Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] TUESDAY, JULY 20,1892. GREATNESS ACHIEVED.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4175, 26 July 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

TUESDAY, JULY 20,1892. GREATNESS ACHIEVED.

FIRST EDITION

Being tub extended title of the Wairarapa Daiw, with which it is idbntioal

Tiie wag who selects our cable news for us is inclined to over-rate the interest that we feel in some of his friends. When lie tells us, with impressive brevity, that Lord Nozoo is dead—weare glad, it is true, but we remain unexoited by the intelligence. Even when the newsman flashes across the oceans such a messnge as this:-"The Earl of Orkney has married Miss Connie Gilchrist; the Duke of Beaufort gave Miss Gilchrist away"—well, wo hear it without swooning, It is true that we had ourselves cherished hopes of going Home to lay'our Colonial pile at the feet of the lady in question—whom we remember as the comedy star of very many years ago. But our regretß that the Earl of Orkney has been beforehand with us are temperate and chastened in their character; our interest in the Society topics dear to the United Press Association is but languid and half-hearted. It gives us, therefore, real pleasure when we odd point to some piece of interesting news which has eluded the censorship of the London cableman and, by some lucky accident, has reached New Zealand.

Such a piece of news has come to us when we learn that "Mr Cook, of the Tourist Bureau, is dead." We I Hid not know him; but we know something of his story, He was a working man, if we remember right, and he happened many years ago to organise a successful day's outing by i excursion train for the families of his fellow workmen, Tt was the beginning of his greatness, The satisfactory issue of little local plans for the transport of a few hundred people over a few score miles, opened up a view of splendid possibilities; it inspired Mr Cook with an idea which, like the lever that Archimedes sighed for, baß in reality moved the world. Naturally sagacious and observant, keenly practical, and consequently prepared to speculate when speculation was timely, Mr Thomas Cook proceeded to formulate his proposals for helping people to travel at a minimum of cost and with a minimum of trouble to themselves. The British Philistine was essentially the person for whose needs he catered. Thai indiyidual might not know his own needs-but Mr Cook could seo them for him. Tbe great needof the English middle classes was the need of travel.!

It may be difficult for islanders to avoid being insular; it'may be rare for dwellers in the provinces to escape provincial modes of thought. But jjothing can minister towards these' desirable,cO|ißumraations like a system which brings foreign' trayei jyitbjn the reach of the million. This is precisely what Mr Cook set out to achieve; and he has achieved it, In doing sp he has revolutionised society, When he was a young man, one half the world knew nothing of the ways of (he otlior half. The Countess of Bareacres, fed in hep own carriage OR the deck of the Calais boat, repre? sented jruly enough the one English class that travelled on the Continent ill tlwe flays, The only compatriot that her ladyship cuujd pounton finding on foreign soil was the ruined spendthrift, half rascal and half fool, who hung about Boulogne to avoid the service of au English writ, All that is clmnged—and changed chiefly by Mr Cook, To say that the countries nearest to England have long ago been over-run by our own 'Arry and his 'Arriet, .is to under-state the facts. T„S treat Pyramid, tjio Nile as far aB the seoond cataract, the remotest mountain hamlets of the Austrian Tyrol, the home of the Grand Turk and the cathedral city of tho Supreme Pontiff-rwe write down at random the first names of places that occur to us -all bear by this time the enduring imprint of the British tourist, 1 ' It is, perhaps, the mark of the beast; yet it is at least a learned pig that is produced by the process. Nor is this all that Mr Gook has opened to üb, To the newer world and to the Southern hemisphere bis bene-

fioSnt operations have been extended; I and wo believe ourselves safe in saying that there arefew accessible places on the globe where Mr Cook's coupons do not run, He hamnde the fortunes of publio carriers of every kind; he has enriched the shop-keepers of a hundred nationalities j he. has "promoted the study of modern languages among his fellow-countrymen, given them the rudiments of art-knowledge, and taught them to prattle about a " culture" whose value they can now dimly discern. We trust that, in this process of bringing rude matter into due form, Mr Cook has made his own fortune long ago, Like all great men, be has had imitators; and in time to come it may be found that too many Cooks only spoil things, But we certainly owe it to this " original and only" Tourist-agent of our day, to hand down his memory as the first man who inaugurated the " personally conducted " travel of the British subject in the remotest corners of the earth, It is • capital work that he has done. Let others carry on his'enterprise with the same good faith and intelligence and pluck. For him—he has been conducted to " The undiscovered .country, from whose bourn flo traveller returni."

