The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1890. SIR JOHN HALL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3507, 10 May 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1890. SIR JOHN HALL.

If Sir Harry Atkinson, owing to ill health, has been unable to address the Colony through his constituents, he has been fortunate in- obtaining the services of a volunteer, Sir John Hall, who, in a speech to the electors of Leeston, has said all that can be fairly claimed on behalf of the present Ministry. After reading the rambling and desultory address of Mr Ballance, it is pleasant to turn to the more statesmanlike utterances of a fairminded and level-headed man like Sir John Hall, reviewing in unimpassioned and judicial torms the present positipn of New Zealand, He commenced by showing that the finances of the Colony had been well administered, and the balanceof the last loan carefully husbanded, He considered that the increase of Customs duties had stimulated local production, but opposed any further increase on tho ground that it would augment the cost of living, and because the farming interests did not participate in tho profits of. protection, Ho expressed a dislike for the property tux,' or any other direot levy, but maintained that in the present circumstance.s of the Colony it was a fair tax. He advocated a trial of a proportional system of representation in order to do justice to minorities whioh were now unrepresented, and denied that the ayßtem was as complicated as it is popularly supposed to be. On the question of Crown lands he showed that theGovernrnent had encouraged small settlements, and stigmatised the land nationalisation fad as-either an onormous robbery, or an enormous folly, He anticipates little useful legislation in the coming session, and complained ; that in the past one, good work was killed by stonewalling. He said the Colony was to be congratulated on the improvement of the. producing interests during the past two years, and exported that ere lpng this improvement would extend to the trading classes. The publio debt of the Colony crippled trade, and for a long time to come he should oppose further borrowing. Sir John Hall is one of the best and safest guides we now possess in the Colony. He

occupies a thoroughly independent position ; he represents a farming constituency; his experience of Dubljo jffajrs ip leoond to that of no man in t(io Mw\ h] f E or6 P n ? 1 character fa flpimpeachableVsui to

ability.is. .unquestioned. ..There are * few meropis.siißp; in 'M i.Hbuße who arp: .a- guataotea: for the good government of the Colony. It mates httlo -whether thoy are in or. out of office, a,s the influence they exerciso is almost as great .when.they.are unfettered by official responsibilities as when they are invested with Cabinet rank. The moderate men in ParlianionHako their tone very muok from men like Bir John Hall and John Bryee, ind the' windbags and others, who. form the extreme parties in tiio Assembly, have a wholesome dread of them.

An intmwtion from Dr Hoakiuc;, with referenco to unpaid and outstanding accounts, appears in another column.

Tho Rev Mr White, of Pleasant Point, will ocoupy the pulpit at tho local Presbyterian Church to-morrow. Tenders oro invited by Mr A, Napier, Alfredton, for felling 170 acres (more or less) light bush, Mr James Webb, tailor, of Queenstreet, makes an announcement ro prevention of "La Grippe," in our wanted column' to-day.

l r o have received from the Secretar;

(Mr W, Sellar), tho anuual report of the Trusters of tho, Masterton Hospital, which is got up in ii9at pamphlet form. Says the Eangitikei Advocato: Messw Henderson Bros', at Mt Stewart, who are supposed-by some people to have poor land, have just threshed, four acres of oats, which have yielded at the rate of 70 bushels to tho acre.

A Taranaki contempoiary advise 3 us that a man named Duly was'about to stick a pi;', whou tho animal moved and with the knife he severed an artery of his log. The pig was daly reloased, and its slaughterer was duly laid up, The case JNrilSoii y,, Jcsßon ( which occupied the Court all day yesterday, was adjourned at six o'clock for a fort, night, alter the hearing of the whole'of tee evidenco for the proseoution and a portion of the defence. An application by Mr Beard for a noiißuit was not entertained,

We" have received from Messrs Eeid & Gray, agricultural implement manufacturers, an illustrated catalogue of fiftyfour pages, which will, on application, be sent free to any address within the Colony,, r

Mr Johii Smith Harris, alias tho " Whifller,'; has announced Himself aaa candidate for a Wellington electorate in the forthcoming Parliamentary election. It is expected ho will opposo Mr Goorgo Fisher, M.H.B.' An instantaneous photograph of the Hospital Ball, held at Groytown laab evening, was taken by Mr T. E, Price, of this town,

A box containing tho bodies of 16 white women, one man, and one negress, all decapitated, was recently opened at a seaport in Morocco, Tho mystery has created an intence excitement,

