The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3894, 24 August 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1891.

Sir George Gbey is again endeavouring to widen the doors of the legal profession by his Law Practitioners' Bill. The legislation of the present session will bring increased grist to the legal mill, and there may be openings for the large batch of recruits that may be waiting the success of bis efforts to enable them to qualify. The law is an honourable profession, but in this colony there are far too many black sheep m it, and what is really needed is not the inerease and multiplication of its members so much as the reduction of them by the diminution of those who are openly disreputable and untrustworthy. The Law Societies of New Zealand appear to do little or nothing in this direction, and the.public are robbed by practitioners who are notoriously unworthy to be members of an honourable profession. We take it that Sir George is not studying the interest of the public by striving to lower the standard of admission to a profession which is already overmanned,

" Some men are born great, ethers have greatness thrust upon them." Mr Perceval, M.H.R., would seem to be among the latter 1 He is the curly-headedboy of the Ministry and is spoken ot for the Agent-Generalship. The grizzled headed political pundits | of Wellington shake their heads at the idea of a stripling like this receiving suph a promotion. Just as in the old wars every private carried a marshali's baton in his knapsack, so each aspiring New Zealand politician believes that there is a divinity which shapes his ends to the Agent-General-ship. The idea of a Percevri stepping before them is too preposterous, but on the whole the public may be contented if this fortunate youth receives the prize. It is not that the Government has attempted the best possible selection, it is rather that it has abstained from a choice it might have made. When W9 reflect that the Ministry might have made aven Mr W.O. Smith of Waipawa our Agent-. General, we are thankful for Mr Perceval.

Tub scene in the Temperance Hall during several days of last week, was, no doubt, from the Native standpoint, an edifying spectacle, but from the European aspect it was a debauch, which approximated to a pestilence. Probably the Trustees of the Temperance Hall will take care that the building is not again let for such an orgy, for it ia certainly an anoraaly that premises which are under the control of the temperance party should be turned into a Bacchanalian shrine of a peculiarly repulsive character. It is said that the condition of the premises was such that it menaced the public health. If so, it will be the duty of the local inspector to officially report upon the affair and to take such steps as may be necessary to prevent a recurrence of such an outrage on public decency.

The Payment of Members Bill is said to be in the interests of labour members, An ordinary labourer does not expect to earn more than £IOO per annum, and such a man when he becomes a legislator could live in Wellington quite as comfortably as a labourer can expect to live on £2 a week. A sum of £l5O per annum is clearly sufficient to cover the expense of a labour M.H.B. daring his sojourn in Wellington, and to maintain his wife and family all the year round. If the labour members ask more than this they are not genuine working 1 men, but have abandoned ihe simple! ways of the sons of toil and gc&e into j Parliament to make money. Their votes on this question wjjl show whether they are patriots or humbugs. The payment is to be made, too, in such a way that it will not be available for their creditors. It is to be ear-marked from all claims so that the M.H.B. of the future will be the one man whom no tradesman or publican dare trust for a pair of boots or a glass of grog ; he is to be the mean white of the Colony.

Another big slip is threatened in the Gorge, and men are at work on it now. An attempt is being made to form a lodge of Druids in Pahiatua. The total receipts of the Carterton Social Club for the past twelve months , were .£142 13s lid ana the expenditure £lO9 17s lOd. The Tasmanian Assembly has rejected a motion in favour of an inland penny postage. A fine new residence is, we understand, about to be erected in Hall-street by Mr ' C. T. Natusch, architect. I The Masterton Rifle Volunteers hold their weekly parade on Thursday next. i Pearson's Brass Band will be in attend- ! ance. I The following tenders have been received by the Masterton Eoad Board fer i Contract No 2, Fernridge Road :—M. I Kerbs, £174 (accepted); P. Carr, £179; J. Cummins, £l9B ; C. Matthews and Co, £215; J. Oavanagh, £2lB. It is stated on good authority that the railway line from Bketahuna to Pahiatua will be commenced at once. The first section will extend only to Tutaekara. At a meeting held on Saturday night, the Masterton Football Club resolved to wind up the season with a smoke concert, to be held in the Club Hotel to-morrow (Tuesday) evening. A general rate of seven-sixteenths of a penny in the £ was struck by the Masterton Road Board at its meeting on Saturday. The natives of Vavau have organised a boycott to get higher prices for their oranges- A party decided to sell no oranpes under 3s a hundred, and they have burnt seven houses of natives who have sold for less, and also notify that they will burn the houses of any white man who buys for less. A plain and fancy dress ball was held in the Pahiatua Public Hall on Friday evening, in honour of the anniversary of the Foresters. The attendance was large, and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. Refreshments were provided and dancing was kept up till the early hours of the morning.

