The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886. CHEAP MEAT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2258, 31 March 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1886. CHEAP MEAT.

iAvcoßßESPONDENTin,'another column ..'calls "attention "to. the high price paid by the public for' meat as compared with,fhe.low:value at which fat stock is'vended; (As long as we can remem.'ber.'there "has been a wide margin between the wholesale and retail rates for beef and mutton in the Wairarapa, and. there was a time when, in our innocence, we envied butchers their apparently enormous profits. But it has been our lot to see one enterprising man after another go into the butchering business, and, instead of retiring after a year or two on his accumulated profit's, simply become effaced and withdraw from the blue apron more or less slaughtered. We may therefore assume that though the difference between the wholesale and the retail prices of nieu requires to be diminished, we must not expect to obtain the reduction out of butchers' profits, At the same time it is extremely desirable that there should be some means by which good meat could be procurable at a cheap rate. Times, if they are not hard, are hardening, and the working man has a right to obtain full value for his money, and if he buys in a dear market he cannot prosper, We do not see why a working man should not be able to buy the best quality of meat at threepence a pound, If he pays cash for his supplies and carries liis joint home with him, it would pay butchers to supply meat at the rate we have named, and we are certain that the saving to a working man's family in the course of a year would represent a very considerable sum. Jf any considerable number of persons in this community demand meat at low cash prices, they would get what they wanted. If the butchers would not supply the demand, the farmers would : undoubtedly step forward to meet it. ! The fact is that as a rule tho popular '•

desire lias been' to procure meat on credit delivered lit the householder's door, Heads of families have not been wont to calculate the high cost of these conveniences, or they would have abandoned them long ago as expensive luxuries, Butchers have been wont to meet the requirements of their customers, and in prdei to do this they have been compelled to Uvy high rates to cover the cost of delivery and booking, and the loss by bad debts, Should working men realize that a bettor system of purchase can lm adopted, the trade will, as a mnuw' of course, meet their wishes, The wholesale price of meat may be put down at 2rl per lb, and the retail value nt U- per lb. From the latter, if Id per lb be deducted for bad debts and ty\ s for cost of delivery, 2fd per lb is the rate left to the butchers to cover cost of meat, general expenses, and profit. Virtually the butchers sell now at 2|d per lb, but prices are loaded with had and cost of dolivery, so that the public have to pay fourpence per pound,

The following notices of motion for the next meeting of the Wairarapa East County Council have been given by Mr T. MackaY, County Chairman; —"That as one uniform rate of wages per day will not deal justly and fairly with the surface men employed by the Council, inasmuch as some men are housed free while others pay rent, the portion of the resolution passed by the Council at its last meeting reducing the rate of wages from 7s to 6s per day be rescinded." (2.) "That to give roadmen who are living in whares built by the Council, the means of keeping a horse and cow and sufficient ground for a garden, the clerk be instructed to communicate with property owners with a view of securing small areas either by purchase or upon lease, and that the attention of the Government be drawn to the desirability of making suitable reserves adjacent to all road lines passing through Crown Lands upon which to make roadmen's homesteads," (3.)" That with the object of working local government within the Wairarapa East County at a minimum cost, the several Iload Boards be asked to prepare an estimate of their requirements for road maintenance for the ensuing twelve months, strike a rate sufficient to cover the same, and hand the collection and the expenditure of the said rate over to the County Council." It is, perhaps, a matter of regret that the Council should be called upon to reconsider ac ti on taken at their last meeting! The question of "a differential rate wages," which Mr Mackey is is now raising is, however, a new aspect of the subject which will require careful handling,

