Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4315, 10 January 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1893.

Being the extended him of the WiiKiBAPA Daily, with wniou n is IDENTICAL

Mb, W, F, Buokmd, member for Manukau, but better known as the author of the" Washers and Manglere" Bill, recently addressed a pnblio meeting in Auckland on the legislation of last session. His remarks wore made up for the benefit of" the National Association," ono of those numerous organisations which seem to grow like mushrooms on the prolific soil of the city of extinct volcanoesMr Buckland while willing to give the party in power a right to be called anarchists or socialists disputes their claim to be termed liberals, As to their finance he holds that they are trading on the surplus which poor Major Atkinson left behind him, but he affirms that thoy are more extravagant than their predecessors and have increased the indebtedness of the Colony. Their present policy, if conn tinued, would, he considers end in disaster, He complained of the money frittered away on what was called the co-operative system, which simply meant, as a return he had moved for proved, that the woik done under it cost from 20 to 25 per cent, more than it ought to do, It was a Bjstem of letting contracts without tenders, so as to create friends in the country, in view of the elections. The question to be faced wes: Whether tho country's position justified the expenditure which had been going on. On the land question Mr Buokla d complained that at present, the Government were simply " giving away the land," He knew that land was being drawn for, under the pretext of establishing special settlements, at 10s an acre, which would bring £8 at auction. This proceeding was based on the same prinoiple &t tho co-opera-tive business: to gain friends to the Goyernment in tho country, Ho objected to the labour legislation on the ground that it led to the appointment of a legipn of Inspectors over people who wanted to be left alone as muoh as possible, He arraigned Ministers for excessive travelling expenses and allowance, also for moanuess, He instanced the fact that several members of the Ministry, instead of occupying the residences provided for them, drew £2OO a year as residenoe allowance whilst living at a cheap hotel, where tho whole annual expenses did not oxoced £IOO, thereby saving the cost of entertaining, and pocketing £IOO a year t

A man named Tate has been admitted to Grey town floßpital Buttering from heart disease. Sarah Coleman, sentenced to fourteon days at Eketahuna (or stealing a fivo pound note, was taken to Wellington by Constable Koohe yesterday.' The Rimutaka left Plymouth laa Saturday for Now Zealand ports. The sitting of the Court of Appeal at Wellington, whioh should have opened to-day,' has been postponed until after the vacation, The yacht Cloud, owned by land, of Devonport, for the safety of whioh considtrablo anxiety has been felt, arrived in Auckland on Sunday with the crew all safe. The trouble repotted from Bakersvillo, which caused great exoitement throughout the States, proves to be a hoax. The annual report of the directors of tho New Zealand Insurance Company Bhoris a not pro fit fortheyear of £63,141 A dividend at the rate of 12J per cent per anHuraffasreconjifl ejided,

At the Middlesex, (England) sosaions recently a young man, aged twenty was I sentenced to four years' penal servitude for stealing twopence from the till of a publican, Bickerton's Ball, Woodviile, is to be enlarged, . Thedeathia&nDouncedofOapt&inJohn { Vine Hall, who commanded the Great Eastern on her first voyage to New York, in June 18G0. Mr George Stevens,' of Grey town, is growing cucumbers twenty inches in length.

The Eketahunaßoad Board* has deI cidod to disponse with the aervKs of lto engineer.

At a meeting of Clifford's Masterton orchestra hold last ovotiiug,attangoaionte were made for holding a select invitation Booial and dance in the Temperance Hall on Anniversary night, Januarv 23rd. Amongst tho Auckland volunteers who will attend the Rifle Meeting at Trent, ham, will ba H. Doughty (the present ohampiou), of the Ponsonby Nayals. An Auckland paper says that: -Miss Julie Wormlie, the accomplished elocutionist of the Jubilee Singers is engaged to Mr Eugene MoAdoo one of the bass singers of tho troupe. She has a private income of her own,

