The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3356, 8 July 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1893.

The.most real and tangible grievance in New Zealand is the trouble of the Auckland people, more especially of the people who own property and who| have been in the past well-to-do. The property tax presses sorely upon them, not because the burden of it is theoretically imperfect, but simply because they have not got the tnouey to pay it. They own property, but in many instancos they do not derive incomes from their possessions, they have no revenue from which to meet the Government tithe, and they are therefore more sore against it than in any other part ol New Zoaland. In this matter they are neither political cranks, nor agitators against the incidence of taxation, but simply suffer va who are entitled to the sympathy of all true colonists, The remedy they ask for is further retrenchment, and they have a perfect right to make the request and to have it fairly and justly considered by the colony as a wholo. New Zealand as. a colony may be able to stand up under her burdens, but at the present time a large slice of the North Island is unable to respond to the calls made upon it, The present Ministry has perhaps effected retrenchment as far as it believes public opiniou will per» mit it to go, but it has cot gone as far as tho necessities ot Auckland require. Many country representatives who arc in a position to form a reliable opinion appear to entertain a conviction ;tkat we have not yet completed the work of retrenchment, and. that the pruning knife should be further applied. If this bo tho case, the Colony is placed in a curious dilemma, for it has, through its Commissioners, recently increased largely the wages of the employees on its railways, and at the same time it is called upon to reduce the incomes of civil servants and possibly of school teachers, people who aro relatively in a worse pecuniary position than the favored mortals who have secured a rise on dom.antL The Government is, as it were, pledged to blow both hot and cold in the question of administrative expenditure, tyhere is the gain sought by tho Auckland contingent in saviug. £50,000 in ths estimates, if tha) sum of money is to. be applied as a bonus to the raihvay cniployces ?.. The loaf that Auckland asks for is already given away, and if the representatives of. the Auckland district endorse the gift, they can hardly expect to forct further retrenchment on the Colpny with one hand, and increased expenditure with the other,

Persons proceeding down the valley and to Wellington by the afternoon train are notified that they can procure copies of the WairABAFA Daily at the local railway station, ' Theinon|l)lyir.eeliig of the Trustees' of jhe Mastertoii Jlonpjtal pjlJbe held in the Council Clumbers on Thursday nejfc. The third quarter of tho JWerton School of/Dojißii, will corainenco on Monday, thoWHf inpfc, Fifteen thousaud Newfoundlanders have petitioned the House of Commons, praying Parliament to grant them relief from Jf'retivh oppression.

pftwtti nro being made to establish an Atboc Day i„ n w Plymouth and other North6i-n towns., ■ , ..:. "8 havo to acknowledge the receipt o a budget of Parliamentary'papers from Mio Uovernmont printer. The usual fortnightly meeting of tho tatmton Borough Council will bo held' tins evening,'

The Ifnsterton Rifle Volunteers parade for inspection by Lieut- Colonel Butts on Ihursday next, at 7.30 sharp. Applications fur the position of Inspector to tho Wairampa North Mbit Hoard closo to-day, and will at the monthly •..looting of tho Board to be held to morrow,

In tho R.M Court this morning, before Colonel Roberts, I{.M, Patrick C'ohon, who was arrested at tho local railway station yesterday, was fined 20s lor drunkenness, in default twenty-four hours.

A capital group photograph of the Mastwtoh football team, which recoutly mado a tour of the Manawatu district, taken by Messrs Wrigglesworth and Biuns, of Wellington, is now on view in the window of Mr J, Williams, tobacconist.

li or youthful criminality, tlii3 item will probably take. somo beating :-A girl, 14 years of ago, hasbeencommitted fur trial at Woolah'ra, N.5.W.,. oh a chargo of burglary, ,-i : ■'■ ■ Notice is given by the Mauriceville Road Board thai it intends, at ameetim; to bo held on July 26th; to strike a general rate ofthreefathings in the pound on nil the rateable property within the district, ,

The local candidates fur Junior Honours at the examination in music yesterday were N, Chapman, B. Payton, O. Gray, and A. Francis, (teacher, Mr Von Keiscnborg); for Junior passes, M. Sellar, W. Fannin, and O, limes, (teacher, Mi 33 Watson).

A Chinaman at Dunedin has been ordered to pay 2s 6d per week for each of His two children in the Industrial School. Then mother, Sarah Adams, died lately. Win Sins Him> offered to pay something, and agrood to the Bs a week. ■'"■'■-' A resident of Mount _ Gambier has offered to tho South Australian Government, for a roward not under £40,000, a method of exterminating rabbits, For £lO he will undertake, within sbveu days, to clear 320 acres, no matter how thick the rabbita are. The speoifio is not a contagious disease.

