The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, I89l.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3730, 7 February 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1891.

The arrangements by which large holders of stock export frozen meat are probably as perfect as they can bemade. Graziers secure a maximum selling price and a maximum rate for shipping, freezing and vending. The large business transacted in this line is extremely profitable, and is of benefit to the Colony. We doubt, ' however, lyljetber small farmers and graziers share to g, reasonable extent ip the profits which are being made, and it might be worth their while to ascertain whether it would be possible to establish some company directly in their own interests. If, in a centre like Masterton, a Company were formed to freeze for farmers, to take as it >yere small consignments of ten, twenty, of thirty sheep, it would undoubtedly fee ft. great ppnyepience to small landholders. Wool scouring and tellmongery could be run in conjunction with it, and a local industry started which would be of value to foutjj |pwn and country. There is no objection to tjio |?ig wholesale trade now carried on at the Wellington works, but why should not a centre like Masterton develop a similar enterprise adfipM fop the requirements of small farnjeps ? The big Wellington Company perhaps freezes and ships for fifty pr sixty large proprietors, but it does j not cater for, say, the five hundred farmers of Wairarapa North. Why then, should not these farmers provide for themselves ? Were they to work together to establish works suitable for their requirements they would be as well able to conduct & p?ostabi£ business as the large Wellington companies. Shares now in the Wellington Meat Export Company are fiigh premium, they are saleable aj £i JJOs, and the cost of them to the original shareholder# has only been £3. We have always felt some hesitation in recommending t

establishment of local companies, because so many of them have in the past proved a disappointment, but unless there were gross mismanagement we fail to see how a local company could be unsuccessful. Of course the question as to the amount of business such a Company could do, and the margin available for profit would be a matter for careful consideration for practical 'men. It would also be advisable to determine whether a local company, if it were formed, could be made a feeder to a Wellington depot. In any case it would be unlikely to interfere with the larger businesses now established in the city. All that it might or should do would be to develop new business amongst settlers who are not looked upon as customers by the Wellington companies,

At a local option poll at Hawera only one ratepayer voted, and bis vote was against an increase of licenses.

At intervals during the address of the Rev. Mr Walker in the Temperance Hall on Monday evening next, musical selections will he rendered by some of the best local talent.

Messrs Chapman and Fitzgerald, of Wellington, advertise money to lend on freehold securities in Bums of £6O and upwards.

Mr. F. H. Wood makes further entries J for the Ram and Ewe Fair to be held in connection with the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society next Week. j A partner Is wanted in a country j general store with a turnover of £450 monthly. The amount paid away to policyholders in the New Zealand Accident Insurance Co. laßt year was £11,240. Separate tenders are invited by t!ie Surveyor General far the construction of a further thirteen miles of the Tar--angarere road. An extraordinary vacancy has occurred in the Tira umea Ward of the Alfredton Road Board, and nominations to fill such vacancy will close on Tuesday,l7th inst., at 12 noon. An election, if necessary, will take place on the 24th inst.

Owing to the temporary indisposition of Colonel Roberts, R.M., the ordinary sittings of the R.M. Court whtch were to have been held at Eketahuna yesterday were adjourned till this morning.

An owner is wanted for a pair of] running shoes and an overcoat left at the shop of Mr Hodges in Eketahuna on Anniversary Day. A weekly paper in the liberal and industrial interests is shortly to be started in Wellington. A man who deliberately killed a drunken woman in Hullo way by setting her on fire with a paraffin lamp was sentenced to 15 jeara' psnal servitude. The Wairatapa Standard ha 3 been accused by the Greytown Fire Brigade of publishing wrong reports, and a vote of censure has been passed on the editor. The Standard now challenges the Brigade to prove that its reports are incorrect.

Messrs Moller, Jenssen and Co., of the Pahiatua Ready Money Store, have an announcement in our advertising columns to»day. The reputation of this firm is so widely spread that it is unnecessary for us to comment upon the quality or price of the goods retailed by them.

