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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3911, 12 September 1891, Page 2

Thjs Post, speaking of certain politicians, says; "Two professed Liberals stand out the unblushing advocates of legal tyranny, injustice, and p,er« secution of a law which prevents the public from obtaining information which it has a moral right to, regarding the actions and utterances of those to whom it has delegated authority or power, and of a system which offers a premium to blackmail ing and vexatious litigation." We fear that in spite of the able arguments and the great influence of our contemporary, the new Libel Bill will be shunted. The law #s it stands is on the side of the rogues and there are too many interested parties in all parts of the Colony anxious to retain it unaltered.

Killing bills in the Upper House is regarded by some, notably by the Member for Masterton, as murder, and they are prepared to punish the Lords for such an offence by abolishing them. Bat killing bills in the Legislative Council can no longer be regarded as a crime, for the Government has quietly slaughtered the Female Franchise Bill in the Upper House. In the Logger House the Government made a pretence of regarding it with favor and were afraid to meddle with it, but the moment it reached the " other place " the Hon Mr Buckley had his knife into it and gaye it the happy despatch. The liberal party, in spite of its protestations, is afraid of this franchise. We ourselyes are not favourable to it, and are content that the bill should have been killed, but a liberal Minister ought not to have been the executioner,

Membebs have voted themselves £240 a year and no one is surprised that their patriotism should have found BDch a vent. The Colonial Treasurer is opeuing the public purse at both ends, and politicians are beginning to enjoy themselves. It is just as well, for Colonists can now form a correct estimate of the professions which have been made of economy and retrenchment. Liberal Ministries were always the most extravagant administrations in t'ais Colony, and the present one is just beginning to come out of its shell, and to show that it can go one better than any of its predecessors.

It will be seen from a report in another column that Mr William Murdoch, of Eketahuna, the plaintiff in the libel ac» tion against this journal, haj been fined for beine; drunk in a public place. During the month of August 989 persons arrived in this colony, and 1145 left it.

Efforts are being made to form a horticultural and industrial society at Pahiatua.

Dr M'Lennan, who is at present in Eketahuna, intends taking up his abode in Fahiatua in a few months. A man named Dick cut his foot severely whilst felling bush at Makuri the other day.

Steps are being taken by the Charitable Aid Committee of the Pahiatua County Council to compel Mr W. Greaves to make better provision for his father, who was for many years a resident of Masterton. Messrs Falloon Bros announce that the celebrated draught stallion' Stanley,' aiid also the well-known American trotting sire will be at the service of breeders again this season. Mr J. Knott, temperance lecturer, will lecture in the Town Hall, Eketahuna, this evening. He will also preach in the Wesleyan Church at both services on Sunday, and on Monday evening will recite *' Enoc Arden" in the Town Hall. A Good Templar's Ledge was opened in Eketahuna on Wednesday evening, a good number joining. It is notified by change in the advertisement of the New Zealand Insurance Company that Mr Walter A. Tate, agent for Greytown, is also appointed spent oi the Featherston district.

The whole of the dresses worn by the Dobson-Kennedy Company in the musical drama "My Sweetheart" were made in Masterton.

An old Featherston settler, Mr W. L. Lucena, contemplates taking up his residence at Masterton.

The sum of £8551 was paid to the "unemployed" engaged on relief works in the first seven months of the present year.

There are at the present time 1696 properties in the Colony of which the ownership is doubtful or unknown, and their value is £50,756. The big weeklies of New Zealand are wonderful examples of journalistic enterprise. Judging from a copy of the Canterbury Times just forwarded to us this particular one, if it does not, like Aaron's rod, swallow up all the rest, at least makes a number of the best of them look small.

The windows of the Bon Marche presented a most attractive appearance last evening, when the annual display of spring and summer goods was made, the brilliant illumination and elaborate dressing being fovorably commented upon by a large number of the public win witnessed the show.

In fining a publican for serving a drunken man in Canterbuiy.Mr Beetham said it was a curious tact that a man might be drunk to everyone else, and at the same t'me not drunk at all to a barman.

