SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4471, 15 July 1893, Page 2

SECOND EDITION Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1893.

In another column wo publish some more " Bwagger" notes, There are "swaggera"and "swaggers," that is, there is an industrious swagger, who will do work when he can get it, and an idle swagger to whom work in any shape or form is poison. Our own correspondent is, wo are happy to Bay, An industrious swagger, and we give bis view of things in general in his own words, not altogether endorsing it, but believing that it is an honest expert opinion on the 'labour question. The idle swagger is a difficulty to most people, but we notice that our local contemporary has been able to solve it in a novel manner by telling us that the time will come when "the Government will compel the squatter to employ Mow," The idle swagger will then disappear, of course; at present he is according to our contemporary, boycotted by the landowner, who is unwilling to employ labour. luste&d of landowners being unwilling to employ labour they oc casionally find the greatest difficulty especially in the North Island, in obtaining the labour necessary to proper cultivation. Wandering around the country enjoying the scenery and livingon charity, suits the idle swagger much better than labouring honestly, lon the land. Never since the time when the free distribution of bread turned the Soman populace iuto a greedy, lazy, blood-thirsty pack of Brutes and scoundrels, has there been

: micli a miserably low and mean type of the human animal, as the idle ,vagger ill the Australian colonies, ad the Government is doing its best > develop the came type in N.Z, 'he whole course of history points ) the inevitable result of this romisouous system, and the most lementary knowledge' of economic iw confirms the historical record, A imilar. system to the present preailed in England when the admirable Elizabethan poor law was repealed in he middle of last century; then tbsolute ruin fell upon all the farmers, they were compelled to supply a cerain number of paupers on their land tud to pay them a fixed wage, The lonsequeooe was that these weak, mprovidentlaborersj doing tha minimum of work; pnd consuming the maximum of food, took the bread put of tho mouths of. the honest and struggling independent worker; there were, indeed, many instances where the farmer was compelled to dismiss his capable workingnmn in order to take on: some of these wretched weeds of humanity; thus both farmers and honest labourers wore ruined, and had the law continued to exist'the wholi farming population would have developed into paupere. '■ But compared to the .Australian ! swagger;, these wefponestmen )-.. theydid^dcracer- ! taw;amount ;

and_may havo had some, feeling of gratitude, but the Bwagger eats and does not work; to refuse him food and shelter, for the night is often dangerous; the pleasure of holding to the principle of independence.would be dearly bought by the burning of bis roof above his bead, Somefarmers entertain as many aa a hnndred swaggers a week and get no return whatever; the inconvenience and expense this is to the farmer, and the influence it has in pauperising' and degrading tho swagger must be Bometbingappalling. The shades of Adam Smith, Stuart Mill and Si. Simon must surely turn in their groves in horror at this senseless and dangerous- system of wholesale pauperisation. Nor is this calamity confined to New Zealand, In an Australian paper we recently read of" sundowners" riding about the country living oh tho wretohed farmer, and yet refusing work except at an unreasonably exoessive wage, Hitherto in New Zealand the idle swagger has depended for his suateuanceon tbe kindly and humane proclivities of the landowner, but should the G"vernment, as suggested by our contemporary, attempt to force the latter not only to feed and shelter him but also to pay him wages, the worm will turn, tho social pest will defend himself, and the idle swagger will be banished from the land an d become as extinct as the Moa.

MrF, 0. Lewis, local agent of tho U, Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, imforms m that arrangements have now been completed to enable the Company to conduct its ordinary bueiness jb usual. An announcement to this effect appears in another column. In anothercolumn Mr D. Crewe notifies that he will soil on Saturday, July 22nd at Pahlatua, sixty horses entirely without reserye. Mr Crewe's horse salos appear to be growing rapidly'. A real good muater turns up every fortnight, and the sales are doubtless a good medium to get good horses cheap. A concert in aid of the Mastorfcon Presbyterian ChurchlmprovementFund, ia to be held on Wednesday, July 20th in the Temperance flail. The public presentation to the Rev. 8. J. Gibson by the Knights ol Labor takes place in the Theatre Royal on Monday evening next. ' The annual meeting of parishioners of St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, will beheld on Monday evening, July 17th.

