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Higher Rates and Better Roads.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Your Own Correspondent in his remarks on the state of the TinuiManawa road wants to know what the County Council have done with the rates collected from that district. The following figure? will give an idea of how the fifths he mentions have been expended last year:— Labour, surface men £SB 1 1 Timber for Culverts ...25 9 3 Metalling repairs 25 2 6 Share interest: 1879 10an... 85 0 0 Interest Manawa Bridge. ..17 10 0 Share working expenses... 4 0 9 Total £165 3 7 This year's estimate— Labour surface man j£s4 12 0 Metalling repairs 31 10 0 Interest 1879 loan ... 35 0 0 Interest Manawa Bridge... 17 10 0 'Share of working expenses 5 0 0

Total £143 12 0 A portion of the rates is expended on the main road to Masterton. The balance goes to maintain the paupers in Wellington. £485 of the County rates this year goes tor that purpose instead of being spent on the County roads. I agree with Correspondent's remarks re state of roads. They are simply going to wreck for want of funds to keep them in good repair. For several years the Engineer has had to largely reduce his estimates to suit the funds available, This means that the roads are not kept as they should be. The County should bj in a position to not only keep the roads in good repair but to be ablo to go on metalling fresh pieces of road every year. This can only be done by our paying heavier rates and I should suggest to the Tenui ratepayers the advisability of requesting the Tenui Road Board to strike a rate to enable them to assist tbjb County with funds for such work as the Tenui Bridge repairs, metalling on the Castlepoint and Manawa roads. It seems to me the fairest way, as by loan a few of the ratepayers have to laear the burden for a work which all are interested in, It is not pleasant having to pay extra rates, but every pound expended in improving th.e roads is a benefit to the district. As a case in point at one time the charge for carting timber from the Taueru to Tenui was one pound per hundred feet, now it is about four shillings, llus is the benefit we derive from passable roads. It is simply a question of higher rates and better roads or less rates and worse roads.—l am, etc., John Groves, Junr.

[to the edixob.] Sir, —With your permission I would like to notice a few facts»» connection with the late election, and the present aspects of the temperance question. The Mayor of Masterton lias endeavoured to brand the Bey. R. Wood as a Pharisee arid a liar.' Mr 1 Wood's -baracter as a gentleman, a Christian

of many years standing, and pastor for a number of years of a church in Otago, where he was highly esteemed, and now of the Presbytetian Church, Masterton, is a sufficient refutation of these oalumnieß. One section of the Press of Masterton has (£*'io the position of the " Man on the rail," and looks on the efforts of temperance reformers with an approving . eye, but has not yet got so far as to make a clean vault over to the right side of the fence, viz., prohibition. The other section is attempting the hitherto impossible feat of sitting on two stools, or rather running with the hare and hunting with the heunds. The editor of that section, in the House of Representatives, true to his chamsleon character, is endeavoring tc conciliate the publicans on the one side and the Knights of Labour on the I hope both sides fully appreciate his methods. It ia curious to note that when the division was called for on the second reading of Mr Joyce's Bill, the legitimate representative of Wairarapa went into the lobby of the Noes, and the mia-re* presentative of Masterton was found in the lobby of the Ayes. But to atone for that act to the- publicans, Masterton voted Aye on the publicans nice little Bill piloted by Mr G, Hutchison. One very houeful phase of the temperance that the publicans acknowledg^ tn »t Prohibition will come veryV*° on » but humbly plead that it may m^ K enforced just yet in a small community such as Masterton, etc, etc. By and by the compensation cry will be heard when Prohibition is inevitable. Beading and hearing the rotten argu * ments of loss to the publicans' license fees and increased rates, one is re* minded of tho lines of Cowper the poet:— " Ten thousand oasks for ever dribbling forth their base contents ; Bleed gold for minister* to sport with. Drink and be mad then, 'tis your country bids. Gloriously drunk obey th' important call, •«*- Her cause demands the assistance of your throats ; Ye all ran swallow, and she asks no more."

I am, dec,, One who has been on ihe bight side all his life,

SECOND EDITION

A practice in connection with Mr Coleman's complimentary concert will be held this evening. IV" r John Collins of Mauricevllle gives notice of application for a license to daughter cattle. The celebrated hurdler, Master Agnes, will be at the disposal of breeders again this season for a limited number of mane only. Early application to Mr W. Corlett will be necessary. Fully a thousand persons, from all parts of the district, are said to have witnessed the hunt at Clareville on Tuesday. Applications for loans to the amount of £IO,OOO have been received from settlers in various parts of the Pahlatua County. The appointment of Miss Wright, as Supil teacher of the Mangatainoka school, as been confirmed by the looal com* mittee. The Telegraph Commissioners are pre* pared to receive tenders for the supply and delivery of 10,000 telegraph arms.

The R.M.S. Riinutaka, arrived in Wellington, from London, last night. Her mails reaohed Masterton to-day. Mrs Buick, mother of the member for Wairau, died yesterday at hei residence at Oamaru. She was 67 years ot agofe, The champion ploughman of South* land this year is Robert Patterson, a yery consistent performer, whose success is highly popular. An important discovery of silver has been made in the Oooktowu district in Queensland. Sarah Bernhardt is a passenger by the s.s. Mariposa, whioh has left Sydney for San Francisco.

a. woman named Brown and two children have perished in a burning house at Hay, N.S.W. Robert Henry Fogden, selector ol Section 4 Block V, Mangaone, gives notice of application for transfer. Mr. Denis M'Mullen giyes notice that poisoned strain has been sown on that portion of the Cemetery Reserve leased by him.

