The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE l6, 1888. The Town Lands Trust Meeting.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2926, 16 June 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1888. The Town Lands Trust Meeting.

For a public meeting to attempt to determine the details of a Bill which is intended to be passed into law is an utter absurdity. &ich details may be arranged in an assembly of parliamentarians, where there is a trained Speaker to control the business and experienced Ministers to conduct it, liven under such circumstances it is frequently necessary to refer many points to a committee before proceeding with them in the House. It is quite possible to take one or two points and lay fchem before a public meeting like tlmt which was convened last evening, and obtain an intelligent opinion upon them from a public platform, but to build up a measure clause by clause in an open meeting where the majority of those in attendance are necessarily inexperienced in work of so difficult a nature is simply ludicrous. No doubt it is llatterii.g to the vanity of an audience, to ask them to exercise functions of a legislative character, but it is idle to suppose that the result of such deliberations will be aught but puerile. The Town Lands Trustees arc unlikely to swallow such a concoction, and no member of the Assembly would care to undertake the carrying through of a measure which was not endorsed by the Trustees elected by the people to administer the Town Lands therein dealt with. Even were a legislator to be found willing to father the Bill, the moment it was introduced into the House the weak points which are tho inevitable outcome of the peculiar method by which it was manufactured would be fatal to it. At present to criticise its provisions would be futile, as, till they are endorsed by the Town Lands Trustees or introduced irtto the House, without such endorsement, they may be considered as so much waste paper. We may congratulate ourselves upon the fact that the series of useless meetings on the town Lands Trust Bill is coming to an end. Last night the attendance dwindled down to about twenty, and even the boldest advocate of this curious plau of manufacturing legislative measures

will pause before again calling the public together,

It is reported, and this tii);e tjip report is scarcely open to question, (hat the Bayard of Monarchs, the poor Empsror of Germany, is no more. The newa though it lias been for many a day carries ail electric thrill to the hearts of all people throughout the civilised world. It is not so much his exalted position' as head of a great race us his superhuman sufferings as a man which have preated so profound a sympathy, lie is 'stretched on the rack' no longer, and his gentle blamel&ss life has become»memory. In Wellington we learn from a well informed correspondent the news of the Emperor's death has been received with feelings of deep regret mingled with relief at his release from further suffering. Very great interest is tjiken in the matter, and extras issued by ioGal papers are'being largely sought for, The German Consul will call a meeting of German residents probably to Ijold a solemn memorial service, and the Masojjio lodges will hold a lodge of sorrow. 1/lijgs arc all at half-mast, Similar expressions of public sentiment are being manifested in every centre of population in the colony, as far as we can loam.

The Codlin Moth Bill has beon thrown out iii the Upper House.

Mrs 6. Young, Hollv House, Colestreet, notifies that she lias vacancies for four gentlemen boarders.

Mr F. H, Wood sells on Thursday next at his Taratahi yards some 1,500 sheep of all classes, 75 head of jattlo besides hacks, draught and buggy horses. The sale commences at ono o'clock.

A Mauriceville correspondent corrects an error that appeared in a paragraph on the 12th instant, as to tho time an earthquake was reported to have occurred there. It should have read •" 4.45 p.m. on Sunday evening.

Mr Pritchavd Morgan, the discoverer of the gold mines in Wales, is a nun between 30 and 40, with a bronzed face, bright oyes, and greyish hair. He has a moustache, but no beard. Heispenerous, good natured, and hot tempered, He wears a black velveteen coat, and smokes the best cigars all day long. Since his recent " find" he has beon well looked after by ovory shark and toady in London; and if his head had not beon screwed on prettj (iglitly it would hive beon turned long ago.

An adjourned meeting of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Society was held this morning (Saturday) for the purpose of receiving the balance sheet and auditor's report thereon. The members present were the President, Mr 15. Meredith, Messrs Stuck«y and T. Chamberlain V.P.'s, and Messrs McEwen, E. Dixon, D, Donald, B, P. Perry, W. Perry, J. Ross,[and R, R. Meredith. The balance sheet was read showing a balance in the bank of £4l7s 2d. The statement of assets and liabilities gave a credit balance of £lls 13s 4d. The President said he was in favor of a Financial Committee being appointed and all accounts being settled at an earlier date. All monies due should be got in earlier. Unless the subscriptions could be got in immediately there was a prospect of trenching upon their fixed deposit. Mr D, Donald moved, and Mr T Chamberlain seconded, that the balance sheet be adopted.—Carried, Tho correspondence was referred to tho General Committee, and the meeting closed.

