The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1888. The Elaboration of our Chariable Aid System.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3020, 4 October 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1888. The Elaboration of our Chariable Aid System.

The Christohurch Press, in a recent issue draws attention to a particular point in which it thinks an - advance may be made in promoting the efficient working out of an intricate and, at present, tentative system of charitable aid, The earnestness and ability with which the Canterbury Charitable Aid Board has devoted itself to' its duties gives' the best promise of future success, if the system continues to be patiently and carefully elaborated, The change our contemporary wishes . to see introduced is a simple, and progressive one, arising naturally out of tho circumstances, (t is the introduction of women into the responsible management of the Charitable Aid Board. We are glad to see attention drawn to the oxpodienoy of securing' the assistance of tho other sex in the distribution of Charitable Aid in so important a centre of population as Chistchurch. In. Masterton,' the experiment has already been tried with a considerable degree of success, but the instability which has characterised ,tLe career of orir local Benevolent Society, and disordered its finance, has been against the working out of any innovation. Prior to the passing of our prosent poor law, the Committeo of the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society was partly composed of ladies, and it probably effected a greater amqunt of relief at a lossicost atthatperiodof its history than at any subsequent time. Even now ono lady''in this town, though not a member of the existing Committee, acts asa ; visiting member for that body, and her counsel and assistance in this capacity has been of the greatest value. What is wanted, however, is that ladies should be regarded as essential factors in Charitable Aid organisations. In England, the return of women as poor jaw guardians has .become a common omrreip j Ijefqre long it, will be, regarded as'' a necessity, especially jn the large towns. TJiefe are twenty-five women Guardians in London, and whon once a woman has been elected on a Board, the tendency is to return additional membersof the same sex. Thus Kensington has fourwomen on its Board of Guardians; Sji George's, Hanover square, has three, and jn the Strand a second lady member ha? been returned. In England, putsido London, tliera are tbirty-feee women guardians, making wjibfieyen inEdinburgh,a total of sixly'fivo in Great, Britain. No, district which has once woman guardian has failed to repeat tho experiment. Moreover, -i in: a large proportion of these cases the women have been returned at the head of the poll.. The majority of the applicants, for relief are usually, in New Zealand 'djjtrifltjj, jielpless women and children, and in grds' i# determine the wisest and best means of dealing with cases of suohjaohar' actorpejpal investigation.-by'lady visitors is, tydiGpopble. We trust that ,Chtfs,tcburch flsophi -wil) take up the suggestion thrown out' hi' the aoluinns ,of the Press',.. add set 'an exflmpla which will be followed'in all .parts ji tb'o;,Gofyny, by sejecting two or tnjreeladies as Charitable Aid Board.'" It'is a rnista|a to -akwiat tlio iern'or sex

possess a monopoly "of Htllbir* ; good qualitiea;wbiou aro.iiecdssaryfor-.tlie organisation-andi'adminfstMtion' of publio;affairfl.' Meii'even'oievor and 'make a sad mess of publio"s business, and 'it is almost a'pity that we'could'iiof as in Amerioay occasionally elect a notable woman as. head of a munici-. pality or member of a Council just to bring bunglinir lords of creation to their bearings.'' '' .'" ""'', ".'.".:''

For a lorn; time" past "-ah uneasy i feeling that tl)B r ßunk of New Zealand had not fully faced old losses bus disturbed financial circles in this colony. Thatthe bank was.strong enough to face these losses, few well informed people doubted,- but the fact that it hesitated to do so was an element of weakness. At last, however, the Colony may be congratulated upon tho fact, that its principal banking institution has righted itself by writing oil'overy bad and-doubtful'.'debt-leaving its large and profitable business unfettered by questionable liabilities. It matters littlo'that to do this the reserve fund of the Bank has been sweptaway, and nportion ofitscapital has disappeared. .The position of the institution is now sounder than it has boen for years, and its.future is assured, The sin of reckless trading revealed in the report of the Bank Committee is one that may not be' lightly condoned, but the dominant sentiment-iipou the first perusal of this record is that the worst is revealed, and that, the' resources of the institntion'will stand the strain to'which it is subjected,

