Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4347, 17 February 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1893.

Being the extended title of the Wairakam Daily, with which 11 is IDENTICAL

" Tub direct veto" is now the watchword of the Prohibition army. Of course, the regenerate more or less understand what tho direct veto is; but to the unregonerate it still is more or less a mystery. The Editor of " Tho Prohibitionist," our old friend, the JRev. L. M. IsiU, defines the direct veto in the following terms

" Now, when Prohibitionists ask tor the power of " Direct Veto," they mean that they must bo permitted to say at regular intervals whether they want any license at all iu their locaiity. The liquor traffic is said to exist for tho public convenience, owl the public nmst be permitted to say whether they want this kiudof convenience—not only whether an increase in these public conveniences is necessary, but whether cum of them are necessary or required iu the public interest. At present a Committee is compelled to do what the vote of the people should do at the ballot-box.

The definition is perfectly clear, but there is a vagueness about the comment On tho liquor traffic. This traffic, we tako it, has existed since the days of Noah, and neither the Editor of " The Prohibitionist," nor ourselves, are called upon to account for its existence, It may exist for the convenience of the publio; but it would be equally true to * affirm that it exists for the inconvenience of tho public. As w.e understand it, the part the public !)a.s to play lies and always has lain in tl)e restrictions deeped necessary for the control of tfie traffic, The State has beep wont through Parliament to impose these restrictions nnd at the same time to draw a gigantic public revenuo from them. We question the morality of the revenue but we quite approve of the restrictions as far as they may be necessary in the interests of good Government, If the State in its wisdom deemed it expedient to the welfare of tlienatjon that the restriction should be acolyte m should make no protest, but the State is ft partner in the liquor traffic, taking the lions 6bare of the profits and we cannot expect it to display too muob temperance virtue, It/Jqesseom, however, contemptihlo that the jiitate, jyjijle il holds aloof from exercising a reasonable restriction on the traffio, constitutes somo five hundred licking districts and gives each district the power to fight ot|t the right or wrong of the question for itself. It says to eaoli of these petty local bodies" You lnay give up your profits in the liquor traffto ifvou like, you may surrender your licensing feeß.but we cannot afford to give up Our share in the business I" Instead «f a battle in tho House of Representatives there 2!'e five hundred little faatto all over tho country fought with an ftiorjnoijß expenditure I of money,' .but "acffipani<s fi personal bitterness wtiicfi' itf worse. When parliament dare not face a difficulty it evades it by giving n power of local option, and we believe

ibis delegation of authority to be] vioioua. What we want to get lit is not which side has a uinjoriiy, but which aide is right. Prohibition!sis Will _ probably hold to the ancient maxim « pjpuli, vox <lei, but this argument is not sufficient for men who try to. think out the issuo for themselves.

Twenty-three out of the nhole of the master builders in Christchurch, who number 28, liavo complied with the journeymen's request for an in'oreaso of wages by one shilling per day. The other fivo are believed to be favourable to making the Btandara rate lis per day.

The Daily Hews suggests that iNew South Wales should stop borrowing, and then labourers would leavo the (lovemir ont works and return to pastoral icounations,

The schooner Daphne, bound from | Sydney to DungeneoS, capsized in AVido Bay i and out ot the crew of sbvou only one was saved, After being 12 hours in tho water he managed to react the shore.

In tho Texas Legislature a measure has been introduced legalising the lynching of persona committing outrages on females.

The sum of £2lO 9s Gd has so far ken loft ac the ollioe uf the Wellington Evening Post for the Queensland Relief Fund.

Mr rTohn Bloroquist, of Parkvale, Carterton whose exhibits of apples carried all before them at yesterday's Horticultural Show, invites planters of fruit trees to inspect his stock during the growing sceson,

The Wellington Catholic Times newspaper is to be converted intoa company. The paper ia at present uwue J by Archbishop J. Redwood. Five thousand shares at £1 will be issued,

A person named John Brodie is laid to be Cuming forward as a candidate for this electorate, People ask " who is he ?" and echo answers "who?"

The Manawatu Times says that it is rumoured that a settler in the Levin district, whose felled bush was recently burned against his will, intends bringing an action for JI2OO as damages alleged to liaye beon sustained by the premature burning of tho bush.

The Masterton School Committee has changed its night of mooting fruin Thursday to Tuesday.

it appears that the nomination of Mr E. Feist tor a seat oil the Education Board is informal, as he did not ove his consent. He haß given as his ressou fur not standing, that Messrs Buchanan, McOardle and Frasor being old friends lie did not wish to split up the voiing.

