The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3772, 30 March 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1891.

Oub local contemporary recommends that one or more of the Kailway Commissioners should be cashiered, becftusa during tlje past year they have filled the places of- many men who hive lelt their service with boy labor. Whether men have been discharged to make room for boys we know not, nor on this point is any authentic information available, but the employment of lads must displace men, and the question whether boys should receive appointments in both public and private services is one on which Unions hold very strong opinions. In many of our large towns boy? aro absolutely boycotted, and employers of labor are prohibited from engaging thei? services unlqs? under certain stringent regulations approved by the Unions, 'one boy to every five, six or seven journeymen, is permitted under Union law, and we presume the Railway Commissioners ought to have an equal privilege with private firms in en - gaging a due proportion of boy labor. vVe do not believe this privilege has been abused by the On the contrary in the railway service there are at least a dozen men for every lad employed. There is a small percentage of boy labor in the service, and if for this Commissioners should be gibbeted, what ought to be done to employers who engage a large per centage of juveniles ? If, for example, the Commissioners employ five per cent, of boy labor, what should be the punishment of the miscreants who engage sixty or seveaty per cent? Surely the latter ought to receive a term of imprisonment with bard labor. Now our contemporary is doubtless aware that country newspapers generally, his own journal being no exception, employ a very large percentage of boy labor, and that they would be altogether unable to make both ends meet were they restricted to journeymen. If we, ourselves, felt that it was a criminal act on the part of the commissioners to employ boy labor we should certainly consider ourselves still more culpable. The boy labor in the Masterton newspaper offices most certainly displaces adult lator, and if we do as the Railway Commissioners are said by our local contemporary to do," Starve famdies out of the country,"we are most culpable. \Ve venture, however, to suggest that , boys are component parts of families, and that wages paid to them either by Railway Commissioners ornewspaper : proprietors, fcave/a tendency to feed 1

families rather than to starve them. We cannot help thinking that the boycott against boya is selfish and cruel. Why should settlers' sons be shut out from employment and not permitted to learn trades ? However, it is satisfactory to know that our contemporary's practice is not as severe as his preaching, and probably if there be insincerity on his part it will lie in the preaching. It is his mission, no doubt, to remove the mote from the Commissioner's eye regardless of the beam in his own. According to him, the Commissioners have been merciless, but what word will expressthe conduct of men like himself and like ourselves who employ in proportion ten times as many boys as the Commissioners ? It is possible that the labor party, as represented by the I Unions, would not be unwilling to follow King Herod's example, and organize a general slaughter of male children. Some day we shall possibly have a Bill introduced to make it criminal to employ boys, and to this we have no objection, because there are men who candidly believe that such employment should be limited. We recognise the right of the Unions to demand this, but we do not recognise the right of a man with a drove of boys at his back to fire shots at other people's boys.

Constable Robert Darby, of Carterton, has been gazetted an inspector of weights and measures.

. Applications are invited through our columns for the position of roadman to the Upper Taueru Road Board.

Mr James Catt notifies through our columns that he will not be responsible fo any debts incurred in his name.

Although the football tournament at Carterton to-day has been abandoned in consequence of its being an infringement of tho English Itu?by Union rules, a match is to be played between the Red Star and Pirate Clubs, which should be a great attraction. The total number of men at the Palmers! on Encampment is 1,2"6 from the following districts : Wellington, 7 corps 347 ; Wanganui and Taranaki, 8 corps, 281; Napier, 6 corps, 222; Nelson and Marlborough, 8 corps, 853; Permanent Artillery, 53. I'iofessor Channing, the eminent American Phrenologist and Palmist, who has had such a peculiarly successful career in Masterton, is making a fortnight's stay at Jones' Temperance Hotel, Eketahuna, where he may be consulted until April 14th, on which date ho loayes for Pahiatua. The cocksfoot harvest in Akaroa Peninsular is a big tliin?. An estimate for this year is 36,000 sacks, or over 5000 less than last year. In 1886 the product was 57,652 sacks. The same calculator reckons there will be a shortage of 17,200 sacks this year, as compared with last year, tor all New Zealand.

