The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1887. THE DUTY OF THE HOUSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2554, 22 March 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1887. THE DUTY OF THE HOUSE.

We called'attention in our last issue to the measure of confiscation, 'the socialistic dynamite, whichMr Ballance is to introduce in the coming session, The House meets next month, and it may be asked what will be its duty at this juncture in facing such a monstrous and such an iniquitous proposal. "We may not be familiar with the details by which effect will be sought to be given to Mr Balance's projected land revolution, but the thing in itself is bo dishonest that the House ought not to wait for the Ministerial statement, but should turn the Ministry neck and crop'out of power as soon as Parliament opens. Every man who has come out to New Zealand, left England with the hope of acquiring a freehold in this Britain of the south. Every inducement has been held out to immigrants by past Governments to take up freeholds. The pledges of freeholds in this country have been made and repeated a thousand times over, and there is no stronger obligation resting upon the colony than the compacts it has made with settlers to whom it has issued inalienable Crown grants. Thousands of industrious settlers have realised their anticipations of becoming landowners, and many thousands are still waiting for the fulfilment of their hopes. A measure like the one Mr Ballance contemplates bringing forward strikes at the root of freehold titles,'turns Crown grants into' waste I paper, breaks faith with every landowner in the colony, and initiates a social revolution without precedent in any English speaMng.comniimity, The Assembly will indeed bo degenerate and foresworn if for an instant it listens to such a mad scheme, if it hesitates for a moment to hurl from power a Ministry which threatens thd colony with such a grave calamity. It is said by the New Zealand Times that some members of the House will support the measure because they are over mortgaged, and,the.resumption;of their lands will relieve them from financial straits, but we can hardly believe that there are many men in the House so base, so lost to all sense of honor, as to sell their country in order to. extricate'themselves from some temporary embarrassment! If this, however, is' the'support on which Ministers rely for carrying through their measure, it is worthy of the cause they have in hand. We once thought we had reached the lowest possible political depth when Sir George Grey was in

power, but we have yet to discover that there are more dangerous men in the colony than the Knight of Kawau, and we trust we have coine'down to the bed rock in Mr Ballance. The: usual weekly meeting of the Masterton Borough Council will beheld this evening, Some of the Mauriceville ratepayers are oomplaining' of the quality of the metal being used in the contract, for' road work flow In course of construction for the road Board in that settlement. ~. Th?pplice.atation at Herbertvllle.has ; iwh -proclaimed a public gaol, under charraof Constable Frank Sehultz, and the raohgahuft police gaol is declared closed., ... A Gazette' Extraordinary issued yesterday afternoon, contains a proclamation calling Parliament toother for the despatch of business on Tuesday, 26th April, at 2 o'clock p.m. The Right Rev. Dr Hadfield, Bishop of Wellington, is rapidly recovorine from .theeffeots of the accident which befell ,'him'' some timo ago. . Tendere for falling 100 aoroß of bush at Kopuarangi are Invited. Particulars can be Obtained at this office. A miatako appeared in our report of the Groytown review in yesterday's issue. Wo stated that the Maj'or-Gen»ral thanked Lieutenant Thompson, of Maaterton, it should have been Sergeant Thompson, of Greytown, who acted as orderly to Sir George Whitmore throughout theiay. Lieut. A. Thompson was not present at the review., t A Mr J. A. Morgau, of Christchurch, ' writes as follows to the Lyttelton Times, re the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee : in New, Zealand:-" Sm,-A8 India allowed 55,000 poor prisoners to be set free as a mark of Her Majesty's sympathy why should not we allow, Bay any of our poor prisoners, gay one-third of those who have light sentence, and let thorn out under the Probation Act, but with leave to go out of this colony if they choose. Appoint, say a commission of Messrs Beetham, Ollivier, Carow, and others to pick out the oneß they think would make good use of another chance to be honest. 