Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1895. BATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5086, 25 July 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1895. BATING ON UNIMPROVED VALUES.

Tin; Govenmiiiiit demand rating on unimproved values, and the party ' backs the demand. Why should it bo refused ? In the country wo have , found that, the change meant lighter rates for the rich man and heavier rates for the poor man, ami for this reason we opposed it. There was, 110 doubt, about the result of the change, because the clfecls of it were worked out in the County Ollicesome time ago with the result that we have slated. Also in our large towns a calculation has been made as to the cllcct of rating on unimproved values, and here again it has been found that the big mini is relieved, and that the burden of the small 1 man is made heavier. If the Govern- 1 ment and its faithful henchmen, who are tied to Mr Seddon by pledges which they dare not break, choose to rob the poor man—a thing they have been doing all along—why should we object ? It is proposed in the present Bill, it is true, to mako the rating on the unimproved values optional, but this is scarcely a recommendation. Local option is and always lias been a degraded and deteriorated 1 method of government. If a thing be right, let it be done, but to delegate to Local Bodies, difficulties which the general Legislature dare not face, is mora or less contemptible. Tlio main argument : in favour of the Bill, is that the 1 Government is pledged to change ' and upset, every existing institution, 1 and for this reason it is necessary ! that tho present system of rating be j altered. If the cbauge be brought i about, it is the poor man who will 1 pay the piper. i

So in its innocence, J A the New Zealand-Times ] Si'Ui.niiD describes theunfortun- s Cuss Ok ate Cheviot settlers, c Tenantry, A Mastorton resident f wLo Ims spent a month l amongst them, told in our last issue, c the tale of their utter misery and c distress. The privations they have p endured during the present winter ° have been almost phenomenal. )■ Settled on a cold, bleak spot, without a money, without means, without fuel, g

without shelter, they aro objects of comparison and commiseration, Is it not an insult to their utter misery aud ruin to write of them " a splendid class of tenantry"? It would bo better for the New -Zealand Times to open a subscription list for their benefit, through its columns, and the provide this splendid tenantry with the common necessaries of existence. Were it not tlmt the Government had discovered a Pomahaka, the Cheviot, estate would be the Siberia of New Zealand,

An advertiser requires a good cook. We ate informed that feed is very scarce in many parts of the Forty-mile Bush.

The Mnsterton Municipal Fire Brigadc Band's social, takes place in the Drill Hall this cyeiiing The North Wairarapa Gun Club's Pigeon Match for Mr Mandcl's Cup, is taking place this afternoon. Messrs Lowes and Jorns announce a sale of furniture, etc, the property of' Mrs Carter, of Colombo Jioad, which will be sold on the premises, on Monday, July 2'Jtli, at 1.30 p.m. A meeting of the Eketahuna Assembly of the Knights of Labour was held oil Friday last, when liro. H. Aulin, Organiser, duly installed the following otKcers I-W.M., Bro. J. Carter; W.F., Bro. 11.0150n;11.F..8r0.F. Dowsett; Treasurer, liro. B. Syverson; T„ Bro. N. Aulin; T.Ji., Jiro. J..] espcrsen, A London journal saysWe notice that among the hooks which young Salvationists are warned against are "Jack I In* Giant Killer," "Gooily Two Shoes," ami "Jack and the Beanstalk." Ihe Christian Endeavour movement has made extraordinary strides in Ihe United States. Un Wednesday, the 10th of July, a convention was to be I held ia Boston, at which fully 50,000 I delegates were expected to be present.

A wife ia Toronto gave evidence against her husband and brother-in-law, who were charged with murdering a man to obtain his life assurance. This was the iirst time in the history of North America, thai a wife had given evidence against her husband A fler being under examination for three hours, she met her husband's eyes, and with a shriek, tell down in a swoon, which lasted live hours.

J fere is a new use for beer, says a contemporary, which gardeners should note. A German farmer, in wluit must have been sheer absent mindedness, sprinkled some beer on some plants one night, arid was amazed next day to find 177 dead snails lying about near the plants. With the object of furl her testing the etlicacy of the liquid,he tilled two saucers with beer and placed fresh lettuce leaves in llicm, with Ihe result lliat lie found next morning the lettuce untouched and 218 dead snails. A New South Wales man intends to make I art her experiments in the matter, aud il lie takes cine to select up-country " slieoak"asa beverage for the snails his success should be assured. German beer, on the oilier hand, is often of so mild a character that one would have thought even snails, which seem very weak-headed, could liaye laken il with impunity. If the German fanner is correct in his statements, horticulturists wdl have a cheap and easy method of dealing with their foes, and the teetotal party will be provided with a new moral.

