The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1888. CHRISTMAS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3088, 24 December 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1888. CHRISTMAS.

To those who, in their youthful days, were wont to associate Christmas with the" winter wild" of the great poet, there is some slight mookevyin the celebration of such a festival under a broiling ;sun. In a land of snow and ico, the roast beef of. Old England and the traditional plumpudding, have a flavor which cannot iib extracted from them when the tlionnometer rises above "eighty degrees in the shade People, as a rule, in New Zealandlive well all the year round, and if, during the dogdays, they, for the sake of Christinas, eat much more than their ordinary wont, their Christmas merriment will be short-lived.' This aspect of Christmas enjoyment might, were people wise enough, be fitly observed by preparing the rich holiday food, and then finding some hungry and half-starved people to eat it, There maybe a few unfortunates of this kind in the disttict, but the number of them is extremely limited, - There are,lioweveryother obligations, incidental to Christmas which can be as well fulfilled under a hot summor sun as under the white mantle of snow which has covered so manj of its festivities in the old wor'd, and these are: the necessity of all strife and variance ceasing, of quarrels being made up, and of estranged friends being reconciled. _ The thousand and oue Christmas presents exchanged on all sides at this season are the outward expression of such obligations; they are the little links which make up a grand Christmas chain of peace and good will.. In our own boyhood we remember tho old motto of" pace aiid good will." It was pre toned to us; it waspreaohed to our fathers, and to our fathers' fathers. It rang at , this season in the ears of our_ ancestors when the great colonies of the Southern seas wore unknown and' Merrio England was big .enough to hold all the English speaking race. Christmas links us with a beautiful past pd ivitli a mighty ancestry and it is an institution to which all who '"votlio mote country are loyal, '; ■"'*• injmeniorial Christmas from tin.. '■•«».Jionjg[tojrtji has been the season... ■ •••<£ tj,j s and recreation, and though in . electric age the zest for innocent enjoyment is partly lost we get some slight taste of it at Christmas time. It is, perhaps, sad to remember that peaceand goodwill have been preached amid wars and rumours of wars for a thousand of years or more, and I hat we are but little ucaror after hioro than a dozen centuries of sermons to obeyingthe greatme6sagegiven to the shepherds of Bethlehem,. Still we can cling to the hope that we are in these latter days beginning to get. some dearer foresight of tho reign of peace whioh has yet to be established among nations, We also may recall, at this time the' friends who in past years have shared our Christmas pleasures, but who now have joined the great majority, These memories need not mar our enjoyment for there is, perhaps, on the other side, a Christmas Jubilee which puts all our mundane celebrations in the shade. We need not, - indeed wish those departed ones a ' Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,' because they enjoy the peace and goodwill of which we can only dream, and are in the realization ofpleasuresof whiclnve earthly pilgrims can only obtain a diiri perception when we honestly and reverently, obey the loving precepts of the great master, and in. the spirit which he inspires, wish one and all "A.MerryChristmas and'a Happy I New •Year,"

On.Tuesday and Wednesday next (Christmas Day and Boxing Day) there will be no publication of the . Waibabapa Daily. . - Wo regret to Bay that our customary almanack is not yet ready., for presentation to our readers.' We are advised by our Tsnp(li?h agents that tho beautiful oleoß which we selected. for it wore being shipped by" direct steamer at ( he;ond of November,>ut as 'vet"they have 'not reached uV ~'As eoon as wa aro in recept' of ,»heni:.wn wjH.duly annouhooi date for their diattibotiou,; ,

ilnie3%tho|South; Brifcli : ■^Oi^pariy.^''Bf ; s\vludliHjtib^;iß^tlxf":.lbcnl ageiit.iS;V JVWo,vai'o requested;-to-'state that the cliargp- fur aUniißaion to. ladies to tho> tfahd. stand at tho Maaterton-Opaki Rices will be two shillings ap,d sixpence. : TlieUink fisturcafor tlie week are pub^ lislicd iii t)ie iisunl colunini ■There is n particularly, attractive billof fare for Buxiiii;night. ~ ''■.'.' ;,.■■ ;:. ' We remind the members of the various Friendly Societies that tho'. prgcesaiub starts from the l'uresler's flail 'at ten in": tho forenoon on RnxingDay, and Will iiurch'through the town preceded by the Brass Band, '. >'

In consequence of an accident to the connecting rod of tlm ongine,-; the train from Mauricevillo, this morning was waß dolayod at Martin's Crossing near the Kuiuiiahnnga bridge fully half an hour." - : ■

A foot raco, 440 yds, has been arranged to take place on New Year's Day, at the Wairarapii Caledonian Society's gatherinn between 8. J. Kennedy, shearer, and Fred-Williams, station hand, both of Flat-point, fiir'£sa-»ide. : Wo hear that a difficulty is arising over the. tiventy-live pounds recently expended by the Masterton School Cum-

mitteo on gifts and prizes. The'. Town Lands Trust,from whuse special' fund they expected to get it, cannot legally provido the money. Young Tommy Thompson, who was a favourite for tho Boxing Day Handicap at the Friendly Societies' Gathering, got a kiok from a horaq yesterday, which will incapacitate him from taking part in that, and several other events, fur which lie is ontered, " Messrß Lowes and lornsannounce the sale of a horse, spring cart and harness, under distress warrant for 11 o'clock on Wodneaday nioruing.

