The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1889. The Masterton School Prize Difficulty.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3137, 23 February 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1889. The Masterton School Prize Difficulty.

The Masterton School Committee is in a cleft stick with .reference to a recent expenditure oniohool prizes. In December last it decided to havea gift distribution on breaking up day, at a coat of thirty odd pounds. It had not a single sixpence legally i available for defraying, this expense, j and the money has been paid out of some other fund,., The consequence is that before the departmental tor can be faced the thirty odd

pounds must be replaced—the money taken from Peter to pay Paul must he handed back to Peter. It appears that the committee relied upon the amount being available from a certain special fund of the Town Lands Trust, foolishly set apart for picnics and prizes, but unfortunately it did nottakesuchstepsaswerenecesßaryto 'establish its claim according to the conditions of the Act, and the Chairman of the Town Lands Trust with gentle irony referred Mr Eenall to his own unwisely framed measure, as a full and sufficient"answer to the School Committee's demand. Now at the time we • did not say a single

word against;the thirty: pdd ; pounds coming out of this special fund, because the prize distribution was to some extent a species of; folly, and the special fund was essentially a folly fund. We say the prize distribution was foolish beoause it was based upon the primitive idea of giving every child something; it was adopted against the recommendation of the head master, and waswelcorned by the bulk of the children as a sort of practical joke, : The special fund is a folly fund, as the law prohibits it being spent on any .useful object, and it may just as well be wasted on tin whistles -and.. glass beads as, on gingerbeer and buns." Unfortunately the trustees objected to' pay for the foolishness out of their folly fund, andi now the School Committee is asking thatthe large sum it needs should be paid'out of,the ordinary revenues of the. Trust, and here we feel it our duty to make a mild protest, We do not believe that the ordinary fund of the Trust should be appropriated to purchasing pop gunsj ppoket knives, and china dolls, We scarcely think this is a correct: appropriation of an-"•-"ational imii ;SP,'what is the eauw ■ ;•;/ y v.We, fee* It k that the alternative? : : ' 7V Committee members'of the School •"■"■■<'*' i «*\ would be compelled by a stern aucu» u . to refund "the money''improperly spent • out of their private purses, We'.dq.pt-wish the • matter; to come to anissue of this kind.. It is quite .right that.the&o&ho'uld be brought home to the committee'that it- has

made a sad blunder, which must not be .repeated,, but, this, bemgdone, we hopttie'Top Eiinds'|ftuSteeai : ''wliC bft.tlio py, are iii several' ; instatioes methbers;6f \ the /School; wili/Btrain.a poiritandlet M money dftlie; folly fuiid. It inay be possible-to /overcome thei technical difficulty if the committee were, to apply to .the Trust: for thirty odd pounds for a picnio and prizes in accordance with the terms of the Aot,' spend half a crown ot -the amount in a-friendly free and easy, and appropriate the balance to the settlement of the old score; This will he tar

better, than-allowing the ordinary funds of the Trust to be wasted and misspent,, It is clearly not the duty of the Trust to pay for the blunder of the committee, 'and if, as a favor, the payment be ■ made, it : certainly ought to come out of the speoial folly fund.. '-.'•'

The Jubilee, engine failed to discharge a single ounce of water at the fire in "Wrigley street this morning. A searching enquiry into the causes of this: unfortunate collapse of the

Municipal. Brigade is a matter 6i urgency. ;.-.■'.

W, Murdoch, thewell-known oricketer is'lying seriously ill in Melbourne from sunstroke. .

MrF.H. Wood adds to his oatalogue of stock for Bale at the'Taratahi, 150 'fat owes and 50 Koinney Marsh.

Arrangements have been made for services-at St. Matthew's Church on Sunday (to-morrow), and the notice that none will be held hasbeen withdrawn.

. ABanipleofoots has ken ;left at Mr Dalrymple'B office which yielded nighty bushels to the acre, They were grown on Mr Hessey's farm, 'Upper Plain.

