The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3746, 26 February 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1891.

If Mr Renall had desired to vindicate his reputation as an irrational public man he could nat haye parried put a more effective municipal policy than that which he has persistently pursued during the few years. He first of all divided the Borough into wards, and then abolished the subdivisions which he created. He caps this glaring inconsistency by a second proposal for dividingthe Borough, and next year he may be expeoted to again seek to abolish the wards which he is now engaged in establishing. The explanation of his extraordinary procedure is simply that he subordinates all other considerations to a desire p pbtajn ft WPr&ng majority in. the Council This is the third time that he has burst up and dissolved the Council, regardless of the expense and public inconvenience attending the process, merely to give his party a chance to score in a general election. On the first occasion he failed to gain the majority he desired, on the second he was equally unsuccessful, and we shall be surprised to find bim carrying the day on this, the third occasion. We are assured that if the party does not win this time it will throw up the sponge, and there would be some consolation if we could depend upon such an issue. Unfortunately on a former occasion Mr Renall pledged Himself to retire if his party did not come to the top, but when his men were defeated he simply continued the fight with renewed vigor. We fear that the new sub-divisions will not settle the old party struggle, and that the warfare will go on m the future in much the same lines as in the past. It would be absurd to seriously discuss the advantages or disadvantages of the changes now proposed, because such considerations do not constitute the question at issue. she sole object we take it of the present movement is to give Mr fienall's party another opportunity to secure a working majority in a new Council. We credit Mr Renall with good intentions, for we believe he desires Jo dp good to the town, and that he considers his pet scheme will prove a benefit to the community, but unless the ratepayers are willing ta allow him to do what he likes in his own sweet way, regardless of all law or rule, it is almost impossible to get on with him. Any reasonable concession which would enable his well known project to De completed would be welcome if there were any guarantee of a final settlement of a difficulty which for years has made municipal government a farce in this town. We &usy, however, that the Irish difficulty is a mere bagatelle to the Benall water supply .difficulty, as the latter contains points wtych areabsolutely insokable. Even hjs Worship the Mayor does not show

clearly how Mr Eenall in his private capacity can sell or lease something which does not belong to him, in somebody else's name, to himself in his public capacity. Our sympathies are with the burgesses who have to pay the piper!

A mob of sheep passed through Eke* tahuna on Tuesday en route for Woodville sale for Friday ne*t. The lively pnlex is so " frequent" in the Wellington Opera House that small packets of insect powder are given with each ticket sold. Just so. —Fielding Star.

The following summary way of killing a man is taken from the advertising columns of a contemporary:—lf I do not hear of my husband, Maurice Marten, three months from date, February 21,1 shall consider him dead.—M. E. Marten, Post Office, Melbourne.

Charles Hugo, who has visited New Zealand with a minstrel company on several occasions, is expected to once more arrive in the colony some time next month.

Mr W. Lyons, the Sydney bookmaker, while passing through Dunedin the other day, en route tor Melbourne, laid JEIOOO to £ls against Carbine for the next Melbourne Cup.

The Masterton Riflo Volunteers parade this evening, after which the annual meeting will be held. . A son of Mr Snowies, settler, of Matarawa, was putting a loaded gun away yesterdav, when the charge exploded, and shattered one of his hands, two fingers being shot away. The sufferer was ordered to the Grey town hospital. Bartznieff, a Russian prince, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment on a charge ot murdering a young actress.

The Vegetable Products Commission of Victoria is making enquiries regarding New Zealand flax, which, it is thought, would be suitable for cultivation on the waste lands of that Colony. The Queensland Government have 300 men under arms in the disturbed districts. The Unionist force is estimated at GOO.

An English correspondent tells of a London sanitary inspector who, in answer to a question, said:—" Yes, the overcrowding .amongst the very poor people in London is considerable. For instance, I was called to a house in the poorest part of Westminster, each room of which was let out to different tenants. In one apartment, and that by no means large, five families were living, ono in each corner of the room, and one in the middle. They agreed well enough until the party in the. middle wanted to take in lodgers, and that led to a row, and my attention being called to the case I promptly cleared the lot out."

A rather good joke is told hi connection with a ministerial visit to the Mokau, One of the party, doubtless charmed and exhilarated with the trip and beautiful scenery, is reported to have given vent to his feelings in song, and on the termination of the melody another of the party, besides showing hiß appreciation by applause, asked the skipper of the boat if lie had ever been treated to such music since he had taken up the running of the boat. The skipper scratched his head, thought for a while, and then answered, " Well, no; at any rate not since the last load of porkers 1 brought down." The joke was keenly relished, especially by the Minister, who displayed his bon Iwmie by laughinp the heartiest of all.

Says the Wanganui Chronicle :—We hear of several enquiries for large quantities of cocksfoot, one of our looal business men having a commission to obtain 5,550 bushels. From what we are told the seed appears to be scarce, and cannot be obtained at anything but high prices.