A meeting of Directors of the Wairnrapa Caledonian Society will be held in the Club Hotel, Mas'torton, on Saturday next, December 29, at 8 p.m. ,

The first meeting" of.orediturs in'the estate ul Boberi; Crawford, lapsed for want of a quorum,- and is adjourned till Friday, December 28, at noon, in the Old Court Booin, Mastertdh,''. The declaration of handicaps for the various racing events in connection with the Wairarapa Caledonian Society's gathering is postponed until Friday nuxt December 28, when it will be posted in the Club Hotel at 9 p.m.

At a mnetinv of orelitnrs in the ostate of Brown and Eodgcrs, the Deputy Assignee was instructed to apply to tho District Judge to have the Bankruptcy proceedings transferred to the Superior Court of Bankruptcy, Wellnigtm, and that the bankrupt bo exaininod there on January 14th.

Those'who desire to furnish will have an oxcell-nt opportunity of seeming some very superior furniture, at Mr S. Vt.imel s Bale at Greyioivn on Thursday next, when Mr F. H. Wood will soil tho whole ot the contents of his wellappointed house entirely without

reserve The District Grand Lodge Secretary Ero. Andrew Irvine has forwarded to Hro IV; Sehar Secretary of the Loyal Mastorton Lodge, I 0.0. F. M.U., the large and beautifully worked silk banner of tho District, for the use *f the local lodge of Oddfellows, in the. Friendly Societies' Demonstration on Boxing Day. The following team.will roprcsent the second eleven of tho Star Cricket Club to do battlo against a team from the combined schools on Christmas afternoon, wickets to bo pitched at two o'clock shirp: K. Kibblewhite, W. Hoiford, Colin Winchester, Ted Welch, W. Welch, H. Rces, A.-Richards, W. Evernden, A. Russell, A. Welch, J.

lloid, G. Shroder, and Broom, Entergencies—S Wickersou and' J. Dixon. The New Zealand Loau and Mercantile .Agency Company notify in unoth.-r column that they will hul4 sheep fairs at Fairfield, Onga O'iga, near Waipawu', on Wednesday, February 20, mid at Mount Herbert yards, near Wuipukurau on Friday, February 22, Tdi thousand sheep of mix'-d ages and sexes have already been entered for the former sale, and on accmint of various owners for the latter live thousand sheep, cattle and draug'4 howes. Furth-r entries will be received up tu date nf sale. The residents uf the Upper Plain are along suffering class, but nevertheless even their patience is braining ox, haustcd, ami grumbling is. commencing over tho dolay in tinisbing tho widen nij of the Uppor Pliin Ruad. They say the leases of some places have fail, n in and the tenant* of the others aro willing to have the work dune. Added tu thL-i there will never bo another opportunity like tho present of netting such cheap labor, The two cottages standing in' the way could be easily romoved, in fact they will tumble down in sheer disimst if left much lungor. We tape our euoi? gutio city fathers will take the hint, Thoro was a discussion of'; a laughing kind at the meeting of tho Borough Council last night cm the -question of creating .Napier a'"city." The Mayor and councillors wero uivitfd to attend the opening of the new cathedral-ur pro-cathedral—which is it ? The Maynr referred to it as a " pn/'-cathedral, and expressed regt et that it was not declared a fid -blown cathedral atonce. Ci'/Dick BHidthen Napier would be.a ''city," and tho Maynr concurred, and evidently longed for the "eloiation" of the borough. Or Welsman pointed to olause 21 of the Act of 1880, which provides that, after tho passing of the Aot the Governor may deelr.ro any borough having more than 20,00,0 inhabitants to be a city.' Or Dick stiil' seemed' to think that the fact of, declaring a neAv chiifch a cathedral would make Napier a "city," but wo aro inolnied to back the non-legal pninjon on ' this occasion. Or M'Vay added that fho 'question would soon be settled, as he was informed on good authority that steps had boon already lakon to. declare the church a full cathedral.—H.B. H.era|d, ~ A GHEAT . EJfTEBPRISB ' |-T!lO Df,

