The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1888. UNDER ONES OWN VINE AND FIG FREE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2798, 14 January 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1888. UNDER ONES OWN VINE AND FIG FREE.

In old times the supreme happiness of the children of Israel was recorded to consist in being able to sit down in peace under their own vine atid fig tree. We should not be sorry to sae a similar felicity enjoyed by every resident in Masterton. This climate as most people know, is admirably adapted for vine culture, and it is, we are creditably informed, equally suited for maturing that fruit which is supposed to have furnished material for costume to the emigrants from the garden of Eden. As a matter of fact the fig is [icvn in KaMuttn, and the proprietor of fij imi in this town tells us that when ripe, this patriarchal edible is the most delicious of all fruits, Probably, however, the grape is commercially the more valuable product of our gardens. We have one grower of grapes in this town, who derives about half a ton of fruit annually, from a small plot ol land, and who makes therefrom a claret which is declared by connoiseura to be superior to tho bo3t imported wine obtainable in Wellington. In London at the present time, there is a run on Australian wines, the Frenoh vintage having proved a failure, and it is expected that the extremity of France will prove the opportunity of Australia, and that the growers and manufacturers of the Southern Seas will at last come to the front. " Puff," in the Evening Press, who is a shrew! observer, declares that the Aus ralim wine is superior to the French claret, which sells in Wellington at four and five shillings a bottle so that it only requires a trial to make its way; "Puff" also holds that New Zealaud is capable of producing better wine than even Australia, and we have sufficient confidence in his judgment to pit faiih in this affirmation. The climate of the North Island of r>ew Zealand is specially adapted for a successful untnge, and Masterton is a favorable locality for such an in li3try. 'I here are differences of opii.ionas to the expediency of drinking wine, but regarding it merely in the light of an article of commerce, we should be glad to see scores of settlers hi Masterton making it for either the local or the English market. Practically there is nothing to prevent any man -in the conum nity who occupies half an acre of land from growing enough grapes to pay his landlord, his butcher, his baker and his storekeeper. The resident who has been successful in growing grapes and in making his own wine, and who is proverbially goodna tired in communicating any special knowledge of such an industrv which he possesses, is available as an .authority on the right sort of grapes to 'grow-■arid' the right.methods of growing. There are particular kinds •of grapes, wo understand, which ripen with p.hsolute certainty year afteryeariii Ma terton, and may' be regarded as i ce ;ain crop. In Wanganni, for years past, a Mr Soler has been successful in producing a large annual crop of grapes, and in manufacturing a considerable quantity of marketable wine. Wo want a qoler in Mastttrlon. We commend to our readers the following sage refleotious on this subject given forth by" Puff." Why don't people go in for wine growing 1 "Why don't they go in for all sorts'of industries whioh the o nmtry's exactly suited for and which would pay twenty timos better than cK/ppinp or piwing or dairying ? I'm sure I don't know I Why? Beoause they have' no aptitude and no knowledge, and they're too well off as it is to care to Btrike out any new lires I And too confoundedly lazy! Yes, there's quite enough of that, t ol Wait till the Count gets his French and Swiss peasants to work I He'll show us a thing or two I Well, we sadly want somebody to show us a thing or two I Here we have the grandest little corntiy in ""the Hritish Empire, by chalks, letting its oliraateand soil and waters apd woods and. harbors go waste,.

