SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4319, 14 January 1893, Page 2

SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1893.

We have had some littlo experience of the weekly half holiday in ton, and oannot aa yet to be an Some eniployea-wlTd do piece work resent it Gii the ground that they are not paid for this interval of recreation, The only condition, indeed, ou which it is accepted is that its adoption means no loss of earnings to its patrons. There is, of course, in some instances, a direct loss of wages, and, in others, an indirect reduction looms in the distance. A business man won't pay as much for 44 hours work per week as he will for 48 hours, and iu the long run the employe who takes the benefit of the 44 hours must pay for his privilege. Tlion again, we have a sort of peripatietio half holiday which utterly confuses many business arrangement. A commercial traveller reaches We - lington on a Wednesday and finds its places of business closed, Shaking the dust of the Empire City off his shoes, and using undesirable language he journeys on to Maßterton, and when he strikes this town, discovers that Thursday is our jubilee day, and that he must suspend ope'r ations here also, It also happens tbat if any other day in the week becomes a half holiday by ohanco, the Thursday afternoon arrangement is null and void and there is an unexpected and comparatively useless attempt to do trade. We have also to face the difficulty that a portion of the community voluntarily make Saturday their half holiday and refuse to fall in with the Thursday fixture. Porhaps in good times like the present, business will stand the irregularities to which we have referred, but should it at. any time become slaok there will at once be a rearrangement on the part of employers whioh will take all the gilt off the employes half holiday. A critic has pointed out that whereas Moses inoulcated the doctrine that man should work on six days, Mr Bal-lance-a much wiser man-has gone ono better than the ancient lawgiver by declaring that on five and a-half days only shall a man work. If it ft to be five and a-half days, it would be better for Mr Ballance to define which is to be the half day off. The ohanging half holiday is an absurdity, and it would probably be better to at once make it penal for one and all to labour on Saturday afternoons, In Masterton wo ,. have two half holidays to deal with, and we need not Bay " how happy we should be with either if the other dear charmer were away," Many poteoos nowr famed, that the;

wanted a half holiday till a nenevolent legislation forced them to tako one. Now a further Btep should be taken, and the Government should ha asked to name the day.

Mr W, E, Bidwill, owner of Donovan, has demanded au enquiry into the mn ning of that home at tbe Tauherenikau races, in cnnsequouco of the roniarks of Mr William Cundy. Messrs Murray and Casey, drapers, of Wellington have an inset' in this issue. The firm has taken premises in Queen Street, Masterton, oppositu the fire bell.

Tho National Bank of Now Zealand has declared an interim dividend of Is 3d per share.

The prohibition 011 the importation of New Zealand sheep into New South Wales has been removed. lu our Wanted column Mr Coy advertises ferrets and rabbit dogi for sale. A party of Greytonians loft last night for Palliser Bay, where tho) intend spending a week in fishing, shoutiug, and enjoying themselves generally.—ataucturd. It is statod that there is not a single house to Jet in Grey town. Notice is given in otir advertising columns that the income tix, payable in one sum, is d'io on Tuesday,3lst January, instant, at the office of the Commissioner of Taxes, Uovernment Building, Wellington,

In to-days issue, Messrs Abraham and Willimiß announce an important sale of stock to be held at Falmernton North on the l ( Jth instant,

The Premier will pay a visit to Wanganui at an early date. It is notified by theagonts that Smith's Yaluinba Wines, recognised as ono of the_ choicest Australian productions of their kind, are to be obtained in Masterton and the other Wairarapa townships, from ihe Wairarapa Farmers' Co-opera* tive Association, Limited. It has been well Baid that "good wine needs no bush," for equally true is it that these noted Yalumba vintages will earn a reputationou their merits anywhere and with all who try them, Mr Cyril Pownall, a lato arrival from England, iuteuds settling iu Greytown. William Demuth, a well-known jookoy on the West Coast, forirerly of Wellinghas diod at Kumara from inflammation of the lungs.

Inspector Pender officially took charge of the Wellington police district yesterday. The Railway Commissioners intimate that on and after the Kith instant, ''Kxhibits ouMigned for shipment to tho Agent-General for New Zealand and marked 'For Exhibition at the Imperial Institute, London,' will be carried free of railway charge.

