Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4086, 11 April 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1892.

Being the extended title of the Wairarapa Daily, with which it is ! IDENTICAL. . .

We really oanuot understand why tho present Government should" be so anxious to propitiate vagabonds and loafers through the medium of the Labour Bureau. It is admitted that to a ruling power ,with the principles of our present Ministry'and its followers, one vote is as good as another, but then they were already certain of the support of the idle, worthless, and besotted proportion of the community. Was not this plainly evidenced at the last general eleption ? Ip more one instance where the Liberal candidate won by a bare majority—and it is not necessary to go far for an oxaniple—it might truthfully be said that the vote of the disreputable atoms of humanity dragged or cajoled to the polling booth, turned the scale, and made up the few odd votes which put their man in. While the Conservative candidate might rely upon a majority of' the intelligent vote, it would be idle to say, looting at the average Radical, and comparing principles and men, that the vote of the ignorant and useless portion of the community whose record and whose habits should have t[ip of all right to the ballot at all,' would reach the former, even were suoh support desired by him. Still these votes are effective, and when it is a touch-and-go they' put one man in and tlnow the other out. Deplorable is it that the choice of our representative by 1 the aotion of circumstance and law, | and when chance aids the issue, falls into such han.ds as these; but it is

SQ. • But it was the liftbour bureau we jntepded mainly to refer to. The justification for its existence at all has yet (o he evidenced by iti deeds. We have already pointed out that the Government has no need to further patronise the vagabond in order to retain hid vote. Ho already recognises he is well off and the bond of sympathy }s ptropjj enough without filler hospitality jt f|ie e?ppse of the State, ' Pauperism grows Quickly enough without being foptered, fielief works and a free passage thereto open up an easy path to abuse, There is a class of men whose existence is made up of dodging work and begging for money, food, or lodging. They are piajflly able u bodied, and can have no claim' to be coppered destitute, for a living is Btili always to be earned in New Zealand by the pian who is strong enough to earn it. Yet ilpe foa.fers radiate from, the tops apd circuit among the sheep stations til' the tpipipg from one tp. thp pthejr occasional retirements to gaol .on po|iyi,otions of vagrancy, fiorn pm war's epd to another.. It can bepftsily.uflderijfppd, therefore, how to suoh people as these k Labour Bureau is a perfect boon. No need to tramping roads, footsore and ,tired,'- flien a free railway pass will help weary his way. -There is .work waiting at jthe, end of the journey, that's true, and it 1 forms a drawback to the otherwise perfect picture; but still an artful

dodger, experienced in his profession,-• can overcome thatlittle oSsta'blo when 0 he lias obtained all. he wants. Take the instance of four steamer firemen t< whom we recently noticed .travelling ® under Government auspices' to the ® Pahiatua relief works. To start with t they were quite unskilled at the class n of work required of them and could have obtained employment,, in their own line bad tlicy sought it, but that j had nothing to do with the case, and as one of them remarked they needed a \ ohange of scene and country air to i restore their health after a " hot" 5 week in •Wellington, why not; then take advantage of the Government I pio-nio. Chaffed by the coach-driver 1 about being " stone-brokes" they each produced four or five one pound c notes, and flaunting them bravely said ( "Stoney be blanked I we're having a ' jolly good time and seeing the country . and not a cent, to pay for the; fun!" A few days later these men ,' were to be seen in Woodville, the ■■ relief works fir in the rear, in ( various stages of intoxication. More recently still when m a store at : ] Pahiatua we noticed three young men , —clerks they looked like—deposit ] Gladstone bags or portmanteaux on i the floor to.; which were strapped ' umbrellas, etc,, and go up to the pro- 1 pnetor for the purpose of making an 1 enquiry, Directly they had gone wo were asked: Do you know who they j are? "No!" wereplied, " Well,they're unemployed," responded the store-, keeper, " and you can imagine, how. much use they will be at road-mak-ing and railway work I". But the Litest ideais to convert this species of dependant humanity into Cook's Tourists by the issue of food and shelter'coupons, All that is wanting to complete the reality is to provide a travelling conductor who shall point out the beauties of the scenery by day and guard tlie slumbers ot his charges at night. The circular whioh preluded the issue of these coupons was not a vory lucid composition. It indicated that tickets would be issued, 3 not more than twelve at a time, to , bona Me travellers in search of work i whereby they would be able to procure meals and beds at boarding houses and hotels (provided those establishments would, by a concession, accept them) at an ' uniform charge of sixpence each, f It is pointed out in the official memorandum as an inducement to hotelkeepers and others to honour the coupons, that the expenditure would . probably amount to fourteen shillings per week " besides some smll outlay bj each individual." The circular,' ' too, is not cleiir on the point as to who pays the sixpence, and leaves one almost room to suppose 1 that this, like the free railway y journey, is another Government charity, but the inference is dear i, that the recipient of the order is sup- • posed to disburse the sixpence, and " then, as the official communication suggests, still have a margin for j ''extras." Only fancy a genuinely destitute person requiring anything beyond food and shelter at a hotel I But' the class of person who will ' habitually travel on these coupons will probably expend more on ' comforts 1 than on necessaries; indeed, if they were free or ' prepaid, .many of these orders would be liquidated " by i ingenious methods ot conversion, i' But surely the whole thing is a joke I d Such a system would absolutely create ' the gepus .tramp did lie -not already, exist, If the Government " is serious; then we hope that the s hoielkeeper and 1 boarding house ■r keeper wlio at all values the respectability of his house will absolutely m refuse to receive these coupons, and so not participate in this crude and highly objeotionable invention of.the it Labour Bureau, • -