The cast end of Glasgow has been the scene ol disturbances arising out of what to the masrulinemiudscoins a ludicrously small matter. It is the custom in that region for Ihe mill girls to wear no lials, but shawls oyer their heads. The girls employed in certain lace curtain mills, however, adopted hats instead of shawls, which greatly incensed the girls in other mills, who mobbed them on two succesivc evenings as they left their work. Un the second occasion the rioters numbered about 1000, and many of them were so violent that the police had to take them into custody. Three of them were afterwards lined 10s lid each, with the alternative of a week's imprisonment. The obnoxious hat remains mistress of the situation.

j A remarknblc escape from a serious . accident was witnessed yesterday mornill!! in the main street of Greytown, says the Stumlunl. A buggy containing J| rs 1 J). Jiureli and child, Mrs,). Fuller and , two children, and driven by Mr E. • Jiureli, was proceeding along the road, ■ when suddenly, without the slightest 1 warning, the horse lashed out at the vehicle and boiled. He then quickly ! swerved oil' the road and galloped straight at Mrs Snowshell's front fence, j which he madly leaped at, knocking it down with a crash that seemed to . madden the frightened animal, which 3 lashed out again, fortunately breaking the swingle-tree and letting the traces free, lie then plunged forward, and the breeching straps breaking enabled i liini to leave the buggy jammed iu the ' debris and wreckage of tiie fence. In • the meantime those who saw the " bolt " • expected every moment to witness a horrible catastrophe, but the huggy stood upright and bejonda rather rough jerk at the fence and the natural alarm,' its occupants were scarcely even disturbed. 1 When the horse got free he simply trotted out of harm's way down Mrs Snowshell's paddoek. We understand Mr Jlurch is now trying to arrange n match between his newly-found 'hurdler' and Mr W. iiowse's steeplechaser who piloted a gig safely over a gate and through a four-railed fence lately! What a marvellous contrast to present conditions, does the imagination picture up in Northern Siberia when the huge hairy mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, and the musk ox wandered over its plains, and browsed along the lianks of its majestic rivers. The climate was then comparatively genial, ami its rolling uplands and wideslretching plains were covered with dense forests and carpeted with verdant grass. The land stretched 200 miles further to (lie north than it does now, and the Xew Siberian Islands then formed high mountains, looking over the Norlhern Ocean. On this longvanished land, vast herds of elephants, rhinoceroses, buffaloes and wild horses lived peacefully and securely, for food was plentiful and carnivorous animals were few. What great convulsion of nature destroyed these myriads of gigantic beasts, an:l piled their bones in vast masses upon the islands of the Polar Sea ? What cataclysm sank the ■Verdant plains beneath the waves, and changed Northern Siberia into a waste

1 and empty wilderness.? And what catastrophe occurred on the land and in i the sea which altered the climate of Northern Siberia from one of a genial, or at least temperate, character to one of awful cold. A woman has been sued for divorce in the American Courts because she lias i bleached her hair, and lias taken to the | habit of painting her face. The plain- | tiff lays it down that, "Bleached or i artificially-coloured hair is regarded by . the maiority of right-thinking persons as an indication of a loose, dissolute and wanton disposition, and is regarded as, ' ami commonly held to be, a practice ] never affected by modest, pure, and i respectable women," After expressing i this general view of the practice of < women whp bleach their hair, he takes t up its particular application to his own t case. In his document, he avers:— i "Mrs H. is a brunette naturally. Her I hair is of a chestnut-brown colour, r which in its normal state, is modest and o becoming, and harmonises with the n natural colour of her skin and eyes, t Since we married she has, against my il wishes and protests, with intent to vex, 1 annoy, exasperate, and sliamo me, dyed fi her hair and changed its shade to a con. ti spicuous and showy straw or canary n colour. a consequence of this art' tl ficial colouring, she has been obliged to ti paint her face to secure an artificial i) complexion in keeping with the artificial s colour of her hair. The combination has a given her a giddy, fast and sporty d I appearance." ■ This, MrDussell deposes, a constitutes cruelty, inasmuch as the fa bleaching "greatly mortified, shamed, I and humiliated him, and caused him oi great and grievous mental suffering," p