Since Mr Cleveland's eleotion to tho Presidency two familes m Indiana, uamed Swinford and Lawson, havo been on hostile terms, and tho outcome of the enmity was a terrible scone in ft church which the two families attended. At tho conclusion of tho sorvico a fight took place, members of each family using their tevulvers, wiih the result that one' person on each Bide was killed, and a total of seven wounded. When the firing began, a paiau seized the congregation, and eventually the remaining members of the Uwson family beat a rotreat from the building. The Hawke's Bay Herald of Thursday says.-"The town dock stopped yesterday, tho Government which presented a clock to Inveroargtll having refused to pay 5b a week to defray the the cost of winding up and oiling ihe clock presented to Napier by tho late bit Donald M'Loan. In a Southern town they have, we are told, a white elephant in the shape of a clock tower as yet not ereoted, tho parts, ready for going together, jying in a shed waiting for "the good time coming," We venture to suggest that representatives of the Southern town and of Napier should toss for who should have tho two--if wo win, tlw tower to be Bent here; if we lose the clock to be packed off South." The sitting in the Court of Appeal, at Wellington, h»s now been adjourned until tho Ist February. ' Tho Post says that a fair amount of betting has taken place over the Wellington Cup, and the following horses have been backed at tho following odds :-100 to 20 v. Merrie England, 100 to 14 y Owckshot, 100 to 12 f, Revolution, 100 to 10 v. the others, The bookmakers in town vary greaMy as to Stopnhk's price, but Patterson Bros, are laying him at 100 to 3.

The Bishop of Nel«on has become a member of the New Zealand Alliance, and supports its Temporanoe scheme as tho most practical yet put forward by any body, During the month of December the number of arrivals in the colony waß 8400, and the numbor of departures, 1603. Of tho-arrivals, 350 were from the United Kingdom, 1605 from New South Wales, 1174 from Viotoria, and 196 from Tasmania, Of the departures, 62 wore for the United Kingdom, 763 for New South Wales, 608 for Victoria, tnd 128 for Tasmania.

An adioumoS.ipeeti.Gjj of orodifcora in the eataje/if John Mackintosh, junr., JKviican, was hold in the Official Assignee's Office, at Wellington, yoeterday before Mr 0. 0. Graham, The previous meeting was adjourned to enable the bankrupt to Bupply further information, but the Official Assignee said he could not makeboad or tail out of the data supplied, or what his trade had been. The debtor said he had made out no statement himself. In reply to a creditor tho debtor said he gave£6B9 Us lid for the Manakau Hotel, It was poiuted out ho had sold out of this at a profit; also out of the Empire Hotel, Petone, representing £77 6b Id in all, The debtor stated he had now a billet in tho employ of Mr Oxeuham, at the Rillo Rango and the races to como, and at Mr Skorrett's request an adjournment of the presont meeting wbb agreed totho27thinsb,,atloa,m, Under examination by Mr Skorrett the debtor said ho kept a banking account at the different places in which he had carried on business. Bis wife had money in the Savings Bank whilo ho kopfc the hotel at Manakau, All her money was now paiJ away. Tho money was her own savings and what she had won at the races here, He managed tho hotels himself but the till was accessible to his *ife, Neither of them now had a oopper. The meeting then adjourned, Mr B. Tennyson Smith will take tho source at the Masfcertou Wesleyan Church to-morrow evening.

There will be no meeting in connection with Mr Tennyson Smith's mission at tho Theatre Royal to-night, but tomorrow evening the lecturer will give an original address after tho usual services (at 8-15). On Tuesday next tho special and farewell subject entitled, "The Trial of a Notorious Criminal; 1 will be given,

An Exchange states that amongst the passengers by a recent Australian steamer which arrived at the Bluff was a married man with his wife and seven children, and tho total monoy in the possession of the head of the family was half a orown,

Those In want of Carpot Oovenugs for their floor at economical prices are reminded hereby that the best place in the Province for those goods is the Wholesalo Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Alio House, Wellington,

Mr Jus Webb, tailor, of Quoen etreet, I Mastorton,replaces his advertisement, iu I which he desires tho publio of Masterton to know that he is still to the fore and prepared to execute their orders with perfect fit, newest styles, and despatch. During the present woek 730 pasaenKera from Melbourne arrived at the I Bluff.

Business is still so bad in Melbourne that the Sydney Morning Herald has been compelled to close its agauoy in that city.

