The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1888. THE GERMAN EMPIRE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2845, 12 March 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1888. THE GERMAN EMPIRE.

The occupant of a four-room cottage in Masterton might well, after reading the circumstances of the tragic death of the late Kaiser, disdain the lot of raonarchs, Is there is a more unhappy man in Europe than the Czar of Russia, was there one more to be pitied than the late aged Emperor, as lie lay racked with pain on his deathbed, surrounded by political intriguers and separated from the members of his family whom lie most loved? Can anything be more sad than the Crown Prince, with death clutching at his throat, hurrying from San Remo to reach the German frontier before the last breath left the body of his father, while the young Prince William, with the feeling of a parricide, contemplated another death which would have left him head ol the Empire? Whether the natural sentiments which should exist between father and son are absent in the case of the Crown Prince and Prince William, or whether their political aspirations overshadow them is hard for outsiders to say, but the real issue, after all, is not so much the personal characteristics of the German reigning family as the welfare of a great nation. During the reign of the late Emperor, one great development was obtained. Prince Bismarck created, during this era, a united Germany, and the strength which follows union is abundantly, evident. The German race fully appreciate the advantage of the unity which has been brought about; they admit & debt of gratitude to the Premier who has made their country "one;" but they hav.e another aspiration which he has not satisfied, a»d which, possibly, it might not be safe forlijm to gratify, but it is one that sooner or later ?yill have to be conceded. If the thousands of Germans who swarm in Great Britain and her dependencies are asked why they live so contentedly under a foreign flag | and on an alien soil they will answer: "We have our liberty." At home in Germany, they m fl kind of ticket-of-leave men, who have to report themselves periodically to the authorities, The national sentiment is all in favor of free institutions, and the despotism of Prince Bismarck would have been terminated long a. o, were it not for the great work of union, which he has accomplished, a fit prelude for a future development of liberty. Bismarck has made Germany one, but we do not expect him to pike Germany free. The German Empire is great and powerful, but the German people are somewhat poor and miserable, The German soil is draingilof hundreds of thousands of its finest men, who are required to fill the ranks of its vast armies, and .of as.many more who evade military service by voluntary exile. The great problem of union has been solved in the Fatherland by means of avast military organisation, but the still greater problem of a constitutional Government, which mil give freedom as well as unity, remains yet to be faced. The death of the aged Emperor, is critical. Prince Bismarck is armed to meet all foreign foes, but can he withstand the pressure of the national aspiration for free ■ institutions, now that his late popular and victorious master has passed away, In the United States of America almost every man is a citizen, but in the United States of Germany almost every man is a soldier. The former is a grg&t and prosperous country; 'the latter is great only as a military confederation. . Somfl day, let. us hope, the German Empire will be consolid- ' atedona better basis than tlje one on which it now rests.

The additions to Mr J Jone's store at Ekfitahuna are now completed and make quite an imposing looking structure.

The Greytown Butter and Cheese Factory Company shipped twelve tons of cheese to the English market by the " Aorangi" on the eighth iustant. MrT. P. Spillane has pretty well completed his new store at Eketahuna. It is if any thin? shphtly larger than the former one.

Mr Danaher, despite very bad weather, has been malting g»<id progress with his Eketahutia railway contract,.and we hear he expects to have it off his hands by about Christmas,

The settlers on the Wellington Aesocia* tiou's Hiolimond block, near Eketahuna •an 1 bi'giitnint( to put up houses, and foui' are now in course of erection.

Wu hear that the" burns'' in the Bush hare this season been almost without exception, exceedingly bad, that of the Richmond block being, perhaps, about the worst and necessitating a great deal of extra labour and expense. A tennis court is being made at Eketai huna, and next seison, it is anticipated that , there will ,bo a Ulub formed, and that the warriors of " The Bush," will be in a position to challenge the Masterton •representatives.

The first cost of plantin? an acre with bananas is from £lO to Ll2, the production being from (iOO to 800 bunches a year. The plants mature in nine months, and the fruit can be gathered every week in the year after it ia well started. A new thing out is a clock, with ordinary works, that will run for a year without attention. An electric battery, concealed in the caso winds up the clock from day to day, or week to week as the need may be. Once in a great .while the battery must be renewed, and that is all the care the olock calls lor.

