Arrival of the Kaikoura.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3233, 18 June 1889, Page 2

Arrival of the Kaikoura.

...'■". .:"■• Wellington, Tuesday, a ; The Kaikoura arrived at 7;15 from { Plymouth) via. the Cape and Hobart. c Tho voyage was protracted by squally t weather. It was foggy weather from 1 the Cape to Hobart, and stronggales t and and high seas from Hobart to a New Zealand, • i ■■ - i Extensive Fires- ' \ Napier, Tuesday, j A hotel at West Olive was de- j strayed by fire at .2 a.m.- The j inmates. barely escaped with their a Jives. Insurance on building £2OOO 8 in the.Standard reinsured in the New Zealand for £400; South 8 British L 300; Imperial L 400; \ National LW;, London and Lancashire, L 260; stocks and contents, ( Union L 400; Norwich Union L4OO. ] — —. ' i Honor to the Brave. , \ CmusiOHUßCii, June .17. j Lieutenant-Colonel Butts, of the ; Wellington Militia, has been com- j missioned to represent the Govern- ( ment at Colonel Brett's -funeral | to-morrow, which will bo choral at , the Cathedral and military, at the-j cemetery. The firing party will be j picked from the Reserve Corps, of , which he was Honorary QomaY. ] All the flags in town were half-mast , to-day. ■<...! . —;■ .. . Auckland Items. - i Auckland, June 17. | 111 the football match Ponsonby v, ■ Selwin the former won by 11 points j to nil. Auckland beat Grafton by 4 | points to nil. ' , Agreeing to tho wish of the , contributing shareholders in tbe : Kauri Timber Company, themembers 1 ] of the syndicate are to surrender ] 112,500 fully paid up shares for , distribution amougsc those contribu- , ting shareholders who shall agree : to relinquish their claims to a . ! guaranteed dividend of 10 per cent, The' charge preferred' against Louis Payet of the manslaughter of Mary Ann Wilson, at Arch Hill, was heard to-day at the Supremo Court. I Mr Tole appeared for tho accused, ' The evidence of the deceased woman taken before her death was not admitted as a deposition, but put in merely as a dying declaration, The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged. This elosed the criminal sittings of the Court. i . , . Extensive Frauds. i - Tiharu, June 17. The magisterial inquiry into the frauds in the Deputy Assignee's office commenoed today, when Mr P. j Birrell, deputy clerk for five years and a half, was ohargod with forging j two receipts for a dividend of June 17th, 1888, for £385, and tho 4th September for £l2 lis 3d, In the first place the forgery is alleged to consist ef interlinings in the dividend sheet, entries of a suitable character s with ticks for the date, and the 0 creditor's signature, the two lines • being also bracketed, Tho interlining " was made less suspicious as the other r interlineations were shown to be all P right. The funds in this estate, that II of Julius Sigert, were found by A. W. 0 Eames, Audit Inspector, to be just 1 £BBS short. In the second case the 6 alleged forgery consists of false e signature to a receipt for tho amount 8 of a dividend in the same estate, Mr r Eames had investigated this case 6 from noticing that a was ', like tbo accused's handwriting, ' though disguised, and the name of 5 the creditor was misspelled •as the 8 accused had misspelled it in the 1 books. The cases were not con--1 eluded, as the witnesses wore no 1 -, all n present. The Inspector stated that the- total deficiency amounted to * £6OO 16s lOd. Mr White, the e district Crown prosecutor, conducts r the cases. o Heavy Damages Claimed. 0 t DuNEniN, June 17. [[ The Southland case of Wilson, j Taine and Co. and the Bank of New e Zealand was commenced in the : , Supreme Court to-day before Mr 1 Justice Williams, The case was heard s before at Invercarvill, when the jury \ were unable to agree, The first claim , £IO,OOO damage for injury dono to I their'business and credit ju consot quonce of the dishonor of cheques . upon their wool account while the , account was in funds'. The Bank, j however, insisted on treating the 3 accounts as one, The Bank of New . Zealand was the plaintiff fn another ( case in'which £250715s lid was 1 claimed for overdratt and bills, The | claim was admitted by thefirm so that [ no evidence was required on it, Mr Wilson, one of tbe partners, was . examined, and Mr Taine, tho other ut partner, was under examination when the Court adjourned. Sir R, Stout t appears for Wilson, Taine and Co,, ; and Mr Hagqitt for tho bank. 1 Temperance Free Concert- ! The Phraiix Lodge have inaugurated 1 their winter series of open meetings, ' which proved so successful lost year. 1 Last night the first concert was 1 given by the Masterton Good Templars, their friends and suppor--1 ters, and was attended by about two f hundred of an audience. The chair ' was taken by Bro. W. Johnston, W.C.T., and he was supported- by ! members of the Lodge in regalia. > Songs, recitations, and addresses, interspersed with musical selections, ' kept the interest of tbe audienco up 1 to the highest pitch during the whole' of the evening, The overture-by Aliss Pearson, and a pianoforte duet i by. the same young lady acoompanied I by little Miss Harding was rendered ' in quite an artistic' style, and duly 1 appreciated; whilst the performance ' on' the, same instrument by Miss Petersen, a little oight-year. old pupil i of Miss Pearson's, received an encore. That infant prodigy, Miss Nelly Powell, recited two pieces in a manner that showed she had .good ■ elocutionary powers, and a wonderful memory. Miss Pearson, who took i the prize at tho Public School for i recitation during her last year there, gave '.The fall of Sebastopol,' and was ! vociferously encored. A song by MrT. Eowse "When other lips," elicited a round of applause, Two selections from Sankey," Sowing the Seed "and "Where, is my wanderi ing boy to-night," were sung' by ' Mr Buckingham, and the refrain was taken up by the audience ijH he'arty manner.