Maapig has boon soratched for both Hurdle Sandicaps at .Wellington Racing Club Summer, meeting. Lecturing in Manchester recently, Sir Francis do Winton declared tbat the northwest of Uanada, with its 150 millions of acros yotun broken, would be* come ono of tho greatest granaries in the world.

i A far-famed murderer, whom the Indian (Government have long been anxious to secure, has recently been despatched by a youth of fiftoeu (writes a correspondent of the Pali Mali Gaulle), it is said that tho murderer 'has killed between twenty and thirty peoplo at least, and some years ago tho Government offered 1000 rupees for his body, dead or alive. The uncle of tho hoy who shot him had been murdered by tho villain a week or so previously. The boy was very plucky, tie followed tho man jußtboyond Jamrud, a few miles from ■Peshawur, and Bhot him from tho back straight through the heart, Uf course, if ho had missed he would have lost his own ilife.

William Gaitt, a farmer, living near Waimato, cummited suicide on-Sunday night by cutting a vein in his arm. He was found hiding in a paddook of wheat near his house, and was removed to his house, whore ho died during tho night, tie has recently complained of pains in his head.

Tho Lyttelton Times states that Miss Blanche Lough, Captain of the Atlanta Bicycle Club, roilo from Ohrislolwroli to Ashburton ut few days ago. This is the first time that the journey has been ao compliahed by r lady cyclist, and con. aidering that the day was intensely hot, and the road very bad for the greator part of the way, the timo was really good, Miss Lough readied Rakaiain four huura, rested there until tho cool of the evoning, and then rode on to Ashburton. Thisi part of the road is unmetalled, but the eighteen miles were covered in two hours. Miss Lough seemed quite unfatu>ued on her arrival, and was cerainly none tho worso for her long rido. The late Duke of Marlborough says an American contemporary, although a man given to dissipation and recklessness in his early days, was by no means the rako he was generally supposed to bo, He was deoidedly demucratio in his ways. Ho had a contauipt for public opinion, •and he was in no senso a' hypocrite, When he felt like violation the social canons hesinnedopenlyandabuve board. He was a nobleman of unusual learning, He loved to take up studies as a fad. He was the best informed man on European politics in Ungland.nltliiingh he refused a political oirtsor. Of late ho iradti electricity a study, and no man in Knglaiid knew more about electrical dovices and inventions than he. 'He despised sham and shoddy, and during his visits to the United States did not hesitate to free his mind about the silly Now Yorkew who were wont to apotho flummery of the European aristocracy.

The Hew Zealand climate seems to be all astray this season. We (Wanpanui Chronicle) get it cold when it should bo hot and (inoro rarely) hotwhon it Bhould he cold. A well-known settler near Hawera lost 400 newly shorn sheep during one of tho very cold nights last week. If a farmer cannot shear with Bafety in the middle of January, when jb he to do it ? The only thine to bo re gretted is that wo cannot blauio the Gov* ernment for the wretohed weather. The Dunedin Star's London correspondent writes:—"There is on view at Mr Perceval's information bureau just now a sample of somo New Zealand flax tow ex Westland, sumo bales of whioh are boing submitted to leadiug paper makerß with a view to seeing whethor thoy can use it and will give a price sufficiently high to make it worth while JNow Zealand exporting the atoff in any quantity,"

Aii instance of the wilineßs of npiolcrs recently oawe under notice, whioh we (N.Z. Time 3) think it veil worth publish, jug. A raomber of that fratoruity was a week or two ago sponding a holiday in Welliugton, and determined to acquire a new atock of olothing at tho oxpeuso of some one other than himsolf. Accordingly he paid a visit to a certain tailoring establishment here and gave an ordor for a olerical suit, whioh he said was ro, quired by hiß brother. So far so goodbut tho tailor aho thought ho know something, and in sending the clothes to the 1 gentleman' Bt his hotel, gave his messenger strict instructions not to givo up the pamel without rocoiving the money duo to him. The lad faithfully carried out his instructions, and told Mr Spieler of his intention not to leavo them without payment. The visitor from Sydney agreed with him that such a course was •jua&ajid fair, and on tho plea that his cheque book was at another hotel, from whioh he had just removed, persuaded the confiding youth to leave tho parcel at the hotel they were then in, and to accompany him to his former quarters. Un arriving there the cute spieler performed the old trick of going in at one door and out at another, leaving the young man cooling bis heolsin the passage. After about a hour the said younp man got tirod of waiting, and immediately commenced malting enquiries as to the whereabouts of tho uiisiing customer. But alas I tho wily customer had taken. a cab down to a Bteamer bound for his old ancestral home in Australia, and the place wbero he had been knew him no more.

