The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1888. A REFORMED BELLAMY'S.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2892, 7 May 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MAY 7, 1888. A REFORMED BELLAMY'S.

The Kecess House Committee (Hon. J. Martin, M.L.0., and Mr 6. Beetliam, M.fl.K.) have, it is stated on the authority of the Post, initiated a policy of stem retrenchment in regard to the conduct of Bellamy's during the coming session. It is not intended that the style of ordinary living at that establishment shall be at all so luxurious as heretofore, but a special menu will be allowed on guest days. The reduction made will save several hundreds a session, and make Bellamy's entirely self-supporting. We may gather from this intimation some idea of the genial extravagance which has hitherto pervaded Bellamy's, of the fine times which M.H.E.'s and M.L.C.'b have had in that mystic retreat vbcrorefreshments are supplied to those "jolly dogs" who make our laws for us. The fiat at last appears to have gone forth that Bellamy's is to he self-supporting, which means, probably that the unlimited nip of bygone days is to bo reduced to an ordinary commercial standard, and the Epicurean dishes which have in the good old days solaced the Colonial Heliogabulus have to give place to plain rcast and boiled. Hitherto the lion, member,, when he took his toddy, paid probably a modest sixpence for a quencher which was worth seven or eightpence, his bleeding country losing a penny or twopence on each tumbler, For the future, the lion, member will probably only receive an average hotel regulation nip in return for his money, and lis will be unable, should he desire to attain acondition of vinous exaltation, to reach it at tJio cost of the taxpayer. It must not be supposed that in the matter of the consumption of alcoholic liquors our Wairarapa representatives are fair samples. If Bellamy's had to; live on men like them it woold soon collapse. Many an electoral district sends a thirsty soul to Wellington as its representative, and evon some tjf the Lords have well-developed powers of suction. A great many members go to Parliament to drink, and smoke, and talk, and it is only a minority who proceed thither with the intention of working. It is the former who must needs have a Bellamy's on the premises, and who have hitherto been allowed to keep it at a considerable loss to the country. Now that there are hundreds if not thousands of unemployed men in the colony, now that there are hundreds of women and children who, if not actually starving are wanting bread, it is imperative that legislative luxuries should be curtailed. The recess House Committee will,, we trust, liavp the support of both branches of the legislature in the retrenchment which tlicy are arranging. The condition of the Colony is •such that all extravagances in living must be cut down mercilessly. If M.H,R.'b for one trial session were supplied say with prison rations only, what splendid results might uoltliQ

Colony obtain from their serious and sober deliberations. Possibly, however, members may regard the provision now being made by Messrs Beetham and Martin as prison fare.

In these days of retrenchment, we have boon pained to hear of many men losing their billets under Government, but no dismissals have appeared harder to us than those of Colonel McDonnell and Inspector Shearman. Both these gentlemen, at an age when to begin tho world anew is almost an impossibility, have been dispensed with by the present Ministry. The Colony cannot decently turn adrift an old soldier, who has fought so many of her battles in the past, and who is capable of doing still further service. We can remember ourselves the time when the eyes of the Colony were turned upon Colonol McDonnell, as the one man capable of breaking the power of the native insurgents. In the hour of danger, Colonel McDonnell was the one man in the, Colony, but now the danger is past, nobody wants him. Such a man ought, not to be put into the position of petitioning the Legislature to "give a penny to Belisarius, the General." The other victim we sympathise with is an officer who has grown gray in the service, who left a good appointment in Australia to take up the leading position in the Canterbury provincial police force, and who, on the abolition of the provinces ought to have become chief Inspector of the

colony. To turn such a man adrift is also a hard thing, but what can the press of the colony and the people' of

it do. The disagreeable task of retrenchment is imposed upon the Government, and if, in the conscientious exercise of this function, they have to dismiss men like McDonnell and Shearman it would be unjust to impute blame tn them. Both within and without the House very strong sympathy is likely to be manifested with these special victims of retrenchment, but the action of the Government will no doubt be upheld if they can show that the public interests demanded the sacrifice of these two officers. That both of them lave

strong claims upon , the colony is indisputable, and if without embarrassing the Government it would be possible to urge them, we would hope to see them pressed.

Mr H, R. Bunny, has been re-elected Chairman of the Taratatii-Carterton Road BaarJ, fur the ensuing year, The Carterton Cricket CJlub lias secured the Wairarapa Pastoral Societys ground for a term of years, and wo understand, intends to take steps to put it in order for next season,

Many of the Whareama ratepayers who signed the petition tor the purpose of entirely abolishing the Wheel-tire By-laws, did so, it is said, under the impression that it was intended to mo lify them only, to enable light work to b3 cm'iel on while the By-laws are in force. A more powerful martual fire engine which has been ordered for Gieytown is expected to arrive from London about the end of July next. It is cei tainly needed, for during the lire at Mr Fuller's factory the other day, Greytown's present baby engine, although it had ten or twelve men working at it, was amply fed by water pumped into a small tank by a two-man force pump. Ono of the foreigners came in fr>m the Femridge Coal prospecting locality this morning in high glee. He considers they have quite " upset Dr Hector's apple cart," for they have in tlieir shaft pot through the alate formation, and havo struck a strata of soft burnt sandstone, streaked with dark conglomeration. The men are very sanguine, and consider this highly indicative of tlio early appearance of coal. Nominations for three raombors of the Castlepoinfc Road Board close on Wed' nesday, Kith instant. A poll, if necessary, will be held on Tuesday, 22nd instant.

