Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1894. OUR DISTRICT RAILWAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4729, 25 May 1894, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1878.] FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1894. OUR DISTRICT RAILWAY.

SEGOMD EDITION

Oi;k District Ruihvay is so slow, so very slow, tlmt it is said engine drivers mid guards have a profit' difficulty in keeping to their time tables. The slightest reluxiition of vigilance find a triiiii is apt to run into a station five minutes before its duo time against all rules nti<l rcgu- ■ lutions. Wo on(M! heard of a train pulling up whoii half n mile from itK destination, not far from thin nuigiibonrhood, find waiting in a cutting for a quarter of im hour, (he driver lnifl been indiscreet and he snrud himself from everlasting disgrace by coming to a standstill. Theavcrago rate of speed between Mastcrton and Wellington is about lij miles an hour, Now wu don't wsiut express trains, wo don't want to show off in our little jaunt* to Wellington, but is tliero any earthly reason why this speed should not bo increased to 18 miles an hour. Wo know of none, and it is quite evident that it would ho advantageous to the community if this modest acceleration of speed were allowed. If our triiinn ran at the rate of 18 miles an hour, and this in many places would be laughed at as slow travelling, the morning train from Wellington might reach Masterton at 11 a.m., and the down train in the afternoon need not leave the town till four p.m., thus giving visitors and business men ample time to do all that they have to do when they come here. JUastertoii is the principle centre of traffic north of Wellington and deserves some consideration of this kind at the hands of the Commissioners, but the improvement we suggest would he beneficial and acceptable to Eketaliuna, Carterton, Greytown and Featherston. The mistake the department makes is to imagine that travellers want to spend all their lives in its trains instead of in the towns where they have business. Give them a longer time for their business and a shorter time in the dilapidated railway carnages and tiulfic on the line will be encouraged and developed. There is nothing in the world to prevent our 15 mile an hour rate being increased to 18 miles but the apathy of the public. People, have got used to 15 miles an hour and fancy it is the correct thing. They regard a journey to Wellington as almost equal to a trip to the South I'olo. and lay in a stock of provisions and nicdical comforts for the voyage. The person who ventures to make the return trip in a day is regarded as a reckless mortal who lias performed some feat boyond mortal endurance and his friends become anxious about him. Are we never to progress or got out of an old groove V Bccuuso the pioneer train, nearly twenty years ago, ran hero at the rato of 15 miles mi hour, are wo a I way h to travel at this speed V In rJnglund trains run at from 30 to 40 miles an hour, including stoppages, without the slightoHt difficulty, and why should people in Now Zealand be tied down to fifteen. We regret the old coaching days when wo only travelled seven miles an hour, because then the district bred the horses that drew the passengers and grow the oats that fed the liery steeds. There wore compensations for slow travelling iu those clays. Now there are nono we ough't to i have quick travelling. What is the use of a train with which a two : : horse coach from Grey town manages ! ■■ to compete (Successfully. An liom* J lean bo easily saved in the trip ' between Wellington and Masterton, ] and it ib about time that the public < pat its foot down and insisted upon t being carried a-little faster. (

WiitTtHO against the Queen's birthday holiday, our iocn! eoittompomry Hfiyfi that people here " Uo not caro n tinker's adjective whether the Queen livoß, moves, or has a biting." Wo havo taken exception to some superfluous holidays in on)- calendar, but it will be a B ;id duv IW the Kmpii'c when the Queen'* birthday has to be removed fjfim tin; lint, lh !V Majesty has wot for rifly-H..v>iu ytiiifl a high and noble example to all \ iov subjects ; she, Ims been it true fountain of honour to the many millions under her rule. Jt is it sign of fclie times—the bad times that, have oomu upon lis—tliivt there n ri! l„ | K . fmmd man in tlio community who 1 rent her nmriversiiry with undisguised contempt and scoff at those time-honored words, " Gotl Save tin; Queen " ; words which have thrilled the hearts of not only thin generation hut of the possibly worthier one which precoded it ? There are men amongßt us who know little and care less for the greatness and glory of the British Empire, and fot» the sceptred embodiment of its purest and highest ideals of duty, honour, and fame. Radicals now-a-duys go all lengths, but we rarely iiud one who ventures to openly sneer ut the Queen's birthday. That lack of reverence which is said to he the characteristic of some Colonial bred youths may extenuate Mich an expression of ignorant fatuity, but it certainly cannot altogether excuse if.