The Minister for Lands has undertaken; on behalf ot tho Government, to give anyone the use of IC3O to 2000 acres of land in Marlborough at nominal rontals, provided the tenants exterminate tho rabbits upon it, The Bailway Commissioners decline to rcduco the freight on cheeso, because—they contend—some should travel as "live stock," Ye (ioda and little fishes I An eichango says Feilding is getting more like London every day, The admirers in Wanganui of the Rt. Hon W, E. Gladstone have cabled him as follows:—The Liberals of Wanganui congratulate you on your victory in the English election campaign, lho barquontiue Edith May was driven ashoro three miles and a half north of the Wanganui River on Sunday morning. The first mate, Mfred Reynolds, was washed overboard and drowned.

At a dance in Feilding the other evening, one of the ladies fell and broko hßr arm.

The London correspondent of a Duuedin paper mentions in a list of New Zealand visitors who had called upon the Agout-Gteneral, tho name of Mr O.'.Pharazyu, ot Foatherston,,whowasnt Bailey's Hotel, South Kensington. The itov. 'William Ronaldson, who many years ago was in charge of the Maßterton paroohial district, will preach in St, Matthew's Church on Sunday next. Mr Donaldson will be remembered by many old residents of Masterton, who will be glad to see him In our midst again,

Owing to the rise In the price of moat and ths apathy of consumers, the co-operativo butchery at Auckland has been abandoned.

In an up-oountiy block in Hawke's Bay there are twenty-six married couples. Thirteen couples have no children. "This," said a momber of the Education Board, "is very unusual for a colonial experience," The Masterton Bide Volunteers parado in review order at the Drill Shed on Tuesday, 9th August, for inspection by Colonel Fox, Commandant of the N.Z. forces. M. Kepfe, an Auckland amateur oarsman, leaves for Sydney shortly in order to compete with other Australasian oars-, men, including IStanbuty, Sullivan and Kemp, in the Professional Sculling Handicap, to be held on the Parramaita in September.

A collision between Hercock's but-1 cher's cart and a buggy occupied by Mrl and Mrs Charles Giles, occurred in Carterton on SaturJay night. The buggy was smashed, and the occupants were thrown out, Mrs Giles receiving an in« jury to her back. It is a pity, remarked someone who was at the enjoyable dance at Greyfcown on Friday evening, that there is not a little more attention given in the provision o! better arrangements in the gentlemen's dressing room, The space, to start with, is very limited, and coats, haw, and boots'get horribly mixed up and suffer much consequent ill-usage. Still, there need not be added to this the entire absence of the very ordinary necessity of a towol and a piece of soap. To have to divert one's lingers direct from muddy boots to snow-white gloves, and to feel more or less grimy throughout the ovening, does not add to the feeling of self-satisfaction which a man is permitted to enjoy on the rare occasions of a dance. To have an attendant to properly look after and ticket the wraps, is probably out of the question on the ground of expense. But when there is a man in charge of the cloak-room it is ad" visable that he should have some system, for we remember not long ago being told that the committee at a certain danco, had, regardless of cost, put an individual in charge of the dressing room. He was there ceitainly, and took up room which, considering he was not of the slightest use, could be ill afforded; for be had not the vaguest notion of how t'lings should be managed, Still ho Inspired effort; for the weary and irritable guests searching hopelessly for their boots were not a little impelled thereto by a wild desire to relieve their feelings by kioking someone or something when they had found them, It iB notified by tho Manager, MrW. G. Foster, that the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, is closing its Maßterton office us an agenoy, bub that it will continue to. he represented by Mr F, 0, Lewis, whose headquarters will bo Masterton, and who will also visit tho other centres at regular periods. The attention of the Company's clients is directed to the detailed intimation, advertised elsewhere inthisissuo

At a meeting of the South Canterbury Charitable Aid tod the other day, the Ohairmau referred to a Press telegram from Masterton in which a charge was made against the Board that they sent away a woman to Wellington, where she landed with only a half-crown, thence sho toalked to Masterton, and arrived there barefooted, having sold her boots fiirfond, It'waß triie'tfio Beard paid her passage "to 'Wellington, but the woman was not on tbe Board's books' at the time. Archdeacon Harper and others had interested themselves in the woman and made all the aarangoments for her departure, he aa Chairman of the Boar| being askpd pimply to pay her passage. Tho Archdeacon wrote that she had effects and spme money whenahe left, but he (Mr Jackw) could well believ/s.tbafc she had only 2a fid when she landed,

