R.M. COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3339, 19 October 1889, Page 2

R.M. COURT.

EKETAHUNA—FRIDAY,

(Before Colonel Roberts, R.M.)

The first monthly sitting of the IUL Court was held to-day. The business was very slight, The Clerk of the Court announced that the case Eketalmna Road Board v Bryant, Sowry, and Hawkins was adjourned till Friday week. The only other business was an application from Mrs Catherine Hodges to be ,allowed to adopt Ada Packer, a child of tender years under the terms of the " Adoption of Children Act, 1889.

His Worship asked if applicant was present. Her husband said he was not aware it was nccossary. His Worship said Mrs Hodges must apply personally, and the Court was adjourned to enablo Mrs Hodges to appear, On resuming His Worship informed Mrs Hodges that to comply with tho Act it would be necessary to call evidence that sho was of good repute and a fit person to have tho custody of the child.

Messrs W. Bayliss and Von Men, J .P., were then called, W. Bayliss, Clerk to Eketahuna Road Board, on oath, stated that he had known Mrs Hodges for about two years,, knew her to be a thoroughly respectable woman, of a kindly disposition, and lie considered her to be a fit and proper person to be_ entrusted with the cave of the child. If ho had tho placing of a child would be willing to place it in her custody. In answor to a question as to whothor. she was in a position to support tho child, Mr Bayliss stated that he knew her husband to be a thoroughly respectable man of business,

F, Von Men, described as a sheepfarmer, deposed on oath that he bad known the applicant for two years. Knew her and her husband to bo respectable people in fairly good circumstances, and quite able to support the oliild.

The order was granted. _ The Court tlion adjourned till next sitting (loth November),

The latest Craze.

Mr Edison, of phonograph fame, is reported to bo meditating a tower which will mount into space no less than 2,000 ft. The Ainerioan scheme, however, is still in tiußus, but London is to bo provided with an Eiffel Tower at. once, and a syndicate of English business men lias taken the matter in hand with characteristic British thoroughness. Tho syndicate consists of seven gentlemen,' mostly "railwaykings," with Sir Edward Watkm, the energetic author of the scheme for the Channel tunnel, as chairman. A site has been secured, tho capital is practically subscribed, and the scheme is to be completed in two years. Tho London " Eiffel" is to be a purely domostic product, constructed of British steel and British labour, The conception of an iron tower I,oooft high had its, birth, it seems, in a British biftiu, that of Trevithick, the real inventor of the locomotivo engine, andM. Eiffel only pirated, the great Coroishmau's conception. The new Eiffel, ov rather Watkin, Tower will the.vofpje rise on what may be called native soil, when it lifts its majestii head above the fogs of London. It is to include,of Qourse, many improvements ori tho French pattern—amongst others, the liftis to b.eriwn.ioneswiffc.straight.dizzy flight from floor to crown, To quote Sir E. Watkin: " Clients of mine intend to try what they can do in the erection of a tower of Scotch and English steel - to be higher than % Eiffel, aid to be constructed an the old English principle oi cash, for very innuh less %a a quarter of a million, at which the Eiffel tower stands on capita,', account today." This great enterprise is tp 06 erected by, company Withi a capital of only SOO,OOO. The says, editorially tiat the V-btbrian capital ought to "W its'Eiffel tower.