1 do not see why we should be behind India in generosity. India, out of 75,000 released 21,000." The following cases are down for hearing at the District Court sitting which ■ commences at the Masterton Courthouse to-morrow:—T. Jameß v Edward J. Hughes, claim for £2OO, damages caused through bush fire. Mr Beard will appear for plaintiff, and Mr Hutchen for defendant; special jury case, Official Assignee ■ v Murray, Roberts & Co, same v Mr Hull, same v Castendyke and Focke, samo v Mrs Budden. Tlieso cases are to Bhow cause why the defendants should not deliver up certain properties to tho Official Assignee, for the benefit of creditors in several bankrupt estates. There will also be applications for discharges and public examinations of bankrupts at this sitting of the Court. Before His Honor Judge Richmond and. a special jury at the civil sittings of the Supreme Court Wellington an action was commenced on Wednesday last and ■ is still dragging along with tho prospect I of a few days more law before it is con- ' eluded. Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company Beek to recover from tho Timarn Harbor Board the sum of £32,80316s Bd, on account of the loss of the ship Lyttleton and her cargo in Timaru Harbor on 12th Juno, 1886, while the veßsel was in charge of Robert Storm, whom tho plaintiffs allege to havo boen a servant of the ; Board. Storm, as pilot, wbb taking the ship Lyttleton out of port at Timaru when she got ashoro and becamo a total wreck with tho loss of all the cargo. The vessel was valued at £15,500; the cargo at L17.30216s 6d. ! It is an open secret that there will be a i complete revolution amongst the colonial Governors in the course of tho next eighteen months. The authorities in Downing Street have come to the con--1 elusion that new blood is required, and advantage will bo taken of the retirement of somo of the older hands to infuse it. Lord Carrington'B appointment was resolved on as an experiment, jand it has ! been such a_ complete success that the pooi'B possessing administrativeexperience are pretty suro to be asked to join the vico-regal rankß. Lord Hardwicko, everybody knows, has for years been wanting a colonial Governorship, but only a very bold Secretary of Stato would care to trust him with an important colony. Lord Dalhousio and Charles Beresford are, however, men of a different kidney, and both, according to report, are willing to accept Australian posts. About thirty Wairarapa teachers attended the Masterton School on Saturday last for tho purpose of establishing a Wairarapa Educational Institute. The report of the sub-committee previously appointed to draw up rules <fcc, was received and adopted, The following officers and Committee were olected : President, Mr W. T. Grundy; VicePresident,' Mr H, Brann ; Secretary and Treasurer,MrH. Bunting; Committeo, Mrs Scales, Messrs Samuel, Potritt, Ponsonby, Beechey, Connell, and Cox. It was decided to hold quartarly meetings of the Institute, the first, to bo hold on Saturday April 2, at twelve noon at the Masterton School, the subject of discussion to be, ''Tho Standard of Education." A number of the latest educational publications kindly supplied to the Institute by various Home publishers attracted a good deal of attention from tho teachers presont. The football match between North and South of England, (Association rules) was .'playod at Birmingham on Jan. 22, and resulted in a win for the North by 4 goals to three. A peculiar feature of the game Was that it was "boycotted" by the 1 public, and instead of the large crowd that usually turns up to see a match in the district, barely a thousand spectators were on the ground. ; : A little girl named Kennedy, daughter of the keeper of the railway gate, at Beaufort, was run over by a special goods train from Ballarat, but fortunately she escaped unhurt. The child was toddling along the line and was struck by a disc in front of the locomotive, and falling botwoen the raila almost the whole of the train passed over her when the driver, who had seen the accident, had brought .the train to a standstill. He wont in search of the child, and found her under one of the waggonß playing with the couplings, quite unhurt, We have inspected the stock of Men's Boys, and Youth's New Zealand and Colonial Tweed Clothing at tho Wairarapa Clothing Factory, and for quality and prices we have not seen anything m the Colony to equalthem,;and we strongly advise anyone requiring Clothing to call at The Factory, 'next Mason's, Chemist, and seefor themselves.