The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Issue 3848, 3 July 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1891.

The Minister for Lands and the exMinister for Lands have just concluded a duello in the House of Representatives, in which both satisfied their respective parties. The two men, as administrators, present a striking contrast, Mr Richardson being perhaps the best and Mr McKenzie the worst Minister for Lands that New Zealand has as yet produced. The late Minister, Mr Kiohardson, is a short sturdy man who has always been unpretentious to a degree, and who is regarded by those who know him as the soul of honour. His practical training as a suryeyor qualified him for an intelligent administration of a land department. He had travelled much, seen much, endured much, and acquired that ripeness and sureness of judgment in connection with the soil which only a few old colonists possess. ' In office be studied the interests of the colony rather than the advantage of his party, he was the friend of every bona Jide settler and the avowed opponeat of that sham settlement of which we have seen so much. He discouraged the man without a sixpence going on land, knowing that this impecunious indi vidual could not well hold on to a section without robbing somebody. The present minister, the Hon. John McKenzie, is a striking contrast to bis predeoessor, being loud-voiced, ignorant, and pretentious. His sense 0 [ honour, judging by bis outrageous conduct -vul* several civil servants,* exceedingly blunt, a.71 1 «* ™J' , of knowledge is deplorable, ut . e

lands of the Colony other than his own particular hill side he appears to know but little, and he is content to take for gospel all the absurd tales that such people as the member for Masterton carry to bis ears. It is now fully well known that the member for this district is a receptacle for bush garbage which he transmits to the Minister. The ton John McKenzie is the friend of IhJand speculators and the patron settlement, and it will take the mischief which his incapacity is jmsj When he be execrated under him,

plant of Mr. Job Vile, ■rahiatua, ia about to be taken over r Mr. Mollor, of the late firm of Moller [id Jensen. Kia Excellency the Governor will And the winter meeting of the WelBfcon Racing Club to be held on Brday week. work of removing the old Town and reconstructing it. is being Mundy, Percy Ellis alias Cowan in tYellington on a , money under false/ was wanted for a sinvf. jf

machines (of which MessrsJ&raCe, Clark, and Co., are the Wellingtonagentß) is at present in the Wairarapa. The petition of the Carterton Borough Council for separation from the Wellington. Charitable Aid District has been referred to the Government for consideration.

The sum of £34 waß taken at the gates of the Masterten Park yesterday on the occasion of the interprovincial football match, Wairarapa v. Hawke's Bay.

The demand for fat sheep in this district is still very great. A Masterton sheepfarmer has just placed a lot in Wellington at 17a fid per head.

Mr Septimus Bacon and the other K<irmadec Island settlers who petitioned Government for losses suffered by their having been induced to settle there on a misleading official report, are declared to have no claim agtinst the colony.

A meeting in connection with the Cooperative and farmers' Alliance is to be held at Featherston on Monday next. It is stated that no good improved land ia procurable in the Taranaki district under £8 per acre. To-morrow (Saturday) is the monthly pay day of the Masterton and Groytown Building Societies.

A purse containing a small sum of money has been found on Upper Plain road, and awaits a claimant at this office. At a meeting of the Ball Committee of the Maßterton Rifle Volunteers last evening, final arrangements wore made for the annual ball to be held on Thursday, July 9th. The usual parade for inspection by Major Newall will in consequence be held on the 10th inst. The veterinary surgeon of the Stock Department is to be instructed to take action* in the matter of studying the lifehistory of parasites in sheep and other live stock.

A successful tea and after-moetiug was held in the Salvation Army Barracks, Dixon street, last evening. Mr John EUey the well known butcher of Masterton, met with a rather accident last week. He was c .iving a brake-load ot pigs towards his yirds when one of their number got loose and in rising to secure it Mr Elley's foot slipped on the shaft and he fell, the wheels of the vehicle passing over his ankle and leg. Fortunately no bones were broken.