Mr George Denton, of. 83; Willisstreet, Wellington, notifies that >he hai all the requisites in'hand for trout fishing, lawn tenuis; bowls, cricket, cartridges for revolvers, rifles, and sporting guns; also a first-class stock of watches, clocks, jewellery, and general ironmon,gory. Cardinal Motan, in: the course of a sermon in Dublin Cathedral, said that Australia was the brightest gem in the Crown, No church in Christendom was more attached to the Papacy than the Catholics of Australia, He also added that the Irish in the & ustralian colonics were determined to help Ireland, as far as possible to assert its rights, K Mr A, J. Balfour, (Secretary for Ireland, Bpeaking at Glasgow, said it would be necesßary to ie-conquer Ireland if it obtained a local Parliament. Tho Home Rule agitation was the daily bread of the Irish members. Hp assured tho largo attendance at Glasgow, that the treatment of Ireland by the Government was lenient, and that tho charges of cruelty towards prisoners were untrue.

An occupied house at South Carterton owned by Mr Alfred Turner, bricklayer, was destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning, A heavy wind was blowing at the timo and a telegraph pole in tho vicinity caught fire and was destroyed, Two wires were severed and. telegraphic communcation with Wellington is interrupted. Tho origin of tho fire is unknown. Tho building is reported to havo been insured for £75, an inquest will bo held. Tho fire which occurred last/night shows tho necessity that exists for a fire alarm bell at Kuripuni, and -wo would suggest to tho " powers that bo" to arrange with the School Committee to havo an outside rope attached to the bell at tho public 6ohool for the purpbso of giving an alarm in the event of a tiro occurring in that district, that is pro-, vided tho Council cannot see its way clear to erect a boll tow'or and provide a new bell in that locality. We would also recommend that tho manual now in the municipal shod should be stationed at Kuripuni. There are several houses. in that district fairly outside tho reach of tho central brigades when their services aro required, which aro rated for the Bupport of the Fire Brigade, and havoto'payasharo of tho cost of the steam tiro engine, No diflicilty would be experienced in enrolling a corps at Kuripuni and taking into consideration tho yery efficient VoluntoorFiro Brigade which lias a station and manual within a stone's throw of the Municipal Brigade, tho htter body could well disponso with their small manual, which, in fact, thoy' seldom, if ever, use.. We recommend tho Piro Insurance agents to tub stops to induce tho Council to carry out our views, .The total destruction of a house before the engine could possibly arrive, as that which took place in the early hours this morning, is not tho first which we have had to record in this- district, arid should teach a lesson. "

Just as the weather begins to become slightly tropical, wo may oxpect tho usual reports of sharks having been Been. A youth on Saturday informed our. (Christchurch Telegraph) Kaiapoi correspondent that he, with four others who were bathing on tho Kaiapoi boich witnessed tho reoreative diversions of a shark 25ft in length. Any ideas those young men had gained from the perusal of-tales of tho shark's appetite, and a previous desire to dive below such a moiißter with a knife of four blades, a corkscrew, a toothpick, ahd.a'pair, of twoezers, vanished into thin air' as tho lads left their bath, wherein his sharkship could complete his natatorial antics and ablutions in privacy and without inter) uption.. It behoves intending bathers, after this warning, to bo cautious, aa a 25ft shark could find ac.-. commodationforamanof averago size and weight, ■ ■'. • ■

Between two and threo o'clock this morning the peaceful slumbers of the residents were rudely broken in upon by tho fire alarm bel|, and it was erjrjn ascertained that a dwelling house : at Kurupuni was in flames. fhetwo Brigades turned out, and somo time was lost in catching tho.borsp, which is kept in a paddock in Colo-street, to tako up tho steam firo engine. When the manual and stoam.engines arrived it was deemed useless to pump on ttio burning building, and attention was paid-to preventing the flames' spreading to' tho adjoining properties.' In this thoy proved successful, notwithstauding a very strong wind was bhwine at the tinie. Tho house was owned and occupied by Mr IV;. Collins aiid family,- and ho is ongagodall night as assistant to Mr G. M. Wood, the night soil contractor. He left his house-half au hour before midnight; after first having poured water over the embors that remainod in the fire place. . About a quarter' past two .o'clock flames were seen issuing from tho roof, and tho alarm bell was spoadily rung. None'of tho contents of the'building were saved exexcept a suit qf clothes. The building was insured in the New Zealand Office for £IOO. The furniture arid orTectsyvere insured for |3O in tlio .sap' office.