Poisoning rabbits with carrots and arsenic has been so successful that very few are now seen in the Upper Awatere district, Marlbororough. The meat freezing industry has given a preat impetus to bush felling in the Pelorous sounds, the settlers' being anxious to put sheep on the land. William Toomey, charged with having disturbed a meeting of the Salvation Army at Parramatta, Sydney, by appearin? in a clown's dress, was found guilty and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. A " pertator " measuring 18 inches In length, and weighing 4f lb, was racently on exhibition in a shop in Rangiora. "The face of the returns," said the chairman of the meeting, shows G7 ayes and no noes." " What a queer looking face that must be," remarked an old lady in the back row. The charge against Murdock M'Kenzie of having forged the name of J. Duckelt to a receipt of the Masterton Road Board for £4 10s was heard before Colonel Roberts, R.M„ and Messrs Gardner and Butement, J.P.'s, in the R.M. Court yesterday. The bench intimated that it did not consider the evidence sufficient to place the accused upon his trial. The case was therefore dismissed. The fourth charge aga'nst the accused is being heard to-day. A Chinaman, at Durham Ox, near Boort (Vic) tried to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the neck and forehead. He afterwards took a rope, saying he would hang himself, but he was ultimately found drowned in two feet of water in the Serpentine Creek. A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned.

There is eveiy appearance of a splendid lambin? season in the Hawke's Bay district. Already the plains and the hillsides are dotted with lambs, and the numerous instances of jbilplets promise a higher per centage of increase. In one of Mr Kafehbone's paddocks, Waipawa, a ewe has giyen birfch to five lambs.— Telegraph. A sad event occurred near Lome, Victoria, the other day. Two cousins, aged thirteen and fifteen, one the daughter of Caleb Mountjey, and the other a cousin of Thomas Mountjoy, were suffocated in a bedroom at the residence of Caleb Mountjoy, at Yan Gan Girt. It appears that before retiring to bed they threw some water on a charcoal fire which was burning in the grate, the fumes from which must have stifled them during the night. The family is amongst the ear* iiest settlers in the district. A further consignment of very fine silver-ware and electro-plated goods has just been imported by Messrs G. and T. Young, the'old-established and wellknowH jewellery firm, and their stock at the Lambton Quay premises, Wellington, is now a particularly choice one. The articles they keep are only those ot genuine quality, while the advantageous position they secure by importing large lines direct from English firms of firstclass reputation enables them to sell the goods at strictly moderate prices. In watches the Messrs Young also po sess a good assortment, and their JE3 15s silver hunting English lever, is, for instance, quite a speciality, being a most serviceable watch. As regards jewellery, the handsome display the firm makes speaks for itself, and articles for j}resepts or for personal use can be bought to distinct advantage at the Lambton Quay establishment. Bepairs of all kinds also receive careful attention, and good workmanship may be reued on. James South, proprietor of the wellknown te Aro Bouse, Wellington, has for several monphs past been in |he heart of the world's metropolis, London, superintending the buying for our present spring season at Ta Aro Housy, lington. , , It will no doubt bo expected by all the readers of this paper that there will fre a most manifest improvement in our shipments,' that g°94 a W 'N he DoU g ntl well, that is at the lowest cash pricos j that all goods will be the b3St of thefrj class and that all will be in accord with | the prevailing fashions of the season. The display we are now making of spring fashions at Te Aro Hoose, Wellington, is most amply and fully corroborative of these views.

Patterns of any of the spriDg goods of every description will be forwarded on application to James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington.

A pigeon match is being fired to-day by the North Wairarapa Gun Club in the yards of Messrs Lowes and lorna.

The wool market in Wellington this season promises to be an exceedingly brißk one, due to the presence in Hew Zealand of several English buyers, some of whom are now in this island.

Hard times come again no more I It is quite evident they have disappeated from Masterton, for during the dramatic season of the Dobson-Kennedy Company the gross takings were nearly £ 2OO. The trout fishing season in the Wairarapa opens on Tuesday next. The streams around Masterton appear to be alive with the finny tribe. It is said that weasels are rapidly increasing in number in the Manawatu district, albeit it was not unt'l quite recently known that there were any at large there.

