Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] FRIDAY APRIL 14 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4393, 14 April 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

FRIDAY APRIL 14 1893.

second edition

Being tub extended title of the Wairaraj'A Daily, with wjjiou it is IDENTICAL

If we are to guage the depth of Literal 80nlitnoiit in New Zealand by the official records of Liberal Associations we must come to the conclusion that it is barely skin deep. We are indebted to the New Zealand Times for a report of the annual meeting of the Wellington Liboral Association, and we gather from it that tho muster roll of tho organisation included 154 members with the usual paraphernalia of a President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Importing Clerk, and Ward Councils. Coming to the finances, the backbone of any organisation, wo discovor that tho gross annual incorao amounted to thirteen pounds. This gives an average weekly contribution to each member of less than a halfpenny and more than a farthing, Probably very many of the members are in receipt of fair wages, and the paucity of their sub« 6criptioM can hardly be put down to impecuniosity. Had each member paid a penny per week, a by no means unreasonable contribution to expect from even a Liberal, tjie Association would have paid its way, nnd appeared beforo tho world with a clean sheot, On the more than a farthing and less than a halfpenny basis it reached the end of the year with a' liability of thirteen pounds ten shillings, The manner in which a prominent Liberal proposed to deal with the deficiency was eminently characteristic, He suggested that their principal creditor should " wipe it off," This principal creditor was the Government organ, tho New Zealand 'Times, and we should not wonder if even that'journal began to weary of Liberal Associations, and longed to do business with vile Conservatives, who, however narrow-minded in their ideaß, are not in the habit of repudiating just debts, But what is this great Association going to do with its 154 members and its 154 halfpennies per week. Tho annual meeting is silent on this point, It speaks of members standing together, of all of them being workers for the objects which they have at heart, but it does not reveal what these objects are, A vagae allusion is made to the cominggeneral election and this is all. Wo are certainly not impressod by the Wellington Liberal Association, and amongst its members there is an obvious reluctance to spend money on the cause they have at heart. Perhaps they look forward to booming at the coming general election, and will come to the front then like vultures round a carcase. Evidently it is only the pleasure of anticipation wh'cii keeps the Wellington Liberal Association on its fall

Anothbb illustration of the manner in which Mr tlaselden inconveniences the. public by short-manning bis country offices I The District-Court was sitting this week, and the District Clerk had to transform himself into tho B.M. Clerk, and leave his duties in the superior Court to take tho depositions of indictable offences before Justices. Tho public office was closed, not even the Bailiff being left in charge of it, as that officer was required in tho District Court to administer the oath. Little complications oi this kind recur freqiumly! When the work of the olh'co was less than it is now, there wns an assistant Clerk; but Mr Haaelden, in his wisdom, has nbolishrd this officer in Masterton. We Bhould not complain, were it not that tho fees received in the district are ample to cover all necessary expenses. The public here pay well for their requirements in connection with the local office of the Justice Department, and have a right to expect that a reasonably adequate stall' should bo provided,

Tho Salvation Army in New Zeuland collected £IOO towards tho Queensland Relief Fund.

At an adjourned meeting of the Masterton Comotery Trustees, held yeatorday on the reserve, it was deoided to lay off a flower border on either side of one of the walks, intersecting the grounds, and a committee was appointed to carry out the work.

The annnal intervening election of members of the Taratahi-Carterton Road Board takes placo on tho 3rd May. The retiring members are MosHera E. W, Dorset, No 2 Ward; H. Braithwaite, No i Ward;E.Morgan,Noo Ward;and H. B. Bunny, No 8 Ward.

The fifth season of the Masterton Private Quadrillo Assembly will bo opened on Thursday evening noxt, 20th inst, in tho Masterton Temperance Hall, Tho Nelson Acclimatisation Society intend to introduce the chikor, an Indian hill bird, rathor larger than the English partridge. A Bum of money has been voted for tho purpose.

The Examiner understands that one of Mr Ohestcr's principals, Mr Stanloy, of Pefling, Stanloy and Co., Liverpool, has arrived in the Colony, and intonds extending the butter factory andcreamory system inaugurated by Mr Chester, A farmer named Patrick Burke, residing at Kcdcliflo, near Oamaru, was killed yeatorday by bis dray running over him. His horses bolted, and ho was knocked down by the shaft. The wheel of tho dray passed over hißhoad, killing him instantly. Red wafers, laid where the insects locate, aro statod to be an excellent thing to get rid of cockroaches.

