The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1886. A STEAM FIRE ENGINE FOR MASTERTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2325, 19 June 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1886. A STEAM FIRE ENGINE FOR MASTERTON.

For some months past the Masterton Borough Conncil with commendable enterprise have been endeavoring to supply the town with a steam fire engine. Tbe Council's efforts have, however, so far proved unavailing, one obstacle after another having prevented councillors from carrying ont their object. We believe that, notwithstanding the hostile vote at last Thursday's meeting, we shall yet see a steam fire engine in this town. We have formed this opinion because an engine of this character is admittedly the aiost efficient and economical method of dealing with fires, and also for reducing, the high rates ot insurance now paid in the Borough. We sre also of the •pinion that His Worship the - Mayor and those who are acting with him, are not the men to abandon a pioject for the advancement of the town because they meet with one or two difficulties in launching it. At the late meeting it was obvious that though the argu-

ments used' by the various speakers were altogether in favor of the pro-, posal, three fifths of the burgesses present voted against it. x The reasons which led. to this illogical opposition .■were tolerably apparent. Some of the farm burgesses' were hostile to the project because they did not consider that a steam fire engine would be of any direct benefit to themselves, but the opposition of this section of the meeting would not by itself have been material. We possess in Masterton two rival fire brigades, and the extremely unfortunate difference which exists between the members of the old and new brigade was apparent in the vote given at the meeting. Had the business men of the town taken .the trouble to attend the meeting in any considerable numbers the result would have been different. The Borough Council was fighting their battles and they were not giving their representatives that support to which they were entitled The bulk of the business men in Masterton might expect to save sums varying from £5 to £SO a vear in insurance premiums were a steam fire engine placed in the town. No doubt in time they will realize this fact and discover that by neglecting to attend the late meeting they did themselves as well as the town an appreciable injury.

The Municipal Corporations Bill was read a third time and finally passed the Lower House yesterday. An advertisement of importance to shareholders in the Wellington Woollen Company is to be found in another column.

A free tea to little soldiers will be provided this afternoon at the Salvation Army Barracks.

Her Majesty Queen Victoria will tomorrow enter on the jubilee year of her reign, having ascended the throne on 20th Juue, 1837.

Messrs Neuo and Bedell, gas-fitters &c., of Manners-street, Wellington, have a new advertisement in our columns. The Auckland Herald states that one of the objects of the Government in sparing no expense to get the Colony free from scab in sheep ia to get the restrictions taken off •which prevent sheep being exported to Australia. It is said that at certain seasons of the year the Sydney butchers would be glad to have New Zealand sheep for butchering purposes. If an outlet can be had for our surplus mutton in this way it will be more profitable and less risky than shipping to the London frozen meat market. A masher thief in Melbourne the other day was convicted of stealing a £2O watch. As the R.M., was passing sentence the prisoner said; "Excuse me your Worship, but before you go on any further might i request you not to give me hard Jabour, as I have really never done any in all my life." The coolness of the request seems to have " knocked" the' stipendiary silly, for he omitted the much-dreaded clause, and the masher went up without hard labor. Mr Christian Yange wrote to a London paper: Would it not be of interest to many people at present to call attention to the fact that about forty years ago nearly all the farms in the whole kingdom of Denmark were transferred from leasehold to freeholds and that the result is that the value of the produce of the farmß is more than doubled. I believe Denmark sends to England alone now about a million firkins of butter a year. The transfer did not cost the Government a penny : on the contrary, the income of the country has increased immensely. The Waipawa Mail states that Mr Glass, late of the Sandford Hotel, finding he could not obtain a license for a hotel near Woodville, drove through the Bush to Eketahuna, and suceeded in making -a deal with Mr Tonner, the lessee. Mr Glass will become proprietor of the Eketahuna Hotel on July 20th next, and we wish him every success. The coaching traffic will ensure a constant trade in itself, so that there can be very little to fear; whilst Eketahuna is a settlement that is rapidly grownig into importance. There could be no better host than Sir Glass, and no one is likely to give less trouble to the Eketahuna Licensing Committee than he. Our Eketahuna correspondent writes : Eketahuna i s making some progress. The police statiou is nearly finished, and Messrs Rawson and Mackay's house or office is also nearly ready for business. Mr Jones has at last had some of his land surveyed, and a plan is in his store window showing the plots, which range in size from a quarter acre to about half an acre, and they lie facing the Alfredton road. Mr Jones is, I am informed, asking £36 per quarter acre. Extensive additions are being made to his Temperance Hotel, sc altogether we are moving slightly in the right direction. Messrs Bright and Co are very busy making ready for their steam saw milling apparatus. They have erected a house for themselves on the Eketahuna clearing, close to where their saw mill will be. The collections at St John's Church last Sunday, says the Napier Telegraph, were m aid of the Melanesian Mission. Preaching in the evening ■ the Rev. De Berdt Hovell gave the tale of the Rev. C. Lowther, who gave up a fashionable West-end Church in London that he might labor in the neighborhood of Radcliff Highway, and who then had done more than half a dozen Acts of Parliament or twenty regiments of police to deviate and civilise and purify, and yet he was neither a learned, an able, or cultured man. The Btory of the funeral a few years ago was told in eloquent language, and well it might be. for no spectacle like it was ever seen in that part of London before. Bishop Patterson, a man who could have been anything he choee at Home, had gone to the island, and there lived his life, wasting his talents as some had said. He lived his life, and was stricken down. As his epitaph said, "His life was taken by men for whom he would gladly have given it." Mr Hovell announced that he would Bhortly leoture on Budhism, which in these modern days had had a false glamor cast over it. He purposed investigating it piece by piece and part by part, and comparing it with Christianity.

