PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2532, 23 February 1887, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

. i' : [FROM OI)E; CORRESPONDENT.] Ms. visits was noted injyour columns;; ;Heread;us'a report from 1 |tfr Holmes'oji 1 the; ,railway line as located. We all Said it was pure imagination, _ arid so Mr Znorrp : Stiirted off to compile-a. report of his own—now before me. "'He confirms Mr Holmes. Most of the residents refuse to believe either, and main-tain-that they have been told what to say by some member of the Ministry. To-day a fallen tree stopped the mornjng coach from, Woodville to Masterton, 'and'ciinsequentiy ho'msilswere sent from here ,to .Wellington. .Great was the grumbling thereat. Constable Cullinane 'is located in fairly comfortable quarters, and we all feel safe under his sheltering win?, • v - v •, The Geographical Society is likely to prove a failure. The'', excursions are advertised and everyone says it is a splendid thing, but no one joins.-or takes the least practical interest;:,. The R.M. Coiirt at Woodville Was about the quickest 'thing : on 'record. Sixty-seven cases; 3tarted at 10 a.m. on Thursday and finished at 9 p.m. on JFri- j day. Mr Von. Sturmei-'is immensely | appreciated by the litigants,' who all; say-j he makes the other party " dry up." How he can please both parties in a suit I cannot imagine- r'noticedatthe'E.M; Court that the recklessness of the average working nmn is quite on the increase. Ho buys land on - credit, builds a, h'ouso on dittojliircs > servant (solemn truth I) and fills his belly with all good things. Then he goes into Court, and the R.M. i makes a judgnieufc for 25s a month, and Mr Working Man cloara out. I heard a ! grand conversation tho other day;-* "Him's him as is buildin' that there 'ouse ?" " How can he build' a. house ? Ho ain't not no money; Ho owes me, and ho never paid his butcher a po.hny,

and " "Lor 1 , Jack, how 1 ' soft you are; if a man's earnin' money all the time, and never pays norone, he can build a house to please himself 1" There is a moral in this!