The Labour Bureau is to insert a schedule of mon requiring employment, in the leading weeklies of tho Colony.

" People, onco settled here," says our Carterton contemporary, ''never leave, oxceptforOlarevillo Cemetery." . Thoro is a fascinating choice of residence offered in tho abovo paragraph which must attract population to either the township -or the burial ground. At a meeting of tho Mastorton Chess and Draughts Club, held last evening, it was decided to commence the season's play on Saturday ovoning. Tho regular Club nights will be the same as last year, viz,, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, Tho election of officers was held over. If the roar of the Wesleyan Church should be filled up on Sunday and Thursday next, visitors from tho coun* try aro informed that Messrs Ohamborlain Bros, havo kindly given pormißsion for vehicles to be left in their mill yard.

Tho Duko of Wostminstor has sold his residenco known as Cliveden, near Maidenhead, to William Astor, tho Amorioan millionaire.

A groat exodus of Irish peasants to America is going on. Petty pilfering from shops in "Wellington is becoming very provalent. The shoplifters are in somo cases women in highly respectable positions. Miss Mary E, Ridgway, of Masterton, was yesterday uuited in matrimony to Mr J, Andrew, also of this town, at tho residence of the bride's father, the Rov Robt. Wood performing the ceremony. The happy couple loft by the afternoon train for Wellington on thoir honeymoon trip,

Mr J. L. Murray, draper, of Maslertcn, in a now advertisement in this isßue in. vitos the public to inspect his new seasons goods which include every requisite for winter wesr,

MrF. H. Wood announces for the 22nd inst., the sale of an eligible cottage and quarter acre section in south Grey, town.

The Hull dookmeu are reported to bo returning to work, their funds being almost exhausted. Many aro in a desti* tute condition,

Tho improved acouatios of tho Wosleyan Church wero realised last night, at the rehearsal of the hymns and anthems for tho re-opening on Snnday noxt,

Fillis'Oircus, which recently showed for thirteen weeks in Sydney, opons in Wellington next month, Tho Central Hotel, Wellington,- narrowly escaped destruction by lire onWednesdayevening last,throngh the oareleasncss of a servant, who went to sleep, leaving a lighted candle close to tho wall, the scrim and the paper igniting,

Mr Davitt accuses tho landlords of paying tho Ulster agitators, A boy, sixteen years of age, has been Bontonced to ton years' ponal sorvitudo, at Sydney, for stoning a Chinaman to death,

Mr T. O'Gorman called on ub last night (says the Pahiatua Star) with the startling intelligence that ho had been" stuck up" by threo men on Girdwood's Itoad, near tho Dudley Arms, as he was riding home, The men rushed out from tho side of the road and demanded Tim's money or his life, but the latter put spurs to his horso and made baok to Pahiatua, Mr O'Gorman says he changed a cheque for 18 at tho Dudley, and tho men must have been on the watoh, Tim says ho went to Constable Cooper, who refused to listen to his tale,

An old man, named McLamont, with only one arm, was brutally assaulted by a young fellow named Harris, at Wellington, on Wednesday eveuing. He was arrested and according to the evidence of Constable M'Cormack, who saw the affair, the assault was committed solely because MoLamont, through being slightly intoxicated, lurched and stumbled against the accused. Harris foiled the old man, who struck his bead on tho pavement, and followed up tho blow by kiokiug his prostrate victim. Harris expressed contrition, and said he was intoxicated at the time, He denied, however, that he kicked the man, and said he was not aware that M'Laraont had only one arm, Mr Graham, 8.M., characterised the assault as a most brutal one, and ordered Harris to pay a fine of of £3, or be Imprisoned for 14 days, Wasted, from our ladycustomers, numer ous orders for tho celebrated C,B, Corsets of which wo have just opened out a large parcel. We will forward a pair, post free, forG/6, from Te Aro House, Wellington. For Sale, a splendid lot of Ladies Underclothing, bought very much under usual prices. Night-dresses from 4/9, Ohetnises from 2/11, Knickers from 2/11, These are from tho best Home Factories, aud are wonderful value at Te Aro House,