The Tarztutki News heara that »he Waitara Freezing Works will shortly be enlarged, so that the capacity for storage will be doubled. The new plant will be available for loading the next direct steamer, and the proceis of loading is expeotdd not to exceed thirty-sis hours at the most.

The weather for tho holiday to-day is gloriously fine, and is being taken full advantage of by the pleasure-seeking public. Many have proceeded by tram to Tauherenikaa, whilst others have gone thither by brakes and other vehicle". Numerous picnic parties have been organised, and are disporting themselves in the country. A trotting match on the Opaki course has drawn a good many who can appreciate a Rood spin, and others have proceeded to the Carterton Sports. Altogether our quiet lictle community ii going in for a real, solid, "Begone Dull Care" day's enjoyment.

The following appears as a letter in the Lijttellon Times"l expect some of your readera will laugh when they are told that buttermlk is a reputed cure for consumption. Not long ago a paragraph went the round of the papers possibly their own, of a lady being completely cured by drinking buttermilk. 1 once saw a saorofulou3 ulcer of 26 years' standing cured in a few dnyg by using buttermilk cloths. The cloths were saturated in buttermilk and applied to the part affected. Laugh away you incredulous one*, but it it will cure a disease of 26 years' standing on the skin may it Dot be good taken internally, as well as externally?" We copy the following graDhic incident from the luminous columns of the Catholic Times, which shows that a mother-in-law in need in a mother in law indeed :—The mighty, thiilhng, throbbing enterprise which boasts the Archimedean lever which moves the world is not dead. In other words the country editor, who is also proprietor, comp., and devil, still shaketh the dewdrops from his leonine mane, and sitteth up and howleth at the coy advertiser. There is a certain country town, perhaps in Timbuctoo, perhaps grouped around the Arctic Circle, may-be in the Wairarapa—what know we? But there is a town, and it has two newspapers—one, old and established, the other, new and not so established. A peripatetic advertiser came along and gave the old newspaper an ad., and then went home to sleep and await custom. "When the new newspaper man saw that ad. ni his rival's columns, he rose in his majesty *nd n.ight, and sent a boy down to obtain "a share of your advertising favors." The advertiser refused, not once but many times, and his language was bad. At whioh the nr wspaper man snorted a good deal, and wrote two columns of a leader about " The Gross neglect of the Commercial Community to take advantage of the Archimedean lever," and went down himself and lied frightfully and inconsistently about his circulation to the stranger, who remained calm and obdurate. Then that newspaper man went home and illused the cafe and the crogkery, and sent down his mother in law and lier gingham to the advertiser. And that good old Mother in Israel pranced round the man with i'her umbrella, and whooped wild whoops at him, and returned in triumph with a three shilling advertisement. Since which several newspapers have discharged their canvassers, and have burnished ijp their mothers-in-law, and turned them loose upon society with lurid glare m their eyes and warts ou their noses. And this is a truo tale. The Tailoring department at the Bon Marche iB assvimingenormous dimensions The quantity of clothing turned out in this department requires to be soen to be credited. The make and fit is equal to some of ths best Webt End tiilors, the linings and trimmings are also of the best quality, The priqes vary from 40s to 90s the suit according to the quality of tweed selected. A visit to Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co.'s warehouse will repay the trouble. Over two thousand patterns of tweed all shown to select from.

The public are invited to inspect the New Shipments ot winter goods just opening up at the Bon Marche. Messrs. L. J. Hooper and Co notify the arrival of a large quantity of novelties for the Coming Winter Season. This firm has always hold the first place in this town for Fashionable Drapery, Millinery, etc, and no doubt their importations this season will surpass any of their previous ones. Special notice is directed to the Ladies' Show Room, which is crowded with the Latest Fashions. Further particulars will appear in a future issue ° The IK ess'and Mantle department at the Bon Marche is a sight to lovers of fashion yery aeldopi met with. All the newest designs and materials in Dress Goods are now being exhibited together with trimmings etc to match. ! A first class Dressmaker with a large staff of assistants is kept on premises to meet the requirements of the ladies. Good fit and style at moderate prices guaranteed. . , „ A visit to their Spacious and well Lighted Warehouse is solicited by L; J, Hooper? and Co.. Drapers and tilothiera, M»tejrton.

