The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1888. The Mahakipawa Diggings.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3011, 24 September 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1888. The Mahakipawa Diggings.

One of the special providences for which we now have to be thankful is the Mahakipawa Diggings, In New Zealand's darkest hour, when no bright space lias been discernable in its firmament, there has always been a chance'of a sudden change of fortune by the discovery of a new goldfield, At any time a new goldfield of any considerable area will do more for the colony than a Government loan, and the Mahakipawa diggings just now are worth more to us than the colossal Midland Eailway enterprise or tho Auckland Trunk Railway folly. People are flocking to tho new gold field by hundreds, and those who are,there appear to be earning good all-roundwages. Shares in the Mahakipawa Companies are rising by jumps of 50 per cent., and the outlook is an alluring one. The diggers have the fine season of the year before them, and if their winter returns have satisfied them, their summer harvest should be extremely profitable. The spare labor of the Colony is concentrating on Mahakipawa, and people in the Wairarapa who are not thriving, display a strong inclination to try their luck in that quarter. The cost of reaching the diggings is so trifling that a considerable number of Wairarapa people are certain to visit them. The propinquity of Mahakipawa is likely to have a marked effect on our local labor market. Latterly it has been the case that a dozen men have had to hunt for one job and the earning power of each individual man has consequently fallen to a low ebb; but now that there is a remunerative market for labor within two days' journey of Masterton, the work in this district will have to hunt for men, instead of men running after the work. The Mahakipawa field is a large one, and payable gold is being

obtained over a big area. There is room on it for thousands of men, and a fair prospect of such a labor army finding profitable employment for a considerable time. In fact, with a few more goldfields such as Mahakipawa promises to become, the colony could absolutely stop borrowing on the London market, and would be in a position to obtain from its own resources a sufficiency of capital for prosecuting all essential public works.

Shearing commenced on the Manaia on Saturday at Mr Alex. Mutrie's farm. M.Mtorlx)tfMttßoni(j : Lodgo, l'dßOj E.Ci,: ii&plfice-ihis ©Vfenirig |s, v ; •■''' f ,' Itjis estimated thatsince the men went oiiNn'-BMe'jKO,(lOO^''ljiti- : .ffiffiv drawn from circulation iti Newcastle. % Messrs Lowos and lorns add to their catalogiio fo> Wednesday next, 30 stoers, 14 hoifora, arid 7 wenners. ■■'"'•'' "' ._.TontlaraflVßinyitcdby..Mr Jphn,King, surveyor, Kuripnni;•'• for'.• formation and metalling of sovon.aiid a half chains ,of road.; : Bpeciflcationp ,can be seeii -at Mi; King's office.'']' _ ,', > ; w „,„ There will bo a stage rehearsal tonight of tho comio nautical opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" at the Theatre Eoyal

About forty-signatures have .ken added'tothe petition ivFeathevstdn and Morrison's Bush,- in'favor of retaining Mr Orbellm the Wairarapa District, , Events for. the ..week .at the ...Theatre Eoyal Einlt appear in another column,' , An open Temperance:meeting takes pldco'iri tho.Tenipektic'el Hall;'Chapelstreet; under the auspices of the Phoenix Lodge.l.O.G. 1 ];, A-'very good programme is'provided for this popular monthly free pntertainrapnt, . ; ,;,: : , ; . ,;. For;,a,most savage.and unprovoked assault, on, a< .Chinaman who rofused to let them .ransack his fruit baskets, two youths, named Shoah and Barker, got two mouths each at Wellington on Saturday "morning,;.; J; ■-....- i ,' Mr Eu'geno ut O'Connor M.H,R.i wires to the Premier fr6ni Melbourne "The New Zealand court a source of pride arid encoumgeuiont. The products excel in variety nnd excellence. The display of minerals and selection are good. There, is no room:for. other bulks exhibits,' The preseiit arrangements are !; artistic: and attractive,"" ; - :J "

.Tho'''Mastei'ton ' Bifle Volunteers parade at 2 p.m., October 4ch, for. inspection and* prize' firing.' . Members nro reminded that fines foi; absence will be strictly enforced, aud that unless twothirds tiro tho corps cannot participate in theprizes. •'• ; j Mr M. CaseibergV- in'iiiiother column; offers to subscribe the sum of five pounds (15) .towards'; the. cost of boring' for : artesian water. We shall bo happy to receive and publish the names of others who aro willing to contributo to so -usefid an object. At a meeting of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society at Carterton on Saturday a prize of 15 was offered by Mr C. Pharazyn, but only on condition that one show be held in the Wairarapa this year. In' tho event of more than one show being held' he would hold over the sum and let it accumulate till theVe was only one show in the Wairarapa.'•'■ ■■'■• '"-■'' A "disgusted digger" who has just returned to Masterton from a visit to the Mahakipawa gold-fields says if every one would take his advice they would stay where they are and leave the goldfields alone. He states there are about 500 on the ground and only fifty workins, and diggers are leaving the fields daily in disgust. The Picton correspondent of the Marlborough Express wires that 40 diggers set forth to-day to Mahakipawa, The right hand branch parties are undoubtedly getting gold in quantities, Favor-

able reports continue to be sent from the field by Wairarapa diggers who are there and it is expected several others will leave this district, Shearers do not care about giving up the certainty of a good season in the Wairarapa for the chance of what may turn up at Mahakipawa.