Two spccal lines of goods aro adverted by Mr W. Bell, the ready-money draper and clothier, opposite the Club Hotel, Masterton. Men's colonial tweed coats at 7s fid each and Borne good value ladies' dust oloaks and print jackets. Mr Bell's goods will repay inspection both for quality and for moderate price, The failure of a very large firm of costumiers in Berlin is attributed to tho very heavy bills which the Gorman Empress had left unpaid for a long time, It should be obsorved that Her Majesty is not by any means so simple in her tastes as is often supposed, but, like the Emperor, is fond of display. She rarely wears any dress more than once,

There is in China v secret society called the " Triad." It is a capital crime to belong to it, yet it has more than thirty millions of members, Its object is tho overthrow of the present dynasty, A Parisian meteorologist has written a book of 300 pages to prove that tho electricity of thunderstorms is caused by the friction of raindrops on hailstones. Frost has a variety of effects upon different products. Under the same influence eggs will burst, apples oontract, and potatoes turn black. The maximum of the inhabitants that can be sustained on the entire laud sur. face of the earth, assert some scientific mon, is 5,994,000,000. Ono of these prophets thinks that the maximum number of the earth's population will be reached a,d. 2,072.

Not half a bad story is related by a contemporary of a well-known and popular boniface, whose hostelry 'is situated within fifty miles of the Post Offico at Gore, It appears that his good lady has a deoided aversion to any person appearing in the dining room over which she presides unless he pays due regard to that etiquette in the matter of dress which is ohaMcteristio of a British gentleman. Quite recently a hungry fellow presented himself at tho tablo, but horror I he sat down to a well appointed spread in his shirt sleeves! Whatever was to be done ? Tho hostoss at length appealed to her sterner half to request tho customer either to go and put ou his coat or else leave the table, This was an order mine host, good natured man that fan is, was loth to fulfil, especially, he argued, as the man might havo ieft his coat at somo distant spot, But as the lady was inexorable, he hit on a plan—he would offer the man the loan of one of his own coats I The man was approaohed, and without much ado agreed to comply with the ethics of the house in the mattor of attire. The host duly brought forth his coat, an immaculate tailor made affair, which fitted the customer like a glove; the fellow ate his dinnor with gusto, the boniface onoe more felt at his ease, and my lady Biuilod most graciously. The meal despatched, the man made himself scarce —and so did the coat, and neither has been seen sincol

Excavations at Pompeii have brought to light a Roman palace in a good state of preservation, It is entered by !an elegant atrium with columns of tufa stotio, surmounted with carved Corfuthian capitals. There are many largo fragments of these columns, and it is possible that the whole atrium may be restored. The perlßtyle is ornamented with tufa atone columns covered with stucco, and riohly painted to tho half of their heipht.