Howisitl Ask aayono in tho crowd, Ask your next door neighbour, Ask the man wfco collects tickets on tho railway. Ask the pplewhp dwell in Eketabuna, tlauricovillo, foiiul, 'Carte*!!, Qrpyjown, or anywhere else, Doptnunlcate wli tbe pernio Jiving jr. any part of «,p wfe,,*a?'x y they shop atW. PPPJjR&pi.PW'S and tbey will tell you '*bßoa«ae'; suits ("err..' And why does it suit them? Deotu.se Buy get morernd better in oxohar'e fo: their money at tbe Bon Marcie than n'lytyho c else, and because the conveniences of tlio place are swh as no other establishment cjuajord. These are the bare outlines of the reasoning that bringa the people In shoals to this wonderful "i • ";'i ■'""•«,' Yiii tie various depart, place of bu»'u.~--; ■-*..,•.man fads ments in which the lordly crcan.... all he wants, aid woman—lovely woman—loves towraiidlo(ikalijJie/asl!{on section, Pew are the JJoulswls ''ofWriiJ'apd the shops of IJcgent and Oxford streets, JMdn, rolled hw one. Here under- your eye are the fashions' r-rrangei', classified, and ready for immediate' use and' wear.' Turn'into tbo grocciy ard provision sections, Tlicso'are of ftiterest <d every man jick in the' community, To describe'the advantages'of buying'from Hooper would fl 1 ) a book,' Whether you want hjanbts or-bonnolii' tea or sugar, whether you'ro'a chilly mortal or a hot member/ a protectionist; 'a freetrader, - » socialist?, a cilitkump'at 'a, poittivM, 'a none such,' « r#il'calclie;',' you sll find no better outlet for the money yoii'iiavii to spend thajf'at Hooper and Company's BonMaroho, Masterton.—Advt

For tho information o£ footballers we have bean requested to state that it is not the duty of polioe officials to prevent a otowd from invading a football field. The police are guardians of tho peace, and do not pretend to bo refereoa or umpires in the game uf football, If a man in blue takes upon himself to touch & spectator at a football match, unless a breach of the peace has been committed, he is liable to proseoution for acsault,

The hop beer sold in Wellington is said to contain from three to seven per cent, of alcohol, and in Auckland as much as ten por cent. It therefore comes wider the Licensing Act,

Noarly every township in the Colony is proclaiming August 4th a publio holiday, In some centres tren-pbmting is not to bo undertaken, but the holiday has been proclaimed out of sympathy with the objects of Arbor Day. Masterton aud Auckland will probibly be about the only two places where the institution will not be recognised. Madame Millie Viola, the parachutist, will, it is reported, visit Mastertou in a few weeks' time, She is now in the South Island.

Very many peoplelndeed are visiting the vestibule of Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, the artistic photographers of Willis Street, Wellington, attracted by a small gallery of photographs of the Countess of Glusgow. Wo lately described a series of magnificent pictures of His Excellency the Guvoraor, and we at once hasten to say that the portraits of the Countess are in every way equal in composition, technique and finish, to those of His Excellency. Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns must fee) oxtrarnely gratified by the Countess' assurance, personally given to Mr Wrigglesworth, that the portraits in question are the best she has ever had taken—more especially when Bhe adds that she has cat to all the leading photographers of London. Among the collection—which consists of nine photos of various sizes -iB a full length, twenty by sixteen, of remarkable grace and beauty. Three of the twolve by ten pioturea are also very fine; cue, a half-length, reclining in a chair, is a particularly brilliant and striking portrait. The two cabinets are also brilliant, yet delicate, examples of firstclass modern photography; graceful in pose, good in expression, choice of aspect and general rendering, and we prediot that before very long we shall meet with one or the other of both of these cabinet photos m very many New Zealand homes, These pictures of the Governor and Countess should be a great commercial success for Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns, We also notice a constant change of particularly fine opal enlargements in the vestibule, Among the latest U one of a Maori lady, not unknown in theWairarapa, most delicately finished in water colors, one of the late Mr Samuel Vennell, in blaok and white and one of the ftovernor. Tho Charitable Aid Amendment Bill which Mr F.ogg has introduced in the House is designed to permit the erection of a hospital at Woodville. Two boys named Butroll were drowned while crossing the Mungaroa river, near Upper Hutt, in a trap on Sunday.

A clause in a Bill intended to have given effoct to a recommendation of the M to Z Petitions Oommitteo in the case of E. R. Meredith, of Masterton, having been thrown out by the House last year, Government consider they can do nothin» further in the matter.

The Evening Press aays it Is darkly whispered in certain quarters that while numbers of compositors are walking about unemployed, Government is sending a croat deal of its printing work to the Lyttolton (iaol>where it is dono by piison labor. We should like to see the rumour officially denied, The following are tho amounts paid over in connection with the Wairarapa Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meeting on Saturday;- Mr H. Pettn B1 ; air W. E.l3idwi!l£s2ss;Mr 0. filyard £2B 10s; MrH. Vonnell £23 16s; MrThos. Ronton £U5s; Mr O.Gollan, Mr W. Whiteman, Mr W. Williams, Mr R. Campbell, and Mr R. Roako £i 15s each, These amounts are exclusivo of the bracelets.