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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3187, 24 April 1889, Page 2

At the annual meeting for the election of a committee for the school district of Masterton, Mr ■A. W. Hogg made 8 speech which was amusingly and characteristically ipconsistent. In the first place, he took good care to explain that he had not been a party to the payment of the debt incurred in the purchase of Echool prizes—which prizes,- by the way, beclaimed to be a great advantage to the school—out of tho sohool cadet fund. In the second, he attempted to defend the action of the Committee by challenging the writer of the article which appearod in our last Monday's issue to compare his character with that of the members of the .committee, either past or present, !J?hia is : Mr Hogg's usual way? of beggipg Jthp qpatfon, He first tries to put himself safe, and tip to hang up.the,whole

subject on a point which is not even a side:issue. The relative •merits,or s demerits of> the committee and a ' journalist have nothing whatever to do with the question at issue. ;Wo } found it our'duty to point out that the j School Committee had used the money belonging to a certain trust fund for a . purpose for which it did not exist,'und Mr Hog? replies that he his had j nothing to do with the matter, ] and that the members of the Commit- i tee are of better. character than the i writer of our article.. Mt Hogg went on to say that the money had been , " temporarily borrowed." Wo suppose that, tuonsy could not very well bo borrowed permanently. But ban he tell us that there is a certainty of the money being refunded 1 -He can tell us that the Committee means to refund it, Beyond the intention be ' knows nothing Ai to his attempt to - Bhow that we had tried to impugn i the characters of the Committeemen ' individually, that is mere clap-trap, j and he knows that as well as anybody, If the members of every I public body lhat commit such errors , of judgment were to be termed dis- ■ honest, there would very soon be but ) few'honest public men in the country. Wo accused no one of an act of . dishonesty. We found it our duty to expiain a certain matter to the public and to disapprove of the course I pursued by the School Committee. That was all. On the whole, we have to thank Mr Hogg' for the publicity which he has given to the subject, especially after the careful manner in which it was avoided in t his speech by Mr'Renall.

•An emergency meeting of the Thistle Lodge 647 5.0.,-will be held, at the Masonic Hall, at 7.30 this evening, the business being "Raising," ' 'Roan Count", a fine young shorthorn bull of lons pedigree, and in grand condition, is advortisod by Mr F. H, Wood as being for sale at a low price,'

The old members of the Masterton Road B'>ard have all been returned unopposed for a further term of office, which is a great complimont on the part of the ratepayers.

The list of entriesfor Mr F.H. Wood'B stock sale at tho Taratahi yards, which is held to-morrow (Thursday), occupies a place in his advertisement column and various saleable lines in sheep, cattle, and horses. The Premior left lor West Coast and South Island by the Hineinoayostorday morning. He returns on 30th inst, or Ist May to receive the Governor. The first shipment of fish conslcned to the Melbourne Fish and Produce Importing Company leaves in the Mararoa, It consists of thirteen t:ms collected at Auckland, Napier, and Wellington, A respectable young woman, experienced with children, advertises in our wanted column for a situation as nursery, governess, or as nurse in a good family. The travollmg public are notified in another column that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, Mr J. Vila's coach will leave Eketahuna for Pahiatua on arrival of the mid-day train for tho conveyance of passengers parcels and lu&?nge,

We understand that the Ekotahuna people have discovered that they fixed on an unsuitable day for the through train to Wellington whenthoy selected Saturday, as the wholesale houses there close about the time the train arrives, and that an alteration to a more suitable day is likely to be made. Anothor experiment is being made, this time in Pittsburg, to utilise steel for street paving. Ste-ol strips are rolled 2j

nclies wide by 1 inch thick, with a channel on the top side, and with notches 8 inches apart. These strips, which weigh lllba per yard, are laid 5 inches between contres, each