Mr Earnahaw, M.UR;, has a plan for reduolnß drinking to quite a useful, if not a scientific, process, Mr Earnshaw has been interviewed by a representative of our contemporary tho Globe, to whom he has given olaborata details ot a Bill whose introduction ho contemplates, Mr Earnshaw desires to make tho liquor trafiio of tho Colony a Government monopoly, He will have none but Government bars, attended by Government vondors, and inßpeoted by Government ohemical experts. The toper shall have his beverage choap and pnre, and everything will go like olock-work. The plan, no doubt, has its advantages. Nice little billots, for example, will bo available for deserving people. But, Mr Earnshaw is merciful, He will give tho present publicans throo yoarsto dispose of themselves in other occupations -and many tilings wo know happen in throe years, "Whore, for instance, will Mr Earnshaw bo at tho end of the period in question ?—Tablet. A special Vienna correspondent of Reuter enters into dotaila respecting a /lew rifle lately invented by Herr von Mannlichor, which ho describes as a weapon of terrible de'struotivenoss, As many as one hundred and twenty rounds per minuto have been fired from it, and it has no mom recoil than the rook rifle. The Maaterton Cemetery Trustees meet at tee Cemetery to-morrow afternoon to docide upon a report of the works Oommittee. Tho teller of the Melbourne King street branoh of the Commercial Bank, who has been arrested on a charge of embozzling £4OO of the Bank's rnonoy, had beoome heavily inyolved in debt. Betting on raoing suggested itself as a convenient mode of oxtricating himself from bis dilemma, because it could be taken advantage of promptly, and he could stake his money and win orlcso It without the delay whioh in bis case was so dangerous. He therefore robbed the bank of £4OO on a recent Saturday morn. ing_, and with this Bum in his pocket he visited the Sandown Park race meeting and plunged heavily, Ho had been givon good information," which ho thought was sure to bring him fortune, but one after another his horses ran and were beaten. He selected Bovril in the Selling Kace for his final "plunge." Bovril went out at even money, but did not justify tho opinion of the publio who backed the horse to such a short price. Morry Merrick won, and £370 of tho £4OO which Greenway had stolen was in the hands of tho betting ring at the finish of tho race, Greenway did not risk the last £3O, but retained it, arid when taxed with the robbery handed it back to the manager.— Exchange, Thoie in want of Carpet Coverings for their floor at economical prices are reminded hereby that the best place in the Province for those goods is tho Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Abo House, Wellington, Just now wo are showing some capital Jute Kidderminster Squares with border at the following prices:—9 feet by 7 feet 0 inches for 7s 6d, 9 leet by 9 feet for 10s 6d, 9 feet by 12 feet for 15s (id, and 12 feet by 12 feet for 18s 6d, at Tb Abo House, Wellington, • ■ . Homo very effcotive Jute Brussels Squares with border all round are to be bad at 25s 6d for 9 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, at 42s 6d for 9 feet by 12 feet, and 52s 6d for 11 feet 3 inches by 12 feel, These are very handsome carpets, are easily laid aud as easily taken up, and are some of our latest importations, at Te Abo Hoube, Wellington. .Then there are some excellent designs in Superior Velvet Pile Squares in the following sizes and prices :-G feet by 9 feotfor 25s Gd, 9 feet by 9 feet for 37s 6d, 9 feet by 12 feet for 49s 6d, and 11 feet 3 inches by 12 feet for 63s at Te Abo Hovbe, Welling. tor,r-ApYI„ -..-..

To-ni<(ht Mi; Tennyson Smith will deliver from memory one -of tho most realistic of all John B- Gongh's powerful orations, entitled,:"Man and his Masters," containing a desonption of bls_ Bufferings' from the 1 horrors ot delirium tremens, the description of the Council in Pandemonium, The Miners' Comical Speech, etc, We would' advise our readers to be early, as a number wore disappointed of a seat last night. Admission is free, a few front chairs only being reserved at one shilling, _ A lady master of hounds has in due time appeared upon the sporting scene. On Saturday, Nov. 12th, the Lady Ueene Hastings, sister to the Earl of Hunting, don formally opened the season 1892-93 of the Huntingdon Harriers, King's Oounty, Ireland, aa the holder of the horn, Her Ladyship, is still oven in her teenß, and an intrepid horsewoman, Her huntsman is her brother, tho Hon Aubrey Hastings.

Messrs Chamberlain Bros, have recently imported a complete new threshing plant, including one of Aveling and Porter's traction engines.

Various additions, including small lines of fat sheep and fat cattle, are mado to Mr I, H. Wood's stock sale at Taratahi yards on Thursday next. A purchaser is wanted for eight half, bred Polled Anguß cattle, eighteen months old, in first-class condition. They may be soon on the property of the advertiser, Mr J. Eutherfurd, Wairere. The annual Jpicnio of the Masterton Mutual Improvement Society, which waajiostponed from New Year's Day, is lo beheld on Thursday next, and an enjoyable day's outing may be anticipated. Conveyances are to leave the Wesleyar, schoolroom at 1.45 p.m sharp, to convey passongers to the sceno of festivity. The Bov. J. Dukes proceeds to Hketabuna to-day to preside at the Wesleyan Quarterly Meeting.