The btandard slates that duck shooting ia hems' carried on in a wholesale manner iu the Lower Yalley, A building to be usedaß a Public Library, Is to be erected at Martin* borough, at an estimated cost of ilfjfj. The usual weekly moeting of the Masterton Mutuallmprovenient Society held last (Friday) evening was the largest one of the session—over 200 people being present, The programme, as given in the Waibakapa Daily Times of yesterday, was faithfully carried out, and gave great satisfaction, every item being loudly app'auded. This is the first meeting conduoted entirely by juniors, who deserve credit for llie excellent programme submitted. A voto of thanks was passed to Mr F;cd Wright, who kindly lent his piano for the occasion, and one of the mostsucccsstul meetings of the Society was brought to a close by singing the National Anthem. Miss Dukes presided and Mr J. Owen ic'ed as secretary. In an articlo roforring to Thursday's debate in the House, tho Puat says :- Mr- Hogg now had his chance. Tho momber for Masterton is the moat 'movmg' orator in tbo House, Beforo very long he had effectually moved the Opposition from their benches, and blown them like autumn leaves iuto the lobbies. But he had much that was to tho point in roferenco to toads and bridges to say, nevertheless. By the time ho had .finished, Houso and galleries were alike empty, and but a few dejected pressmen sat sadly aloft, prepared for a wcaty night.

Tho groat car-works in Indianopolis havo failed. Thus 900 men are thrown out of work.

It is estimated that the loss on the Chicago Exhibition will bo £1,51)0,000. Firedamp caused an explosion ilia colliery near Baltimore, Maryland, and the falls of earth cut off tho egress of 90 miners, who are atpresont entombed.

Mr A, MoKonzlois gazetted DeputyBeglatrar of Marriages, 3irtbs and Deaths, for the Groytown District.

Yesterdays Grey town Standard says: —" A meeting of bachelors is convened for to-morrow (Saturdry) evening, at the Oddfellows' Hall, Featberston, at 8 o'clock, It is a mysterious announcement 1 Are the bachelors of Foatherston going to form an anti-matrimonial league, or are _they (joins to look through the list of desirable young Feathorston ladies and propose, en hhe, making one grand wedding-day for the whole townBliip ? We wait developments I"

In reply to an enquiry from Timaru, the Commissioner of Taxes states that " peraohs whose incomes do not amount to £2OO a year, need not furiiish returns of income, unless specially asked to do on"

The low prices at present ruling for flax have necessitated the closing of ono or two mills in tho Foxton dinttict. There are, however, a number of mills still working there. Mr Walter Francis, of Olareville, offers for salo heavy draught horses, bugeyand saddle horses and a completo stock of agricultural implements, enumerated in an advertisement appearing in another column of this Issue,

The number of arrivals in the colony [during the month of June was 1316, and of departures 1237. Of the arrivals, 104 were from the United Kingdom, 629 from How South Wales, 365 from Victoria, and 66 from Tasmania. Ot the depat» toes, 169 were for the United Kingdom, GH for New South Wales, 848 for Vic. toria, and 31 for Tasmania,

The balance of Napier Harbour Board loan has been placed at 98'

Mr, Justice Williams has sanctioned tho reconstruction soheme of tho London Uharterod Bank of Australia.

A procession comprising 10,000 Orangemen marched through the streets in Halifax, Quebec, as a protest against Home Kule.

"Puff" in the Evening Press has the following:-" I suppose you heard the gaudy yarn about Gladstone's death yesterday? Yes j how did it get about? Very simply, A parliamentary 'messenger devotes his spare timb to cultivating poultry ; and being in theLegls latiye Department, so to speak, he gives his fowls the names of the prominent statesmen. The cook of the walk was called Gladstone. I see, and birds with no claims to merit MoL—. Sh—hold on I Well, to a brother in livery he announceol. *' Gladstone died this morning "; an honorable member ovorheard the remark and then the news just galloped round the oity. Premier Seddon will havo to issue an order in Council restraining'the Civil Service from having hen roosts,"

