The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3952, 31 October 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891.

A new holiday has been added to £he superabundant list of red letter days in New Zealand and for the first time a Labour Day—a somewhat lukewarm labour day—has been celebrated. A Wellington citizen assured us that not pne working man in three, in tha Empire City, wanted to If nock off for the purpose of participating jr> t)ji.s particular demonstration, but the powers behind the working man's throne had decreed that the 28th of October was to be a festival and the men had to obey or be held up to obloquy by the unions and other organisations which enslave the toiler jn the city. The holiday was one of those tame affairs for which it did not p«y to run special trains or to close shops. Even the Government, who argdeyotel to the labour party, appeared; to hesitate to do honour to; the day fay making it dt /veto a public holiday throughout the Colony. They sent circulars to Postmasters and others telling them that when they had sorted their letters and despatched their mails they could kick up their heels and hold a demonstration, kill the fatced calf, if such $ (tiling wpr£ pn the premises, and if it were not they could a bjscfjjt an 4be merry. However, in the j?nipte.Q Qity the patriots managed to pull the thing off wjth kjrrjes for the men and lollies for the phildren. The procession was said to be effective, and if sweltering in a crowd on a warm day be an enjoyment, no one will begrudge the public their Jjftje amusement. Why there should now-a-days bp an eight hours demonstration is a puzzle I fifty years o( usage h#s demonstrated eight hours to bg un prdinary day's lftb'our in the colony, j*»d wjj cannot conceive that any stronger argument in favour of the custom can be brought forward. A stranger would almost think that the eight hours system was some new departure which had .guite recently been taken, and which needed to bp sustained by a popular {fcspiay.. i? 6 pp,e' ever drains of In my way interfering with jt.be ( eight hours austom, and it was almost cruel for Sir Boberfc Stout to have to make a> speech on such an occasion especially as he is a busy uun who would probably be frantic if he were himself limited .either as a lawyer or apoliticiaa to*the UJeieiyQ dug which he deems to be the privilege of his fellow men.. While no one for one moment will object toj the labour party kwng a labour day I if they desire one, some limit nhouldj be set to the number of publie holi days sanctioned by the State. If the Government when it creates a new holiday o'fluld kill off one of the old ones, there would bg no great objection to the innovation. A general all round holiday has its advantages, but the half and half public holiday observed by some and laughed at by pthers Is wore or less a uuisance,

The annual spring show of the Master* ton tfurticultural and Industrial Society will be held in the Drill Hall on Wednesday, November 25th, the entries fur which close on tho evening before the show.

The poll of stock-owners for the election of five trustees for the North Wairarapa Rabbit District takes place on Monday next.

A public trial of the Eeid and Gray digger plough will be made at the farm of Mr Meredith, Upper Plain.on Monday next.

The Foley Dramatic and Comedy Company appears at Greytown on Thursday and Friday next. The Moa Farmers' Union, ot Taranaki, expect to net 9d per lb clear for all butter this season.

The headmaster of the Napier school has resigned in consequence of the adverse report of an inspector. The health of Constable Eccleton, of Greytown, has completely broken down, and he has been ordered by his medical adviser to take a sea trip. When we point out that he has of late been acting as Clerk of Court, bailiff, crier, and policeman, no one can be surprised at Ihis collapse. Ours is a "Liberal" Government !

Messrs. Ttobert Parker and Seth Smith have been nominated as candidates for the representation ot the HuttWairarapa District in the General Synod.

The price of the 2lb loaf of bread has been raised in Woodrille to 4d sash and 4sd booked. Twenty debentures of the Masterton Borough Council, at £IOO each.haye been sold to the Government Insurance Department at par.

Forty bushfallerj are advertised for in the Pahiatua paper, besides n number of small contracts. Great indignation is felt at the continuance of the relief works now that the busy season has commenced. It is almost impossible to get men at all for private work.

A settler in Hawke's Bay is 8«d to have sold two thousand fat wethers for freezing purposes for £2OOO. During a thunderstorm at Crookwell, New South Wales, a tree on an estate, about a mile from town, was struck. 1- ortions of the tree and roots were scattered »ver about six acres of land. It is rumored (says the Manawatu Times) that the Knights of Labour in a certain locality not a thousand miles from Palmerston have been nicely thrown over by the Minister. A block of land near the main line in a rising township was given to some Wanganui supporters, and the others have to be satisfied with a block miles back from the main road.

Although a large number of extra copies of the Daily containing the report of the annual show cf the Masteiton Agricultural and Pastoral Association were printed, the supply was not sufficient to meet the demand. The report, we may mention, will appear in the Weekly published on Thursday next, copies of which may be obtained from eur respective agents in the town and from this office.

An unsophisticated swindler of the hawker type has been victimising cer-1 tain residents of Master ton of late. Hsving purchased serges of a decidedly inferior quality from local tradesmen, the visitor has palmed them on the unsuspicious at an advance of about two hundred per cent, as a material he is anxious to dispose of as a runaway sailor. He lives like a fiVhting cock at the exuense of bis victims. We understand from Mr Owen, Wellington District Agent for the Mutual Life Association of Australasia, who has been on a visit of inspection to the Jrasterton Agency, that he is greatly pleased with tto progress the Association has made under the management of Mr Gill, the local resident agent. The news of the death ot the daughter of Mr A. S. Hawkins, solicitor, of Wellington, under such distressing circumstances, which was announced by Daily " extra" yesterday afternoon, created quite a sensation in Msaterton. The parents of the unfortunate young lady have, we are sure, the Bincerest sympathy of a large circle of friends in this district in their sad bereavement.

The Brisbane Courier in writing of the drink bill in Queensland puts it down at £1,800,0C0, or £2O per annum for every adult male in the colony. It concludes—" Let the unemployed and.their champions look at these figures aud they will discover fcbeir and the colony's greatest enemy. Wa spead every year on an article whiph at best is useless and which for the moat part is injurious a sum which would give 8s a week all the year round to every family in Queensland, and which would keep the unemployed like princes. Boys' Blue Serge Sailor Shu*, White Braided Collar, White Flannel Fronts, Arm Badges, Lanyards, &c., from 6/9 /wch ajt Te Aro House, Wellington. Boys' B'up Serge Sailor Suite, Collars trimmed Red Braid, wjtb, Wfeife? Sjngr lets and Lanyards, Beautiful Badge on the Arm, from 12/6 each at Te Aro H Wellington. Boys summer clothing just received at the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House. The following are all made to our special order:— Boys' White Drill ''SwlopV «»lid trimmed Blue Braid, from 4/U each at Te Aro House, Wellington, Bors* Drab Drill Sailor Sufts, Collars trimmed Blue and White Braid, Gilt Buttons, from 6/6 each at Te Aro House, Wellington.