A New Lot. We have just received from the manufacturers, a first shipment of tho " Ideal," all-woolUndervcsts, for Ladies and Children, and are selling thenffor wholesale prices at To Aro House, Post Fjieb, Wo will send any quantityof these beautiful goods by porcel post on recoipt of order. Prices for Ladies sizes 1/11 to 6/6, Childrens 1/3 to 2/11. May be had in white and- plain colours from To Aro House, SHorpixo m Post. We make this a leading feature in our business. Country customers served at Wellington prices, Wo keep a large staff specially for executing country orders; so send them on early. Itemember! All goods charged town prices from James Smith, Te Aro House, Wellington

One-fourth of tho clerks in the Central Post Office at Paris' aro prostrated by influenza,

At the morning and evening eorvicea on Sunday next at the Masterton Wesleyan Church an efficient Orchestra under MrCandy will playaseleotionfrom Mozart's Twelfth Maes, and assist tho choir in tho hymns and anthems.

Tenders are being called (or printing the Uleotoral Rolls for tho Wairarapa and Masterton Electorates,

Tho Dresden Piano Company insert a new advertisement in to-day's issue, in which they announce that they have been appointed sole agents foe the oelabrated Erard Pianos, The Erard Pianos are perhaps tho most celebrated' instru. ment manufactured.and aro muoh souqlit after by the leading pianists. These magniflciout instruments can bo obtained on tho _ time payment systom, which, considering the quality of the piano, is an innovation which few colonial houses have attempted before. For the opinions ofKubenstein, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Litzt, Mdme Schumann, and Paderewßki on the Erard, wo would recommend a porusal of the advertisement,

A friend, m a kindly spirit, informs us that our re-publication, the other day, of the _ text of the writ in the case of Jollicoo v. N.Z. Times amounts to aeon, tempt of Court, If this be so, wo sincerely regret having printed it.

_ A married couple advertise for a situation on a farm or station.

The sum of £9,929 was put through the totalisators at the Wellington Racing Club's late meeting. Reatherßell beat Rangipuhi in the run off after the dead heat in tho Autumn Handicap, at Wellington yesterday. Tho ordinary meeting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., was held in the Foresters' Hall, Masterton, last night, O.E. Bro, C. Bwington presiding. Tho ordinary routine business was transacted and one now member was initiated, Prior to her returning toChristchurch, and in compliance with urgent requests mado, Mrs McCallum has arranged to revisit Masterton for one week, during which time everyone who missed tho opportunity of cousultiug hor on her former visit will now have another opportunity of doing so. The indications of tlio oharacter of childron and how to cnltivato tho beat traits and combat any bad influence, is so clearly shown by both phrenology and palmistry, that parents should not miss this chance of getting charts for thoir children, By advertisement Mrs McCallum announces that sho will be at Holly House, Dixon strost, on Tuesday next and during the romuinder of tho week.

Our friend, tho Literary Tadpole, who wears a buttonhole, writes that there is i a class of larrikins who dovoto themsolvos to flower depredations I The old land mark in Queen "Street" tho " Argylo Boarding Houso" which was burnt a few woeks ago, is to be sold by public suction to-morrow (Saturday) e,t 2 o'clock, by MeEsrs Lowes and lorns, and we learn the anlo is to enable the lixeoutors of the lato Mrs McKenzie to wind up her estate. Tho firm will also sell the fancy goods left over from the lato Catholic Bazaar, Mr 6. Milner Stephen announces that ho will hold a free publio healing of the poor at Groytown, on Monday afternoon, at which he invites tho poor of Carterton to attend, Mr Stephen also intimates that ho may be consulted privately at Mrs Roger's Hotel, Groytown, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednoaday, and at Mr Searl's Victoria Hotel, Foatherston on Thursday, and Friday.

Mr Mark Maxton has commonced operations at his Wairarapa Flour Mills Greytown. Wo wish Mr Maxton evory prosperity in his new ventuio. Mr and Mrs Anders Anderson, ol Woodtide, near Greytown, left yesterday for a trip to the World's Fair at Chicago, Mr R.C, Black, postmaster of Groytown, loaves Greytown for Dunedin next Monday, for a welNearnedraonth's holiday,

Tho vital statistics for this district lor the quarter ending March 31st aro as follows: —Bittbs, 51 j deaths, 16; Marriages, 20. For tho corresponding period of last year tho figures wore : Births, 74; Deaths, 24; Marriages,

