Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878 MONDAY, MAY 1, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4407, 1 May 1893, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878 MONDAY, MAY 1, 1893.

SECOND EDITION

We may expect to hear that His Excellency has called upon the Hon Mr Beddon to form a new Ministry, It is quite possible that the composition of the new Cabinet is already determined, as the late Premier expressed a wish that Sir Eobert Stout should succeed him; but in the first instance;' Mr Seddon must bo officially consulted. If ho acquieses in, or liaß 1 assented to Mr Balance's desire, he will, of course, invite Sir Robei'l Stout to lead the re-construoted 5 ' Ministry, It may, however, be neces j sary for him to consult his colleagues, ' and even ascertain the wishes of his party on so important an event. We have every confidence, that at this crisis, he will act in the best interests of the Colony, He, himself, has strong claims for the Premiership, and in our opinion he is an abler politician than Sir Eobert Stout, and might prove a better Premier. Sir Eobert is a more'fluent speaker, better educated, and certainly the more presentable man of the two; but in capacity for administration and sound common sense, Mr Seddon is his superior, Possibly, as a party tactician, Sir Eobert Stout may be more useful, and it is on some consideration of this kind that lie is likely to be preferred. Within a few hours, we Bhall probably know whether the rearrangements necessary are already settled, or whether the question iB still an open one, If the former proves to be the case, Mr Seddon will deseryo- cretlit for magnanimity in giving place to Sir Eobert Stout, Should the latter supposition be well-founded, then the decision will rest with the party in power. The wish of the late Premier, if it may not absolutely determine the issue, will in any case have great weight with his supporters. Wo learn now that Ministers for some time past have been aware of the serious' nature of the late Premier's illness and that it was only personal consideration for him that prevented them from taking the public into their confidence. They have practically been faoing the orisis which has now arisen, for some little time, and are doubtless prepared to deal with it in a becoming manner. We do not anticipate that on this occasion any difficulty will arise from petty personal jealousy orcraving j for place, Ministers have seen their , late chief lay down his life in the ser* ] vice of his country, they have stood by the bedside of one who must have ' ennobled them by the example of his j unselfish surrender of more than i place and power. After the scenes 1 of the past few days and the final . farewell by the grave Bide at Wang. { wui their action will surely 1 be worthy of the leader whom c they have loved and lost. In j' be stress of party warfare, in fbejfj

confliot of opinion Mr Ballance and his colleagues have'been misunderstood by ninny, and jusfcico has not always been accorded to their better qualities, Mr. Ballance is misunderstood no longei*, the simple story whiob Las been told of Iris career and the closing sceneß of it, carry home to ourselves and doubtless to olherii the conviction that he was a larger miuded and a purer minded man than we took him to be. _ We recognise that ho was a man of liisli purpose, and we begin to question whether after all bis colleague are not embued with the patriotism which animated him. That [lie late Mr Ballance's oharaoter has in a measure been misunderstood by hia political opponents may be admitted, aud his party may have oome in for a share in the misunderstanding. The tragic events of the past few days will do much towards the remofttl of all ungenerous doubts, and the remembrance of them will quell party bitterness for some time-to come.

The Government are fceing urged to become tailors and outfitters, to opon a shop in each principal centre of population where postal, priron, and railway uniforms and other garments required by the State can be umde. On the postage stamp of the future we may yet see " Try the Government trowsers at lls9d, the cheapest and best in the market," or " vote for the Government and a free suit of clothes." Of course the idea of Government tailoring is to do away with the contract system, and enable tailors and tailoresses to earn regulation wages; but where is this sort of thing to end 1 Is the Government to make everything for everybody, and to guarantee standard wages to all coiners? If so, New Zealand will not hold the people that will flock to her shores.

Biackham has been chosen c,;ptain, and Eannerman vicc-captai-i, tf the Australian eleven.

The Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinanri has left Batavia for Sydney. Over 100 people were killed by the recent, wate spoilt in Oklahoma, while oi J were injured.

_ The finances of the Hull strikers are in a dospornte condition. The reasons why the public driak Dixon Bros' Football Punch, i?ill l.i found In another column,. A valuable cow, belonging to Mr W. Darley died yesterday, Mr Dariey has been rather unfortunate with his stock lately.

Frederick Snell, a boy 14 years of as>e, was found hanging by a rope suspendsd from a hook In a shed on his father's premises, at Ohristchuich, on .Friday afternoon life was extinct when he was found.

Mr Ballance's lifo was insured in the Government Life Insurance Association for f IOC).

. The U.iilway Sorvanta' Hours Bill hat passed all its stages in tho House of Commons.

