The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3756, 17 March 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1891.

These appears to be a strong probability now that the great work of establishing a Federal Parliament for Australasia will be accomplished. One important result of such a consummation will be the improvement of the leading politicians of this quarter of the globe, A Federal Council will be a soft of high school at which the common school politicians of the various colonies will complete their education and perfect their experience ia the art of good government. In New Zealand our politicians are, almost without exception, on the common school level, and there is hardly one of them who would not be benefitted by a term in a high school. This would apply to even a veteran like Sir George Grey! When our old Knight was deposed from viceregal rank he became a republican, and he has been wont to air his republican ideas in season and out of season in this Colony, but when he went to the Conference and ventured to promulgate them there he was pointedly rebuked and reproved, A high school course in politics would do even Sir George an immppse amount of good. Take the present Premier, who possesses ability, and is in many respects a well meaning man, but often displays very bad form by Baying things which he does not mean, as for example when he proclaimed the other day that he hoped that Sir George Grey, whom there is good reason to believe he holds in detestation.would be returned unopposed for Newton. If he were trained in a high school of politics he would learn that misrepresentation in any shape or form detracts from the reputation ot a public man. Sir Harry Atkinson is a greater and an abler man than Mr Ballance, yet even he, in the plenitude of his power, displayed many crude ideas which could have been dispelled if he had an experience in a high school of politics. One of the best all round politicians in the colony is undoubtedly Sir Robert Stout, but in his case there are not sufficient inducements in our limited colonial political arena to decide bim to devote himself to public affaire. Were, howefer, a federal parliament open to him there i would be a stronger incentive for a iniau of his capacity and ambition to come to the front. We hardly know of a single politician in the colony who riseß much above the common school level unless we excepted Mr Bryce and possibly Captain Russell. There is doubtless plenty of good material in the colony which could be educated to a higher level by a federal parliament, and we hope that even at the eleventh hour New Zealand will be persuaded to reconsider its determination tp stand out. We lose the services of our best public men and our ex-premers migrate to England and give up their political carpers at a time when they are bestfitted by maturity of experience ! to do good gervjge to tjw colony. for

such men a federal parliament ■would) be a Godsend, and the retaining in this quarter of the globe of men of such eminence would be an advantage which could hardly be measured by money considerations.

A business card from Mr H.H.Godfrey architect and builder, Pahiatua, appears in our advertising columns. The Kurupuni bakery, under the charge of Mr J. G. Mackay, whose abilities U a first-class tradesman are well known throughout the district, is now open.

An alteration has been made in the third draft of stations by the Wesleyan Conference, by which the Bev. J. Dellow goes to Temuka instead of Gisborne. Fifteen thousand miners have struck in Pennsylvania for eight hours a day. This is the beginning of a movement which Is expected to involve 125,000 men by May. The resignation of Cr. Gapper as a member of the Works Committee of the Masterton Borough Counoil has been accepted, and Cr. Perry appointed t > fill the vacancy thus caused.

The application of Mr T.E. Chamberlain for a license for a slaughterhouse on the Upper Plain, has been refused by the Masterton Borough Council. Mr W.H. Eernahan, auctioneer, Pahiatua, gives notice elsewhere of a sale of household furniture &c. on the 25th inst in Stewart's Ball, also of a sale of horses broken and unbroken, buggieß, harness etc. at Tattersall's Horse Bazaar on the following day.

A Sydney schoolteacher has obtained a verdict for a farthing and costs, £lO 10s, in a libel case against a man who alleged that he had to withdraw his chilk from the school, owing io her having been unmercifully caned by the teacher without cause.

The Wesleyan Methodist Church of this colony was recently bequeathed a large sum of money by a Mr John Probert. The Conference has decided to erect a memorial stone to the memory of this gentleman, but have declined an application from the relatives of the deceased for financial help.

A banquet is to be given to Mr R. C. Bruce, the defeated candidate for Epmont, on Thursday evening,

A very conyeniently situated property at Mauriceville is to be sold by Messrs Harcourt and Co. at their auction room on Lambton Quay, Wellington, on Tuesday, 24th March. It consists of about 200 acres of land, 100 acres of which is well fenced and is in a good state of cultivation, being sown down in English grasses. The quality of the soil is also said to be first-class. Such a property should sell well. A large number of Volunteers arrived in Masterton last evening to take part in the rifle competition which was coiumenced at the local range this morning.

The weather to day, though, threatening, is fine, and will not materially affect the attendance at the races. A large number of visitors have arrived in town, and the races are expected to be the most successful ever held on the Opaki course.

