The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1886. THE REPRESENTATION BILL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2350, 19 July 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, JULY 19, 1886. THE REPRESENTATION BILL.

We have to thank Sir Robert Stout for bringing down a Representative Bill this session, and have also to acknowledge tho fact that the measure which he has submitted to tho House is a statesmanlike production. He has sought to place the vital question of representation on such a footing that it cannot be affected by party prejudice .or stiife. His proposal is to remove it from lobby influences, and to appoint as independent a Board as it is possible to obtain to deal with it periodically after each census taking. The Bill defines the principles which the members of the Board are to apply to their task 'of redistribution, and should Parliament agree to accept the measure submitted by the Premier, the vexed question of 'redistribution will he practically settled for the nwet generation in a simple, efficient, and impartial manner. The Surveyor-General and .the Controller-General are to havo seats on the Board, and three other non-official members are to be appointed by tho House. We'do-not think a fairer-' or better Board could be established, and we trust to see the new Representative Bill pass through both Houses with flying colors,

Sir Julius Vogei, has announced in the House that he has instituted legal actions! against two Wellington newspapers, On the legal significance of these proceedings it is the duty of the Press to be silent, but'after the statement made in the legislature we may assume that they have apolitical significance, i As a rule the reputation of a Ministe'rof the Grown in New Zealand does not require to he vindicated in a law court, Most'of tho leading men in the colony are occasionally subjected, in the heat of party strife, to misrepresentation and calumny. They can,' however, afford to stand ordeals of this,character, We have often-Been and read statements which reflected on the integrity and consistency of both Major Atkinson'and Sir Robert Stout,

hut noither of .these gentlemen lias .ever thought it 'worth'his while to bring, his critics ..before & court• oflaw. Public opinion in New Zealand holds these political rivals to be honest and whilo their characters are defended by a,br'oad shield like this it would be ridiculous, in the extreme for them to seek further protection for their reputations in a law court. We wgret that Sir Julius "Vogel B liouM- be any exception "to th rule to whioh we have referred, and all the more so because he was himself once a distinguished journalist, and ought to know how to deal .with the Pmss of tho the Colony. His statement in the House to which we have alluded cannot be regarded as other than a menace to the Press of New Zealand,

Mr John Freebody was released this afternoon. Mr Matthew Burnett held an afternoon meeting' at Carterton on Friday, and another in the evening, when Mr W. Booth occupied the chair. There was a larger audience than on Thursday night, and sixty-eight pledges wero taken. ■. It appears from the official returns that the only infeoted flocks of sheep now in the colony are those of D. Kerr,. Motupiko, Nelson', 4250; W. Gibson. Warden and Tytler runs, Kaikoura, 26,700 j and F. andG. F.Bullen, Greenhills, Kaikoura, 40,700. A firm at Dunedin complains that eases' received by direct, steamer containing cargo which was transhipped from the North, have been rifled of their contents in transit, pieces of iron being substituted. - . '

The regular fortnightly neeting of tho Loyal Mastetton Lodge, 1.0.0. F. M.U., ,takes place on Tuesday night, and as there is-bußiness of importance to transact w connection with the Anniversary Ball, which is to take place on Wednesday night, at the Theatre Royal, & full attendance is requested. Yesterday afternoon tho house of George Hall, Papanui, was entered during the absence of the family, and two boxes belonging to tho daughter, Mrs E. Wakefield, containing jewelry and documents,' were stolen.- Jewelry belonging to Mrs Graham,'in the same room, was undisturbed.

- Mrs McCleaiy, of the Great City Boarding House, opposite Barrett's Hotel, Lambton Quay, has an advertisement of interest to visitors to Wellington, A cablegram from London, dated 16th July, states that' the New South Wales loan of £5,000,000 has been covered threefold at an average of £95 6s to £OS 7s, A syndicate tendered for two-thirds of the amount at .£95 os 3d. One syndicate tendered for £5.370,000 at £95 7s Cd Tenders at tho latter price will receive 38 per cont. The total tenders amounted to seventeen and a-half millions.

