Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1895. GOING TO LAW.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5079, 17 July 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1895. GOING TO LAW.

An English writer in a Home paper, who niisfht well have gathered his experiences within tbo Colony of New Zealand, asks:—(l) Are legal proceedings as popular with the piiblicasforaierly ? (2) Are lawyers increasing at a greater rate than" the demand for their services ? In the first place, continues the writer, so far from legal proceedings being as popular with the public, the very reverse is the fact. Indeed, at the Bar highfecKscem tohnvo frightened litigants into believing that the next worst thing lo losing a ease is to win one. In either event you pay heavily for the privilege, without attempting to eountupyourexpenditure of valuable time, and your losses, and worry, mid ill-temper, { A is, we should say, safe to assume that the present unpopularity of the law as a means of settling disputes is duo to two causes: lis costliness ami its delays, Some writers would add a third cause-its uncertainty. _ But we doubt very much, if this has really anything whatever to do with tho undoubted prevailing depression hanging over the profession, Indeed, the proverbial " glorious uncertainty of the law" has long been its main allurement, your success being so much a' matter outside the merits of your case. Deep down in human nature, there is a disposition to gamble, and the law is nearly always so much of a gamble, that-it not infrequently happens that men who are attracted I to tho law, whether as litigants or. as a profession, are fascinated still more by other exciting gambles—tbo turf, for instance, where issues are decided quicker, and sooner placed beyond appeal, Bentliam said that our law was a "technical system invented for the creation of costs," ami, in order to create costs, delays are necessary, It is delightful to leant that depression, actual depression, exists in the legal trade at Home, and it is possible that in time, that the business in law-suits, may fall off in New Zealand. In this Colony, there may be said to bo three classes of lawyers: (1) tho raon who foster litigation; (2) the men who defend people from those who foster litigation ; and (3) the practitioners who do useful work, such as conveyancing and other necessary legal business, and leave litigation to the specialists of the profession. It is very evident that the public conld do without the sewnd glass of lawyer, if ttieywfl

rot plagued with the first. In time I arbitration ought to sweep away classes one and two, leaving only tho third group of honest useful experts, whose services are really needed in tho country, and who are always likely to be popular. A lawyer who can be implicitly trusted, is ut comfort not only to his own olieuts, but to the community; but unfortunately the public have to take tho tares as well its tbo wbe.it, and so it comes about that wise men begin to recognise that arbitration is better than law, and to long for the time when it will be generally accepted as n substitute for litigation.

Tiieisk was a scene in A tlie Borough Council, Borough last evening, between Bitunu, tho Chair and the

Borough Engineer, which ended inaformalrecommendution of that officer, being over-ruled, and a sum paid to a contractor, which, according to the terms of the contract, ought not to liavo been granted. As a, rule, the Mayor conducts the proceedings of bis Council, in a businesslike manner, but in this instanco he would almost seem to have failed to exercise his usual discretion. If, as tho Engineer contended, the proposed payment was illegal, it would have been far better to have postponed a decision (ill the legal position of the Council was clearly ascertained. If Mr Eordc's view be correct, it is probable that the Mayor and Councillors who paid £2B against his advice will have to find this sum out of their own pockets.

The Maslcrton Borough overdraft is now £625.

An entertainment in aid of St. Mat(how's School, takes place this eveog. Mr and Mrs John Jlcssey left MasIcrbn to-day on a two months trip to Australia ™ Gisborne and Auckland.

The regular foi (nightly silting of the S.M Court takes place at Miistcriou tO-IUOI i'OW.

There are ten newspaper editors in the House of Commons, six priutcrs.and three stationers. A social will be held in St. Mark'i Sunday Schoolroom, Cartel ion, on Thursday, Sth August.

Mr ]?. H. Wood makes several important additions to the entries for his next Taraiahi stock sale.

During March last, about 170 deaths each day, were taking place itt Simlos, in Brazil, the cause being yellow fever.