Mr F. H. Wood announces an important sale oE freehold land at Carterton . 'also horses, tiuibor waggons, Houeehuld furniture and effects on account of Mr E. Eobiuson who is. leaving qhe district, The aalo will take place on' Wednesday March 6th, on the premises. Cattle Boards have had so little to do since the pleuro pneumonia scare that their existence has almoat been forgotten. A circular was recently sent round asking what members of the original Boards there are still surviving, and it. was ascertained through this means that no Board existed for Wanganuiand Patea district, and one wiil accordingly be appointed, Charles King, was brought up at Car- N terton on remand charged with, assaulting E. S. Yennells in December last. MrMiddleton appenred for informant aud Mr Skipper for defendant. The case was heard before Messrs R. Fairbrother and B. Boys, J.Ps., and dismissed. The Auckland police force (says the Herald) are to be at-once armed with revolvers. Whether this is the outcome of To Kooti's visit, or arises from the Samoan tmlroglio, is not known. In the good old days the force was known as the Auckland Armed Police, and the men were armed with carbines, but it was determined in the wisdom of of Parliament to "demilitarise" the police, and their teeth wore drawn, all that was left to them'being a little bit of stiok in the shape of a baton, which as they wore mostly "sons of the aud" it was thought would be sufficiently useful for their purpose. ..■ A Maßterton resident who has been on a visit to Blenheim to try and pick up some of the loose gold growing in that district, informs us that there is. a floating population in Mahakipatva and surrounding fields of five' hundred people. People are continually flocking to the place but seldom stay any length of time, being in many instances apparently disgusted to find that itis necessary to work before the precious metal can be obtained; The people at work , there hail mostly from the Wairarapa

and Manawatu districts, nnd with few exceptions only bare wages can bB made. Cullen's flat contains rich deposits, but oau only bo worked by companies. The main creek and right hand branch aro good, but difficult to work on account of the hard rock, There was a big flood on Tuesday night, when the Golden Hopo claim was filled up. Davis' is the best claim. There was a rush at White Piue gully, but it proved a duffer, and out of one hundred men who went there only six are left. Mr Darville, of Masterton, is running a passenger line there, and iB making good wages, He is now in Masterton negotiating for the purchase of one of Gobb & Co's coaches, which ho intends takinp back with him, A young gentleman hae been "sent down" from Oxford for publishing '•'ikits on dons" in an undergraduate periodical, His University friends appear to have thought him badly treated, since a petition was signed in his favor by 200 of them, and some of | them were so enthusiastic that they took the horse out of the fly that was to take him to the railway station and harnossed themselvos to it instead. I

don't know what he said in his" Bkits," but it is probable he took for satire what was indeed a lampoon. I must say that unless ho wrote ill naturedly, I pity the lad, for the error he fell into is one common to youth, A young writer, who bus high spirits almost always mistakes flippancy for fun.' As he grows older, he perceives the gulf that lies between them. Your young reviewer is generally the most "slashing" and reckless on the staff; and even authors who lsavo mado great narnes, for themselves ns humorists have generally the sins of their youth to answer for. Dickens himsolf, although ho was,of too kindly a nature to give pain, was not without this weakness, The "Sketches by Boz" haye examples of flippancy in them which are totally absent from the works written in his maturity. Isaao Holdon, M.P. for the Keighley Division of Yorkshire, is perhaps tho richest man iii the present House of Commons. Bnt he began life poor enough, Thoughhe is Yorhsire by origin he was born in Paislry. He began life as a schoolmaster, and • though, tow people know it, it is to his inventive genius that the world owes the luciter match., It was while giving instruction to his pupils in chemistry that he discovered the principle which underlies the lucifer. ,Out of this great invention Mr Holden made no money. ■ Later on ho became a bookkeeper then he first began to devote his mind to the study of maohinery for, tho carding of wool, and » machine was invented which revolution-, ised the whole system :of wool-carding, and in that way revolutionised the whole manufacturing history ot England and tho world, Possessed of the patent rights in there valuable machines fortune poured in upon Mr Holden, He has mills'not only in Sorkshire; but also in several parts of Franco. The averago sum he receives every year probably is something like 1200,000. Like most millionaires, the habits of Mr Holden areas : Birapleas those ofa'olerkwith 30s per week. It is to food that Mr Holden ascribes his own marvellous health, with regular exeroise'superadded. Throughout his whole lite he has never missed a day's exerciser—unless, indeed, he was' confined to His bed.;,',Mr Holden is two years older than Mr Gladstone, and is quite as aotivo,

" The new forces in India" was the subject of of a lecture. delivered, in the London Institution, on December 17, by Sir W. Wilson Hunter.' In the course of his address, the lecturer said that)he problems of India were -not mainly political,.but were.moral and social as well, brought about by-a century of firm and beneficent rule. The most important of the new motive forees was, the prosperity established by British, rule, the equal of which had never before, been known, because our policy .was to give to •labour Its reward," Spcakingof education he. §ajd ft silent revolution was taking "-'•"'..iarge numbers bein? turned out pwu, . : " : -" , .:7 , /'%lato TOvprsitien. each year trolu7:: ; " "'"""BMOf India He referred briefly to too.. "; -'■'■• v "Nv as another of those' forces at work w,..'". elevatingthonation.-Theßev.William ' Rogers presided,' aiid; among others j pwsont was Sir Eichard Garth, ./....: •