A craze lor bargains set in this morning at tho Bon Maroho. We, that is Hooper & Company', have started oldaring out the balance of our winter stock.' Our bargains are always genuine. Wo don't say we sell at cost price, because no one or very low could test it, not knowing what the cost price is. Wo don't offer our goods at 20 per'cent discount because no one can check ihe calculation, not knowing on what it is based.'. We rely upon the prices at, which we offer ourbargains and in nine cases ont of nineand*ha!f those prkesaro.staggerers both for,the Publlo and the Trade. .'Of course, we are going to lose money-over this job! How could we.do' otherwise.?. But why not ? Why shouldn't we' as well'.as other people ? Everybody's-losing' money and we are prepared : to drop our'share just for tho sake of compariy,' but what'welose.welosoin ajopiVoauso, :;.Wo benefit' the.Public, so keep jour, eye the BonMarohefor bargalns,'.: : Everythlng at

It is amusing t" road in an English 1 newspaper ot 1840, pratonding to doecribo the climate and the soil of Now Zealand, that" the climate is too moist fur sheep pastures, acd the fiuo wool for which New South Wales is remarkable speedily deteriorates in quality on transfer of the shoop to New Zealand.' Equally funny is to be road-in another wellinformed English journal that "Now Zealsnd is destined to beooiuo tho gav> ! den of Now South Walos," Wo are indebted to our contempory, the A'ew Ziaand Htrald for tho quotations, Yesterday afternoon a numbor of boys were playing about Mr J. Muir's workshops, and although ordered off the premises by tho proprietor, it appears thoy came back a»iin, and one of them, named Vaughan, went into tho fitting Bhop, and m tho absouco of the.engineor managed to pet one of his fingers taken completely off In the cogwheels of a lathe. This should be. a lesson to boys not to meddle with machinery. A storm of unusual violence swept over Eketahuna last night

At tho Wealeyan Church to-morrow ovening, tho Rev. J. Dukes will epwk on "Riches and Wretchedness," illustrated in the life of Jay Gould, At the' Maiterton Mutual Improvemorn Society's neit meeting a dobate, 'Which has tho greater influenceCapital or Labour.' Messrs Eauthopeand Rigg will lead the debate,

Robert Welsh was the first man to got a medal for bravery in battle. Charles 1. in 1648 ordered a gold medal to be Biruck for him for recovering the colours at Edgehill,

Tho Tuapeka Times states that the recent snowstorms had a terrible effect on the cattle in the back country in bouio parts of the Mount fionger district. Whore heavy drifts have taken place the cattle were blosked in, and when relieved it was found they had literally gone mad from the sheer dmtof hardship and hunger endurod during thuir onforced and fearful imprisonment. There are more than twenty thousand varieties of apples raised in the United States,

Mr Goschen'a father cams over to England with one friend and one halfcrown, and he was obliged te found a firm beoauae, aa he used to say in a joke, he wrote auoh a bad hand no one would take him for a clerk.

The Napior parsons are noted for the odd titles thoy give to their sorraons, " More frmt from the devil's orchard " was the subject announced at one church tho other Sunday, ThoPrinco of Wales is very proud of the bugle which sounded the charge of Kassassin 4 he also possesses the wartrumpet picked up on tho battlefield of Hntham, and which still retains its or. igmsl shape, namely that of a human thigh bono, We notice in tho window of Mr Pcico, photographer, a bromide enlartjoment from a photograph of the late Premier, Mrßallancs. Tho portrait is a true picture of Mr Ballanco an we knew him and the enlargement has been Bplondidly executed.

A boy eeven months old, in the suburbs of Oarcoar, New South Wales, was tied to a chair near afiercofire andduring its mother's absence.to get some water,from a distance of seven yards, tho child and chair fell into the fire, The child was literally roasted upon the return of its mother, The child survived only a hours after tho accident,

Mr W. Oullen has given notice to move at the next meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, " That plans and estimates of a sohonio for the draiuage »f the Borough of Masterton be prepared by a competenl engieer,"

Geo Langton, accountant, of Masterton, has filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Anoffort is being mado to forma BoyV Olub in Masterton. The meeting place will probably be St. Matthew's Schoolroom.

