The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1885. THE MINISTERIAL TROUBLES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2055, 30 July 1885, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1885. THE MINISTERIAL TROUBLES.

Tut! manner in which the Colonial Treasurer handles the East and West Coast (Middle Island) railway proposals, shows that he looks upon them as a subject vrhich he would rather hare nothing po're to do with, bat which he cannot drop without laying himself open to the derision of both sides of the House, When he brought down his celebrated proposals he intimated that the Government would be prepared to cousidcr them in a day or two, When the time came, however, ha found that he would bo in ;t hopeless minority, and a postponement was announced. Since then they have been bung up in a prominent place, but matters of minor importance have always been given preference, Feeling, probably, that it was absolutely RtsfXHsarv to do touiething, he ga.ve notice iu: the House yesterday that Jhe would, ,on Tuesday next, ruove that a select Committee be appointed to report on the Bcheme, and to make recojpiendations. It remains to be seen whether the House will accept the personnel of the Committee. At least five out of themembers named arosupporters of his proposals, and it would, therefore, seem douhtful whethei an independent report can be obtained. The main object of the motion is probably to get more time for log-rolling, and if that is

so, the report will not be of much importance, It would, however, be as Wfll if the House appointed its own committee. The motion betrays the weakness on the Government proposals with reference to the line.'' It will, perhaps, be remembered that when the North : Island Main Trunk line was proposed, a committee consisting entirely of Middle Island Members, was appointed to bring up a report, If Sir Julius Vooei had confidenee in the Middle Island line he would undoubtedly have been prepared to refer it to a Committee consisting of North Island members. There is one thing certain; Ministers are entirely in the hands of the Opposition, which is carrying everything else its own way, and we are therefore of opinion that they will not succeed in'injuring the colony, whatever they may attempt to do.

. Tiie tea plant, has been successfully grown and seeded at New Plymouth, The Pafcea Harbor Board is considering the advis&bleness of raising a £30,000 loan. Mrs Dowling wishes to let furnished rooms, with attendance, The Education Boaid lias decided to appoint Mr Norton assistant teacher at Masterton, provided the Inspector, is satisfied, . ' At the; last meeting of the Education Board Mr'Beetham drew attention to the bad state cif the' ; ;roSd leading to the Pahiatua - school, but'the Board was of opinion that it qo'uld do nothing in the matter. 1 The motion, That in future all applications aiid testimonials for applicants under the: Board be forwarded Uo the Committee' interested whin beiny consulted," of which Mr A. W. Biwn had given notice, wm agreed to at the meeting of the Eduction Board yesterday.

A great many earth tremors or vibrations were taking place at New Plymouth up to Saturday last, but none of them have been sufficiently sovere to be called a quake. There will be a boxing match for £2O between a Masterton amateur and P. Donovan, the champion light weight of New Zealand, at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, There will also be some sparring between local talent. The N.Z. Tjmes states that the resig nation of Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent" General for the Colony, is expected, and that the Government, if they can hang oil to the end of the session, will appoint Sir Julius Vogfil, at aji increased salary.

The length to which people in Canterbury go to obtain support for the East and West Coast railway scheme was amusingly illustrated a day or two ago, when a well-known insurance agent appeared at a fancy dress ball in Ohrißtchurch with sandwich boards, canvassing for signatures in favor of the proposal. He was once turned out by the police, but came back again. A writer in the " Globe," assuming the now de guerre "Waitangi," gives his experiences of New Zealand, prefacing his attack by saying—"l know New Zoaland from end to end." He then proceeds to gjpa ji description of the colony for the benefit of ihqjj.e who may not have been so forJ;unato—pr tunate, as the case may be—as himself. " Every trade or calling," he avers, "is overstocked; meetings' of unemployed were being in every town, from Auckland" to money has ever been madeliiifeW Zealand ; there is starvation in the country, and ' there is no place that I have ever seen where the .crime of poverty is so savagely punched as it is in New Zealand'." This last paragraph points to the conclusion tiiat''WuitaiigL , '|jelpngeci tpthe loafing fraternity,

At Patoa, a few days ago, flis Honor District Judge Rawson sentenced a bankrupt to two months' hard labor under section 171 of the Bankruptcy Act, as it was His Honor's opinion that the bankruptcy was attributable to unjustifiable extravagance in living. The bankrupt, name*} Richards, was lately a publican at Patea, Frojjj the evidence, it appeared that lie allowed Ins j, ifp to run up extravagant drapery bills without paying Just before filing, Jiis' wife obtained a Sos bonnet and a six guinea brocadod velvet dress. Put the worst feature of his extrayagance «! piling in all his customers and " shouting away his entiie stock-in-trade.' The >nkrupi; admitted being drunk on this find Bftid that while he. was incapable someone picked his poclfpi; of his keys, and stole £143 from tho safe, Tjie' Court held that a publican who treated ftijf .customers at the expense of his creditors, .and allowed his wife to run up drapery bills without paying them, clearly camo within the meaning of "extravagant" living according to the Act.

