Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4285, 26 November 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1892.

second edition

BKIHQ IHE EXTENDED TITLE OF IDE WiIBAIIAPA DjJIY, WITH WHICH II IS IDENTICAL

The following complaint from a sbearer bas come to us, and we hasten to publish bis grievance, but in doing so we have dewded to omit names, as wo have a prejudice against unnecessary personalities in discussing any public question. No doubt the names, if printed, would beinteresting, and sympathetic shearers would make up a presentation purse for the man who refused to Bign, while admiring station managers might consider it their duty to offer a gold watoh or some olhev token of esteem to the man who refused to pay twenty shillings per hundred, but no purse or gold watch would come to us and we will leavo the names alone. The letter runs as follows:

[to the editor, wahuhapa daily TIME3.I

Sirt,—Those few lines will show you how hard is the lot of the working man, The Manager of standi out from bis neighbours by paying shearers 17s 6d per bundred instead of the current rate fortbo season, viz.,[2os, I, amongst others, upon being asked to sign an agreement for 17s 6d declined. Tho Manager fumed and bounced, finally calling fill those who refused, a lot of loafors and ordering all tho so-called loafers off tho Btation, I much regret having accepted his hospitality for ono night, so now request him to send in his bill whioh will be paid upon presentation, as I never yet loafed upon anybody in my life, I most certainly do not wish tooomnience particularity with such a generous man as

Wo have here two very distinct questions, the one being the correct price for shearing, the other certain little amenities not altogether peculiar to station life, From what we oan learn the current rate paid for shearing is twenty shillings, but in more than one instance contracts have been signed at lower rates, The station manager in question had a perfect right to offer 17s 6d per hundred and our correspondent had a perfect right to refuse the offer. Shearers have a right to combine for twenty shillings and ' Btation managers have a right to com- j bine for seventeen shillings and sixpence. We do not believe that com- , Dilution on either side is really .

necessary, because the natural law of i supply and demand regulates prices j sufficiently well without (lie mist- < ance of either a pastoral union or ! a Bhearera union. Tf rates are to be ' settled by unions, such organiaations { should be formed on either side and tbe price fixed by an amicable conference, But without combination '

mon at shearing time usually manage to get all that can be reasonably obtained and station managers know better than to try to" sweat" their hands, We may take it for granted that till the end of time employers will want to keep down rates and will want to raise them. But there is no reason why disoussion and arrangements on suob points should not be conducted in a friendly and amicable manner, Our correspondent ought to recognise that tbe station manager to whom he refers was simply doing his duty by his employer in making a stand at seventeen shillings and six-

pence per hundred. Then we come to the second question, viz., the irritating language alleged to be used by the station manager. We oan almost believe

tbst in win weather it;may be poßßible for a few heated worda to be spoken in fixing upterma for ehgarwg. llian again, our correspondent doesnot tell us whether the' shearers' on their side said anything calculated to annoy tho manager.- In the matter of calling names, it might be quits possible for the shearers to hare /riven quite as much as they got. Of one thing we are certain, and that is that there is not an atom ofa loafer in the person of our correspondent Heisa sterling man and as an individual he did not desorve an opprobrious cpi.

Our sympathies are with our correspondent, but if we might utter a word of counsel to him, W e would say "do not take too seriously any hasty worda arising out of a dispute about terms. Get the very best terms: you can and take any fair means to obtain them, but be pleasant and good humoured over the whole negotiation In buying and selling, the successful buyers and the successful sellers usually manage to keep their tempers and •to part pleasantly whether they do business or do not come to terms, and there is no real reason why in buying and selling sheep shearing labour the same courtesy should not be exhibited. . If a manager doesnot behave like a gentleman the shearer should set him a good example. The Government is supposed to be hunting highways and byways for Justices of the' Peace, and every man in the (Jolony is now taken :to be a gentleman and to be eligible as such to Bit on the Bench, Good manners all round may, therefore, be reasonably expected,