The Ministerial portfolios have been rearranged as follows :—Hon John Ballance to be Commissioner of Stamp Duties; Hon, Alfred Jerome Cadman to be Native Minister ; Hon. Joseph Uecrge Ward to'be Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

A re-action has set in in Palmerston North. Despite the lact that population has enormously increased and settlement has progressed at a rapid rate, there is an extreme scarcity of cash just now, and respectable twdiaoien are being ruined. :. ■ ■

The Observer writes that the best pig for the factory is a cross between the Berkshire and the Yorkshire, which grows, to good profit very quickly. Now who is our Carterton contemporary hitting at?

The Masterton Town Lands Trustees have resolved to make a grant of £lO per annum to enable Miss Maragret Walton to take full advantage of the scholarship recently gained by her. It may be of interest to parents to kpow that a special fund {a set aside by the Trust for this particular object This is the first application, however, that has been made for assistance. A number, of residents of Masterton were severely "had" the other morning. An Alderney calf was being conveyed j through Queen Street in an express, when some wag remarked that it was a red deer. The express was literally rushed, and offers wero freely made for the purchase of that pretty little deer, but the brute gave itself away, for just as it was abput to change hands it shppked its admirers by a loud and significant ,f ba-a." Constable Penny father veiy nearly frightened a servant girl out of her wits (says the Chronicle) two or three mornings ago. Descrying a suspicious glare and the uprising of smoke from the background of the residence of a well-known townsman about ope o'clock in the morning, the constable made rapid tracks for the back premises, and found that the cirl had started her washing by moonlight under the impression that it was daybreak. A return has been prepared by the Town Clerk, Invercargill, from which it appears that the prices charged to private consumers of gas per 1000 feet are as follows:—Auckland, 6s 8d; Thames, 12s 6d ; Gisbotne, 12s 6d and 13a 4d ; Napier, 0s 2d ; New Plymouth, 12s (id; Wanganui, 7s 4d; Masterton, 10s; Wellington, 7s 9d j Nelson, '§s4d; Blenheim, 12s I'd j Westport, 10s; Hokitika, 12s 6d; Christchurch, 7s 6d ; Timsru, lis 6d, under 50C0ft; 10s lOd under 10,000 ft, and 10s over 10,000 ft : Oamaru, 10s; Dunedin, 7s Gd; Invercargill, 7s 6d; and Palmersfcon North, 14s 2d.

Prosecutions of owners of landed property for failure to keep down the rabbits have recently been instituted in several cases in the Wairayapa, and fines inflicted. In most of thesq dases one fact was piade very evident, and that was, that althpugh the verpiin might, by continuous and strenuous effort be kept within reasonable bounds, thfy cannot be wholly eradicated owing to the ground there being so rough. Many of those who helped to turn the pest upon the land have probably gone to their longhoine but if the prayers of the unjust runholder could reach them on the other side of the river, they would not enjoy themselves very much. —Advocate. MrH. Hansen, of Eketahuna, has, to meet the crowing demands of the place, Just jmppfted a first class stock of English, French, and German boots. Mr Hansen also "makes and mends 1 ' and should therefore command a fair share of patronage.

A Monster bearing Sale of Drapery and ylpthing will be held during the next few days at L. J." Hooper and Cos'! Bon Marcbe. Every arftclp jn the warehouse will be offered at greatly I reduced prices. The Sale will commeneißflja gaferday morning, January .31st, at jB o'clock. A foemepdoiis saorifico of PreßS Gopds, Millinery, Ladies' Jackets, Mantles, Corsets, Straw Goods, Hosiery and Gloyee, Pmbrellaa and Parasols, etc etc, will be made to njajra room for Fresh Shipments to arrive. So be ready for bargains in every department at Hooper's Monster Sale commencing Saturday morning, January 31st, at 8 o'clock. The Clothing Stock at Hooper's Bon Maj-che yill be Sold at Nett Cost dr ing the Great Sale, sjfens.', Boys' and Ch :1 - drens' Clothing, "Hats. Khijss, Sacks Ties, etc, at exceptionally low p-i«e«. We shall sell, and those that patrenize the Bon Marche Monster Clearm Sale will reap the benefit of our being overstocked, Hoopjr and Co, Bon 1