Messis Loves and lorns inako several important additions to the oatalogne of stook'for's&leotfWednes'day-next.^'/^

oEatqokattheir-Tihui'-yaidß*Ott: day, Marohff, couimenoing at 126'olpok, The preliminaryVbatalogue'-appears ijin their usual column." ; ; ; j ;■•.■■'. Mr ThoniDS Cotter of Silverstreami who is suffering from a; cancer: in the neck, ; having heard of; the wonderful cure performed by "German Charlie" at Sydney on Mr Hohnian of Grey town, has determined to. visit him with a view to receiving his treatment. 'He leaves by thefirsfcbbat.; / :"

The South Wairarapa Advocate is the namo of a recent venture. It can scarcely be called a new paper, ,'as it' is (except the title) almost identical with the Star lately started at Masterton. It is not a good sign when a newspaper conies' out in thiß way under different, titles. 'system is not fair, either to subscribers or advertisers,—Typo. . Mr M'Donald, a' missionary south of Lake, Nyassa, says he has made many friends by explaining the mysteries of his 'watoh. V Its ■ works excite nc greater surprise than-the watoh crystal among those who have never seen glas3,and the missionary describes the amusing perplexity of one chief who could'not understand how it was he could not to touoh the watoh handß which he saw before him. : ,'

Advicos from Milan state that workmen of that city, belonging. to forty-six societies, passed a resolution protesting in vigorous terms against war in general and also against the Triple Alliance. To thiß resolution was added a' declaration that they would .not support the Italian Government in'the event'of war breaking out. Irfthe Live" Stock Journal Almanao for 188! i, Mr W. Burdett-coutts, M.P., calculates that the celebrated hacknev BtaUion, Trif&b's lireway, represents in his stock a money value 6t 1250,000. He is now rising 30. years old. and has beon at.the stud for over 25 years. Ho has averaged over 200 foals a year, the Inst prices of.which are given at £IOO ea"h. . Bo great is his influence that his stook can be recognised at sight, and an instance is given of foals got by him out of cart mares', whioh, as fiYO-year-olds, were sold by London dealers at 300ga v to 400gs the pair.

A writer in the World says:—" The famous racehorse Kangaroo was not long ago identified between tlio shafts of a hansom cab. I wonder whether what I read in an Aniericfm newspaper concerning a much moro famous racehorse can be true ? Everyone remembers the victory of the American-bred Iroquois. The American journal has it that Mr Pierre Lorrilard, the owner of Iroquois, presented the horse to "his countryman, Mr James Olive Groen, who now. rides him habitually as a park hack in Rotten low, If I remember rightly, Mr Lorrillard refused £BOOO for Iroquois shortly before his Derby vie-

Tom Osborne, says Sporting Life, once a jockey of Borne note, and winner of the St Leger on Mr Mario Stuart in 1873, besides accounting for several other good races, was recently brought before • the - Worcester Police Magistrates on the charge of obtaining a loan of £IC from a cabinet maker of the city, on the faith of certain representations. Prosecutor alleged that lie lent him the sum in 1885, and never saw him again until after the arrest. Osborne had been riding on the Continent and in Australia since then, and lately returned to England and went to live at Oheltingham, where he was arrested on Monday. The case was dismissed on a technical point,

Hot long ago the Dietetic Gazette gave the plan of Dr Soxhlet, of Munich, for sterilising milk, thus ridding it of all germs and preventing fermentation. The apparatus consists essentially of a number of small (five-ounce) glass bottles, with rubber and glass atoppera combined. There is a tray for holding these, fitting in a tin pot for boiling the milk. Tho milk is 'raised to a boiling point in the small bottlea. These are then hermetically closed and kept at 212 degrees Fahr. for twenty minutes, when tho milk is sterilised, Tho process is really, therefore, only one prolonged boiling underpressure Experiments prove that milk boiled in this apparatus thirty minutes remained good eighteen days, while milk boiled in a pot and placed in an ice-box turned sour in from eighteen to twenty-six hours,

DrO, Lloyd Tuckoy gives in the; Nineteenth Century an interesting account of tho plan of faith healing practised at Nancy by medical men, with excellent results in certain cases, especially rheumatism and nervous affections. He believes that this Bystem or healing by mesmerism and suggestion is destined to be of immense importance to humanity, and that it will considerably modify tho present practice of medicine, Treatment by suggestion has been tried on many devotees of vice-drunkards, victims of the opium passion, &c—and with the happiest results, Inmates of the Paris Female Refractorioa—women steeped in depravity, obscene of tongue, and as it soomed incorrigible—have, it is stated, by a course of this treatment, been transformed into decent members of society, and in some instances, have for years held, and deserved to hold, positions of trust..

