The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3793, 24 April 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1891.

The sting which the decimation of the Civil Service carries with it is the anticipation that the vacancies now being created will shortly be filled by the friends of the party in power. This anticipation, however degrading it may be to the Ministry, is honestly entertained by many intelligent and well-informed persons. Politicians of standing, who know intimately £be characters of our new rulers, assert it with confidence. They maintain that when the Government have got through the coming session they will not beritate to reward their party fol« lowers with Cjvil Service billets. Both of the Wellington evening papers have predicted this consummation, and indeed simultaneously depicted it as leading up to the Americanising of our Civil Service. Now this Americanising ia a horror from which even the liberals ought to shrink. Once in four years in the United Stains the . eagles gather round the carcase at Washington! From all the towns, villages, and hamlets ; from high life and from low life, the pulpit, die bar and the bar room—comes a greedy, ravenous, clutching, leech-like army ! of office-seekers. They worry, in dense crowds, the legislature and executive officers of the nation. No qualifications for office are asked for, there is no question of the efficiency of the applicant wlio claims a billet. He is obliged to pass no examination, it is sufficient that he possesses the , patronage of some member of the legislature. It 13 essential, however, that the aspirant for office should be a toady, and indeed it has been said that at Washington toadyism 13 reduced to a system, ■ and has attained the dignity of a science. Brilliant men, in the shape of clerks, often have to cultivate with meanness and f*sw»ng, stupid men in the shape of Congressmen; The most accomplished toady is the man surest of his place. Office holders at Washington' have foaoß kflown to say that they would rather see jfchejr sons in their coffins ih*n in a department jn Washington. TLis is the Americanising of the Civil Bervke which jt & feared that the Ministry are introducing into this Colony. This is the | Sting which makes persons who are not directly interested in the late of the victims of the Government bow j fear for the future £?od gov-1 ernmcat of New Zealand. We hope aninjustice.isnot.donetoMmistess jsy this apprehension, but it is ominouo that men of great knowledge and experience of pub!w do Believe that this, is die direction in which {he Ministry ia working. Wfi could have wished to lav the flattering unction to our soul that an honest desu/e for retrenchment prompted the Ministry, but the way they set to work aroused suspicion. When Sir Harry Atkinson practised retrenchment be cut down Ministerial galaries, and everybody knew that he was in earnest, and that ho inflicted no privation in which he was not himself prepared to share, bat in the present iaetaace

the reverse was the case, for the Premier openly advocated an increase in his own emoluments, and an enlarged honorarium. Even if Ministers claim to be above suspicion their conduct has not placed them on the pedestal where their predecessors stood.

Wheat is grown in California at a cost of |d per bushel. Labor-saving machine erydoesit. A wom&n in Melbourne recently left herhusband because he spent all his money in backing a certain football club and then revenged himself for his losses in beating her. The Mauriceville Road Board invites tenders for fifteen chains formation on Dreyer's Rock road. The Mangatarr.oka Co-operative Associations which has not long been in existence, has been wound up. The Manawatu Times considers the rise in cattle has added £1 per head to the value of store cattle. It is rumoured that the position of A?ent-Geueral is to be offered to Mr, Larnach, ex-member for the Peninsula. The Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society holds its annual meeting to-morrow (Saturday). The price of bread in the Carterton district is said to baye" been raised 10i per cent. A man named James Day has pleaded guilty to five separate charges of sly grot* selling in the Palmerston district and has been fined £io and costs. The boy Bridge, who was arrested at Palmerston for/attempting to burn down a house, has .been sentenced to six strokes of a birch rod, and committed to the Burnham Industrial School. A bachelors''e«tabsshment has been started in Carterton, and a number of young ladies, by way of encouragement, deposited a gravy spoon, a dozen clothes pegs and a porridge ladle on the verandah. The tender of Mr J. Barnard at £420 for the erection of a twelve-roomed house for Mrs Gallagher at Grey town, has boen accepted. A demonstration of the high esteem in which the Rev Itowse and his family are held in this district we a shown yesterday by the large number who assembled at the railway station to bid them " God speed." The report to be presented by the School Committee to the annual meeting of householders to be held on Monday evening next, was prepared yesterday by Mews Feist and Easthope, the subcommittee appointed for the purpose.

At the Blenheim school it is found that the attendance of the girls is affected on Mondays and .Tuesdays because of "washing days," and on Fridays, because of " cleaning up " day. The weekly parade of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers 'vas held last evening, there being a fairly good mus;er. The men, under the command of Captain Pownall, were put through their facings by the officers, and by, the manner in which they acquitted themselves it was shown that the advice tendered by Major Newall had not been without good effect. Despite bad times Mr B Herrmann, of the Cuba street Photographic Gallery, opposite Te Aro Bouse, Wellington, seems to be doing a thriving business, and no small number of those who visit him to have their likenesses taken are countrj residents. Mr Herrmann is admitted to be a capable artist with special knowledge of photographic chemistry, and both in operating and in re-touching he has produced some excellent work. It is to this that he owes his liberal patronage, and also to the moderate prces he charges when the excellent quality of bis productions is taken into account.