A general Committee meeting of the Wairarapa and East Ooaso Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held on Saturday. ' Present—Messrs % C. Buchanan (President), H. R. Bunny (Vice-Presi-dent), Jas. Stuckey. W. Booth, C. Pliamyn, A. Mathews, H, Braithwaite, J. Reynolds, F, Gray, E..W, Dorset, B, Boys, J. Rayuor, and R, R, Armstrong The horse parade was fixed to be held on the 18th September, and Messrs R, ,R. Armstrong, N. Grace and E. W. Dorset were elected stowards to the same. It wits resolved that the gate money be given as prizes to the owners of the horses respectively the same year. The general show was hxod to be held on the 3rd November, and the Committeemen wore appointed for the' same. It was also resolved to hold a Pigeon, Poultry and Canary Show on the 14th August, and another to inolude dogs, flowers and dairy produce some time at thVend-of November or the beginning of December, the Committee to fix the exact date.

Messrs Charles Pownall and Co., mortgage agents, 'Wellington, report a decided change in the money market during the last month, with (in increase of value of fully J per cent. Quotations for mortgage investment are now 7,7£, to 8 per cent, according to the amount required, vary large sums not being at present very negotiable. A fair amount of business has boen transacted for moderate sums, principally on town securities, while capitalists, both at Home and abroad, in consequence of a deoided rise in the wool'market, are beginning to .feel more confidence in landed investments, so much so that we expect a considerable influx of foreign capital will ensue. The present inorease of rates has been produced principally by banking influence, emanating in the first instance from Melbourne. Both in Australia and ■in this country very heavy advances have been made by those institutions and loan oompanies, both on country and town properties, which the heavy fall in the value of produce ha largely deteriorated, and have consequently absorbed an'amount of capital at present unredeemable. All this, however, is but a repetition of' the same difficulties this country contended with nearly 20 years ago. She then rose superior to the occasion, and will surely now not ho found wanting, I> will not be a long period before we find our main export reduced in value to late _ low quotations. The wool market in London has been evidently bo well " syndicated" that, in the absence of foreign buyers, it was purchased at their own price. These buyers unexpectedly arriving at tho. present sales, and the English manufactories having no stock in hand, created a competition equal to about 2d and 4d per lb all round, with evory bale cleared, and every probability of the" market holding firm at these advances,

The following story is, 1 am assured (says a 'writer in " Vanity Fair" of April 10th)| strictly true:—"A few nights a?o a member of Parliament, wishing to go home, went into the cloak room to get his overcoat. Now the general collection •of overcoats is arranged in the cloak room under the initial letters of the membeis' names, aiid this member, whose namo begins with the letter P., went to that letter, took his coat from the hook, and put it on. He was surprised, however, to feel something heavy in the pockets, Putting his hand into one, pocket, lis found there—a revolver; putting his other hand into, the other pocket, he found another revolver, Entirely unaware of having had an armoury about him, he then began to look at the coat itself, and found that, though it was very like his own,' it was, in fact, not his at all but. somebody else's. Further examination and inquiry and' comparison of hooks showed at last that it was no other than Mr Parnell's. This seems to show that even the life of an uncrowned King is not always an entirely happy one, or completely devoid of care for the evening." California carries on a large business in sea-shells, which are gathered on its coast and shipped to Europe, One firm, according to the Anglo-American Timeß, has a contract to ship forty tons of sheik every sixty days. They are worth from £l4O to £2OO a year/ They aro used in all kinds.of decorative industries, returning to the United- States from Prance vastly increased in price whentransformed into, pearl buttons, brooches, shawl clasps, knife handles, or inlaid work. Talieitishells, large flat "motherof pearl" i shells, are worth from 6s to 16s each, and the fi.ueßt selected pairs, are sometimes sold tor as much as'£lo.,

| _The^MasfcertonoPublic/Schools opened this mtfr'riihg, ,

/ A good dairy of Eutfer is advertised for in our wanted column. •

■ Tenders are invited by the Secretary of the Parkville Special Settlement Association for felling 300 acres of bush, in> sections varying in size from 15 to 50 acres each,

In the matter of the petition from Messrs Burnett and Yule, presented to Parliament, the evidence of Mr Anderson was-taken by the Public Petitions' Com. mitteo on Friday, and an adjournment took place until Tuesday, »? Notice appears in another column of a dissolution of the partnership hitherto existing betwoui Messrs Fv. Price and P. Dickson, drapers, Queen-street, the former retiring from tho firm, MrP, Dickson will conduct tho business in future, and his well-known business capabilities will no doubt assure him a continuance of the public support which the late firm so long enjoyed, The millinery and dressmaking department will, as before, be under the immediate supervision of Mis Dickson.