The Kussian Emancipation. After a trial of a quarter of a century, the Emancipation Act is acknowledged to have utterly failed. The reports of Russian officials, of statistical professors at Moscow, sucli as Jnnsen, anil the Mists with Stepniak at their liead, all alike agree that the misery of the rural class is greater than even in the days of serfdom; cultivation is at the.lowest. . ebb; the yield ii wretched, and less ' than, in any other European country, i Each peasant must' plough, sow and reap as his neighbors do. The three-field system of corn, green crops, and fallow,' which was aban- ■/ doned in all good agriculture long . if ago, goes on with disastrous results. As the lots are changed by tho-Mir at their pleasure, after every year, the temporary owiierdbes not care to'/ manure, etc., or in any way to improve his land. Although tho rent is sometimes as low as 2s an acre, yet the peasant cannot live. Agriculture. requires capital; knowledge,; , and a sufficient' amount' of land to'" • enable different crops to be grown, so that if one fails it does not mean starvation, for another may succeed. The .Russian peasant has noue of ; these, qualifications. The peasant •. proprietors can neither pay the money ,; owing to the Government for their land, nor even tho State and com- ■ munal taxes, and are flogged by hundreds for non-payment, In one district of Novgorod fifteen hundred peasants were condemned in 1 1887. Five hundred and fifty had . ■ already been flogged, when tiie inspector interceded for the remainder. Widespread famine is found over a great part of the country; usurers, the bane of peasant proprietors in all countries, are in possession of the situation; the Koulalts and Jew " mir-eaterssupply money on mortgage, then foreclose, and when tho land is in their own possession get" tho work done for nothing as interest, These " bondage laborers,", as tliey are called, are in fact slaves, and are nearly starved, while the small pieces of land are often reunited into considerable estates, and their new owners consider they liavo only rights and no duties. Meanwhile, as forced - labour is at an end and free labor is of the worst possible kind, the old landowners can get nothing done; they have tried to employ machines, bought by borrowing from the banks, and are now unablo to repay the money. The upper classes have been ruined, with no advantage to ji the peasant. " The wasteful culture of the cottier," as . Stepniak calls it, " on these small plots is so bad, that the general welfare of the country," says Professor Jansen, "is in danger by the small ■ yield of the soil." In spite of the philanthropic intentions of tho Czar, ho is believed to have aimed at diminishing the power of the nobles as much as improving the condition of the peasants. He succeeded; the nobles in many districts are entirely ruinod, and there is nothing now between tho unlimited power of the autocrat and his 00,000,000 subjects, fivesixths of whom are poasants,—The Nineteenth Century. Marvellous Melbourne

"J. C.," writing to the Evening Star, says:—Sir,—Referring to tho, 1 extracts from a letter published in S*j your last night's issue on " Marvel-

lous Melbourne," perhaps you will allow a few remarks from ono wlio has recently returned from that land'# of wonder, Ido not deny that there is far more steady work for the artizen than there is here, Carpenters,, bricklayers, and working men in general find it much easier to securo employment in Melbourne for themselves and families, as boys and girls are in good demand at good wages. But for all that, " all that glitters is not gold."

highland it is most difficult to secure a suitablo house for a working man and his family, It is not an uncom. "ion tiling to see a ticket up in the housft, land, and estate agents' premises (which are very numerous) with the following words on it: "We have no small cottages to lot," I am told that they aro besieged daily with, appplicants for three and four-roomed;

houses. I asked an agent in Prahair, one of the chief suburbs, whether he had a four-roomed liouso to lot, and said " No," but lie wished liu had a hundred of t|iem, He had one three*, roomed cottage to let, for which wanted 17a Gd per week, Out lie wouldY not let it to anyone with a family®bo much for rents. Living is perhufv cheaper in Prahnn than any part or Melbourne, but it is nob so cheap there as it is in Duncdin. Lovers of great heat, dust, vermin, and bad smells, with a good prospeet of typhus fever, are likely to get their wants liberally supplied during the summer months, as until they get in Melbourne ft different drainage system to what, thoy have fever will increase, and tho " Yan Yean" water, which supplies Melbourne and suburbs, is said to abound with tever gorms. During the dust storms, which mostly lasts three days at a time, tlio houses havo to be kept closed to keep the heat and dust out. Instead of the windows being thrown open to get the fresh air—us wo do here—the blinds aro drawn, and sandbags are placed against th& doors_ to keep every particle of dust ' and air out. Ihose who cannot afford ico chests have very many discomfort to put up with. Meat is alive wijp maggots in a few hours, and tho butter is like oil during the hot season. ."Marvellous Melbnurno!" 1 for one am glad I am out of it. The wealthy, of course, escape a lot of discomforts that tho working peoplflf AtoproiiG to; but thoy do not gefchei* escape the fevet—as death has been no respecter of persons—and many of them have been cut oil; as . well as many of the unfortunate poor, I would strongly urge those who aro thinking of making a change to pausft nnd consider well before they determine to , leave this lovely climate and change it for that of •' Marvellous Melbourne,"