A Salvationist advertisement in a Napier paper runs as follows : " High Jinks tonight at the now fortress; don't forgot to bring your tin whistles. All invited."

When a girl (-uts to 35 she's fond of being catled Daisy, if that should happen to be her firct name. At 16 she insists on bemy called Miss Smith.

A man named JLSurch attempted suicide at New Plymouth recently in a queer fashion Ho opened the lid of a well thirty feet deep, and \va3 about to plunge into eternity, when a ueighhor rushed forward and caught him, as he was falling, by the leys. At Sanson, Mr Grant, the schoolmaster, has hit upon a happy expedient for tho formation of a school library Every pupil was inyited to bring a book to form the nucleus, and the result was that, in a day or two, an excellent little library o.f over 100 volumes had accumulated.

The race between Charles Stephenson (champion of New Zealand) and Neil M&tterson, for £2OO a-side, took place on Friday over the championship course. The New Zealander led from the start, winning easily in 22min oOisecs.

Mr James Bull *as treated to a very disagreeable surprise on Monday morning. Having divected his men, with a threshing machine, to work on three stacks of last season's oats, which had been sold on delivery, they found that rats and mice had eaten almost every grain from the straw. After threshing for two hours, only half a bushel was obtained. Mr Bull the'i arrived, and stopped the work as altogether unprofitable, therefore only half a bushel of oats has been obtained from the three stacks.—Advocxtc.

Writing to Mr. Buick, M, H. R., a contemporary says:— "You aro too young yet to think of influencing the wor'.d. Take a friendly hint, and stock your Cosmos with useful knowledge and tho underlying principles of things. Take in before you seek to give out. You may be a Pitt in disguise. At four-and-twenty you may be destined to persuade New Zealand to look at things through your spectacles, but then consider what failure means.''

She was the handsome daughter of a very wealthy pastoialist, and she was coining out from Europe by tlip, P. and 0. m charge of soma friends of her family- -There was a young spris/ of aristocracy on board, locking "ut for a wife with money. He paid her great attention. But there was evidently some arrierc penscc, and one day it was revealed, wheu he blurted out the question, "Miss M'Ramsay, you're a daughter of Mr M'Kamsay, of Wollywolla, aren't you?" "Oli, dear no," was the start" ling replj', " my father is a butcher." The questioners attentions to the lady suddenly ceased. Afterwards he learnt his mistake, and began again, but only took a Bnubbing for his pains.—"Aulus'' in the "Australasian."

The Palmerston T/mrs says :—" The Knights of Labor in Masterton have evidently no faith in the Minister of Lands to promote settlement, and cordially disapprove of the new regulations. In order to endeavor to convince the Minister of his folly they have arranged to ssnd a deputation to him asking for important alterations to be made in the regulations. They ask indeed for radical chinges, including the re-instatement ot tho right of purchase conceded by tho late Ministry, and that a longer term be allowed before residence is compulsory. They also desire that the rent free period should be made longer. When the Knights have got through the regulations the Ministor will not recognise his own creation. They evidently prefer tho law as it was to the law as it has been made by the Ministor. A member of the deputation which will wait on the Minister was in Palmeroton yesterday." The following scathin? denunciation of a mock modest individual is from the Oamaru Mail: —Hypocrisy, says La Rochefoucauld, is the homage that vice pays to virtue. A correspondent in our morniup contemporary has been uttering a protest against a miniiter of this town for his "reprehensible conduct" in reading the first chapter of Kuth to a mixed congregation. We miacook the letter at first for a j"ka in somewhat bad taste, but a second communication, emanating from the same source, shows that this extraordinary protest was penned in real earnest. It would be difficult to take the Bible, and point ta a »nore magnificent chapter than the cue in Question. It is one of the most beautiful of the many beautiful passages of Scripture, both from a literary point of view and from the lessons that inav be gathered from it. It is doubtful whether the English language can show a sweeter, simpler, or more pathetic word-picture of filial devotion that that of Ruth contained in this chapter, and it is a lossou vhich might, with advantage, be brought under the notice of the rising generation oftener than it is. The moral purulence of a nature that could extract an evil thought from the passage is lamentable. There ate those who have nothing chaste but their ears aud nothing virtuous but their tongues, and if '' Advance's" sensibilities are so prudishly tender he had better retire to a monastery. He will probably object that tho le<?i of the harmonium- are not clothed with trousers, or enquire, with bated breath, w a critic recently prophesied men of high class would shortly enquire, if it was really true that people undressed before going to bed, and that the authorities still permitted sea-bathing on certain portions of the coast. There is a rich yarn told in a southern at the expanse c«f " the force." A proseoution was recently instituted by the police authorities against some person bathing in a prohibited place, or at prohibited hours, 0«9 of the questions put in the witness-box to the constable who laid the information was as to the sex of the fathers. After a little hesitation, he said he did not know, and the charge was dismissed. As the constable left the Police Court he was heard to mutter, "How the devil could I tell whether they were Uathol'C3 or Protest ints, and what did it matter at all, at all ?"

