Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] BEING THE EXTENDED TITLE OF THE WAIRARAPA DAILY, WITH WHICH IT IS IDENTICAL. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30,1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4205, 30 August 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] BEING THE EXTENDED TITLE OF THE WAIRARAPA DAILY, WITH WHICH IT IS IDENTICAL. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30,1892.

The idea of squaring accounts with the Wellington District Board by drawing from it the funds to erect a poor house at Masterton is ingenious, but it can hardly bo contended that a 'sweet retaliation of such a character can be justified unless it can be demonstrated that such an institution will bo beneficial to the community, It may be said that the destitute persons now entirely dependent upon the local Benevolent Society could be Dioro cheaply maintained if they wore gathered together in one house; but even this is open to doubt. The real mischief would be the rapid development of paupers, were an establishment of this kind once placed at their disposal, If the premises were constructed to accommodate twenty inmates they would be speedily filled, and even if they wore built to accommodate fifty persons there would he no great difficulty experienced in finding tenants to occupy them, On the other hand, if the building were appointed on a comparatively small scale, there would be a perennial demand lor enlargements, and an annual requisition for new wings, The thing would, in time, grow into a workhouse of an English type, and would ho a special inducement for pilgrims arid strangers of an undesirable typo to settle amongst us. Doubtless, tho annual drain made upon tho local bodies in the Whirarapa is a serious evil, but it must, we ihjpk, be admitted that a heavy expenditure {o provide' permanent accommodation in tjijs district for the poor would prove a greater misfortune. The experienco even of our local Hospital goes to show that claims are constantly niado upon its resources which /cannot be admitted and that a rigid line has to be drawn between ihe cases suitable for treatment wiihin its walls and others with which it is not in n position to cope, But with a poor house it would be very difficult to draw the line which the Hospital authorities are, able to adhere to with a considerable amount of success, Poverty and infirmity would be the passport lo such an institution, and thero would be a natural j teudency on the part of householders in all directions to relegate 10 this' establishment any poverty-stricken neighbour who might come to be regarded as a nuisance. We have knpwn instances where settlers have oilowed p),d servants the run of their teeth and Borne sort of shelter after they have cgased to be ablo to do work. They were contented j to do this and did not begrudge reuderipgtha.tlfindly aid which .colonists so frequently extend fo tjieir fellow men, When, however, tlijey fpjjndi that public provision wa.s being made' for such cases and heard that some other settler had relieved himself of a sort of pensioner at the public cost tbey at once came to tho conclusion that it was their duty to follow suit, By the erection of a poorhouse an ijppetus will bo given to the process of jirflduping paupers, Men, perhaps somewhat pjd and infirm, but still capable of doing a ljttlo .useful prk, will be drafted out of tliflir pr'cspDt quarters to become inmates of a poorr house,

Nothing can bB more horrible anddeposing than gathering under one roof sjck apd decrepit persons. The lot of a poor man op pomp station or homestead is much more cheerful pud endurable, situated as he probably is amongst friendß or neighbours, than it is when ho is brought into a ward where his only associates would be people as unhappy and discontented as himsolf. lie would virtually exchange a home for ut prison, and there would be no truo charity in making such a provision for his needs.

It would perhaps have been better if His Excellency the Governor bad received a somewhat" warmer reception on tbe occasion of; his first visit to Maslerfon yesterday. Only those who from their offioial position were bound to show him some attention put in an appearance, while most of our residents held aloof. However, the Governor himself did not desire formal attentions, and had not given adequate notice of the time of his arrival, Still, it would have been quite possible to have produced a more favourable impression on His Excellency as to Masterton and its belongings, und we trust next time he visits us lie will meet with a more cordial and emphatic welcome. The Mayor, the morabor for tko district, and several borough councillors did their part in the reception, but their efforts were hardly seoonded by many leading residents who might have assisted them on such an occasion.