Some of the large manufacturing firms ia Sheffield (England) are .forming insur-

ances for their workmen against epidemic, the workmen contributing 2 or 2J per

cent, of his weekly wages, and beine guaranteed a sum equal to his average wages in case of his family being attacked by small-pox or other contagious disease.. The Binghamton Leader Bays:—lt is leap year, and it has just been 1000 years since there were as many B's in the year as we have just now. Jt is a good time for old bachelors to cogit-8, ihe girls to

reciproc-8, and not hesit-8. With their usual enterprise "Messrs Henderson & Wiatt endeavoured to find an uutlet in New South Wales for white pine, and Mr Henderson weut across for the express purpose writes our Woodville contemporary, He was, howover, unsuccessful as the building trade over there is not so biisk'.

A valuable deposit of natural plaster uf Paris in almost a pure state has been discovered in the Umutoroa Block, says the Woodville Examiner. It has been reported on by Dr Skey, who slates that after being heated tu such a degree as to drive off the sulphurous compound it contains it leaves the puro plaster. The right of working the deposit has been secured by a party of Danevirkp sellers. They are a dry lot at Eketahuna. Recently a temperance sermon was preached there, but, sad to say, with very dißCoura(/iii t ' results. During the survice two navvies had their first-born christened, and so elated were thoy in their honorable capacity as happy fathers, that they aftonvards celebrated the event by a sprinkle for themselves, and when last seen were homeward bound with the Plimsoll mark very deeply submerged.

Cricket in the Bush, although it is late in the season, has by nu means suffered by a want of enthusiasm. On Good Friday, the Woodville first eleven'is expected at Eketahuna, and mi the Saturday after next, Alfredton plays Tenui at the latter township. It may be added that Eketahuua has been lung expecting a challenge from Mastertun. We, however, fear that with football so clos« at hand, their wish in this direction will not be gratified. They say that it is not their fault a meeting was not arranged earlier in the season, for they offered to come to Mastertun if challenged, and did all they could to bring about a contest. A fish that was pumped from a well down 100 ft, at Charlotte, Michigan, isdeacribed as having been "2£in long, with keen, bright eytß, but no fins or scales. Its back was fringed with a row of bony spikes. ' . Although for the past foitnight there has practically been no rain in the bush, previous to that there had been plenty of moisture and its effect has by no means yet passed off. While in and about Mastertun the grass has been quite burnt up, feed there is yet quite green, and comparatively plentiful, and tho stock is looking first-rate.

Our Eketaluma correspondent writos: -Mr Chalmers, the general factotum of .our local working man's Club and an individual who has at times wielded the pun with gacentric freedom, has not been Been about the township for a few days, and his friends are mourning for him as one of the dear departed. In Ekotahuna literary circles he was one of the shining lights, aud it is feared that in his absence ljiauv bright ideas will be conceived but to be loaf foe want of the ready scribe.

Those who despise udyertjsing t}° Bo undeservedly, as the following instance of its undoubted business producing powers will slimy. At the end of last week, a horse was advertised for sale in the Wairarapa Daily. Now, horses are supposed to be unsaleable at present, and especially so, hacks, to which class this animal belonged. However, the PQtifijoafjoi) appeared, and so did enterprising bikers, f'>r although a member of our staff had arrant h try the horse on Saturday, with a view to buying, ho found thufc one of the nuipiMin applicants we had meanwhile referred tu the owner had purchased it.

The Waipawa County Clerk has been very properly stiubbdd by the Council for his ofliciousness and undue interference at the Uouncil meetings. From the report of the meeting, and according to the Examiner, it would appear that .the cjefk wants to " boss" the whole concern, and tjje latter supposes he will know \yhiit his true position is in the .coime of time This is how the Waipawa Mail writes oi) the affair" It appears that nothing short of a thorough setting, dawn from the chair will he of any use to JlrTuelv, He has got ..at loggerheads with contractors; he has sent hack—without consulting the Council—letters that had quip to haind pith insufficient postage; he has caused ayy amount of trouble through resisting the earn ing op of certain prjis in the Bush because he is a property holder there, and is an interested party. Altogether Mr Tuely has made himself obnoxious to many haying to do with the Council,

