The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3799, 1 May 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1891.

On Tuesday next nine councillors have to be nominated for the Borough of Masterton, three for the East Ward, three for the West Ward, and three for the Outer Ward. It is very probable that at least eighteen candidates will be brought forward fop the nine places, because the old

party fight has still to be fought at the cost of the ratepayers. Mr Renall, to whom we are indebted for

the new sub-division, has a party led by Messrs Pownall, Eton andCullen, which will make eyery effort to win the contest. The other side has perhaps no recognised leader, though it possesses some pretty staunch veterans in Messrs Perry, Ghamberlain and Hessey. Mr Gapper we

know not how to place. Sometimes we have seen him helping Mr Renal l and at others opposing him. Nothing sliCrt of the absolute aud undisputed subraist(!oa of burgesses

and councillors to the will of Mr

Ronall is likely to satisfy that amiable despot, and even the Queenstreet Water Supply Committee which, under the chairmanship of Mr Hooper, was called into existence by Mrltenall's desire, found that the only thing its members had to do was to listen and obey. The coming

election must run on the lines we have indicated. It is virtually Renallites v anti-Renallites and this

will be the mam issue. No doubt other considerations will affect many burgesses. A boundary line is drawn between the centre of the town and the outskirts, between the urban and suburban population. The town

proper returns six Councillors, and what is termed the " outer ward" contributes three more. Let us bope the business men in the centre of the town will be sufficiently alive to their j own interests to bring two or three j of their own number forward, not

I to fight the party squabble but to look after the interest? of the ratepayers. There' ought to be sufficient intelligence in the town and sufficient business capacity to secure a really efficient administration of its affairs. The misfortune is that so few of the leading burgesses care to come forward. They

have perhaps in times past taken a turn in the Council, and fourul the endless talking which has been wont to prevail there, so wearying that they threw up their seats in

disgust. One burgess who had an experience of this kind tried to get through the trouble by quietly going to sleep when the debates commenced, but even he, after a while found that the Council Chamber was not comfortable even as a sleeping apartiaepi and so gave up his horse-shoe chair. The whole Borough administration requires ve- 1 organising. If it were conducted as systematically and intelligently as the County Council it would probably despatch its business with a short

monthly gathering instead of a long fortnightly meeting. One or two good business men, a single man perhaps, if the one happened be a Mr Lowes, could do a good deal towards putting municipal affairs on a better footing.

The population of the Borough of Wanganui is now 5017, an increase of UG since JBBG.

To-morrow (Saturday) is the monthly pay day of the Masterton and Grey town Building Societies.

Some flutter is being caused at Westport at the steps being taken for the cancellation of several coal leases locked up by speculators. A witness in a Court case in the Dune diti district- refused either to be sworn or to make an affirmation, taking his stand upon the Scriptmal injunction, "Swear not at all."

The following is the comparative raiafall registered at Otahuao for the j past month April, 1891, 2.55 inches on ten days ; 1890, 1.89 inches on six ! days ; 1889, 0.55 inches oil eight days. Whilst chrysanthemum shows ar® being held in nearly every township in the colony, horticulturists in Masterton are takiii" no action whatever in this direction. There is, however, an I'bundance of thu flowers. Rumour hath it that the warders of the various gaols in New Zealand are to be retrenched, and the institutions are to be placed under the charge of the' prisoners undergoing the longest sentence. Liberalism again ! The peregrinations of an escaped monkey caused great excitement amongst, the children attending the infant school this morning, and resulted, we should say, in the youngsters receiving a proportionate number of "cuts" to the hours they were late. A bankrupt in the District Court tried (says the Paluierston 'Standard 1 ) to make his hearers believe that he had been working a concern on the cooperative principle, but his methnd was to taks all the proceeds, while his employees did all the work. The aunupi meeting: of the Alfredton Licensing Committee will be held on Wednesday, 10th June. Mr Meecheam, one of the oddest settlers of the Woodville district, died on Tuesday last from inflammation of the lungs. " Remember the Commune," wrote a foolish secretary of shearers in Queensland. He is now in gaol.

Owing to lus medical advisers stating there is no possibility of Bishop Suter, of Nelson, returning to bis duties, he will resign the bishopric almost immediately.

Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their sale for Wednesday next 27 yearlings and weanerß.

It is expected that in the hearing of the case of breaking and entering against the niau Harry Morley, some li?ht will be thrown on the recent attempt at incendiarism at Alfrodton.