The mails for All'reilton now close at Maslei'ton on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, a til a.m. There are live male ami (wo female patients under treatment in the Musterion Hospital at date.

Turkey has restored to Bulgarian portion or the lihodopc Mountains ceded to Turkey in 18SII.

liy a eye lone in Xew Jersey, 41 persons have been killed or wounded, and 111) houses wrecked.

The drawing of the St. A.l'oan's estate lottery is expected to lake place in two months.

A petition from Auckland, containing Oliu'l signatures, against the Shop Hours Act, is to be presented by MrCrowlhw.

There were J'Jli? Chinese in the colony on Hist March, ISM, and of these only sii were in receipt of charitable aid.

It is slated that 5i),C00 sheep were losl in the recent heavy snowstorm at JN'aseby in the South Island.

'The death is announced of Mrs licbccca Spurting, of Hotliam, Victoria, at the age of 101,

Jlv Earnest 0. Smith, lalo of Taiievu, has now taken up his residence on h ; s Manawatu propcity, having disposed of his mill properties at the Taueni. | Book debts in bankrupt estalcs arc evidently not of mui'h value. £.500 of book debts in two Woodvilleostates have realised only £IQ says the Rwmiim: The Kennedy-Lucas Company pro. duee the favorite comedy "Ourßoys," at the Mastcrton Theatre Eoyal this evening.

A Dairy School is to he opened at Stratford on August Ist, when a course of instruction to maunders and assistants of cheese and butler factories will be given.

The costs of the Dean Commission in Sydney will he, say £2,500. The yearly salary of (he judge who has caused this expense to the province is £2,(i00. The Dti'ily Nats attributes Sir W. V, Harcourt's defeat for Derby, to the undue prominence which he gave to the local veto.

The Rev. .1. I'atcrson considers that the Pabiatua Presbyterians have one of the best Ministers in the colony in the llev. Mr Philip. Melbourne annually eats 53.000 cattle and 1,2CQ,0U0 sheep and lambs, yet, according lo T. K. Bcnnelt, a leading meal-man, there is inspectoral supervision at only one of the ablratoirs. Mr Alex. Mutric has returned to Jlaslerton after a trip to Australia, looking much improved in health by the change.

The valuable business premises lately occupied by UrGco. Johnston, together with dwelling-house, grain-store, outbuildings, mid half-au-aerc of land, situated in Queen-street, are advertised to let.

Mr J. A. llcnall, of To Wliiti, has purchased the Taucru sawmill plant belonging to Air Ernest O. Smith, and intends erecting it ou his property at Tc Whili, where there is a good lotara bush.

The vote for Eescuc Homes passed last session was distributed as follows, on the basis of the number of inmates: I -Salvation Army Homes, £500; Mount |Magdala, Cliristchurch, £303 ; St. jJl'ary's Home, Addington, £150; I Women's Home, Parucll, £l3O. Two young women, one married and 'the other unmarried appeared at the | L'ilzroy (N.S.W.), police court on 'files-. i day on a charge of nllemplmg to commit i suicide. One, fearing that an affection !of the eyes would result in blindness I swallowed poison. The other in a fit of depression attempted to cut her throat. Fifteen or twenty years ago, the place where Pabiatua now stands, was a small and insignificant bush clearing, but the space has extended, and the bush given place to grass, says the Ilaick's Bui/ Herald. Last Wednesday, the huntsman's horn called out over SCO spectators to witness a pack of hounds in pursuit of the guileless auiseadbag.and three rounds of stiff country were negotiated by a large following, without a fall. The enthusiasm and excitement prevailing, are reileckd by the following remark of a local scribe:—" Every available hack in the district, was pressed into servico, from a horse to a night mare," In the early days of New Zealand, an Anglican curate, just arrived from Enghmd.had occasion to preach in the woolshed of a South Canterbury station, Shepherds and small farmers formed the bulk of the congregation, the majority of them being attended by a couplo or so of dogs per head. At the conclusion of the service the manager's wife congratulated the parson upon his sermou, adding that she was glad to see so many cockatoos present, "Cockatoos," gasped the curalc, " I didn't sec any, but I noticed a lot of dogs." The English Labor Department states that in 1891, the number of trade disputes recorded was greater than in 1893, but tho number of persons affected was consitauly smaller, The nitmbor recorded was 856, of which particulars were obtained in the case 926, estimated to have affected 306,000 persons, Only 17'lwcre successful, Mtf partially successful, while no less than Sl'B wore unsuccessful,

A Pukekohe settler was fined, with costs, £4 6s for harag affiled a previously used stamp to a letter.