I have admitted that work ia more plentiful than hoi e, and I may say shame on our Government that it is

so, and shamo on those who advocato

a stand still policy/as we have a far

superior country to what the Victorians have, Why should we not have better times here? What right havo we to stop public works bccassb we have been foolish in the p.-#fl Where would "Marvellous Melbourne " bo to-day if they had no publis works ? There thoy go in for finding work for their people, and it pays them to da it.-

I notico that the writer of the letter which you havo extracted tho remarks from states' "that the

authotitissare beginning to be ashamed of themselves, and folks' are : asking everywhere: ' Was there anv need o°f

n crisis, seeing that it'has, after all, lather been h crisis in nanib and iinpution than' iti reality}'": SiM I for one cannot make light 0.,, the land lioom'. It was a sorioua

crisis louwy, who lost their all ia

it. To thoso who were merely buying and selling on ■ paper it bas not made much difference, but to thoso who had mentis and who wero unfortunate enough to be drawn into the wild and reckless speculations, to them it was in many cases absolute ruin, Unfortunately, some ex-Duncdinites did not eecape the moshes of tbo land and silver booms. I hope to never eco Biicli booms here. But, whilst hold'ng these viows, I &nk wo are unduly depressed in New fflaland, and that, although wo should tako a lesson from the folly of our neighbors, ffe should learn wisdom from them in the way tlioy tind employment for the people; for that, after all, is tho source of their wealth, WOMANHOOD. Marriage, the goal of every good woman's ambition, is, at best, not a Buifcit of sweets. There are knobs and oxcreaceuces, and queer unsightly edges to the most beautiful tpf; and she who has reared a has passed through a career of 1 anxieties such as the superficial j thinker cannot realise, Ah! the mother's joys may be great—but hoc griefs arc many. When Tom goes wrong, or Nelly runs awny with tho dancing master, and she lias to defend her erring ones against the cruel taunts and passionate resentment of her husband, their lather, the woman lias a hard time of it, How patient she is; how go'jfye her submission; how sweet lifer resignation I But who shall say how sho suffers beneath that calm extorior ? Arriving at that period of life, too, when all women undergo that mysterious and perilous transition of physical force, known as ■ change of life, As her past health has been, so will she pass through the ordeal before her. Thousands of women succumb, bocause they take no steps to secure their strength, and to fortify their system, and eradicate the effects of prior ailments, This transition period is marked by a total revolution of her life forces. All the organs of her body are affected, because her blood Her nervous system is strained; her brain is taxed. And yet ninety-nine of such women go along with their duties in patient suffering; or, if tliey do complain, meet with scant sympathy from those around them, However, in these times, when the laws of our being are taught to young women, jjjfc may liopo that all this will "bo changed. In the meantime, it is gratifying to know the great good that is being accomplished among sick and ailing women, by the uso of Warner's Safe Cure. Among tho latest testimonials to this effect, is the following" Alfred-street, 6t Leonards East, North Shorn, Sydney, New South Wales, About three years ago, I suffered very much from my liver and kidneys. I did not suffer much acute pain, but I was nevertheless not at all inclined, and not fit, to attend to my household affairs, suffering greatly from a dull heavy pain across my back and loins, and between my shoulders, with severe headaches, At the time I commenced Warner's Safe Cure, I was also suffering from erysipelas in my foot, which completely disappeared after I had taken &ut one bottle. I took five more, and am now quite well. Mrs Mary Wilkius." Wow here we behold a very common state of affairs. Thoutjids of people are in tho strait this ifdy describes—suffering from no acuto pain, but affected by an indescribable depression, want of energy, and depression of spirits. As a general thing, this is thought to be a matter of" nerves" and resort is had to stimulants or drug tonics, only to effect temporary relief, and intensify tho evil. Warner's safe cure strikes at tho root of the e7il, by removing conditions of the disease, and reestablishing those of health. Ladies' therefore, whether maids or matrons, spinsters, widows, or mothers-ill law, may well read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest these facts to their great profit and happiness.