The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1888. The Poor Law Squabbles.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2889, 3 May 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1888. The Poor Law Squabbles.

The United District Board have just come down oil tlie Wairarapa like a " wolf on the fold," and demanded £569 from the North County,. £647 from the South County, £l4l from the Masterton Borough, aud £4O from Greytown, making a total of some £I4OO, The local bodies of this district feel disposed to fight this claim to the bitter end, and to obtain a divorce between Wellington and this district in matters appertaining to the poor and sick, People here know very well that they can run their own chartties and benevolent societies for far less than £I4OO a year, and they are naturally prejudiced against paying a subsidy towards the alleviation of distress in the Empire City, feeling assured that the dwellers in that centre are, on the whole, better off than the sojourners in the country. The Wellington people are so fond of the Wairarapa that they are unwilling to let us go as a contributing body to their sick and pool-institutions. They fear that a divorce would mean a heavier tax on themselves, and accordingly they prefer to shed our blood, Of course they point out that all the hard-up people in the Provincial District gravitate to Wellington, but they do not reflect that these people, when they find that they cannot do good to themselves in the city, drift back into the country, and subsist very often on the bounty of the farmer or stockowner. If Wellington people, only in imagination, put themselves in the place of an up-country station-holder, they would be content to maintain their own sick and poor by a fair rate. If a man like Mr Danks, who expresses very strong views upon the burdens which city people have to sustain, were to find at his back door three or four evenings a week, a small and genial party of swaggers claiming a free supper, a free bed, and a free breakfast, he would perhaps realize to a slight extent the tax which crushes the country settlers, and spares the town resident. The Conference at Masterton on Tuesday last has, however, thrown down the gauntlet, and Wellington will have no easy task to keep the Wairarapa in tow. The fact that Wellington favors the union, and the Wairarapa is against it, clearly demonstrates that the profit of the present arrangement is reaped by the city, and the loss by this district. Let us hope that our poor law will be modified in the coming session,

About £26 was taken at a sale of work held at Greytown on Friday last, in connection with St. Luke's Church,

The Maatorton Wesleyan Choir will shortly prepare another cantata which will be rendered later on, Mr W. J. Hodges, Baddler and harness maker of Ekotahuna, has a business announcement in another column. Messrs Lowes and lovns add to their stock sain for Wednesday, 9th inst., 120 breeding ewes. " Trial by Jury" was rehearsed in the Theatre Royal last evening, There are now only three more practice nights before production of the Opera. Messrs Wilson and Richardson, the well-known and largely patronised Wellington drapers and clothiers have a new announcement in another column, setting forth the attractions of their new, fashionable and cheap goods. Mr John Hessey of Upper Plain has some prime seed oats for sale, and also a few pood draught horses, Specifications are being prepared for the new Wesleyan Church at Eketahuna, and tenders will shortly bo called for building it. Invitations have been issued for the Weekly Private Einking Party which will be held in the Theatre Royal to-night, In order that all may share in the pleasure of the evening we understand that, from ton to eleven o'clock dancing will be resorted to. In the present ratepayers roll of the Eketahuna Road District there are 130 more names than wore on the roll of last -year. This makes the number of ratepayers within three of double the.number of those on last year's roll, so quiet Eketahuna must be steadily going a-head somehow. Messrs Anderson, Bacon and Neilson were on May Ist, elected to the three vacancies on the Eketahuna Koad Board. The voting was as underM. Keilson 34, S. Bacon 31, A. Anderson 24, A. Selby 21. Tho funeral of the late Mr Isaac Bairstow will take place to-morrow at 3 p.m., when it leaves his residence, Olareyille, for the Carterton Cemetery. The Evening Press understands that the members of tho legal profession resident in Wellington, will, in the course of a week or so, entertain at a dinner, to be given at the Club Hotel, Mr H. S. Wardell, late Resident Magistrate there.

