A LAND BANK.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2026, 26 June 1885, Page 2

A LAND BANK.

ft Sir Julius Vogel having apparently 8 abandoned the scheme for establishing a Government bank for the issue ' of money to farmers on the security of their land, Mr Bathgate, in the Legislative Council, and Mr Macandrlw in the House of Repret sentatives, are trying their hand at it, and they have carried motions for the appointment ot committees to inquire into tlio subject, Whether these two committees) will conduct their researches separately or coujeintly, does 1 not appear, nor does it matter much, because there ■ is not a great deal of information to be obtained, We all know that cheap money is a very good thing, and it is therefore no secret that everybody wants it; but we are also fully aware that the establishment of such a bank would present the ' novel feature of being started entirely q upon borrowed capital, for the repayment of which the tax-payers would _ be as much responsible as those who borrowed . from it, Under these circumstances the time spent by the committees can only be looked upon as wasted.

The traffic on the Wellington and Wairarapa railway continues to show ut steady increase, For Ihu four weeks ending May 23rd, the number of passengers carried was 18,082, as compared with 13,771 last year. The numbers of parcels, horses, etc., for the two periods, were respectively 2057 and 1807; of sheep, cattle, pigs, etc., 12,072 and 10,666; and goods by ton, 4593 and 5177, the last named being the only item that showed a falling off. The' receipts for the two periods were L 4893 3s 3d and L 4383 7s 3d, thus showing a very substantial increase. The Wanganui, Auckland, and Huvunui-Bluff sections, all show a falling off, the latter from L68,99219s 6d,t0L58,866 13s Id. Captain Edwin telegraphs to-day that bad weather is expected, with a heavy fall of rain and further fall of the glass. In order to avoid damage to the turf oh the Park Oval, the Park Trustees notify that after July 18tlj, footballers will not be allowed to play on it, Mr R. J. Gill, Under See tary of the Native Lands Purchase Department arrived by train last night, and proceeded to the Forty Mile Bush on his way to Paliiierston North, We understand that the chief business connected with the visit is the completion of the purchase of the Maungatainoki Block in the Forty Mile Bush, Mr Wm. Caroy, the well known wood turner, of Queen Street, has secured a section of land in Hall Street through which the creek runs, and intends erectinp water power turnery works. The increased demand for his goods has necessitated this step being taken, and the trade will bo benefited by having the orders more expeditiously executed. The Minister of Justice having stated that it was not the intention of'the Government to introduce a bill providing for the payment of witnesses for the defence in sriminal cases, Mr Beetham has given notice to inpve That, in the opinion of this House, provision' be made by the Legislature for the payment of witnesses for defendants in criminal eases, A horrible occurrence took place on the racecourso railway line, near Brisbane, recently, The train leaving Brisbane at thirteen minutes to six p.m. had got a short .distance beybnd Normanby Station, fflien the driver saw tho. body of a woman lying with her neck accross one of tjhe rails. The danger v/Jn'stles were sounded, and the brakes were applied, but jt was impossible to pull up in time, and tie train passed over the woman, pyering the head from the body, The head was found lying between the rails, while tho bxly was thrown over the edge of the ballast, The body had evidently been pushed along in front of tho engine for sevoral yards, small pieces of flesh and bono being scattered along that distance. The body was removed to the morgue, and has since been identified as that of Mrs Smith, the wife ,pf aptchraanon board the steamer Euriinbla.

Tho mysterious disappearance pf a valuable asset in a Patea estate is Ifkely to bo inquired into by the judicial authorities. At a meeting of the creditors of Joseph Richards, of the Australasian Hotel, Patea, held at Patea last Monday, the debtor stated that £l4O belonging to the estate had disappeared. He had put the money in his safe one Saturday night, and, as usual, locked it up, andretainedthe key in his own possession. Next morning ho found the door of the safe open, and the money gone. This explanation was not deemed satisfactory by the creditors, who decided unanimously to instruct the Official Assignee toproaecute. The assets .ire practically nil, and the liabilities about £126, A remarkable tiling about tins same hotel is that the previous occupant also went bankrupt, and also had occasion toroport the loss of a valuable asset. On that occasion a bond for about £I,OOO got astray, and could not be accounted for, It was security for money lent outof the estate, and its loss seriously decreased the amount of dividends. The bond had been kept-loose in a pigeon hole behind the bar, and when wanted could not be found.