Nolirc ufintcntioit lo rmso loitns for road formation ntul metalling, is given hy lite Elietnbunu Hoad Board.

A horse belonging to Mr H. Smith was overturned hy colliding with the verandah post at 'lite Foresters' Arms Hotel last Wednesday. The dash hoard of the trap was broken. A light look place in the Main street of Greylo.vn last .Monday between two aboriginals. The aggressor luis siure been banished from the Yntiliikiiweni tribe, otherwise mi iirtinn would have come before the S.M.

An assault ease Ah ('hong v. a Grey town youth will he heard by the S.M. next Wednesday „t Grevlown.

Mr V. 11. Wood adds to his nest Tarntlihi slock side, l!tl litmbs mid 50 fnt ewes.

A large Hnglisli mail rearhed Musto ton yesterday.

The Premier is expected in Welling. lon on Moiidiiv, :

Abonl 1011 passengers left Masterton yesterday morning by I he early train for Wellington.

Mouse rents nre very high in Wellington jusl now. The smallest collage fetehes 12s per neck.

Major Kemp is sniil to lie seriously ill nt. Wutigitnui, sultcring from bronchitis. The Grand bodge of South Carolina, ir.S.A., is the latest supreme governing Masonic hotly to extend recognition to lite Grand bodge of New Zealand.

The Commissioner of Taxes is confined to his residence, through illness, The shehcr-slicii on the Wellington wharf is crowded every night, nudnmny men have to he turned"away. Twelve men recently tramped from the Wuirnmpa to Wellington, and applied to the Labor Bureau for assistance. The men were taken to task for their foolishness in leaving the country to seek work in the town.

The " King " fund has now reached £IOO.

Jn spite of the inclement weather the Mmiriccville I fall was wellfilledonTues-' day on the occasion of the Bachelor's Ball about forty couples gracing the iloor. Messrs Keisenberg and Candy supplied the initsic in their usual high class style, Messrs C. Brooks and J. Gleeson acting as M, C'.s. Nearly all the Magistrate's Court business at Kkefnlinun on Wednesday was adjourned. One charge of insulting behaviour was dismissed.

The Wellington Trotting Club's Handicap was won yesterday by Whitefoot, paying n dividend of £ls.

The London cab owners have appealed to the Home Secretary for protection against terrorism by member.* of the I'liion.

The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society has decided not to introduce the Knglish wond pigeon. The Waugamii Steeplechase resulted in a dead heat between Booties aud xN'nnalfia, the former paying £'A .Is, and the latter £lO IDs.

The State of Pennsylvania has been rlsited by Hoods of exceptional soverity Houses and bridges have been swept nsvay in nil directions, and thousands of people arc rendered homeless.

Die Wellington agents have been advised that the s.s. Gothic left Plymouth via Port Chalmers and Lyttelton, on Saturday afternoon last.

The regular meeting of Court Loyal Enterprise, A.0.F., Masterton, will be held this evening. A case of disputed commission over the recent sale of a business iu Masterton, is likely to occupy the Masterton S.M. Court shortly, The head of a huge boar, captured at Mauncevillo by Mr John Bannister has been presented to the Masterton Museum. It has a peculiar malformation of the tusks, one of which grows right round, and is embedded m the cheek.

A large 'Frisco mail reached Masterton at noon 10-day, Mr F. H. Wood adds 1:20 fat wethers, 1 horse, gig, and harness, and 100 forward wethers to his entries for next Tuesday's Taratahi Stock Sale. Mrs Forbes, of Masterton, notifies that she will continue to receive orders for plain sewing.

A Ene spociman of a rare bird— the land rail{/«7 in Pk Uipeitsia), and a blue crane, caught at Riversdalc. have been presented to the Masterton Musoum by Mr. J. M. Meredith, Both specimens have been fiuely mounted by Mr A. J. Jacobs.