The Guinness Trust, representing Sir Edward Guinness, has selected several sites in London tor the erection of

dwellings for the working olassea, which are to differ from tho famous Peibody houses in that they will be lot only to the poorest class of laborers, and that the rent will be almost nominal, An American paper says:—"lf these Australian bruisers do not quit coming ovei? here and knocking out our home niadeplug : uslies, we shall have to place a tariff on foreign prize-fighters. Ameri can blackguardism must be protected agaiiist tho pauper freetrado blackguards of effete monarchies,"

The Napier correspondent of a Christ church paper says:--" Babbits are undoubtedly increasing in Bawke's Bay. Three hundred have beon killed on the Mount Vernon run at Waipukurau in a few weeks, Once tho rabbits get through from the Wairarapa into the Forty Mile Bush country, Heaven help our Bquattors." ■ The town of Edgerton (Kansas) ha elected a Municipal "ticket" entirely composed of women, including the Mayor, Judge, Councillors, and Police. Further information from tho town should be interesting to believers in t?onion's rights, English papers published an account of two supposed shocks in tho south-, eastern part of 'England. Subsequent enquiry has shown that the shocks were duo to the firing of a ilO-tou gun at a distance of 32 miles.

The Wunganuiliemldap :—"There aroatpreßont seventeon inmates of-the local gaol, a fair quoto of them hailing from Palmerstou North, where several important works are in progress," Bough on Palmorstonl The Ball Committee of the Mastertpn Rifle Volunteers are decorating the drill-shed in a most elaborate manner for tho ball to-morrow ovening. Wo understand that riikau palms and other artistio shrubs aro being ■ procured, which will make the decorations some of tho most pleasiug ever witnessed in tho district.Mr 0. Cundy, of-Featherston, blacksmith and twrier, having made arrangements for a supply of iron, intimates that his prices for shoeing will be as hitherto, and that be has no connection with any Union. The Mayor of Bourke writes that "tho recent action in askin? for further assistance, whether dono fur political purposes or hot, will not be endorsod by tho Bourko people, or at all events those who havo any respect for themselves or their town." Ho states emphatically that the peoplo of Bourke do not desire to pose before tho public of Now South Wales "as a lot of beggars and paupers." A doctor in Burnt has compiled and published statistics showing that several thousands of persons are annually buried in a state of comra throughout Europe, The San Eemo correspondent of tho Ssotain says that ho—recently saw-a body exhumed which showed signs that life had not been extinct whon it had been placed in the coffin, Tho fice showed marks of a struggle and one hand, as if in despair, had firmly clutched the skin of the side, and had remained so clenched m death,

A sensational suicide was reported in Molbonrno on the 19th, Jaiuos Munro, who had been 10 years in the city force, while, walking in the parade yard, Russell street, suddenly fired three shots through his mouth, killing himself instantaneously. The .cause of the rash act is understood to'he financial difficulties.

The Customs authorities of Sydney declined to prosecute a Chinaman, who had 160 cigars in his possession',; for smuggling, because if he were sent. to gaolho would beleftin thecountry ( and at the same timo would have escaped the payment of the £IOO poll tax, Prop'orty in Ooliins street, Molbournei having a frontage of feet 7 iuohes, with a depth «f 73 foet,B : Inches to .76 feet, was submitted ab aiibtioii en Wedneaday, the 18th June. The highest price offered was £llOO per foot. The property was withdrawn. Siys the Gisborne Standard The Wellington Snobocrats do not liko Lord Onslow, because ho-paya'his way and doesn't keep a contemptible lot of toadies guzzling at Government House j nor docs he rejoice in tho slinks of Wellington. It is time someone taught these misguided beings that there is a higher aim in life than swarming to receive the patronage of a Governor, and we admire Lord (Mow for his fourago in lotting these people know thrt'he.iiespjs.eß their toadyism." Will the G.S, introduce the author of this elegantextract to the M.O. at (lovornment House, and is he already in the servant's hall there? Bnifw) the ejrl jer portion of tho' present montlj wo siii}ll r soma very. bgrgfing in winter dieses of gul.teri.9r 8)l jracfer. Many of tlieso were bought late io (1)0 IfDttdpi) season much lcfo\y their •usual value j jt qqrrespondinjjly io'w prices at tho Wiiolesalo Ifyfiiily Warehouse, To Aro House. We havo of these about 590 first-class dresses, consisting iu tho main of Fronoli tiyeeds in tho latest design, French amazoues in the most fashionable shades, a variety of plain materials with combinations iu scrroll, floral, and other patterns, and some handsome boxed braided robes, all of which will bo offered muoh undor tho usual mines nt To Aro House.'

l'ho aiinunt mooting of parishioners of Sfc Matthowb OhuroU.ia urinouncod to be hold iii tho sohoolroom oh Monday July2lst.. ■ :.-., : ; . :

We hear that Mi» Win' Thomas, of Daloßeld, has Bold his homestead to Mr Waterson, Bonior. Mr Thomas has gone in for a larger place in tho Mine locality, Tho sculling match betwoon Korr, tho champion amateur sculler of Victoria, and liubear,"ox-ohani[iion of England (professional), was won by tho latter'by. a dozen lengths.