The principal speakers were tho Rev W. RqWso and Messrs Bamber, Prangnell and Collier. The former expressed the pleasure ifcgavo him to take, part in such gathering as that of last night. He addressed the children .first, urging them to join some movement such as the Band of Hope, so that they should be in their early years connected distinctly with the causa,of tempereuce, To the

adults lie said the [time was .coming:,: ;.■ . when their voto would ■:bereq.Uired,;-:r-- r .;;:-.- and it behoved tbem all to be pre-;*;,; ;■ pared to make- a fine stand for the ; ;/_. ■ cause of temperance, 'Ho referred ■■..■[-'■, to the "boycotting".systemwhich ■ -.-. heregretted was prevalent in : Masv^ v terton. People in business were M). afraid to put their name. to. anything C; : in the shape of a "petition bearing directly, upon temperance, as .they < |would. undoubtful lose certaincus-.;. ■; torn, It was the principle involved; ; in the 'sale of /.;drinliS' that lhey\ ; , denounced, not the person.who sold . it, and he did not see why;a; person ..'., should siifferin his shop or trade on account of doing so. . .''' .-[■: ■ 'Mr Bamber's viiddress "was' a-. v : . •; staightforward one/ ■ He did not ;\;- ! hesitate to denounce the people^who,;: , j voted for representatives who jprere^; opposed to the temperance-.cause. y;;,yHe had never yet heard _a candidate \ at an eleotidn time say Le would. ; ,j give a direct vote in favor of local. , : , option.. As to the,Licensing'Com-, .•'; ": mittee's, .as at present he denounced them farce throughout' the Colony.';-He;'...... claimed that as free born Britishers ' : they had a direct right toi vote whe'her they should have drink sold' in their midst. They asked no more than that the right to decide for them- ■ selves and would bo satisfied withnojk., less. (Cheers). He could give a good™ ■ many reasons why 'that right wasnot extended to them, ' One was that touched upon by Mi'' Rowbb, boycotting, and a good' deal of it was going on in Masterton. He then referred to the expence temperance men were '•■ put to in relieving distress,, supporting ' the poor', sick and insane, and ■ burying, the' dead victims of the 1 ; drink trade. They knew by the statistics that the temperance ment' was making great strides," but it seemed to him .to ;_be; ■ moving.-so slowly, so tardily, ' so many lives were being thrown away, and so many widows being ..,,,.; made. He appealed to them to use all their endeavors to obtain for the > people a direct vote on the liquor trade question, and their veto would .' soon he put thereon.- The speaker. '.. ; was frequently cheered throughout [ his address, which was spited, to y the point, and withal lively and _. '• sparkling, with quaint sayings in' a dialect strongly smackingjof Yorkshire. ' Messrs Prangnell and addresses were principally in refer- , ence to the young. The latter stated • a Juvenile "Temperance Society, in connection with the Phoenix Lodge, was starting next.woek. He invitedparents to send their children to join. The Chairman, in conclusion, drew attention to the advantage ot joining 1 their Society, and the meeting closed. i 1 The Frozen Meat Tra^ei (Canterbury Times.) i In R recent artiolo we urged upon i our farmers the importance to them- ) selvos and the Colony of having an 1 eye to early maturity as a chief .' characteristic of the stock they raised, i so that they might be the better able ) to reap the full- benefit of the [ marvellous development of trade in,. r frozen -meat; In no branch of Newf 1 Zealand's export business has a ■*"" t greater or more rapid expansion taken . place than in the export of t mutton to the English market ;~aW 3 the ■ Chairman of. the Chamber of ) Commerce, at the quarterly meeting t held recently put before the memf bers a little table showing the