A veiy pleasant change in the weather occurred in Maatertou this morning, when a heavy warm rain set in. The change will be welcomed by farmers. The following notice appeared In the obituary column of the Hawke's Bay Herald :—Sharp. —On the ?rd September, 1891, in his second year, while bathiiig off the breakwater. " His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up to all the world and say—This was a dog." A writer in the Christchurch Press, who is impressed with what has been done in Chili with the new fire-arms, thinks the Mew Zealand Volunteers might as well be learning to aim with broomsticks as Snider rifles.

A young man of Adelaide was sued for kissing a girl without her permission. He said he thought she was his sister, which, says an exchange, made the girl so mad that she wanted to double the amount of damages claimed. A woman wants to be kissed for herself or not at all. With a view of assisting farmers and othera interested in the disposal ot their potatoes, which otherwise are a complete drug in the market, Mr H. T. Gourlay recently (says the Lyttelton Times) made some starch from about a dozen pounds of potatoes,which fully convinced those who saw it that there is still a chance ot turning their potatoes in to a marketable commodity. A death has occurred under singular circumstances at Freemantle. A little boy named Jackson confessed to his parents that he had swallowed two sixpences. Nothing was thought of the occurrence at the time, but a few hours later the lad was seized with convulsions and died. A post mortem examination showed that death was caused by obstruction of the bowels, occasioned by the lodging ot the two sixpences in the narrow portion of the intestines, about six inches from the stomach.

A most successful season was brought co a close by the Dobson-Kennedy Company last eYemng, when that excellent musical comedy " My Sweetheart" was witnessed by a crowded and enthusiastic audience. The piece ran much more smoothly than on the first night, the various characters being sustained with both ease and .gracefulness. The vocal efforts of Mr C. J. Palmer were highly appreciated, Lis production ot the song, "There's no one like Mother to me" being received with rapturous applause. The Company lett this morning for Pahiatua by special coacb. In giving judgment in a case brought against a subscriber of the "Picturesque Atlas " Company, and in which the decision was held over, the lnvercargill Magistrate said that the value of the work was a matter of opinion. He did not attach much weight to the statements that the various Governments were to subsidise the woik, and that it was to be distributed gratis to the public libraries of Great Britain and the Continent, And as they did not go to the root of tde contract. It was probable that the agent did say that it was optional how many parts the defendant took, but the plea of such a misrepresentation was untenable in the face of the memorandum ordering forty-two parts. There was little doubt that it was represented that subscribers could take as many or as few parts aa they liked, and, moreover, that whatever parts they ordered could be paid for by instalments of 5s per month. This was where the real hardship fell, but it appeared to be out of the power of this or any Court to give those who had been so misled substantial relief. Judgment would be for plaintiff, with costs.

The Australasian records a sale of rams and high class ewes recently at Narandera. The sheep sold consisted of

132 rams and 772 ewes, from the wellknown stud of Messrs Peterson and Sargood, Wunnamurra, N.S.W. The highest price paid tor a ram was 600 guiners for Prince Albert 2nd, bred by Messrs W. Gibson and Co., Scone, and purchased about two years ago by Messrs Peterson and Sargood for 700 guineas. Two rams sold for 300 guineas each, and two for 100 guineas each, the rates for the others graduating down to 20 guineas. Thirty-three flock rams realised 10 guineas each, and 15 stud ram lambs were sold for 3 guineas each, making a total of 6,036 guineas for 132 rams. Of the ewes, 23 extra special studs sold for 50 guineas each, 55 stud ewes sold for 20 guineas each, one realised 15 guineas, and 18 extra special flock ewes realised 10 guineas each. One hundred and eighty-eight stud ewes cast for age, were bought at d guineas each, and 487 ewes realised 5 guineas each. The 772 ewes were sold for 5,444 gdineas, making a grand total of £22,045.