The monthly meeting of the Masterton Lodge, No. 19; N.Z.O.j' takes place] on Wednesday next, The business is of " an interesting oharactor, An exhibition of the pugilistic art was made iu the Masterton Theatre Royal on Saturday night.. The contests were limited to three roipidq. . . . Frederick Jonos, the eldeßt son of Mr Henry. J6hes,:of tho .Upper Plain,, died this morning from inflammation of the bowels, after a short illness, Pearson's Private Brass Band gave an i alfresco Concert on the Masteiton Park Uval on Sunday afternoon. An excel" lent programme was submitted,'and the great improvement in the playing of the Band was remarked upon by all. The collections in St,. Matthew's Church on Friday next (Good Friday) are to be in aid of the Masterton Hospital,

It is reported that the proposed Easter Encampment at. Nolson ha§ fallen through. The Taranaki residents who were the holders of Tho Harbour Light jn Tf)ttersall's sweep oi> the. Newmarket. Handicap have rocoivcd a cheque for £U23lOs, The Grattan Ripcja Compapy will open at the' Theatre Royal on Tuesday (tomorrow) with " Atrah-na-Pogue" instead of the" Irish Detective" as previously announced, ' Thore is said to be a considerable quantity of grain yet in stook in North Ota?o. A Sydney paper seriously states that bodies of dead babies float out of the Bondi sewer at the rate of about one per minjlto, x An Inveroargill gardener imported one pototoe from Borne last season of a new kind ,appropriately called the" Jubilee." It was cut up snd planted, and the return is UOpotatoos weighing 481bs, A bolt occurred in the main thorough fare of Masterton on Saturday afternoon, but no serious damage resulted, Mr Arthur j Beverley. Writes to the Dunedin Star -"A small* comet is visible in the mornings at present.' It may bo seen apy. clear morning, about four o'olopk, in theE,lJ.E. ( 2Qdeg above the horizop: It appeals like a thirdmagnitude star, with a faiut taij 4deg or sdeg long, slantin? upwaitf 'to the left. It is moving at the rate of 2deg.per day, eastward and northward, so |hat jt will remain visible about a fortnight i pass perihelion, to the north of the buu, about the end of the month, and reappear soon after in tho west after dusk.- On Suu- - day morning last the small star Nu Capricorni wan seen through the middle of thefonjet's fail.!' .

A case of arsenipal pQiooning is recorded ;n the Marlborough Espreas as followsi-rTha. police : at .Blenheim have received information of <i case of alleged poißonin? at Mr Fraser's residence Waikawa roadi Dr Scott was called in on Friday,' March 18, to attend Mr Frascr, employed in the local branch of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and bis children, six, four andtw'o reapactiyely. On examinas tion, hei colicluded : ; tpat th?y were suffering from the effects of poisoning, and asked what they had been eating; They'said they had been satins; butter-: milk sooneo, tjje flour liavjne been taken from a bag In the pou'llera gt the baok of tho house,; and whioh had befea in use for soiiie time. Hannafi Barriscellsaid.'shp 'jiiid made the scpnes from the (Joijr, and could riot form any idatj. of anything being prong with it. Pr Sgott then ordered that no pore fif|he (jopr should be ÜBcd.-land he-took a portion of it away, which be forwarded »o Dr j Skey, the Government analyst, at \V olliagtop, receiving the following reply:— "The flour you sjnt p)ec,ontainsar»enio in . quantity. -W.' Skey, > analyst, Wtllington. ' /

