post. The public will be glad to loam that temporary arrangements have been made by which horsemen and vohiclcs aro enabled to cross tho Waingawa bridge during tho present flooded stato of the river. Mr John McLennan in another column thanks his friends for rallying round him since he has opened the Victoria Hotel, He notifies that he is determined to merit a fair shair of the public support by civility and attention, aud by supplying nothing but the purest liquors, At his Maryborough stock sale on Tuesday Mr F. H. Wood had a fair attendance, but the quantity of stock entered was limited. Lambs in the wool fetched 6s; Leicester ewes, 20s: yearling steers, forward, 455; yearling heifers, 40s; cows with calves 42s 6d; horse, hack, £5 12s 6d. Mr T. James advertises for sale some eligible properties, viz., a six-roomed cottage in Albert Street, a four-roomed cottage in Victoria Street, and a tworoomed cottage in Bentley St., also sections of land in Victoria, Albert, and Villa Sts., and an acre in Bentley's estate. The continued rain is beginning to do serious mischief to late crops, which are cut, but not stacked. Sixty acres of wheat at Te Whiti, and forty at Te Ore Ore are reported to have commenced sprouting, besides several''crops on the Upper Plain in a similar condition, Some of the heavier crops of uncut, wheat and oats are being levelled by wet weather, Something new on the ensilage system has just been propounded by Mr C, J. Johnson of Darlington, who has proved the possibitity of building any green food into open stacks, and by the application of screw pressure of converting it into excellent silage with only a very slight quantity of waste at the outsides of the stacks. It appears that on the hillsides of Kinross-shire, Mr Purvis Russell, by adopting Mr Johnson's system, has mado a ninety-ton stack from Juncusarticulatus, which would otherwise have been entirely wasted, and the stack is so good that it has to be fenced off to keep the stock on the moor from it. If the expense of making silos can bo saved the ensilage system is likely to go ahead with still more rapidity than at present. A meeting of the Carterton Town District Licensing Committee was held at the CourtHousoyesterday. Present: Messrs R. Fail-brother (chairman), Robert Dixon senior, H. Callisteiy S. M. Hart, C. H. Robinson, and tho Clerk(Mr J, J. Freeth), The polico report on tho general management and efficiency of the Hotels in the district, which was read was very favourable. Adam Miller through Mr B. N. Sandilands appliod to have the license of tho Marquis of Normanby Hotel transferred from himself to E, E. Buckeridge. The application was granted. Constablo Darby drew the attention of tho Committee to tho way in which leave had formerly been given to the Hotel proprietors for extension of time for closing and referred to the caso where at tho last Taratahi Race meeting the Marquis of Normanby hotel had the extension granted for threo consecutive nights, which he considered was not required. A long discussion took place on the subject, when it was moved by H, Callisterthat the hoteis only have tho extension time granted at tho night of the meeting of ths Wairarapa E.C.P, and A, Society's meeting; this lapsed for want of a seconder. Mr S, M. Hart then moved and Mr R. Dixon seconded that no extension of time for closing be granted to any of the hotels at any time.—Carried. Mr Hart in _ moving the resolution said that he considered ten o'clock wa3 quite late enough to keep the bars open and those who stopped after that time were generally those who wanted the most looking after and ought to be at their homes. Tliis concluded the business and the meeting odjourned. Messrs Lowes & lorns report that the stock sale at their yards yesterday was the best sale they have had throughout the season. Over 4000 sheep changed hands, the prices realised being as follows: Crossbred culled eweß, 33 6d to 7s; store wethers, 7s Cd to '9s 6d; breeding ewes, 7s 6d to 9s 7d; lambs in the wool, 4s 4d to 6s; Romney Marsh Rams, 2-tooth, from Eketahuna, 23s to 32s ;old Cotswold rams, 255. Dairy cows fetched from £3 12s Gd to £6; calves 20s; pigs 15s to 255; horses in the estate of the late Mr Peach from £3 to £11; hacks, £3los to £7 10s, inferior in quality. A large quantity of poultry was disposed of at very fair prices. The sale was in every respect satisfactory, the bidding being spirited, and the re-' suits being still somewhat in favor of buyers, The 1400 Merino ewes advertised did not come to hand, but they will be sold at the next stock sale on tho 18th March, The fountain of perpetual youth does not spring exclusively within the confines of daces story. Its fresh and living waters flow to-day from other well-heads, Tho weak and the debilidated have but to drink of Udolpho ■Womb's Schiedam Abomatjo Schnapps, and. soon they start to renewed vitality* ,'lt is the modern revivifier, touching to elasticity and strength, tho impaired in health and the suffern§ with disease.

, The Tenui races aro postponed till Monday next. A cottago and workshop on Wrigley's estate is advertised for sale in another column. Messrs Foley and Berkley's second Monday evening entertainment is announced in anothercolumn. Heavy rains are still reported up north which are bearing this way, so that tho immediate prospect of settled weathor is not assured. _,A.man named Stuart Graham was mulcted in the usual penalty for drunkenness by His Worship the Mayor this morning, The culprit also received an liour's.seclusion for being found in.tho illegal possession' of some enclosed premises. The Quarterly Licensing meeting for the Featherston Town Licensing District was held on Tuesday last, all the members of the Committee' being present. An application by John T. Hodderto transfer the license of the Victoria Hotel, Featerston to John McLennan, late of Eketahuna, was granted. The following cable has been sent by the Hon.' Mr Stout; Premier, of New Zealand, to the Premier at Melbourne : "After due consideration, the Cabinet has resolved to send the following to the Agent-General :—For us to have agreed to the Bill would have been to defeat the vote of the House of Representatives on the Federal Bill. Until' Parliament meets we cannot speak authoritatively. Our views on the same are expressed in the resolution proposed to the House. We object to the Bill also as altered by the Colonial Office on the ground that it will interfere with the anatomy of the colonies in not allowing the colony to reject or accept, the laws passed by the Council. We think the Bill Bhould be postponed until the Colonies are better agreed." A reduction is being made in the Survey Department, and thirty-five officers in various parts of the colony have received notice that their services are to be dispensed with. The saving to the colony will be about £IB,OOO. The saving is not as largo as Government at first intended, butMrMcKorrow, surveyor-genoral, was unablo tofurthor reduce his staff without seriously injuring tho servico and causing public inconvenience. The real cost of tho Survey Department will this year show a much larger reduction by soveral thousands. The salaries of a large number of offices who are ongaged througout the colony revising plans under the Land Transfer Department which have appoarod under tho head' of surveys are to bo charged to tho Transfer Department. Thore are also several other steps which cause somo considerable additional work to the Survey Department and these departments are also to be charged with the value of work done. Heilbron's German Worm Cakes and Fitzgerald's Koromiko Extract are Patented,—Advt. It is a trite and mustt pbovebb, but a sound one, that ''good wine needs no bush," so "excellence is its own reward," The immense sales that have been mabe, and tho enormous quantities that have been used, prove that Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps needs no laudatory tributes, In all cases of kidney affections, inflammation of the bladder, dyspepsia, indigestion, heart-burn, flatulency, gravel and gout, it is simply a miraculous euro. DON'T DIE IN THE HQBSE.- 1 ' Rough on Eats', clears out rati, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, moles, jacLrabbits, gophers 7id-N,Z. Drug Company ■■»■■■ Mil