The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1891

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3827, 5 June 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1891

The Mnsterton Licensing Committee evidently feels it has a divided duty. It owes a debt to the Temperance party which can only be paid by prohibition, but it has an obligation under the Incensing Act which compels it to regulate rather than prohibit the traffic. It has decided to regulate stringently during the current year. At the same time there is a decided indication that the prohibition claw is only sheathed, and may, under certain circumstances, be felt at any moment. Practically the decision of the Committee amounts to a compromise which will be accepted by ; moderate men as quite satisfactory. Of course the extreme party on either side will be discontented.

We have received a communication from i correspondent at Eketahuna with reference to the recent appointment of Justices of the Peace, but fail to see the " point." All the correspondence in the world would not unseat, the new lumi naries.

It appears that the boy Snell, the accident to whom we recorded yesterday, was playin? about some machinery,when his hand got caught in the corn crusher, and two of his fingers were torn completely off. I The Feilding Star says : " Having in view the possibility of a dissolution, and consequent general election, the Government are "dumpiug down" the unemployed in " weak places," where they may be useful as "free and enlightened " electors.

Another good man gone wrong! The latest to take advantage of the Bankruptcy Act is Mr G. H. Pope, schoolmaster, of Tinui. The labour party in Sydney made strenuous but unavailing efforts to induce Sir George Grey to remain over the elections, to assist them. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was on Tuesday installed Grand Master Mark Mason.

The members of the legal fraternity in Palmerston North are taking steps in the direction of forming a law library.

The Press Association sent lis the following interesting item from Christ" chureh yesterday:—"There, were no deputations to Ministers to-day." Just fancy, no deputations! The next we will hear is that there has been no banquet. The following letter, which has a sort of " wiitten on the premises" flavor about it, appears in the columns of our local contemporary:—Sir-,As a member of the New Zealand Alliance, I object that the organisation should be used by Messrs Easthope and Wood to wreakf their petty spite upon the proprietor oWairarapa Star, and drag the Temper ance cause through the mud, to forward their own ends. Yours, Blub Ribbon.

The census returns show the population of London to be 4,211,000. In the R.M. Court this morning, judgment was given for plaintiff in tie case tjhute v Gill, claim for rent, for i>6 10s and £llßs coats.

_ A powerful syndicate is arranging to light the cily of Melbourne by electricity. The motive power will be water, and the capital of the company will probably be £300,000.

It will be interesting to a number of Mastertonians to know that judgment was given for the Picturesque At.'as Company, at Dunedin, in the case in whjch that Company sued certain residents for instalments due on the Atlas.

Messrs. Lowes and lorns announce their next Stock Sale for Wednesday, Juue 17th.

The last trip of the Hon Mr. Seddon from Auckland to Wellington, says the Feildiug Sfar, cost the colony as much as would maintain a country school for a year.

Judge Webb, of Victoria, said recently that human life in the Colony was less regarded than at any time within his memory.

The Opunake correspondent of the New Zealand Herald states that Auckland grown apple" have been fetching 6d per lb there, and that lemons are also being imported from the North. The weekly parade of the Masteiton Bifle Volunteers was held in the Drill Hall last evening, Chptain Pownall in charge. The men were put through various exorcises by Sergeant-Major Finn.

Municipal councillors aro great at oral artillery. The Ballarat town councillors had a debate recently, and wh'le the Mayor was speaking his voice shook down the lamp. They appear tc have a very great liking for lectures up Woodville way. The Examiner of Wednesday says:— "No oue attended Captain Jackson Barry's lecture to have been held on Monday evening, aad it. therefo lapsed."

It is reported that the Woodville branch of the Knights of Labour are funning a Special Settlement Aisociation and have applied for a block of land across the Mana vatu river abutting oa tbe Masterton-Mangahao Block. It is understood that the City Licensing Bench of Dunedin has decided to clos seven houses forthwith, five others during the current year, and another fiye twelve months afterwards.

