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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2549, 15 March 1887, Page 2

The Mnatgrton School Committee will day)ev#Ding.'- ~~~■•'• ' Ms»» r WrigKlajWh'mid Biiioa, Hiotograplwrs 'of Wellington; 'anriounoe tliat.tfley -will fodtidud wale of "clwirge® for "buo pnttf fongeri; Ths train amDMments 'on the' W& lington-Maaterton Railway for -St.- Patrick's Day appear in another, column, Mr J. Day, who.is about to leave this district requests that all accounts; owing to him be Settled by Saturday next. Memre Lowes and lorna announce a very important said of itook, on behalf of Messrs J- and O. Herbert at their Hawk» hurst farm, Opaki, ThWi#ia a most attractive one, and will constitute a a bona fida unraeorvediale. ■' J , Horl l'alia, a native of Greytown, eoniT monly known as, *'Steward/' died'on Friday last, aftor *• long illness, at tho ripe old ago of 70 years, He waß tho owner of the land known as the Greytown reserve, and the adjotniug block, and was Europoansand .Natives. - '• 1 -••• The Post suggesU that tho Govern' ment should publish a J.P.'s Raids, lay. I ing down the duties of Justices, but what use would this be to some of them who aro said to bo unable to read ? Joseph Jackson, tho person who was j " wanted" for stripping tho house of Mr I Mahoney, at Kurupuni, and selling the contents, was arrested in Greymouth on a warrant and arrived in Mastorton today by tho mid'day train; and will be charged at tho R,M. Court with tho larceny of tho articles in question. At Chnatcliurch on Thursday last, before Mr R, Boetham, R.M, W. A Moss and J, Orevey were charged with neglecting to cancel an adhesive stamp on a promisory note of £2O on March 2nd. Mr Hoban appeared for the defendants. H. A. Davis, who discounted the note, gavo evidenco upon it, The dato was nut put on the stamp, only tho names. Mr Hoban submitted that there was no case under the section (123) of the Stamp Act,, which w<r referred to, inasmuch as the section did not apply to promissory notes but to receipts, Mr Beetham said that so. long as there was evidence to show that 1 the stamp had been affixed at tho proper time, thero waß nothing to enforce its cancellation, The case was dismissed.

On Saturday afternoon an old man named Richard i'arrell, who had paused 21 yearß of his life within the walls of colonial prisons, died at the Terrace Gaol Wellington at the age of 77. Deceased was oonvioted at tho Napier Supreme Court on Cjio let February 1866, bofbro Mr Justice Johnston for the murder of a man named Foan, and was sentenced todeath, were, however, made on his behalf to the Government of the day, and the result of a' numerously, siened petition forwarded by the inhabitants of Napier was that Sir George Grey then Governor of tho Colony, commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life, The prisoner remained in tho Napier Gaol until November, 1883, when he was transferred to Mount Cook Gaol. Deceased has for many years boen religiously inolinod. and studied his bible diligently, beside acoepting the ministraturns of Archdeacon Stock; Forth* last'few weeks hehaß been attended by Dr Johtißtoa tho ({aol surgeon, and the inquest which; was held yesterday, .was conducted by Mr G, B. liavy, Deputy Coroner. The judgment in the Hall use was delitered by Mr Justice, Johnston in the Court of Appeal at Ghristohuroh on Saturday last. The following is the oonclu. sion of the judgment whioli occupied about thirty-five minutes to deliver :tWe aroaware that in caws like the present ■ tho application of the rigid principle of common law must often result in what the public may be disposed to regard sb a failure of justice. That is really not onr concern. It is our duty to see justice administered according to the law. It may woll be said that the state of the law occasionally is a hindrance to tho administration ol justice. If so, it is tho duty of tho ■Legislature to repair tho remedy. Wo should be usurping functions not ours if we presumed to do more than interpret and apply the law as it exists. In regard to the particular principle that has been herein question, it ig, however, to be remarked that strongly opposed to a characteristic of English criminal law, it may be capable of advantageous modification in regard to theßpecial classes of cases, but its entire revursal would not

