The Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1893.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4566, 25 August 1893, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878.] FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1893.

SECOND EDITION

We ehall be very pleased if the now | LiccDßing Bill, now being passed | through the Honse of Bopresentatives, leads to an all-round improvement in i the character and conduct of licensed 1 bouses. This, probably, can only be < ascertained bjr experience, as although 1 there is apparently an effort to bring about a reform, many of the more ' vicious features of the old law are 1 retained, and while this is the case it t is unreasonable to expect much im- ; provement, for example, license fees : are still to remain local revenue, and i local bodies are directly interested in i having as many licensed houses as possible. It is considerations like | this which makes us regard Mr i Seddon's Bill as a sham, as far as any i practical reform of administration is concerned. It is a triumph in one Bsuse, for ho has succeeded in peVsuading a majority of tho members of the House to accept his sbatn asa satisfactory Bolution of the difficulty. We may take it for granted that the Rouse, like the Premier, wants to make a pretence on this question end that members are not really honest in i desire to purify the liquor traffic from the many scandalous malpractices asso» dated with it. They talk about giving the direct veto with a safeguard, and pretend that only a safeguarded voto is constitutional. This means that Mr Seddon h»8 bad a ring pul through the noso of the Prohibition Bull and a chain attached to the ring and the animal may new be led about by a licensed victualler without doing anybody any barm. It is nonsense talking about what is constitutional for we take it that) the direct vets whether guarded or unguarded in altogether unconstitutional. The Government has mads a decided obange of front; its old formula was " majorities mußt rule," and its new one iB "majorities must be safeguarded." Still, we trust, if the Licensing Bill, or its more foolish title of "The Alcoholic Liquors Bale Control Bill "-for of oontrol there is likely to be little or none—passes the Legislature this session it will have a fair trial throughout the country, If under it, as under the old law, the publicans elect their own licensing committees it will not be worth keepiog on the statute bcok. If under it a publican infringes the law on an average about a hundred times a week it will be of little use to the community. If publioans and brewers oannot be made to toe the line and respect the conditions imposed upon tbem by law, the prohibitionists will undoubtedly Btep ia and suppress evils that cannot be repressed, I

i very pleasing oeremony was per* formed at Marigatainoka, a few days ago, by the Rev. 0. Penney, who united in [ the holy bonds of matrimony Mr Reuben Parker and Miss Annie Knight, eldest daughter of Mr H. Knight. There are a number of exceedingly mean people in Maiterton, who nhife professing to be great supporters of the gsms of football bepuclge givini? the leant trifle towards the Union') funds when a charge is made at the Park gates. These parsons eneak through fences, pretend to be going "to the cemetery only," carry parcels to delude the man at the gate into the belief that they belong to tho team, or get in under some pretenoe -no matter what, so long bb they evade payment. On Wednesday morning as Mr Qeo. Whitcombe was leaving home on his way to town he met with an accident that might have proved most serious. The horse he was driving was restive and collar proud, and jibbed, Air Whitcombe tried for some time to make the brute go i and as they reached a nasty siding where the road is about twenty or thirty feet above the creek, the horse baoked ' the trap right over, the whole turn-eut falling right into the creek. Fortunately the fall was broken by wineben/ scrub, so that less damage was dono than might have been oxpeoted. Mr Whitcombe] fortunately escaped injury, -Pahiatua Star. The Examiner says there has been a tremendous rush in Danovirke for the land now open in the Umutaoroa and tho Msharphara. Ono J.F. saye that for two days he has done nothing but pjtnpss the signatures of applicants, and of Ute at nights people were to, be seen all over the town searching fori J.P. to tign their applioation formi, j