A correspondent sisrning himself '! Peter Ployfair," aud. hailing from Featherston, writes to the A.Z itefureo this week, calling attontion.totlie evasion of tho totalisator regulations by the North Wairarapa Hack Bating Olub. Wo explanation of tho evasion isj however, given,

Great complaints, it is said,are made of the difficulty of obtaining servantgirls at Wellington, The Dunedin Exhibition was responsible for drawing away % largo number, but the registry office keepers state thatnnny more have gone to Moibotirno, where there iB a groat demand for domestic servants, and higher wages are offered than can be obtained at the Empire City, A Wellington contemporary states that Mr V. Hooper, formerly a member

of the Lifo Guards at Homo, was sworn in on Wednesday as a mounted constable, and proceeds to Mastorton to do duty. Sergeant Price.informs us that ho has received no official intimation of this fact, It wa3 reported a fow days ago that a skeleton had been found at Alfndfon. and that an inquest would accordingly ho hold. On'Jonstablo.Rbcliuand a Coroner proceeding to tho spot, however, it was discovered that a portion of a skull only had been found. The person who convoyed tho information to the constable had evidently wrongly interpreted his instructions. The Government have sent out circulars to all the flaxmillors hi tho country, stating that enquiries have' been made by tho authorities at Home with regard to the area ot ilax in the colony, with information as to the possibilities of output. A kind of census paper, therefore, has also boensent out with it, with a request that millers will write in tho answors to the questions there sot down sb soon as possible The results obtained aro to bo published only in the bulk', and will be a very instructive and useful set of figures, Opinions aro also invited from millers with regard to improved umchiuary and cognate matters,— Advocte.

A most rascally caso of levanting with other people's monoy has occurred in this district A man took a contract at a homp mill to produce the fibre at a certain price per ton, and engaged the hands and made himself personally liable to storekeepers for supplies. A few.days ago ho went to Wellington and drew, it is said, about'£2oo, and instead of coming back to pay his hands cleared out for Australia, Two tradesmen have srot accounts against him to an amount of £3O each, and all tho hands have been lott without a farthing, Unfortunately ho had left the country before any stops could be taken to secure him. fcionio of the men, we hear, had beon working gratis lor the Kanpitilcei Fibre Company previously, and theirs is a particularly hard case,-Advocate.

At a meeting of creditors in the Rangitikoi Fibre Company held in "Weuingtpn onj Thursday, the followinp resolution ; was passed:--That tho creditors of the Rangitikei Fibre Company, do hereby nominato and recommend to. His Honor the Judpe, Mr T. K, Maodonald, of Wellington, as liquidator; that tho liquidator bo directed to employ Mr Jellicoe, solicitor, Wolliui'ton, to publicly examine Dr Newman andsuch other directors as tho liquidator may think necessary, for the purpose of investigating tho dealings and affairs of the company; that proceedings bo takon to compel Dr Newman and Messrs Harcourt and Zohrab. to restore to 'the company moneys that they havo possessed themselves of belonging to tho company, and to pay for their shares, and to tako such other- proceedings as may be deemed necessary to set asido the mortgage executed to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, aud to inako the directors responsible for wronefully parting with the company's property by the said security, and for issuing valueless cheques, and for reckless trading." A Massachusetts lady was badly used in a railway accident, she Inst one arm, and the other was rendered useless, her health and memory were impaired; and she was henceforth in constant pain, The jury, who investigated her injury, considered her form divino very valuable and awarded her £IO,OOO damages, The railway company thought the sum out of all proportion to the value, and so craved froni the court a new trial, and got it. The second jury had a util, higher opinion of Mrs Shaw, the lady in question, or at least of thoso parts of her which were injured and gone than tho first jurymen, and gave £IB,OOO damages, Again the unfortunate company (whloh, thnutth it had no soul to be damned, still had shareholders to damn) rushed to the court for reiiof, and the judgos, doubtless, older men and more cognizant of the vanity and frailty : of woman, ordered anew trial, Again a dozen men weighed in the balances of their minds, suspended oii their oaths, the Dighsand tears, the arches and pains, the loss of bones and flesh of the persis-ti-nV but now sadly defective woman Mid these good men and truo said £22,000 would be the right amount to give for compensation, The Court then gave way/ declining to. interfere any Wher, nndtlid pooltfonvpsHy M to

■ WeJiepr. that.tlici,;ptioe A of .'meat ■ ni Masterton was to-day rois'ed Id per |b,; Captain Edwin wired this afternoon ai follows :-W to'S, and B.E. gale, with much coldor weather, and glauming. Some Sydney policemon, rocontly looked up a blind beggar, who when sarched, waa found to bo worth I £1)11108.