improbably tjjve rise to evils' far greater than to the occasional disadvantages to which the rule now ojposes uj. ' In con elusion it is proper to express the conolu aion of the Court that the learned judge who tried the case had practically no alternative but to provisionally admit this evidence. Tho state of the English authorities is such that no single judge could tako upon himself tho responsibility of declining to hear evidence tendered by the Crow). We have been unable, without unduly lengthening this judgment, to discuss in detail these authorities, but there emi be no doubt that nurno of them must be considered apparently favorable to the reception of the evidence. For tho above reasons we are unanimously of opinion that the prisoner ought not to havo bueu convicted,

gome girls, at a littla party recently got up a new order, and wished to initiate the young men into its mystorjes, They took possession of the front parlor and cluaod the folding doors, leaving one of their number on guard. The gentleman found one youth had disappeared, and wondered what had beoome of bim. The lodge being in readiness for candidates, one of the yonng mou was escorted into the room. He found four blushing maidens •in a row iu a oorner of the room, with a ohair in front of them. Upon this ho was seated and blindfolded, and told that one' of the girls would kiss him. If ho could guess her name lie would be privileged to repeat the osculation. Of course, he made a miserable failure; but instead of being allowed to retiro, he was compelled to occupy a scat on the oposito side of tbo room. Just imagine bis feelings, when the next victim was led in and had. ,been prepared for tho sacrifice, to see the missing beardless youth rise up, ghostlike, from behind the girls, imprint a good sound (stoack on tho uplifted and expect' ant lips'ijf % candidate, and then dodge .back tt> his p!acV'# ppjieealment) One after another tho young mongers j[lqji|_nj. ised The fun of it was, though', to hear sonio of them demand nwo than one trial before the remov&l of the hoodwlnka—onp a .well-known 'physician, not being content with less than three kisses. • fie W on* thoir sweetness, until the toeetneßs jms turned to call as he saw the boysalutohissudcesiororiyie throM 'of mystery^—sydneyßuMp7" ■ ' ,\Ve have the stock of Men's Boys', .and. Youth's New Zealancl' and 0 .fonjsj Tweed Clothing at £ho ClofJihjg |ao),pyy, niid, for' quality ariij. prices- ye anything in the Colony to equal'them,' and jpYr/jngjy ■tdviso anyone-requiring Clothing '• to' .gafi at The Factory, next Mason's, Chemist, and see f« iheauelves.—Asvz,

