The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3628, 2 October 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1890.

TnE, first' election of a School Committee under the amended Act of 1890 is about to take place at - Mauriceville. The old silly cumulative vote is done away with,'and-candi-dates are to be duly nominated and elected according to the ordinary procedure by which los&l .elections are wont to bo determined, every settler in tho community will rejoice that [national system of nom-ination-and election has been atl'-si adopted, 'and that the foolish pluinpepj ffhich have confused previous cfln.tes.ts gotje, never to return,

At last the Commissioners have mado a step towards resuming the ordinary train soryico on our local railway. On Fridays tho traflig is to be takon up again, and our only blank days now will lie on Tuesdays, Ws presume that tho supply of coal is becoming more assured arid that very jhortly the trouble in maintaining the ordinary traffic will be at an end, In this matter of railway traffic the Wapvapa lias been punished- pretty severely, but ,thp fault lies at the door of the strike and 011 tjjo ghoulders of tho strikers, and we can only hope tlmt the Maritime Council aro siclj of their handiwork,

Pkaise must ■be accorded to Inspector, Ingram for gibbeting a Councillor, a yery popular / and influential Councillor, at the lato meoting. People will have .confidence in the sanitary supervision of the Borough when tiioj seo an officer : discharging his duty without respect of persons and the Council bagifingi liim, (ip in his action, No doubt. Or I Perry, however, muchashomaydiffer from tho opinion, will give that officer credit; for. thoiiiauije? jn which he has given effect to. it and will feel (t to bo bis duty' to, get a good exaniplp. to, otljor burgesses by making a clean sweep ; of. the uuisiince .whioliis ':pbjected to.

The Borough Council ,has decided a promirm for the b,esf iclffiijjß for, insurance in municipalities The bejt- ggjieme, the only schemo ipj faat, • " anj efficient iyafer supply, sjd this! is an alternation the Cpppcih hasi always shrunk, from facing.' fher<? will-bo no substantial reductions of premiums in Masterton till wo liavo a high pressure water supply! Tie

town is favorably situated for such a service,'and it' has been Bli'own over and over'ogain that, it would, from a financial point of view, prove a success, If, however, the expenditure of aive pound nohi will, quiet to civio "conscience as to 'its responsibilities in this matter, the investment will not be without some result, ,Ve understand that at the meeting.of-, tho; Knigiits of Labor, hold in Masterton last,evoning, Mr A, W. Hogg's friends were unsuccessful in their efforts to persuade the members to accept him" as' tlieir candidate. A .'strong opposition to manifested against him, and it wus finally decided that as Mr M'Cardle had expressed his viows tho decision of the order should be postponed till after Mr Hogg had addressed a meeting. It is extremely probable that in election matters there will he very littlo unanimity amongst the Knights. :

The sad and singular end of poor William DuncanCanicrou is a wonder to all, and suVprise is expressed that ho survived for bight hours after taking the poison and was able to explain Ilia motives for doing so to his" medical attendant and behave"' in slidh a -'manlier tliat a doubt whs at first entertained whether ho bad really swallowed ten grains, of strychnine, Referring to a medical work in our possesaion wo notice. that this particular poison is ono to which there is no known antidote, and also that efforts msido to produce vomiting after it has beon taken into the sysiom tend to precipitate rather than to avorttbe fatal end. This, of course, is purely a medical question, but so much interest is manifested in this aspect of the fatal occurrence that it is perhaps as well to refer to it.