The grand display of autumn and winter goods made by the Wholesale Drapeiy Company last (Thursday) evening attracted large numbers of the public, and the street in the neighbourhood presented at times a very animated appearance. The show, seen to the fullest advantage beneath the brilliant gaslight i'luornation, was one of the best ever made in the district. In one poition of the eitablishment was displayed millinery and dress goods, plushes and new season's trimmings, whilst in the other wai exhibited mens,' boys' and youths' clothing of eveif description. The effect prciuced by the arrangement of the goods, which were not only shown in the windows but occupied also the whole of the floor, was pleasing in the extreme, ard reflects the greatest credit upon the dressers, Messrs. Millinguou, Murray and Pragnell. Altogether Mr. Dickson is to be congratulated upon being in possession of a stock sufficiently comjirehen«ive to permit of such an elaborate display as that made lat>t evening. On Saturday evening an old man named Robert Stockes, aged 73, was taken suddenly ill at his residence in Thebarton, a suburb of Adelaide, and after a nisrht of terrible agony snd iits of vomiting, died on the following morning. In the meanwhile his son Robert, aged 41, began to show similar symptoms of sickness, and died shortly before 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Both of tfee deceased men had previously shown no s'gus of illness, aud it has been conjectuied death was caused through eatin? some tripe on Saturday for dinner. As other members of the family, however, partook of the same food and showed no signs of illness this supposition would appear to be erroneous. The elder man was the father of a large family, while his son, who was a saddle and harness "maker, leaves a widow and four children, Weareglad to learn that ourßportsiren and others can now have stagsheads and birds mounted m the highest style, as John Jacobs, the. professional preserver of birds, flah, an,d animals, has arrived here from London. Highest prwe gjven for huias, crows, New Zealand quail, and other birds, stags heads and shins. Feathers cleaned, dyed and curled, fur skins tanned anddrebsed, rabbit skins made into rugs, bullock's horns polished and mounted in the h-ghest style.. Drders left at Mr F. Meenken's, close to Bank of New Zealand, Carterton, or Mr Catt's, Ha ; r Dresser.— -Apvx.

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 largequanipity of novelties for the Coming winter Season. This firm has always held the first place in this town for Fashionable Drapery, Millinery, etc, and no doubt their importations this eason will surpass any of their previous ones. Special notice, is directed to the Ladies' Show B,o#m, wbjch is crowded with the Latest Fashions. Further Particulars will appear in a future issue of this paper.' The Tailoring department at the Bon Marche is assKmingenormous dimensions : The ouariity of clothing turned oat in this department requires to be soen to be credited. The make and fit is' equal to some of tha "best Wen.t End tutors, the: linings and trimmings are also of the best' quality. The prices vary from 4Qs to 9()s the' adding the quality of tweed selected. 'A vjsit'to Messrs L. J. Hooper .and Co.'s warehouse will repay the troubV Over two thousand patterns of tweed all shown, to selegt frpm. The Dress and Mantle deparirnen to the Bon Marche is a sight to lovers of fashion yery seldom met with. A firefc claw Dressmaker with a large staff of assistants i* kept ou premises to meet the requirements of ths ladies. Good £t and r ßtyle ap prices guaranteed! '"'"' ' All the newest designs and materials in Dseijs Goods are iiow beu.g exhibited together with iriuvjzings etc to match. " A visit to their Spacious' wid yell Lighted Warehouse is solicited by iL, J, Hooper and Go., Drapers and Clothiers, Maste|.twu, For the seasonable, ti»e attractive, the fascinating in material, shapes, styles, and the very latest fashions and novelties just to hrnd per steamer Bimutaka, ladies shou'd not fa :I . to embrcce the opportunity now offered, and pay a visit to the mantle department atTeAro House.

Napier is the only port in the North Island where compulsory pilotage is charged. In the immediate vicinity of Danevirk*), says the Telegraph, about 2000 acres of land have been cropped with turnips this year for sheep feed. The Advocute says that a gentleman is reported to bare cleared £75 at a sale at Bulls, by simply taking delivery of 50 J sheep at 10s each from a vendor, and at once selling them at 13s 2d each under the hammer. A good judgment as to 'the state of the market can be turned to some value at times. In the R.MrCourt yesterday afternoon, before Colonel Roberta, 8.M., a case iJunyard y Lear was heard, in which the plaiutiff applied tora a order for £43 7s on a judgment summons. Mr Pownall appeared for the plaintiff and Mr Beard for the defendant. After hearing the argument of counsel the Bench refused the application. The returns ot the Adelaide wheat crop from central, lower north, upper uoith, southeastern and western divisions of the province give the grand total of 10,513,890 bushels, from an area of 1,753,832 acres, or an average of six bushels per acre. Mr McOill, of Gladstone, Invercargill, thinks it would pay small sectleia to try a few acres of linseed. He has been very successful with a small crop this year, which he ostimates to yield at the rate of 2? or 30 bubhels to the acre. A portion was sown on the 20th October and the rest in November.