A poll will bo hold at Eketahuna on Bth December, to deal with a proposal that the Eketahuna Road Board shall raise a loan ot £SO fur metalling twenty chains of Septimus atreot, Parkville. Notice is givon by the Masterton Borough Council of a meotiDg to ba held on 27th December to confirm special orders regarding the Thursday half-holi. day and the Library lioan, The prize potatoes at the recent Masterton Show ivero the American Early Hose variety, from seed supplied by Mr R.F. Temple, of Perry Street. At the Wellington Wealeyan Tietriot Meeting the Rev J. Dukes was elected representative to the ensuing conforonco which meets in Dunedin duriug tho month of March, Mr B.J. Searl, late of Masterton, has taken over the Victoria Hotel, Featherston. A circular has beou sent round the Government Buildinea coirplaiuing of the want of punctuality amongßt a number of the officials, and warning fchemthatonlyanhourjromlp.nl. to 2 p.m., is allowed for luncheon. O'Connor, the Canadian sculler, died recently from typhoid fevor. Mr Tennyson Smith said last night that the publicans had better take notice, the Prohibitionists wero only' going to Riva them two years longer. _ A number of changes are to be made , m the Wellington District Survoy Office, [at an early date. Mr Arthur Herbett Ridd has been appointed to bo a public vaccinator under "The Publio Health Act, 1876," for the district of Eketahuna, It la reported that Lords Oarrington and Houghton will be created Earls in the now year.

In Mrs Parnell's bankruptcy the liabilities are sot down at £7OOO and the assets at inOOO, The cause is said to ba loss of income owing to the death of her aunt, Mrs Wood.. At Mr E. T. Smith's meeting last night agontloman who mado somo otherwise rather unintelligible remarks, stated one thing very clearly and that was that "A good many members went into Parliament on a pewter pot I? It is reported that hoavy frauds have been discovered in the Argentine Navy Department, and the country will bo unable in conaequenco to pay for warships now being built in Europe, and they will be sold to Russia, _ We remind those interested in sporting matters of the boxing match to be held in tho Masterton Theatre to-night, whereat Harry Laing engages to knock Francis out in three rounds or forfeit £lO. Patticulars may be seen in the advertisement in this issue, Mr S,G. Allen, whohas held tho office of Mayor of Port Chalmers continuously since 1884, has been ro-eleoted without opposition, Tho Municipal Fire Brigade requests us to express its thaulcß tu Mr and Mrs Oormack for the kindness and liberality with which thoy supplied firemon with refreshments on Wednesday night last, The member for Mastorton presided at a Temperance meeting fast evening. " Tell it not in Gath, whisper it not in thogatesofAskolonl"'

The Waipukurau Freezing Wotkshave commenced operations, and the Longburn Freoeing Company propoße starting early in December,

Over 13,000 sheep are Btaied to have been purchased in the Hawke'eßay District for the Wellington Meat Coy. Mr A. MoKenzio, of the Wairarapa, was the buyer, The programme for tho MastertonOpaki Jockey Club's Summer Race Meeting, which is to bo held on Boxing Day, appears in this issue. There are altogether eight good events, and with the prosperous and popular way in which the Club is now conducted, there should be a large, attendance of tho public at Opaki on Wth December, and an excellent day's sport. Nominations for all events except the Maiden, Selling, and the Consolation Races close with Mr E. B, Waddinptou, the Secretary, on Saturday 3rd December, at 9 p,m,

That enterprising firm of confeotioners Messrs Hood and Johnson, Queen-street, Masteiton, although they have been hero only a 6hort time, have, besides doing a good business, already mado extensive alterations and improvements to their

premises, and it may be noticed in pass- '< inff that the interior accommodation of ■ their shop has been doubled in extent. , In addition to an excellent stock of confectionery of every kind, Messrs Hood and Johnson now mako a moat attractive display of pianos, and as agents for the Dresden Pianoforte Company, they have at the present time five instruments,on view, including a nice little organ, The firm have, we understand/speedily bucoeeded in disposing of a number of pianos, and Btill further aalei will no doubt soon be made. The Wnirarapaßacing Olub advertise their two days' Summor meeting programme in this Isbuo. Altogether there is a very strong list of events, and' the gathoring at the Tauheronikau Race course on the 2nd and 3rd of January should be In every way a thorough success. Tho nominations lor all eveuts olose at Foathorston on the 14th Deceit ber with Mr W. Book, the secretary, ArLAiTERmo.VEEWoi.-Speaklng of

one of the most noted of colonial specialities, the press saya :-"'Bharkuid's Baking Powder deserves more than a passing notic«,for the "Moa" Brand Bak. ing Powder enjoys a reputation second ! to none. From one end of New Zea- | land to the other, large orders are , received for this popular brand. Even ] in tbe'moßt out of the way dlßtriotß the < careful house»wife, possessed with the i laudable ambition to make ber bread and 1 her scones better than her neighbours'a * buys Sharland's Baking Powder, and v triumphj over iV liq few of hor less f sensible sisters, who, from a mistaken ' sense of economy, buy apparently ? cheaper brands, The reoipe of a ?ood Baking Powder is anything but a,' aeor et, I but how very few manufacturers use, as i. Messrs Sharland A Co. do, the host only i, of materials, carefully tested before [} mixture and • exactly proportioned, e' Headers, who require an economical n satisfactory and healthful Baking Pow. cl cannot do better thanLuße the '' c a brand.-Apvi . I

We regret to hear that Mr 0, E, Breraner, the County Engineer, is prostrated by a aeriouß attaok of

Holland, tbo late accountant of the Port Melbourne branch of the National Bank of Australasifl, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling the funds of the institution.