The ancient Hindoo faith has met with 'a severe shock. It is an article of faith with'the Hindoos that the sacred city of Benares cannot be shaken by an earthquake, because it docs not rest upon the earth at all, but upon the back of a tortoise, Tho earthquake' which recently visited Hindostan gave Benares a good shaking up, and many riokety buildings camo tumbling to the ground. Thereupon the Mohammedans laushed, and the Hindoos were wrath, as the learned Brahmans openly derided the notion that the city would be disturbed. Hindo'oism itself lias received a telling blow.' : The London Times, it is said, as soon as the news reached Home of the recent eruptions at Tarawera, sent a cablegram to the proprietors of one of the leading journals in Auckland, asking them to wire a fall account of the catastrophe, That they really" wanted as .detailed a description as was possible is provod by the fact that the amount up to which the Auckland journalists wore authorised to go for t|ie purpose was no less than £BOOO.

The Chicago Tribune, referring tn the recant marriage of Edison, concludes that his genins will now be directed to electric candles, electrict bottles, electric safety pins, electric machines to get up and walk the baby in the middle nf the night, electric devices for cutting teeth and scarin? off whooping cough, croup, and measles, and will contrive other articles mitigating troubles, trials, and petty annoyances usual in domestic life, A genora Meeting of the members of the Parkvillo Special Settlement Association was hold at the Temperance Hall, Masterton, on Saturday evening, Mr T, Parsons in the chair, The minutes of the previous meeting were read and eonfirmed. A letter was read from Mr S. Bacon re improvement proposals, which were received without discussion. The Secretary wis requested to call the Chief. Surveyor'* attention,'if necessary, to. the pegs on the bloek.. It was resolved that tenders be called for felling the timber on the township block in ten sections, .ranging from-fifteen acres .to fifty-one aorti, tenders to close on 7th August, and that the allotment* of the rural seotions be postponed until May, 188?.

A Committee of the Borough Council met in the Council Chambers on Saturday tu open tenders for supplying and fixing tip gas fifctinss in the Institute. Tenders wore to be sent in for two qualities—No, 1, brass pipes; No. 2, green-bronzed iron pipes. The following are the items: —2 3-light pendants, Council 1 2-light ipendant. Committee room-; 1 2-light pendant, Library ; 1 2-light pendant, Museum; 14-light pendant, reading room; 6 bracket lights, reading room ; 3 bracket lights, lobby and stairs; 1 harp pendant, hall; 1 2-light W. \ Chandelier, custodians room; 21-light cork slides, custodians room; 1 braoket, custodians room. Only two firms tendered, and they were local ones:—D. F. Pickering, No, 1 (declined), £24 7s fid; D. P. Pickering, No. 2 (accepted), £l7 10s; ■Howard and Williamß, No. 1 (declined), £23185; Howard and Williams, No. 2 (deohned), £lßl9s.

Speaking of the child that met with its death through lucifer matches, and the action of Sir George Grey in the House thereon, the Auckland Observer romarksWe sometimes hear of children killed by accidental draught of brandy. Why not label brandy 'poison'? The effect of a ro\v of bottles of brandy, whisky, rum, and the like on the.shelf in the publican's bar all labelled ' poison' would bo sublimes and what 'poison will you have.'? would be the mot of conviviality. Tobacco too is deadly if used like the. matches for purposes for which it w.as not intended, and every man's pouch should be labelled 'poison:' the bowl of .thepipe in which it is used should eertainly bear the 'poison,' and every citjar should havea long strip bearing'the mystic word naa warning that it is notto bo eaten, In fact, if tho public is to be properly protected it must be protection all round, and I shrink from the very ink bottle in which I dip this pen, because I know it should bear the word " poison" to keep me from drinking its contents.' Indond, the dangerous artioles by whioh we are .surrouuded are enough to curdle the blood when one only thinks of the perilous uses to which they may be turned. I have heard of a man who cut his throat with a bar of soap and stabbed his donkey after, but if he had swallowed the soap it would have been equally fatal; indeedj a beefsteak, if taken in circumstances in whioh a man had more than was comfortable, might do immediate and mortal injury, and in view of such contingencies jt should be labelled '' poison," There iB no end to the general application of the principle maintained by Sir .George Grey, and if everything that was capable of killing if put down the throat, where it •was not intended to go, is to be guarded, there will bo a pretty geneial demand for labels. Keroseno oil, carpet tacks, a pair of stockings, the leg of a chair-rbut why enumerate; if men cannot discriminate as to what is intended for the stomaoh, let the application of the paste and label be universal.