After the jury hn4 refcijrrjed a verdict as to the cause of death of a patient jn the Wellington Asylum, DrLevinge, who wag in attendance, drew attention to the fact that the public mind was afc the preBont time very much disturbed as to the admission of patients into the Asylum, and he therefore thought it proper to state that the case of the man whose death they wore investigating was one which should never have been admitted into the Asylum. Holbrook had been admitted fivo years ago on an order from the Resident Magistrate and two medical men, one of whom stated that in his opinion the patient was suffering from melancholia, while the other expressed his conviotion that the case was one for the Hospital rather than the Asylum. In spite of .this, the man was received into the Asylum, and had .remained there for five years, When lie (fir Levjnge) took over the institution about a twelve-month ago, the man was .undoubtedly insane. The Coroner, according to an exchange, said he was not surprised at that, It !>ad eyon be.pn said that doctors who remained for a Ipng v/hile in A?yjums became slightly touched.Br Levinge added that the safeguard? against any sane patient being detained in tho Apylfin) were much more complete now than a fevy yearfi ago. Mr Wardell has furnished the following statement to the Government with reference to the two womon whom he sent to the Asylum without medical certificates: —" I visited the two women at the Hospital Under authority given me by section 15, Lunatic Act, 1882, and it appearing to me by personal examination and by enquiries of Dr Chilton, the Resident Medical Officer, and of the nurses in attendance, that they were lunatics, and not under proper care and control, I directed their romoval (under sections 17 aivjiiJJ. of tho Lunatic Act, 1882,) to the Asylum, pjsding examination by medical practitioners, the usual printed form for the purpose, ffieso are the only cases I have' sent .to ' the Asylum pending examination, for a considerable. period, and I 'should not have'" adopted: that course in these eases but for tlie special circpjstijnces. The women occu- ■ pjed beds jn wards hi which were twenty other patients suffering fr,om various forms of disease, and it was represented to mo by the medical officer and by the nurses that their conduct not only disturbed tho other patients, but was doing some of them serious injury; »pd that there was no suitable place for then) in the Hospital. Dr Chilton told me Dr Grabham had seen the patlonts, and I understood their removal to the Asylum was'expected.' The result of my Visits to the Asylum escaped attention in my office,,and no instructions to medical practitioners to examine the supposed luhatics were issued, This was an oversight, for which I must take the responsibility. I must, however, express ray surprise that the Medical Superintendent of the Asylum, Dr LaViiige, did not communicate with ra# on the subject, the patients being under his daily observation, and he being fully aware ,p{ the facte, Dr Grabham saw both • patients shortly after'their ..'removal to the - Asylum, and says he. was by no means satisfied that they were insane, and, in his report of the 10th June, expresses more than doubt as to their being properly detained ; yet. he' allowed these patients to remain in the Asylum week after week without communicating to me, under whose order they were received."

Mr C. J. l r reeth advertises the lease of 34 act;ea of gmziiig lancl for sale. ■ Messrs Lowes and lorn's add to tlieir sale for Saturday one, spring cart. The sale will now comprise furniture, produce, fencing wire and poultry.

Mr A. Farmer notifies that he has removed his Wellington Furniture Warehouse from Cuba-street to James' Builings, Lambton Quay. , Messrs Lowes and lorns notify that they will not hold a, stock sale .on Wednesday next. This is owing to the fact that their old yards are beingpulled down, the now ones are in course of erection.

■ A drunk was brought up in the Resident Magistrate's Court, beforo Mr Stratford, KM,, this morning, and mulcted in a penalty of ss, with the usual alternative, He elected to " take out" the balance of tho term. Two rate cases which had been set down, and in which the Wairarapa East County Council, was plaintiff, were settled out of Court. The case of John Willett, attempted suicide, was ordered to stand over till tomorrow,

The final performance of the Merrymakers was given last night, Tho weather continuing most unfaporable the audience was not large. The programme was gone through with considerable spirit and Mr Norton was repeateely encored. Mr Norman also received an encore for his fine rendering of ''The Village Blacksmith," in response to which he gave "The White Squall." • Nearly the whole of the population of Mauriceville formed itself into a search party this morning and went into the bush to look for the wife and son of a fellow settler, It appears that Mrs Nils Assersson, accompanied by her son, who is about twelve or thirteen years of age, left thejr residence at West Mauriceville on Tuesday, to lqok for some cattle which had got into the bush, and they have not since been heard of, so thilt they have spent two wet and cold days and nights in the bush, and fears are naturaly entortained that they may have lost their lives. Mr Assersson had one of his legs seriously injured some time ago by a tree falling on him, being lamed for life. He has, however joined to-day's party. A story of Sydney Smith, one of the many which never grow old, has it that ho was once looking through the hothouse of a lady who was very proud of her flowers, and used, not very accurately, a profusion of botanical names, "Madam," said lie, "have you the fieptmiispjojiasisf" "No," said she, " I had it last winter, an.d gave it to the Archbishop of Canterburyit came put beautifully in tlie "spring." (Septemiis psoriasis is the medical name for tfye itch.) A medical paper calls attention to a simpje, apsl at the same time wonderfully efficient treatment' fqp many kinds of headache.' ft is nothing riiqre qp }ess than a solution of the bisulphide of carbon. ' A "wide-mouth' glass-stoppered bottle is half-filled with cotton or fine spqngo, and upon this two or three drachms are poured. The jnonth of the bqttle is to be applied tq the temple, or as near ag possible to the seat of the pain, ao closely that none of the volatile vapour may esoapo, and rotained there four or five minutes, or longer. It may be reapplied, if neeossary, several times a day, and it gonerally acts like magic, giving immediate rolief, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, &c,, are quickly cured by using Baxter's celebrated ."Lung Preserver," This oldestablishcr], celebrated medicine, is pleasant to the paiate, and highly extolled by the members of the' m'e<jipal, legal, and clerical'professions. Sold by all Patent Medicine Vendta." flee monials in advertisements,Advt, Mr J. Tjiqvburn, the well known clothier of Willis' Street Wpjjingtpn, wishes' to inform the inhabitants of the that he has between 3 and |OO over-coats and macintoshes, which lie is now selling at % Cost Price, as'he wishes to clear them at once, A few of the macintoshes are slightly stained inside, wjtlf sea-wafer. The usual price for such, is 32's lid. They are now being sold for 15s Gd.