The diamond drill, recently; obtained from the, Geological Department, was taken to the Fernridge on Saturday.

Yesterday a party ot gentlemen interested in the question of testing the coal measures on Mr Falconer's property drove up, and after a walk over the ground, decided to put down a bore on the bed of the Black Creek, a few yards above the crossing. The machinery was to be put up forthwith, and boring was to have commenced this morning,Should the first bore prove useless, a second one will probably be put down on- the flat botween the' creek and the Waingawa.

Mr R. S. Maunsell has been experimenting in making vegetable ivory. He boiled a potato in diluted sulphuric acid with the result that the vegetable hardened (after keeping it for some weeks) to the consistency of horn. As he well knew that the acid would destroy any metal with the exception of lead, he took the precaution to use a stone bottle from which he had broken the neck, for his

experiment, anyone trying this experiment would do well to follow suit. The potato should be as white as possible, the one used by Mr Maunsoll was a purple kidney, and the color, but somewhat dimmed, was retained after the process, A well attended meeting of the Wairarapa Jockey Club was hold at Hamnierichs Hotel, Greytown, on Saturday last, Mr W.'O. Buchanan, president, in the chair, The Treasurer's statement showed that tho last meeting had .improved the financial condition of tho Club, It was decided not to hold a a spring meeting, but tho stewards were authorised to arrange either a twe days' summor meeting or a single day meeting and a steeplochase in the winter, Two vacancies on the list of Stewards were tilled by the election of Messrs W. 0. Williams and 0, Kimborley. Mr. ft', Bidwill, was appointed judge; Mr N. Grace, Starter; and*Mr 0. Ticohurst, Clerk of the Course, Beforo the meeting terminated, a hearty vote, of thanks was passed in acknowledgement of the services of Mr Nat, Grace, the honorary Secretary. Our Lower Valley' correspondent writes!—We regret to record the death by burning of a Ijttle girl, '7 years old, the daughter, of a Bettler rii Worde line Morrison's BusH; named Swanson. The child \yaaV-bright./intelligent one. and. waß;attenduig;tlu) SobtiulV; • K appears slio; was sitting off alo'g that.was 'bupng;M:thafe and caught 'tho /iliild's; dress/aiid b'oforo assistance could coino she yvas drpadfully burnt..' She lingered in fearful agony for. some time and auccuuibott tq' the injuries jjn Sunday.inpfning.:' Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved parents, and as a sjigjit tributij of respect. ,tp tho.' bumiug of oho tlipir :• fell6\v-;Bchobl..mateß,, ; .the. whpjo. .of/. tlie.ichopf; (children-(of, to sch'ool'sbeatten3ed)'are going to : singja hymn.oyer.her-. .romains, Tho -moral to this'JJsad.-; event--' is ifor ■ parents to take every precaution in bush settlements at this season of the year. The several neighbors in tho locality vied with each other in trying to alleviate the poor- little Bufferer, , The Hon Mr-Fishor, who is tlibMhy ister.alludedtoin the Sydney cable re Gaspanni states that the remarks attributpil to'the fr'en,ch Consul-peneral 'are similar:to,';the.accusations .-preferred against huir fo the G.overnor by the French Consul in. Wellington, and probably based'upon thorn; He- states that he simply appeared in the matter as Italian Gondii,. and was callpd upon by tho cbnvio.ts 'friends'' in ' that'capacity. : Ho denies that : he did 'anything' whatever in his capacity of Minister, and asserts; that tho stato'ment'of'the fact made, by the French. ; Jautlioritiea ..'ia wrong.: ;Fdr ; instance, he points out that he.liad" nothing to do wittthe subscript tion list from beginning to end, -It was set oh foot by an Italian fisherman and the. money, never- oame' into' his',' (Mr 'Fijhjr'j) ss}•, /.Mv.rvFieher. has put hiiriselfin with all those : coiger^i" r uiu Q^l 1 letters from thorny which he is.pf;gpuiiqh clearly'rcfnte'the pha'igei jn'ado •■'agaitiat him; •:. : With r ;reJMer«q*j» vfPasparini's escape frpm&eiifi^ ; iwii's ; : eriteretl.'j V v Gasp&riai'a is/tw^ B '-I°^ are\ lheoiC'Mftioi|i6ti^eon •■la^mbme'ni,i^'9?unaDle'io'.lea^' ; l)y^ wjneiswhpii jho/Cdofts

*sßftiejrs];;m^ ; imon^:tK^; ; B!ioejjn sis" aftiMpbcef Mr. Stiickeyi weloamj lias been' a: loser to of fully lOO.lanibsandfullt grownißheepi-; £>!-■: j *#• fiTy--^ ing on Saturday night,' the question'of encouraging the game of cricket amongst tho bolkiolb was brought up, and tho grouud committee, were authorised to make arrangements for a pitch for them bn'the'Ovair : ' '"".':. " : ' ■"■■■;'':;'

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