Mr W. W. Collins is announced to lecture in the Theatre Boyal, Masterton, on Sunday afternoon next on General Booth's "In Darkest England," and his pauper scheme, and in the evening on Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., Sunday school teacher, iconoclast and statesman. Discussion is invited on both subjects. The admission to the Theatre in the afternoon will be free, but in the evening a small charge will be made. Mr Collins' ability as a lecturer is so well-known that crowded houses may be looked upon as a certainty.

The curious tangle brought abont in New Zealand politics by the energies of the so-called "labor party" is now reaching its most interesting staee. The recent general elections, overthrowine as they did much that was worthiest in the political life of the colony in favor of what was novel, speoious, and untried, were little else than a satire upon the ballot box. And tbe new House, as it stands, is lamentably at variar.ee with Carlyle's dictum tbat it is " the everlasting privilege of the foolish to be governed by the wise. ' What principle guided the electors at the polling booths beyond blind opposition to the men who chanced to be uppermost it would puzzle the closest observer to say. Some degre? of order has now to b,e evolved out of chaos, and tho formation of a Government by Mr Balance, the late leader of the opposition, is the first attempt in that direction. There has been a eddying of the political currents, from the midst of which a Ministry has presently appeared, and has been cast like drift wood upon the surface, to sink or swim as the chance may be. By the composition qf hj§ Cabinet Mr ' Ballaneo sufficiently indicates the heterogenous character of the material at his command .—Melbourne Argus.

The Bulletin merrily writes: —There are a good many ways to make money. One of them is to be a fasting man hi a cheap slmw j and another, is to run* a cannibal expeditiqn in Africa, and then come back and lecture about the performance; and a third is to bo a laqdboomer and sell an inaoceasibla mountain top to a building society. But a hvdy in Maorilaud has improved oil these old methods considerably. She published an advertisement setting forth that a dark haired and truly affectionate maiden of 18, with bright eyes and a private incoroe,desired to make the acquaintance of a good looking gentleman tor the usual purpose, and 22 individuals at once concluded that she was spmg wealthy squatter's daughter who wanted to elope, and wrote stating that they were the sort of person enquired after. Than she sent them all a photo of an angel with a rosebud mouth, and asked for enough money to pay her passage to town, as her property was still in the hands of her trustees. Ten of the crowd backed out of this crisis, but the other twelve sent the coin and made twelve separate appointments at the railway station, where, unhappily, the dark-haired creature with the large private income altogether failed tP turn up. In fact, phe never turned up, but enquiries being rnade at the Post Office to which the money ha T d been sent, it transpired that the orders had all been cashed by an elderly person with a countenance like a hidden crime, and that she had promptly left the district with the loot. The atory closes just here-

A Monster Clearing Sale of DraDery and OlothiDg will be held during T the next few days at L. J. Hooper and Cos' Bon Marche. Every article in the warehouse will be offered at greatly reduced prices. The Sale will commence on Saturday morning, January 31st, at 8 o'clock.'A tremendous sacrifice of Dregs Goods, Millinery, Ladies' Jackets, Mantles, Gorgets, Straw Qcqds, Hogiery and Gloves, Umbirellaß and ' Parasols, etc etc, will be made to make 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. We shall sell, and those that patro m'2S the Bon Marche Monster Clearing Sale will reaptus faencjjt of our being overstocked. Hooper and Co, ban Marche.—advt. The Clothing Stock at Hoopers Bon Marche will be Sold at Nefct Cost during the Great Sale, Mens', Boys' and Childrens' .Clothing,"Hats, Shirts, §ocks Ties, etc,"as exceptionally lojr prjce§.

The Dunedin Gup was won yesterday by .Freedom, Occident being Becond an** Cruchfield third.

Inspectors Lee and Fleming report unfayourably upon the instruction being given in the Wellington district in the matter of history. The Wellington Education Board has sent a letter to Mrs Bunny, expressing condolence with her in her bereavement.

Mistakes will occur in the best regulated of families ! Errors of a most ludicrous nature have )t late been made in one of our "Wellington contemporaries. Onder the headmp of "Births' two deaths were recently recorded, but /re now have the startling announcement that the wife of Mrs —— has been delivered of twins.

We are informed by the Secretary that not a single exhibit wasrtcei.ed ac yesterday's horticultural show from the Forty-mile Bush. In the R.M. Court this morning Colonel Roberts, E.M., gave judgment for the plaintiff in the case D. Donald v, Ross and Muir, claim for royalty, for £4B and costs.

At a meeting of the Wairarapa Kifle Association, held on Monday, it was decided that the permanent management of the Association be handed over to the Masterton Bines, and that the firing this year take place on the new range at Landadown on the seventeenth of March.

Early on Wednesday morning an unsuccessful attempt was made to enter the residence of Dr. Hosking in Churchstreet. A rumbling noise was heard at one of the windows, and on getting up the doctor found a looking-glass and a number of other articles displaced. It would appear that the midnight marauder wits in the act cf entering when the alarm was given, and he made his exit as quickly as possible. Sergeant Price was immediately sent for, and searched the premises, but could find no traces of the visitor.