A'ter the meeting of the Wairarapa A. and P. Society on Saturday, Mr .Buchanan, M.H.K,, moved, end ii was seconded by Mr 0. A. Fairbrother, that a letter of condolence bo sent to Mrs Ballanco. The Kev. J. Dukes delivered an impressive sermon at the Matterton "Wosleyan Churoli la3tnight,inthe courso of which ho made feelini; allusion to the late William Evemden.

Some time lately a valuable horse belonging to Mr Wm, Booth injured its leg and rendered itself unfit for wort. It waß turned out with a cover on to protect it from inclement weather. Some one has boen mean enonjh to steal the cover from off the injured lione, aud a reward of £6 is offered for information leading to the connotion of the thief.— Observer.

The attention of orohardjsts, fruit growers and settlers, is directed to the advertisement of Mr John Blomqvist, nursoiy man, of Oartertou, which appears in this issue. Mv Blomqvist has n veiy ; choice stook of two and throo year old fruit trees, which have been carefully grown on blight.proof stocks, from the most profitable varieties, Chief among the varieties are the Ohinlmnri, Prince Alfred, and fieinetle du Canr-.da, For which this nurseiy hnbecomecekbrated by securing first place wherever the firult has been exhibited. In apples alone there is a stock of 4,000 trees, t'l who purpose planting during the present season will do well to compare tin price list which appoara in another column, Mr Blomqvist is in the particularly proud position of having hia orohard freo from codlin moth, which fact should bmuffioi. ent to find him plenty ot patrons for his trees.

Referring to the political situation, the Evening Preßs Bayslt would seem that there exists some disability, the nataro of which wo are not at liberty to state, to Sir Robert Stout's re 'entering, politics just now. Aware o* this, and at the instigation of some of the feeders to their party, Miniaters have approached the Bon Captain Riwoll wiih a view to the formation of a Coalition Ministry under his leadership. Captain Bussell is, wo understand, willing, but stipulates for the molusion therein of two of the leaders on his aide if the House. This would necessitate the rcclusion oi two of the present Ministers—probably Mr W. P. TCceves, the least popular of them, and Mt Carrol. There is a difficulty in the way, but {/eater ones havo beou got oyer where steraneceisity has demanded," A my interesting event took place on Wednesday, the 26th day of April, says the Examiner; at the residence of Mr G, Uardner, of Mangatainoka, when Mr J, R, Oralla i, of Danovlrke, was married to Misß Gardner, by the {lev 0. Penny. .Miss A. Gardner and Misß Crallan, sisters of the bride and bridegroom, wero the bridesmaids. A large oompauy was present at the wedding, invitations being sout to many friends, After the ceremony, the happy party sat down to a sumptuous breakfast. And amid the hearty congratulations of all, the wedded pair left for their new abode in Dane, virke on the afternoon of the same day. An old lady named Mrs Sabra Carter, who died recently at Wilmington, Connecticut, haa left a fund of £20,009 to be used in the "suppression of the iiornic. iom habit of keeping dogs." Her will provides that the income derived from the eßtattt shall be used for the pointing of houses in Wilmington, of all who| shall apply ior it, provided they can prove that they have not kept a dog for two years and will agree not to keep ono in future The cccentrioteatatrh olosea her wU the following sentmoo" No habit has a more deadly hold upon mankind than that of dog keeping; which is iaelf a proof that it ought to be crushed cut." Who would not like to feel the bumi jj on that old lady's head ? Wanted, from our lady customers, numerous ordors for the celebrated 0,1), Corsets of which we have just opened out a large parcel. We will forward a pair, poit free, for 6/6, from Te Aro House, Wellington. Fob Sale, a splendid lot of Ladles Underclothing, boujht very much under usual prices, Night-dresses from 419, Chemises from 2/11, Knickers from 2/11. These aro from the .best Home Factories, fjid a:e wonderful value at Te Aro House,

A New Lot. We have just received from the manufacturers, a first shipmeni of the "■ldeal," all-wool Undorvests, for Ladios and Children, and are selling them for wholesale prices at TeAro House. .

oee, we wiu send ony quantity of theßO beautiful goods by parcel post on receipt of order. Prices for Ladies sizes 1/11 to 6/6, Children 1/8 to 2/11. May be had in white and plain colours from Te Aro House,

I ShoppimhtPost. We moke this 4 leading feature in out businets. Country customers served at Wellington priies, We keep a large stall specially for executing I country orders;; bo send them on early. Itemember 1 All goods charged town prices from James Smith, Te Aro House, Welling, i (QD.

An old soldier, aged 105, is an inmnto of ihanet Infarmary. He has had three wives and eeveateon children,

Moonlighting outrages are growing frequent m Keny,

Mr Froude, the historian, is of opinion tuere will boa dosperate war over Ireland»111 which other countries will tako part.

