The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3986, 11 December 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1891.

When Masterton and Gieytown first aspired to municipal promotion they did not possess a sufficient number of houses within the towns proper to qualify as boroughs. They met the difficulty by stretching out as long an arm as possible, and drawing into the proposed municipalities as many farm-houseo as could le .-luichec'. ■From the first, within the municipal "ring, there has been a disparity of interests between the business men in the centre of the town and the farmers rear the outskirts. When a wrong thing like including farms in the urea of a borough is perpetrated there usually follows some kind of penalty, and every now and again the people are reminded that it is difficult under existing conditions to administer the affairs of the town to advantage. The settlers on the Upper Plain now .desire to take advantage of the new water supply Act to run races through their farm 3. They can do this in an economical manner, the only drawback being that a number of the promoters of the project are farmers resident in the borough, and the Act under which the irrigation is procurable does not providelor municipalities undertaking work of this kind. As a matter of fact no cue ever supposed that larmers requiring irrigation were within borough areas, and if Parliament were asked to extend to boroughs the privileges enjoyed by counties under the Water Supply Act, the fact of a considerable number of farmer burgesses being included in a municipality would be ridiculed. What ought to be done, only the law is defective in giving facilities for reducing the size of a borough, would be to hand all the farming burgesses over to the County. Were this accomplished, there would be a better chance of the farmers getting a suitable water supply, and possibly even of the centre of the town receiving an adequate service. At present it would seem that almost any project for supplying the town would be resisted by certain persons, and that every obstacle would be placed in the way of any practicable scheme. We presume, however, that no insuperable difficulty will arise in carrying out the Upper Plain irrigation proposal. If the promotprs of the scheme cannot collect rates within the borough they could probably derive some fair lental fiom those benefitted, which would be a substitute for a rate. Perhaps, when the burgesses of Masterton see the Upper Plain enjoying a convenient water supply at a small cose, they will wake up to perceive that Masterton, if one or two quarrelsome people were put'upon one side, could also obtain a profitable and effective supply nt a cost which would be recouped by a saving of 50 per cent, in insurance premiums, by a revenue for garden and orchard as well as house purposes, and by ths improved health of the inhabitants from the substitution of cleaßly thoroughfares fur dirty streets.

The toy and cake fair in aid of the tusids of St. Matthew's Church opens in the Drill Hill at seven o'clock this eveniuy.

Out of thirty-six applications received by the Wellington Education Board for pupil teacherships, the whole of the candidates excepting one are of the fair sex. The Wellington Post say 3 a live snake was found by a Chinaman in a bunch of bananas which recently arrived in Mastertou. This requires a lot of believing Somebody has evidently been "seeing snakes."

Hay-making operations are now in full swing in this district, the yields being particularly good.

Attention is directed to an interesting inset from the Wholesale Drapery Com--pany appeariug in this issue.

Building opsrations are still as active ase/er inGreytown. The additions to the residence of Mr E. Dunn have just been completed, and are a great improvement to the appearance of that part of the town. Alterations and additions are also beint' made to the residences of Dr Bey, Win, Udy, and the one lately occupitd by Mrs J. E. 1. Boys, and Kow Kue's shop. A residence ism course of erection for Mr J. Hawke, Jim., and a li*r<»e shop and dwelling house for Mr J. Lewis. Mr H. Udy, Jun.,hii9 had a neat little house erected, into which he has lately reunved.

Mr W. G. Beard called attention iw the Dist.i ict Court yesterday afternoon to the preposterous regulations which allowed of persons being as jurymen who could afterwards claim exemption. He pointed out that half of the jurymen empanelled might be firemen and entitled to exemption. His Honour said he fully realised the hardship and inconvenience which arose from the preßent system of empanelling juries. He could not, however, alter the regulations. Mr Beard replied that it was quite time some alteration was effected. His Honour concurred in this remark,

The Eketahuna Road Board inviteß tenders for the construction of a bridge and culverts.

Mr Donald Donald was exempted from service on the jury in the District Court yest«rdav, on account of being a Major in the New Zealand Volunteer Forces It is stated that Jhere is not a house to let in Pahiatua at the present time. Many families rent two or three-roomed cottages who would gladly move into houses of five or six rooms if procurable.

Letters of administration in the estate of the late William Stewart, of Pahiatua, have been granted to his widow.

• Dividends of 4a 6d in the £ in the estate of VV. J. Hodges, of Eketahuna, and lis 6d in the £in the estate of T. J. James, of Pahiatua, are unw beinp paid. The Rangitikei Advocate says the salmon trout fry which Mr Fergusson, of the Palmerstou Block, obtair ed from Mastettun to stock his fishpond, were all dead before they reached their destination.

The annual scholarship examinations under the Wellington Education Board aie to be held on Wednesday next. Twenty-seven candidates from tue Wairarapa are to be examined, six of whom belong to the Mastertou dchool.

Some consternation has been created among the clergy of Sydney by the decision of the full Court to the effect that the omission of a declaration preparatory to marriage renders the partne«ship illegal, and the failure to produce such a document if required would have the same effect. In many cases the declaration has baen omitted, and very little trouble has beeu takeH to preserve the docuineut when it was executed.