fbc following ia out from an American paper:—"l was odd of those unfortunates pvcntodrink.lt reduced mo to degradation. I vowed, and strove long and hard, but I seldom'.hold victory oyer liquor long. ] hated drunkenness, but still I drank. When I left it offl folt ahorrid want of toothing I must havo, or go distracted. I could neither cat, work, u'o'r steep! I entered »reformatory, and prayed forstreng'tli'j still I must drink. I lived for ovor twenty yearsj-iu' that ijm'e I. jieyer, abstained over three lnonfbij a| ft fjme. '.At leugth I was sent I to thp-Hoiise flf C,oitpi)tiQji as r vagrant. If my famjly had been provided for I would havp preferred to remain there, out of liquor and temptation, Explain-, iug my afQictioii to a felloiy-prisoiior—a man of much education and experience T-Jie advised ine to make a vinegar,. of ground quassia; a half-ounce steeped in a'pintyf vinjgar, and ; to. put a • small ..teaßpQonful q| ft in a Jjttle water, aud ,'drtnk it (wyn- .every tipie/lbe jiqubr thirst came upon mo violently. ..Ifound it satisfied tho cravings ami : diffused 1 a feeling of stimulation and. strengthWhen I was discharged I continued this cure,'and Meyercd till the thirst was conijuer'fid.''' For $b years' J hayo-not .tasted liquor,' and I haveho desire for it, , I give this for the 'consideration of the unfortunates,aoveral of'vfhotttl'kno'w' novo' recovered by tho samo moons which I no ton'g'evrefluirj to.ttie."/' ■'

K It is .intended' to confer: thefreedom of thp.Oity of Loiidou oh ; Oftrdihal: ■ Moran:' ?.Tendetß are-invited bj Board for''the. erection >of ia' Eohuul at Mahgatainoka, : ' .Particulars i,will foitnd in another, "column. .-;:■ % g-[ .fi :'.' ari application: for a transfer of a publican's licence from \V. D. ''Kit blewuito to ■A, S. Orannier, appears in another: colnrnu. "• . • Messrs Lowes aud lorns add 37 head of cattle, .120 fat sho'ep,■'• and. a brako with pole and shafts to thoir catalogue for next stock sale. ;■ : '--'...- . A ''rehearsal' of " H.M.S. Pinafore" takes place 'in St. Matthew's Schoolroom this evening, Soloists as well as the Choruses and members aro. expected to bo present. . Mr F. H, Wood adds to the cataloguo for tho next Taratahi Stock Solo, 150 fat and forward ewes', twelve good dairy cows, and two rirsMass hacks. " - We understand that the lessee of the Mastcrtou Theatre Royal is in negotiation ~ with- tho talented ' Amy .Vaughan /Company, at present playing in Wellington, to appeawn Masterton next week,

The match" between the' English team' of footballers and Wariganui was played yesterday in the presence of over 2000 spectators, The good following up and collaring of the Wanganul men completely spoilt the back play of the visitors; Leys seoured a try for Wanganui in the first. (poll. All attempts' : by Stoddartto get away weie spoilt by the splendid tackling of the local men, and their : wings stopped the attempts of the visitors to screw tho scrunmages l Andertori Soc'iived a try for England in the second spoil. Theso were the only scores,' tho.mutch resulting in a draw. -.A young Irishman died; the order for his coffin ,was given to another Irishman who was a first-rate joiner,-but lib scholar. till Tight until he canio to painting the age and. name on the coffin-plate. Ho gotclown "Michael O'Eafferty, aged-—" and it should havo been "28," but he was unequal to .making the figures. So ho went out into the road, arid said to a small boy, "Patsy, my son; how do'viz make twenty-eight ?" "Four sivens is twentyeight," said the boy,- so down on the coffin-plate went the four sivihs ;'■ and when then they got to.thogravesido, and-the coffin lay on the bior, and'the priest was saying solemn words to the mourners, he said, "There was a-fine boy. for you, taken away in the prime of life j young than, too; he was only —" and ho went a little nearer, and put on his classes, and looked again, aud said suddenly, "My goodKatty! ho was seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven 11 How in the name of goodness did he escape the flood?" •. Nine hundred ninety-miieyears ago the Church of England, then under the headship of the Pope of Rome, leased a lot of land to the British Govemmont for a long term, that was considered in that day equivalent to an estate in fee, But the lease Kasjuat expired, and the land has gono back to tho Church of England which has preserved throughout its integrity. Nine hundred and ninotynino years is not forever,-'and expiration of this lease and the reversion of the property to the lessor is a sigificant sign of the stability of the Anglo-Saxon Government, as well as of its churches. Dynasties have changed, revolutions have swept the island from stem to stern, but the State and tho Church havo remained, and their. contracts are hold good after'a lapse of a millenium Probably no other country can show a like proof of business stabllity.-N.Z, Church News;