Id. our yesterday's report of the Charitable Aid Conference in Masterton, we omitted to mention that Mr W. C, Buchnnan M.H.R, had sent a message regretting that he would bo unavoidably absent and expressing his sympathy with, and approval of the object of the meetin? in striving for separation.

Mr Henry Aulin, who has conducted business as a general storekeeper for nearly 17 years in Mauriceville, notifies in our advertising columns that he has purchased Mr Spillane's interest in the Eketahuna Emporium, Mr Aulin's business capabilities are widely known in the Bush district, and we have 110 doubt should he display the same energy in his new venture at Eketahuna as shown by him for years past in Mauriceville, he will have no reason to regret his purchase. Fifteen of the twenty games draughts which are bein? played by Mr Wyllie, the "Herd Laddie", and Mr Boswell of Chnstchurch, has been finished up to date. Of that number eight have been drawn, six have been won by the champion, and one by Boswell. The position Boswell holds of having lost less games than there are draws is a very creditable one. The contest is for the championship of the world.

The London General Omnibus Company possesses about 9000 horses for each of which it pays an average price of £33 Gs4d, The horses are mostly fed on maize, which is generally regarded as the best and most sustaining food 111 the world for .animals where only a low rate of speed is required, For the pastyear the Company has paid a dividend of 10 per cent, on a capital of £OOO,OOO. The statistics show that during 1887 the number of passengers carried was upwards of 46,000,000. The average receipts per omnibus j per week were £JS lis lOd; per day, 12 5s 4d. The Shaw Savill Company and the New Zealand Shipping Company, have agreed to reduce their freight rates upon frozen meat for the six mouths coinmencJune Ist next to l|d, for mutton, l|d, for beef, and lfd, for lamb, with 5 per cent, primage in each case, and the Wellington Meat Export Company have for the same period reduced the rates for freezing to §d, for mutton and beef, and jsd, for lamb, with sd, each for bags as before. With regard to shipments after November 30th next, it is obvious that the charges must be controlled by tho quantity of stock to be frozen- The reduction now made will bring the total cost of exporting mutton, including insurance against all risks up to 4d per lb,, andLondpn charges to 2J- per lb. At a meeting of the Wairarapa Anglers Society held at Mi- Joseph Williams' rooms last night, seven new members were elected and several matters in connection with the interests of the Society formed subjects for discussion. Some conversation took place with regard to the time for opening and closing the fishing season and ultimately a resolution was carried recommending the Acclimatisation Society to open it a month oarlier, that is on Ist September, instead of Ist October, and to close it as formerly, on 31st March, thus making it seven months instead of six months.

Shrewdness & Ability,-Dr. Soule's .American Hop Bitters so freely advertised m all the papers, secular and religious, aro having a larye sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. There is no denying the virtues of the Hop plant, and the proprietors of these Bitters have shown great shrewdness and ability in compounding a Bitters, whose virtues are so palpable to every one's observation.—' Examiner and Chronicle.'

Travelling is much easier and less expensive than it was in the days of the pioneers of New Zealand. When they wanted to travel it'was generally done ou "Shanks Pony" and the inducements were not those of pleasure but rather of hard toil, We kvc, however changed all that and one of the greatest inducements is now being held out by the proprietor of To Aro House, Wellington, What is it; necessarily the purchase of Eive's bankrupt stock of Drapery and Clothing and the determination to sell it at such astoni, bingly low prices as must command nil immense amount of travel by coach, railway and steamboat to the centre of attraction Te Aro House Wellington, Where is it; At Te Aro House, you may be sure as it could hardly be elsewhere that you could possibly obtain such remarkable bargains as you will doubtless secure at the To Aro House sale of Eive's Bankrupt Stock. When is it; on Monday, Tuesday the first of May—We shall then at 10 in the morning commence the sale of this stock of Eive's which comprises a lot of good sound useful Drapery and Clothing and the public may take our word for it that there is not a particle of rubbish among the various lots that will be offered for sale on Mayday at at Te Aro House, Wellington.