i- ' Messrs Lowes & lorns r.dd to th&rjlisi e or to-morrow; .14 quiet heifers;, M\ .,; A A meeting of the Maatertbn PbotW a Club sports Committee will be held- 'thi g evening at the Club Hotel at 8 o'clocl k sharp.. Full muster requested.' 1 v : : ; i i,v \ it ' : Henry Given and Co are now opening up the first consignment of their autumn and winter goods, [j A telegraph office will be open on the Hastings race course on Tuesday, Wed- : .nesday.'and Thursday-.ofirthia.vweekwfrom uoontlllsp,in.:'. . ■■.;•,;..•;.•■ J V?Whwr tbAt Mr : Rali«k; i- bricklayer; Uthe-sucoesiful-tenderer^for . .the-brickworkWthtf•MasterM'BanF of ■•; flew South Wales building, . " ;< The local Salvationists have selected Mr Woodroofe'spddbck" i rendezvous for their picnic ciri- St;' Patricks day. _' 'The deputation from the Wairarapa •■ North County. Council re the Loan dispute .will wait on the Government this nitera noon. ; f At a meeting of the Cabinet yesterday » if .was .filially 'deteidedrthapParliament t should meet-" for the 'despatch of buaia ■nes»"von Tuesday, 20fcb April, ! For the onnvoniouoo of those intend- ■' Ing-jo.-,p»t'rpni»e the Maatertoii-Opaki a races-it will be seen by an advertisement i in another coliimn that Mr W. Nelll will e ran vehicles to and from the course during a the day. ■"■ , '- J We are reguested.to remind our roarers' 1 of Mossra Lowes and'ljarnsistook sale-at their yards to-morrow.'' Their'list ; up to . the present is as follows:—600 fat sheep, . 200 2-tooth wethers, 800 breeding eweß, t 700 lambs, 37 rams, U heifers, and'the' 0 general list of horses, pigs; implements,, etc. g Mr S. .Von Stunner publioly notifies that he will hold an onquiry at tho Mas- ■ terton Court House on Friday, i March j 25fch, into the alleged deficiency of notice, re the eloctiou of the Castlepoint Licensj' ing District Committee, which tho peti- # tionora set forth as tho grounds for declaring the eloction void. f A cantata, •' Under the Palms," which ' has been for a considerable lime in re--1 hearsal by' i Grey town and Carterton • vocalists, will be given fhis evening at: Featherston. under tho conduetorship of ' the Rev. J. Ward, of Oreytown. The full chorus numbers no less than 70 voices £ 20 of which are children's. In addition to ■ these there aro three violins, flute, cor;- ■ net, organ and piano. , We notice that Mr J. McGlashan (a t brother ol Mr A. McGlashan, of Masterj ton) who has made a name in Wellingt ton musical circles since his arrival in r New Zealand, 19 about to give an i orchestra concert in Wellington on Frii day, March 25th, The concert, which is , to be under the patronnge of Sir Robert Stout arid his Worship the Mayor, .will , be of a high order. The orchestra com- . prises some 40 performers, aud should , prove a grat attraotion, i The Maori prophet from (Ml, who , viaitod the Te Ore Ore Pah about two 1 months ago has again returned to' this 1 distriot, ostomibly for the' purpose of healing the sick, but really to raise the wind, by_ practising a rotten potatoe triok on his unsnspeoting and oonfiding dark skinned brothers ana sisters. Finding that the Te Ore Ore natives were rather short of " Utu," he prophesiedthat a sura of £IOO was ,to be found under the Marble Monument in the large meotihg house v he having learned thataßumo! money was plated under the stone in question at the time it was erected, together with ' some papere relating to the treaty signed by the Government and tho Wairarapa Natives!, A meeting waß hold yesterday to consider what action should be taken, when it was ascertained that it would coßt £2O to movo tho monument, and'aa one old Native stated that all he remembered soeing placed there was four shilling/ it' was deoided that it would not pay it carry out the propbeoy.' The general verdict being "That the rotten 'potato oure takes too muoh.'-'utu" to carry out." A meeting of tho newly;eleofed Wairarapa Hospital Board was 1 held at the Institute, Groytown, yesterday. Present' Messrs Hawkins, Dagg. Oaselbergi' W," H. Tully, Bunny and 'Udyi; The minutes of the previous meetingwere' read by the Secretary, Mr C. Biggins'. It'' was reeolvedthat Mr-R. S. Hawkins be eleoted Oliaimian for the ensuing year.. ! Some discussion ensued as to the pro^ ! ' portions of Charitable aid contributions ' applied for by the United Board. It was resolved that tho Board communicate ' with tho Mastorton and Greytown Hob-. pital Committees and request thehi;re-\ spectively to givo a detailed estimate of their probable receipts and' expenditure , for the forthcoming year ending March : 31st, 1888, and also the statcinont as. to - the amount of subsidy (if any) they may, require, Mr Dagg gave notice that i ho" would movo at the next meeting " that Masterton be the place of meeting of the Board instead of Greytown," A WONEERFOI Hes.v.—Many are. the : instancescited of theastonishing fecundity of the various species of domesticated ' fowl; but the celebrated Wellington '. Henn (which, strange to Bay, is of the ' masculine gender) has a soul above the J mere production, of-egps. The manner in which he turns out Vonetian Blinds; etc,, is tho wonder and admiration of ( everybody, from tho Governor down- J wards. The namq of this wonderful bird i is R. ff. Henk, arid hi3..well-known fowl- j house is the Poneke'Steam Window ( Blind Factory, Molesworth-Btreet,'Wel-lington.—Advt. . About that i'Dijo be oiven away.To the Will you aikw me 1 thronaih your columns to let the people of 1 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 the end of the year j and also to remind them that 'every one who buys ; goods to.the value of, 2s 6d get* a ticket ' in my £35 competition. Think of'that! i By spending 2s (Id with me, you may win 1 monoy. enough to carry you for a trip f round New Zealand.T-JoHW 1 Clothier, &a„ Willia.Bt.,Welllii?ton. :■ *