The Masfertoti S.jVf. Court has been oecinricd nil day with the case Gappcr ,v. McLaren, n-claim for £IOO damages |nllcged to hnv<- been sustained, through delay in the delivery of a trnction engine. Mr Pownall is appearing for plaintiff and Mr W. B. Edwards for defendant, Hippomenes won the Diinedin Birthday Handicap.

At the Huut Club Sports yesterday in the Orange Competition Harold Welch wits first, F. Sexton second, and K. Harris third, and in the Cigar and Umbrella contest 11. Eoakc wna iirst, G-. Tully second, and H, McKenzio, iunr., third. __

A Imrglnry took place in Cuba. Street, Wellington, Inst night, but tho tbipvps were interrupted. A disgraceful pieco of krriltinism was perpetrated at the Salvation Army Hal], Woodvillc, the other evening, when some person took into the building a bottle of bi-iojlphide of carbon, or some equally obnoxious chemical, with tho romilt that people had to leave the building.

Mr Geo. ~K. Bona, architect, of Perry Street, invites tenders for the erection of a house in Cliapol Street for Mr R. McKouzie.

Messrs Lowes and lorns call attention to a Bale of fruit and ornamental trees to bo held at their auction rooms on Saturday, 2nd June.

Correspondence in unavoidably held over, winch will appear in to-morrow's inane,

ft in rumoured that a rival Operatic Society in to be started in MVwterUwi. Tho sum of £3O 10s wuh taken at tlm gatex at the Hunt Club Hporln Tester(lay. Lieutenant-Commander Duncan, of the Wellington Navals, litis resigned. Scarlet fever has broken out amongst the passengers of the Uimutaka, now at Port ChnlmcrH.

Mr Roake's " SO." sprained his leg at the Hunt Club Sports yesterday, but the injury is not serious. Mossrs Osborne and Richardson, the well-known storekeepers, of Whakatuki, ore about toopen a branch establishment at Tenut,

Mr J. Robinson, who was riding Dandy when he fell at the wire jump yesterday, at the Hunt Club SportH, had the misfortune to break one of hia Sogers.

In Chicago 10,000 work men have been locked out for refusing to never their connection with tlif labor agitation in that city.

The waiter inferred that the guest had taken a little Notnetltitiij before supper from the mere fact of his ordering " tied frnters and chork pops." A series of fortnightly concerto comroenciiig on Friday week, in itid of the new organ fund, arc to be given by the MoMlorton Prosbytoriuu Church choir during the winter months.

A young man named Harry Cornkie, son of a blaeksniit'. at Wnipawa. while out shooting in t'..;> ["iuutaroa Block, was climbing over;! hi lon tree, when the gun caught in wim; fern and was discharged. The cbarge entered under Oorskic s jaw and kilTed him.

Messrs Lowes aud Jorns will sell at 2 o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) at their rooms, in tlio estate of Win. Taylor (deceased), shoemaker's lools nnd sundry efforts, also furniture, ntc.

The Sultan of Turkey will not give pormismon to the Khedive lo make his proposed visit to England next, month,

There are now three branch Sunday Schools in connection witii Mnstorton Prrsbyteriaii Church, one eneh ut Wiinimehii, Dreyerion ami Tiinitalii which have mi aggregate of about 70 scholar*.

During tho past year uhont 150 volumes have been added to the Masturtoti Presbyterian Simdy School Library at a cost of nearly £IS. Tlicro aro now six lady teachers and llvn gentleman teachers with Mr Jinncs McGregor as superintendent, on (he staff of the Masterton Presbyterian Sunday School. The ISmamintr learns that Messrs Conk and Gray have ngrccd to erect a creamery in tho Maknri Valley, providing (lit! settlors oun guaranreo 250 cows. In connection with the Pahiiitun Presbyterian Church, set-vinos will he ■ conducted by the He v. W. K. Philip on Sun.l.iy next, 27th May as under:--AJfredton at 11, Piiliialuaat 7. A woman iu Dmiedin sent lier daughter, aged ten years, to get change for a pound note. The child visited three .shops, hut was unable to get it changed. A man in the street, seeing tile note in her hand, asked her if she wanted it changed. She replied, " l'es," and gave it to him, when he at onco pocketed the pound and left.

