The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3727, 4 February 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1891.

The natives of this Colony are perhaps as puzzled as Dicken's wellknown heroine when she heard the virtuous Codlin remark" I'm the best adviser that ever was, and as interested in you—so much more interested than Short. Recollect the friend. Codlin's the friend, not Short. Short's very well as far as he goes, but the real friend is Codlin —not Short." The Codlin Ministry has just come into power, and at once announces its benevolent intentions towards the noble Maori, who is, by this time, pretty well accustomed to such pledges, and knows that if the Native canoe is steered due north by one ministry it is sure to be sent due south by its successor, and that his chance of "paddling his own canoe" is as hopeless with the one as with the other. The intelligent Maori is well aware that anything which one Ministry does is usually undone by the next Cabinet that comes into power, and that his condition is one of chronic change. He somewhat resembles the Irish pig that was fed to repleition cne day and fatarved the next in order that there might be a due proportion of fat and lean when its time came for being converted into bacon. The native thrives little better than the animal to which we have referred, nor is he likely to be any the better for the kind offices of his new friends the Codlin Ministry. Iu the party now in power there are certain well-known gentlemen who require a bone to pick, and it is quite understood that some of them have selected the native land bone as the most toothsome morsel which the Government can give them, and so there is to be a commission to make the Maoris happy for all time, and certain political philanthropists are to be the Commission, and the Government, when they get their report, is to fashion it into a Native policy. Everybody is to be made happy by the present Ministry, and philo-Maori members are to have native bills just the same as labour members are to have labour bills. 11 is asserted that in the past the working of the native land laws has been a hopeless puddle, and we cau quite understand this, because with a change of policy about once in three years complications not unnaturally arise, but we are promised that this sort of thing is to be straightened out for all time. How, we do not know, but this the Commissioners are supposed to find oat! It will be an agreeable surprise if the new idea pomes to anything, because our experience of former Commissions has usually been that they make unlimited recommendations which usually get shelved either by the Government or by Parliament. The appointment of a Commission is frequently the practical solution of the difficulty of appearing to do something which is popular or desirable without actually doing it. We scarcely think that Government by Commission in the #a t fciye land question will come to very much. But so long as Native lands are converted into European bacon,what does it matter ?'

Pearson's Bras 3 Band intends, weather permitting, playing in the Park on Sunday next. Thirteen hundred phsep were forwarded from Masterton to 'Ngahauransra esterd ay for freezing purposes.

A cricket match will be played on Saturday next between teams representing Greytown and Carterton. Sir George Grey, whose health baa been very bad of late, is now on a vibit to the Hot Lakes. i Thirteen thousand acres of Crown ands in the North Puketoi Blouk will be offered for sale or selectiou' this month. A drunk was fined five shillings by Mr. A.Anderson, J. P., at Eketahund. on Monday. The death is announced in England of Mr Bowron, for some time dairy inspector in this colony. Tlw Napier meeting of the New Zealand Rifle Association resulted in a loss of about £ 100.

The total weight of the bullets fired at the targets during the late New Zealand Rifle Association meeting was 2 tons 2 cwt lOlbs.

A. provincial newspaper in its obituary notice of a wealthy farmer, states that "he was born without a penny in his pocket."

A twelve-year-old daughter of Mr Holt, brewer, ofTimaru, was accidentally run over ou Tuesday evening and killed.

Squally weather is forecasted between Hobart and the Bluff and north-east from Wellington.

A first offender under the Police Offences Act was dealt with in the usual summary manner at the Masterton R..M. Court this morning. The Masterton ram and ewe fair at Messrs Lowes and lorns' Bale yards opens to-morrow, when only Lincolns will be offered. On Friday, Eoniney Marsh. Downs, Cotswolds, Lambs and Ewes will be submitted. The sale commences t 11.30 each day. The membern of the Knights of Labour m Palmerston appointed to inquire as to a suiteble block of land for a special settlement, have com 9 across a piece of country admi'-ably adapted for small farms.

Captain Somerville's opinion is un» favorable to the Silverstream being selected as the site for a permanent range, owing to the swampy nature of Hie land and the expense necessary to clear the ground. The opening of the Gorge line of railway is to be celebrated in Palmerston in a novel manner. An ox is to be roasted on the square, and after bein" convoyed round the town on a lorry is to be distributed in slices amongst the people, together with bread and beer. What a time the people will have !

