The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPT 14, 1889. Important New Local Industry.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3309, 14 September 1889, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, SEPT 14, 1889. Important New Local Industry.

We lave often heard the question asked " Why do not tho New Zealand farmers go in for making the liner kinds of cheese, and produce an article capable of realising a higher price than the ordinary household plain cheese This problem is now in a fair way towards being solved as far as Stilton cheese is concerned; and that, too, by a Wairarapa dairymail, wo are glad to learn. So far there seems to have been only one maker of real Stilton in tho Colony,a Canterbury man. There are two reasons for this limited production. In the first place, the mannfa.cti.ire of the article requires an expert who lias had practical experience in making Stilton cheese; and in the second place the market has to a great extent yet to bo .created. At present the demand is conliiied to a degree; but when a coloiiially made article ot good quality is placed before the public, there is no doubt that they will not be hard to educate in a taste /oy 11 veal old Stilton," At home, really good Stilton cheese has a wholesale value of about Q|)o sibling alb. This is also the trade price here. In the Colony it is retailed at from one shilling and twopence to one shilling and threepence a lb, the W.ter figure being iu fact the price "' ■i - it at the Wellington Club, If ; of the where, at pres^,., Canterbury produced Stilton ia ' 1 ' but where in the future wc hope to see ft Wairarapa cheese figure. Tho Stilton cheese district at Home, in which almost every house has its dairy,is round about Melton Mowbray and Leicester; ar,d to make the.real thing a man needs to come from that district. Of course, the Home Stilton cannot be beaten when it is got on the spot or within a reasonable distance; but by the time it gets hero, and owing to the shipments not bsing of uniform qualilv, it often turns out dry and hard, Three ship-

uionts, which wo know • of, cost respectively one shilling; one shilling and fourpence; and one shilling and 1 sixpence a lb wholesale. Mr John 1 DairyAiplo is the Wairarapa dairyfarmer (the first in the district) who intends devoting himself to this special branch of cheese-malting, and his pasturage and homestead is halfway between Carterton and Kolmtau, This season ho expects to turn out live hundred cheeses. They will be mostly eight-pound ones, this being a nice family sizo. Mr Dalrymplo lias, wo understand, already the promise of a market for about half of his first year's output at a satisfactory figure. The cheese, which at Home takes about six months to ripen, matures much move iiuickly here; and the first lot shouMbo ready by about January, One of the main di&'erencos in Stilton from ordinary cheese is of course, as most of our readers know, that the fresh pure unskimmed milk is fortified up to a requisite standard of richness by the addition of extra cream from other milk. In early spring the inilk naturally needs less subsidising, it being of better quality than at other seasons of the year. Another feature of Stilton cheese is the famous " blue mould "so prized'by epicures, and which when fed with wine—say a little old port-makes a particularly relishable and highly palatable adjunct to tho list of the tasty foods which help to mako our means of sustenance almost an enjoyable fine art, rather than a repulsive duty. ; Some people hold that as long as we tako nourishment and keep body and i t soul together it is immaterial what is eaten; but then these unsentimental 1 reasonera have evidently never been tempted by prime old Stilton, or they 1 would not hold the views they do. As we romarked in commencing this article, tho possibility of profitably making a finer cheese for colonial . consumption is now to have a fair . trial, and we shall bo very glad indeed to find later on that Mr Dalrymple has mot with success in his venture. ' To make a living out of a new industry—to introduce a new local ' product—is certainly very creditable, ; and it deserves the encouragement of j a remunerative market. This, if tho ■ ai ticle is up to tho mark, and it should i bo for Mr Dalrymple lias bad large Home experience, it will no doubt ' secure; and the manufacturer will reap his due roward.

. Tondors aro invited by Mr E. Meredith for ploughing one hundred acres atliiversiWo, The third term of the Wellington Collei'e and the Girls' High School begin on Monday next, September 10th. A petition is boing taken round asking the Chairman of tile Wairarapa 'North County Council to convene a lnoctmg of ratepayers for the purpose of discussing the Babbit Act. The signatures of several largo already attaehaLtwlho ■ The We]liu«toW'lty police hlWkheir hands fulls just<M boys of tender respectable residents, ivho appropriate bits of tin and such like trifles of little value. :

At the Masonic Convention, held in Wellington, the Declaration of the formation of the. Grand Lodge of New Zealand, engrosped 011 velum, was'Bigned by tlio delegates, wK^'pumbered between sixty and seventy,\«ii behalf of their Lodges. i Cart tratlic on tlio Alfredtdn Road from Eketahuna isjsuspended owing to slips caused by thojlato storm, , Ono is close to Mr Co3groye's, the other', near Mi' Tonilinsoii'B. • ?In the latte^place thtrrond is WocMilou some diatdftptfj Messrs J, Macara and i.-Paybpn were the only lieraons- nobimated toiill two vatanoieß'm the ; Board-df-Ifive(SiSM of. the. MasterWii' liufldmg'Sociotyfpfi which they were'the'retiring member!),

