PAHIATUA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2953, 18 July 1888, Page 2

PAHIATUA.

. (From Our Own Correspondent), On Friday a large public meeting disoussed the conduct of the Licensing Committee in refusing a license to Mr Crimp and others, while granting one to Mr Crewe. The three Committeemen who, being a majority, carried the' refusal of Mr Crimp's license were not l present, though specially invited, and the meeting unanimously passed a vote [ of censure on them (Messrs Burrows, ; Walieman and Aston) with■ a'vote" of l thanks, to Messrs Hughes and Banche, who had opposed them. It appears thatMr Aston had no sooner granted Mr Crewe a license than he : accepted the situation Of barman at Mr Crewe's hotel. The meeting voted this" disgraceful," It was a very lively meeti ing; Mr MoCardle, quite in his old : form) denounced the action of the ) Committee as a pre-arranged scheme, t and Mr Beese "euphemistically" to 1 use his favorite' word,. accusing the guilty trinity of the depth:of turpitude'." This last word, the fruit of Mr Beese's most recent exploration in his Dixon's Johnsonary, was received. with clamorous applause. Mr Hull;: . who was refused a license; ddscribed . how the Chairman of the Committee ' (Mr Wakeman) came and tried- to | smooth his feelings .with money. " I told hp" BaidMr HulL.with touching simplicity," to put the money some--1 where else;,',and after that k wentto ' Church," Deafening.applauss,,whioh' was all very well, but it seemed to me the Ohuroh had the laugh of Mr Hull if the pound went into the plate. 'lt ' washkeold timesj[the regular well- ' known faces 'held sway, the well known voice's were' oheered,. and the nower orowd (Messrs Crewe, Burrows, etc) were not'to the fore at all.! But ' whatdothe censured members care for being asked to resign ? They have ' secured. their object- and probably ■ would as soon resign as not, ' A new daily coach to Woodville is ' announced: fare, ono shilling; so you , may conjecture we will flock in crowds , to that township, and enjoy the; R.M. Court day, as we did before'when there were shilling fares. The large area of land which has been surveyed over in the Puketois is probably to be rushed in a few weeks. Flans will be out about a fortnight before the day of sale; the roads are ' almost impassable; and the land will , be a gift to certain people—we know here pretty well who-because having made their arrangements on the quiet, they know without any further personal ' investigation exactly what to apply for. You will see if I am -not right. 1 As to an outsider hoping for a shoe of , it, he has no show. Living, perhaps, , at Napier or Wanganui, he would never hear of the land, and before his • friends here could send him plans, 1 and he visit the land, the day of sale !, would be past; and to visit the land now would be impossible. It is seldom r possible to take a horse on the land, 1 because the Tiraumea river is so often in flood. ''A foot, passenger can go ' across by a'wire, cable in a box;' but when across he has no plans, and can ? do nothing. Even with plans it would, I suppose, be necessary to ;. 'camp'out, also the plans (you will see) r will be mere formal things: they will '• show." paper roads," not yet formed, »• but not the existing pack-trakes by which alone access is practicable,: The > sale of land here has been a regular ! swindle from the beginning, and a ! great pity it is. . ■ ; ■ (l'Tom an Occasional Correspondent.) The weather is somewhat wet'here now, aud winter seems to nave set m in earnest. The. usual downpour of rain, swollen rivers and muddy roads, - makes things in general anything but pleasant. : Two of our residents here had quite an experience last week, of the incon- • venience one may be put to: .by ■ swollen rivers. Theso gentlemen had , occasion to visit the Masterton-Man-i gahoa Block, partly on business, and 1 partly for pleasure, viz,, pigeon shooting. _ Both rivers were fairly low when crossing in the morning, but when they wished to return, they found, to ' their dismay, that the river had risen about three feet, and consequently about over their horses hacks. On tho other side there were three other river-bound persons, one of whom was a settler, who had been to tho township with his produce in the shape of butter, who, on returning found himself river-bound. Those on the Palliatua side had to return, through a muddy road of about four miles tramp, the other two, to make the best . of their misfortune, had to repair to ; tho homestead of Mr James Sinclair, , who, with his usual hospitality, made - them welcome for the night, These , little incidents will illustrate some of ; the vicissitudes of bush life, and show >■ the necessity of hastening on the wak- \ ing of roads, and the construction of ] bridges. '■'./' ( An indignation meeting was held , here during the past week in connec- ( tion with the Licensing Committee's recent action. A resolution was c<tr- £ ried calling upon three of the members ] of that committee to resign, viz ; Messrs Aston, Wakeman and Burrows, and this is as it should be, and serves them right. It is high time j, that these Licensing Committees were things oi the past, and replaced by I somethingmoretrustworthy and sound j. for the purpose of administering the ~ Licensing Act. The thing is at pre- V sent a farce, I see the Wairarapa North County rn are going to give us a double dose of g| pills to swallow this year in the shape j of rates, a general rate of one eight of ei a ptnny, and a separate rate for this ~< particular riding of three eights of a l penny. What on earth this rate is for is_ beyond my comprehension. fa £BBB is the amount of money received to by the County on account of tolls m collected at the Ngawapurua gate, : Out of this £9O has been spent in ,l delivering metal for roads, a few pounds for fencing a gravel pit, and „ say about £IOO for a maintenance man v for the year and £25 for re-erection of ' bridges; in all about £225, "which jives the ,County a balance of say £l5O to carry on maintenance &c, in er , in the Alfredton Biding, The general f K :atb should coyer Engineer's expenses ba

and part of like -to ■ know what the BeparateSte is for,- and so 'would ■some'j.of • readers.' 'Canit tb oil collecting general rate^lf^o'l:^ 1 ;]! think the Colony is already sufficiently/\|? : |sj burdened with indirect: taxationv/ith-:, out resorting to the above. >•.