The regular montldy meeting of; Town Lands Trustees takes place to-night. The thormom'otor went down to 29| in ' Wellington on Wednesday night. The.WoodAillc settlors aro taking steps to celebrate the opening of the Awapurua bridge in a becoming manner. The annual meeting of the parishioners of St. Matthews will be held in the school room on Monday the Gfcli July, at 7.30.p.m. ■ •Bernard Gordon Crosbio of Masterton, hawker, has been adjudged a bankrupt. The first meeting of creditors will beheld at the old court room on Wednesday next at2.30.p.m. ,' • A meeting of settlers interested in the' Waipoua overflow has been convened for '3 p.m. to-morrow, to consider the report of Mr Blacketfc to the Minister of Public Works, and a letter on the subject from Mr G. Beetham. Mr Brown gave notice of motion at the last- meeting of the Education Board to the effect that full particulars of all candidates for vacant teacherships be given to the local Committees In every instance, The service of song "Eva" will be pro-' duced at • the Temperance Hall by the Carterton Wesleyan Choir to-night, We have previously alluded to the merits of the service, and'will only add now that .he charge of admission 'is very low, so h&t everybody can afford to go. The Cup football match between Masterton and Greytdwn takes place on the Park Oval to-morrow afternoon, and it is expected that the game will be.a very well contested one. A small oharge" will be made for admission to the Park, and the proceeds are to be devoted to the improvement of the ground. The Lyttelton Times, in a leading article, says that " Mr. Stonehewer Cooper's book ' Coral Islands,' published in 1882, is one of the standard authorities on the subject of the Pacific Islands." The Auckland Herald says" a large part of the book is simply stolen from papers printed in the Daily Southern Cross by the late Mr Sterndale." Thefour nightsof frost which havebeen experienced this week were unusually severe, 1 In many sheltered places there was not the slightest thaw during the day, while on some of the roads the mud was frozen to such au extent that the wheels of vehicles would not cut into it, whilo shallow pools of water became solid slabs of ice, over which horses and cattle could walk without breaking them, The change of weather which set in this morning was, no doubt, welcomed by all, The trout ova recently deposited in the Society's boxes has been counted,, and in place of 20,000 there were found to be 35,625, or nearly double the estimated number. This must have been an agreeable surprise to those interested, Mr W, H. Beetham requests us to state that the ova was collected in the Wainuiomata, and that he had most valuable assistance in the work from Mr Mcllvride, of Wai,nuiomata, on whose property most of the ova was obtained, and from Mr Gillespie', of Masterton, who went down for the purpose of assisting in the work, in which he is ;an adept,

The quarterly meeting of the 'Masterton Teut, 1.0. R. was held last night at the Temperance Hall. Bro Girdwood reported he had interviewed D.S, Bro T\ W, Fraser when in Wellington, and he had notified his willingness to visit the Masterton Tent, on the occasion of its ■anniversary celebration on the 2nd prox,, and intimated that several other Wellington Brothers might be expected up also, The eleotion of officers was adjourned to the next regular meeting, The Secretary reported that there were no members on the sick list, The quarterly accounts were passed for payment, and the meeting closed, ■ The death of Mrs Carver, mother of Mr R. W. I. Carver, is announced in the Woodville Examiner. Mrs Carver has been in tho colony about 31 years, and was one of the first teachers in the Church of England Sunday School in Wellington. For some time she was also a teacher in a Native school in Wanganui. She subsequently returned to Wellington, and about nine years ago took up her residence in Masterton, eventually pro-' ceediiig to Awapurua, where she continued to reside till the time of her death, which occurred on Friday last. The deceased lady had been in very indiflerent health for a Ion? time. Mr John Buchanan, F.L.S., who has been connected with the Geological Department of the Colonial Museum as draughtsman, and also as botanist, for many years, isabout to retire on a pension. Mr Buchanan has spent the greater part of his life in scientific, pursuits in New Zealand, and was of great assistance to, Sjr Joseph Hooker in the compilation of his New Zealand Flora. Only two years' ago his age did not prevent him frpm joining a party which made tho ascent' of Mount Holdsworth, from Masterton, During that trip several new plants were found, and named by him. At the last meeting of the Philosophical Society at Wellington, Dr Hector referred in most complimentary terms to Mr Buchanan, and on behalf of the society, presented him with a diploma of life-membership, A fracas of a serious nature occurred a few days ago near Mauriceville. By what we have been'ablo to gather a Scandinavian who is in the employ of a deferred payment settler, had a quarrel with two of his countrymen, and these came to the settler's house at night, and challenged, him (the labourer) to come out, at the same time threatening that if he showed himself they would murder him. As they were armed with some ugly implements, including a mawl, the request was not complied with. After making sundry threats, the worthy couple broke the windows, and then the door. This had an effect which, they did not anticipate, fpr through the apperfcure appeared tho burly form of the settler, who' had conic to the conclusion that affairs had gone far enqugli, and who, gun in hand, told thoso outside that' if they did'not clear out ho would shoot both of'them. The effect was ludicrous in the extreme, for the two blusterers ran as if for their lives, even leaving some of their weapons behind them. Under the circumstances the settler was undoubtedly warranted to take the step ho did; at the same time, it is probable that if the Forty Mile Bush district were under proper police supervision notlfingof the kind would have occurred. '