His Honor District Judgo Kobinson will give his decision on tho point raised by Mr Hislop in the caso Joßoph and Phillips vCundy, on May Bth at Wellington, The following Besidont Magistrates ihavo been gazetted :—Lieut. Colonel [John Mackintosh Roberts, N.Z.0., for Opitiki and Tauranga j Mr Holyar Weddorburn Bishop, for Akaroa, Ohrißt. church, Kaiapot and Kaikoura j Mr James Crosby Martin, for Wellington; Mr Charleß Allan Wray, for Oamaru. At Denver, Colorado, tho arrest of several managers for keeping their theatres and other places of amusement opon on Sundays, contrary to the law, led to a riot. Tho mob threatened to burn down tho house of a clorgyman who had been foremost In a crusade against Sum day opening. Tho police had to draw their revolvers, and many people were wounded before order could bo restored. I

Dr Qreeves, President of a training college at Home, insists that moral train' ing in schools must bo definite. The child must not only be told to do what is right, but also bo told what is right. For instance, in lesßonson hohesty, the questions might appropri* atoly bo dlßCusaed : Is it right to keep what wo find in tho streot; to break the windows of empty homes; to damage school property; to mako marks in library bosks ? If not, why not ? Tho Napior Telegraph says:—Port Awanui, on the East Coast, is a peculiar place, They do things thero ona"sliding" scale, Owing to the papa formation, the earth slides away, and the houses there, as now viewed, are all askow. Tho township boastßof a poßt office, which has been placed at the top of a hill, this haying a much sounder foundation than any other neighboring locality. Anyone who wants a letter or a newspaper, has to climb up between two and three hundred foet, and that hill takes somo climbing, It jb so steep that a boy would think twice before going down on a four-wheeled guiding trolly, Soino day, when the houses are missing, sea captains in passing will probably say, " I thought those;buildings would slido into the water long ago." A"bear"anecdotorecently told by the Yorkshire Post and other papora concerning Mr George Gregory, the stockbroker, has brought another highly curious ono to light. Sometime ago a lady called at one of Mr Gregory's branch offices and paid 1 per cent on £2OOO worth of Brighton A's, In tho course of the day tho stock went up with a rush, 'lhat same evening Mr Gregory remarked to hia wife, "I told you yesterday that Brighton A's were going up. I was right, _ Vory few olients fanoied them-onobeing a certain Mrs Jones, who bought Borne at my West-end branch, Look, 1 havo just written out a oheque for £IOO A little scream of delight burst from the lips of the financier's wife as she took the cheque, and to her husband's dismay pocketed it; She was that Mrs Jones This is a warning to married stock brokers,

her .wisdom has so ordered that all animals and birds are provided with a change of clothing to suit the season, Human beings alone being left to their own devices; but in order to atone somewhat for this neglect, she has invested some with the brains to design, and others with skill to execute. Ever jealous of our reputation we have our representatives always on the look out in haunts of fashion to glean the first intimation of what is going to bo the thing, and when that information has been gained to scour the markets for the choicest of fashions productions. Wo havo now opened up our first instalment of Autumn and Winter Novelties and invite the publio to inspect. Our Show Kooms are full of the newest and nobbiest Millinery. Ladies Mantles, Jaokets, etc. _ Our Dress Department is orowded out with the latest fashions and designs and all other departments are similarly constituted. We would improßS npon our publio not to delay making the first selection, Hooper and Company, Bon MmoJh,

, Additions to tho entries for next TaratahiStookSaloaremadebyMr F. H. Wood.

A proclamation in the New Zealand Gozetto rcßetvea certain sections of land at Parkvillo, for public and municipal purposes.

Mr Cleveland refuses to allow re* porters to stand in the hall of his private house, to watch his doings and those of bis family, and to give informstionattho door about his visitors and

their comings and goings. Be insists on his right to prrvaoy. Probably no

man in the United States, the Nation says, has suffered so much. A Bwarm of reporters followed him into tho country on his wedding trip, and encamped in tents or lay concealed in the bushes, armed with field-glasses, around the house In which he passed his honeymoon, "like African Bavatjes around tho lair of a wild beast;" He was pursued in the same way into the Adirondacks, when he had his cottage there in his vacation during his Presidency. "The tormentors lay in wait for him and his wife in the surrounding woodH, like the Iroquois or Pcquots In the last century, They have dug up tho hatchet against him again, now that ho has been re-elected and become oneo moro a public man,