If you want bargains such as you never yet dreamed of in Dresses, Mantles, Millinery, Calicoes, Sheetings, Blankets, and Men's Boys' and Youths' Clothing do not fail to make a bee line for the scene of sale or if you cannet do that, come by steamboat coach and railway, youv fare will be a matter of no moment when compared with the advantages you will gain at the sale of Eive's bankrupt stock at Te Aro House, Wellington, -Am*

The Mastorton Volunteers meet afte 1 ' parade this evening to elect a lieutenant. : Messrs Lowes and lornfl add to their stook sale for 9th instant 900 ewes and 10 rams, The Government Inspector is at present auditing the accounts of Masterton Borough Council. The Masterton District Licensing Committee will meet for tho granting of licenses, etc., on Saturday, 9ch June. We understand that Mr C, Rogers has sold out the Taueru Hotel to Mr Lee who has recently arrived from England, Captain Edwin wired at one o'clock to-day. "Every indication of a frost to-night." A conveyance will leave Masterton at one o'clock to-morrow to enable freemasons to attend the funeral of the late Isaac Bairstow, at Clairvillo,' A notification by the Masterton Lodges appears in our advertising columns. Mr Sinclair M. George of Eketahuna Intends applying for a license to open an accommodation house at Alfredton. His enterprise in this direction will supply a much felt want in that district, and from his popularity Mr George should do well in his new venture. Messrs Lowes and lorna report at their stock sale at Gladstone yesterday. Attendance was good all stock etc., excepting tho 'horses went under the hammer.: Wethers made 7s 4d;fot ewes CsGd; dry ewes 4s 6d to 6s Od; culled ewes,lb 9d to 2s Gd; lambs 3s; young rattle 17s 6d; oats 2s per bushel; potatoes Another election will have to take place for three members for the Castlepoint Road Board, as at the nominations on Friday last all the forms received were informal, owing to some ratepayers signing for candidates for subdivisions in which they were not ratepayers, and several had not paid their rates.

There will probably be a second Hote l in Ekotahuna soon, as Mr Chas E. Deckman, whoso boarding house is always overflowing with travellers, has made extensive additions with the object of obtaining a license at the next meeting of the Bench. The house contains twenty rooms, and if the license is granted it will be called the Railway Hotel. Our representative has just visited Eketahuna and while passing along the Forty Mile Bush road, within about four miles of that township he noticed a folded paper lying in the track. It was a note addressed to " All whom it may concern." and it contained in passable handwriting the following outspoken expression of experience and opinion oil the part of its author" John Kenny, from Goldstion, West Coast, New Zealand, passed this way in search of work 011 May Ist, 1888, after being up from' Wellington to Napier and back to Masterton without Retting any chance of a job, To hell with the North Island! ' The South Island for ever!"

The Wesleyan congregation at present worshipping in the Eketahuna schoolhouse have just purchased an American Organ at a cost of £2O. At the opening service connected therewith a large number of people assembled at the schoolhouse on Sunday morning last, Miss Freetliy ably presided at the Organ and the hymns selected were efficiently rendered, the congregation joining most heartily in the singing. The service was conducted by Mr W. Baylisa, who selected the 87th Psalm as the basis of his discourse. He called attention to the reasonsgivenbythe Psalmsist for the great admiration he had for the house of God, the institutions of the church, and the people of God.. He laid considerable emphasis on the la3t. verse, showing that congregational music both vocal and instrumental was one thing thatcommanded the admiration of David, and was a highly important element in public worship.

Maine news,—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, which are advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for ague, biliousness and kidney compaints. Those who use them say they cannot be too highly Those afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic in the praise of their curative qualities.—" Portland Argus" ''Rough on Itch. "Rough on Itch" cures skin humors, eruptions, ring worm, totter, salt rheum, frosted feet,.chilblains, itch, vy poison, barber's itch