An adjourned extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Taratahi Dairy Factory was held last night (Friday) about 70 members being present. Mr W, Francis occupied the chair. Mr Jas, Bayliss, sen., moved and Mr W. 13. Allen seconded, that the Company be voluntarily wound up. Mr L, Nix moved and Mr D, Cross seconded an amendment that the factory be carried on, and that the milk be paid for on a sliding scale, according to the quality of the milk. The amendment was lost, A further amendment was moved by Mr A. Mackenzie and seconded by Mr C. Uoodin that the factory be carried on for another year, and that the milk suppliers take the whole of their cows milk to the factory frouijthc Ist October to the 130 th Anvil at the same price per gallon (2jd) as they have been getting this last season, After some considerable discussion the amendment was carried by a substantial majority, and the meeting terminated, Mr John Pyke delivered at Messrs Lowes it Jorns' rooms a sample of turnips grown by Mr John Burrow at Gladstone, Three of them turned the scale at (JOlbs, and they are stated to be but an average of what is "rowing now on a GO acre paddock, They will bo sold by auction to-day, and probably bought in for the exhibition on Thursday next.

A horrible state of tilings has come to light at Bowes Hinton, in the Yeovil Union, England. A sanitary inspector visited tne house of a woman named Susan Wellman and found two donkeys on the "round floor. In the front room on the samo iloor were a number of ducks and fowls cooped up, and all in a very iilthy state, In the front bedroom upstairs several fowls were kept among heaps of rubbish and dirty clothes, The Guardians have expressed their abhorrence of such statu of things, and steps aro boiiifj takou to remedy the nuisance.

The New Zealand wool-grower tlirougli the proposed tariff says in effect to the English woollen manufacturer: "We send you the wool of fourteen million sheep to work up for the world's markets. We won't let you return any of it to us 111 a manufactured form until we have protected our local manufacturers, and made you pay a fine of £2Blos on every ill 00 worth of woollen goods you send to us, evon though it is some of our own wool you arc returning.'' How would New Zealanders like it if England paid them back in their own coin, and levied a 25 per cent import duty on raw wool, Those who have at all studied the subject well kmny that the lirst effect of such a duty would be to encourage in England, as it lias encouraged in the United States, the substitution of cotton for wool in clothing; to enormously enhance the value of cotton, and to correspondingly depress the value of wool. But then we are told by the protectionist thnt " the consumer, and not the product)!', always pays tlio duty in the long iun." And that argument is to hold good in London in respect to n duty on wool, but not in New Zealand in respect to a duty on woollens.—Hawera Star,

Woukku-Mbn,— Before you begin your heavy spring work after a winter of relaxation, your system needs cleansing and strengthening to prevent an attack of Aguo, Billions or Spring Fever, or some other Spring sickness that unfits you for a season's work, l'ou will save time, much sickness and great expense if you will use one bottle of Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters in your fanjily tins month, Don't wait. "Burlnii'ton IJwkcve." A Goon Hou.mm—Tliejjoodliouser wife when giving her house its spring renovating, should bear in mind that the dear inmates of her house aro mora precious than many houses, and that their systems need cleansing by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels to preyent and cure the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and she must know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly and surely as Dr. Senile's American Hop Bitters, the purest and best of medicines. "Concord N, H. Patriot,"

Just two days before (lie (arid resolution; were accepted by the House, ami noted upon by the Customs authorities, wc passed entries fi;r our latest imports of llnuuels and blankets, for the aeasoij, i)t the Wholesale Family Drapery Wnrcliouao, To Art) House, ton,

We consequently escaped the rigorously high duly that, in accordance with protectionist proclivities, is now levied on these goods. Whether this step is one in the right direction or otherwise mi are not disposed to argue. One thing is very certain that we have now a splendid stock of ilannels and blankets, that in spite of (lie increased duties we shall sell for the old prices, at Te Aro Hpuse, Wellington. We yerciwqr better able to supply tlje public with b.qtb quantity aij<J quality in ilannels and blankets, and wc venture tq assert that no house in trade'l|as *sq* large ij stock, or is able to sell such good value for money, as we are at Te Aro House, Wellington, It would, therefore, be wise, prudent, economical, money saving on the part of everyone to see-our -Ilannels and blankets first before laying out a penny 011 these articles eWlicre, Time is money, and worry would be saved in buying ij,ll that may be required of these articles, at the Wholesale Faujily Drapery Warehouse. Tc Avb House, ton.—ADYT.

In West London tho newly-catubliahed Wesleyau Methodist sisterhood is makint; good progress. No vows are imposed; the only request being that they givo three months' notice of any intention to withdraw, so that the work may not suffer. The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes boldly defends this step in the direction of providing work for the educated and refined ladies, Mr Olegg, of Halifax has started a home for tho education of earnest young women aB cvangohsts and missionaries.

A meeting of creditors in the estate of John Kolliher, of Master!,on, contractor, convened for Friday afternoon, lapsed for want of a quorum, only the deputy assignee, tho debtor, and his solicitor being present. The examination of the debtor will take place to-day. The following statement has beon handed in: —Liabilities—Wellington : F. J. Preston, ilB Is; Smith & Wilson, £l2; Jeffrey, £5; A. W. Brown, £l6; Samuel Brown, £l7 ; C. Mclntyre, £8 ; Bolian, £8; Casey and McDonald. £9 Greymouth—John O'Connor, £B. Hutt— Cleland, £l3; sundry small accounts, £2O. Total £134105, Assets—Promissory note, £ll7s Gd; seven town sections, Midlothian, £44; two carts and harness, 135. Total, £9O 7s (id. Deficiency, £44 2s 6d.