It is a distinct sign of the times (says the Herald) that families arriving in Wanganui experience the greatest possible difficulty in procuringsuitable houses distances hems' numerous where occupants who have signified their intention of removing to other localities are besieged by applicants only too eager to take the house to be vacated. Says the Advocate : —The petition having for its object the securing of a free pardon to Mr W. Tilcker has been forwarded by Colonel Gorton to the Governor. The number of sijnatures on it might have been increased by a very large number, but those it now bears are considered sufficiently numerous to indicate public opinion on the matter. The Ljttelton Times says that it has the best reasons for knowing that the question of the appointment of a successor to Sir A. D. Bell, as AgentGeneral, has not been considered by Ministers. It also declines to believe that Ministers even contemplated taking such a sten as the purchase of the Manawatu railway, which is altogether uncalled for at the present time. It ia rumored (says an exchanga) that Mr Justice Richmond is not unlikely to retire on a pension before the present Government cease to hold office, and that the Hon. Mr Buckley would in that case be appointed to the vacancy thus caused.

A good, if not altogether unfamiliar, story is current in Melbourne in connection with the reporting fraternity. At some public fnnction or auother the refreshments included a supply of sandwitches, ifispying these, a reporter given to grandiloquent language asked ot the presiding waiter—"Are these pro bono publico ?" " No, sir," replied the waiter, ''they'ro'am," The 'Xapanui Courier remarks that there is plenty of rabbiting in the country districts of Otasro to absorb all the unemployed in Dunedin, if the men could provide themselves with an equipment frr rabbit catching, now that the factories are at work, they could earr fa'? wages. In an article on the decadence of the Maoris, the New Zealand Herald says that the land courts were more fatal than the wars. The meetings of the land courts necessitated great gatherings ot hundreds of Maoris around some hotel at a distance lrom their settlements. There they lay huddled for months under some wretched apology for a cent, drinking themselves insensible whenever they could with poisoned alcohol, and dying rapidly with fever and consumption.

A meeting of the Mutch Committee of the Masterton Rifle Volunteers wa3 held last evening, when it was decided to fire a match with the Eketahuna Rifle Club on Friday, May Ist, The following team was chosen for the occasion:— Lieuts. Thompson and tluoper, Sergts, Woods, Matthews and Peacock, Corporals Ho then s, G. Bentley, Blaine, McKenzie and Hoar, and Volunteers Perry Eton, Hofhens and White. Arrangements are also being made for a match with Whakataki at an early date. Qu : te a sensation was caused in Hampden recently by the report that a number of men employed in a mill in that township had been poisoned. It appears that through some mistake the water used to infuse the tea was obtained fronj a tub which had been uied for mixing sheep dip. When the men returned to work, one by one they commenced to feel ill, and they became so bad that all who had partaken of the tea had to eo home, and some had to take to their beds.

At the last meeting of the Palmeraton Borough Council one member called another a "thickhead " aud the moulted one said to his maligner, "If you say that about me again, I'll give you aclin under the ear." The Manawatu Times in Connection with this, says that a cable has been serifi to Larry Foley, the world famed boxing instructoy, asking him jf he will accept an engagement to give members of local bodies such instruction as will enable them to carry on "discussions " at meetings. The Hawera Star says:—The Maoris who voted twice in the New Plymouth election pleaded guilty and were sent to gaol for a week, the Judge saying that he believed they had voted in sheer ignorance of the law. One of the prisoners, Renie, asked why Mr F. A. Cartington whs let off with a light fine while they were sent to gaol for the same thing. His Honor said he knew nothing about Carrington's case.—Reine ttien stated that it seemed there was one law for the rich European and another for the Maori. He thought that ail should be treated alike.—His Honor said he agreed with that.—Mr Spaudjsn said that Mr Carrington's case was a d'ffc-ent one. His Honor again replied he bid nothiug to do with Mr Carrington'B case, and jhe subject dropped, t It is not often the bailiff, when executinga distress warrant, drops unexpectedly on such a h*ul as happened in Wanpanui last week, when the officer of the Court in levying a distress warrant on the goods and chattels of Mrs Casselis, of the Occidental Hotel, found in the pocket of an old dress a sum of £l6O. The lady (says tb.9 Herald) was on a temporary visit to Mr Beasley's establishment at! J.he time, and was much disgusted when She heard of her plant being so unexpectedly sprung She refused, however to sign an order for the' amount or the verdict and costs befog pud out of the money, which, we befie/e, ia still impounded awa'tirg the lady's signature to satißiy the bailiff's claim against her The Salvation Army Musical Troupe is to'be in Masterton" for Sunday arid Monday, and if the many "When are you coming back agains" are anything to go by we prophecy a splendid reception. The Musical Festival on Monday nigh}: is to wind up with a col?ee supper. Admissjgn to both f/-, Festival only (id. —Aovi.