Biohard Evernden, carpenter, of Mas* srton, has been adjudicated a bankrupt. i first meeting of creditors will beheld Wednesday August 80th, at 2 p.m. Tho Carterton Choral Sooiety give a concert on August 3lst. The latest whim for the owners ot dogs, accordirg to a Home paper, is to make them wear shoes in tha house with a view to protecting the polished floors. These shoes ate made of ohamois, with leather soles. The Pahiatua Star reports that another slip came down on Wednesday night at the gressy hill at Mangatainoka and at least one belated parly of tra Toilers had to leave their conveyance at the other side and trudge painfully into town in the" weo ima 1 hours ayont the twai." Tho Member for Mssterton wants the Government to extend the telephone servico from Eketahuna to Alfredton. The balance sheet of the Wairarapa Bacing Olub for tho past year shows an improved position, Its liabilities exceed its assets by 1175, but with its list of members this deficiency is not Benous. We trust, however,- this time twelve months to find the balance on the right side. Durjng the past year there has been a heavy expenditure on improve* ments. Cr Coleman Phillips has given notloe to the Clerk of the Wairarapa S'.'Uth County Council that atnexfc meeting of the Council ho irill move: "That in view of tho present domooratio proposal to introduce the vicious principle of one man one vote into our local rating, it is advisable for country settlers to oppose it; and for this Counoit to convene a Conference of Delegates from the Counties andtioadi fiojrds of the Colony to meet in Welling-1 ton in November next during Show week." A curious discovery (says the Pahiatua Herald) was made by the co-operative workmen on the Ooonoor road laßt week. They were making a outtini? in the side of a hill when the removal of earth laid bare the opening of a large caye. With natural curiosity the men entered the cavity intent on a complete inspection. Deforo thoyhad proceeded, many yards from tha entrance they came upou the complete skeleton of a huge moa—one that when living must have been a giant amongst its fellows. With a little care the skeleton might have been preserved intact, but the men irere too eager for that, and the osseous remains were toon separated beyond hope of a correct rejoining save by an export. The shin and leg bones, together with most of the ether large bones, were secured by Mr Tucker, of Makuri, who intends sending them to Tasmania. The remainder of tiio other bones were divided'amongst the other men. The cave is of a considerable size, and beyond the point where the skeleton was found has not been explored. •

A young lidy named Beamish, from the Chatham Islands, diod at ChrisP shurch last week irom imflammation of ;he lungs and bronohitia following aa tttack of measlea. Truth oaya:—An there is no telof>raphic communication nithihe Islands, and no steamer before October Ist, it will be impossible to communicnte the sad fact to her mi'tbor and friends till that date. A painful coincidence occurred about four years ago, when the son of Mrs Beamish was on s visit to New Zealand, aud was J drowned whilst bathing in ono of tho rivers ;il was nearly two months before she re coivcd the aad news of his death. A yacht capsized off Skegness, the se: bathing resort in Lincolnshire, and ter persons were drowned. The division on tho motion for thi third reading of the Borne Rule Bill nil bo taken on" the Ist September. Tin debate in the Houso of Lords will begir on the ll tb September. Mr Ifobble, one of the Victorian Rail way Commissioners, has instructed hn solicitor to issue a writ for libel agains the Argus and Australasian claiming i sum of £IO,COO as damages for state bents reflecting on his ability as a Com mieaioner. Mr Murray, another of thi Commissioners, is instituting simila: actions. The Wairarapa Datives who olaim fa be the owners of the 24,690 acres ii the Wairarapa South known as " Wair arapa Moana" wish tho House to dea with the muoh vexed Lako question This is how they describe their''land " —" Such land as aforesaid is largel; covered with water, anil is known in tin Kngliah language as 1 the Upper am Lower Wairarapa Lakes.'" We believe the fact is not general!: known that under the new Bankrupts Act the creditors ; .n tho estate can com Eel the debtor to insure his life for tliei enelit. At a meeting ol creditors ii last week, the bankrupt wa called upon to take outs policy on hi own life for £3OO, and enter into a bom with the Official Assignee and two credi tors for the punctual payment of th quarterly premium, amounting to abou £2.—Post. Referring to the dobate on the Licont ing Rill the Poßt says Sir Hobei Stout's repeated c*lls lor division irritated his opponents, who lecture him roundly. But he was obdurate Mr Hogg, "a« representing the intelli gence of the House"—a olaim on bßha of Mastorion, which raised such general roar as stopped the oration fo some minutes-appealed to the ma who Mr. Mackintosh had just referre to as" the member for Iguana "to ric sisL No I Division he should have 'and did have," The passengers by the Napier.Palmei ston train on Wednesday evenin report that they had a narntv escap from a serious accident while passin through tho Gorge. A boulder lßlbs 1 weight fell, and went through a windo close to a passenger. His Honor Mr Justioe Kiohmond ha before him yesterday morning, In Banci the appeal of Andrew v the Commit (toner of Taxes, It will be remembers that the Commissioner of Taxes brougl an action in the Magistrate 1 ! Con: against the Rev John Chapman Andre' for the recovery of £BB as additional ta on one Robeit Curling's estate at Mai