The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1887. FIRE SIGNALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 2537, 1 March 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1887. FIRE SIGNALS.

The great fire of Sunday' morning in the Empire city- suggests a lesson to residents in Mast'evton as well as to the citizens of Wellington. ( Judging from the report published in' theiiNew Zealand Times on the Wainui-water race it is evident that when the corporation constructed this magnificent l structure, some bad. work was put into the undertaking. The City Council no doubt paid the price for good work, but through the carelessness, neglect,' or incapacity of' the engineer who had charge of the enterprise, bad work was substituted. We know not who the engineer or inspector is who was responsible tor the Wainui race and dam, but whoever he may be>a grave calamity'is apparently traceable to him, If, as is plainly asserted, there is faulty work at Wainui, it is responsible to a large extent for the hundred thousand pounds worth of property destroyed in the Empire city. It is not -till an enormous amount of property is annihilated tJjat the fact of imperfect work is brought liowe to the public, It has i been known for .sQmo time that the i work was defective, but tjtore Jias been! the usual reluctance to speak out, and] people closed their eyes to the danger

signals. The citizens of Wellington hov,epaid.a terrible price for the bad work done in the construction of the Wainui. works,' and they will not now require to be urged to replace it with good work. • In Masterton the lesson taught by the calamitous fire on Lamb ton. Quay will, we trust, bear fruit. !We have recently had to tace the question of bad work in our gas tank. . We have, as in Wellington, paid for: good' work done, but unfortunately we find out ■ that we have obtained bad' work for. our money. There has not however, been wanting public menresponsible public men—who have advocated letting the. bad work go or patching it up after some makeshift fashion, /It is a question whether, even now, the Borough Counoil will insist, upon making good work of the wretched sieve that has been thrown upon their hands, ' If, however, the lesspn that comes from Wellington is heeded the tank should, at any cost, be made good. It is perhaps bad that the work should have to be paid for twice ovor, • but even this is far better than letting the tank go in an imperfect condition year after year It may be said that a gas tank cannot bo the cause of a public calamity but we are not altogether sure that defective work in gas manufacturing may not lead to a catastrophe. Such a thing as an oxplosion at a gas works has been recorded in the past, and though there may be no ground for anticipating a danger of this kind in Masterton, it is within our knowledge that some of the residents in the vicinity of our gas works have been somewhat nervous of late. We venture to hope all bad work will be unhesitatingly condemned by the Council, and that there will bo no further attempt made to patch cover or palliate it.

The tender of Messrs Brown & Rodgers has been accepted for the erection of tho new residence of Mr M. Caselberg. The Greytown Me Volunteers held a daylight inspection parade on Saterday evening, when Major Bunny inspected the men. Tenders are invited by the North County Council for quarrying and breaking stone on' the Masterton-Waimata road. Sergt. Trotman was the highest scorer in the third stage of the firing for the Hon. Chaplain's Cup by tho Greytown Rifle Volunteers on Saturday. Some larrikins in Greytown on Sunday last assembled in. a dark corner and attacked passers by on the opposite side of the street with stones. The police are on their track, We have to acknowledge the receipt from tha Commiisioner of Trade and Customs of a useful handbook of the fishes of New Zealand, prepared by Mr R, A, A, Sheerin. a journalist, who atone time edited a newspaper in Wairarapa South. Our Greytown correspondent paid a visit to the Lower Valley on Saturday last, and informs us that there are numerous Bigns of some serious grass fires having recently raged there. On Mr Tully's table-land run, the grass has been on fire several times.

Messrs Lowes and loins announce their next Masterton stock sale for March 9th, Thoii' list already embraces some 3100 sheep, being fat and, store wethers, fat and store ewes, 2-tooth wethers, good breeding owes, fat and store cattle, rams, horses, pigs, etc.

Messrs Lowes and loniß add to their stock sale at Tiuui on Saturday next, 800 merino sheep, 250 fat wethers, . 300 cross bred ewes, and 25 heifers. The list will now comprise 1200 good crossbred ewos, 1050 merino owes and wethers, 60 rams, 25 head cattle, and 20 horses, all of good quality. This sale should attract tho notice of dealers in stock or breeders.

We aro requested to remind our roaders of Mr Buchanan's annual Balo of Lincoln' ewes .which takes placo at tho Pastoral Society's yards, Carterton, at one o'clock to-morrow. The list comprises some three thousand ewes, mostly good sound mouth or young breeding ewes of undoubted quality, and should attract the notice of breedora. The sale is a joint one, Messrs Lowes and lorns and F. H, Wood being the auctioneers. On behalf of William Sabolfsld, who met .with an accident by which his leg was broken, and who is consequently unable to follow his occupation for some time, Mr M. McKenzie has collected and handed in to the secretary of the Benevolent Society the sum of £8 23 6d. A further sum of 25s is promised and will be paid over as soon as received. Mr Sabolfski has a wife and five-small children depending on himfor support. Our local contemporary, referring to the Theatre Royal meeting, says Subsequently, at a meeting of Directors, Mr Smith was asked if he would accept the responsibility of managing director, and he replied that he would, but without any understanding as to payment, tho object being to reduce expenses and make the theatre profitable.'' Wo niay state that Mr Smith preferred his services as managing director at a commission of 5 percent on the gross receipts, with a bonus if the business proved successful. Mr Hogg suggested that a custodian and a managing director should be appointed, and /Mr Smith suggested that Miss Smithson should actin the former capacity and himself in the latter.