Tho large dsiry factory which is in course of eroction for the Patriate, Ballance and Mangatainoko districts by Mr H, Chester, representative of Mr J. W.Dottridgo, London, will be fitted with Do Laval improved separators capable of working the milk given by 2000cowa. The settlers will deliver their milk at the oroameriea, and after separation they will havo the skim-milk returned to them for the use of their young stock. Mr Cheater has placed an order with Mr J.J. Taylor, tinsmith, Oourtenay-place, for tho supply of milkvats and tanks, water tanks, and 600 milkcans, which is about the largest order for milkcans in the colony.

Petitions to Parliament in Opposition to the proposal of the Government to reduco the subsidyf to local bodies have been forwarded to Mr Hogg, M.8.R., by tho Masterton and Mauriceville Road Boards,

His Excellency the Governor created a good impression during Mb two hours' stay in Masterton yesterday by his genial affability and unassuming manner, A Masterton settler, whose percentago of lambs last year was considerably over a hundred, informs us that so far this season fifty per cent, has not been reached. The severity of the weather has caused an unusual mortality.

A two-yoar-old hoy, Archibald Alexander, fell into a boilor of scalding water at Footscray, Victoria, and was boiled to death.

A petition to fcho Mayor of Auckland, asking him to conveno a public meeting to consider the Plummor case, is being numerously Biped. John M'Eae has been committod for trial for tho LoraGorgo murder, the R. M.- stating that there was a jwima fucie caso, and ono beyond simple suspicion.

Our Greytotvn contemporary says :•- Opposition in musio is very rife in Masterton just now, and the public are reaping the benefit (?) Two brass bands practice twice a week in adjacent halls, and the intervening residents have a ported treat in the mingling and clashing of sounds. Every trivial excuso i 8 made for performing in public, and if the musical joalousy lasts much longor the public will havo to take out an injunction against theso d fresco concerts, as too much is bad for the nerves, This is saying nothing of tho Salvation Band, which worries away nightly, In addition to this there are the two orchestral bands in full rohearsal and altogether they are having a very lively time up there.. Wo (Marlborough Times) regret to loam that tho mortality amongst sheep in tho Polorus, owing to tho excessive wot, is considerable, At Manaroa the death rate is said to be quite disheartening.

It is vory unusual for any company to run seven nights in Masterton, but Professor Maßon seems to have a grip on the public and to bo breaking the record hands down, Last evening he gave as usual a strong musical programme, but it was playing it rather low down on the comic man when boiiio of the audience threw him boquets. However, he bore tho assault bravely ,and did not faint I The lecture was phrenological I part being edifying and part amusing. The audience seemed to take more kindly to tho latter! .The afterpieoo, a littlo feat in dentistry, was exceedingly funny, In response to an invitation from the gigantic professor, five youths came forward with alacrity to have their teeth drawn. Youth No 1. flopped into it chair placed in the middle of tho stage assuming an ungainly attitude. The big professor bent ovor the lad, Btraightonod out his legs, turned his head back and arranged him generally till he had assumed an artistio pose, the piano struck' up an inspiriting hattlo cry, the youth pointed out the molar which required extracting, disclosing an orifice into which the comio man threw a lurid light from a bulls-eye lantern, The eagle eye of the operator focussed the tooth, he stepped nimbly to a sido table, opened a box of instruments, selected a forceps, trotted back to the patient, clutched the molar and with a swing of his gigantic arm flung it on to tho stage. Then ho gently ejected the patient off the platform into the side wing, the youth evidently being fogged a? toj whether he had lost his tooth or his tooth had lost him. No. 2 youth then sat down in the chair and we noticed that, by our watch, the exact time occupied with his predecessor was thirty seconds. Ac llio gigantic professor warmed to his ■work this time diminished and twenty seconds sufficed for the fifth youth to be operated on and bundled offtho stage, It was quite evident that the operator, with the assistanceof the bull's eye lantern and the piano, could have removed every tooth from every person in the audience within half an hour, but he \us merciful and did not use his powers of porsuaßion to induce tho whole crowd to pass under his hands and leavo tho Theatre in toothless felicity, His Excellency Lord Glasgow, in the course of a.conversation with Mr 0, A, Po'wnail, jfayor of Masterton,' expressed regret at not havini! inet Mr (3. S. W. Dalrympk Wo understand that Mr Dalrymple is a family connection of the Earl's, ;. ; '