exports J of carcases from the different exports ing countries from 1885 to 1888. , The figures are wonderful. From f 1885, when Hew Zealand exported e to Great Britain 492,2G9 carcases, to i 1888 ' when the export reached - 038,766 —nearly double—the increase 1 had been year by year at the rate of t over 100,000 carcnseß. Tbo Chair--0 man was of opinion that New Zeae hind's power of production was yet s a (long way from - reaching its limit, and Canterbury could easily double her meat export in a few years. He made a further remark with which we veay heartily coincide, and trust that it will not .fall upon '' (inattentive ears among the meat growers of Canterbury. He said the " vital interests of the Colony were . now bound up with tin's frozen meat industry, and it would notbe difficult to trace to it much of the renewed prosperity we . ba'/e lately been enjoying, anigfr behoved farmers to realize as soo v «B|., possible that their duty lay in striving to keep the cwo large freezing establishments now available in full swing. 3 We are quite with Mr Kaye in all lie said on this subject of frozen meat, and trust that this remark will not be forgotten, but thai farmers will con- '. tinue to grow fat sheep for the fac- ' torios, and do the best they oan to maintain the high reputation the | Colony has obtained for producing meat of tbo very best quality, New 1 methods of preserving meat have been \ ' sfoken of recently—some of tbem of 1 the most extraordinary simplicity, ; and promising a wonderful reduction on the cost o( preservation as compared with freezing. Wo trust that . success may attend the researches of I scientists who are investigating the , question of preservation, and that all . the promises .now mado will bo ) fulfilled, But meanwhile wo must 1 deal with things as 'they are, and - • freezing is the only preservative i we can at present make use of. 1 {should either or all of the now , systems of meat preserving come into | i active use, farmers will be tyjfcht . face to face with tremendous ddwfs i upon their mutton - prodding , capabilities,.and that right suddenly ) too. For no sooner does the fact i' become known throughout the grSM • ' centres of population of England asd, • i the Continent that, by a new process I of preservation,.fresh meat can be 1 carried to these centres, and sold at a ' price fabulously low as.compared with i present prices, than thousands of families who now uso meat but sparingly, will now indulge largely in animal food. And this will bo tbo 1 case too, in many of the densely pop- , ulatod cities in America, for in Now I York itself beef and mutton aro quite, as dear as in England, 'ln any case : whether the new preservatives como ' into phsy or not, the increase in the export of frozen meat from New Zeai land is bound to go on, and ' farmers, if alive to their best intorcsts must be prepared to supply the demand, Already this i Colony supplies about 80 per cent of the whole frozen meat carri||> into London, and the meat sent frVhero obtains the top price of the Market for this kind of food, Two j ears ago the Argentine Bepublic Government offered a bonus, or rather a subsidy of Jd per lb to exporters, from that country of frozen mutton—tbo subsidy, > to be available for three years, Very soon this subsidy'must cease to bo t paid, and then the River Plate exporters will be brought in front of < ' the question as lo whether the ' will pay them without that farthing . subsidy. As it is/the Iradß is paying -' [the Now Zealind grower, and as.

steps liro now being taken to put the frozen meat honestly before the British public, so that, the merits of the food may be fairly aeon mid appreciated, tin chances are that 1889's export of carcases will be far .Jargor end its inoreaso greater than flny previous years,