The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1887. THE SELFISH PARTY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2766, 5 December 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1887. THE SELFISH PARTY.

The selfish party in the House of Representatives have had a bad time of it during the past few days dragging at the retrenchment chariot wheels in a vain effort to prevent them moving. The selfish party, as led by Sir Julius Vogel, has fought against the reduction of Ministerial salaries, and has battled hard against-the planing down of the honorarium paid to members—and all ill vain. We have been told that it is against the principles of democracy to cheapen the cost of government in directions like these. Democracy demands that Yogel and Co shall be paid their full value, and they, and they only, are capable of assessing what they are worth to the State. Even in the House there are democrats and democrats. There are the loud voiced democrats, with powerful organs of assimilation and digestion, who are tigers for public money, and there arc some oldfashioned democrats who believe that it is quite possible to have a pure form ot democracy at a moderate price, and that this theory of payment of big salaries for public services is a sham and a delusion. One such democrat, Dr Hodginson, quoted recently in the House the following sentiments " Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men: these are ambition and avarice. Place before the eyes of men a post of honour that shall be at tho same time a place of profit, ami they will move heaven and earth to obtain it. The vast number of such places it is which renders the British government so tempestuous, The struggles for them aro the true source of all those factions which areperpotually dividing that nation, distrnoting its councils. And of what kind are the men who will strive for this profitable pre-eminence through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, and the mutual abuse of parties tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and the moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust: it will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your Government and be your rulers; and they, too, will bo mistaken iti the expected happiness of their situation, for theii' vanquished competitors of the same spirit and from llio same motives will be perpetually cndeavqipig to distress their administration, thwart their measures, and render them odious to the people,"

If this extract had appeared during the late general election many district in New Zealand, or in this electoral district in particular, people would have said "how true that is!" but the wordswere spoken over a hundred years ago by a father of a great democrat nation, Benjamin Franklin. Where can we find a weightier authority 011 such a point than one of the illustrious framerg of the Amerioan constitution. It will thus be seen that all democrats do not consider largo salaries a point in their charter. In the United States the payments made to Ministers and Members, are, even now, excessively low as compared with the scale we have adopted in New Zealand. In this Colony, we are one of the most extravagantly governed communities on the face of the earth, and it is only right and just that there should be retrenchment-. The selfish party in .New Zealand are the men who are clinging to the. old vicious standards of Ministerial allowances, and payments to members. We have still in the House in the rank of the selfish party, too many of " the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions, and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits," against whom J)r, Franklin, in the last century, sounded a note of warning. The cutting down of salaries and honoraria by the Ministerial party is |t severe biow to such men, and a clear gain co the wise and moderate, the lovf.i of peace and good order, the mo'ii most fitted for the trust ofgOYenijug,

MrF. H, Wood announces a Stock sale at his Feat hers ton yards for to-morrow. The full programme of tlio Caledonian Society appears in our advertising columns of to day. Mcsara Lowes and lorns announce an extensivo sale of imported furniture in great variety, which must be cleared in order to close consignments. The Paliiatua Star Bays the MnstertonMangal)ao Association is a monument of speculation, and that at the present timo tliero are only six settlers on (ho block, i.e., men anxious to make a homo for themselves.

The wife of an enterprising tradesman at I'almeraton North has presented him with three sons. All doing woll but the father. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their stock salo for Wednesday neft a line of 40 two-year-old steers, 7 yearlings, and 2 cows,

The following notice appears in a Wellington paperlf my husband, "Walter Mcintosh, bettor known as "Watty Price, theatrical agent," does not return or correspond with me three months from this date, I intend to marry again, (Signed) Mrs Mcintosh, Newcastle, N.S.W. A full rehearsal of the cantata, "The Lion of Judah," takes place this evening in the Masterton Drillshed at 7.30. In view of the public rendering of the cantata tomorrow evening, a full attendance of performers is requested at the rehearsal.