Messrs Lowes and' lorns hdd a sale of new and second hand furniture, fruit trees, hedging plauts, etc. at their roping to-morrow afternoon, An extensivo sale of general merchant dise will bo held on Saturday July 4th, by Mr F. H. Wood, iuhisMasterton auotion rooms,. Mrßeethamhas put a notice on the Parliamentary.Order paper asking for an explanation why the' Government ignored the recommendation thatMr W. 6. Beard should be appointed a member of the Masterton Park Trust, and appointed Mr A, R. Bunny. Mr Buckley's explanation should be interesting, A deputation consisting of Messrs 6, BeethanyW. C.Buchanan, and W. C. Smith M.H.Rb. waited upon the Minister of Public Works yesterdayand urged upon ; himthenecessityformakingsome provision for putting the Forty Mile Bush road into a proper state of repair. Mr Richardson promised to give the matter his favorable consideration,

A new advertisement from the New Zealand ..Clothing Factory appears in another column. The passengers on board the Tyburnia, a co-operative yacht sailing about in the West Indies, do not seem to be a very happy family. At. Trinidad, Mr Arthur Somerset was fined £lO for having caned Lord Howard de Walden, whilo Captain Kennedy, in cornmad •'■ of that yacht, ,was fined, for having told Lord Howard that lie was a liar. The captain's defence was that he was' " the protector of tlio lady passengers onboard, .whom Lord Howard traduced." From a subsequent letter of. apology which has appeared m the Trinidad papers, it would seem that his Lordship brought his roubles on himself. The Victoria Government."Gazette" of Ist May, 1885, gives the following abstracts of the populations of the various Australasian Colonies:—Victoria—lßß3, . 931,790 {mi, 961,276; increase, 20,416. New Soutlt Wales-1883, 869,310; 1884, 921,129; increase, 51,819. Queensland--1883, 287,475 ; 1884, 309,600; increase, 22,125., South Australia^lßß3,3o4,sls; 1884, 311,954; increase, 7439.' Western Australia—lßß3, 31,700; 1884,32,958; increase, 1258. Tasmania—lßß3,l26,22o; 1884, 130,541; 4321. New Zealand--1883,540,877; 1884, 564,304; increase, 23,427. Totals—lßß3, 3,091,887 ; 1884, 3,231,702; increase, 139,875. The Parliamentary Free Trade League' has adopted the following resolutions, which are to be.circulated:-(l) That such duties appear to' be designed, in increasing the Custom receipts, to press more heavily upon the poor than upon the rich, (2) That such duties that appear to be designed to protect'the agriculturist are misleading, as' the items apparently protected are items of export. (3) That such duties as are protective in their nature are not wanted by local producers, and in other cases protect some industries to the detriment of others." These resolutions will probably be considered at a general meeting of Freetrade members on Monday next, Tenders are invited'by Mr A. J. Rawson for falling 50 acres of bush in the Wangaehu Valley.

The following team will represent Grey town inthe football matolito-morrow: Cameron, Wenham, Webster, H. Udy, E, May, G, Udy, J. Beard, A; Beard, Fisher, Jackson, J, Humphries, W, Humphries, Terry, Tookor. Emergencies, A. May, Gambler, Welch and Kinga. Mr J. Williams, Secretary of the Masterton Football Club, has received a letter from the Secretary of the Union, suggesting that a match between the combined teams of the Wairarapa and Wellington should be played in Wellington on the 11th July. The matter will be considered by the local clubs, At tho monthly meeting of the Standing Committee of the Diocesan Synod, held at Wellington yesterday, the Secretary reported that the following parishes and parochial districts in tho Wairarapa had paid' their assessments in full : Masterton, ■ Carterton,' and Featherston. On the other hand Greytown is in arrears to the extent of £62 5s sd, and Whareama £lO 17s. On account of the 'current quarter £0714s has been paid in the Diocese. At the meeting : of. the Land Board, according to tho Times, Mr G. Beetham stated that he had seen the Minister of Lands in reference to a resolution passed at tho previous meeting, to the effect that no land be sold for cash for a period of three months. Mr Beetham stated that his reason for doing so was, that, if the resolution were carried into effect by the Lands Department, it would have the effect of preventing leasehold sections from boing taken up, as well as the cash land, for a period of six months. That was such a serious matter for the district that he spoke to Mr Ballance on the subject, and the Minister of Lands agreed to stay proceedings in the meantime. Mr Bunny strongly objected to what lie termed "backstairs influence," It was wrong for any member of of the Board, and more especially for a member of the House, to go to a Minister and try to upset what had been done*; The Land Board did its business in a fair and open manner, and no member had a right to take it upon himself to upset the decision arrived at, Mr Beetham said all that he did was to request Mr Ballance to take no action till he had an opportunity of seeing the members of the Board. Mr Bunny replied that'he would also go and see the Minister of Lands. The matter had b'eon cpnsidered by the Board for months, andjhe Minister bad no business to upset what had been done. If Mr Beetham wanted to make an alteration he should have given notice of motion. After a few remarks from other members of the Board, Mr Beetham gave notice pf motion for noxt _ meeting, that the resolution passed, withdrawing from sale cash lands, bq rescinded, Thiok HHAns,-Heavy stomachs, biliou conditions—"Wells' May Apple Pills'— ant bilious, cathartic. Cd A»tl la. N, Z. Dnu* Co