Mr It, E, Moredith, who Was fined i'u yesterday, fur a breach of the Itabbit' Aut called evidence in mitigation of the penalty which was reduced to 7s. Perry Bross, T. Carswellrithd John 'McKay wero each lined £2 Bs, including 'coats fori Breach of taction r J of the Rabbit Act, and the caso against J. 0, Andrew whs adjourned for a week, Hero is <i paralyser for you. The proprietor of tho Hobart Mercury has bought the Theatro Royal in that sleepy town, and is goin? to improve it in various ways. To think an editor should have enough money to buy a theatre! Why, the uiillenniuui must be about duo, Can lie now slash in his paper companies who are playing in his theatro 1 Tho subject is too painful ! Exchange.

Our attention has been called to the fact that tho Maiigaone School has been closed since last holidays, wliuli tho services ol the lato teacher wero dispensed with, Consequently a number of children are. without tuition. Tho Education Board should certainly lose no time in makiuy an appointment, as to keep this school dosed is an injustice to the settlers, and to tho children themselves.

The best people in the wot Id to tell stories are actors, and in their travels tlicy he:'.r seme funny imps, The follow, ing was tuld to me m a dressing room lust Friday, and the sight of one of tho animals started it " You behove mo, cockroaches have intellect. 1 found one in my washbasin the other evening struggling in the water. Having aqine walnuts with mo, 1 gave him a half sliolt as a boat, and left him with a couple of toothpicks as ours. Next mornim; when 1 voko up I found ho had put a pioco of cotton thread on a toothpick and bung it out as a Ung of distress. Tho animal himself had gone to sleep, The sight moved me to tears. 1 took liim carefully out, gave lnm a spoonful of gruol and loft, He nevor forgot my kindness, and now my house is filled with cockroaches." J left to look for a brick—tho heaviest I could find.—Scalfax.

A good many suicides have taken place iu this colony lately, and iu three recent instances in Napier, letters were left by the parties, setting forth their motives, their disbelief in a future state Ac; and tlieso letters have been published in full in tho press. It is suggestive and significant that letter No. :) was in many respects mi echo of No. 1, and No' 3 was evidently the composition of a man who had read both tho-others, and whose morbid state of mind they had greatly affected. The local cot oner, while admitting the perfect right of tho press to publish such letters, strongly deprecated t|io practice, as being mischievous; and in consequence he has been warmly criticised.' r iypo" Says, i! Wp afo no; sure that the coronor was right. We doubt wether the press lias any right whatevor to publish either of these letters. In each case they were addressed to surviving friends, whose property they were, and who were en-' titled to say whether or not tliey should be published. It does not appear that such permission was given; and if not, the press have not only published very unwholesome reading, and telomphod it far and wide, but have taken an unjustifiable liberty wjtli papers of a private nature."

Hood news front Wellington, and Luito true, you can get ut splendid harmonium from LO, piano or organ I (roiu Lls, organ with divided octave all m aolid black walnut cases coi'lMtu- "■!, a ii tJ I(3 cheapest from Ll7. iin- j Ol , j B w , houses m town, nanus»». „„||j by thu year four visits LI, trau... oxponses added. All kinds of musical instruments tuned,cleaned, and repaired new reeds put in accordeons, concertinas, harmoniums, ami organs; also liberal oxchapgeu njaflo. Any instruraont nmy be purchased on the timo paymont system from 2s Cd per week. Call an/1 cxchango your old piano for ft new ono At F. J, Pinny's Musical Instrument Depot, Mamifts-street, Wellington. Solo agent of the celebrated Worcester cream.)- i»yi,

Ike information.- laid by Inspector Uruimnomi against F, M, Ollivier, for a breach of the Babbit Act, was dismissed this morning by Col Roberta R.M., on tho point raised by Mr l'ownall that the notice hadjiot been aorved on the proper person.

A saloon passenger by the Taraweva which arrived in Wellington yesterday was knocked down by a couple of thieves on thet eoluiiiiod land.violently assaulted and robbed of his watcli and money. No arrest hus yei b.ien made.

