The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3922, 25 September 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1891.

We have just read the Hansard report of the debate on the Shop Hours Bill which measure was killed in the Legislative Council by twenty-one votes against eight. The grounds on which the Bill was thrown out were creditable to the members of the Upper Chamber, It was contended that for the sake of a little oheap popularity they were »ot justified in interfering with the liberty of the subject or in passing a measure which would entail a large amount of in i justice amongst a large number o persons. It was admitted by the promoters of the measure that its tendency would be in the direction of closing small shops and concentrating business in large establishments, but the labour party favoured this movement because the larger establishments employed assistants while the smaller ones did not. The Council therefore by its action protectei the weak against the strong, showing at the same lime that the practical experience of a similar measure in Melbourne, an experience extending over five years, proved such legislation to be unworkable. We are on the side of reasonable hours of labour and when " early closing " has been mooted in the town we have supported it. The measure taken in Masterton to secure a fair amount of recreation for shop assistants commended themselves to our judgment as much more efficacious than those proposed in the Shop Bill passed by the House of Representatives. In this town self help won a victory which Was better worth' having tljah anything which State help could give. The shop assistants appealed to public opinion and obtained a verdict in their favDur. As long as they keep in touch with public opinion they can enjoy fairly reasonable hours of re creation and are independent of legislative assistance. No doubt they would have preferred an Act of Parliament, which would have relieved them of the trouble of making any further effort on their own part, to secure such relaxation as they may be fairly entitled to, but we are not sure but that in the long run " self help " is the best friend and that the State help, which some people long for, is often a disappointment and introduces into the ordinary tenor of business vexations and undesirable complications.

is occupied with a of bankruptcy business has been adjourned till to-morrow morning. Pi-tatoes are being offered in Canterbury at 10a per ton,' but buyers cannot be found.

A Danevirke resident blandly admitted in the Supreme Court at Napier that they had political storekeepers and pdlitic.il butchers in his p-irt of th« country as well as elsewhere. It is computed that altogether there are about sixty stillious in the VYairarapa.

Tho horse parade of the Wairarapa and East Coast Pastoral and Agricultural Society will be held to-morrow (Saturday). The sitting of Parliament yesterday was the last for the present session. The Hogse will adjourn for a few days, and Parliament will be prorogued by Proclamation in the meantime.

The supplitrs of mi'k to the Woodville Dairy Factory have agreed to ascept 2|d per gallon for milk during the pros on t season.

No les3 than three hundred otttle were yarded by Messrs Lowes and lorns at their list stock Rale. Tho demand for stock is still greater than the supply.

It is rather remarkable that severe hail storms were exporiencod at Carterton and in the Forty-mile Bush at noon on Wednesday, whilst at Masterton there wa3 not a sign of rain. A section of land has been sold by Mr James Macara to the Institute Committee of Greytown for the purpose of erecting a public library. Since the 55th of January last the travelling expenses ol the Minister for Public vVorks (Hon. R. J. Seddon) amounted to £396, which is more than half the expenses of tho wholo Ministry.! There is said to be a good deal of sickness about tho Pahiatua district at the present time. It is stated by a contemporary that the Minister of Public "Works, who intends to settle in Palmorstou North, will contest that constituency at next election. Tbe transfer of license of the Commercial Hotel at Pahiatua from Mr W. Stewart to Messrs Sullivan and Cotboy has been granted. The use of kerosene for hgbtinz purposes is to be dispensed with at the Masterton R.M. Court, and gas is to be laid on. The contract for the fittings has, we understand, been let to Mr D. Pickering. The Anglican Synod of Australia has shelved the motion favouring the assignment of the title of Archbishop to the Primate of Australia.

A special settlement to be known as Coonooar has been established by Mr J. Saunders, son of Mr A. Saunders, M.H.R., in the Forty-Mile Bush. The settlement contains 2600 acres.

The Pahiatus. Star asks by whose authority the Chairman of the County Council defeuded the recent action with Mr A. Keese, and states that it is informed no authority whatever was yiveri. It also urges that the Council should be called upon to resign in a body.

The Government has been recommended by the Noxious Weed Coin mittee of the Mouse to frame a Bill in the recass to deal with such weeds as gorse, sweet-briar, the Calii'urnian thistle, the Bathu r st burr, and pests of these classes. They also recommended the importation of blight-resisting vine-stocks under quarantine regulations.

At an adjourned meeting of the Pahiatua Horticultural and Industrial Society held on Tuesday night, Mr J. Vile was elected President and Mr A. Black rice-President. Bules and regulations were adopted, and it was decided to hold the first show in March next.

Attention is directed to the notice of Mr W. B. 3uick's Marquis of Salisbury, which appears in another column. Marquis of Salisbury by Lord Salisbury, dam Princess of Wales, was bred by Robert Gawn Esq.. of Deer Park, Wept Tyne, is a splendid looking animal of a bay color, and will compare favourably with any other draught sire in the district.

Mr J. M. Hickson, who has been about two years assistant-clerk of the Court at Masterton, has been transferred to Wellington. During his brief stay in Mastertuu Mr Hickson has, by his uniform courtesy and attention to business, made many friends who will regret his departure. We understand that the work hitherto done by Mr Hickson will fall to the lot of Mr Freeth, the Clerk to the Court, -

The jury in the case Renall v. Tayler announced last night, after a retirement of three and a half hours, they could not arrive at a unanimous decision. The verdict of three-fourths of the jury was then accepted by His Honor, and judgment was given for the defendant, with £8 13s 3d costs.