Theriijj; Myithe'bbservir.siinietalk of startmg'a |iifl9 Olub in Qartarton. A son (if ilrß, M» Gallowayj of Mas* terton, ;met with a : nasty accident on Saturday last, He . was , assisting to catch a h'orao at Akura, when he fell, and waa trampled under foot, Although the lad was severely bruised it is fortunate that no boues were broken. ' Tho Wesleyan Church at Masterton J i'b to be thoroughly renovated. Aspecml "" fund for this purpose is being arranged, f Enquiry is mado through Lloyd's !' Weekly for Edward Allen Pitcher, last heard of at Wairarapa, Wellington, New 0 Zealand, four years aijo. a . His Excellency the Governor—the ' Earl of Glasgow—is expected to arrive t in New Zealand in a few weeka' time. • c The following tenders were received a on Saturday by , tho Wairarapa North t County Council for Contract No, 1, Eaft i Coast roadS. Oonnell, £72 (accepted}; j A,'P. Savage and Co., £173 6s. f : At a meeting of Directors of the.Kaia- t poi Woollen Factory held on Saturday, ] a dividend' of: four per, cent, mt declared for' the half year, which is equal , to eight per oent for the half year. - j • The congregation at the Masterton Presbyterian Church last evening was ! very large; and the discourse of the liev, 1 R. ffood'oß the gambling question 1 attentively listened to. -A worshipper I who"watohedand prayed," observed a ] visitor {sketching the preacher'during , prayers, j A mob of sixty horses—all first-cta ( haoks-wero taken through Masterton , the other day by Mr J. B. Blaine, fif ' Wellington, They were collected in Hawke's Bay for Mr J. C-M'Kerrow, by whom ' they are to be sold in Greytown 1 in about a fortnight's lime. The police desire us to express- their tbauks to Mr Kennedy, manager of Mr ' W. C. Buchanan's'station on the East ; ; Coast, for having placed at the disposal , of Constable May a brake, two horses, | and a driver to convey to Masterton the body of the unfortunate lad York, who ' was shot at Wainuioru on Friday. I The half-mile race for a silver medal given by Mr E. M. D. Whatman was , run on the Paik Oval by mombers of the Masterton Football Club on Saturday * last, There were altogether six starters, i the soratoh man being tho favorite. ) Before half the distance had been oom- ; pleted R, Gray assumed the lead, and . won easily by ten yards, R. Thompson , was second and E, Yates third. . 1 An address was given in tho Masteiton i Wesleyan Church lakt evening, by the l Eev J.. Dukes on the gambling question. , The roy,gentleman purposely refrained from alluding to the case recently heard in the B,M. Court, but dealt mainly with apologies forthe evil, The holding | of raffles in connection with Church < bazaars was strongly denounced, together s with the gambling course pursued in I commerce. In O'including an able . treatise of the subject Mr Dukes said 3 that gambling was a far greater evil in' the land than drinking, and urt>ed upon his congregation to do all in their power 3 to suppress it, ■ | A young man named George Thomas ' Baslip, of rather respectable appearance, c though sparsely clad, was sentenced to • three months' hard labour in the Wdl--1 lington Terrace Gaol, by the Rev. J, 0, i Andrew, J. P„ at Tinui on Saturday, for r being an idle and disorderly person. The prisoner had only been in the Tinui district about a week. He would not work,although it was offered to hlir, and I refused to pay for his keep at the board.l in" house, He beoame so .great a 9 nuisance • that females were afraid to a leavo their doors for fear of intimidation. , He went to Maunaell's station; and asked ' for food, aud when it was offered him he refused to take it unless it Was Riven him 8 by women, On being ordered off the y place he refused to go and waa therefore . given m charge. The prisoner was I 'brought to Masterton;. by Constable 10 Collerton .yesterday and taken on . to Wellington tliismorning. it Ladios 'ftlio atady fashion and elect to e be in the mode, will be pleased to know l that wo have opened out, and have now on view, some of the latest styles in single robe dresses at To Aro House, Wellington, !. ' Most ol these are the' generally 'admired d rough-surfaced materials, and the most d prominent among them are-Scotch Home* spun; Panama Tweed, Milangc Toilej ■ Cheviot Nega, Malvern tweeds, Ohevio Flotte, Drap Grasse, and Missouri Carraux all very handsome and 'attractive stales at Te Aro House, Wellington, 1

There are also great varieties of Bstainine and Naval Serges, including the celebrated Waterproof Serge, called Impervanas. For durability and making up well, very few materials oan - surpass, those at To Aro House, Wellington, In addition (o these there are several gtljer materials as announced by us on tho fliet page of this paper, foremost among

whioh are the favourite Dress Meltons, unequalled fpr durability, and whioh wo have iq various widths from 95 to 48 inabes wide at Te -4ro House, Wellington. Those Dress Meltons,we have in all colours, suoh as Navy, Grey, Fawn, Myrtle' .Claret, Brown, Marono and Black, Pat-, terns of these and any other dress material will be forwarded postage free' by applying to Te Aro House, Wellington,-