We again remind our readers of the concert to be given in the Theatre Koyal this evening byMis3 McLean and her pupils, assisted by local talent. The Feilding Star works off the followiu?:—Things are not always seen in the Eame light by different people. A fe? months ago, when settlement <vas in its infancy on the back blocks near the Buahine ranges, ene of the pioneers with an eye to comfort and economy, decided' to do his falling and clearing in tno condition of Adam before the fall. He was cool and happy. But, as "Time watted the hours upon the feathery wings," houses were built, and married men began to bring their wives to their new homes. When our primitive friend saw the first lovely woman who inyaded those wilds he ejaculated, ''The bloomin' block's ruined ! We'll have to wear breeches !" and fled into the deepest recesses of the forest.

The Canterbury Times says it the Lailway Commissioner of New South Wales " had prolonged his Rimutaka trip through the Walrarapa Plain, taking the train to the terminus of the present at Eketahuna, he would have seen a curious thing. He would have seen that the line, alter having been brought over a barren mountain range at a great cost, with the consequence «f considerable expense in working, and taken through the fine Wairarapa country, has been stopped short in the very pick of the land, Eketahuna is well inside the entrance of the lorty Mile Bush, which is as fine a piece of country as is to be seen in all New Zealand. Last year 40,000 aores were cleared of timber in that district alone by the enterprise and the pluck of the settlers. Settlers are pouring into the place m hundreds. Shortly there will be great traffic for the railway. The one railway which ought to be carried on to a paying point is the railway which now stops at Eketahuna. There is a magni ficent country awaiting development at its hands."

A large consignme nt of Linoleums and Floorcloths arrived in Masterton on Saturday, consigned to Mes bis L. J, Hooper & Co. We are informed these goods will be offered to the public at Wholesale Prices at the Bon Marche. Anyone wanting a bargain in these clases of goods should call early and get the first choice of patterns.

rtorv Gun Barbels are made.—The beautiful waved lines and curious flower-like figures that appear on the surface of gun barrels ate really Hie lines of welding, shewing that two diflerent metals—iron and sieel— are intimately blended in making the linesi and strongest barrels. The process, of thus welding and blending steel and iron is a very interesting one. Flat bars or ribbons of steel and iron are alternately arranged together, and then twisted into a cable. Several of these cables are then welded together, and shaped into a long flat bar, which is spirally coiled round a hollow cylinder, called a mandrel, after which the edges of these spiral bars are heated and firmly welded The spiral coil is now put upon a welded mandrel, is again heated, and carefully hammered into the shape of a gun barrel Next comes the cold hammering by which the pores of the metal are securely closed The'last, or finishing, operation is to turn the barrel on a lathe to exactly its proper shape and size. By all the twistings, weldings, and hammerings the metals are so blended that the mass has the consistency and toughness of woven steel and iron. A barrel thus made can. scarcely burst. The finishing of the inside of the barrel is an operation requiring very great, care and skill. What is called a cylinder-bored barrel is where the bore is made of uniform size from end to end. A choke bore is one that is a little smaller at the'muzzle end than it is at the breech end. There are various ways of" choking" gun barrels, but the object of all methods is to make the gun throw its shot close together with even and regular distribution, and with great force: There are several kinds of metallic combinations that gunmakers ] use, the principal of which are called Damascus, Berend. and laminated steel Dbesses—We have now opened out our two first shipments of autumn and winter dress fabrics, which have come to us recently by the steamers Aorangi and Arawa, We may conscientiously affirm that no finer, more varied, or well selected goods have ever previously passed in the portals of Te Aro House, J)Bj!ssEs-rln the limited space at our command, there is not room to give any thing like an adequate description of our new autumn dress goods, but it is sufficient to say that they are of excellent value, of superior finish, well assorted in styles and colourings, well adapted to mee the tastes of bur numerous lady patrons We solicit an early inspection of these, at Te Aro House.

Dressmaking—Our two large and commodious dressmaking rooms are still under the same efficient management, and can guarantee in this season, as in all past seasons, instant attention, prompt execution, faultless finish, and perfect ntt Ladies-tvlio want their dresses early should at once glace their orders «t Te Aro fious .

jACKEXSr MINTDE3 -AND UIOTERS We have opened out a vary fine assortment of these, in all fashionable makes, styles, colours, shapes anfcizes. Ourmantlerooni is how filled with TtlT the latest nqvelhes, such as should induce an early visit to Te Aro House,—AfjYf. > ' •-■" ■■ j . (

The respectable elderly gentleman of the following anecdote was the victim of the following slight misunderstanding, and probably he did not forget It:— He went to the railway station to see his favourite daughter off. Securing her a seat he passed out of the carriage and went around to her window to say a parting word as is frequently done on such occasions. While he vna passing out, the daughter left the seat to speak to a friend, and at the same time a prim old maid took the Beat and moved up to the window. Unaware of the important change iuside, he hurriedly put up his face to the window and said "One more kiss, sweet pet." In another instant the point of a cotton umbrella was thrust from the window followed by the passionate injunction, '"Scat, you grey headed wretch." Fie vanished.