Mr George Johnston, agent for the Colonial, Fire Insurance Company, handed over a lieijuo for .tiloO to-day to j Mr Potter, being tho amount of insurance on his fnrnintui'o destroyed by lire at Kuripuui a fortnight ago. Tenders are invited by tho Masterton Road Board for falling bush on road line« in the Kopuranga and Miknniki districts,

Monthly sittings. of the lUI, Court at Eketahuna have been premised by Government ami a suitable room iti which to hold tho meetings is being enviired for. Messrs F, W, Temple &Co advortiso for sale a l'lax-nidl near Masterton, in thorough working order, capable of turning oat live tons oi flax per week. Also a section of land comprising 117 acres, l'arkville, partly improved. Tho marriage of Mr Arthur A. Thornton with Mies Margaret A. Peters was solemnized on Tuesday at the residence of the bride's father, Mr Isaac 11, l'eters Paluierston North. Tho service was most impressively conducted by the Key W. Itowse, Wesloyan minister of Masterton.

Messrs I l '. \Y. Teuiplo &Co announce thiiir opening sale by auction for Saturday next September 21st, at tlioir rooms Queen-street, Masterton,adjoining Bank of Now Zealand. Tho catalogue comprises general merchandise, produce, furniHire and sundries, Further entries will bo notilied,

The British and Colonial Insurance Company have telegraphed to their flow Zow Zealand agents to abandon the insuranco business in New Zealand. The Eyening Press hoars that the manager of the I'ho.Miix Company has issued a writ a«ainsl?tho British and Colonial for losses in connection with tho late fire at Mrs Walkers in Wellington.

A liill relating to divorce has been introduced in tho House of Commons by Mr Hunter, M.P. It proposes to entitle a woman to presont a petition for liar, marriage to be dissolved on tho ground that her husbond lias been guilty of adul-| tery, or of desertion without reasonable! excuse for four years and upwards. Ttu same desertion on tho part of tho wife is equally to entitle a husband to preseiill a similar petition against Jier. The lSl| applies to England and Scotland. I I

According to Christie Murray, thl Russian General Uhourko, who is generally regarded as the Czar's righthniid man in the event 0! European compliessions, is the very incarnation of devilry, lna recent lecture, the novelist recounted the abominable autroeities perpetrated by Ghuuiko, who, entering a village from which all the adult male population liail departed to fight for the Sultan, butchered every old man, woman, j and child lie found in the place; its Christian population following up this fiendish .act by hacking the deadand dying to pieces, and casting them into a well reserved for the u\e of the Turkish •population. But wheij tlio victorious Moslems' returned, tltey—maddenod by the'spectacle—fell \upon tlio Christians hard slanghtered'and minced tlieui by way of retribution, \ '' j The DunedhVoxhibtion is one of the greatest mistaken- the colony hits over made. The ChriWcliurcli.tfiwo wjw; bad emiiwn, but this ljids fair to bo %o se, Tlio promoters I calculate thai, : ho ,£IO,OOO proniiscd'bj jlie Govei'pmiiiit, [resides railway con'cessions, Sc., wil) ! be insufficient. and aiVaskmg for jriore. By a "lluke" they have'earried hi' both houses a bill that will practically jurn tljt thing into a big litjuor saloon, /The Btltpidest part of the all'air was to? fjx it .coincident!)' with the Paris Exhibition, tojvlucli all tlio world is going. ..New 'ZeMabd is said to ho miserably i'repre-'i scnted there—all her exhibits 1 ' he in Dunodin, for Now Jieakuders themselves to look at! Ami notwithstanding the paltry and humiliating- show at .Paris, without^uveira' cataluguo in the French .langlfiige, our liberal Government has appointed mora paid "coiuinissioiiors" than are found necessary for the whole of the United States! New Zealand indeed possesses marvellous vitalityotherwise it would long ere this have been strangled with Red Tane."Typo," The first meeting of creditors in the estate of Arthur J. Chamberlain, of Eketahuna, Blacksmith, was held in tlio Old Court Ileum, iilaaturton, Mr Kellar, Deputy Assignee presided, six creditors being present, The debtor stated that he started in business with 110 capital. lie bought tlio business of (ieorge Buckingham the money being advanced on a imurantee, Trade appeared to be good at first, ,iud Ira thought it a good investment. Business continued good for the first year, but he had to five considerable credit, and had great trouble in getting lus money in. Ho ackowlodged he was going to Iho bad about May last, but still struggled on hoping for better times, which novcr came. Had used his utmost endeayours to sell out to advantage, hoping thereby to pay his creditors. Being pressed by a Wellington creditor lie was oblwod to call his creditors together, and place his position before thorn, 110 offered to hand over the whole of his estate to a receiver, which offer the meeting decided to accept. Since then the Wellington creditor had sued him for the amount of liisu itlobteduess, and for tlio protection of the rest of the creditors ho \vaa compiled to iilo' He had had 110 previous experience 111 business, and that no doubt contributed considerably to his present unfortunate position, it was unanimously resolved to recommend the debtor be not publicly examined, and that he be ordered up for Ins discliurgo three months from the first sitting of tho Court,