The custodian ul the Alastorton Hospitalaoknowledges withthanks 12 months' copies of Graphioaud other periodicals from Mrs J, J.Freeth. ( A statement of tho receipts and expenditure of tho Mastjrton Cemetery Tin t tor the vear 1887, is published iu another.' ouluinn, ; Mr F. H. Wood, advertises for tenders for ja'uiting his Greytown Auction Rooms. Tenders closo next Saturday the 21st inst Particulars will be given by Mr Wood at his Greytown office. ; Mr'P.'.H. Wood inserts the ■list of stock entered for his next Thursday's sale at the Taratahi yards. The entries ure already numerous and comprehensive a thousand sheep.and about one hundred and thirty head of all classes of cattle. Two of Mr T. D Thompson's race horses leave for Wellington by Monday morning's train, to fulfil their engagements at the taLid Day Summer Meeting. The horses Mr Thompson is sending are L ttle Scrub aud Jack Tar. The yacht Dido has been recovered just off Lyitklton Heads by the Police s; earner launch was in the possession of rwo brothers named White, Wellint;tun men whu had Btnlen her. Thev had a woman acquaintance on board with them These poisons were taken into custody and have been reminded tj Wellington. _ Messrs M. Caselberg and Co., have issued a very interesting little treatise'on "'lho erases aud clover Uuod in the formation of Permanent Pastures." The pamphlet, which is in book form and waß printed at the Daily offije'gives a lot of • a uihle information on a variety of points connecteJ with pastures and it also con- ;■ tains a oomplete price list of the firms seeds, Mr Wayergang left at our office says the Taranaki Herald. soino heads of a grass growing in his garden, which are a great curiosity, These heads resemble grasshoppers, and if dipped intw water and placid on a table jump about in a most extraordinary manner. VVe'uuder stand the seed was brought from Egypt to NelsoM many years ago, and the grass growing in Mr Weyergaug's gawen was obtained from the latter place. We remind the sporting public of the boxing match which takes, place at the l 'iistei-tuii Theatre Royal tonight between William Murphy the champion light weight of Australasia, and Edward Kelly of Lofdou. The men fight to a finish for £'2s and the takings, and Hie set-to should be a moßt interesting one to admirersof the fistic art. Regarding a similar match recently fought at Wanganui, the iMamiwatu Times says " »ea'B for the spectators of the p izo fight the other night weiesoldatsj and 10s each, and tin- supply was far from equal to the dem 'lid. A number of spectators came from Wellington, and a special steamer was chartered by Aucklanders to convey them to What a commentary on " the depresiion'-the times and the inauneis!" One of the statistics quoted by Mr Glover the other night is interesting, and as New Zealand hVures pretty creditably in it, woreprnduee The New South Wales drink list per head is 15 Us Ril; Victoria L 4 lfls lid; New Zealand L 3; United Kingdom L 3 7s JOd; and America LI 15s (id. It should perhaps be explained on behalf of America, who always prides herself upon being first and foremost in everything, that the lowness of the total is owing to the existence 'jt tl e Prohibition Slates, Regai ding the general spread of Metal principles in this colony, the Au.kland Bell, which is by no means a Temper.aiiso Journal says," no one can question the extraordinary advance which the cai.su has made iu recent year, and wu are ■ onyinced that it is within measurable distance of the time when intoxicating drinks nill be absolutely excluded Irom the shores of N w Zetland, a coin invn ition that would do more for the physical heath and inoral welfare and absolute happiness of the people than any other earthly blessing that heaven could bestow,"

At the last Borough Council meoeting, says the Greytown Standard, some diseussun took place in referen e to tho com plaint oi Mrs Maurice Wood against her neighbor, MrJ.R, Henley, who is, to some extent, a bee farmer. Mis Wood in her complaint, set forward that much danger acciued to herchidten from hav. i g, adj iceut to her premises such "stinging" acquaintances, and as hor life, under such circumstances, was not all ' honied sweetness 1 she beyged the Council to assist her iu relegating the •' little busy bee" to &we place of sojourn " far, far away." A conversation-ensued as to whether a bee owner could follow, without let or hindrance, his bees, whn swarming, Some of the Councillors thiught that as the insects could not easily be " ear markeo" it miyht be difficult to lay claim io them or prove' them to be the particular property of fh claimant, Others held that in followin bees mi to a neighbor's property without permission it amounted to trespass Eventually the Town Cleik was instructed to reply that the Council had no jurisdiction in the matter.

