The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3810, 14 May 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1891.

This time last year men flew at the throats of masters in the Empire City for increased wages and decreased hours of labor. In very many instances masters conceded the demands made upon them because they considered it a wise policy to do so, but at the same time they said openly and plainly that they had only a certain sum of money available for wages, and if they had to pay more money they would also have to employ less labor. To-day the unemployed in Wellington are getting so numerous that they have held a public meeting to promote their interests. The unemployed instead of the employed now agitate! It is sad that this should be the case. But is not the position of the-working men in the Empire City the direct outcome of their mistaken action last year ? If labour were free and untrammelled there need be no unemployed in the land. There are plenty of employers and an abundance of capital available, but unionism stands in the way. It has created a class of highly paid men at the cost of another class of men who cannot apparently get any pay at all. The Govern jjenf of course is expected to find" -work for these unemployed, and to put a pick and shovel into the hands of printers, carpenters, bakers, storemen, grooms, tailors, clerks, artists, and drapers. The onus of solving the unemployed difficulty ought to rest on the Unions which have created it.

.We have bad occasion to differ with the Chairman of the Masterton Town Lands Trust upon one point recently, but the publication of the report and balance-sheet for the past year gives results which in oar opinion conclusively prove that he is the right man in the right place. Indsed we have noticed in past years -that when Mr Lowes took a prominent part in any local institution the financial position of it rapidly improved, and that when he cease to be connected with it the credit balance which he had built up changed into a debtor balance. It is a grsat advantage to a community co have men of business capacity like Mr Lowes assisting in the direction of their local undertakings, and however much we may differ from him on points of detail we shall hope to see him continue his services as chairman to the Masterton Town Lands Trustees. The Trust is now in a strong position to carry out the objects for which it is constituted in the best possible manner, and this we take to be the granting of substantial subsidies for defined objects of utility rather than a frittering away of income in petty doles.

■ There is said to be a large and increasing detnand for property in the New Plymouth district just now. The appearance of a number of places of business in Masterton is being greatly improved by the addition of a coat of paiut.

A burning flue in the we3t ward resulted in au alarm being sounded on the Victoria-street tirebeil laßt evening.

Messrs W. W. McCardle, junr, and A. W. M. Sedoole.intendopeningabutcher's shop in Pabiatua, and a license will be applied for forthwith. The Mangatainoka School Committee has decided to tender an account tor £1 for rent of school for an electioneering meeting to Mr A. W. Hogg, M.H.R., and request payment of the same. Another shipment of 104 stoats and 428 weasels is expected to arrive by the Kaikoura next week, to the order of the North Wairarapa Rabbit Board. Mr R. J. Chapman, of Upper Plain, returns thanks to those neighbors and friends who kindly assisted at the late fire at his residence. The re-opening of the Theatre Eoyal and production of "Hand and Glove" has been postponed till the 25th inst.. We are requested to state that the orchestra is to be under tbe leadership of Herr von Keisenberg. The Rev J. 6. Paterson recently expressed the opinion at Napier that some people came into this world with threexfourths of their faculties mortgaged to the devil. Wan?anui residents have now under consideration a project for providing suitable and convenient bathing accommodation for both sexes. There is said to be quite a boom in Wanganoiat the present time, attributable principally to the rise in the price of stock, and there is scarcely an empty house in the place. Efforts are being made to form a Special Settlement Association at Featherston with the object of taking upland near Eketahuna'un'der the new regulations. The Bev W. Rowse has ' been unani mously elected President of tbe Grey town Temperance Society. I John Henderson was fined £25 for sly grog selling at Berwick. Mr H.W. Briggs, of Pahiatua, is to bo appointed a Justice of the Peace.

The Greyrown {School Committee - has passed the following resolution : "That the Education Board be requested to increase the scholarships from £3O to £CO per annum," This has been forwarded to the various Committees iu the district. The flaxniill which was burned down at Kahautara has been re«erected, and operations are to be re-commenced next .veek. There is said to be an unusual amount of poverty in Wellington at the present time, caused by men thrown out of employment by the recent strikes leaving their wives and families. Mr Robert Barton, who is leaving Featherston to take up his abode at the Lake Ferry, was presented with a purse of sovereigns ou Tuesday evening, and was entertained at a social gathering. No less than three separate claims were made upon the Manawatu Road Board at its last meeting for compensation for injuries sustained by men, horses, and vehicles through alleged defects existing in the roads under the Board's control. At the meeting of the North Wairarapa Rabbit Foard yesterday, one member mentioned casually that it was intended to proclaim stoats and weasels to be vermin. Another asked—"Who will do it ?" "The Ministry," replied the member. "Far better proclaim the Ministry vermin !" was the apt retort.

Mr Walter E. Hall, dental surgeon, ot Wellington, announces that he will visit Masterton early in June, and at further intervals of two months, should sufficient inducement be offered. As a dentist, Mr Hall's ability is .veil-known, and his many friends will be glad to hear that he intends t re-visiting this district.

Tbe MangaUinoka School Committee has decided to tender an account for £1 for rent of school to Mr A, W. Hogg, M.U.R., and request payment of the same,

The following gentlemen hive beon appointed by the North Wairarapa .Rabbit Board to supervise the work of rabbit destruction:— Messrs. C. H. Gayfer, H. Winser, F. E. Orbell and H. F. Chancellor. The Patea County Press announoes it

will cease publication at the close of the present month, The paper under one name or another has been in existence about fifteen years. It has for a long time been in a languishing condition. An interesting announcement from the Mutual Life Association of Australia appears iu this issue. The resident agent is Mr. P. Gill, txvta whom ail further information may be obtained. The Railway Commissioners deny the statements made at the interview between the Minister of Public Works and Mr Vale at Auckland. They assert that so far from the rates being raised 25 per cent, and the plant losing its value, the reverse is the case, the rates having been lpwered largely and the plant improved both in efficiency and value.

Says the Manawatu I'inm: The myrmidons of the Minister of Lands are scouring the country in their zeal to run to earth all dummisra culprits, and if they devote themselves to cases which demand enquiry their work will, no doubt, be productive of some good. When, however, they interview respoct« able settlers and subject them to lengthy and searching cross-examinations, for which they have afterwards to apologise, it is time this over-zeal in their work was somewhat restrained. It has been stated in this district that wholesale destruction has been caused in poultry yurds by the stoats and weasels liberated by the North Wairarapa Babbit Board.' To show that this is not absolutely correct we might point out that not a single instance has ciine under the notice of members of the Board in which poultry has been destroyed. On the "contrary, Mr Murray pointed out yesterday that he had liberated a number of stoats and weasels within a few feet of his poultry yard, and he had sustained no losses of poultry

Despite bad times Mr R Herrmann, of the Cuba street Photographic Galleiy, opposite Te Aro Eouse, Wellington, seems to be doing a thriving business, and no small number of those who visit him to have their likenesses taken are country residents. .Mr Hermann is admitted to be a capable artist with special knowledge of photographic chemistry, and both i.i operating and m re-touching he has produced sqrae excellent work, It is to this that he owes his liberal patronage, and also to thercoderate prices he charges when the excellent quality of his productions is taken into account.— Extract.

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