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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5051, 14 June 1895, Page 2

A Government which Tub purchased Pomahaka Whakataxe would buy a Sahara Purchase, desert or a mountain in tlio moon, if such proper ties could bo acquired. It is satisfactory to learn that one of its latest purchases, the Whnkatane Blook.hns good land on the " flats/'anrt suitable for close settlement. The bills are reported to be pumice, and if such they be, the less said about them the better. If an intelligent man bad to choose between close settlement on pumice and closo. settlement on sulphur, bo would probably give the nether regions a decided preference We fear that the Whnkatane purchase is on the whole an imprudent investment, but it may be a better speculation than Cheviot,aml it cannot bo worse than Pomahaka.

Ax incidental reArk mark which fell Eoad Boards from Mr Seddon Goisc theotberday,when be received a deputation on behalf of the Christchurcb unemployed, suggested that, in the coming local government Bill, Road Boards are doomed. We bad thought that these bodies were too useful to country settlers to be sacrificed, and we question whether the representatives of country districts will let them go without a straggle. But then the Ministry will have town members at their backs to enforce their will, and however popular Road Boards may be, they may havo to go, if Mr Seddon has passed sentence of death against them.

Tub fatted calf is to be Tin: killed for the return of I'A'rriii) Mr Ward, the prodigal CaljF Treasurer of this Colony, who, in a self-reliant spirit, threatens to put his name to more borrowed millions than any Colonial Treasurer who has yethelped to make this Britain of the South a great loan land. Mr Ward has been a great success in London, and we do not mind him being feted. The only thing that troubles us is whether he comes back to us with clean hands. Did he or did he not mislead the London Chamber of Commerce as to our unpledged securities ? The evidence so far is against him,but then his explanation of an apparent anomaly has not yet been given, If ho can clear himself from the aspersion, wc would gladly join in the acclamations of his friends.

Gratitijdk has been LuiEßAii defined us a sense of Gratitude, favours to come, and under this definition, wc understand why the Liberals of this Colony will succeed in getting together a big big purse for prcsonta-, lion to Mr Seddon's belter half, and why the self-same Liberals failed to get together a respectable sum to do honour to the memory of the late Mr Ballance. When a great Liberal Chief lies low, and bis sceptre passes away, there can be no gratitude, because there can be little sense of fut-urefavoiii's. The Seddonmemorial, and the Ballance memorial, will form a- grim contrast. Nothing so truly guaged the intensity of Liberal devotion towards an ideal Leader, as the paltry offerings that were placed at the shrine of Mr Ballance, by his faithful followers,

Tenders for bridge building arc invited by the Mauricevillc Bond Board. Mr A. L. Whyte provided the luncheon at Clnreville Paces yesterday, in ln's usual lirst-class style. At the steeplechase Meeting at Clarcvillc yesterday, the totalisator broke down just before the start for the last race. A crowd of disappointed hackers were accordingly unable to invest. Of course they were' all going for the winner! The Commissioner ol Taxes giyes notice that the Stipendiary Magistrate will sit at the Maslorloii Courthouse on Saturday the 29th insl., to review assessments of land under the Lund and Income Ti'x Acts within the Wairarapa, Masterton and Pahiatua County areas and boroughs, The llailway Department, has declined (ho application of tlio Wairarapa North County Council, for payment of the cost of repairing the main road at Eketahuna, which damage, it is stated, was caused by a block in the railway culvert at thai place, during the April flood. Apoonlomcntcdand destitute individual, with scarce enough clothing to decently cover him, and carrying with him two or three old sacks to use in place of blankets, is at present in Mas-1 torton, wandering about, soliciting food from residents. His present condition is past description,

Somewhere ovor a dozen swaggers 'anived in Masterton on Thursday, from various directions. It is said that since the action lately taken by ruuholdcrs, these individuals have been forced to put np al all sorts of places, and for the main pait in such buddings as racecourse graudstands, etc., the unused buildings on the old Moroa course, near Greytown, being an especial favourite with the travellers, who pass the word along to one and auothcr. At times the place presents the appearance of a thriving accommodation house, lights, camp-fires in the course, and other signs distinguishing it as a happy huntingground.