The Porangahau correspondent of the Napier Telegraph wires Mrs Denis Ryan, wife of a settler at Blackhead, has been wandering about the country between Porangahau and Waipaiva for some daya. She is supposed to bo of weak intellect Her husband and a constable have gone in search, Thirty candidates, teachers and students were present at the drawing examination held in Masterton this morning under the supervision of Mr Boddi'igton. .Nine entered infreehand, sixteen m geometrical, and five in perspective drawing. Sir John Holker one day was leaving the House of Commons when he was addressed by two strange ladies, who asked him to show them the House. He politely led the way duly pointing out the objects of interest. At the end, one of the ladies handed to their conductor a sixpenco, which the Queen's Attorney-General took with a low bow, and afterwards hung upon his watch-chain, declaring that it was the only sixpence which lie could saftely say lie had liouestly earned. The following paragraph from a recent issue of tho London Evening News is calculated to raise the hopes of tho marriageable ladies of the Old Country, and at the same time points out ■ the primitive ideas of the condition of life in the far-off British possessions that still cling to certain classes there There are Vancouver's Island, British Columbia, parts of New Zealand, and other British colonies, where, if a shipload of hundreds of women were landed one day they might all be married thq. next, and have their passage paid by the bridegrooms. What to do with our surplus population is, therefore, not nearly such a difficult question as many people imagino. Tho people in the neighborhood of Dickens-street had some exoitement yesterday afternoon, says the Napier Tele-, graph, when a case of eviction was witnessed, which caused the bystanders to express themselves in terms of indignation at the nature of tho legal proceedings. The bread-winner of the family, some time ago, was.forced, through sheer necessity, to seek the protection of tho Bankruptcy Court, and at the meeting of creditors it was elicited that one creditor had a bill-of-sale over the wholtj of the furniture and effects. The debtor afterwards was compelled to outer the hospital through illness, The holder of the bill-of-sale was anxious to take possession, hence yesterday's scene. He proceeded to tho house in question, and there he turned the family out, while attempts were made to get possession of tho furniture, A crowd gathered, with the natural consequence that the spectators took the part of the unfortunate family, and exclamations "This is worse than Ireland" were to be heard. Somo kind friend, at his own expense, engaged a cottage in tho Beach-road- for the family, where they at once proceeded. The Wanganui Chronicle Ins published the following apolgy to Mrs Ballance, " By an oversight we inserted in our issue of Thursday a reprint paragraph contain _ ing an unfounded statement which reflected on Mrs Ballance, The paragraph which wo extracted was from Hawkcs Bay Herald, a'ld was quoted without comment-. It escaped tde close scrutiny that it would otherwise have received, owing to our habit of regarding the journal in question as being especially well informed on matters political. The offensive statement conveyed a charge against Mrs Ballance of extravagance at the expenso of the colony, in the matter of curtains, a charsro which, as we have said, was quite without foundation' We greatly regret having, even second hand, given currency to such a charge, more especially as the paragraph made froo with a lady's liamo, and we know toke the most public opportunity of apologising to Mrs Ballance for any pain that the unfounded and offensive paragraph may havo caused her. Two organs, Regulate first the stomach; second the liver, especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nine-teen-twentieths of all the ills that mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate, DrSoule's American Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two organs " Maine farmer." Mrs Partington saw.—Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to tho human cistern; but put your trust in DrSoule's American Hop Bitters, which will cure general dilapidation, costive habits, and all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe extract of typhoid fever. They are the ne plus mum of medicines. " Boston Globe."

The lapse of tune brings us once more to the festal and crowning month of the year and with it to the time honoured practice of thefree distribution of Holiday, and Christmas preaonts at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse To Aro House, Wellington. Wo lmve a really grand variety of useful, ornamental and artistic articles, lit to put on any table, and to adorn equally the mansion and the cot, and these we intend to give away in accordance with the amount of purchases made, during the month of December at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. On all cash purchases of the following amounts we shall give proportionate presents -thus; purchase 10s gift Is, purchase 15s gifj, Is Gd, purchase 20s gift 2s, purchase 25s gift 23 Gd, purchase 30s gift 3s, purchase 35s gift 8s Gd, purphgsc 40? gift 4s,'purchase 45s gift 4s Gd purohaso 60s gift 05, purchase £3 gift 6s, purchase £4 gift 6s, purchase £5 gift 10s purchase £G gift 12s, purchase £7 gift 14s, purchase £8 gift 16s, purchase £9 gift 18s, purchase £lO gift 20s, and so in the same proportion up to purchases of £SO or more at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, TeAro House, Wellington,

residents are reminded that in our Warehouse there is every facility of exerdrug a large varioty of choice, and that all are marked at actual jyhqlosale prices, that a visit to our warehouse would at oiiee be profitable, and enjoyable and that tliey are Bure to carry back with them many, pleasing reminders of the advantages secured in purcharing at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro flwse, Wellington,

Messrs Lowes and lorns make a further addition to their entries for Wednesday's Stock Sale, ot 30 steers and 20 heifers.

Tlio following are the number of candidates entered for the annual examination conducted by the Education Department;. —Senior Civil Service, 41; Junior Civil Service, 154; Teachers'. Examination, 802 ; total, 1057.

Traffic over Manchester street bridge was interrupted on Tuesday last says the Lyttleton Times in a somewhat curious manner. A swarm of bees took possession of the bridge, and lielditforhalf-an-hour, only one man being bold enough to cross it during their occupation. The bees finally quitted the bridge for somo ol the trees on the river bank, and traffic was restored, The Premier of Victoria, lias forwarded a letter to Sir Grakam Berry, Agent General for tins colony, desiring him to inform Sir Henry Holland that the Government of Victoria are averse to the proposal to grant permits to some few Caledonian liberated convicts to land at Australian ports in order that they may proceed therefrom to California.

"She did wrong to lookback, didn't slio Bessie?" "Yes, matnma." "And what do you think Lot thought when he saw his poor wifo turned into a pillar of salt J" "1 don't know, mamma; I 'specfc he wondered where he could got a fresh one."