The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1889. A Sober Holiday Season.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3094, 3 January 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1889. A Sober Holiday Season.

According to the reports of the jolicn the late Christmas and new jear carnival have been tlio soberest on record. There w< re plenty of people in the town, and very many of them partook of tlie glass that cheers and occasionally inebriates, but contrary to usage they appeared, one and all, io draw the line at inebriety. Very many of the ancient topers indeed who have been in former times, regarded.as regular customers by ilit lynx eyed constable are new members of total abstinence sopieties, and no longer swell the ranks of the intemperate. There are perhaps several causes at work which have brought about a change of this'character, one of them no doubt being a scarcity of money—lately a characteristic of many households--but this reason alone is insufficient to account for the extreme sobriety of the town during a' peculiarly thiraty interval when tbp temptation to, indulge in stimulants, was exceptional strong. It is very ivident tint the charafcter of our population has been charged by the elimi mlion of the floating section of it who h ive gone away to Mabilrapawa and Melbourne, and other places where labor hat been in greater demand than in this .dis triot. The man who used'' to 1 knock down the periodical cheque has lefi us long ago. and is almost as extiuci as the.Moa, The men omongst us now are husbands and. fatheis, who. aro tied t> the soil and whose earnings are absorbed by ne'ces. saries rather than by luxuries, It'is gratifying 'to find that we have snob a steady indusirious population now about us that even at a festive season like the present there is little or no excess. In a district like the Wairarapa where town, BubnrWi apd rural lan.d every man. ought to be a settler, and there is considerable satisfaction .iu realising that the floating population which opce was such a prominent feature at holiday gatherings is now an almost unknown clement.' Let us hope that iii the coming year the police records anil the B.M. Court convictions will Confirm the impression we have gathered from the re. cent holidays experiences pi the sober character pf the popula.ee in and around jlasterton. That the public works and immigration policies ol the past ministries have deteriorated the oolonial character, few who knew flew Zealand twenty years ago can doubt but it may be possible to recover from the ill effects of this deterioration and to progress in these Yirtjies jyitli wjiichcolonialsofa trustworthy are "dually endowed, •

W*s fed wrap of our frieiid? ' M doutli WairafMa m pder the !"- .' • "ut tlie pditjoi) o? ft impression Masterton paper, wmcn n. . to be shortly circulated them, emanates from this office. We nmy, perhaps, explain that in our■ opinion the South AVairampa district has been fairly served for the past sixteen or seventeen yews by our old friend, the Standard, and that'"we" Bliould not dream of "running" that j journal in its own ground, as long as it adequately supplies' the require- ' ments of its district. .There are now eight papers published in the Wairarapa district, viz., two. dailies, ..tw6.; weeklies, and four tri-weeklies. Any ' increase in the present absurd total ' will scarcely be advantageous cither to the public, •or to the paper proprietora. (

Applications are invited by Mr Chan. Fabian, of Grey town,for cutting, threshing and cleaning a hundred acres of coiMoot grass aued, '". Mr J. U'Moagher, a well-known solicitor, was fined iOs and costs at' the Auckland Police Court on. Monday for having bten drunk and disorderly in Ciutoins-sti eet on the evenmg.of the 2 u th instant, llie defendant entered' a tent in which a temperance mating was being huld,land.repeatedly blew a trumpet which lie hud with him, and otherwise occasioned annoyance, until at length he, was thrown out.

Hayter \the Victorian . Government Statist, eatiiitatea - that for the quarter 'tflded September 80 the total excess of recorded arrivals over recorded departure ms 10.774, the greatest gain to the pi pulation being from the Uuited King, dom (2941) the next from New Zealand (2858), then from Tasmania (2818), Now South Wales (922), South and Western Australia (787), and foreign porta (408), All the arrivals and departures referred to are by sea, and the population estimate irt based upou the. afeupiptioo-thii tlie number* entering .and leaving the polony n.vt| its borders are. equal. The total extirpated population; w wßßl|o?6i6W. . -

, Tlio > next sitting of the 11, M. Court will lio huld on.the 17 th inst.. ■•

4 Up to tho'end oMast month over 4000 haleJ f of wool had:l:6cn despatched from ihe -Maaterton Railway bhition, 4 1 l)o Molbnurno.Wder estimates the Lwhoat chijj in Viotona ;at 9 000,000 .]jU;htk'iinl tho average is about-seven adrj. '.lt-;aHjjs'.'that' after; home. cuiisuinptioii' there will lib 1)787,000 buEhels left for export; The following umountsof prize money m eonni'Oiioii with'tlio Taiatnhi rneff have been 'passed for payment !-Gi t'reethj £24 lOi; 'W, A. Donald, £44; iVThonipson r £s; T, Shaw, fli810s; A.Vile,£lls'lßs-. The Wellington papers are "rubbing it in" to the.lacal.polico for allowing tho larrikin element t» perpetrate, -with impunity, & large' amount of wilful danftgo on New Year's.Eve,'