At the recent lire by whiclithe Greytown Cordial Factory was burnt there were many Natives present. Some of them were moat energetic and rendered valuable service in saving prop irty while others, less conscientious airl more idle, tapped and sampled the liquid conte its of some of the bottles. They, however, invariably with wry face, threw the bottles down m diFgust, for cvilcstty cordials and other such "soft" preparations were not exactly what they fancied, Mr .las.Stuckey is circulating a petition for the subdivision of the Masterton B/md BosrfJ District into mora wards. Nine, we understand, is tlio highest number that can be instituted, but of course there need not necessarily be an increase to this extent. There is a favorable feeling towards more general representation of the district,

larewell nioetinga wore held at tho Salvation Army Barracks yesterday, which were largely attended, Addresses wore delivered by Captain Buckingham and Lieutenant Ellis, who are about to proceed to Otahuhu, _ near Auckland. Captain Condon and his wife, at present in JSew Hymouth, will take charge of the Masterton district about 10th May. Tomorrow evening there will be a farewell tea meeting, at v/lnch tho Rey, Mr Itowse will be present, The meteorwasapparently accompanied by plenty of noise up the Whareama way. They do not, however, seem to have recognised its nature, for our correspondent writes as under" Two flashes, resembling lightning but of very long duration, were observed about jß.o'clock on Friday night in this neighborhood About two minutes afterwards, a rumbling noise wa.s hoard which continued for the space of about one minute. At first it seemed like distant thunder, but was too regular and distinct in sound. It is supposed that Mount Tingariro has .again bioken forth, and tjfifc the JaJce- coun'ry is tho scene of some disaster."

During the reign of the Native Laijds Court at Groytown, that respected village has much tho appearance of a digger town, for tho Maoris jiavo erected all sorts of stalls and shanties on various vacant sections, from which they dispense apples, drapery, nuts, oranges, hose of brilliant hue, fish, clothing and innumerable other articles either of apparel or consumption. Everything is displayed together without the slightest classification and the incongruous appearance of some of tho stalls is therefore very amusing to tljose unaccustomed to tho eccentricities of Native sliup keeping. Perhaps the most important establishment is that of - Sam' MaliapulfUi who, we understand, is running a butcher's shop on Hie co-operativo principle) which to tijo Mauris pans—thos_o who can do so pay-; those who can't dont, or else get some one else to do it for them. TJie profits which accrue under this ingenious business system—if there aro any—are, it is said, to be divided among the whole of the itffcer the Lands Court concludes its sitting, and we can then imagine the dusky speculators a "high v}d tinio" of it,

Messrs Ldwcs and lorne add to thoir stock salo for Wednesday, next, 250 fat wethers, 200 fat ewes, and 9 large pigs. Mr G. Outer's rink fixtures for the current weok are published in our advertising columns. Mr Robert Hare's insurance on the burnt Queen-street Oystor shop is £l5O in the Northern Insurance Company. Messrs Lowes & lorns announce a sale of furniture, produco, drapery, boots, and general sundries for Saturday next. The sculling race between Hanlan and Kemp for the championship of the world and £SOO a side was rowed on the Parramatta at Sydney on Saturday last, and resulted after a good race in a comparatively easy victory for Kemp, by a length. The Volunteei'3 haye postponed deciding for a fortnight as to whether or not the Maeterton Drill Hall shall bo lot as a sating rink. The Canterbury Midland Educational Institute has protested against tho Board of Education retrenchment proposals as affecting small schools, contending that no male certificated teacher in charge of a school of a yearly average of 20 and over should receive less than £l2O por I annum.

Mr Elkins 1 poultry, which were killed by ferrets, and to which reference is made in another paragraph, wero in some instances dragged as far as thirty feet by their destroyers, and the fowls were fullgrown large sized ones too, In one case an attempt had been made by the ferrett to get a fowl below a door, and tho head and nock were under it but the boay had proved an obstacle. The ferrets when . captured by Mr Elkins' fox-terriers wore always in pile, so a onrasred

poultry owrtOrs taking vengeance will know where to' look. The ££ooo loan ha 3 been carried, and the much needed and almoat-despaired-of improvements to the Taueru-Tinui-Maa-terton Road will ore long bo a thing 'of fact, instead of a fond dream of fancy. The poll as taken at Tenui and Carsweli's resulted in a substantial majority in favor of tho outlay, the voting being as under Total of ratepayers on roll, 59 ; number in favor, 34, being more than half, and thus giving tho majority Total votes exercisable, 143, votes piven in favor, 85, being apain more than half. The valuable nature of the work which this result will allow to bo undertaken cannot be over-estimated, and it must be very gratifying indeed to the County Chairman (Mr Thos. Mackay), who has simply been indefatigable m his efforts in supporting it, and Mr R. Maunsell, who has ably seconded him, to find their endeavors so practically endorsed by tho ratepayers,