A trio of gentlemen wh« yesterday went out on the Rarigiujmau Ranges, aboye (ipnli; |md a thrilhig experience. What they went for our chronicle does not fay. One rumour is that the party, which consisted of a local lawyer, a genial and well kimun cemniisEJou ayent, and a ■ortly.-knight if the cleaver--a real old heavy weight, were looking for gold, another states (hat they were on coal prospecting intent, while a third hath it that i in festive fiiudsweteßeikiug are. tired spit away from the busy haunts of men in «lucb to do a go-as-you-please, in order to settle their rival claims to a new hat which hung upon the result of the raie. However, the old proverb "Man proposes but God disposes" was again fated to bo exemplified, and the historic "Ope more rjyer to cross" proved too much for the ad eni reontrap load, for though gaily duttn'ded they into the Ruaimihunga's shadowy depths, 'twas with sorrow they realised when in mid stream that in their trying moment their buugy had deserted thorn—its goar had gene adrift. Alas! How chanped i) a moment, how unhappy were theßo throe! And then, too, with broken swingletree,midst rapid water, there-was danger, did that lawyer lecount the evil deeds of liisjouth, tremblingly did that commieeioii agent uplift a prayer for those two lust ones, his companions, and repentantly did that butcher say " I'll never do nothing again." But hope ever strong iu the hu.iu.im even ]n this 'el moment revived " tet's lighten ship " suggested the driver of quills, and then did they, these onoe more hardened sinners seek to dkoycr their. Jonah,•W tight prevail* d with the learned brother's it sb ol the fickle (wn, and overboard wont he of most iallast—t he man of weight and i nwer. I'ravelj he stood by them, regardless of the waters chills did he prove, as to the buggy's breach he tallied Once more all is wpll, A tug, a snort, a heave, a pull, and safety again is theirs. Sorrowfully and slowly does this once buoyant brotht rimed return to the scene of life's daily toils. But they are oliaugtd men—gold, coal, go-as-you-peases now have no charm for them. Henceforth will they side-by-Bide,hand -tohand, fight the world's battles■-, together better and braver men, for that one hour of (rouble, that one hour of chastening trial, .-■'■■

Acceptances and general entries for, the Island. Bay races close on Monday next.. l] Messrs Lowes & lorns add to their |i already large list for. Wednesday's stock :? tale a line of 20 head yoilng mixed cattle i and 10 dairy cowß, j A statement of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Masterton Park Trust for the year ended 31st December, 1887, appears in our advottising columns. A party of eight officers from the meii-of-war iii Wellington Harbor arrived in Masterton this morning and were being driven out to the Maori pah and the fish ponds as we went to press. The double Handicap Game played off yesterday by the Masterton Tennis Club, . resulted in Messrs H. B. Dyer and D. Donald beating Messrs H, H, Smith and 11. Rowe, Th'e adjourned meeting of subscribers to the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society will be held in the Institute, Masterton, on Thursday next, 19th inst., atib'Op.m The business is the election of Trustees, There was opened at Eltham, near Huwora recently a new. butter factory, capable of turning out SOOOlhs daily, it \ is the 3nle property of a Chinese storekeeper named Chew Chung. There are at present only three patients in tho Masterton Hospital, viz., Charles Gurote, broken leg; W. Taylor, broken thumb; and Mr Williams, rupture of > blood vessel, They are all progressing ' favorably. A Dance is advertised to take placo i in the Volunteer Dnllahed on January r 23rd (Anniversary Day), by Pearson's Private Band, under the patronage of the Masterton Frii-ndly Societies. As ' the tickets are cheap, weexpeot it will beabifsßccess.... i Seaman Sampson, of H.M.S. Nelson, lost an eye at the Wellington Rifle Bute yesterday. He was engaged marking, 1 when a bullet which struck tho target ' splintered,. and a fragment rebounded into the hut, striking Sampson in the eye, with the result mentioned above. ) The attention of members and intending j members of tlie Masterton Fhilharmouio s Society, is directed to an advertisement in another column convening a > general meoting for Tuesday evening next at tho ' Tempurance Hall. As the business is of ' the utmost importance yiz the adoption of rules and appointment of a conductor, a ! full attendance is requested. The Society promises to supply a long felt want in 1 Masteiton, and we predict that before 1 the winter sets in, it will be a hunierically ' strong institution affording pleasant recreation for its members during the long 1 evening!).