The vagaries of tvyo new chum selectors arn greatly ' amusing thgir njore experienced fellow settlers up in the bush. These young fellows recently took up a section near Eketahuna between them. Their first trouble was the mosquitos. Various absurd remedies were suggested by sympathising friends, all of which were tried even to the use of the world-renowned Mather's fly papers and the explosion of . dynamite cartridges, while a system of mosquito nets something aftor the style of the much talked (jf rabbit fences were resorted to, and mosquito getting by the mile figured "in their orders ".to tljeir storekeeper. Their idea of bush firing, too, is very primitive. They felled their bush within a week of burning it', with" the result that only the leaves were consumed and now they are busy logging up, and, as an after thought, are lopping off the branches. Their last trouble is the procuration of crass seed, but they have met .this difficulty yery happily, and are engaged gathering soft meadow grass from the roadaides ijnder the food impassion that it is cocksfoot. The neighbor? eay nothing. They look on, sweetly smile, and fchliifr of the future of that clearing,

A good double-barrelled breeoh-load-ui(s guii is advertised fur sale; price J!&. A good programme of athletic sporta, has been arranged for Ekefcahuna on St. Patrick's Day, Meisrt L. J. Hooper & Co., the Bon Marche Drapers, are opening up a lot of Autumn iimi Winter goods, Full partw ulars are advertised.

The Wholesale Drapery Company of Masterton (Mr. P. Dickson) opens a branch establishment at Pahiatna on Saturday next. Messrs Lowesand lornsadd to their stock sale for Wednesday next, a lino of 240 ewes, 100 wethers and 100 lambs. Butchers, dealers; and graziers are reminded of this sale; tho list being' an exceptional one. ■

Mr. Cranmer of the Royal Hotel, Fea

therston, has secured the privilege of the fto. 1 Publicans, Booth at next Saturday's Opaki Races. This gentleman's ability as a caterer for f he public is well known and appreciated. The thermometor at Mr W. Dougall's read ,in tho shade at noon to-day 62 degreos. Ihe barometer,which had

fallen since Saturday, had commenced to rise again slightly. ; ' We were this morning shown by Mr W. Falconer another sample of coal from his Fernridge property. This was certainly a very bright looking and wo should say burnable quality of coal, and we understand tliat there is' evory prospect of an organisation being forced to work the deposit and.develop a payable output.

The privileges at next Saturday's Opak

Races wore sold by Messrs Lotves and lorns at auction and realised as under:— No 1. Publican's Booth (Cranmer) £1010s; No 2 1 Publican's Booth (T. Thompson) hi 10s; Horse yards, L2; Fruit lOsj Legal games LI lis; Total L 24 Is. . A petition is being circulated in Masterton to-day, which hasas its prayer, a request to the Mayor to declare a partial public holiday on Saturday next, St. Patrick's Day,fromUa.m, to (ip.m. .We can hardly recommend our friends to support this movement, as clo.iiuy on a Saturday for any Saint in the calender, is a bad bsrgajn for business people. Tho following are the stakes won sit the, recent Tinui Hack Race Meeting :-W. Mould £27,'E Wiuteriiigham ,£lfc, A. K. McFarlaue £l3, F. Hood £ll, P. Poison £B, H. l/iicas 18, T, Carswell Junr, £B, A. Nidwlls Junr. £8 The settlement! for aivaids won will bis mule by .Views Mi'Huteheon and J. W. Smith, at T.mui, on Saturday, March 17th, at 3 iun. On Monday night, says flit! Lytt-lfiiu Times, a tiveye ir old ami of Mrs Rowse of Peralii-sr.reet, liaiapoi whilst playing near the Kaiupoi Railway Station, determined to see tho world, so ha proceeded by the 0.40 train to Christcluirch. Luckily the Railway Police at Ohristehuroh observed and took care of him, and he was returned by this morium.''s train. An inquest has heon held at Southsea on the body of a railway servant who was accidentally killed whilst playing a pract-