lam going to make a BpcciaUty ot certain lines during the next months, At the present time lam running Macintoshes and Overcoats at prices whioh defy any house in the Wellington District to approaoh. Byjeeriding the length which you require in inches, you can be supplied with a grand Tweed Maointosh for 27/0, honestly worth £3, Give mo a trial, John Thorburn, the People's Olothier, Willisstreet Wellington.—rADVT.] Venetian Blind and Revolving Shutter msnu factory. All Blind* guaranteed .of, the very best description. Price list on application to It. W. Henn (late Henn and Hansen.)" Poneke Steam Venetian Blind and Revolving Faetwy, Wellins'ton.-AnvT. During the last two months I have sold 50 Men's Heavy Whitney Overcoats at 16s 6d, and have remaining just 36 more, which I intend selling at 15s 9d. I h&Te also just landed 24 Men's Heavy Beaver Ovorcoats that I am selling at 28s 6d, that are honestly worth 455, Boys' Overcoats from 9s 9d. Youths' N.Z. made Tweed Hats 3s 6d. Men's Tweed Suits from 18s 6d. Inspection solicited." Note tho &ddms-<The wairarapa Clothing Factory, next the Empire Hotel. Masterton, ConoHS,'Colds, Bronchitis, &0,, are quickly curei} by using Baiter's celebrated ft Lung Preservor." This old established, popular medicine IB pleasant to the palate, adn highly extolled by the .'members of the medical, legal, and clerical professions. Sold by all Patent Medioine Vendors. See testimonials in advertisemenk-FADVr.I

Tenders ore invited by Mr G. Fannin jfor theerectionof a machine room at the 'rear of .the" Star" oftiue, Tenders are invited by Mr 0. Anketell for stumping threo acre 3 of: land on the Manaia. '. /

A swag containing wearing apparel has been found in Masteitoh, the owner can have same on applying at? this office and paying a small charge. Mr F. H. Wood has already got orders for several hundreds of ferrits, for runs in the Lower Valley district. On Saturday next, July 24th. Messrs Luwes & lorns will offer in an estate in liquidation a general stock of drapory, olothing, fancy goods, etc., horse harness 'and a valuable brake, Messrs Freeman R, Jackson and Co. notify thoir intention of opening the Johnstonville Sale yards, the first sale to commence on Wednesday, AngUßt 11th. They invite entries in all olasaes of s'took. Full particulars will be found in another column.

Messrs Lowes and loms report a very extensive sale of horses, produoo, furniture, etc., on Saturday. Horses ranged fromLsto Ll2; fowls, 2a b'd to 3s; poor turkeys, 7s; potatoes, from 3a for poor kinds to 4s and 4s 3d for table sorts: oats, 2s Cd to 3s; fowls! wheat, 3s 9d. A very long list of furniture and effects concluded a most satisfactory sale.

Mr Thos. Jago, cabinet maker, has on view in the window of his warehouse, Queen-street, the Mayoral ohair, and the Councillors' chairs for. thoir new meeting room at the Institute. They are roomy and comfortable,'and calculated to make the occupants desirous of lengthening the mectuigt. The wood is locally-grown rimu'and beautifully carved and polished. The chairs are upholstered in Russian leather, and are spring seated. Mr Jago, the contractor, is only waiting for the room to be complete before delivering the whole of the order.