one only extending to the centre uf the street, to give the proper slope to the road-way,, Adjacent strips aro bolted together and fastened to wooden sills, A bod of gravel supports the pavement, and between the strips a mixture, of pitch and content is poured, rendering tho surface comparatively smooth, - Tho literature of tobacco rangeß ovor three centuries, and would fill volumes One poet has achieved immortality by praise of the weed, but it cannot be said that any one of the most eloquent advocates of the Anti-Smoking Society is likely to achieve famo by his threats and warnings, Men smoke on, and apparently they livo on much as did their fathers in tho pre-Raleigh period. Leaving adults to enjoy their pipe or oigar, there maybe something in the warnings of the medical journals that there is too much cigaiotlc smoking by boys. It was by no means easy for tho boys who are now greybeards to-indulge iu proinaturesmoking, A oigar was too much for thdr purses and their stomachs, a pipe was suro to be detected.' But the boys of to-day have more pocket-money than their predecessors, and a.cigarette hardly makes a hole in their rosources. The boy of tho period, says tho British Medical Gazetto, is unquestionably damaging his nervous system by tho use of tho cigarette, If a lad ovor-eats himself, that is nothing. It is astonishing what loads of indigestible food nature will disposoofone way or anothor, There may. bo sickness or pain, but directly these aro over there is a recovery, But it is not so with the gastrio irritation caused by swallowing nicotine, ond the cigarette affords special facilities for th absorption of this noxious drug, The nicotine aflects the system, aud cases are quoted in whioh tho results have been ' "pernicious," The Gazette quotes with approval the remark of a leading medioal practitionor:-"Tho only serious harm that 1 have seen from smoking has ocourred through the smoking of cigarettes by boys." No doubt it is the fashion of the day for children to have thoir way ,ln all thincs, The child is master of the situation! and; yet it might be well if the obsolete parental veto were revived for use in this particular instance.

It is notified in another column that a' Board of Reviewers will tneot at the R.M..CourtMastertonat 10 o'clookA.M. on Thursday 9th May for the purpose of hoaring and delivering objections in respeot of property in the Borough of Masterton and the Wairarapa Worth Oounty,

It has how been deoided that Lord Onslow will come overland from Auckland reaching Wellington by rah 1 on Thursday, 2iid May. He will be met at tho railway station and escorted to Government Buildings, where the ceremony of swearing him in will be performed by the Ohief Justice. Notice is given elsewhero that the annual licensing mooting for the Masterton Borough Licensing District will be held in tho Old Court Room, Masterton, on 6th June. The Fielding football team beat tho Epuni team on Saturday by 7 points to 5, after a well-contested • game. The Poneke footballers met the Grafton Club yesterday m a matoh at the Tramway Company's grounds, Epsom, and defeated them by twelve points to six, Mrs Sauy mistress of the Opaki State School, gave-the children under her charge a publio tea meeting on Good Friday, in acknowledgment of tho successful manner in whioh they passed their recent examination. The youngsters had a thoroughly enjoyable day's outing, and, encouraged by the kindness of their teachor, will,'now tho holidays are passed, resume work with a new zest in thoir studies. ■

When the R.M.S. Mariposa was 220 miles distant a firo was discovered m the lower forehoid. An attemptto extinguish it by removing the flax failed and the men were nearly snftbeated. It was not until midnight : yesterday that the firo was smothered with steam. All hands behaved splendidly, no alarm was ex.' hibitedby the passengers. -The vessel put back to Auckland.: A large quantity of flax was damaged hut the 'exact amount ot injury is notysfc .ascertained. The mails are uninjured and the steamer resumes her voyage at four o'clock to-. day; 'A : full report -' appearo' ]n our, .WejtftfWoooltiinn, . ;/:■.; ;l

'■ A Jersey, bull calf is-advertised for sale by Mr. Jas, Stuokey;of Te Rangi ; tumau;- .. ; y :<r> >:.'- ; W:; : ; -y;-, At the half in the Theatrejßoyalpn Monday night, a gold brooch'.'-was. lost, The finder ivill be rewarded unroluraing the same to ttiia office.' : ' '■;. '■:; About 3000 abres of Mr Q. M; Bell's Wantwood, estate, Invercargill, wore offered on Saturday on' cropping terms for the year. Tho portion known, as Washpool brought from 19b to 27s per acre, and the balance, mostly in turnips, lis to 14s. A curious case of supposed larceny ocqured at Kaiapoi, Two men MoNicoll and F, Raynor, occupied the same bed at Middleton's Hotel on Sunday night. Beforo retiring MoNicoll showed Raynor £l9 in notes, which. ho placed ih his trousors nnder his pillow, Raynor got up first next mornm" and MoNicoll missed tho money, Ho laid an information against his companion, who was arrested. Yesterday morning MoNicoll found the money between his drawers and stocking. He told [the polios and make repartition to Raynor.