There wore no less than fifty-four entries for the Wellington Two-Year-Old Stakes, 1887, received by the Secretary on Monday night. . At a meeting of subscribers to the Wellington Benevolent Institute on Monday evening the following gentlemen were elected Trustees:—Rev H. Staveren, the Mayor, and Messrs Wardell, Danks, K'Kenzie, and Fisher. Messrs Lowes & lorns announce their next regular stock, for Wednesday, April 7th. Their list already comprises 1350 sheep, in addition to milch cows, cattle, ■horses, pigs and poultry. A business announcement from Mr T. Parsons of the Eagle Brewery, appears in another column, Mr Parsons has engaged the services of Mr N. Stenhouse, whose skill as a brewer, has been widely testified to, during the fifteen years he has resided in the Wairarapa. The elastic springs usually placed on the sides of boots have a restricting effect on the foot, and are, moreover, apt to fray and become unsightly, Recently a new boot has been introduced in which a single sprinc is placed at the back of the boot in the space above the heel. The elastic is said to be safer there from friction, and therefore less liable to wear out, and to give the ankles more freedom to move, In connection with the " unemployed" agitation the suggestion of a State Bank of Issue has again been brought into prominence as a means of providing funds wherewith to alleviate the distress. This dangerous and unsound proposal has found advocates in politicians and others whose position and experience would seem to qualify them to speak on such a subject, and it is, therefore, not surprising that working men should have accepted a theory which seems so easily and simply to meet the money difficulty of the case. Fortunately, both the Premier . and the Colonial Treasurer have spoken out in clear and decisive terms, and pointed out that a paper ourrenncy, not convertible into gold at the will of the holder, must inevitably depreciate in value, and only pass at a heavy discount, This view is not only maintained by all sound authorities on currency, but it is amply demonstrated by the experience of of the United ' States and other countries that have, tried the plan. Some of its advocates seem to think that the value of the notes would be maintained by making them a legal tender; but this would, of course, be met by a rise in prices of commodities, subject to a discount for payments in coin. Perhaps the proposal would be scarcely worthy of discussion were it not that among its advocates are an et Governor and ex-Premier, Sir George Grey, and two other ex-Ministers, one of whom has also been a bank manager.—New Zealand Trade Review. The Rev. H. R.. Haweis writing on American reporters says:—"Prom all which things I infer—that the American reporter is rather a mixed quantity. In reporting any speech or lecture dealing with technicalities, he is absolutely unconscious of his shortcomings, He will write down Homer for Herodotus, or Plutarch for Petrach; He will speak of Brittany for Britain, and describe events as happoning at the North Pole which could only occur at the tropics, and «« ucrsa, with calmness and even gusto; 'but I must admit that he is generally eager to get his copy corrected if he can; butcopy he must anyhow make—if not at his, own expense then at yours, There are, however, reporters and reporters, and every now and then you get a man who happens to know something about your'special'• subject, and you may then be thankful; only then he is apt to put into your lecture, not always what you said, but what he thinks you ought to have said!''' The most barefaced bit ol reporting I experienced in America was a professed report ■ of a lecture I gave at Vassar College. The reporter had not only not been there, but had evidently not seen or got his information from any one who had.; but he had seen a report of a sermon I had preached at New York a week ,beforß. This did,' And so chopped up' phrases • from that sermon, interlarded with'a few sentences of his own—and the report of a lecture, tho very subject of which he was , ignorant of ', k Ma I v/; ; ,