Ah&wker named Gprdon wasbfdled up at Drowana, forty-seven mi)es south of Melbourne, by two arnjsd meji, who tied him to a tree. Tho bushrangers thon freed tho horses, and decamped with a eashbox and- a quantity of clothr ing.

Professor Drumraond, in a receßt address at tho annual conference of the Free Church of Scotland Guild, raised the question whether it is not well to exchange one of the Sunday services for some other divine worship. Ho said thnf, so far as he could learn, the people were tired and sick of over-sermonising, and the minsters wore tired and Bick of making sermons; and he questioned whether making two sermons'was jthe best'thing a minister crajld do'for Christ,

Jte careful, )v|ien you (buy, where you Day what you yflll buy.'-If you % : not watch'teo icardjna! pbinti in "the spiepceof buying, likely pnfiugh you will buy aj, the wropg shop, but what you don't ivapi, and pa/ jiiorfi than ut al necessary, Of coiirsc it ivilj beypur pwjjj fault, no ono else- is to Manic; your inuw ortune arises from your own douspnpss nd lack of caution and foresight in tloundering into the first hole io the wall you come across in your shopping rambles Thero is only ono way out of the difficulty °s7 "Bo plan by which the thousand diß» (mcteyilsjtoajiarp in your path can be ayoidpdj and''Jlie tftoußaiid blessings that are waiting foryoupan hp'eprs;e'fl,'yte, Buy everything at Ho:j'er ana Company BpnMaroho, MakeiU vule of .your life and sen that your family do so is to your interest, just the same as it is to insure your lifo in asoond society,' or build y'our house on a secure foundation, by coing Jljo.vfh'o'je h)g'j ; jp(|fher yordß,.by determining to .buy ovorytpin g' $ Huoppjf rod Cpmpany's, Bon Marcne.'" Take ' your Bropery bill pu one hand, and your draper's ontjip t]ja pther "Give 'us' 1 your, wjaekly, order for family etpreßi fpr tea, cdffep butter) and other eatables, and you wil savo enough to buy your own clothes, with something to put in the rockets, Buy everything at Hooper and ;'Cpmpapy's> Bon Marche-Awi

Another budget of Parliamentary papers has reached us. The Greytown Registrar of Dogs Btates that no less lhnnl9Bdogs wore registered at that place this year. This is a greater number than basbeon known before.

A list of entties received up to tho present for Mr I). Crewe's next Eketahuna slock sale is published in another column. The sale will take place on Saturday, September 3rd, at 1.80 p.m. A relative requests us to state that George Grey Gillespio, who was recently charged in . Wellington with deserting his wife, was never a resident of Master, ton.

A smart, energetic traveller for the Wairarapa is advertised for by a retail drapery warehouse Tenders are invited for the brickwork at the housos in course of erection in Church-street, Musterton, A apeoial consignment of one hundred and eighty cases of English and Continental novelties, has just been received by Messrs Kirkcaldie and Stains, of Wellington. The selection is an ex oeptionally choice one, all the latest and most fashionable ideas, in every hue, irom the principal cities of Europe, being included. Country visitors re coivo particular attention ut Messrs Kirkcaldie and StaiuB 1 establishment, and any of our readers who may be. visiting Wellington should • not neglect tho opportunity of viewing their first Spring instalment of goods,