They want moro school accomodation just as woll in some parts of Southland as in Hawke'B Bay, remarks tho Telegraph. Down that way the teachers also know what raupo whares are, and havo become acquainted with tarpaulins andoanvasas sotiool coverings to keep out the rain, Tiniroto. and Port Awanui,- in this educational district, are perhaps the best instances of school comfort in the colony. Atthose places the wind occasionally lifts the roofs off the school wharos, and tho children sometimes havo to receive instruction under "bare poles." AM. Jean Lunade San Pedro, an artist, living at at the Villa Dupont at La Muette, Pariß, had a quarrel with his family the other morning and finished by emptying his revolver at his wife, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Dr do Tavernß. The mother-in-law was killed on the spot, Mme. Luna was badly wounded in the head, and his brother-in-law received a bullet in the breast. Tho murderer was arrested and and tent to the Dep^t. A member, of a deputation of the J£umara miners which waited on the Minister of Mines the othor day, said that whilst afew miners might be doing well, tlie majority of them were doing nothing, Mr Seddon said he could not understand how that conld be the case when there was moro money spent in sweeps inKumatathaninany place of its size in the Colony. Then there was the amount of money that was put through the totalisator, and spent in supporting travelling companies, (A voice: 'The storekeepers have to pay for that.') He considered the miuera on the Coast were in a far better condition than any other class in the Colony,—Weetport Times.

Tonders for the erection of a cottage at Kopuaranga aro invited by Mr John King, arohitect. Now advertisements from Messrs L. J. Hooper and Co., of tho Bon March 6 warehouie, Masterton, will appear in Monday's issue. The'new list of Justices of the Peace will not be ready for a few days.

Eleven horses of various classes are added to Mr F. H. Wood's stock sale at the Taratahi yards on Thursday next. We understand that Arthur Francis, who is to take part in tho boxing match with Harry Laing at the Theatre Royal this evening, arrived in Masterton last night from Wolliugton. There is some talk, also, of Jim Ryan, tho Australian. »ho has engaged to fight Laing in Wellington noxt month tor £IOO, being present at to-night's contest. Thoneit English mail via Han Franoisco will close at Masterton on Thursday the let of December, at 6.15 a.m.

A special and intoreating notification will be made in Messra J. Graham and Oo.'s advertising space on our first page in next Wednesday's i'sbuo. Wo aro informed that the announcement will bo well worth the attention of careful housekeepers. ■

Experiments made in Engand, America and South Australia ovor and overagain have proved that wheat reaped in the dough gives a greater weight per bushel and more bushels per acre than when left till dead ripe. The grain nils whon cut and left in the stook. It is brighter, contains moro gluten (therefore less starch;, has less bran and is more nutritious than dead ripe wheat. By reaping early thore is less Jobs from Rhaking out, less dangor from fire, wind and storms of rain and hail. The tow is of much more value, tho field is dean, fower seeds of weeds are left, the stubbles are ahort and lire oannot spread so oasOy, and the land oan at once bo harrowed or scarified whioh will make it mellow and capable' of {absorbing raoisture both from the air and from early rains.

The .National Mntua! Life Association of Australia, which has already seoured a very conaidorable connection in the Waiiarapa, is, we hear, about (a still further advance its business interests by the appointment of Mr T. D. Edmonds as dißtnct travelliugragont. Mr Edmonds, who Jim already had considerable experience in insurance matters, should be able to very materially strengthen its influence In this locality, and sre have no doubt the Society will reap considerable benefit as a result of his endeavours. Mr E, H. Waddington, the local agent in Masterton, will also, of course, continue his pasb euccosßful efforts on behalt of the same Association, G. R. Sims, tho well known English writwyn an article referring to American invention, describes a fellow passenger in a railway journey as follows:—Th'era was another gentleman in the carriage who also interested me greatly. He was dark and dressed with elaborate caro, and he kept on producing instruments of a remarkable character from hispockots. He was a man who was evidently thoroughly equipped for all the contingencies! of everyaay life, A blue bottle got into our carnage, and ho produced a fly paper, on which it promptly settled and died. Ho wanted to smoke, and he took out a pipe with 17 diitinot and separate patents in it. He filled it from a pouch which waß absolutely remarkable for its ingenuity. He put the tobacoo in with a patent spoon, he rammed it down with a metal stopper, then he put a skoiror, which ho wore attached to a silver chain, up the stem, then he stabbed the tobacco with a stiletto to make the pipo draw more easily, and then he kindled a light by means of an elaborate arrangement in six compartments whioh took about fifteen minutes to fit together. After that ho hung up his hat by a patent hat suspender, put on his gloves with abutton-bosk, squirted himself all over with a acent spray, cut his newspaper with a paper. Cutter, that was also a railway koy and a bootjack, and wrapped himself up .in a patent rug which by pulling various strings could be made Into an overcoat, a 'roaoiutoah, a bed quilt, a lifebelt, a tablecloth, and a shroud. Finally he went to sleep after aetting a pocket alarm to wake him up in an hour, and putting a patent catch on hia watch-chain, in case either of us should be taken suddonl mta kleptomania.