A bone-crushing industry is being started at Carterton, which is likely to proye profitable, Carterton is recognised as a veritable " valley of dry bones." It is stated that a Hawke's Fay firm have advanced£l6,ooo to a defeated section of the Waikopiro claimants and that the interested parties intend to move all in their power to have a re-hearing and upset the lato decision. For the sake of settlement it is to be hoped the matter is ended.' At the conclusion of the football match, Hawke's Bay v. Wairarapa, played on the Park Oval yesterday, a practice match was held by the Te Aute College team, which is doing a tour of the colony. The team meets the ufaater ton Club on its return from the South. At a meeting of the Sefton JP"p V^ s Club, the taxation r>—,"-° °*. the y ov „ ..v „oto reviewed, and it was considered that if the Government retained and reduced the Property Tax instead of reducing the postage, they would have conferred a great benefit on the farming; community. The imposition of land and income tax was unanimously condemmed. The Masterton Park Trustees met yesterday ; present, Messrs Payton (in the chair), Feist, and Boddington. The business was cf a routine character, with the exception of a question which aroje as to the rent which should be paid by the Red Star Football Club for using the Uval as a practice ground during the present season, This was fixed at ten pounds.

Referring to the debate on the Financial Statement, the Catholic Times says :—Mr Bees gradually woras himself up liko unto the howling Dervishes of Constantinople, until, in tremendous but mechanical excitement he shrieks "At last, at last there is a House which reprseuta tliß people." At which Mr Hogg, of Masterton, plunges a hand into his coat neck and produces a collar which he pulls up with great pride and self importance, doubtless as one who sees in himself the only true representative of the people. When Mr flees repeats his declaration both Mr Hoe;g and Mr Kelly, cf Invercargill groan in unison, after the manner of some classes of Methodists at sacred worship. A man named John Smith, with a dozen aliases, walked into Mr. Trewby's drapery establishment at Pahiatua the other day and deliberately took down a pair of trousers hanging m the doorway. Mr, Trewby requested the man to leplace them, which he point-blank refused to do, saying that he wanted to be locked up, Not wishing to send the culprit to gaol, Mr. Trewby caught hold of a leg of the trousers, and a tug of war ensued, Smith eventually got the best of it. He then walked up the street, with Mr, Trewby at his heels ; "but in the meantime the man had taken out his knife, made a slit in the trousers and tore them right across. Smith was subsequently chanjed with malicious injury to prop erty before a couple of Justices, and was sentenced to a month's hard labour in Wellington Terrace Gaol.

Hamlefc : " The air bites shrewdly ; it is very cold. Horatio: It is a nippin? and an eager air, my Lord," Hamlet, Scene 4, Act 1. As in the time of the Royal Dane and Courtly Horatio, so of late, to use a very common expression, the weather has been "bitterly cold." For the present Winter Season there have been imported thousands of yards ot the best Flannels and bales upon bales ot Kxcellent Blankets at Te Aro House, Wellington.

Of Flannels we have at present a stock of about 20,000 (twenty thousand) yards, in all the best English and Colonial makes, in white, Shetland, Orkney, scarlet and fancy colors, and the prices range from 9id to 3/- per yard, at Te I Aro House, Wellington. We are noted throughout the Province r — the E«elleut Value we give in Flannels, m may rely on ". Li; • '"J most getting their orders e*^.

advantageously at Te Aro House, WelUng^h. Ou^'usual Btock of blankets is between ,60&-& nd 700 pairs in both the best English and Colonial makes. We buy at first hand in the English markets.from the-very best manufacturer, and at the lowest cash terms, and our Colonial blankets are picked with great care from the best mills. We are thus able to sell oar blankets cheaper than nine tenths of the tr'nde in the Colony can do. Our prices raArofrom 6s lid to 50s per pair Wellington.

imetimes come addressed tt employ, and delay is 1, we would notify that all fciness letters shored be UjyiamesSm itb.^H^rcr

annual exurination in second and third grade art in connection with the Science and Arts Departments of South Kensington, will be held in Masterton on the 24th inst.

The house of Mr R. H. Elliotte, of Carterton, which was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning, was insured for £oo in the New Zealand office. The furniture was insured in the name of Mrs Wagg, of Masterton, who held a lien over it.

An extraordinary petition from Edwin Harrow, an eccentric Aucklander, wa3 presented to the House on Wednesday, praying ' 'your Divine Assembly" to inquire into certain school matters, and complaining that laxity in the Bystem of sale of poisons led to some of his turpys being killed by eating apples which had been sprayed to keep awr.y the codlin moth. Harrow charitably hopes that none of the members ot Diyine Assembly" will ever be an apple, "as we read, Eve da. ->' though human