To moot the requirements of a rapidly growing business, Mr 6. E. Daniell has again extended his premises to enable the bettor display of his large stock, every line in builders and general ironmongery, stoves and ranges of all kinds, glasß, paperhanginga and many other lines now being kept by him. Amongst other improvements, the office has been removed to another part of the building, and a strong room has been built in it. Tho work is entirely local, being done by Mr Daniell's rtaff. The iron door and fitting are the work of the Mastertim Blacksmith and Wheelwright Company, and the whole is a very useful and impor tant addition, It might bo mentioned that the comparison of cost between Mr Daniell's strong room and an ordinary fire-proof safe is very much in favour of the strong room, as tho latter will hold as much as six 120 safes, white.its actual cost (including a fireplace and chimney for the office, which has been built in it) is only about £25. A special notice from Mr Darnell appears in another coltlmn, inviting the people of Masterton to visit his establishement.

A JNapier paper thinks it is quite as much the fault of ladies as of the men that marriages arc rare. This is leap yoar; let the ladies assert their privileges, Tomatoes, which have taken tho placo of cochineal as a staple product ot the Canary Islands since the discovery of aniline dyes, have been soized with a Borious blight, which causes the growers to view the approaching season with apprehension, His Excellency tho Govornor and party returned to Wellington by spooial train at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, alter having visited the fish ponds and other places of interest in Masterton. As tho vehicle containing Lord Glasgow moved away from the Olub Hotel, three ringing cheers were given by the crowd which had congregated m tho street. ■ The will of William Scanlon, of South Melbourne, described as a "labourer," has been proved at £20,000.

The Oamaru Mail, a thorough Ministerial paper, strongly condemns the action of the Minister of Justice in removing Mr Stratford, R, M,, from Oamaru to Greymouth.

So great is the digress prevalent in Oamaru that tho North Otago Times mentions a caso where both husband and wife, as well as children, have been starving, and that the wife is not expected to recover.

Mr Thomas William Shuto, of Masterton, who is now on a visit to Taranaki, has written to a Wanganui paper in the following characteristic strain :—ln your paper of this morning I notice that a local is inserted, in which you stats that a member ot tho Phosnix Good Templar Lodge of Marton visited the Rising Star Lodge nf this town last evening and gavo an interesting address, or words to that effect. As this refers to myself, I would beg to correct an error you havemade (perhapsunintentionally). I am not from Marton, but from Masterton, lam pleased to state that by tho kindness of friends, Messrs (Gilbert, Taylor and Collins, who gave me their assistance iii very unfavourable weather, I found my way to the Eising Star Lodge's room, where I was most kindly received and welcomed by the officers and mombers there assembled, and I am proud to stato tli&c it gave me muoh pleasure to meet thorn and to realiso tho very cleanly appearance of the Lodge and the very kind feeling n hich appeared to be carried out by the members nf that noble institution ono with another, and their desire to extend the good principles of the Order far and wide, 1 may add that I am vory pleased to be in your midst for a fow days, perhaps, where 1 hope my health may be improved, and I may meet aomo of my old friends,

A puttering VEBnioi.—Speaking of one of the most noted of colonial specialities, the press Bays |-"Sl)arland's Baking Powder desorves more than a passing notice.for the "Moa" Brand Bak, ing Powder enjoys a reputation second to none, From one ond of New Zealand to the other, large orders are received for this popular brand, Even in the moat out of the way districts the caroful house-wife, possessed with the laudable ambition to make her bread and her scones better than her neighbours', buys Sharland's Baking Powder, and triumphs ovor tho few of her less. sensible sisters, who, from a mistaken I sense of economy, buy apparently cheaper brands. The repipe of a good Baking Powder is anything but a secret; hut how very few manufacturers uso, as Messrs Sharland & (!o, do, the best only of materials, oarefully tested before niixtifro' and exactly proportioned," Readers, who require at) economical, satisfactory arid healthful Baking Pow« der.'canno^d".better' than pse the ."Moa'■'brand.—Apyi.