About noon yesterday the inhabitants of a large portion of Christchurch were startled by a succession of unearthly ear piercing noises which for some time really alarmed those who were unaware that the now steam fire alarm was being tried, It proved trying, indeed, to all within the range of its sound, which beggars description, If it is possible to suppose the scream of an enormous circular saw when" driven at great velocity, the screech of several locomotive whistles, and the howling of a dog endowed with forty-dog power of howling—all these rolled into ono discordant whole would perhaps produce the same stunning effect, If this infernal machine (says tho local Press) is brought into use without some amelioration of its dreadful tone, people /will soon ask themselves whioh is worst—the, ravages of a fire or the howling of the " siren'".

It may interest a good many persons who have no admiration for the sparrow to learn that a letter from Miss E. A, Ormerod, of St. Albans, England, on the sparrow nuisance, has been received by Mr A. Molineaux, a member of the Committee of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Adelaide, in which was enclosed tho,simi of £5. with a requeat.tkat Mr Molineaux would take the trouble, on her part, to use it as he thought best to further lessen the number of the; sparrows, 'She thought it miaht be used either for prizes for e?ga and heads, or for payment to those who weigh or connt—she wished in this case thab her name should be mentioned as co-operating, for sh'o is trying by every means she can to lessen the crying evil, She remarked that the martins and Bwallows, whioh really, do dear legions.of insects, are being driven away by these pugnacious robbers. ■ .•■■;■.

You should visit Wellington,. and above all things go to the sale of overplus Suminor drapery at Te Aro House, Wellington. i You should visit this sale. Why ? Because yon mil benefit amazingly by so doing, and make your money go further than it ever did before, if you will but call at the Over, plus Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington. You should visit the ; Sale.. Why ? Because the bargains have been numerous and astonishing, and tho remainder of the Overplus will be Bold at still lower' prices during the present week* at Te Aro. House, Wellington. You should visit the' Sale. Why? Because it iV the'last week, and itpositiyely closes on Saturday, next, February JOthj at 10 o'clock iri.tha evening. 'Fail not, therefore, to'give a look in at the Overplus Sale at Te Aro House, Wellington, You should visit the Sale. Why? Because ;you. would enjoy the-outing.— Because you woujd ;■ purchase.. Because'you would 1 save; money, . and Because bo many ,bf;'your ; .heighbors havo done so by visiting.the Sale.of Surplus Stock at Te Aro flpusje, Wellington,. ' ■ Pg ijpt de)ay4We cannot possibly extend .'jtajuns-the Sale wlh* positively eoinoto vl iii- (ho eveqlng of anendat..'."'■' ''- T* Ajio.Hop, AYolSaturday Next,, at;iC, s '-:•■'• ington,",-. ;:; ".■'"■■;:'/■ ;>'i ; ■.-:.-,v.i .'■'.;

;;'. •: Messrs' and loru's .add ..B(H>jFat;' arid 7 300 breedingeiVestutheircotologue :| Four hundred sapks of 48M';«iqk«foot grass seed,' specially' dressed; 'growna; Te Eangitumau, are advertised for sale in lots to suitepuroliasors.-;' Samples may be obtained on application to Mr J."