An extraordinary case of resemblance between twins is reported from Dover. A soldier was charged with felony, but the case broke down, it having been proved tnat the accused had a twin brother in the same regiment so exactly similar in appearance that the prosecution could not colve which was the right man. Twenty-three applications for the headniaptership of the Clareville school were considered on Monday evening but the name of the person recommended has not. yet transpired. There is great activity among tho pastoralists and employers generally throughout Victoiia, New South Wales, and Queensland, to resist the demands of the Unions to be recognised in all engagements. In New South Wales the employers have formed a strike insurance fund of one hundred thousand pounds for the purpose of indemnifying employer? against loss through strikes.

__ A public meeting was held at the Eketahuna hotel on Monday to elect a committee to carry out the sports on the 17th March. Mr Parsons occupied the chair. It was resolved that Mr Mur* doch be secretary, ami Mr Breumuhl treasurer. About fifteen persons were present. A working committee of the following gentlemen was appoiuted to arrange the programme :—Meßsra Aulin, Breumuhl, Nordel, Hodges, Foajden, and Wallace. The member's lee was fixed at sb.

The lea "parson" recently promised the Inspector under the Rabbit Act to put on nine men to destroy the pest on his property. When he next visited the place, the Inspector, finding no Bteps had been taken, inquired the "whys and wherefores." "Well," said the parson, "you see those nine men out yonder harvesting ; they are preparing the wheat with which I intend poisoning next seaßon." The Inspector left!

At the last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board, tlie chairman of a committee, wrote, ''So far as my jurisdiction extends I would faithfully exercise the function of controlling and supervising 'the regulation period of company keeping on the part of young lady teachers,' it such a regulation be adopted by the board." He suggested that one month should be the limit with one beau, bub forget to limit the number of beaux.

The small birds are working much mischief among the early maturing crops in the Aahburton district. At the Longbeach Road Board office no less than 17,000 eggs and heads have been received and paid for. It is quite a common thing for lads to wait on the clerk on each succeeding Saturday with as-many as from 300 up to 700 and 800 eggs and heads each as the result of their individual week's tree climbing.

l'roma etter just eceived troin a gentleman ;vho went home to England v'a San Francisco, wo learn that no better illustration of the benefits derived from irrigation can be seen than along the railway liup in going across trom the Pacific Coast. He says :—" We •vere much struck by the effects of irrigation. The railway line ran through a dreary waste, but assoon as we arrived at a station where water had been brought on for the use of the engines, and watering the land, there we saw brautiful gardens and trees as well as crops of grain.''

A Manawatu paper say*: The necessity for the completion of the Pahjatua road has been so frequently urged that it is unnecessary to dwell upon the benefits likely to accrue from i>s construction. Therefore we are pleasod to see that it is the Minister of Lands' intention to Dersonally inspect the locality, and see what can be done to carry out the work. The district has not had the advantage of being able to prove the importance of a work of this kind B'.) easily as can be done when a member nt the Ministiy takes the trouble to go over the route himself, and settlers will gladly welcome the new order of things, inrire particularly if, in this instance, the request for the construction of a good road is acceded to. There was a great fire in the heartrof London on December 30th, near Blackfrisrs bridge. The total losses aggregate over £400,000. A large number of warehouses and valuable buildings were burnt. R. Fairbrother &So.v, of Carterton have just opened a very large assort meut of l;hina and .Earthenware, and Paperhangings, and are offering the best quality at very low prices. Call and see.—Advt.

A Monster Clearing Sale of Drapery and Clothing will be held during the next few days at L. J. BooDer and Cos' Bon Marche. Every article in the wareh >use will be offered at greatly reduced prices. The Bale will commence on Saturday morning, January 31st, at 8 o'clock. i\ tremendous sacrifico of Dress Goods, Millinery, Ladies' Jackets, Mantles, Corsets, Straw Gcods, Hosiery and Gloves, Umbrellas and Paragols, etc etc. will be made fo make room for Fresh Shipments to arrive. So be ready for bargains in ovory department at Hooper's Monster Sale commencing Saturday morning, January Sl«t. at 8 o'clock. The Clothing Stock ao H" nniir ' a Bon Marche will be Sold at Nett Cost during the Great Sale, Mens', Boys' and Childrens' Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Socks Ties, etc, at exceptionally \6vr prices. We shall sell, and those that patronize the Bon Marche Monster Cleanng Sale will reap the benefit of cur being overstocked. Hooper and Co, Bon Marche.—ad vx.