A hyphen is an insignificant looking thing, but that it has its value has recently been exemplified by its accidently omission from an advertisement which appeared in a contemporary in the following form:—" Mrs and Miss kave left off c'othin? of every description. An inspection invited." Of course the object was to inform the public that the ladies in question dealt in second-hand apparel. The Marlborough Jixpress says Sergeant-Major Bezar, who leaves here this evening with the Volunteers, deserves a word of praise for the manner in which he ha 3 attended to the duties of his office during f /be time he has been here. The Sergt-Major b now an old officer in the colonial forces, he has some good ideas as to what Volunteering demand from the country, and is reckoned to be one of the smartest drills in the Colony. He takes with him the good wishes of the Volunteers of Blenheim.

Dresses—we have now opened out out two first shipments of autumn and winter dress fabrics, which have come to us recently by tho steamers Aorangi and Arawa, We may conscientiously afiirm that no finer, moro varied, or well selected goods have ever previously passed in the portals of Te Aro House, JJbksbes—ln the limited space at our command, there is not room to Rive anything like an adequate description ef our new autumn dress goods, but it is sufficient to say that they are of excellent vaiue, of superior finish, well assorted in styles and colourings, well adapted to meet the tastes of our numerous lady patrons We solicit an early inspection of these, at Te Aro House. Duessmaking—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 fitt Ladies who want their dresses early should at once place their orders at Te Aro Bouse, Jackeis. Mantles ash Ulsters-We have opened out a very fine assortment of these, in all fashionable makes, styles,colours, shapes and sizes. Ourmantleroom is now filled with all the latest novelties, such as should induce an early visit to To AroHouse,—Adyj.

Mr. J. B. limes, late of the Queen St Educational Depository, is now fairly established in his new business in Willis St Wellington. Mr. limes is both enterprising and popular, and should be successful in hi? new venture.

For the two days the .Napier Park Racing Club >yC £10,927 through the total isator, which is the largest amount that has ever been invested in the machine at a meeting in Hawke's li»y. Tho funeral of the late Kuto Butle r took place yesterday, a large number of residents, out of .sympathy fur the friends of ihe deceased, following the remains to the grave. The funeral obsequies were conducted in an impressive manner by Mr. E. Feist.

The Tapm'ti Courier remarks that there is plenty of rabbitin? in the country districts of Ota<;o to abs orb all tho unemployed iu Dunedin. If the men could provide themselves with an equipment for rabbit catching now that the factories are at work, they could earn fair wages. The Makino conespondent of tho Rangitikei Advocate writes :—A tolerably largo number of sheep, principally lambs, in tho Makino district, have been stricken with blindness. The disease usually runs its course in a few days. The majority ot those afl'ected recover, but some remain permanently blind. Some of the farmers attribute the cause of the disease to grass seed getting into the eyes. Referring to the Woodville-Eketahuna line the Canterbury Times says;—lf Mr Seddon's outspoken support of the project of completing the Eketahuna line bears fruit, we are sure that the whole of the South Island will rejoice with their northern friends. By all means let the north nave all the facilities that it requires to make its railway system profitable. The more profitable that part of the railway system is the more profitable will it be for New Zealand,"