Mr W, Boston will lecture again tomorrow aftornoon in tho Tompornnoe Hall, ths subject being "The Four Judgmonts." He will also deliver an Evangelistic address in the evening at 7p.m.

Nominations for the various cvonts in tho Queen's Birthday meeting of the Wairarapa North Hack Hating Club will bo received by the Secretary up till Tueßday oyening'noxt, tho 13th hist. ..The latost English magazines and periodicals may be obtained at Mr limes' Educational Repository, Queenstreet, Masterton, havmc just arrived by last mail steamer, Eli Caselberg, of Pahiatua, storekeeper, was to-day adjudged a bank'

rupt. A first mooting of creditors will bo held at the old Cuurtroom, Mastertun, on Thursday, the 15th inst. Tho Borough Council have deoided to oreot another gas lamp at the corner of Chapel and Benall streets. As this is a somewhat dark cornor, the addition of a lamp will be a decidod improyoment,; A contomporary states that tho Queensland . Poßmaster-Oenoral has refused to register the Stnok Whip, tho Freothmkerß'. paper, m a newspaper for transmission through the post in Queensland. :

Epmeror William is t\> present tho Sultan with twentvfour drums, The Ottoman army hitherto has not used martial music from that sort of. an instrument.

A pair of soldiers boots found in a cupboard of an ancient building in Bagshot Park, Surrey, about 1839, are!' described as weighing about lOlbs eaoh, : being made of the thickest hide, lined and padded, with very thick soles .and largo rowcllcd spurs, attached bystoel ) chains. Charles XII of Sweden wore t boots of this kind, Tbo fout-gear of the | reign of William HI was remarkably 'solid ?nd heavy. , The following seems to bo the latest . " thing one would havo loft unsaid"— j A pianist spent the evening at the lioubo ' of a lady, The company was agreeable and he stayed rather late. Aaheroso I to tako bis departure, tbo lady la d, " Pray, don't go yut, Mr Jones. I want you to play eoniothing for me." "Oh, you must oxcuso mo to-night; it is very late, land I should disturb tho neighbors,". "Never mind themi..,'hburs," answered tho young lady quickly, " they poisoned our dog yesterday," A.discovery that shocked him who mido it was reported to the police on Monday morning by Thomas Heffernan of 525, Lygon-street North, Cailton. Heffernan was walking through P inco's Park, Melbourne, abuut 9 o'clock, when he noticed a man lying against a treo, . Ho did not appear to bo of the ordinary vagrant class, aiid seemed dead by the attitude in which he was lying. A closer inspection revealed -the fact that tho man was dead. His throat was cut, and noar him there was a razor, Sorgeant Holland' was at once communicated with, and had tho body removed to tho Morpuo, where it awaits idontihVution.' The body is that of a man 83 years of i age, 6 feet 7is in height, with sandy moustache and dark whiskers. It was i clothed in black cloth paget coat, black i cloth vest, brown check tweed trousers, • brown. cotton socks, brown canvas 1 shoes, 1 Tub Queen's BmurDAT,—Ladies,'. no 1 doubt, will soon thinkotpreparing for the] ball that will be given in honour ol Her j Majesty's birthday, and wo have rauoh r pleasure in calling attention to our recently imported and choice assortment of materials suitable for balls and evening wear, at the

Wholesale Family Drapery Warehomo, To

Aro House. These comprise tuiles,'ncts by the yard, embroidered tulles in dross lengths, evening colours in cashmeres, veilings, and alio in lnwvcillcaux faille' moire anil other silks. Of all these are just now making a grand display, at To Aro House. Heseiofoius it has sometimes been found difficult to match the various requisites for making up these dresses, aud go to obviate this difficulty we haveiiri|iorted a number of complete unmade dresses, with all necessary linings and trimmings to match, among whioh will be found those. that appear in the next paragraph. Te Aro House. EMBRoroKiiED veilings in vieux roso, eau dc nil, white, coral, sky,' pink and cream; tosca nets, with lace and ribbons in gold, heliotrope, can de nil, eucalyptus green, palo blue, &o, &a ; salmon veiling, embroidered in silver; heliotrope veiling, embroidered in gold; Brussel's nets, in old rose, cardinal, craempink&o,, variously embellished; a grand assortment of F.enoh tulles in black

and in all tho most fashionable colours at Te Aro House; And thou wo have an excellent selection

of evening gloves, hosiery, fans, wraps, with some very choice and attractive opera cloaks in silks and plush, really boautiful Roods. Ladies should before purchasing make an early and complete inspection of what we are now showing in materials for balls and evening dress, at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro Houso;-Adyi,