_ A doctor of divinity of high personal integrity, and much respcoted in the denomination to which he belonged, is about to marry a youug lady to whom he has become attached (says the London Chronicle) under somewhat romantio circumstances. The rovotonJ gentleman, who is about sixty years of ago, has dowted a groat portion of his life to tho rescue of poorboya and girls, Somo tivonty yoars ago, or more, he picked up a hungry, halfolnd, friendless, but bright' eyed little girl, and removed her to ouo of the homes to whioh he had oversight. The child was willing and eager to learn all that was taught her, Sho developed in the course of years into an amiable and intolligont young woman, ami in her turn became an. instructress in the home to which she had been brought so many years before She is still associated with the work, but she is engaged to marry the man who picked her, so to apeak, from tho gutter, Many cf the ro ; verend gentleman's friends have tried to persuade him against the marriage, but the doctor has the courage ot his oonviotioiiß, ob well as aS'octions, and will givo his hand, as he has given his heart, to bis old pupil, She is about thirty yoars of age,

In" The Idler" Georgo R. Sims, the popular author, tells the story ol his first pipe:-" I begun to smoke when I was twelve, that is, to smoke a pipe, Long before that I had tried a fearful thing callod in thoao days a cigaiotto. It was a wodge uf tobacco in a piece of brown paper gummed on to a piece of thick cine almost long enough for a walking stick, My first pipe was an elegant arrangement. The stem was a crioket bat, and the bowl was a cricket ball cut in half. I bought the tobacoo for it at ft Bmall grocer's shop in tho Broadway, Kaling, and then land another boy went out and sit in tho meadows by the Brent tosraoke.it between us. Alter a short engagement we threw the pipe itto the river, and assisted each other back to school by easy stages. Ah, me, 1 have had Borne, glorious pipes since then, but they, too, ore «oi.o. There are no pipes like the old pipes, I caD't get a pipe now that really works its way into my heart, They cost a lot of nionoy, and have patent sorewsft elaborate case;, but they don't form part of your life as the dear old pipes used to do. If 1 break a pipo now 1 don't Bhed tears over it and bury it in the back gar-' den with a piece of stick to mark its rest, mg.plaoe. But I did that sort of thing in the days when pipes wore pipes. I remomber a clay that 1 had oolorod beautifully. I used to wipo it all over with a silk handkerchief and a kid glove every time 1 Bmoked it. One day, strolling along the road with it in my mouth, a man in a hurry knocked against mo, Mydoar little day fell, and was shivered into a thousand pieces. I sat down and wept by its warm remains like a ohild. I can't get clay pipes like thatono now, and if I set one within measurable distance of it 1 can't color it, and if I do color it it doesn't seem to Batisfy an aohing void as it did onco.' The ease of James Edwards, of Webber, aawmiller, v. flandyside, Koberta and Co., of Akiteo, sheepfarrners, was re-heard boforo Mr Turnbull, E.M., yea, terday, at Tho plaintiff, who was represented by Mr Blakiston, of Danevirke, Bue4tho defendants for not accepting certain timber in accordance with the term ol his agreoraont, and claimed £44 damages. At the last sitting of the court tho plaintiff obtained judgment for the amount claimed with costs, there being no appearance for the defendants. The plaintiffs caße was that he had agreed to cut and stack timber for delivery by the 30th August, that though he was not ready on that day, Mr Bandyside had waived the touches of tho agreomont by consent* ing to certain alterations, and agreeing to take the limbor at a later date. At tho close of the plaintiffs case, Mr Tripp, aotiug for Ilaudyaido aud Roberts, asked for a nonsuit on tho ground that the plaintiff was suin« ou a writton agreement, which he admitted ho had not carried out, Tho Resident Magistrate decided toroaerve his ueoidion on tho nonsuit point until ho had heard the defendant's oase, The defendants denied that the plaintiff hud oarriod out either tho original contract or the alleged partial variations, Eventually the Resident Magistrate Baid ho would decide in the defendants' favour, both on tho nonsuit point and the merit, with L2 2s oiruuael'i fee and disbursements.— Times.