The Secretary of the N.Z. Rugby Football Union wired to Mr R, J. Malcolm, Secretary of the Wairarapa Union last nfeht, asking if Mr W'i Watson could leavo for Sydney on Wednesday noit to join the it.Z, team. We understand Mr Watson has signified his wilhnanoss to go. He will thoreforo probably play in the final match against New South Walea

The Times states that Mrs D. G. Riddiford has presonted the Agricultural and Pnstornl Association with the £lO 10a won by her last year iu the jumping competition at tho Association's annual show, and Mrs 6. P. Donnelly has presented the association with the handsome ladies' bridle won by her last year with with her boauliful chestnut Aotearota. Both these prises will be given for compotitioti at the annual show this year.

An area of 1700 acres In the Mangahao Survey District, Wellington, a portion of land set apart as a forest resorve in 1881, is to be withdrawn for the purpose of settlement, It is to take the place of an equal area already withdrawn, but to be again reserved, as it forms part of the Palmerston North watershed.—2J. Z, Times.

A 'Frisco mail was delivored In Mas. terton today.

"East Lynne," presented by the Marian Willis Company at Qreytown iBBt night, was very well received, and one of the best dramas over staged in Groytown.

A woman from Morrison's Bush, near Greytown, wsb comitted to .the Mount View Asylum yesterday, by Messrs F. H. Wood and J. 8. Fildes J.P., on tho certificates of Drs, Bey and Spratt. She is suffering from religious mania,

The following is a copy of the address to bo presented to the Pev. S. J. Gibson on Monday evening at the Theatre Boyal:-" loyal Assembly, No. 70, of the Order of Knights of Labour. To the EfIV.,S. J. Gibson-Sir, We the undersigned have real pleasure in this our act, and on behalf of tho Association of the Knights of Labour in Gisborne, do hereby convey to you our gratitude, esteem and the greetings, which beoomo our brotherhood. But more especially at this tune do we desire that, as you are removing from Gtskorne, you should bear away this momento of our respect and love for tho splendid reason-so Christ like-that you have, in the teeth oi an ill founded and perfectly foolish opposition, manfully proclaimed tho nigh dawn of better things, In tho sphere pollttcal, and that from the pulpit. Take this, Sir ( coupled with our love, and one will remind you of oar ties as brothers, as the latter, borne upon your heart, will holp to cheer you as yeu advance to pull down the- heavy, fortresses of wrongs, and to proolalra to eager ears the birthright of all, viz i-Meant, of subsistence, a rational sharo of the en jnyable blessings of -our father, God, and the true way to attain their possession. Signed David S. Jamießon, 11, W.; J as. H. Lymbourne, Organiser; Robert Johnston P.M.W.; Wm. L. Jile, Treasurer; E. J. Spurdle, Sooretary; John Pierce F. 5.0."

The Wairarapa Minstrols' first entertainment in aid of the Mosterton Hospital will be given on Monday,

Salvago Sale of goods saved from tho burning ship " Port Jackson" in Sydney harbour bought at 10s in £ commences on Friday, June 30th, at Te Aro House, Wellington. Salvago Sale. 500 good Winter Dresses cheap at 8a (id,now soiling for 3s lid, 350 heavy Melton Dresses, innavyand red, worth 9s 6d for h lid.

| ■ Salvage Sale. 300 heavy Cheviot Tweed Dresses, valued at 22s 6d, for 12s 6d. 150 splendid Cashmere Dresses, in all colors, usual price 12s 6d for Gs Cd. Salvage Sale. Heavy Striped Flanneloties Is lid per dozen yards, Twilled Flannelettes 2s lid per dozen yards. These are exactly half price. Salvage Salo. 6000 yards Stout Grey Calico 3s Cd for Is lid dozen. ■ Heavy Grey Calicoes, Iyd wide, Gs Od for 3s lid dozen yards.. , ~ ''• •

Salvage Sale. 1250 yards White Calicoes, lydwido, ss,Gdfoi'23 lid dozen. Heavy White Calicoesi'one yard wide, Cs 6d for 3s lid dozen,■■'■■-.■' ... .•"■■• -. .

: ; ;Bfilvage:Salo.from burning..ship ; '•Port Jaokson'! coinmenceson Friday; Juno3oth, at To Aro fiouso, : Wellington; ■ Hurry up for