Good housewives resident in the country districts when In want of Floor Cloths or Linoleums should remember that wo have one of the largest and bent selected stocks in the Colony, which for cheapness are unequalled outside of To Arc-House Wellington, For other rooms we have Floor' Cloths all in the piece to cover 9 feet by 12 feet 15 feet by 12 feet for 80s) at Te Aro House, Wellington,—A dvt. Wo have some very nice light oarpet pattern Floor Cloths suitablo for bod. rooms and can coyer rooms 9 feet by 12 feet for 10s lid, 12 feet by 12 feet for 13s 9d and 16 foot by 12 feet for 17a 6d at Te Aro House, Wellington. Some heavy Floor Cloths in Mosaic and Tile Patterna are very suitable for Kitchen use. We can supply Buffioient to copes rooms 9 feet by 12 feeh for 12b 12 feet by 12 feet for 16s, 16 feet by 12 j feetfor 20s, 18ft by 12 foet for 24s at Te Aro House, Wellington;

Ho what prigs wnat isn't hisn, when he scotched is Bent to-pris'n," That informs the evil-disposed that soonor or later they must pay the penalty of their crimes, andevenaßone man is bound to respect another man's rights and not lay violent hands on other men's property, so is everyone who cares for his ownwolbbeing and for the well-being.of tlie country of his birth or adoption, bound to tab care of his owui shepherd his own resources, keep a watchful eye on bis own property, and safeguard his own interests, The citizen who has a sovereign to spend and who spends it bo that be only gets ten shillings' worth for his money, is praotioahy as bad as (he man who puts his hand'into his neighbour's pocket and takes out half a sovereignj nay, he is worse, because in, allowing taelf to be imposed upon, fie robs Ms deareßt friendthat la himself. Therefore he should buy everything at Hooper's Bon Marche, and "no matter what he wants-a coat, a suit pf olothes, a pound of tea or a bag of sugar; a arge parcel ot groceries or.' a small item of hAberdashßry,hewjJlfiodittl]ewt'

Stratford, Taranaki, has an ostimatod population of 1000. JSutvoryfew years ago there wbb not a house in the plaoe. A writer in the Auckland Star says that traQio in pew ronte is practiced in Auckland, according to a statement made at the Synod by tho Rev, Mr Beatiy. It appears that one guimm per yoar aeourea a sitting, but for threo sittings a roduc< tion of threo shillings Is made. Mr Boatty assured the Synoi that some per. sons were sharp enough to buy throe sittings and sub-let two in order to eflcct a saving on their own. Talk about tbo Truck aystom and sub-coiitraoting after that. This system of paying pew rents has always appeared absurd to those who think that salvation should be given ' without money aud without price.'— N.Z. Timeß.

Tho Canterbury Vfomon'e InetUuto was inaugurated last night, over 100 ladies being present Mrs Julius was in the chair . Lady Douglas was olected president. The *orfc of tho institute will bo carried on under four departments—domestio science,-lioalth, economies and literature.

A Danevirko gentleman (says the Ad. vocale) gives his experience in raising (?) purebred fowls. He imported a jetting of eggs at great expense, and put them under a hen. The task of hatching 'purebreds' waß too uiuou for her and she died, fie therefore tried another hen, and she too succumbed m the attempt. A third was obtained, and everything wont well till just as thechioka were out, when his pig eat the lot. A fact. Aniaon woman named Eta Henare died suddenly at Pukehou on Saturday. She was apparently in tho best of health in the morning, and after a long bathe in the creek ehe proceeded to cook her breaklast, when she fell backward and expired immediately. It is surmised she was ovor heated when she went into tho wator, and the sndden ohill oaused her death.—Waipawu Mail.