I liuijlo'g Anjerican Hop Sitters Maijufac•fl«ißfia|iy !5 P|)P pf Jliipheßtor'B turing v... . .. - -"katnrissg, There Dr," greuteat busihess •_ :,i,l »«r»;liin'P Soule'e A inencan Hup biuv.,".'"- -' reached haale beyond all ptecedein., having from their intrinsic their way into every household in the land.—OmphiJ, ■■',-■. VNo HOSiMTAt needed :-No palatial hospital needed forDr.Soujo's American Hop Bitters' patients, nor' lartje-aalariud talento'l puffers to tell what Dr. Soule'a American Hon Bitters will do or cure, aa they tell their own story hy their certain and Absolute, cures at home.—New York Independent.

Residents in the country contemplating a visif to Wellington during the present month, may combine both pleasure and profit by calling at the Wholesale Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. The fine promisos we occupy are in themselves unequalled South ot the' Equator, and not only is the architecture imposing, but the arrangements' for the comfort and convenience of oustomora arc suoh as cannot be excelled if equalled in the Colon}, and so sav the thousands who have visited the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington. ■ And then tho stock is always large, the choice very extensive, and the prices at lowest wholesale rates at Te Aro House. Wellington. ■■'■■■..'.• Just now, and during the present monthsome exceptional advantages are and wil be offered to all cash customers. Having imported a large bit of Japanese and other fancy goods we shall distribute then! to all purchoßers on the following-scale at. Te AroHouse, Wellington :—

-, 'TheSoale- '. PurohasolO/' Gift l/.-Purdhawlß/- Gift 1/6 rurohaae 20/- Gift?/- Purohase2s/. Gift 2/6 Purohase3o/. Gi(t3/- Purchase 35/- Gift 3/6 Parohase 40/- Gift 4/, Purchase 60/ r Gift 5/. Purchase CO/- Gift 6/- Purchase 70/- Gift 7/Purohaso 80/- Gift 8/- Pntchase 90/. Gift 9/-: Purchaseloo/; Gift 10/- .• -. : and so on in sauio prbportioh.up lo £SO, £IOO, or more during the month of December at To Aro House, Wellington.' -;. . ; .. The only, exceptions we make; IbV the' above'are KidJGloveß.Dresßmaldrii!, ;MiJli : ; hery, and ; tailoring : to order.':!'An 'early visit would therefore bp.yery; adyaatagcoua to a'l.country residents,/.being ■cerfainto resultm-pleasure ;; and profit to all casfc mew at Te Aro House; Wellington. ■■;■;:; ,K

Yfk ; quiet cpvy in" : ful l;jViilf< jslidioftlsed for sale.".^Particulars;itiiiy;bo obtained attliisoffice..i? : ; ;;|' %uiv : k ; ~- : : ;'.: . School picnic will bo held as usual; on' NewYarti'sDay. -Full particulars will bogivon in a futurojasuo. :, . ; The Borough .water.: cart./-.made jis a|)pearaii'ce in Queeii-street this inornhig to.thnjoy6f the storekeepers,andtho public of Mastertou generally. -'V > l ;The Treasurer of thn Masrertmi Hos ■pitalnoknowledgeß receipt nf £1 Is from Mr Jpl.ni MicKao iiunauernf Bowlands, and £3l3s fl'd from employees, also £1 from Mr E. Marsh, Alftvdtou. v Wo have to acknowledge the receipt of the annual report;' on New Zealand OroMn Lands whioh is a guide to the Waste Lands of the Colony. Explanatory maps ac'ompiy the public, 1 To-day tho shops are being .decorated with evergreens, and bunting is gaily flying from (he principal business'premises and hotels, in honor nf Christmastide. ; .-■ \■ .- ■

A grand fete to be hpid on Antilvenary Day, January 22nd, will take place in the Pastoral Society's grounds, Cartertun, A strong and influential committee has been appointed tn carry it out, and their capital programme appears in another Column. . ''■•.'■.'''".■

Temporary premises have been erected at the Belfast Freezing Works, near Christchurch., New machinery of an important kind has been purchased to replace that destroyed by the recent tire and the work of freezing carcasses has. been now resumedand is in full swing. The North British and Mercintile Insurance Company,of which Mr E. H. Waddington is the local agent, have issued their usual neat office calendar to, their numerous customers. The present one contains revolving dials giving the day? of the week and.month. : : The Temperance Herald states tint it is the intention of Mr Cuads, who has for years been a prominent worker under the MliauceiriEnglanditopayavhitto this colony in August., The New Zealand Alliance expects to be ablo to arrange with him for lioldingtemperance mißßinua in each nf theprincioal towns, ocenpyine about three months altogether betweou Auckland and the Bluff,