Tho Southland papers report .an amusing incident in connection with the search for Rudolph liadka, the escaped prisoner, Two constables, about' one o'clock in tho morning, observed in front of them, a'figure resembling Radka. Desirous of verifying thoir suspicions before actually seizing him, the two increased thoir paco, but so did the figure. The officers broke into a trot j the young man did likewise. One of the officers culled upon the young man to stop, but that only had the effect of giving fleetness of the wind to his movements, and he disappeared in the neighborhood of tho gardens. The whole available force in the barracks was summoned, and the gardens searched without avail. On Wednesday afternoon a young mail, a visitor from Molbourne, called on the police and complained that wliile returning to his hotel along Nith-stroet, after spending theevening with afriend he was, at the time named, followed and eventually accosted by two desperato scoundrels, who apparently determined to assault and rob him, that he took to his heels, that they followed in full cry, but that ho managed to give them the "double" and reach his hotol safe, but terrified aud much. exhausted. The news was broken gently to the officers interested, but they aro now doing well. Radka is still at largo. "I Don't Want Thai Siuff,"-Is what a lady of Boston said to hor husband whon he brought home Bomo medicine to euro her of siok headaoho and neuralgia, which had mado her miserable for fourteen years. At the first attack thereafter it was administered to her with such good results, that she continued ita uso till cured, and was so enthusiastic in its praise, that sho induced twenty-two of the best families in hor cirolo to adopt.it as their regular family medicine. That'"stuff" is Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters. Standard

" Women-^eveb-Think,'-i-If the (crabbed old bachelor who uttered this sentiment'could 'but witness the inte'tiso thought, deep study and thorough investigation of women in determining tho best medicines to keep their families well, and would noto thoir sagacity and wisdom in selecting Dr Soule's American Hop Bitters as the beef; and demonstrating it by keeping their families in perpetual health, at a mere nominal expense, liewould be forced to a'oknowiedgo that such sentiments aro baseless and false, Picayuiio Without being at-.all egotistical, and eschewing totally well-known "trade puna," we aro happy to bo able to assert mall truthfulness that our millinery deparlmnt is at presort "arrayed in all its glories," at Te.Aro House Wellington.

Our imported French and English.mil. linery fashiptis arc fho very choicest, most attractive and charming that we have ever had the privilcgo to show, and genuine experts; ladies pt known ia»to and judgnjent, say there is nothing to equal the display 'at Te Aro House in the city of Wellington. .. : Our untrimed straw hats and bonnets aro the latest "crazd"in the world's metropolis, and we have an excellent selection of granny. bonnets 'ill lato, silk, 'satin,-satoon, and muslin, all shades and stylos, as well as- a large variety of sun hats and bonnets; at To:AroHouso -Wellington! -..-' Wo would specially invito the attention of latjies to the fact that we aro in a position fo. o'xecuto all orders for millinery promptly, tastefully, 'elegantly, and" at moderate charges... Qiir lqillinor is a young lady' of exquisite taste, and iq tho short timo 'she.basbje'nwithushas won the faypur of a yery niimorpus clientelle, at TeArq House Aycllinßton.-ADyT. '