Stuckey. ';-'^;.'.';' i ''-yy:J-{ ■•'' By the San Francisco mslil yesterday Matson and Co. forwarded 40 typical samples of Hew Zealand-wools to America, at the request "of Mr AIM. Garland, secretary of the. Home' Market Olub, Illinois'. The.tendeivof.Mr Win. Stocks is accpeted'for the ereotion of a large 'threestoriedblook, to replace that, destroyed by firo at Hobday's, Colombo-street,; Ohristchurch, .The total 1 ' cost" will be £94.000. ■■'■ ■■/^•N,'"v:'- ;

' The ■ tuneral,, of' ■,the;Vlate' Henry Hodgins, at. Carterton/ yesterday was largely attended. £;■ Between and thirty vehicles apd : a; large number of horsemen formed;.the cortege to Clareville interred,; ' Messrs Francis Sidey and Oo.announce a sale of land by ordeXpfthe'ißesiatrarof tho Supreme .Court;M-.Tburadaj'.7th Maroh at their Auotitfti Botiuus, Welling, ton. plain and comprizes's2jacres 'section No 118-76| acres rocWjM mil pari 195" and a two storied dwelling aiid ground.* Full particulars can- be obtained -from the auctioneers; or Messrs Bell, Gully

and hard. : ' : '; ; - :: '-. ■-•;■'. ■.•'■":'.'■•:. / John Foster, a farmer, residing seven miles from Ghristchurch3ied suddenly yesterday while shifting a reaper on to a trolly. The cause is supposed to be heart disoa3e,produced|thTouglian attack of rheumatic fever some time.ago.' ; ';■' Five constables left Christchuroh by

the Takapuna under orders to report themselves at the; depot at Wellington

immediately on arrival of the steamer. It is conjectured that this has something to do with theconcentration of constabulary at Poverty Bay.. Wo notice that in moat instances, tho averages.of the prices Realized at the various Earn' Fairs throughout the Colony have been published, and thinking it might interest farmers and others to know, we give the results of tile recent Masterton Show which are as Mows:—The average prices of imported Lincoln bams sold: McLean, £5 10s; Eeid.foGs; Collins, £4; Thelkeld, £4. It will be seen that Mr Keid, of Elderslie'a, Kama brought the second highest average price, and wo are informed by Messra Lowes & lorns, that they have a further consignment of Mrßeid's pure Lincoln Eamß, which arrived too late for the Fair, but will be submitted to auction at their next Stock Stock Sale on Wednesday, 27th inst. A meeting of subscribers to the night-

watchman fund was held last night, Mr J, lorusin the chair. Mr Seller reported that thirteen new subscribers had been

added to the list. It was resolved to continue to employ. Mr E Braggins on the old remuneration with the understanding that lie undertook no other workoutside of his duties as nightwatohman. It was decided to hold quarterly meetings .to receive the report of the nightwatchman, together with the list of any subscribers who had ocased to contribute and their reason for so doing.

A fire occurred at Upper Waingawa yesterday at a cottage occupied and owned by Mr R.. Field. Mr Field was engaged atrwork at some distance from his residence when he first saw the flames, and before he could reach the burning building the house and contents ; were practically consumed. The house was insured in the Hew Zealand Office for £2OO, and the turniture for 150. The ovipin of tho fire is unknown, but is is suspected the chimney was defective. There were no bush fires any if here in the neighborhood. At twenty minutes to 5 this morning the town was aroused by a vigorous peal on the fireball. The cause of the alarm was a four roomed cottage that was in flames in Wrigley-street, The cottage was occupied by Mr Eaton and his family who escaped without injury, Part of the furniture was also saved the help of the neighbors. The house itself was completely destroyed and the adjoining cottage was considerably scorched and damaged, The Volunteer Manual was promptly on the ground hut could got no water nearer than the Waipoua river, a distance of nine or ten chains. They succeeded in saving the adjoining houso which hod, before the Volunteers commenced to play, been kept from igniting by the actice exertions of the neighbours with buckets of water. How the fire originated is unknown, The house .was owned by Mr R, Cockburn and insured in the North British for £76. The Jubilee engine was not brought into play at all.

A Eenwick correspondent writes to the Marlborough Express;— The idea that red clover can only bo fertilised by tho huuiblo bees has long been exploded About ten years ago, before the humble bees had been introduced into this Colony, the idoa was mooted for the necessity of that insect for operation, Happening to be in a small paddock of red clover one afternoon in summer, I noticed that a largr number of common bees were present, and that they were busy. I sat down, and began rubbing out ripo heads of clover. Out of every one lgot seed—some forty, some sixty, and some a hundred fold, I took somo of the seed homo and planted It in a corner of my garden. It grew blossomed and bore seed in its turn. There was not at that time a single humble bee in the Colony, Some years afterwards a writer in the Canterbury Times stated that fertilized heads had been found in that part of tho Colony, „ Kocgh on Piles Why sutler Piles? Immediate euro and complete cure guaranteed, Ask for '•Rough on Piles," Sure cure for itching, protruding, bleeding, or any form of Piles, , .