The Weekly Scotsman, in an article entitled " Shakespeare Worship," says there has been an increase or 1708, in the number of visitors to Stratford-ou-Avon, during the present year, including peoplo of all nationalities, amongst which visitors were 38 New Zealanders and 79 Australians. Tho amount received from all the visitors to Birthplace, Museum, New Place, and Ann Hathaway's Cottage, is £913 5s from January to 31st March, 1895,

■ Messrs Lowes and lorns hold a sale of fruit and ornamental trees from Mr Jno. Hale's Nelson nursery, at their rooms to-morrow, The list will embrace all the most choico varieties in fruit trees, shelter and forest trees, flowering shrubs, camelias, roses, etc, etc, which aro now on view at the mart, Tho oldest pensioner in New Zealand, Colour-Sergeant William Hooper, late of tho floyal Marines, died at Onchunga last week, Ho was 90 years of age,

Mr W. C. Buchanan, M.H.E., speaks at tho Taueru, this evening, ■. Messrs E. E. Hornblow & Co. hold their usual weekly sale at the People's Auction Mart, to-morrow. A run with the Wairarapa hounds will take place at Pahiatua, during the first wcok in July, The rainfall in Woodville for May was 3i inches, or about a third less than for the previous month. _ The Hasterton Trust Lands Trustees, invite tenders for clearing broom frqm tho paddock near the main school. Mr W. C. Buchanan addressed a weli-attcndcd meeting at Greytown, on Wednesday night, Mr A. Stcmpa, butcher of Masterton, finds his small goods so much appreciated that he has found it necessary to arrange for sending a regular supply to Ekctahuna every week. Tlw treaty which Japan has entered into with Eussia is identical with that between Japan and Great Britian, and contains the most favoured nation clause.

In connection with the Pahiatua Presbyterian Church, services will be held bytheEev. W.H.Philip on Sabbath next 16th June, 1805, as under;—Pahiatua at 11; Kaitawa at 2.30; Pahiatua at 7.

Owing to the W.A.A. and Cycling Ciuh not being too well off for funds, Messrs F. MeGoycm, Caselberg, W, Jeffries and Broad ,very kindly returned the prizes won by them to the Club. A resolution has been passed by the Auckland Women's Liberal League urging that the Contagious Diseases Act should be made applicable to men and women alike, and should be rigorously enforced.

Damage to the extent of £2OOO was done the Grcymouth breakwater on Wednesday last. Tho sea running was the heaviest known for years, and twenty-ton blocks of concrete were sent rolling about like pebbles, Mr John Eeere,' of Greytown, who has been suffering from tumour on the brain for a long time, has been admitted to the Wellington Hospital again and news received this week, states that hit life is despaired of.

The Archbishop of Canterbury states that the authorities providing compulsory secular education are bound to provide religious instruction, parents being allowed to choose the religion in which their children shall he brought up. He declares that the prevalence of juvenile crime emphasises the necessity for religious teaching. A man named William Johnston was arrested last night, at Inglcwood, on a charge of having broken into a shop and stolen a silver cruet-stand and a clock. Tho constable in arresting Johnston, had a struggle with him to prevent his escape, when the mail bit the top rim of the constable's ear off. Others then came to the constable's assistance, and Johnston was at last lodged in the lock-up.

The word "Sanitas" seems recently to have been applied to soaps, disinfectants, and similar preparations of Colonial manufacture, whereas the Sanitas Company, of England, of which Mr W. C. Fitzgerald, Consulting Chemist, Wellington, is the New Zealand representative, claim an absolute copyright of that trade-mark. The matter has now readied the stage of proceedings at law, and to-day Mr Fitzgerald leaves for Auckland to maintain the position he has taken up, and to secure an injunction which will protect his Company from infringements of their rights.