The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1887 MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2767, 6 December 1887, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1887 MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

The Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill provides for the election of Mayors by their respective Councils instead of at present by the People, The innovation is one that will commend itsulf to most sousible people, and in this town the proposal is specially interesting, because the burgesses have in their wisdom recently put in office a Mayor who is supposed to be antagonistic to the Council. If the Amendment Bill goes through Parliament it would for the future be impossible for a citizen in Mr Renall's position to lake the Mayoral Chair excepting with the consent and approbation of tho Council over which he is to preside. We quite approve of the change in the method of election, as Councillors ought to have the privilege of electing their own Chairman, and burgesses when they exercise their choice injudiciously, are apt to create a local hornet's nest, which is fatal to good government. As a rule in Masterton, the voice of the people has been wont to favor the election of the chief desired by the Council, and thus tho complications have been avoided which threaten us this year. • The change now proposed, is in the direction of making the Municipal machinery work more smoutbly, by promoting the comfort and convenience of Councillors, A plebiscite is, no doubt, in theory a grand thing, but in practice it is sometimes a snare. Theroretically, an elective Mayor is to be preferred, because such an officer represents a town as a whole, and is not tho delegate of any particular ward, but practically, this advantage does not compensate lor the mischief created by & plebiscite, when a Mayor is returned in opposition to the Council, over which he has to preside.

We learn from Mr Orbell, the Inspector of this district, that a disease identical with the one prevalent in South Australia, is now deciminating the rabbits'throughout the Wairarapa. A long report by the Colonial Surgeon, Dr Patterson, was laid on the table of the South Australian Assembly on November 15, relative to the destroying of rabbits by disease. The writer stnt«d that the experiments had been conducted in an enclosed yard with no possibility of escape He wrote:— I counted eight rabbits in this enclosure, of which two were wild and the remainder domesticated, Lying about were dead bodies inconsiderable numbers, The young ones which had come to their full time were either stillborn, or had died immediately after birth. The effect of this disease in checking feenndity has not been overlooked. One rabbit, which was in an advanced state of disease, was inactive and emaciated, Places in the face, about tlienose and eyes, were without hair, and covered with a scurfy incrustation. A pinch of fur was removed from its body, the scurf adhering by the roots. The hair was separated and placed under a microscope, and the presence of insect parasite revealed. The parasite is sarcopies cunieali. Its existence denotes that the animal is affected by rabbit itch or rabbit scab. There is no danger of its going into the circulation, as the bodies of the eggs are larger than the capillary vessels, It IS a. question, however, whether the disease would spread in the open air so well as in confinement, Theauthorities are agreed that their is no danger of the disease commnmwling to hinan beings, but it would be t]angerous to proceed far without further experiments, under different conditions as to locality and otherwise, The matter should be cautiously undertaken, ;i

Mr John Ballaiice is laid up at Wanganui with Candy fever. Mr W. K. Bishop's handy little monthly time table and diary, for December is to hand.

Tho simi of £IIO,OOO has boon paid to the contractors for tho Hawkosbury Bridge, New South "Wales, The usual monthly meeting of the North Waitarapa Benevolent Society takes placo torinorrow afternoon at the Institute. Mr Buchauan will ask tho Minister for Public Works to-day whether he will con-, aider the question of reducing the railway freight on timber from the Wairarapa district.

From a return laid on the table yesterday it appears that tho travelling allowances and expenses drawn by the late Ministry between 31st March and 6th October amounted to £1148145. An official bulletin, issued on December 3rd. announces that the disease from which the Crown Prince of. Germany is Buffering shows no signs of spreading, Arrangements are being made in Sydney for a private party to visit the sounds and bays along the West Coast of New Zealand. Lord Carington will be one of the party.

A Committee has been appointed by Court Loyal Enterprise A.U.F., to confer with the other Friendly Societies in Masterton with a view io holding Ae- annual Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Sports on Anniversary Day.

In Messrs Lowes & loms' stock report published by us yesterday, there were two typographical errors—wethers and dry ewes should havo read for "freezing" not for " breeding" purposes, and potatoes quoted at 70s should have read "blue Dorwents."

Mr W. H. Abide, the Wellington manager of the New Zealand Press Association, left by tho Hauroto' on Saturday afternoon for Sydney, to open the Sydnoy branch of the Association. The Post affirms that in Wellington there is a number of landlords who to their shame bo it said, deliberately set themselves out to provide house accommodation, in populous parts of tho city, for the lowest and most debased section of tho commniunity. Such people pay high rents—far higher rents than respect-

able tenants would pay. Messrs Lowes and loms hold their fortnightly stock sale at their yards tomorrow. Tho list will embrace the following lines:—4o 3-yoar old steers; 30 18 months steers• 14 yearlings; 30 heifer 3 and cows; 1400 mixed sheep ; 950 wethers; 12 young pigs; horses etc.

Thero are indications already of stormy

municipal weather! We hear that Mr A. W, Renall, the Mayor elect, has written to Mr Gapper, the Chairman of the Works Committee, directing that a

certain undertaking, now in the hands of the Borough Overseer, be suspended, and that Cr. Gapper has refused to put on the brake, or to take orders as yet from tho new driver. We have applied at the Borough Couinl office for fuller particulars, but the officer in charge merely dosed one eye, and sent our reporter away unsatisfied.