What appears to have been a deliberate attempt at murder has been committed at Barcaldine. One of the unionists gave a trooper an apple poisoned with strychnine, but by an early application of emetics the doctor saved the trooper's life.

Four thousand sheep were sent from Carterton by rail this month to Wellington for freezing purposes, This is the greatest number ever sent from there in any one month.-

Last week a woman gave birth to a child in a Sydney omnibus, and before the 'bus arrived at the terminus the woman got out and disappeared, leaving tho child behind her. When the driver found it the little one \va3 alive, but it died next day at the Beuevolent Asylum T.arge consignments of rabbits from both s'ortii and South are being daily receiyed in Dunedin either for tho tinning factory or the freezing .vorks. The Mount Ida Ghruniclv urges that as coon as the Ofcago Central railway is opened the Commissioners should give facilities for transporting rabbits from that district.

Vibitors to tho Drill Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday eveninga expressed considerable anxiety about the placards adorning the walls, which read, "Visitors are requested not to touch the exhibits." The management can no doubt put a proper interpretation upon the words! At Christchuroh, the other day, a mail was lined £2O for a breach of the Trade Marks Act, by selling Colonial porter in bottles bearing English labels. The Press in Australia began oarly to entertain a high idea of its mission. In 1824, the editor of the Hobart Towji Gazette and Van Diemau'a Land Advertiser blandly declared, "We esteem ourselves a beacon, placed by a Divine graci>>usness on the awful perilous coast of human frailty." A year afterwards he was sent to gaol for calling tho Governor " the Gideonite of tyranny," and the beacon went out with a splutter. The Paliiatua correspondent of a Southern paper -yeites : " I was lately the purchaser at ;i butcher's gliop of a piece of beef called " steak beef." On it being cut open the knife passed through a substance about two inches in diameter enclosed in fat. This substance in stiffness was something like a jelly, in color it was a ditty blue and dirty white mottled, with a dirty w lute centre • m smell it was abominably offensive, thp faf smellins? of the same, and the meat adjoining thereto smelling slightly. Can you inform iao through your Answers to Correspondents whatthis substance was? Was there anything wrong with the animal, and if so, w|iat was it ?

As the*e has bean rather a dearth of amusements iu this town of late, there is little doubt that the performance at the re-openjng of the Theatre Jtoyal oji May 18th will be wall patronised as Masterton audiencies know how to appreciate entertainments worthy of support. In addition to the exhibition of the new seneiy and decorations, the four act drama "Hand and Glove," by George Conquest and Paul Mentt, of London, will be performed, and gauging its success from the rehearsals wl)>cli have taken place a treat: is in store for of the Thespian Art, A full efficient orphestra. will, supply incidental music and this will be tho initial performance of the Masterton Dramatic Club, assisted by Messrs Briggs and Barnard. The book (Hand and Glove) was presented to Mr Briggs by the late J. L. Hall. Tickets may be .obtgioed from various business houces in town, and reserved. So far this season we have Lad extraordinary success in our dress depirtniuit. Sales have been frequent and large, thus; testifying most completely to the excel- ■ lence of our selection and th* 1 first-class j value wo are offering in autumn and winfer dress fabrics at Te Aro House. Tue fine displ -y we have continuously made iu our windows since the opening of tha season, and the various fabrics whether ticketed or not, have been the subjects of most favorable comment, and these have been duly appreciated bj satisfactory purchases, at Te Aro House. The prices we have quoted are for sterling goods, bouslic direct from the manufacturers, and specially selected by our London buyer. They are, therefore, admirably suited to tho requirements of both our city aud country customers, and we shall be pleased to tend patterns of them, free of cost, on application toTe Aro House.

It would be very easy to quote lower prices, but these are not the test of value, (Quality for quality we claim, and rightly too, to be the cheapest house for dress fabrics in the province. The continuous, and increasing support which this department feciiives is the surest proof of this, at Te Aro House.

It is 110 matter of interest to our customers to be informed us to the numbor of hands we euipUiy in our two dressmaking departments. Suffice to say that our rooms are tlie largest and best appointed in the colony ; that we have the best available talent; that our reputation for excellence of tit, finish, style 18 widely and favourably known ; and that we have two Jarge staflfe of compe tent assistant dressmaker able to cop with any amount of ordori, at Te Aro Hc-uso.—JOs'k.