Tenders are invited by Mr Geo.K. [Bond for the erection of two cottages for Mr M. Caselberg, . Tender s for road formation, and.building a bridge, aro invited by the Akitio Eoad Board.

}hj. J. Kennedy appears as "Pertyn M'.ddlewick" in" Our Boys" to-night, at the Masterton Theatre Eoyal, and as "Conn" in "ThoSuaugliraun" tomorrow evening.

Messrs Thomas Thompson and Eiebard Monk have been nominated as candidates for the Auckland scat.

Thomas Dk'lison, formerly carrying on bushiess as a grocer on Lamblon Quay, is to be charged under the Bankruptcy Act, with failing to keep proper books.

We beg to remind our renders of] Messrs Lowes & lorns sale of unredeemed pledges at their rooms next Saturday, the list being so varied and extensive and without reserve,the public should secure some good bargains. The Masterton syndicate, represented at C'polgardic by Mr G. A. Cameron, has received word that the prospects of a return on the money expended are fairly good, nud by Christmas a dividend of about cent per cent, is likely to be payable.

A deputation waited on the Premier yesterday to ask reconsideration of the decision not to extend assistance to the Eilk Assccia:ion at its next annual meeting. The Premier said he was entirely opposed (o the Association as carried out of late years, as he could sec no practical brnclitin it. But as the uext meeting would bo to same extent of an intercolonial character, and as I arrangements bad been made, lie would be prepared to give the same assistance as last year on the clear underslamliug that it would lie the last time, Ho would not tarry the competitors free on the ra ; hvays, but would make a yoto to cover the expenses.

An information lias boon laid by the Labour Department against liobert Spun-ay, building conlraetor, for a breach of the Contractors' and Workmen's Lien Act Spnrwny, it is alleged, entered into aconlract with Sir James Hector to build a couch-house and stable at Petoiie, and sublet a portion of the work to George Moir and David Midgeley, without frjvirg notice in writing to his employer slating the names of the sub-contractors, the work done by them, the amount of the. sub-contract audlhemodeofpayment, Tlicsamroons is made returnable for the 22ud iust N.Z. Times.

The following programme will be performed at the concert in St.Matthew \i Schoolroom, to night :—Overture, Comhineil Orchestras; song, "St. Paul's," Mr F.G. Moore; song, " Blind Girl to Her lfnrp," Miss Johslon; yiolin solo, Miss Mclumzie; song, "Will o' Hie Wisp," Mr Gant; sonrj, "Old Cremor.ie," Mrs U. Fnirbrothcr; piano dud, Misses SI. and P. Klkins; song, "David Singing Before Saul," MrT. Kowso; selection, Combined Orchestras; song, (selected) Mr Meadows; song, " Valley by The Sea," Miss Perry; piano solo, Miss E. D'Arey; song, "Better Land," Mr Gant; soug, (selected) Mrs E Fnirbrother; reading, Mr ]{. Brown; clariomt solo, Mr Candy; song, "Young Brigade," Mrknglon ; song (selected) MrX. liowso, selection, Orchestra, A marriage at which there will be no cards and no cake, was strangely and unexpectedly arranged at the meeting of the Benevolent Society Trustees yesterday, says the N./j. Times. The parties were two applicants for relief. The woman stated that she already had ono child and expected to be confined of another in a few months, and she asked for assistance. The man with whom she was living was called-in, and having admitted ihnl he was the father ot the children, said, in reply to the chairman's question, " Why don't you marry the woman?" that he was willing to do so as soon as lie got sull'ieient money. The Key. W. Evans, the supervisor appointed by the Charitable Aid Board, who was present, said he would marry the parties for nothing-, and he would also be responsible for the license fee. The man and woman said they were prepared to be married, and it was arranged that they should meet the Uev. Mr Evans, at the Society's ollicc, to-day. The Chairman said the mau would have the satisfaction of knowing he had behaved honourably, and the Trustees will assist his future wife until she is over her trouble, Tb Trustees generally appeared thoroughly well j satisfied with their tirst attempt at j"m»lch-making."