At a prohibitionist meeting the other night at Ttmaru the Rev Mr Williams said that " down in the depths of hell there would be joy over the fact that the liquor party had been placed on the top of the poll of the Licsnsinf Committee election,"

The Westport Times says this is the way a tenderer tor a county work concluded his offer to the Council on Wednesday : "lama man with a heavy family ; I enclose cheque for same." A resident oi Lytcelton, who has a son in the North Island engaged in bush felling, recently received a letter from him, in which he stated that work at bush felling was plentiful, and that good wages could be earned by a willing man. The writer, who is in his teens, said he was earning 5s per day.—Qamaru Mail

The Government have formed themselves into a sort of labour bureau, and have exercised themselves in finding employment fcr those who will not seek it for themselves, There is plenty of work, as we have frequency pointed out, in the Colony, and the Government have no i igbt to advertise ub as being possessed of such an army of unemployed. A settler at Opunake wrote only yesterday to a Wellington paper to say that labour in that district was very scarce, and men far farm work could not be procured. Ihe Auckland Observer says : " A little bird whispers that the convict Chemis, who was sentenced to penal servitude for ljfe for a murder committed atWellington and is now an inmate of Mouut Eden prison, recently attempted suicide, The prison authorities are extremely reticent, but it is said Chemis managed lo secret some Bharp instrument and opened a vein in his arm, and when discovered had almost bled to death."

The Waipawa Mail has the following: —"Wliat are thu essential qualifications now for an appointment; or) the Commission of the Peape ? It is easier to ask this question than to answer it. It is much easier tc enumerate what are not the essential qualifications, Amongst these may be mentioned a love of justice, a spirit of fair play, courteous manners, a knowledge of law, the respect and good will of neighbours, even an ordinary education. Notthaj; the possession of any ef these qualities is a positive disqualification, but they are easily outweighed by other considerations.

Thj Dresden Piino Co. of Lambton Quay, Wellington, have supplied pianus to the following concerts, etc., thus demonstrating jn public by the leading professionals and others the superiority of the Company's instruments Wellington Harmonic Society, Mr. Hard wick's Benefit Concert, Mr. J.B. Connolly's Grand Concert assisted by the "Wellington Orchestral Society, Rev. Mr. Isitt's Grand Deaonptjye American Lecture, St. Mary's Convent Schools, St, Mark's Chuach, Congregational Church Sale of Work, Bellrpgers, Grand Musical Fe fcival of Unit*.. Sunday School Cliojr, Wellington Horticultural and Florists Society'? Grand Chrysanthemum Show, Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Si. .ety, Hibernian Grand National Conceit, St, Joseph's Orphanage Bazaar, Star of Newtown Lodge, and McGlashan's Orchestral Concert.

A funny little incident occurred at a river port town not far from New Plymouth recently. A crew were being paid off by the new owner of a boat. The owner wrote out the cheques, and after handing one to a certain menjber of the crew he received a receipt "without prejudice." The owner enquired the reason of his signing in this manner, and received the replv, "that £2O more was owing than the cheque was for." . Some tall talk eoßiiei after this, as' the fresh /ability was denied, the end of it being u!iat the owner demanded the pheque back or a recopt in full, but was received with a point blank refusal. This was enough for the owner, who at once seized the offender, shook him, made him disgorge the cheque, and then chucked .him our of the office. Fresh developments are anticipated in the matter.—Taranaki Herald. \

Mr E. P. Grcville, assistant surveyor in the Pahiatua and Makuri districts, has forwarded a report of the progreaß made with the unemployed who went up there road making Ifttely. The report saya that of the 87 men who arrived on the scene, 67 have been put on the Makairo road, near Pahiatua, I*2 are on the Makuri road, 6 have obtained work in the district, and two have returned to Wellington through ill health, one of the latter, William Carton, suffering from an attack of typhoid, fever. The men have been divided up into parties, each being given a section of road measuring 12 chains. The Government expect to pay the wives of the men any mouey due to their husbands on Tuesdaj next.