.We are pleased to notice that Mr ,E. Coppen who was recently injured .in the buguy accident on the Masterton-Wai-irnta road,. had sufficiently recovered, from hie accident to get about town thimorning, Mrs Coupen is still coiifined to her room, but 'is piogreasing satisfactorily; ■: . .■: ; . The stock sale yards and six acre pad, dock, situate at Ta OroOro, are adver-' tiscd to be let. Particulars can be obtained from Mr Waddington, Mastertoil, or Mr F, H, VVood ); Greyl.own ( : •, ; . W. H, Cameron a sheep inspector, has bocn arrested on larceny a 8 a baileo of a horse belonging to David Baird of Jobn?otivillo in May Inst, ■ ' Tho animal cricket match between the Grtytirtvii and Wellington Working Men 1 Clubs was played on Nun Year's Day in tho Greytown Reservo nnet resulted in a ivin for' the Oreytowil Club by 98 on the first inniuga. 1 ■ With r« gii d to the scheme proposed by a syndicito in England, to guarantee umiiiimuiiiprice '.to shippeti, the, Wellington Meat Export Company state in a eiicular to growers that the full particu-. lara have not yet come to hand; but fliould they be such as the directors can rrcimimend- to aiiifjpjra generally, they will be forwarded in due course. . The man Patiick Campboll who was., injured on Mtiniay last .whilst' working' in one uf tlio tailway gravel pits im Mi Dahahet's contract at Eketahuna, is now iu the M.uteiton Hospital and, from lateetaccuuutß,progressing satisfactorily, 'the extent of his injuries consist of a somewhat sevtfreßCuip wound, and two ,or three miner contusions about the body.

Robert Frew, a carter, 60 yeirsofag' died veiy tu'ldi nly at the hnuse ot a irieud he wtta visiting at Dunedinyesterday. He complained of internal p.iina at an early h ur in the morning, when lie was given some Mullor's sauce, after which lie vecmed better, but iu a few nvnutes lio fell back dead. He never suft'uied trom heart disease, so far as is known. At th« inquest a verdict of death trom natural causes was returned. A passeng r named Churlec Battlelt, assistant bailiff in the Central Police Court at Sydney, jumied overboard from the Riogaromm during her la,( ;rio trom Sydney to Auckland. The body was recovered, but the officeis failed to restore animation.

At the annual session of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Conference held iii Chrisici urch .'yesterday Mr tiwan Brown, the headmaster of the Christohurch Hoy's' High ijohoo], said iho present pupil teacher system was wasteful of brains and tissue, and no doubtuf m«noyalso.' The condition vt the pupil teachers in New Zealand was white slavery. An aitouiiding crime has been perpetrated nt Keiiierz, in Silißjd, by a bisketmiker. named Henry iro.'swh, ile strangled three of his children, stabbed two others with deadly effect, md then cut his own throat (le hao lecenlly loßt his wife/his worldly affairs were not prosperous,', and it is conjtcruied that he feared his offspring ana himself would have to face starvation. We have received by this mail a copy Ufa work puHMjed' by Chapman arid Hall, of London, entitled "lioundabout New Zealand," notes from E, W, Payton's journal dunng three years wanduniiga in this Colony. Twenty onginal illwutions by the author which, are beautifully engraved enhance the vain-, of the work. Several of the chapter* in the'volume are devoted to descriptions i of the Waiaarapa district. : A Danish officer, Captain Holstein, has invented a portable bulletproo l ihield fortwusoldiers, (It may be easily cariied and fixed, and the in. n can then willy- blaze away trom behind,' uitliei with rifles or a machine gun, ,witliuu> ■'wing p : ckedoff by anything less penetrative than a oaimou-balj. Bishop Hadfield it expected in Wanjnnui on Sunday Fancourt to ordain the Rev, P. L, Cameron fo priest's otdere. It is rumoured that the Bishop coiitempUes his lejigmitiui mi an early date, on tho ground of ad; vanced'age,

MRF. SPEAR, Eye heelalist 'aiui Optician, formerly et Ifunedin has arrived at Master ton fqr One Week i.mly with ft lirgo stuck uf Hcst Peris copie and other Pebble Lenses, 4'- cut ai-right angle with the axis, Those.; therefore, needing pippeily Adjusted Lenses to rectify defective virion would In well tu give i him a call btfuri' lie /o-iveß. Addr»B:-Mr Scutt, Halldtruet, next to Drill Shed.