Mr Heniy Phillips, of the Occidental Hotel was the victim of a rather rou?h practical joke at the hands of some Carterton wags on Wednesday laßt. It appears that Mr Phillips was driving two I?dies and a littte girl to Carterton to visit some friends. Having safely deposited them he save his vehicle into ■tho keeping of a stableman and speedily findin? some old friends adjourned for refreshments. A little while afterwards wishing to continue his journey to Greytown, Mr Phillips sought his lady friends, and the buggy was brought out. The party having mounted, a start was made, but all was not well. During the interval, some one had taken one of the hind wheels off and put one of the fore wheels in its place and vice versa. The result; the general appearance of the machiue and the chagrin and consternation of mine host of the Occidental Hotel may be better imagined than described. Had it not been that ladies were placed in a ridiculous position by' the joke, nothing would have been thought of it, but as matters stood it was exceedingly ill-timed.

On Saturday last (says the Advocate a serious accident befel th» s-tvation Army Maori cqnti-«««rtf who were on thpir way to take' part in some special meetings at Martial and Buljs From information to hand, it anpearsJhAAhe j party was driving in a covered owned by the contingent and used in Maori work. While descending the side cutting on this side of Turakina, one of the horses, which was a young and spirited one, bcsame restive, and in plunging about, struck itself against the vehicle. This made the animal desperate, and it plunged about till it literally pushed the other horse over the embankment, and everything else, including the vehicle and its occupants, soon followed. StaffCaptain Holdaway, who was. driving, and is known to be a competent driver, said he could give no account of the oapßize after they reached the edge of the embankment, any further than that he saw the horses somewhere up m the air. In the capsize the lasses were thrown one on the other, and the boxes on top of them. The two lasses, Lieut. Wells and Cadet Tamatea, were rather seriously hurt. The former was badly bruised aud cut about the face, some of the cuts having to be stitched by the dpctor, and Cadet Tamatea appears to haye suffered internal injuries, through being crushed by one of the boxes. Th other occupants appeared to have got off wiih little more thf>n a shaking. The yehicle was badly smashed, which will be a serious loss to the Maori work. h. J. Hooper and Co. are now showing the most fashionable and largest assortment of new spring goods ever shown in the district. English and French Milli nery, Trimmed, and Untrimmed Hats and Bonnets, Flowers, and Feathers, &c. Stylish and Pretty Jackets. Dorothy Capes, Mantles, Dust Cloaks, Garaboldi Jackets, &c. We are showing a splendid stock of Fashionable Delaines, Prints, Cambrics, Zephyrs, Ac. We hold the best assortment and largest stock of new dress materials in the .IT-irarapa. AH the leading shades, n«terialsforthes|gJ The Fancf^^uJg^^^^^M novelties. JM^^^^M^^^^^H coilars^^^^^^^^^^^^H

The Jury in the case Murdoch v Pflyton is composed of Messrs Charles Ewington, John Harvey, Charles Hoffeins, and Patrick Hourigan. \ juror who has been coming up to Masterton from Carterton for the past three days, and has hired a horse foithat purpose, wa3 surprised to find this morning that he was to receive no recompense whatever for Mb trouble.

The Rev, Mr Paterson lately preached at Wanganui from the text, taken from the book of experience; "He that wad ea* the kernel maun crack the nuc. If he were in seme churches his congregation would crask his ** nut" for selecting such a text.

George Rutherford, better known as ''Scotty," was arreatedja second time for drunkenness yesterday. He was brought before the B.M. Court this morning and dealt with in a manner suited to his offence.

The nomination for the Christchurch seat takes place on October 2. A woman named Lloyd, an old resident of Nelson, died at Blenheim yesterday from heart disease.

The sportina scribe of the 'Timaru Herald' put up a stood record on Friday, when he tipp3d fiyo firsts, and his sixth selection ran a goi.d second. The boy Frederick Hansen, charged with attempting to burn a house down at Haleombe, was sentenced by H W. Brabant, Esq., at Wanganui, on the 21st inst, to be sent to the Burnham Industrial School and con fined until he reached the age of 15 years, and ts be brought up in the Roman Catholic Re. ligion.

Replying to an interview at Auckland the othor day the Hon. John Bryce said: —" Personally, I think some ot the legislation this session has been pernicious. Taxation legislation, for instance, even had it no inherent faults, if there were no objections in itself, must be productive of harm, because of its uncertainty. It is as certain as the sun will rise in the morning that tha great uncertainty and vacillation attendant on the taxation proposals will causo damage and loss to the colony." A man named Grey was sentenced to one calender month's hard labour for obtaining the hire of a horse from Mr John James Murphy, of Woodville. The evidence went to show that he had stopped at the Club Hotel several days, and on Murphy refusing to give him the hire of a horse until he gave some evidence that he was prepared to pay up so far as he had gone, he drew a cheque in favour of Murphy at the Bank of New Zealaud, "Woodville, and en being told his cheque was dishonoured, he 'altered the heading to the National Bank. The manager of tho Woodville | branch then communicated through tbe Auckland branch, and found Grey had |no account there. It was therefore proved that he obtained the use of a horse by pretending to have money in a Bank, a statement which was shown to be false.

That the cry about capital being driven from the colony is not without some foundation is sho.va (telegraph an Auckland correspondent) by tha fact that by the last mail i letter was received fiom a gentleman in London giving general instructions to his agent in Auckland about the selling of different properties, amounting in valu's to over £B< 00, and to remit the mosey direct to London for investment there. The writer then says:—"lf I hold on to this property 1 will hare to pay an income tax of Is in the pound iu New Zeafetnd, in addition to the 6d income tax wiich is deducted here." Over 20 houses fcave been offered by public auction bj ine property owner owing to his leaving the colony.