That Government bantling that station owner's joy, the ferret is gradually acquiring refined tastes,. He aspires to something above the humble fare allotted to him in the common rabbit. About six weeks ago one of them had a little dinner party to himself at Mr A, Elkins' farm, on the Makora road, His bill-of-fare consisted of two turkeys and four fowls. Tlio following day Mr Elkins' terriers had a dinner party also. They dined on ferret. This should have been rather discouraging to the hairy tribe, but it wasn't. At least, if it were, the next ferret did not show it, for he too did Mr Elkins tlio honor of patronising his sumptuous larder, and bein? rather an epicure, commenced with two purebred fowls to whet his cultivated palate and wound up with a dessert of tamo swan-a graceful pair Buffiqing. Dogs again dined on ferret. They al§o enjoyed themselves. Yet once moro oame a festiue banqueter. He liked poultry if it were of high degreo and three of the blue-blooded Poland 3, therefore, met well his taste. But he also enjoyed ducks, 'if those same were the pedigreed Aylesbury, and' 'twere sad he should suffer disappointment bitter, so eight royal prize-takors quacked a funeral dirge and went in thankless sacrifice to an appetite insatiable. Terriers onco moro met on the happy hunting grounds, and again lunched they off ferret, Thus, — to return to the practical—do our poultry rearers and our bird fanciers suffer, and such within six weeks have been Mr Elkins' losses from these loathesoine pests. It is a prevalent idea that ferrets are sanguinary animals who suck the blood of their victims, Thoy do not even do that. In the present instance, a ferret scooped out and eat that portion rf a fowl between the jugular vein and the lungs, and then, as Mr Elkins says, out of pure eussedness, simply broke the nocks of all the others, and left their life's blood untapped. Two teeth marks, ono on each side of the neok, which had evidently been supplemented by a twist, were all that remained to tell the tale of how they had died.

To-Moraow, among other things, we shall show some very attractive and at the samo time very cheap lots of millinery, in the bankrupt estate ot I'. A. Rive, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te ArolJouse, Wcllngton. Tueiik are some very nice things in Parisian millinery that wore marked respectively 80s, 355, and 2 guineas, very neat, natty, in good condition, and shrpea such as are worn, We are selling these at ss, 7sGd, and 10s each, at Te Aio House sale of Hive's bankrupt stock. Wk have a large quantity, and well assorted, of untriinmed hats, both for ladies and children, of which Hive's prices ranged from Is Gd to 8s Gd, These we are selling from 3d to 2s Gd each, We have also some vory pretty lmts, for children, in oxcellent ami fashionable shapes, that ltive had marked 8s Gd and 10s Gd, and we are selling qt ■ls Gd to 5s Gd each, at Hive's bankrupt stool; sale, Te Aro House, Wellington. Theiie are also an abundance of feathers and wings, all shades, from 3d to 8s each, that were sold by Hive at prices varying from 2s to 15s; and a splendid lot of flowers, for evening wear, in all colours, from] Gd to 2s; as ijlsq seme very stylish flower sets, for dresses, q.t 5s and .Gs Gd, for which Hive wanted 10s Gd and 15s (id each.* See thou at the To Aro House sale of Hive's bankrupt stock, We have also a grand lot of bargains 111 ladies' underclothing, of all qualities, and at such prices that we are quite sure if customers only took the trouble to inspect them the whole quantity would lie cleared Gijt in less than a week, at Rive's bankrupt stock sale, To Aro Wellington—Advt,

Shhewdhkss & Adilih.—Dr. Soule's American Hop ISittera so freely advertised m all the papers, secular and religious, arc having a lar</e sale, and are supplanting all other medicines. Thora is no donyin? the virtues of the Hop plant,, and the proprietors of these Bitters have shown great shrewdness and ability in com pounding a Bitters, whose virtues are bo palpable to every one's observation. —' Examiner and Chroniolo.' JUink not—Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters, which arc advertised in our columns, are a sure cure for aguo, biliousness and kidney compaints. Those who use them say tlioy cannot be too highly recommended. Those afflicted should give them a fair trial, and will become thereby enthusiastic In the praise of their curative qualities.—" Portland Arpus"

"Rough on Hats. Clears out rats, mice, roaohes, flies, ants, bed-bugs, beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits, sparrows, gophers. At chemists and druw,cists. Wiin's Hair If gray, restores to original color. An elegant dressing, softens and beautifies, No oil nor grease. A Tonic Restorative, Stops hair coming out;. strengthens, pauses, Ipl? pip,