The Ccuucil of tho University Colleg* of the Middle District of New Zealand waited upon the Minister of Education last evening. Those present wore— Messrs J.li. Blair, A. W. Hogg, M.I I.E. A.Warbiirton, T. Kelly, M.L.C., I Grabaii, M.H.E., Dr. Chupple, Sir Eohert Stout, M.H.K., Dr, Newman, M 11.11., and tho llcv W. J. Habens. Mv Blaiv introduced tbc deputation. Sir Eohert Stout pointed out the advantages derived by Otago residents from the University there. Dr. Newman thought that the only chance of getting auy endowments of scope would he this or next year, as all the available land was quickly heiug taken up. It meant, he thought, now or never. Br Chappie suggested that the Mount Cook Eeservc of 14 acres, and the prison building thcreon.should be handed OTcrto the University as an endowment. The Minister of Education, replving.said he was in an awkward position in this matter. It was i matter of finance, and would have to go before Cabinet, There w»s littlo chance of them getting money from the State; their only chaiue was to obtain reserves. Ho knew nothing of the reservo at Newtown, and as to the Mount Cook Gaol Deserve, ho thought the man who first i proposed to put the gaol there ought to ho gibbeted. Anything he could do to assist them he would do. The deputation thanked Mr Eceves and withdrew. 'J be Coolgardie Courier, alluding to the sale of n mine in which Mr G. A. Cameron, on behalf of a Masterlou syndicate, held au eighth share, says : "We arc pleased to announce that the well-known properties atUardock named the Australasia and Australasia North haro passed into the hands of the Devon "Westralian Mining Syndicate. The purchasers have determined to open up the property with despatched havcalrcady appointed as manager of tlio mine, Mr "Victor Streieli, M. and M.E., P.G.S., and F.E.G.S. (graduate of Mining Academy, Pricburg, and lato geologist and mineralist to the Elder exploring expedition) who proceeds at once to take charge of affairs. Tho properly consists of twenty-four acres, and is one of the most promising in that part of the East Coolgard'lo field. A strong lode, assuming a width of 18ft in tho Australasia section, runs through the entire length of the property, and shafts hare already been sunk at various depths proving in every instance well defined lodes carrying coarse and fine gold of high quality. The syndicate's representative, Mr W, C. Pigott (who lias during the past few weeks extensively visited the various fields in conjunction with Mr R. B. Gleisbcrg, M.E., of Perth), is to be congratulated on having secured a property with such favourable prospects'" We ate not in the habit of boasting. Our ways are modest rather than bold and in hiding our light under a bushel wo hsvc often imperilled our chances of success; but ou this occasion with so-called sales on every side, with firms selling off around us, and people in all sorts of businesses offering their goods for anything anybody likes to pay, we feel impelled io offer our services in the matter of supply, Busy I We are as busy bees, Ml of customers from morn till night. Crowded are our counters and orowded is our establishmemwith eager buyers, and the reason is, the public have found out that our prices are lower and our goods better than can be purchased elsewhere. What about tho blankets and ttannolspandthodtessos and mantles.and ths hosiery and linens and the clothing and mercery ? Why the prices themselves are an inducement to buy, while the marvel- • louo quality which accompanies these pneesmnko the goods Bon Marobe val«e. Our only address is. 1. J. fyoper. Bon .' MMoh^aateiloii,-Afivi ( . ;