GREYTOWN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3328, 7 October 1889, Page 2

GREYTOWN.

(From Our Own Correspondent), Last Saturday a serious and |>ain. fill accident happened at the Pttpawai saw-mills lo a mill-hand named Fred Collier (older son of Mr Collier, sen). The unlbrtunatemnn was helping with a log when ib rolled upon him, crushing one of his legs, As soon as possible he was convoyed to the Greytown Hospital, where he now lies. Mnch sympathy is felt for him by his many friends, by whom he is much respected. He is married, and has followed his occupation (mill-lmndL, wild credit to himself and satisfactioflf. to his employers for the past tetfn years. Ok* The Native Land Court stands adjourned until Wednesday next, some of the Natives being unavoidably' absent. A daughter of Pihera, Gladstone, dying suddenly will cause the absence of some. Two or /hreoothers are summoned to a Supremo Court case in Wellington,The recent heary rains and warm winds caused a heavy fresh in the Waiohine river yesterday altemoon. and evening. All day yesterday atmospheric appearance!) betokened % very heavy downpour of rain to the south-eastward, It is pleasing to obsorvo more land than usual is being brought under cultivation in thisdiatrict.

Tho friends of religious enlightenment will doubtless bo gratified to hear t,hat the Forester's Hall is filled ■ to overflowing with attendants at the Presbyterian services hold there by tho Rov Charles Murray, M.A. Ttii Sunday school in connection therewitF is likewise increasing in number and popularity, 1 had almost forgotten to mention/ that last Saturday, No. 232, Vol. 1. of Jk tho "South Wairarapa Advocate" w* ceased its existence. " It's end was - peace,"

How British Money Goes[By W.-H. S. Auiikey, LL.DiJ Since the Crimean War ended, in 185G, wo havo spent 900 millions on our army and navy. Yet we aro never prepared.' riukjj universal!/ admitted, but no onimTield responsible, The blame it; always thrown on the system, Tho country has only increased one-third in population since 1850, but the military and naval expenses havo been more than doubled -viz, from M| to 31 millions. The present outlay is £6O a minute, da? and night all the year round, Tho Civil Service has swollen from 6} to 18J millions a yoar in tho sanUfc period, and the cost of the revenuf*' departments from i to 10 millions. No man of business will believe that anything like lull value is received for all this enormous outlay. Flagrant waste, jobbery, and mismanagement prevail, __^ Of 170 generals, no fewer than 109 are unemployed; but they draw £62,000 a year for doing nothing, Thirteen admirals are in actual ten-ice at a cost of £37,802, but 268 are on the half pay and retired lists, sac! receivo £180,993 also for doing notb- J$ ing. It is the same wjth. subordinate >-■ "

officbrs. The dockyards are sinks of extravagance. Thoro is no proper supervision of work, no real audit of expenditure, and no check upon thestores, although tho expenditure is four millioiis a year. Many ships of wnr have beou built at vast cost during the last thirty years, but have never gone to sea, and are broken up and Bold bb old stores. Tho manufactmo of a 100 ton gun exceeds £IO,OOO. Every time it is fired, the cost is over £2OO, or uearly as much as an agricultural laborer could earn in seven years, In the present Honse of Commons, mora than one-fourth—l7B out —aro connected, personally of by relations, with tho Army and Navy, They are not likely to favor economy - and retrenchment. It is still too true as Mr Bright once said, that '•'the Army and Navy aro R gigantic system of outdoor relief for tho aristocracy," In both branches of tho service the otlicers get the lions share of half-pay and pensions; 6,037 of them draw very nearly two millions a year, while eighteen times that number of common men bayo only a quarter ot a million mor6. In 1887, in the Inland Rovcnue Department alone.pensions of £12,69:! were granted to thiity-lhreo officials, several of whom were under lifty years, and nil of them under 60. A similar state of things prevails in other branches of tho public sorvi&). One hundred and sixty two thousand pensioners absorb uearly eight millions yearly, or £ls h minute. The gklist is continually increasing. Many of these are in the prime of life and ahlo to work, This amount does not include Koyalty, six millions oi Indian pensions, or an unknown sum for pensioned county, poor law, anil other local officials, all of whom live on thn ratepayers, Officials of all kinds, soldiers, and sailors, pensioner* on public purse, with paupers ami convicts, numbering one million six hundred and twenty-ono thonsand Im vu to bo supported, mainly by farmers, manufacturers, merchants, tradesmen miners, artisans, and all who work for their living, No wo der that the productive, commercial, and laborclasses suffer. Every Government offico is overstocked with clerks, ' many of whom aro paid extravagant salaries (or doing little or nothing. They are also allowed extended holidays and handsome retiring pensions,

There might bo enormous saving in the public expenditure without in any way lessening efficiency, tndesnien, and the middle generally tiro burdened with taxes out of nil proportion to their means. The incomo tax presses most unequally, and there is no discrimination belwesn incomo derived from property and that which ceases with a man's life. Nor is the tax oufficienty graduated to meet the justice of the case.—Herald of Peace, Speying Cows, This operation is not, 1 think, rery frequently performed in this country, nor is it so common nowadays in Britain as it used to be—for all I know it may be considered an illegal practice there, as dishorning has been adjudged to be, At all events, the advantages attendant on the removal of the ovary from tho cow are such that it is a -• wonder that spaying is not more uni. practiced by dairymen ami others who keep cows exclusively for tho sake of their milk. Cows thus treated havo been known to give milk Continuously for several years in nearly l&iform quantity, there being a slight falling off in tho winter months. I cannot spoak from experience on the matter, but it is held by good authorities that by proper feeding and attention a cow's milk supply may bo kept up until it ceases frotn old ago or disease of a serious kind. It is well known that spaying greatly assists and htstens tho putting on of fat, and not only that, but » spayed cow will con- j timie to give milk during tho fattening | process, and may bo milked—as has been done—on tho morning of tho day she is killed. Of course the.ro is a considerable amount of risk attached to tho performance of this operation, even in the hands ot a duly qnalilied veterinary surgeon ; and that together with the fact that thero is also a risk of a cow losing her milk and beinc; unable to breed, may be considered a sufficient counterpoise to the reputed advantages of the practice, Bo that as it may, however, I merely touch upon tho matter to draw attention to ifc and do not venture an opinion as ©tho advisability of its adoption or JEptherwise.—Otago Witness,