• it mil be remembered says the Evening Press, that during tho Christmas Holidays, Guard Turner, of tho Wairarapa train sei'vico, was instrumental in sa ing from a hoirible death a little boy named Moure, a Bon of the Clerk of the Wairarupn North County (Itiuncil, MrTurmr's prompt action on the occasion was most commendable, and it waa only the crowning one of many similar gallant rescues from injury or death on the line by tho Biime officer, So far, however, nothing has been heard of any intention on the part of the paper authorities to recognise Mr Turner's conduct, but we trust that it is intended to do so, either through the ltoyal Humane Society, or otherwise The Masterton Hawera Special Settlement Association met in response to an advertisement, at Mr Whitt's shop, Masterton, last night. Present—Messrs K, M, Galloway (chairman), W, Whitt, J.Paaake, ft. JJayler, G. Schultz, T. Mitchell, and B. Houuslow. It was resolved to send a dnput.tion, in conjunction with Mr G. lieethain, M.H.'tt, to interview the Minister ot Lands, with the object of getting the price of the Mangataiiioko Block of land reduced. The opinion was expressed thai as the Association was promoting a genuine pastoral and agricultural settlement, by taking baok country, without township allotments, the price of 80s per acre as asked was too high, 2l)s to 22s (id being thought quite sufficient, it was mentioned for in tauce, that the Wellington Special Seti lenient, with main road frontages, was tmly paying It per acre. Mr Beetliam, it may be said, had already expri'Sse.l his willingness to accompany the deputation above referred to, Mr 11. M. Galloway was appointed Secretary to tho Asoociatio'i, and the meeting then adjourned.

Mr A, W. llenall and a staff of men, were again busy this morning at the Post office, putting down oulvorti, and as far appearances go, that owner has certainly been Improved. It is rumoured that Mr Ketiall intends himself to requisition a spncial meetina of the Council with the object of if possible coming to an amicable arrangement in the matter. In the meantime th.it gentleman is yoing on with the work, and, but for the fuming required at ferry-Street, and which is now being laid down, he informs us that he would have had the water along Queen-street to-day. In any case he anticipates having a stream along our main thoroughfare by Holiday next. Considerable interest is taken in the operations and the small cluster of people who congregated at the Bcene this uioiniug were off and on amused by the badinage th«t took place between Mr Kenall and various members of the Council as the latter passed and ro-passed. Needless to say, the former gentleman did not always get the worst of it, and when in the midst of a warm discussum, a whirlwind of dust enveloped .the little grouu of talkers and workers, even the very Heavens seemed to ltm.il their sympathy in showing tUo pressing need of irrigation.

Mrs Partington says,- Don t keep any of.the quack rcßtrums, as they are regimental to the human cistern; but put your trußt- in Dr Soule's Hup Bitters, nhjch wijl cure general dilapidation, costive habits, mid all comic diseases They saved Isaac from a severe extract of typhoid fever. They aw the ne j>!i« tomm of medicines. " Boston Globe." Two organs. - Kegulato tat the stomach, second the liter, especially the first, so as to perform.thoir functions perfectly, and you will remove at least nine.I teen-twentieths of all the ills that mant kind is heir to, in thja or any other climate, DrSuule'a American Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two organs " Maine krmer' W»kted al ladies' to see our last shipment for the bo <wn of white embr ideied nuislio robes very cho'cc, fr. m 25s 6d to 425, at TeAro Hiiuep, Wdington. V 1 amed,' aye wautcd all tlin young ladies of the <>ity to vi--i. our showro mi and ec}- ct i'iin them» t beantif 1 asortmeut in the ity lheir hats for the season' at 'J e Aro Home, We linston Wanted, all mo hers to see our picnio hats lr,r the girl? from 2d to fid each, and ur oys' straw hats f'<'m 3d to la caou. at ToAr> House, Wcjlngon, Wamed, aye wanted, fiOO oustomera for ladi 8' siimni r costvmes from 3s 6u to 60s, and siiihint-rnandes and jicketß ofeveiy dcEcnptioi fr"in 2s lid to 4 guineas, at ie Arc-house, Welling-on, Wa*t d, everyone to fee and buy 4button ki i gl«ves. sui-eriof quality, usual price 2s lid* fur Is lid. As 500 pairs of t> cse h uea ready been s. Id, time shful-f be lost inn curing thun at Te Aw House, Wellington. Wanted, a'e wanted, putehasers.for a .siwial lot of i rion ul and other laces at about ha f 'heir usual price, viz, 2Jd, 3Jd, %l and 6.Jd per yard. Theie is bound ; o be a rush k tliese at !?«. Aro Hou^-Apyi,