At a kretoly attended meotinc; of the Trustees of the Masterton Wesleyan Church held last eveniug, it was decided to commence ths alterations to the ohurch about the middle of February; so that the ohurch can be re-opehed on the return of the Rev J. Dukes from the 1 Conference. Nearly 1120 has been promised and paid in, but as 1160 must be raised by the timo of the re-opening, the Minister, un behalf of the Truatees, appeals to the generous publio to holp in this undertaking. The wholo of the work has been placed in tie hands of Mr Danioll,

The usual fortnightly stock sale of Messrs Lowes and lornu will bo held in theirMaatorton yards tomorrow (Wednesday) at_ ono o'clock. The list of entries received comprise 2500 owos, 150 ewes with 100 per cent of lambs, 500 woolly lambs, 280 wethers, 100 fat and forward merino wethers, 3 heifers, 1 two year old Ayrshire bull, 1 draught horse, 1 young pony, 1 dray and harness, 1 Buckeye reaper and binder in thorough going ordor, and 1 llustio cart, nearly new.

Harry Tomlrinson, for the larceny of certaiu goods valued at U 10s was sentenced io two months imprisonment, at Mdsterton this morning. Mr John Hessey, of Upper Plain, is busy cutting cooksfoot, of which he has a splendid crop. The Theatro Royal was again crowded last night to hear Mr E, Tennyson Bmi>,h deliver the oration " Safe and Bight," He was listened to throughout with rapt attention, and at the conclusion of his address a large number of people came forward and signed the pledge in responso to an earnest appeal from the lecturer, Mr J. McGregor occupied the chair al the meeting, •

During the terrible epidemic at Hamburg a oiork in the London oiiico of one of cho groat railway companies who had jußt returned from his holidays, was asked in a friendly way by the head of the where he had beon. " Hamburg," was the reply. " Hamburg I" exclaimed the horriUed official. " Then get out of this, and don't return for ten days," and without waitine for the explanation that the man had only passed through the striokea oity, he bundled him out of the oflico, giving instructions" meanwhilo that the place was to be immediately fumigated. The olerk; of course, was delighted to comply, and is said to have ootne to the conclusion that his trip to Hamburg was a very happy inspiration.

A French visoount, who is not so richly endowed with this world's goods as he would like to be, has invented a novel meanß of feathering his neat, He advertises in the French papers a lottery in which the grand lot will be himself and his title Five thousand tiokets will be issued at twenty francs each, These will bring him about £6,000. The lady whodrawßthe lucky number will hayo the choice of two alternatives, Sho may marry the count with Mb fortune of £6,000, or Bhe may share this capital enm, but must forego all right to his person, flora is a chance for some of our young women who sigh for a coronet and cannot buy one, A visoount with £5,000 goincf for twenty francs is ridlouioußly choap, Although ho is a French" man, ho has graciously condescended to throw himself open to general competition,

Tho attention of those Interested in athletio events is directed to bo speoial announcement in to-days issue by Mr J, A. Capper, the Seorotary of the United Friendly Societies Demonstration Committee. Some important ovents, withprize money ranging as high as £45, aro included in the programme of tho U.F.S. Demonstration Sports .on tho Basin Reserve, Wellington,- on Annivorsary Day, 28rd January,

The meeting of the Masterton Borough Oounoil will be held at 7.30 this evening. Tho Wellington Rowing Club has taken the initiative In the matter of holding a rowing regatta at Wellington this sesson.

A' ohoice • consignment of rye-graßS Beed from the Poverty Bay Farmers' Co-operative Association, is now on sale in Mastettop at tho local : agents the Wairarapa Farmers 00-operative Association Limited, Pastoralists should see samples before purchasing their supplies, Ata football match at Swansea recently tho referoe (Mr Harding, of Newport) had to bo rescuod from an excited and illogical mob by the police and escorted toaplaoo of nafety. The inoident may be inoludod among tho humors of football as played in our own times, A referee (aay« St James Gazette) will always do well to remember tho secondary effect of his decisions, Where the patron of football has put his money on a match, the settlement of a disputed point may mean money lost or won ; and the average betting man who goes in with his hundreds to every football match in reach does not lose his money with equanimity. It is only one of many examples of tho discredit into whioh tho principle of arbitration has fallen; at tho very _ moment when the» orists and doctrinaires would persuade ns that arbitration will settle everything from a strike to an international quarrel, Arbitration will not oven sottle a dispute iu tho' football field-when there is money on one side or the other,

Yesterday (Monday) was one of tho hottest days wo have experienced in Masterton this season. The thormometer registered 85 Fahr., in the shade, "Wild tares aro beginning to show freely amongst tho crops in this district.