The Pahiatua County Council has generously voted the Bum of £ls, asa donation to tho Mastorton Hospital.

The Hawke's Bay Herald wants to know who was the Press Association reporter at tho Thames for the purpose of wiring away Mr Cadman's speech ? Is he an honest man ? We ask because 111 his report we get tho proposal lliot the Government should omploy convicts 011 the railways, whereas in tho reports in the Auckland papers that reference does not appear, If tho Press Assoeis tion reporter is an honest man, who are the garbling rogues who tried to am Mr Cadman's reputation by falsifying tho report of his speech 1

One of tho moßt important auction sales ot land advertised for some time past will take place on Wodnesdav next, the 22nd inst., in Messrs Harcourt and Co.'s Colonial Exchange Auction Booms, Wellington. The properties to bo disposed of com|)rißosß2i ucres ol firat-olasß land in the Whareama Block, township eeclions in Featherston, Woodside, Carterton, Fitzhorbert,Feilding, Palmoistou North and Woodyille. In addition to those properties there arc several sec lions of land and houses iu the city of Wellington and its environs. For email capitalists the sale should prove an excellent opportunity for profitable in rest, ments as tho great bulk of tho properties are eo situated us to be worth a very much increased value in a few years. We commend attention to the announcement in our business columns. The Americansaro known all the world over aB a most ingenious and inventive! raoeof people, More particularly has their ingonuity and inventiveness' been turned to time and labour savins? appliances, Now, howevor, we have ovitence of their cleverness in anothor direction, We allude to tho celebrated O.trbol Crystal Sheop Dip, for which Messrs Levin and Co., of Wellington, arc the sole agents, This now sheep-dipping preparation is absolutely guaranteed to be thoroughly efficacious m its effects, and at the samo time is perfectly harmless to the sheep itself. Carbol Ciyatal aots like a charm in cleaning out all parasites, and cheoking and curing disease, and it improves and strengthens tho fleece. Numerous testimonials have been received from well-known look, owners in the Colony, and Messrs; joyiu and Co. will be pleasod to give every information, upon application, concerning this excellent preparation.

Captain C, Vivian, of tho sitting vesßol Imogene, writes to tho Daily Telegraph from 6, Park plnoe, Exeljv ''On the way home from the Azures in tho Imogene a sailor foil overboard. It was blowing very fresh, hut the mate, with the sterling pluok of the British sailor, immediately sprang ovei board and reached the dpiwninp man, Howover, both were lost, Tho saddest patt remains, It beoamo my extramely painful duty to break the sad nous to the wife, who cawe to Plymouth expecting to meet hor husband. Tho :ihock was too much for her, and she died, leaving two little boys under eighteen months totally unprovided for. I hliould be glad to give any particulars so the charitably disposed, or to receive any holp on behalf of the children.' 1

Messrs Cook & Grayi tho well-known accountants, trade-assignees, financial agonts and collectors, of Wellington, have an aunouncemont in ouradveitising columns to which wo would draw Attention. Messrs Cook and Gray tr<ako a specialty of dealing with assigned estates, and they have been very warmly com* mended for their able management by many of the leading merchants of Auckland and' Wellington, Jn financial matters the fiui) is. always abreas'; with jihe times, and 'tljey pave many clients speking' jnyestments for capital oa reasonable terms, An acoident happened in Wellington yesterday morning to a young :ellow named George Edmunds under Hither peculiar circumstances. He was walking along Oußtomehouso Quay cutting up a pipe of tobacco with an ordinary pccket knife, when a gust of wind caught his hat and carried it away. He instantly made a grab as ho felt the hat quite forgetting the knife m his hand, and tho'consequenCe \va« a nasty t'lough not serious out on the "head.—Pfei s. ' Tho results of the Civil Seiviie and toaohers 1 examinations recently hold will be made known next week, The number of candidates for the former was 675, and for the latter 290, Meljiompßarfjainstiiih Press Cminfer during the Gigantic Sale at le App House. Ijiiy these quieUy, lull dressJcnglhs of summer eciijfe, lyprth 5/0, for 1/11. Nol wan#?!#, very useful simmr oiie, yoits, 12 yard lengths, worth 6/6, for H/H Now it the time for a full dress lcrgtb of summer diagonals at 7(0, for 3/11. Snap tee «/). Splendid qualll.es iu knioker tweeds/worth 8/6, for 4/11, The prettied dresses of tho season are oiir 10/61'rcndu Da Laiues for 6/0 the dress. The most charming and exquisite designs in 12/6 French Do Laincs for 7/6 the dress" li is wpostMc to help buying oiir IVench De tainSs dM9/-fw 0/0 ilie jlress. 1 'Only ajia left of our superior quality 18s French Do Wnes for 10/6, the drosi/at To Aro House, Wellington. v