A meeting, convened by Circular, for the pui pose «f discussingtho advisability i.f forming a. Farmera 1 - C» operative SucjHty was held iii Maetortmi yesterday. Tho meeting wi# represented by'fully . fliiity Inpiiors. Meiaalitirtdisonssiim .it was d ctded tu term a Fanner's Onuperativo Snciety, and thiit a public meeting lie called as soun as the Seororarv could nbtain information neceeaary for its urbanisation,' Tho following is the list of successful emdidates for the Masterton School of l.'osign, The variims branuhes passed are distinguished' bv initials,, viz,— b.; freehand, f,; model, m. gentry, 11.1 pßWP.eotiv«, p. .--Second grade {tyM, b, (excellent; lithel Biow'n, b. i Tiajcr.v Broiim, b (iMiiory) Tops. Bannister, 6. (memory —excf)'le|)l) stjd in'.' (Roojd); A'd'iilph "p. (fpfy .MM ff'flip? }■ -V #ii(l > i k? Jm*m » (raemiiij, ■ «.Jssß!f Mflpoim.f (meinoty) and p., " s Herbert Muir, b. (memory-.' "V t Al« M'Keuiie, h, (meniory-oxcelii:...'; Ia belln Muurn.'b (memory.; Tbos. Pi.rrit, b. (weinury-+xcu!lent) ani g.; Alice Perry, b. (memory-fraud) and f. (good); Jissie Perry f. i Jnhn Smith, m,, Hidih Suge b. (memory, good) j Bi L Von Bturmer h; (gimd); Elizabeth Wptou f.; Nellie Wilson, I>, .7 r

H, P«terEon bega to inform t|ie Inhabitants of Mattertim apd District that during the month of December he wil offer to the puMio the whole of his large Block (if b«i)tßand sboes at oust price fur Cash (teiy, after whii'h' time the bonks wijl he closed'arid the v busjn'eas in future conducted on the ready money system of which due notice willjho pive'n,—Advi

Durirg the past mtath onr.sliowro»m wis d'i'y a t udcd by large lumbers : of intent i n iiispectins ana pu chaainii the att active itenn in the mifiinory an l ! raintlo : department!! at Te Aro House Wellington.' - v ' in iml'inery we were fortunato in being able toeia'tily Huit ihe.taiteof.oiirpatroufi and for itylr, fa;hioni:and,the hsrrai'jiioiiß blending a-hun; wparo as yet irarivall'd in the city; We have still the same ahili y and means at orcominand, aDdfliiringthe present ; month .shall-'6how some'. 'special Hiivelties in ladies' ti imintd hats, at Te Arj iiome, Wellington, i ■-' : Uur mantle an I costume department has also been the scene of great aoiivjty. We have sold ah amaiing, number, (if : ladies' jack' ts audman'le<of tyo mostfashkiaVe dtscription, andourWumeß havebetnthe subjects of, much admiration.!at Te'Aro Jims-. 1 , Welhi'gton. We'haie a very choice lot of Indies' costumes, ihaJl.deßcriplionßof'fahricß, andin a groat variety of faahionable tty'e», composing :Trints,"'z- : phy.'s, ta'een ; brocHe.l Swisn embriodered,'' veiling#;; Pongee ;and: I/ibprty a Iks, ranging ) from fld to jilt guineas, at Toiro Uouss, We lington. . We obrd'ally iijfdtu pnyTOttjraf.omthe may, t(9 atefjng f f'» wjijte {f "iho'dw'to.vWt <fe Bbowroom whuj ttw. "il)be sjiown, vitb« out atfempting tofpKßi'purchai«(, Aw House) Wjdilngtai,-*Aw*

> .Tlio • Bank of Now South■ Waleßj at WanganuihasforwMdeda'ohequefort n uuineae>fo the lun'ds of tho lnoil Firo 1 ■ Brigado <fi >r.t heir energy in saving tbe bunk premiums on:-: the' occasion ofthe i late lire in the Ave* ue. 1 , A stroriK fooling .ofAntaßOiivm is get. ting up between the Clmieae ana Euro-1 jieaii? at tlio Round.Hill diggings limercargill, aiising out of tlio attempts by tlm former to secure the ground, • A miner named Cull had his hand smashed whilo Having his head from a blow from a piece : of sawn timber wielded by a Chinaman in'a dispute as to tho ground (or a waterraco.' Later'' on 'a Chinaman wu brought from Round Hill and lodged in gaol on a chorgo Of stabbing another Mongolian in a gambling dispute, ':