EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3577, 2 August 1890, Page 2

EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.

An Outsido Orltlc. [Catholic Times.] Masterton is a township in the Wairarapa, It's representative in Parliament is Mr George Beotbaui, when ba is not in England or elsewhere, globe trotting, Masterton is nothing if it is not in .tjs j<uest fashion, J*nt| bepce it possesses eu. organisation for the purposooi bringing about the early closing' of places of business. Naturally enough, trade in the daytime there being attenuated, certain of 'the local shopkeepers rebelled against the early closing edict issued by the aforesaid organisation. They jjeolinejjcjj} |ct, being innocent of (jffence, to be 'mulpted to fbe" ex|ent each' day of their evening' reoef|i(s. Then the organisation conceived a plan whicji was fiendish, in infers ami deviljib iu ingerjiiity. The band belonging to the Qrganjsatjoß should parade

before : tbJßey'nHiimaciousßho ! |)keeper l|Theor||nisatt6ii kneir oiily laomihhi no iue shop' bis businessVprewiges;^rio;';hfraano employer would subjeot his employees to many minutes refined'torture such j'is that. But raon will suffer long for the cause whicK they hold to be right, and iliougblliatlifaas band trotled and j snorted and tootled-too'd till 9 o'clock p.m., those heroic shopmen kept open to thestrains of.f'Close the Shutters,"! "The whole.Hoggor nothing," "Finucane'e Wake,! 1 and " the Dead March in Saul,"and other enlivening melodies jribrass,, ,In.,theface of this theFress Agency man or soui3 other penny-a-liner telegraphed; that it was only the police in full'fprce" which pievented a disturbance I". : .. ..■'