Meisra Monoy.Wigram & Sons (Lirnitea; the well-known London shipowners, havo failed, but is is expected that their creators will be paid in full,

A cyclone at Chickasaw, lowa, over, threw the Catholic Church. Thoofficiat. MR priest escaped, but fifty of tho congregation tvero killed.

Installation of officers of St Marks Maionw Lodze, Oartorton, takes place to-morrow ©yening,

Most (ieiwan papers are owned and edited by Jewa.

Thore are nearly forty vegetarian restaurant! iu London.

There is at present in work at the Waiau (Cantorbuiy) a heme whose age is computed to be 88 years.

A treo on Claphan Common, said to have been planted by Captain Cook, was bloTiu down during recent sales,

A young girl, inmate of a ho3pital near raris, had been fivo months in & trance. Pricking of pins foiled to arouse hor. but she awoke on being touched with a hot iron.

A patent for a "one.wheeled sulky" fca3 just been taken out by a Geraldine fflroierj Mr Ocorjje Love^rovo. Sorao news of a welcome chprc:ter comes from Beifait-that a apJng of petroleum lia» beo>i discovered near that city. -Should tho nnt'uprifcions of expeits be rtabscd, a now induetrv for diatrejsed Ireland h prormad. *

Mr Gardiner, 8.A., of Wooiicote H. 0 ?'?!. ' We'Ji.'gtcH, announces that the nost quaiier commences on Junelst. MrGardmer a'so notifies that Iv In i ofi t ' ll Moy sdi, also on the 29th, SOUund 31st, when he will bo prepared to ? ivo evoiy -nformation respecting the '.ohool.

Mr J. M. Richardson, of the Dudley Arms Hotel, Mangataipokt>, advertise! njs intention to apply for & renewal ol his license.

, The annual mcotinj of the Pahiatua County Licensing District, will be held in the County Counoil Chambers tit noon on Tuesday, JuneCth.

The Kuronra Timed says:—The prce Of property in ETokitiks has gone down to the level at wh ; c'i Jay Goulds generally step in and buy. A property (freehold) in lfevell street, beat stand a'most in the W ,' l ' C ' l e&rlierdayß was worth ±.looo, last week fetched the handsome sum of £75. Veiy cheap firewood. Major Yince, of the Salvation Army, at the present timo engaged on a mission'in ilastetton.

Sorno publicans have been fined at Ealing, _ England, for selling " sodawater" m which there was do soda. For the defence it was ethted that suda-wster fas merely water oharged with carbonio acia gas.

Tea isvory cheap in China; in one province of the Empire Rood tea is sold at a ljd pound. The average of deaths from excesaivo drinking in the United Kingdom is 54 in in a million,

_ Jt is paid that there ato 4000 bicycles m use in Chrisiohuroh and vicinity, and that the popularity of the bicycle as a means of locomotion h growing at suoh a pace that the resources of the local factories are strained to their utmost limits.

Five hundred poisons havo been examined for color blindness by the Committee of the Royal Society. The defect most common was found to be red.grcen blindness, whicHails to distinguish between red and green, both being often mistaken for whito. Color blindness has been found to bo less common among women than men.

A terrible accident occurred a few weeks ago in Baku, in one of tho princi** palMahommedan baths of that town, Wiiilo about three hundrod women and children were bathing, the boiler of the bathe suddenly exploded, The terrified women, with shrieks of despair, attempt? 1 to rush into the streets, where the Mussulmans covered ihem with their cloaks, Three ohildren were killed in the crush, but how many grown up perrons is unknown, as the Mussulmans wish to keep the affair as secret as possible.

■ Hungarian papers report tho tragioal death of a young bride. On the 4th of February, the only daughter of a rich pianoforte manufacturer married a landed proprietor, and the two started on their i wedding tour to Italy. They oame first to Vienna, and stayed at the Imperial Hotel. The morning after their arrival the husband went out ana left the young wife before the firereadi'ig. A spark flow upon her dress, and in an instant she was in flamos, _ She sustained such injuries that she died afterwards.

_ Mrs Eliza Kingswood, aged 103, died m .Sydney recently. Her sight and intellect were unimpaired at the time of her death.

One of the best specifics now obtainable is "Solomon Solution," It will cure man and beait equally well, and must therefore prove an Inestimable boon to tho country settlor. For rheumatism, cuts and sprains in man, it is most efficacious, and for curing sores and sprains In horses, ulcerated udders in cows, and mansje in dogs it isinvaluable. Wo hare seen scores of testimonials from rotable sources and we know therefore that In bringing the specific before tho residents of this district no quack bolus iB being introduced. "Solomon Solution" does not claim to euro "all the ills that flosh 18 heir to" but the proprietors guarantee that for the" ills" above montioned it is almost unfailing as its benefioial effects, As will be seen from tho advertisement m another column Messrs Sharland & Co, Limited, of Wellington, are the wholesale agents for this province, and the fact of. a firm of such hijh standmg up tho agencyps a sufficient guarantee of thegenuiness of " Solomon Solution." The solution can bo obtained from all tho chem'sts and storekeepers of this district,

Constablo Johnston, of Wellington, is to proceed to Pahiatua for tho purpose of relieving Constable Cooper for a fortnight.