The shipping World extracts the following from Mr Hemyng's little book ', The Sea as a Profession "Divine service is supposed to be performed every Sunday forenoon in tho navy; and in those ships that do not carry a chaplain the captain is supposed toconduct the service. Of course this is not always done; many things'may anddo intervened prevent it, The writer remembers serving in a small corvette under the late Captain P—y, la kind, good-hearted, and thoroughly Christian man, We carried no chaplain or naval instructor, and Captain P—y, having an invincible dislike to reading the service himself (from nervousness, probably, for though as brave as a lion, ho was very nervous), always tried to wriggle out of it in somo way. After divisions, as the carpenters were" rigging church"—that is, arranging scats, &c,— ho walked up and down, and looked most anxiously to windward, If he caught sight of the slightest sign of a cloud be would remark to tho first lieiitenant, "Humph, I am afraid it looks rather squally to windward, Mr —." ,Of course the first lieutenant oould not differ from the captain; so he would have a look round and reply, "Yos, sir, it does look dirty." " Yes, I don't think it will be safe to have church," the captain would say, and then add. with a sigh of relief, " Avast rigginp the chujrch—pipe down," We have inspected the stock of' Men's, Boys', and Youth's New Zealand and Colonial Tweed Clothing at the Wairarapa Glothing Factory, and for qjiality and prices we havo not aeeij anything in the Colony to equal them, and we stroifgly advise anyone requiring Clothing to call at The Factory, next Mason's, Chemist, I and see for themselves,-Advt.

Several Marines froqSBHHnH arrived in Masterton trip.. .> .'' A noticeto|brsons pupil teachers, appdKHBHBHB column, from tho'']flHflHHH| Wellington. In the Wellington hBSShKmh Zealand Rifle Assoch|HßHßH| Christchurch the failed to find a place. jgHSSsfIGEMB The usual monthly A9HKhh| Wairarapa place in row. . 1 DhH . - A new Kirkcaldie and Stains, rnHHHHM great reductions- and disSMßHHry] branch of the business, -apmßßpie columns over our leader.; ; ' : As Mr T. W. Shaw, of Messrs Hood and Shaw, Club Hotel atables, Masterton, is about to return to tho old country, the partnership between them is dissolved as from this date. Mr F. Hood will carry on tho business as heretofore. Intending visitors to the Titiui races will be able to leave Masterton on tho first day and return home immediately after the races on Friday evening, in coacheß specially laid on by Mr W. Neill. At the special meeting of the City Council last night his Worship the Mayor stated that he had sent a letter to Captain Lake, of H.M.S. Nelson, thanking him on behalf of the citizens for the valuable services rendered by his men at the recent fire. The sailors from the Nelson did "very useful work on Sunday morning at Clarke's boarding house. Mrs Clarke ■saved comparatively little, but for what was saved she is very grateful. An •inquiry will no doubt will bo held into the I cause of the fire, but nothing lias yet been settled.—N.Z. Times,

Mr J. Brown, tho Secretary of the ftorth Wairarapa Benevolent Society, reportsamost distressing case that camo under his notice yesterday in Masterton. From information received he proceeded to the house in Lincoln road, previously occupied by Mr T. Bentley, and found a woman there who had recently civcn birth to a child, having five other little ones, without the least bit of furniture in the place, nothing more than a few candlo boxes were to bo Been. When tho poor, woman was at first discovered in this plight the neighbors rendered her what assistance they could, and Mrs Col McDonnell sent down Borne necessaries for the family, the whole of whom were very clean, and had the appearance of being well looked after by the mother. Dr. Milne, as soon asv the case came under his notice, attended on the woman, and did what was necessary under the circumstances. Mr Brown gave the family tho usual orders for relief, and thoy are now placed beyond immediate want, and the case will be dealt with fully at the meeting of tho Society to-morrow. . Tho husband's name is John Webb, and •is one of those unfortunate men who, having sold out everything in Wellington went and lived on one of the Village Settlements near Pahiatua until ,'tho floods washed him out, when he came into Masterton about two months ago, and got some relief work under the Benevolent Society at stonebreaking. This having given out. he obtained other work, earning about 2os a week, but having such a large family this was barely onough to find the common necessaries of life, and keep the roof over their heads,

About thai itfij to be given away.— To the Editor—Sir, Will you allow me through your columns to lot tho people of the Wairarapa know that I am going to sell all my stock, consisting of men's, youth's, and boys' clothing, shirts, hats, hosiery, &c,, at a great reduction in prices up till tho end of the year; and also to remind them that everyone who buys goods to tho value of 2s 6d gets a ticket in my £35 competition. Think of that ! By spending 2s Gd with me, you may wiiv money enough to carry you for a trip round Now Zealand.—John' Tjiokbukm, Clothier, &c„ Willis st.-, Wellington. A Wonderful HENN.-Many aro tho in-. stanccß cited of tho astonishing fecundity of tho various species of domesticated fowl; but the celebrated WellingtoaHesn (whijh, strange' to say, is of tho masculine gender) has a soul, above tho mero production of eggs, The manner in which he turns out Venetian Blinds, ctor,- is tho wonder and admiration of everybody from the Governor downwards. Tho namo of this wonderful bird is R, W, Henn, and his well' known fowl-houso is thoPoncke Steam Window Blind Factory, Molesworth-street, Wellington.. —Advt.