ical juke. Two young lady companion: rode in a third-class compartment fvon Fritton to Southsea, and deceased, dur injc the temporary absence nf the guard from his van, mounted the top ot tin carriage and blew out the light. Ui doing so his hoad came in collision wit! the edge of an atch, and he Busfainet injuiries from \yliich lie died without re yarning conaciuusness. , So soon as it is finally ascertained tha salmon will not flourish in Aew Zealaw waters, an enterprising fishmonger ii Cannon street means to try whether the exportation to the colonics of refrigerated, fish anil game is possible and can be made' 1 remunerative, There must be, says the Star Home letter, many wealthy colonists, clubs, and restaurateurs in such cities its Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Dunedin, and Ohristchurch, who would be willing to pay (and phy. pretty stiffly, ton), for such luxuries as salmon, grouse, quails, woodcocks, turbot, Russian caviare, and pate de foie gras de Strasbourg if they could only be obtained in eatable condition. Refrigerated fish is now a feature 011 all Atlantic boats, and can easily be kept good for three weeks, sometimes for even longer. The immediate summons case brought by Alex. 6. Smith, builder, of Masterton against Emile Oollotte, gardener, of Hastwoll's Clearing, for L4O, the amount of a promissory, note, was partly heard in the Magistrate's Court Wellington on Saturday last The defendant, says a city paper was examined at some length as to the disposal of L 250 which he had received from the insurance companies in respect of the fire which recently destroyed some pf 1113 property, and all of which had, lie Siyd, be,en paid away, The defence was that Mr Smith l|ad renewed the note on tlje Btl)'instai|t, wl>en it matured, which the plaintiff flatly poijtrijdjcfed. adjournment until Tuesday "est was eventually graiited, qt) Mr Menteath; who represented the defendant, undertaking that either his client should be present on that day or the money should be paid. Mr Gray acted for the plaintiff. Maine news.—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bjtters, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague, biliousness i|,nd kidney corupajnts. Those who use them say they sai|i|ot foe to'j highly recommended, Tnoso afflicted shntjkl give them a fair trial, and will beoome thereby enthusiastic m the praise of their i curative qualities.—" Portland Argus.' | Shrewdness & Ability,—Dr, Soule's: American Hop Bitters so freely adver- J tised in all the papers, secular and relig- j ious, are having a laree Bale, and are ! supplanting all other medicines. There] is no denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters lia.ye shown great, shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are bo palpable to every one's observation,—' Examiner and Chronicle' Op special price-list recently issued, aijd giving a few details of some of the bargains jn the bankrupt' stock of A. G. Price, had the effect, on Saturday, pf drawing pjie qf tl)e largest crowds of visitors that wero ever congregated within the walls of Te Aro fieuse,Wellington. Thev came from all quarters, from the North, the South, the East, the West—from the Hutt, Petone, Johnsonyille, Forirua, the Manawatua, and \yairarapa, and from tlie Province of and elsewhere. They oame it) sl}Q?ls. npt t.o lpojc oply, put tp buy. and buy they did, wisely, discriminatingly, wd cheaply, at the wonderful sale of Price's bankrupt stock at Te Aro Hquso, ; Wellington. 1 From all quarters comes tho assertion' of 1 this undoubted (net, that nothing like this sale lias ever transpired in thooity, that for i genuineness and the multitude of unraisr takable bargains it is without a rival in this oity or elsewhere. So say woof Te Aro i House,' Wellington. l We want all our friends and the public o understand that we were not able to move he whole of Price's stock at once, We ro ught and are bringing it down gradually ; day by day, so that there is no fear of scarcity of bargains. They will not run ou 1 while this sale continues, and the last cus 1 tomer equally with the first will go .away 1 rejoicing because of his good fortune at the bale of Price's bankrupt stock at Te Aro i House, Wellington. We cannot keep this sale going for mor ; than ten days from the "present date, and ! therefore we. would urge tjie public of the , town,'.suburbs, jJid country districts, to grasp this present opportunity and empty ' their pocket's," while supplying'all their pequirejijents at lower-prices than were ever ' known in Sew Zealand at'the sale of Price's f bankrupt stools at 'f.e Aro House, WellingjWr*Aw

The Comet is now to be seen in thii iuutliern aky about fuur o'clock in the

morning. .. Major Bunny.officially calls a parade of the Mastertou Rifle Volunteeis for Thursday, 22nd instant.

The Greytown and Thorndon Rifles ired the retarn match on < Saturday on

their local ranges, respectively, the former winnitif? by 120 points. The last match was won by the Grey town Rifles, and in this-inntch their total is just 125 more. The ranges were-200, 300 and 500 yards. The' London corresponded of the Manchester Guardian writes. -1 am glad to hear that Lord and Lady Granville are more comfortable about their sou, Lord Levcsou. He was, as already reported, conjuring with a half-crown, andthe coin slipped down hia throat, and stuck there. Medical aid was at hand, but it was found impossible t« get the coin back, aud finally it was forced down into the stomach. No bad consequences have at present been felt, but of course the presence of a foreign aybstance in the body must give rise to some anxiety, and Sir Andrew Clark, who was consulted directly after the'accident,'.has arranged with the local Burgeon for an exciaive operation

the moment that symptomß of fever or ]i other constitutional disturbance appear. Q Lord Leveson is a bright and active c youth of eighteen, and has just loft Eton after a promising career.