Tho Treasurer of tho Masterton Hospital 'acknowledges with thanks receipt of II from E. and A. Morrison, Blairlogie; 10s from Mr W. Sticklo; 16a from shearers; and £$ 10s from employees.

E. Pearco, of the Queen street boot shop, informs us that still further reductions havo been made to effect- a clearance. A fow pairs of tho ladies' 2s (id dancing shoes are still loft, but the great attraction is a. lino in children's boots, which arc being ollcred at three pairs for a shilling. ;' We are indebted to the local pestmaster, Mr J, fiaggo, for the following vital statistics for the past quarter, and their comparison with tho same quarter of the' previous yoan—Births -1889, 50; 1890, 62. Deaths—lßß3, 14; 1800,14, Marriage certificates iasuod--1889,9;.1890,14. The following officers have been elected by the Greytowu Lodge of Freemasons, No 1720,. EO, for tho ensuing year:—Bro R Bright, WM, (re-elected); Bro F H Wood, SW! Bro D Cameron, J W; Bro W'Bnyd, SD; Bro O J Jury, J D.j Bro W Ridyard, I G; Bro J Maguire, O Or; BroWSkeet, (PM) Secretary; Bro A L Webster, (PM). Treasurer; Bro Rev EH.Wyatt,Chaplain, Anothor.old and respeoted resident- of this district in the. person of Mrs Mary M'Kenzie, died atKuripuni last night at the ago of 79 years,' Mrs M'Ketzie was one of tho earliest of Masterton's settlers, and loaves a large family to mourn their loss. The decoased lady had been ailing for some months, and as her system was fairly breaking up, her end was not unexpected. The funeral takes plaae on Thursday. The following officers were elected for tho ensuin? half year by the Carterton Oddfellows (Loyal Heart of Oak Lodge) at their meeting held a few days since: -Bro P A Kricksen, NG; Bro T Sparks, V.G:BroWßnwyer,GM; Bro J H Wakelin, R S toN G; Bro E L Wakelin, LS to N-G; Bros J Hart and J A Wakelin, Sick Stewards; Bms E L : Wakelin and J A Wakelin were appointed Auditors. Mossrs J F Neanniog aud C \ H Robinson were rospeotively.re-elected Secretary and Treasurer. ■ ; The meeting of sawmillers at Carterton yesterday was more a preliminary gathering than anything else, and f although a good deal of discussion took ' place, nothing very definite wos done, Decided action was left over until a

further meeting shall be held, A good number of mill-ownors attended yosterday, showing that the convention had secured the attention and interest of

those concerned, Thero were, howevor, still a few persons, who by oversight, had not received notification of the gathering, and these will ho carefully included whon the subsequent meeting | is summoned. Mr Ernest 0 Smith has been appointed Secretary for the time, and although no' other officers werei then olected, it was yesterday decided to definitely form a Wairarapa Sawmillers' Association. A proposed tariff of prices for timber was alao drawn up, which will in the meantime be circulated among members for their consideration before it is finally dealt with at the next meeting, This sohedule, it is understood, although more in the direction of regulating and hardening existing prices is also of an upward tendenoy on the prices of at least some mills, Messrs Booth and Co, we understand, will not join tho Association, although they have signified that they are prepared to abide by tariff prices, it they arc fixed by unanimous agreement. '.

Onn readers will he pleased to leatntkat Messrs L, J, Hooper and'Co starts this morning one ot their half yearly olearing sales. Tho whole of the stook in tho Bon Mareho is reduced to prioes that must tempt every one wanting drapery, millinery, and clothing, to purchase largo parcels during this great Tub great salo of drapery and clothing is now being hold at the BonMaroho, Messrs L.J Hooper and Co havo determined to reduoo thoir stoolt. to about half the present value. Bargains in every department will be offered during-tho noxt few days, PuirawsEs of tho Drapery, Millinery and boys clothing should not fail to attend at onco tho great sale n..w going on at the Bon Maroho, every article is reduced, Cost price not being considered the stock must be reduced before stook taking,