terton, for which defendant was agon When the case was decided in the fi.l Court, tho defendant contended thi there wasnoevidence.to showthatßobe Curling had been absent from or reside out of the Colony for the space of thii years, and that Robert Curling, havit an agent resident within New 2Je; land, did not qome within the pre visions of the Act which impos' an additional tax on absentee The defendant practically contended th; for all purposes he was the owner of tl land on which the tax waa levied, at that in addition, even if he wore levie the Act required that the tax shou haye been calculated on the basis of tl properly beingof less value than 150,00 The inegintrate decided that the defem ant was liable, and the question H Honour was asked to determine waa that decision wai'erroneotu or otherwis in point of law, Mr J, C, Andrew a pored for his father and Mr Gully f tho Commissioner of Taxea. His Honoi dismissed the appeal, with costs £5 £ —Evening Press. A Soon Time at the prewut to buy Mer Bey's, and Youth's Clothing cheaply. Yi can get thorn at the lowest Sale and &>lva. prices, with a discoiut of 1. In the returned in cash the next 15 days on atTeAro Horn The Lmt Choice ever jet nlJered. uii to It men. Heavy Scotch Tweed Suits 3jJs 6d lor 22s 6d, Colonial Tweed Cuits 37s 6d for «Gs 6d, with an extra cash gilt Is Id the . Ohe Sbiwko ik ins £, Mgn'sTwei Vests at 2s lid and St lid, Heavy ft>4d Tweed Trousers-at 19s Cd for 14s Cd. ifi 8j Darnel ol tlusi and jscare a.cm MUSofUinthe£, FfECTEK D«fl Osf., Men's Tvrei Oveweals 85s for 16s 6d,-. Youth's Irons Suits 21s for IMd, and the ick adimntonrii. lhiS, : This U where the Mi tome in. Twei Knioken at Sb 6uior2sSd. School suits 8s 6d (or 4s lid. Heavy Beije Eniok Suits 10s 6d for 6s 6d. Buy whal p't tea oltkmow, Now ib the Turn. All prices both Sa and Salvage with tho extra discountof Is i the $ ip for 15 days < only, on purchases SOb worth and up, at Te Aw House, Wt Ingtuii

Mr Henry MoEwen,. Chairman of the Mananatu Itoad Board, attempted Buioide yesterday, by cutlinß his throat with a penknife. The cause is said tc be / temporary intanity induced by brooding : over the Board's affairs. He is expected to recover. Tne statement of Rinbard Evernden. . bankrupt, filed with the. Deputy Official , Assignee (Mr W. B. Chennolls) is as I follows: Liabilities—Seoured creditors: ' 0. F. Gawith, £150; Unsecured creditors, Masterton: W. Perry, £SO j A. Fraser, £l4; J/ Pay ton & Co, i4los 3d; Smith and Hogg, £fj; W. Hawke, £4l6a; Estate of P. M. Reynolds, £24 j 1), Henderson & 00, £l4 9s 2d; H. H. Smith, £2O) G. .Diyah, ilO 10s j P. Thompson, £4 its sdj-,T. W. Tattersall, £ls 8a; R. Dow, £1; L Dsw, £l6 , 14a; % Green, £sl2a; J. Dew, £35 'sa j Judd, £5 ; Nielson, £B 193; L, 1 Rogers, Ll2 14s 6d j Opaki :—H. 1 Campbell, L7O; H. Bannister, L 5; i Carterton—ll. MoEwen, L3O 13a Od j i Dreyerton—Dorset, LB, Total liabilities, ( 1385 lOs'ld. Assets, surplus from secure , ity, 1.20. 1 A gentlemau who has just completed a ] business tour oi some of the country districts informs the Wanganui Ohroniola ' that the roads are in a very bad con- i dition, and cited as_a fact that on the j road between Eketahuna and Hunter- , villoma fow days ago a four-horse waggon . and its team had simply to be dug out of the quagmire. Thia is bad enough in ' all conscience,but it is certainly capped ' by the story a lady visitor from 1 Kapongaway, who declared that not i long ago a pedestrian making his pass- i age along one of the''roads 'in that die- j trict saw a man's hat lying in the , middle of the highway, and' either to vent his spite ou the mud or for the purpose of amusement, be picked up a piece of stone and threw it at the 1 obstacle, and hit it, with the result that a voice called out from the depths of the mud" What the blank blank are you doing. Oin't you let a man drive along a decent road in peace I" We await with interest the "noxtfrom our country cousin. A dispute occurred between som spectators at the foutball match in the Park yesterday, Blows were freely exchanged, and for the time being the match was quits a secondary matter. Ono Native lady smote everybody within reach with her umbrella, and altogether majors wore lively, some of the players oven leaving the ground to look on. Final'y hostilities wero suspended until the conclusion of the game, when the two principal disputants—An ox-foot-bailer and a Maori—settled matters by fighting to a finish. A man named Gen. Evans, a plumber, who was joined with a man named Bailey on a oharge of stealing homing pigeonß at Wellington, to day, attempted suicide by swallowing spirits of salts. Evans' condition is serious, and it is doubtful if he will recover. He' is about 45 years of age and a married man, In the Supreme Court at Wellington, to-day, in the case Hamiltony Harden, liconaeo of the Te Aro Hotel, an injunction was granted preventing the respondent from purchasing colonial beer from anyone but the petitioner. Masterton Bide Volunteers paraded for inspection by Major Newall last night. The