• The Wiiirarapa; North' Council has authorised Mr' Arthur Harford toiinpound otook straying, on certain roads in the district. .The'adyertiamont appears in another column, . ; .'■■■■ From observations taken,at Mr. W. Dougall's at eleven b'olock this morning,: the thermometer read, in the shade, 79 degrees. The barometer showed a slight fall since last night of about dno tenth. For firing off a gun on. Lambfcon Quay Welltngtori. John .Smith Hairis, " The Whiffler," has been fined £s,or in default 14 days imprisonment and is required to find a surety of L 25 for keeping the peace or a period of three mouth, ' ' Mails for Australian Coloniea and the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Sydney, close at Auckland, per Mararoa, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 17th inst. The mail is due in London- on the 6th March. Our Carterton Correspondent writes this morning. A child about 2 years old belonging to Mr Gierke Gaakiti of Clare' villa by some means got : h»ld of a pair of sheep shears yesterday evening, and,while toddling about with these in ite hauds, the little one fell and the point of the shears lan into its neck severing the jugular vein. The child died before medical attendance could be procured, Last evening's train from Wellington was delayed,one.hour and five minutcß at the ..Woodside Btation, owing to an accident which befel the engine employed on the Greytown' branch line After waiting, and suggesting all kinds of theories as to its detention for about three quarters of an'hour,. the passengers' anxiety was appeased by the appearance of the Greytown Guard, who informed them that nothing very serious had happened. The big engino was then, unhitched from the through train, and sent to the assistance of tjie local ono;. On enquiry it turned out that when about midway between Greytown and Woodside, tho branch engine had refused to' draw steam. Great dissatisfaction was evinced by these who were detained at Woodside, on account, of the length of time that was allowed to elapse before they were acquainted with the mishap. This is not the fint occasion on which a hitch has occurred, and tho passengers kept in suspense as to the cause, and we consider it high time pressure waa.brought to bear on the Railway Department to have the Woodside station connected with Greytown by means bt telephone. The expense would be very trifling, as the 1 necessary fittings could be placed in the office of the Woodside station, and the guard on eacli train presented with a key, bo that if any urgent necessity arose all they would Inve to do would bo to. ring up the Greytown Station, and thus save any misgivings or inconvenience, -it is quite apparent that something of this kind will have to be done, as owing to there being no means of communication, the greatest exciteniont existing at the various stat ons along the line, owing to tho unusua 1 delay of the ' train. Although over an hour behind time at Woodside, by the time the train reached Masterton, this was reduced by twenty minutes, As we go to press we learn that the following lefts has just been received by. theTovn Cle k, Masterton: "We, the undersigned Councillors of the Borough of Masteiton, hereby request you to con-, vene a special meeting of the Masterton Burough Council for seven o'clock p.m. on Wednesday, 18th January, J 888. Business; To consider and deal with tho following notice of motion by Councillor Gapper, viz.:—' That before permission bocivento any person to perforin any work in any of the streets of the Borough, a olan and specification of the proposed work must be submitted to and approved of by the Council, and that in the event of any person interfering with any of the streets of the Borough without the permission of the Cou.icil, the Borough overseer be instructed to report' such matter to the Toivn Clerk, and. the Town Clerk be directed, iu conjunction with the Borough Solicitor, to take immediate proceedings under clause 240 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1881S, agaiiiHtthe offenders'" (Signed), S, E Gapper, H. K Chamberlain, Walter Perry.