A daring burglary was committed at Grey town last Friday nipht, when the residenco of Mrs John Tully, in West street, was broken into. Tho family were all at 'the Hospital ball, when Bhortly before twelve o'clock, some visitors who were staying with Mrs Tully went to tho house. Thoy found that all tho bedrooms had been gone through, and that the contents of Mrs ( Tully's wardrobe had been turned on to the floor, and money and jewollery of considerable value taken. Jewellery was also taken from the other bedrooms, One lady visitor's valise, which was' locued, was cut through, and the contents turned out, but nothin? taken, as, fortunately for her, aho had not left any jewellery in the valise. No trace of tho missing articles has yet been found,

Nature into wisacrn bos bo ordered that all animals and birds arc provided with a change pi clothing to suit tho season. Human beings alone being left'to their own devices; but in order to atone somewhat for this neglect, she has invested some with tho brams to design,'tad 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 tho first intimation of what ie going to be the thing, and when that information has been gained to scour the markets for the choicest of fashions productions. We have now openedupont first instalment ot Autumn and Winter Novelties and invite tho public to inspect. Our Show liooms are full of the newest and nobbiest MiUinorr, Ladies Mantles, Jaokots, etc. Our Dress Department is crowded out with the latest fashions and designs and all other departments are [similarly constituted. We would impress upon our ijublio not to delay making tha first selection, Hooper and Company, Bon Mawlie,

F. Wocd has withdrawn from his 'faratabi stock salo 400 Roinney Maish ewes.

After the meet at Greytown on Thursday next, a general meeting of members of the Wairarapa Hunt Club is advertised to bo held at Bogers 1 Hotel, Greytown, to arrange matters in connection with holding a steeplechase meeting, Mr Wm. Booth advertises for tenders for several miles of fencing, Particulars appear in our advertising columns.

Tho Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Limited, advertise tor agood heavy trap horse.

A two-roomed cottage at Upper Plain, by Mr 0, T. Ellers and occupied by Mr J. Smith, was destroyed by lire at an early hour this morning. The building, which was valued at £OO, was not insured.

Cobb and Co. announco in another column that they have taken over Mr W. Vile'a coaching business between Mauncevilleand Maaterton.

A meeting will bo held in the Drill tlall on Thursday evening next, to consider the advisability of changing the Maaterton Kiflesinto aMountedlnfantr Corps. All intending members are requested to attend.

As the Salvation Army Baud was playing on Lambton quay yesterday morning, Baya the N.Z. Times, a little girl came out of a house and asked thorn to cease, as her mother was lying ill Tho officer ut command at once acceded to her request, but ere the .band had gone a dozen steps further he led off the hymn ' Death is Coming,' It is to be hoped that the patient did not hear the suggestiye words, A young man, whoso eccentric conduot caused some alarm to his friends, waa sent down from the East Coast on Saturday last, He was in custody until this morning at the Maaterton police station, but has now been discharged m tho doctors state he is not insane.

Wo have received tho following record of the rainfall at Otahuao, for the month of April, from Mr Joa BennettApril, 1893-4.37 inolies on 18 days j April, 1892—2.82 inches on 11 dayaApril, 1891—2.66 Inches on 10 days. A first offender was charged with being drtink in a public place, in the Masterton R.M, Court, before Messrs Prico and Woodroofe this morning, 'lhe accused pleaded guilty and was fined 6s and cost*. A few days ago we mentioned that Masterton was to have the benefit of a proporley organised cab service, and today Mr R, Pinhey makes the announcement that ho has commenced to run a weh appointed landau carriage, at the servioe.of the public. Mr Pinhey, who is well known through a long connection with Mr Hawko, is to be congratulated on his enterprise. The carriage in question is a roomy and comfortable one, lately imported from the Empire City, and together with the team harnessed in Mr Elliott's best style, makes a very creditable turnout.

His Excellency the Governor has sent for Mr Seddon, and has appointed 8 p.m. to-day as tho hour for seeing him. Tho legislative Assembly of Quebec has forbidden the tho Bale of tobuccoto persons under eighteen years of age, while boys under fifteen years found smoking aro to be punished by fine or imprisonment. The Montroal Gaaetto remarks The law recognieos that in caso3 of theft that tho gaol is not tho place for the child. This hard measure would put a schoolboy who makes himself sick with his llrst pipe on a lower basis than one whose instincts lead him to steal."

Messrs J. & O.Herbert invite tendei for the right to cut flax on tho Hawl hurst property.