The Wairarapa District Hospital Board meets at the Greytown Institute on Saturday next, April 3rd, at noon, '.^ The Indian and Colonial Exhibition at South Kensington will be formally opened on the 4th of May by hor Majesty the Queen, Notice is given of the public examination of J. H. Grattan and W. J. Gamblin at the District Court of Bankruptcy, Masterton, on Wednesday, April 7th, ■' Mr J. Hessey, of Upper Plain, advertises for sale first class oats and potatoes, of the best quality, delivered in or near Masterton in quanties' to suit, and at wholesale prices, Our Carterton correspondent writes : I saw Wo apples to-day in Mr W. P. Allen's shop window which were grown by Mr Brewster, of Anderson's line, Carterton, one weighing lib 14oz, and the other lib 3oz. 1 believo they are known as the Alexandra, aiid are said to he very good cooking apples. The Post says: "There is just now considerable doubt in the public mind as to who are Justices of the Peace and who are not. Even the supposed justices in many cases cannot be quiet sure whether they retain the commission or have .forfeited their position," Poor justices! cannot they be branded or car-marked ? A chance for the ladies I Mr fi H, Thornton, wholesale manufacturing con' fectioner, of Wellington, offers a prize of two guineas to anyone sending him the best iilty new conversation mottoes. The; conditions appear in an advertisement above our leader; - s A Dunedin Telegram savs (Government have declined to give the unemployed' more than 4s per day, and the City], Council have been advised that they cannot give legally the extra b'd per day as promised. In order to keep faith with the men, however, the Mayor (Mr Barnes) will pay the money up to date out of his own pocket. Everyone knows how difficult it is to: remove weeds from the garden waili, when they have once become rooted and grounded. Salt is one of the remedies most frequently employed, and tlie ( fol-. lowing is said to be the best way of apply': ing it, Boil the salt in water, one pound to the gallon, and pour the mixture, boiling hot, out of a watering pot with spreading rose. This will keep weeds and worms away for two or three years. In subsequent applications the solution may be somewhat weaker. It will 'be' as well to take care that none of the liquor j falls on the garden mould, - '< Tho funeral of the late John Hicks Corbett will take place this afternoon. It will leave his late residence, Wrigley,-st!,r at 3 o'clock, accompanied by represent tatives of tho various societies of which deceased was a honored member. The Masonic Lodges E.C. and S.C. meet at their hall, Bannister-street, at 2 o'clock, and the loyal Masterton Lodge 1.0.0. F., M.U., meet at their Lodge, Temple Chambers at the same hour. The amalgamated bands will meet at Mr Pearson's shop at half, past two o'clock, The various organizations will march to Wrigley-street, and there receive instructions as to the order of marching, The Rev, W, E.- Paige will'conduct;the' funeral services at St, Matthew's Church, The Masterton correspondent thus writes to the New Zealand Industrial Gazette:—l have just returned'from a business tour on the East. Coast, and have had occasion to ride inland to a part of the country hitherto almost unknown,'' viz,, the eastern slopes of Me Puhetdisi' For the information of.yqur 'ifadnrs:.l. may here mention that the Puketois jare a range of limestone hills or mountains running parallel with tlie,Tararua ranges between the Forty-Mile-Bush main trunk lino and the sea commencing at or about the sourco of the.TiraunM river and running North-east- into ; the :, ;'Napier province. Unless it'may be 1 'at; th(S' Tiraumea or at its terminus in Napier.; this piece of country for 10. miles east, and west from the range is Crown lands quite unoccupied 'by settlors. ■' My object in penning this for yourOazotteis to try and show'how desirable if is "at the present time for the Minister of Lands to turn his attention to this very valuable piece of country, The western slopes I, have'seen previously, and know to be good, the eastern slopes on-'that portion-of the country lying between'' the 'OhSnga and Akiteo River to the .boundary of the Wellington Provincial .Land .district is simply excellent.:. Some forty or ;fifty thousand acres of itmust—l speakfrommy own observation—be well, adapted for settlementofany kind in small'lioldiiigof from one hundred acres .to. say,six hundred and forty acres each, the country being mostly level and undulating. My suggestion to" the minister is if there is £20,000 "available from any source, to lay on a quantity of the unemployed and start a roau-at the cost of about £4OO. per mile from the Pahiatua-Puketoi Special Settlement up through the western slopes to the sohrce of the Ohang'a and Makina streams,' and thence north-east to the .boundary,of; tlw province or to connect..a-road running from Wainui to Tahoraite in the Napier province. Tshould say'that thirty miles of a main road would tap the whbVpf the country,, and .that' the balance, of- the money could be.expended .in the:side roads or pack tracks* If this is- done :I will undertake' to say that the'whole of the country which' this road will tap, some hundred thousand acres say of the., finest limestone grazing country. in'the iNorth Island,, will. be. available for. rural and pastoral .'settlement'''ofr'say the perpetual ; ,.leasing.', system of the land ac't.;,andthere is„no., reason; at all why this cost of £20,000.f0r roads; should not be added to cost of land. tjoii for putting oh the : unempldyed \Vpuld cease the glut in the labor .market, |. and settle certain the demand for--will be in excess of supply. • And, further., the .settlement of tiie'sein'ow waste .lands by say some two or three hundred settlers, will .certainly be a source of revenue to.the'.country.: I beg to commend: my suggestions to..the Minister and J;rust that, : if not-earlier,' he will at the next session of Parliament-ask for a grant '.tp'opeil up those lands', for aT more ..profitable'; piece of work: could 'not be undertaken by. tlie Govermnent.. • i .CiM/Aif Golds', , Bronchitis. ■';<£<£,"! are. .quickly.;cured.'by using '-Baxter's.rc'elebrated ;','Lung: Preserver,"li.-.'Tliisiold-established, 1 -popular medicine, is.pleasant to the; palate,; and liiglily 'extolled, by the members' of tlie 'medical,, legal, 'and ' clerical professions. Sold .by, all Patent Medicine Vendors. .See', testimonials^.advertisements.—Anvir; • - : Messrs'L. if. Hooper i^C0.,..0f the!Bon Marche, received their first instalment of autumn and-winter-goods 7 on Saturday, these goods have been imported direct from'the manufacturers in England and Scotland, and are now being, marked off •lib prices''that'will compare with any wholesale house in tho. colony.—Advi. •'• Mr THOKBura, the Clothier, of Willisstreet, Wellington,'isi raising £llOO on his stock; o fie,is selling! all his is'tock' at the ; cost;price.'fort 'mliMy ; fon2B;.'days. It is a raro chance for country settlers to fit .themselves and boyrout'. wifehC'cheapsuit. Hais-adopting this'plan,, instead of borrowing the money.—Advt ■■'■• ; Verietiah-Blind 'aM'ReMviriV Strutter manufactory.' i> All. Blinds'-guaranteed 'of the very besi application to R, W, Henn (late Henn & Hanren.')"P6neEersteam Venetia'iTßlind and, ■Revplving. t P^ctorjJ^Weln:r L'Sm .. ' a v. a i." 1

All the cases at each Court at Greytown and Carterton wore adjourned yesterday in consequence of the absence of Mr H. A. Stratford, U,M. who is engaged Sat the] ' ±IJ J Whateve[iimy be Ihe degree' of ini-■■ quity involyed.in.thejise of the,",pig, bigD,"itis.ajtany..'rate decidedly;injudicious to',s|yjthe'(le3Bt of it, to make,use, of the ekpr'iissioti ( jn Court, when Mr .Stratford,! ftsL J?on tlio Beiicli/' Oohii Dixon, a|i olfrVtijfender, charged this inormng ; thie'tf ; Criticised' the otgivifig' evidence. " That'll do for you.-drr-r-d you, eh," " Did the man sweaV'{"' v said" the Magistrate, " Yes." said Mr James, " Who is tne officer of Police in attendance ?i ;^'^'^r'yDUr^WoMhip;i y - , «aTd; Inspector Browne. '' Remove that man, have him locked up, and brought beforo me later on in the day." said His Worsliip|Xn3T6irn"*wcn£"x')ur~"TEiß vigorousl' enforcement of the dignity of the Court, being somow|iat % caused_a pro-, foumrimpression in CJourt, and a: solemn liuslffell"oiiih'e proWdmga;—Evening' Press.