—Advi. ' _ A Wonderful HEM.-Many are the instancescited of theastonishing fecundity of: the various'species of domesticated fowl; but the celebrated Wellington | Henn (which, Btrange to say, is of the 'masculine gender) has a ; soul above, the mereproducfcibn.bf egps. The.manner in which he turns' out Venetian Blinds,, etc.;.; is the wonder and admiration of everybody, from tho Governor downwards. Tho name of this wonderful bird is R. W. Em, and his well-known fowlhouse is tho Poneke Steam Window Blind Factory, Wellington.—Advt. ' ]

We notice that the gsw.fitters are busy, putting in the gas fittings to the Theßtre Royal and adjacent shops. '-,t& Tenders are invited by the Wairarapa North County for timber breastwork ; : oh the Opaki-Manawatu'road.' ■'/ Dr Lvnn, the celebrated illusionist will be unable to visit Miisteitonuntil'hig return trip from Auckland in a few weeks hence. . Information has been received that a .man named Thomas Kerby died suddenly at LowerWhareama on Saturday night! No particulars are to hand. ... ... Ellis Newton, the great' impotter of Amwicanjewellry is announced to'openin the Drill ghed this evening, v Admls-: sionfree. . ■'. -'■■■-■ •■ -• u - '- '' Messrs Lowes and lorns add to* theft stock sale list for to-morrow 600 breeding ewes, 200 Lincoln ewes, 2001amb3. Their list how comprise 1650 breeding ewes," 150 fat lambs, 100 head cattle, horses, pigs, ete. • \ :■:. z. ~J A meeting of Treasurers of the Wairarapa contributing bodies to the United District Charitable Aid Board wbb held yesterday at the Masterton Institute, Messrs R, Brown, F. G. Moore, and H. H, Woltcra- being present. .It was decided to recommend >the different bodies to appeal against the demand made by the Board, as the assessment was considered illegal and unjust. Following are the acceptances for the •Nelson Cup:-Adminißtrator, Puritan, The Shall, Rumour, Fay, Forester, Black Regent, Spado, Guinea, Clyde, Orient, Oceolai Fatriciuß, Peter Osbeck, :Kingaßk, Jilt, Dan O'Connell, York. The weights for the Maiden Plate are :-Voltigeur, 9st 21b; Peter Osbeck and Stella Bst 131b; Lady Agnes,. Bst 111b; Smooth, 89fc 41b; Weazel and Red Rose, Bst lib. Railway Plato.—Paßha, 9st lib; Spade Guinea, Lady Agnes, Rumour, Shah, and Revoke, Bsfc 111b; Smooth and Forester, Bst 01b; Teddy Yuillff and Weasel, Bst 31b.. Our Carterton correspondent wires : R, Crawford's blacksmith shop with contents, was totally destroyed by firo this morning about fi.39. Mr Crawford was busily engaged in repairing a plough which was needed early this morning by the owner, and while. workiug in the smithy he noticed the reflection of a blaze on the opposite side of tho street, when looking behind him he saw that the leanto at the back of the smithy was on fire, which he thinks must have originated, from a spark from the forge settling: among some shavings which were in the' leanto. The building belonged to Mr R. R. Armstrong. Mr Crawford is a heavy loaer, us his tools which were all destroyed were uninsured.

An affecting Bcene was witnessed on the platform of the Masterton Station yesterday, when an erring husband was received to tho bosom of his loving and forgiving wife, after he had tasted the sweets of this life for over &. twelvemonth in company with a voung and guileless maiden. He loft our midst with all the ardour of a young lover, taking with bim tho young lady referred to, to whom he was old enough to.be her grandfather. However, after travelling around he found there was no place like home, and, like the prodiyal son, he arose and came to hiß—wile, Sheßaw, or heard of him afar off, put the house in order, donned her bost attire, and rushed to meet him at the Btation, Those who aaw the affectionate greeting with arms around each others necks, and hoard the volleyß of kisses that were fired off, came to the conclusion that there's life in the old boy yet.