A grand display of new winter goods is being made this day at the Bon Marche, Messrs HGoper and Co. having just received another shipment of 35 cases and bales, consisting of all the latest designs in Millinery, Mantles, Jackets, Ulsters, Cloaks, Dress Goods, Furs, Eibbons, Rain Cloaks, Parasols, Flowers, Feathers, &c„ &p„ Also from the Kaiapoi, Roslyn.Mosgjel,Wellington and Onchunga mills, Men's, Youths', and Boys' Clothing, Overcoats, Knicker Underclothing, Pants, Shirts, Socks, Blankets, Shawls, Surgerings, Tweeds, Flannels, Shirtings, Dress Tweeds, &o , &c. These goods are now being shown at L. J. Hooper and Co's Bon Marche. We direct special attention to our Hosiery, Gloves, Haberdashery and Manchester departments. We are not to be beaten in the colony for Calicoes, Sheetings, LiuiLgs, Shirting?, Table Damasks, and all household furnishings, and our Hosiery and Gloves are trom the best known makers. L, J. Hooper and Co., Bon Marche.

The Town Clerk ct Grey town (Mr Webster) haa received notice that at the expiration of three months his services will be dispensed with.

A sensational rumor that the morgue at Kaiapoi has been broken into by someone in search of anatomical specimens, was started there the other day, but was unfounded.

Immense cooperage works at Brook, lyn have been destroyed by tire. The damage is estimated at two million dollars.

John Bannister was charged in the B.M. Court this morning with allowing a horee to trespass on the railway line at Mauriceville. Pleading guilty, he was fined fiye shillings and £2 costs.

J)Y-r having in their possession sheep infected with lice, Messrs. Alexander Wal«er, C. R"gers .7unr, Hugh Cameron and Thomas Uripps were fined twenty shilhugs and costs, in the R.M. Court this morning.

Unionism is not dead. The feeling is still hot against .free laboir, as the following story will show : —Somewhere in Hawke's Bay there is a sheepfarmer who has insured his buildings in the Norwich Union office, and on each building so insured there is a tin plate athxed bearing the name and arms of the office. There was work goin? on in the wool-shed, and a couple of swaggers called iu to see if there was a job. Observing the tin plate on the side of the wall, one said to the other, "By Jove, Bill, we have come to the right shop ; this here is a union shed. See they have even got the balance and scales." "Tell you what it is mate." said the other, the union has get the balance of power and we'll keep it." The mere word "union" waß quite enough for those two idiots; they never saw the word "Norwich" above it. — Napier Telegraph. Referring to the exodus of population the Napier Telcqraph remarks : With the exception of Measss Ward and Beeves, who have had the good sense to hold their tongues, no Minister has spoken without creating the impression that the sooner we leave the colony the better. The mob iB being humbugged by such men as Seddon and McKenzie in exactly the same way' as the Unionists were humbugged by their leaders. These two loud-voiced ignorant bullies are tramping the couhtry proclaiming the rise and intentions of the '-'Liberal Government," as though for- the first time in the world's history the goßpel of mercy and truth, righteousness and liberty, had been preached and put in practice! A further lot of our celebrated English blankets has iust come to hand per ship Nelson, and are now ready for selection at Te Aro House.

This shipment comprises in /ill over 600. pairs of the yery best blankets It is possible to buy in the various qualities, and as we purchase from the best manu* facturers, we fret them at the very lowest market prices for cash, and will sell thern correspondingly cheap, at Te Aro House. In white blankets we commence at the very low price ofsix and elevenpence, and go upwards to the very best produced from the very best looms in the world. If you take the low quality, we can recommend it as astonishingly good fur the money, and in all the inter' mediate and higher qualities better value is not to be obtained, go where vou will. It should, therefore, be a foregone conclusion that for these things you should visit Te Aro House.

For large size, for extra weight, for good quality, and for durability we would strongly recommend our one guinea blankets, and would unhesitatingly assert that these are the best guinea worth of wool and warmth in Wellington. As in the past so now, we expect to have numerous enquiries for our guinea blankets, at Te Aro House.

Other qualities in Colonial and English blankets and of every size wo keep up to three guiueas per pair, at Te Aro House.—Advt.