The Hawkes Bay Herald relates the following :—Mr J. H. Coleman ''got *ne in" at Mr Moore'fl expense yesterday, when being examined as a witness in the case Morrison v. Bolton. Mr Coleman was narrating how a horse he was riding on a particular day shied at a saddle left on the road, and Mr Moore endeavored to get an admission'that the. horse was vicious. This Mr Coleman did not seem inclined to admit. "Now come," urged Mr Moore, "has not the horse got weak; nesses ?" " Well, he might have some.", replied Mr Coleman. "Ah!" said Mr Moore, "he may have ' some' weaknesses—now what is his particular weakness ?" " I should imagine," hesitatingly retorted Mr Coleman--and his eyes slyly twinkled as he appeared to be bracing himself for a plucky admission—"l should imagine that if he has a 4 particular' weakness it is for good grass." The answer provoked even his Honor to join in the laugh which ensued. '

The Masfterton Christys are in active rehearsal for an entertainment to be given on July sth in aid of the funds" of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society. Sydney telegrams advise, potatoes are quoted at 85s an advance of 20s on last weeks prices.

Mr T, Parsons invites tenders for ploughing thirty acres of land. The New Zealand Times of to-day aays: —Mr W. H. Beetham has been fit Wainuiomata collecting trout ova for the Acclimatisation Society, and up to last night had succeeded in stripping about 11,000 ova. He leaves to-morrow for Masterton with the ova in order to place th'em in the hatching boxes there.

We are requested to state that Mr Bentley is .the cornet player engaged for the Carterton Volunteer Ball for Thursday next, and not Mr Tierney as reported by a Carterton correspondent in our yesterday's issue. Weather permitting, the Volunteer Band will p.eform the folio win 3, programme in the Park tomorrow afternoon at 2.30 : March, Companion in Arms ; selection, Ninnette ; cornet solo, JRippling Rill ; valse, La Fille Du Tambour Major; overture, La Courramie D'Or; gloria, Mozart's 12th Mass. Many persons in posting newspapers, more particularly to England, make- a practice of sending more than one paper under one cover with only a penny postage stamp thereon. These papers are invariably thrown out and not sent, where the writinig is not known. When the Bender is recognised by the writing, the papers are returned to him. Mr Bagge wishes us to draw attention to the rate of postage which is, to England one penny and in the colony one' half-penny for each paper sent.

Mr Beetham yesterday presented to the Honse a petition from Allen" Anderson, carpenter, Masterton, praying for consideration of his claim for loss sustained through the action of the Public Works Department in taking from O'Malley and Pepperill the contract for forming a section of the WelhngtonNapier Railway, Opaki, whereby a considerable amount of labor done by him (Anderson) was not paid for. He claims £47 16s.

Progress and Prayer is the subject of a lecture to be given in the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening by Mr Fred. Crook. The lecture deals with the laws of necessity, and gives an original sketch of royalty at prayers. " Chadband's sermon," from " Dicken's" Bleak House, will be a feature in the lecture. The South Canterbury Times criticising this says: 4 That the Rev. Charles Clark could not approach Mr Crook in the rendering of this.

Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, &c., are quickly cured by using Baxter's celebrated Lung Preserver. " This old established, popular medicine is pleasant to the palate, adn highly extolled by the members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions. Sold by ail Patent Medicine "Vendors. Sea testimonials in advertisements.—fADVT.l

lam going to make a speciality ot certain lines during the next months. At the present time lam running Macintoshes and Overcoats at prices which defy any house in the Wellington District to approach. By' sending the length which you require in "inches, you can be supplied With a grand Tweed Macintosh for 27/6, honestly worth £3. Give me a trial t John Thobbubn, the People's Clothier, "Williastrset, Welllnston.—[Advt.] Messrs L. J. Hooper & Co., of the Bon Marche, received their first instalment of autumn and winter goods on Saturday, these goods have been imported direct from the manufacturers in England and Scotland, and are now being marked off at prices that will compare with any wholesale house in the colony.—Advt. Study Economy.—Hearing from everyone I met that the "Wairarapa Clothing Factory was the cheapest and best House in the district for Mens', Boy's and Youth's clothing, X thought I would give it a tiial, which I did, and to my surprise I got a tweed suit, all wool, Crimean shirt, flannel undershirt and pants, a French felt hat, collar, handkerchief and sox, for the small sum of 655. I've paid elsewhere for the same goods £5 10s. My advice, therefore, to everyone is to call at the "Wairarapa Clothing Factory, next the Empire Hotel, where everything is good and very cheap.—Advt.