The rate colleotor of the Borouph of Masterton is still on the warpath. Several defaulters were ordered in the B. M. Court this morning to contribute he amount of their arrears, with costs. The popularity of the ftorth Island, from a settler's point of view, is apparent from the fact that the Minister of Lands | has had 600 applications for land in this part of New Zealand, many of which are from residents in the South Island.

Owing to the Theatre Royal being en* gaged on Thursday next, the complimen* tary concert to Mr R. R. Coleman has been postponed till Tuesday, tho 25th inst.

Mr John Taplin's well and favourably known draught stallion, Young Sir Colin Campbell, is announced to stand at the Taueiu again this season. If required Young Sir Colin will also travel to Tinui.

It is stated on good authority that the proposed visit to Wellington of the Alhambras, the crack olub of Dunedut, this season, is likely to bo abandoned, owing to the inability of five of the bosb players to get away, Slnoe the beginning of the present) week about 200 men have found employment at bush-felling through the agency of the Bureau of Industries, About 100 more men are required for work in the Fahiatua district, and in other localities additional hands can find employment.

In the District Court to-day Mr Beard made application that the deeds of leaso of the perpetual lease section held by Mr T. J. James, bankrupt, which had been ordered to be handed over to the Official Assignee, be returned to the banKwb as the property could not be adoj Jk into the estate. Mr Bunny objecteJSSf the grounds that the order had »fiS!iuy^»«, been made by the Court. Hit decided that the order should stand aa it had been made.

The Timet, in its ** political notes," says the member for Masterton looka upon absentee as "aa animated drain," and he says so, apparently with the intention of matting his voice startle the echoes of tho luxurious London house where the wretch drags out his miserable Sybaritish existence. " Yes, sir; an animated drain, draining off tho, life-blood of our commerce.!" TheE he roars out the story of Mr Balfour; the Irish Seoretaryi as a typical instance of the worst of the absentees Mr Balfour, it appears,' has several thousand acres near Pahiatua somewhere : there- is room upon fhese aproa for a hundred gpofl Battlers, and there are two men and a boy. Away with these absentees. Tax this fearful curse. Paptajn Russell makes calm contrast, in giving us tho other aide of the Balfour question. Mr Balfour, 15 years ago op so was the first to show that land of that kind in a bush like that could be used profitably, Mas* terton aud Mr W. Huchison and other! make protest. Captain Russell sticks to his text. He knows the countrj and tho circumstances better than any of them* He knows it to his own knowledge. " There were other settlers besid? the Balfour people," shouts Masterton. "Oh yes," admits the captain, "but the Balfour estate showed thorn tho way." " They were all poor men," puts in solemn Mr Hutchison wich extra solem* nicy. " That's tho very point," retorts thfe Captain. ■'♦' Mr Balfour spent £30,000 amongst them," " "

In Chambers this afternoon, His Honor District Judge Robinson fixed the costs in the case Tayler v. Renal! at £22 ss. This does not include the defendant's expenses. Bank of New Zealand (shares have es•4fcneaced a rise of 10s, owing to the payment of a dividend, and the favourable nature of the balance-sheet and report. MrH. H. Jackson has contributed a paper to the Wairarapa Standard on the imitation of the eight hours movement in this colony. He says the flyers who came out in the Cuba worked eight hours from the dav they landed, which was the Ist of January, 1840. On the 22nd of January the Aurora arrived and 20 men were engaged on the surveying staff, and they worked eight hours. Ihe Oriental arrived on the 31st, and a few men were engaged. They also worked eight hours. The Duke of Roxborough in which MrParnell arrived on the 19th February, and all on board that vessel hoird before they landed of the elsht hours a day work. Mr Jackson also gave particulars of the meeoing outside Barratt's Hotel, Wellington, in November, 1840, when about 200 men assembled and publicly adopted the eight hours system, "Big Bill Taylor was }he chief speaker. Further information respecting the recent suicide of a man named Edmund Potoky. employed. at Big Flat Station. hear Martinborough, is now to hand. It appears that Potoky acted very eccentric ally before committing the deed. On the *ry~of tho suicide he went into a hut wher»^ COl ipi eo fg Unß W ere kept, and shorty afterwards a shot was fired. one if the men on the station went to attain what was the cause, and found with the smoking weapon in his that it had gone"off accidentally, and the man believing the statement, went away, leaving Potoky in the hut. A few minutes afterwards a second report was heard, and it wa« then found that Potoky had shot himself dead. At the inquest which was held subsequently, the jury returned a verdict that the act was committed in a fit of temporary insanity. The deceased has a mother living in Auckland.

How is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by purchasing the extraordinary bargains in blaukefcs, flannels, dress goods, and thousands of other w lines at Hooper's gigantic sale now on. During the next few days we shall offer still further inducements to the public to secure some of the many bargains at our gigantic sale, by lurther reducing every description of winser clothing. L. J. Hooper and Co. are determined t» reduce before stock-taking (which is new in full swing) their stock of uitu's and boy's clothiug, shirts, hats, socks, braces, belts, undershirts, and underpants, ties, overcoats, mackintoshes, etc. They expect to clear out about one half of the present stock before the end of the sale. So look out tor bargains at Hooper's.

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3885, 13 August 1891, Page 2

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Higher Rates and Better Roads. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3885, 13 August 1891, Page 2

Higher Rates and Better Roads. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3885, 13 August 1891, Page 2

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