Frank Lincoln appeared at the Lyceum Hall, Carterton, last night to a crowded front-seat housp, but with only a moderate attendance in the other purls of the room, That tho esloitaiumenl was greatly enjoyed by those present it is needless to say, Mr Lincoln's tunny anecdotes, his clever character sketches, his inimitable mimicry, and his inexhaustible fund of humor produced roars of laughter, and the audicne.o for the time being woro quite content to banish cure and abandon themselves to reckless and unrestricted mirth. To-day,. no doubt, their laughter-strained sides will pain and ache; but still, wo will warrant that when Mr Lincoln comes again, as he talks of doing, there will not be many vacant seats in the Lyceum Hall, Carterton, to greet tho world's greatest humorist on his re-appearance. We must not Forget to mention that Air 0. li. Foster got music out of tho Carterton piano. I'cople have been trying to do it for years. This does not say much for tho piano, but it means a lot for Mr Foster. Oi'ii millinery department is now th scene ot much attraction, owing to the marvellous display of all the latest fashions and novelties selected by our Home buyer in the London and Paris Art Emporiums for To Aio House, Wellington. A suon'r description of the materials and colourings most in favour will not be found amiss, Tulles, arophanes, ami crepes, will he very largely used, with a profusion of iSwiss laces, embroidered laces, and in addition, handsome embroidered and lirochc ribbons. Of all these \ye have a splendid selection at To A ro House, Wellington, Pl,ow;iis also will lie ill great leijuest and we have provided ourselves with a superb selection of llower mounts, (lower trails, bunches o( (lowers, unmounted roses, mar. guerites, mignonettes, forget-me-not, honeysuckle, aoacin, lilac, foliage, grass and leaves " ■" descriptions, with some charming Wellington. , , Tub most fashionable colours! are J""-! serpent, lizard, eau de nil, apple green, azalie, corail, colombe, terra cottu, and gobelin, and of.these we have a full assortment r.t To Aro House, Wellington. Ddjuxo Ihn season v/e bring forwim] fresh goods every week ui:d the latest novelties by eveiy mail steamer. Our millinery nifldels thie scasos cauis direct frto Paris to Te Aro House, "Wellington,'—Apvf.

'J lie \Y 'nirurapa Noith County Council nutify annexing of portion of tlio Ikngitumau Eoad District to .the Miutertou anil Haurieoville Districts. TliuuDuticilfilsu publiflheithe now bound--arics qcltreen Mauricovillo" and 'Ekotaliunn Districts, Tenders were opened for ,the erection of a Presbytorinn Church at Carterton, hut the Committee decided to ascertain wlwt reductions would bo made if shingles wcro substituted for iron, and the varnishing and painting insido the building woro omitted. Tlio tonderora hitve been written to to [his effect.

The rabbits nro getting scared by the energetic action of the officials in the North Wairarapa and are clearing out to a bettor world, whero inspectors aro unknown. A settler came from Moroa through Alfrcdton, Bowlands, and Bidefurd yestorday into Masterton, a distance of thirty-five miles, and saw in route only fivo rabbits, Six months ago he saw a scoro for every ono ho saw yesterday, Count Hardegg, who recently died in Vienna, bequeathed to the university of that city £OO,OOO, on condition that tlio money shall bo left to accumulate for n hundred years, At an early hour 011 Tuesday morning, a lire broke out 011 board a small steamer named tlio Elsie, in Nolsou harbour, but it was extinguished lifter some trouble. The damage was not vory eroat.

Wo regret to hear that Mr Tom Kernble, of Carterton, is at present rather seriously ill. He went for a pleasure trip with the Wairarapa football team on its recent tour, and lias had to remain behind at Blenheim, laid up. A telegram was received yesterday saying that 110 was rapidly improving, and hoped to be ablu to come homo 111 ut week. Mr Komblo's many friends will hear of his illness with much regret. The illness is, wo understand, an inllamatory development of a cold.

The House met at 10.30 a.m. to-day. The Speaker road a letter from tlio Speaker of tlie Legislative Council, Western Australia, thanking the Parliaments of New Zealand and other colonies for their efforts to obtain responsible Government for that colony, On Sir 11. Atkinson's motion a resolution was passed acknowledging the Speaker's letter, and expressing a hope that responsible Government would bo granted to Western Australia atnoxt session of Imperial Parliament.