. Mr T,E. Chamberlain of Upper Plain, will commence outtlng his wheat tomorrow if the weather iB fine. He has one of the finest crops of this season.

There has been some correapondence iu the Dunedin papers over the 'ladies' hat nuisance' in tho theatres, and the result has been that theory 'hatsoil' has been heard, and in'many instances the order, though put somewhat peremptorily, hasbeen complied with,

Crops generally on the Upper Plain are looking well.:. The yield all round is expeoted to exceed anything for several years past. Harry Tompkinson, who was sentenced to two months' imprisonment this morning, succeeded in breaking out from the Masterton lock r up at noon Way. The MastertoV police are now scouring the country to find him,

Although some of our farmers are complaining, Mr T. E. Ohamborlaln informs us that he has not had suoha sucoosßful season for crops for mauy years past.

Mr Borne, an Australian engineer, has taken a lease of Mr Blatohford's property at Upper Plain. He is delighted with the country and if it ; suits his health will probably buy the property.

The Reefton Guardian complains that weasels,are becoming .numerous in that district, and threaten to become a pest to owners of poultry yards." The vermin have recently been seen close on to the town.

MrT. E. Chamberlain, of Upper Plain, has auoceeded in keeping down the ravages of the Hessian fly very considerably this year. After oropi ping last year be burned all the straw : aud stubble,and instead of ten bushels to the acre, he has a fine crop of j wheat which will yield thirty-five bushelsto the acre. This the New Zealand Times corrects the reports which appeared in tho Wei- i lington papers regarding tho Oatb inoident at lis office:—" A highly imaginative account of the visit of the escaped prisoner to this office has been published. It is quite true that James Gate came into the office and saw the editor. All the rest of the account is an Invention. Catt came in, informod tho editor that he was about to give himself up to the police, and asked to make a statement for publication. He made it, and the statement was not published, tho editor advising Catt in his own interest to take proper opportunity for making i Misstatement undorlegaladvlco, Thereupon Catt_ withdrew, aud gave himself up according to his statement,"

MrT.E, Chamberlain has nearly finished cropping twelve acres'of peas at hia farm on the Upper Plain, The yield is about thirty bushels to the acre. Mr Obamberlaiu has taken as much as fifty-two bushels to the acre from the same land, which speaks highly for the fertility of this splendid piece of country, The heat at Mr Tennyson Smith's meeting last night was intense, Something ought to be dono to provide belter ventilation at the Theatre .Royal, Messrs Judd Bros,, of the Manaia, have nearly completed harvesting. The crop is a really splendid one. When, the other day, the Btage of tho Metropolitan Opera Hous-j, Now York, was a seething mass of flames, a gentleman of calm and saturnino demeanour appruaohed the front door, He was promptly stopped by the officor, who questioned his right to enter. "What do you ivant ?" asked the policeman, Sruiy. "I want to 30 in," replied the stranger, "I've got a lot of scenery stored in there, and I want to see it burn," Uf course the officer could not withstand a proposition like that, and the gentleman walked into the auditorium, whorts he sat down in one of tho boxes, cocked his foet up on the front rail, lighted a oigar, and coolly watched the conflagration, whioh was costing him at the rate of about 1000 dollars a minute. His name was Anson Bond.

Twentyaoresof crops on Mr D. MoGregort property on theUpperPlainhas been I very severely damagod by the Hessian fly. About ten aores are hardly worth cutting, and one third of the remandor ia destroyed. A good story is going the round of he town just now concerning a hat of a particular description, wluoh was wanted by one of our looal magnatos. He tried everywhere in search of it, and found it at most plaoes; there waß no difficulty about that. Bub the prices, Oh Fie! uine shillings at one shop, eight at other, seven and six at a third, and a crown Bomewhere else, Then Hooper and Company's was reached, and soon the seeker wont home delighted, singing 'ThatHat, That Hat, that wonderfu Hat j I got it at Hooper's for two an sprat,"—Advt