attendance was not largo, The order paper of the House of , Representatives is growing. A copy of it for yesterday contained 28 questions, 9 looal bills, 10 notice? of motiou and 75 bills. Mr Hogg has given notice to ask .the i Government, whether, scoing that the expenditure of the State m hospital and , charitable aid has reached tho colossal dimensions of 1151,000, and that the i Inspector of Hospitals and asylums reports that "a ohango in the law is urgently required, " they will be pre. pared to deal with the question of charitable aid reform without further ' delay, or, at least, to indicate the ' direction which tbey consider reform 1 should take before tho close of the present sossion, so that the question may ' be submitted to tho electors cf the | colony? ' Tenders ate Invited for falling 100 aoresbush at Maurice villo i The E.M. Court was crowded to-day i from the momentthe doors were opened. ■ There must be a lot of people in this I town with ver; little to do, when they . will waste a whole day in listening to a : case ot the kind occupying the Court. ' ' The Wairarapa Hunt Club held a | meet yesterday at Greytown, There was a large attendance aud a splendid run was.obtamed, both horses and houndß , going well Throughout the run the , fences were all good, .cne in particular . a regular clinker, but they were negof tiatedina capital style and it isoon- ) sidered that this was the best run of the s Beaten. Beveral spills took place but no , serious accidents resulted. 1 We are informed that the Wesleyan • body throughout the Wairarapa and ) Forty-mile Bush districts, intends startt ing a twenty-page monthly magazine at the beginning of next year. The' paper will be illustrated and devoted to ' religious, temperance and moral topics. ' The matter is being taken up heartily, | and a large circulation guaranteed. Frank Herrigan was charged in tho „ Masterton R. M. Court this morning with f shooting Native game nut of season. It j appears he was found in possession of r five tuis. Mr Beard appeared to prosej cute on behalf of the Wellington Accli--3 matisation Society. The defendant . pleaded guilty, and said that being a foreigner ho was not aware that he was I doing wrong. Mr T, Hutchison, R.M. decided to deal leniently with the case '• as Mr Beard did not press for a heavy g penalty, and infiieted a line of Is with e lis costs. K We remind our readers of Messrs II Lowes and lorns sale to-morrow (Satur- " day) at 2 o'clook at their rooms Queen Street when they will sell new and secj ond hand furniture of every description , also aconsigumentof boots and shoes; - Mr T. Hutchison R.M. very properlj d reproved any levity in the Oourt this it morning and had occasion to bring one :t gentleman to order for-as he termed il v —"talking to the pit." x Dr McGregor reports on the Masterton j" Hospital 'as follows" Considerable ' improvement have been effected in thif '• building during the year. A new ward, J containing five bedi, a new consultation ™ room, and a passage, doing away witt d the necessity of passing through the 16 wards, have been provided. The instt K tution. keeps up its well-deserved rspul" tation, and very great interest is taker " bythepublioimts efficient management,' 3 The Inspector of Hospitals reports ol Greytown :-"Tliis a very modest, well le conducted hospital,' whinh is deeervedl; d popular with the people of the Southern j ond of the Wairarapa," d - The amount taken ab the gates yester >o day on the occasion of the footbal 0. match Wairarapa v. Wanganui, wai 1- £2016s Bd. !'. MrF. H. Wood reports of his stool " sale heldatthe TaratahiYardsyesterdaj 6| as follows i—There was not so man; •' sheep forward its had been advertised >r but cattle greatly exceeded the number lr Therowaaa good attendance of buyeri and bidding was spirited throughout tin •alo, The following prices were realised 3 ' —Sheep—fat weathers, 14s Od; ewes and iu lambs, 12s W; fat ewes, lis 4d; Bgg;e gets (culls) 5s Id; cattle-calvos, 29s tc £ 325, steers and heifers, 42a to 58s; dairy ly cows (iOs to'l4os. . A craze lor bargains set in this morninj attheßonMarche. We, that la Hooperi "J Con;[uiy, have started oltaring out the balance of our winter stock, Our bargains aro always genuine. We isn't Bay we eol] . at cost price, because no one oi v«y fen j- could test it .not knowing what the cosl 6 price is.' We don't offer our goods at 20 J per ceut discount because no ono can chcol 1 iho calculation, not Lwing .'n what it is . ftased. We rely upon th< prices at wbloh J wo offer on bargains and in nine cases oul ? of nineana-a-half those prices are 3taggeren both for the' Public and the Trade. OI i course, weare going to lose money over this j? job I How CDujd we do otherwise? Bui whynot? V. J hy shouldn't we well at . other people?, Everybody's.losing monej now-a-days, aid we ari* wepared to droj , our share just for tho sake cf Company, bul ° that-ve lose we lose in a good causo, We , benefit the Public, so keep your eye on the Bou Marche for bargains. Everything al ' pWiOjuiWi