GREYTOWN NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4961, 26 February 1895, Page 3

GREYTOWN NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) Tuesday, ■ Yesterday afternoon the scholars and teachers of the public school proceeded to the Recreation Reserve and spent a most enjoyable time together picuicing. In consequence of the inclemency of the weather last Saturday marring to a great extent the full pleasure of the day's outing it was decided to finish up yesterday. A public meeting wus held last night to protest against the Saturday half-holiday. There was a large attendance present, His Worship the Mayor in the chair. It was decided to petition the Premier to alter the day to_ Thursday. Petitions have been circulated and largely signed by the inhabitants of the town. The Mutual Improvement Class met last night and resumed its debate on " Has machinery benefitted the working classes." The general opinion arrived at was in the affirmative. Mrßccrclias returned from the Wellington Hospital and looks better for the operation he underwent, The Economist, referring to an admission inadc by Sydaey experts that the present system of shipping wool is dangerous, and liable to cause rombnslion, enquires whether the colonies prefer to regulate thematter immediately or to wait until a steamer is destroyed by lire in mid-oceau, The London correspondent of the Dunedin Slur writes the weather, I am afraid, not one man in a hundred lias any real conception of the effect it has on the butter trade. You can easily understand why a spell of snow and frost enhances the value of Australasian butter, for it can only mean the curtailment of home supplies, and the import from adjacent countries, But how mnuy of yon will accept as a fact the statement that one mild day occurring in a spell of hard weather means in Tooley street a very bad day for business ? I have pottered about dairy produce for live or six years now, and can vouch for the truth of that statement. Only this week I had another illustration to the point. On Monday snow was on the ground and frost was in the air, and on Tuesday the atmosphere was wintry. Tooley street was quite busy, and my agent friends were too much [Occupied with sales to say more to me than "How do," 'Good-bye' On Wednesday the frost was gone, aud overcoats were rather nuisances than otherwise. Tooley street was as dull as ditch water, with everybody quite ready to give me ten, twenty, nyc, or thirty minutes of theirtimc. Why buyers seem to disappear entirely when dull, mild weather sets in, cyen for a day, is a problem I. leave for exporters to try and solve, It is beyond me, and no agent has yet put forward a satisfactory explanation of this singular fact.