The Time Table of the Evening Classes (commencing to-night) at the Oddfellows' Hall, can be seen in the advertising columns of this paper. A silver broooh and a silver matchbox have been found. Owner can have the same by paying coat ot the announcement in another column. Miss Trelear Osborne, one ot the leading contraltos ot the colonies, who accompanied Mr Santley on his recent tour, is expected to give a series of concerts in this district in a few weeks. A resident of Danevirke intends taking proceedings for libel against the Bush Advocate, which insinuated that he was using his position as a member of public bodies for his own interest, Dr T. H, Jackson, a fashionable physician of Chicago, was horsewhipped on June 23rd by Miss Ella Dumphey because her mother, whom the doctor attended durinp her illness, died under his treatment.

James Thereon, a very old resident of Bendigo, is dead. His name has been prominently before the public at times, as he was the owner of the house at White Hills in which Lord Robert Cecil (now the Marquis of Salisburj) lodged In the year 1854.

A five-roomed house, with two and a half acres of land, situated on River Road, is advertised for sale.

The London Timespublishes a lengthy review of the position of New Zealand, four columns in length, in which the most favourable view is taken of the prospects of the Colony. The authorship is attributed: to Sir Julius Vogel. Arbor Day was celebrated throughout the colony of New South Wales on Friday, and an immense number of trees were planted in the parks and other places of public resort. Torrents of rain have been produced during a cloudless sky in Texas by the explosion of dynamite from a balloon. The barometer at the time was high.

The complimentary concert to be given in the Theatre Royal to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, to Mr. R. R. C. Coleman, promises to be a very successful affair. The programme is a lengthy and attractive one, and we feel sure the public will show their appreciation of the services gratuitously rendered in the past by Mr. Coleman, by crowding the Tneatre from floor to ceiling.

It Is often a difficult matter for farmers to know with whom they may safely ship their produce to the English market, particularly, for instance, their butter, or to whose care they may consign the output of their farms, with the knowledge that their interests will be c»refully regarded, and from whom profitable returns will, as tho result of good management, be most likely. In this connection we have much pleasure in recommending Mr W. J. Gandy, agent and produce merchant, of Custom House Quay, Wellington. Mr Gandy is personally known to us, while in the capital city he is held in high regard by the mercantile community as a trustworthy agent of considerable experience, haying many business advantages at the services of his clients. Mr Gandy has the admirable storage cellars beneath the National Mutual Building, and butter and general produce is the subject of a special notification from hun which appears in another column. Settlers should peruse it.

"It certainly seems a remarkably ingenious affair, and I intend to try it," observed a settler this morning at Messrs Lowes and lorns' Masterton Auotion Booms. He refer.ed to the new self-

locking wire strainer (Ewen's patent), samples of which had just arrived, and were being shown to him by a member of the firm. There decidedly was a likely look about the chins;, and the strainer in question appears to be one of the simplest, strongest, and most effective yet placed in the market, an unusual combination of the three good qualities essential in such an attachment. Among the special features of Ewen's strainer are the facts that it is all jn one piece—that there are no keys, no pins to shake out and lose. It is also automatic in action, a most valuable qualification. Directly the operator ceases straining, the affair locks itself. The degree of tension obtained on lone and difficult lengths of fencing is most satisfactory, a tact vouchsafed for by several well-known Nopth Island farmers who have used the appliance. One —Mr Joseph Barugh—writes: " I have tried the Ewen self-locking strainer and consider it the best I have met with" ; another, Mr George Watt, remarks that during twenty-eight years' experience in England, in Canterbury, and in the Waikato, this strainer is the most simple and efficient he has yet seen. On these points testimony seems unanimous, and we recommend those who are concerned in such matters to call at Messrs Lowes and lorns' 100 ms, and see the invention before they order other strainers for fencing they may have in hand. Such a visit mil moat likely result in their giving the Ewen strainer a preference in their own interest and on its obvious merits. The firm named are its agents for the Wairarapa, and Messrs Levin & Co,, of Wellington, are the wholesale representatives of the proprietor and manufacturer. Two wood-gats, which admirably illustrate the strainer, are on our front page of this issue, and being good drawings, make its action and appearance plainly understood.

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by purchasing the extraordinary bargains in blankets, flannels, dress goods, and thousands of other lines at Hooper's gigantic sale now on. During the next few days we shall offer 3*iU further inducements to the public to secure some of the many bargains at our gigantic sale, by further reducing every description of winder clothing. L. J. Hooper and Co. are determined ta reduce before stook-takini? (which is now in full awing) their stock of men's ind boy's clothing, shirts, hats, socksbraces, belts, undershirts, and under, pants, ties, overcoats, mackintoshes, etc. They expeet to clear out about one half of the present stock before the end of the sale. So look out ior bargains at Hooper's.