The Rev. Mr Crewea delivered a most interesting and instructive phrenological lecturo, in the Masterton Temperance Hall last evening. The sum of f!8 la was realised from the lecture given at the Opera Heuao last night by Mrs A, M. Longshore Putts, M.D., being 20 per cent on tho total takings, which will be paid into the Queensland Relief Fund to-day by Mr 6. Ooulson, treasurer of the Opera Housb Fund. This makes a total ef £4O 7s 3d realised from this soucrce. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to the entries for their next Masterton stock sale for Wednesday February 22d,1200 good wethers, 350 good woolly lambs, 16 pigs, 1 good bugey horse, 1 weight carrying hack, 6 draught mares and geldings, 1000 good 2 tooth lionmey Lincoln ewes, and 200 two tooth ewes, By a notice in another columu it will be seen that Mrs A. M. Longshore Potts, tho eminent American physician will lecture in the Theatre Royal, Masterton, on the 28th inst,

To-morrow at 2 o'clock Messrs Lowes and lorns will sell at their auction rooms a consignment of marllo statuary and finoy ornaments of the most beautilful designs. The goods aro now ou view and will lie on exhibition from 8 to 10 o'clock this evening.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Court Loyal Enterprise, A.O.F. Masterton, was held last evening. One new member n as initiated.

The offertory in the Wesleyan Church on Sunday evoning next will be given to the Masterton fund for the Queensland sufferers. 'I he Rev J. Dukes respectfully requests a liberal response. An English mail via Naples will close at Masterton on the 20th inst, and a Frisco mail on tho 23rd.

Chinese storekeepers in Masterton are taking holiday to-day. One up-to-date Celestial has Btuek up on his door "Notisi-Chinese Happy Hew Year to day. Kapai 1"

In addition to the amount previously acknowledged (12), further subscriptions liavo been received by Mr R. Brown as foliowe (or the Queensland Reliet Fund:

—S, E. Gfipper, 20a; "J,8.,"205; G, S. W. Dalrymple, 21s.

The stock-in-trade in the estato of A. Howell, of Pahiatua, was mid yesterday by Mr D. Crewo at public auction and realised £6l.

Mr R. H. Madden, who has resided on

the East Coast fur a number of years, diodatthe Wellington Hospital yeßtorday, He was employed for some yeari an shepherd for Mr R. F. Maunsoll al Tinui, He leaves a wife and four child

red to mourn his loss, Some of hiß relative proceeded to 'Wellington by this mornings train to attend his funeral. At the Supreme Court, Invercargill,

yestorday, Daniel Hopper, for rape, was sentenced to 12 years' penal servitude, 'l'he jury found Annie Byrne guilty ol drowning her child while tomporarilj

insane, Mr Jutlico Williams deferra

dealing with her till to-morrow-The following arc tho Miwtorton con« ttibutions to tho Atkinson Memorial Fund:—George Heron, fis j "E. 3.," 2s; "E, S, D,," 2s Gd j J. Mander 2a 61 j Geo. Johnston, as; 0. Pragnell, 2s Gd; M. Dixon, ss; T, Wilton, sen., Is; "W, J. S." 1b ; "M. P." Is; J. Candy, 2s; 0. T. Natusch, ss; "A. B. 1 ' 2s Gd jJ, L, Murray, 2s Gd; Tames Elliott, Bs jJ.

Uosßey. '2s Gd; W. H. Biietham, £1 j 0. A. Pownall, £1 Is Od, The Bum total collected and promised amounts to £3 8s Od, A total of 117 applications were re« ceived by tho Library Conunitteo of the Wellington City Council for tho post of assistant librarian to the new Free Public Library, of which tho Committee submitted the names of Bis applicants - 4. males and 2 females- to the City Council at its meeting Inst night. Tho council went into committee uf the whole for tho consideration of the applications, and on resuming, reported that Mr G, N. Baggett, formerly Receiver of Land Revenue in Wellington, bad been appointed. The salary offered was at the rate of £l2O per annum for a walo, and at the rate of i! 80 per annum for a femalo.-N.Z. Times,