At the Otaki Maori Jtnces yesterday, Comfort won the Trial Handicap, div., £lO j Tricky Jaok the Hurdles, div., £(? 17a ; Jacobite the Boyle Piute, div., £2 10h; I'ihaugathe Glasgow Plate, div., £ll 16s j Maugnpni the Second Hurdles, div., £-1 IGa; Voltaire tlie Flying Handieap, div., ,£li .is ■ and Hum tho Stewards Stakes, div,, £23 lys.

Somo New Zealand baton sent Home by Mr Vecht, manager in New Zealand for the Inter-Marine Supply Company, ou the Inst trip of the Ifimufaka, realised 50s per ewt., the highest price quoted in the open market for that week Mr Yecht says the success of this experiment speaks volumes for the quality of 2s T ow Zealand pork.—>'. Z. Times.

Messrs Fairbroiher and Son of Carterton, who purchased the stock in the bankrupt estate of K. ijtei-enn, of Pahiatua, arc evidently satisfied with the prospects of the Bush districts. They have decided to make a permanent branch, there.

The New Zealand Bible and Tract Society, have opened n shop in Masterton next to Mexsrs L. J. Honker mid Co, Queen Street, for ut few days, (hiring which time tho public will have an opportunity of selecting books from their large .stock of the best evangelical and theological literature extant. Tho Society is ut philanthropic institution; mid does not trade for profit, all books being sold at a price merely sufficient to cover actual expenses. During tho progress of the football inaU-'h between Musterton nwl Tctono yesterday. T. Hudson, n well-known player, met with a rather serious acrident. He collided with another player, and whs knocked senseless. f)r. flutement wnsealled.nnd remaining unconscious, a cab was procured, and he was sent into town. The unfortunate player received a slight concussion of the spine, but on enquiring this morning wo are glad to hear that he is progressing favonrnbly. The train on Wednesday night from Anckland to Onehunga aecidcntly killed an old man named William Thompson aged 70 years at Tc Papapa Crossing. He was somewhat deaf and it is supposed he did not hear the sound of the ! approaching train. Tlio cowcatcher | struck hira. inflicting mortal injuries and ho died in a few minutes. The newly formed Municipal Fire Brigades Band deserves more than a passing eommcnt.as their playing ut the Hunt Club Sports created a most favourable impression. The bund mustered at the Post Oflicc seventeen performers strong under the leadership of Mr Candy, and marched to the Show

Ground playing sonic spirited (unci en rtmte, followed by an admiring crowd. During the intervals at the sports the Following programme was nbly performed, several pieces being repented nt the request of some enthusiasts;— Overture, " Fnir Mnid of Perth "; waltz.

" > T ight and Morning"; polka, "Jollity" quick march, "Lion ", waltz, "Silver Wedding",'selection. "Anthony imd Cleopatra "; polka, "Go Alicucl "; quick mnreli, " Belphegor "; wnltz, "Little Flirt"; Galop, "Excursion train."

Otm imports at new season's Dresso-a. Millinery and MantloH arc now fully completed. The ahoioo we an cnibled lo shuw and tho strictly moderate prices chained aro muoh appreciated by our country friends While visiting To Aro House, Wellington, Our now dressmaker. Madame- da Verney, I from " Worth's," I'ariß, is tho lcadin(£drois- . maker in tltn oolony. Wo guarantee perfoet fitond tho latest styles and designs as known onty to Fronoh droßsmakcrs. Our charge tor makinK dreascs is from 22/tf, al To Aro Hoiibo, Wellington. Ladies can do their shopping by post, and Sivo tho lnconvenietieo of coining to town. Our order deparlmont has boon enlarged, and Is under most cflioiont jnannycment. Patterns of all our gonoral drapery and Drcssco will bo cent post frco on application Tc Aro House,