At the quarterly meeting of the Carterton Town Licensing Committee a certificate of transfer from K. Buckeridge to Margaret Hamilton was granted, the police report on the house being very tuvourable.

A circular received by the Colonial Secretary shows that between January and September last 3019 tons of .New Zealand dressed flax were lauded in Loudon, as against 9780 in the corresponding period of last year. The stock in Luiiuou on 30th September waß 1524 tuns, as tember 1890.

Nominations for the Boxing Day spuiti at Eketahuna close with the Secretary to-morrow (Satuiday). A case of revolting cruelty to a cow has been brought under the notice of the police at Woodville. An information has been laid against the offender.

The Walrarapa North County Council has very generously offered to appoint Mrs Pratt, wife of the late George Pratt, toll-keeper on the Eketahuna-Tinui road. The saltiry attached to the appointment is 14s a week and a free house.

It lias been decided to deepen the wells iu Carterton, for use in the case of lire. The cost of obtaining a high pressure water supply would, it has been ascertained, be tar beyond the powers of the Borough to defray.

Mr R, j. Harcombe was attacked with influenza whilst serving on a jury in the District Court yesterday. On producing a doctor's certificate he was excused from service.

A number of Masterton residents intend making an alpine tour to Mount Hokhwurth in a few days. The Taraiuas are now quite free from snow, and the excursion should therefore be very enjoyable. The Forty-Mile Eush road near Eketahnna has been injured by the rooting of pigs. The ranger to the County Councd has been instructed to destroy any a wine he might find doing damage.

The following have been received by tho Wairarapa North County Council for 8.40 chains road formation in Eketahuna :- M'Ginly, J75 10s (accepted;; Carr, £B4 4s tid ; Jacobsen, L 92105; Woolf, £93 ; M. Kalliher, L 96.

An unfortunate individual, who bacame a victim to influenza and lay for scyeral days in a whare near Masterton without food or medical attention, has been relieved by the officers of the Salvation Army wheu on the very verge of death.

Messrs Janicß Stuckey, E. M. Galloway and B. D Dagg have been appointed to represent the Wairarapa North County Council on the North Wairarapa Benevolent Society.

lu the District Court of Bankruptcy, held at Masterton this morning, Gustav Uirsch was discharged from bankruptcy. The bankruptcy of Charles Wright was declared closed, and the bankrupt ordered to come up for his discharge at the next sitting of the Court. The public examination of T. *T. James, Edmund Holt, and William Brannigan was declared closed.

A correspondent from Te Nui writes as follows : —Sunday trading is on tlie increase here, and it is high time the authorities put a stop to it.. Last Sunday morning the disgusting spectacle was observed of a drunken man being carried through the main thoroughfare, and the language used in the hearing of women and children was something appalling. Constable Collerton was laid up with influenza, and the rabble took full advantage of it. We have rather more than our share of the submerged tenth at ihe best of times. Unfortunately we haven't the Salvation Army with its counteracting influence. Perhaps a timely warning may be of use to those concerned. Vcrbum sat sapienh. The quarterly meeting of the Alfredton .Licensing Bench was held at noon yesterday. Present, Messrs A. Anderson (chairman) McAnulty, Syversen, and Hardin?- The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmde. The police report on the hotels in the district was favourable. An application from the Sports CVpimittce to rescind the moti m agreed to at the annua! meeting, that no conditional licenses bo granted within two mile 3 of an other hotel, was granted. This being all the business the meeting adjourned. On Tuesday evening Constable Treanor received instructions to arrest a man named Madden, who was supposed to have gone to Wowdville. He was charged with assault and robbery at Vahiatua. At the Star Hotel the Constable found two men very nearly answering the description given. He asked one cf them if hts name was Madden, and the man addressed denied it, and declared lie knew nothing of the charge. Not wishing lo arrest the man without just cause the constable was making further enquiries about the other man when the man he had been addressing bolted out at the side door, o\er the fence at the back of the yard and off. This confirmed the constable's suspicions that lie had been addressing the right man, and heat once gave chase, bein» quickly joined by others. The man w<.s followed into the bush behind the freezing works and escaped. Constables Cooper and Cameron arrived from Pahiatua v but as darkness set in very little could be done to follow the man.— Kmm'uii'i:

\A e shall be ever ready to welcome the crowds who m;iy take advantage of these desirable opportunities, and the more widely we distribute our Christmas gifts the better shall ue be pleased at Te Aro House, Wellington. In addition to offering exceptional advantages to customers, such as an 'nnnense variety, a carefully selected and faihionabie stock of goods in every department of the warehouse, we intend, during the remainder of the present month to present all cash customers to the extent of 20s and upwards with an attractive Christmas gift, at Te Aro House Wellington. We have a, regular, devised scale for the things, and in proportion to the.amount of purchases so will be the value of the present. 'x his scale will be on the sime lines as on previous years, and no doubt will give equal satisfaction, at Te Aro House, Wellington. One thing should be noted especially, and that it is that this gift distribution will extend during the present month up to the very last day of December, 1891, neither more or less. Those that are wise will therefore take care to bo iu time at T« Aro ' Eoubs Wellington.—Abv(