On Friday morning'a young, woman, who stated that her husband was up the Waikato, applied to the- authorities of the Farnell Home for admission into that institution, being near her confinement, She was informed that the institution was not intended to receive Buoh cases, and was referred to the Charitable Aid Bead. In the afternoon shs appears to have taken the train for Waikato, for at Otahuhu on the nay up she was taken ill and delivered of a child in tho ladies' waiting-room of the station, The stationmaster at Otahuhu communicated with

the Iocs! constable and tho Auckland Charitable Aid Board was duly notified of the circumstances. By Saturday's afternoon train tho unfortunate woman was brought to Auckland on a ■ mattross with her baby, and accompanied by a nurse, where an express was in readiness thoiKelieving Officer accompanying her to the Hospital. According to the Relieving Officer's narrative, the womau informed bim that Bhe.arrived from Sydney five months ago with.her husband, but was uuable, in reply-to his queries, to name tho who married her, or the church in which the cermony was preformed. Her husband was a gumdieger about Te Aroha, and she had only lived off' and on with him, owing to ill-usage. She gave her name as Mrs Herbert, On Sundav afternoon the iuspecting officer of the Board, Detective Strathern, interviewed Mrs Herbert, and with abetter remembrance of faces than his colleague, put qaitea new face on matters. Ho identified tho patient as a single young woman who belonged to Huntly, Waikato, who applied at the office of the Board on the 18th February for admission into the maternity ward, On the 23rd he reported on her caae, acquainting tho Board that she had parents at Huntloy, and brothers and sisters grown up and married. The Board decided that it was not a case fur public charity, and the girl was recommended to return to her parents' home, but this it appears she did not du ( having taken employment in town.—News. A peculiar circumstanco is related in tho Chnstchurch Press. On Friday last Mr Edou Qeorgo went to his factory in Peterborough street, which has been closed for some time—nearly three months, The plates, which wore formerly stored there, had been-removed so that, there was nothing of much valuo. However, an examination of the premises showed that an entrance had been effected. _ Mr George went inside to make an investigation, and as the whole place was neccessarily in darkness, he was about to strike a matoh whon fortunately a gust of wind blowing through the door brought the smell of gas with it. Mr George immediately desisted from attempting to strike a light, and folt his way tu tho gas burners. These were found to bn full oil, as also were a number of large buanera under a gas boiler. The house was perfectly saturated with gas, the oscape having evidently been going on for somo months past, The residents in tho next huusn have noticed a'veiy strong smell of gas for some time, but as the factory is closed it was not thought to emanate from there. Had Mr George lighted the matoh as intended it is probable from tho amount of gas in the building there would have been a very disastrous explosion. Bvidonoos of the march, of progress ar evinced in these days by tho attempt so worthily made to bring the great body of consumers into all but direct contact with the noted manufacturers of Britain and the Continent, through tho medium of tjhe proprietor of the celebrated Te Aro Houso, Wellington. Not content with having erected one of Largest, most Convenient and Magnificent Family Drapery Warehouses to be found this side of tho Equator, and whioh attracts as it should large concourses of Customers, ho seeks .still further to influence the public by sending his representatives through the various country districts, to make known to the residents the manifest advantages of dealing with Te Aro House, Wellington. A representative is now in this distrust and will call upon all and sundry with patterns of Seasonable Dross and other Fabrics, Household Drapery, Tweeds, Coating, &o, He will take orders ot Dressmaking, Tailoring, and everything connected with the drapery trade, ami tho Proprietor trusts that overy courtesy will ho extended to him with largo numbers of orders to be exeouted at To Aro Houso, Wellington. All parcels will hesent.carriago paid, to any station on the Government and

Manawatu Railway Company's Linos that may bo nearest to tho customer's residence, and thus oounlry purchasers will be plaood on the same footing as thoso rosidont in the City, and onjoy all tho advantage conncoted with dealing directly with the Importer, James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington.—Advt, Skinnet Men " Well's health renewcr" restore, health and yigor, cures Dyspep ia, Ims potonco, Soxual Debility, At ohemißts and druggists, Kempthorno,Prosser& Co, Agents, Wellinpton.