Some amusement was caused in the Masterton R.M. Court this morning, during tlie hearhip of the Mauriccville assault case, when the plantiff was under examination. ■ Ho appeared in the box with his head enveloped in a large handkerchief, which gave him the appearance of having been very severely punished. "Is your cyo very tad?" sympathetically , enquired Mr Pownall. "Yes; it's very bad indeed," said the witness. '' Let the Court see the extent of your injuries ;-"requested Mr Pownall. Witness removed the bandage and turned Ins countenance towards thoßetich, and his Worship eiuleavoriiis; to detect the damaged optic, asked the witness to " come a little closer" as he was rather near sighted, " I see there is a mark on your eye," said his worship after a closer examination, As the witness was walking back to the witness box, the audience tittered when the full extent of the injuries, (which were hardly perceptible), broke upon their vision. " Were you stunned with the blow I" enquired Mr Pownall, " Yes," solemnly replied the witness, and a loud smi'e among the spectators was promptly suppressed by the Court officials.

Wo remind our readers of the enter, tairrnient in tho Mastoi'ton Mlshed this evening, when the cantata" The Lion of Judali," will be rendered by the Presbyterian choir. It 'will be remembered that the cantata was performed a few weeks ago in the Theatre Royal, when it met with great success, and the promoters have beer induced to repeat it this evening in aid of the Mastertou Hospital funds. There will be between thirty aud forty vocalists and about a dozen instrumentalists taking part in the cantata, which has been well rehearsed. The price of admission has been fixed at a low scale, children being admitted at half price to any part of the hall. The Volunteer Band has kindly consented to play several selections outside the hall previous to the performance,

Two organs. Regulate first the stomach, second the liver, especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly, aud you will remove at least nine-teen-twentieths of all the ills iliac mankind is heir to, in this or any other climate. Dr Soulc's American Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfoctly healthy natural action to these two organs "Maine J armor."

Hits Partington says.—Don't take any of the quack rostrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern; but put your trust in Dr Soulo's American Hop Bitters, which will cure goneral dilapidation, costive habits, and all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe extract of typhoid fever. They are the ne jjfois Minim of medicines. " Boston Globe." The lapse of time brings us once more to the festal and crowning month of the year and with it to the time honoured practice of the free distribution of Holiday, and Christmas presents at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse Te Arc House, Wellington. We have a really grand variety of useful, ornamental and artistic articles, Jit to put on any table, and to adorn equally the mansion and the cot, and these we intend to giveaway in accordance with the amount of purchases made, during the month of December at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, To Aro House, Wellington.

On all cash purchases of tho following amoiipla \yb shall give proportionate presents -thus; purchase lfjs gift Js, purchase 15s gilt Is 6d, pm'oaaae 205 gift % purchase 25s gift 2s Gd, purchase 30s gift 3s, purchase 35s gift 3s fid, purchase 40s gift 4s, purchase 45s giit 4s Gd puYchase 50s gift ss, purchase £3 gift 6s, purchase £4 gift Bs, purchase £5 gift 10s purchase £6 gift 12s, purchase £7 gift 14s, purchase £8 gift lGs, purchase £9 gift 18s, purchase £lO gift 2Us, and so in tho same proportion up to purchases of £SO or more at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, TeAro House, Wellington,

' Wairarapa residents are reminded that in QuiAyareliouge there is every facility of exercising a large'yjrlefy of phoipe, and that all goodsarepiavked'at actiial'wholejjale pripep, that a, visit to our warehouse woujd aj Qupo he profitable, and enjoyable and that they are sure to cany back with them many pleasing reminders of the advantages seourod in pur. oharingat the Wholesale Family Drapery Wm*mWi Tc Aro Hop, Wellington,

We havo kr acknowledge tho receipt from Mr G. Bectham M.H.R. a copy of the Msstnrton Town Lands Trust Management Bill. A Press Association telegram from Wanpui this afternoon states that tho petitioner's case in the- Bryce-Hutchison election petition wa3 closed, and that Mr Hutchison was being oxamined.

The elocutionary oiitertamtnent by I'rbfessor 'Mollwo takes place to-morrow evening in the Theatre Royal; when judging by the numbor of tickets sold, thore should be a pood house.

The rehearing case Lyons and Barclay did not occupy tho Masterton Court many minutes yesterday afternoon. It was proved that Lyons. had sold the horse, saddle and bridle for £l2 and not £ll as stated and judgement was given for £1 and costs,

Dr Newman lias given notice to move for a return showing (1) the nunvbor of chains between Eketahunaand Richmond; (2) the estimated cost of contracting tho railway lino from Eketahuna to Richmond including the cost of a flag-station at the latter place,

The New Zealand Times says:— "So far as wo can learn, there is no likelyhood of any sum being placed on tho Public Works Estimates for the continuation of the railway from Masterton-to Wbodvilleboyond the present contract. It appears to be thought that Wellington and Hawks Bay will obtain a full share of the limited sum available for railway extension in the vote of L 121,000 for the completion ot the Palmorßton.Woodvillo line through the Manawatu Gorge." The whole of yesterday's sitting of the House of Representatives was occupied in debating the second reading of the new Representation Bill, which was carried on the voices shortly after midnight. Mr G. Bectham, in speaking to the Bill, said if it went through in its present form, without making better provision for the country districts, he should probably vote against the N third reading. He should, however, support tho Bill at present, and he hoped the Premier would see his way to give tho country districts inoro consideration. Mr Buchanan supported the Bill, and regretted that the reduction had not been made last session.