A fino residence is being erected in Farkville, JSketaliuua, for Mr H. Vile. TkeMunicipal Francliise Enlargement .Bill has been killed in the lower House. The Adulteration Prevention Acts Amendment Bill lias been passed bv both Houses.

a 'l < 3s to his entries for the lauheremkau sale next Tuesday, 50 maiden forward ewes, and 50 ewes in lamb,

Iho ]S.Z. Labor Department claims to have assisted 42,284 persons since its establishment in June, 1891,

A ball is to be held in Anderson's Hall, Mctalunia, on Wednesday, tho 31st inst., the Ekotahuna Football Club being the promoters. Iho Ekotahuna School Committee are about to issue summonses against the parents of several children who attend school irregularly.

A man named Hugh Henry, an old resident of liaugiora, while beiug treated' for a dislocated shoulder at Kaiapoi yesterday, died suddenly. Writing from Sydney to Mr O'liegan, M.H.E., under date the 13th inst., Mr Michael Davitt states that he hopes to bo able to speud a month in A'ew Zealand.

Tho trophies won by Messrs l'eryKibblewhite and Polling, in the Metahuna Uille Club competitions, are to be presented publicly at a social to be held shortly,

_ Mr George Morris, of the liangitikei line, while eating his breakfast on Tuesday morning, suddenly became ill and died within a very short time. Deceased was 82 years of age. The cause was heart disease.

A meeting of St. Matthew's Vestry was held last evoning, at which Messrs F. G. Moore, W. H. Jackson, and Geo. K. Bond were appointed Parish Nominators, and Messrs F. G. Moore, li. T. Holmes and Dr. Beard, a Finance Committee for the ensuing year. Another largely 'attended meeting of the Blue and White league was held at Oxford House, lust evening, when the Ilev. .Robert Wood delivered an interesting address to the members The membership of the League is again increasing in number.

In _ (he recoil mathematical tripos examination at Cambridge, Mr C. Mactniirin, M.A., of Auckland College, graduated as twelfth wrangler. This is "tiled to be the first distinction of the hind gained by a JJew Zealander. Mr Maclaurin is a brother-in-law of Mr E. H. Waddington, of Masterton. The following liiUs were introduced and rend a first time in the House yesterdayA Hill to render penal the inciting of persons to betting or wagering, Mr W. Hutchison; tho Waimate Municipal Jleserves Bill, Major Steward; tho Shops and Simp Assistants Act Amendment Bill, iicii. Mr iieeves. U o omitted tu mention, in our allusion to the Wellington Poultry and i'i.L'con Show, that Mr Jiurlun JioVs gaimd tile gold champion niedal for llie i )r;igoni'l:iss, with the same bird with which ju> guineil champion honours at the Christcliureh Show last year. We are also informed that many of Mr Boys' birds were under twelve months, competing against adults,

Mr Cobbo, the well-known I'almerston A'orth sheep-breeder, who has just returned from the Sydney sales, says that the only way to improve the state of things, will be for the settlers to come to some arrangement that no sheep shall leave their hands under a certain figure; then whatever the figure is they are bound to get it. The competition for the prizes offered by the l'aliiatua Burns Club, for tho best Scotch recitations, is to bo held on September 4th. The Club have secured tho services of Messrs C. Ji. Bruce and A. S. Paterson as judges for the occasion.

The school teachers in the FortyMile Bush intend forming a district branch of the Wellington Teachers' Institute, and a meeting is to be held at l'aliiatua on Saturday, August 3rd, to arrange the necessary details. It is proposed to hold meetings alternately at Pahiatua and Eketahuna. The three shops in course of erection at Eketahuna for Mr T. C. Williams are rapidly approaching completion, and form a decided improvement to the appearance of the main street. They will be occupied by Messrs Juggins, land agent, T. Gore, builder, and the proprietors of the Erpms. The Jiewinan Amateur Dramatic Company, gavo a capital performance of "Milky White," in tlw Town Hall at Newman, last week. Oil Thursday night next, tliey repeat tho entertainment at Eketahuna, in aid of tho Public Library, and are announced to appear later alTutaekara, Pahiatua, and Woodville.

On Saturday, before a full Bench of Judges, Dr. Findlay will apply for leave to appeal in (he case in which Mrs Dean is under sentence of death for child murder. The question for argument is whether the evidence as to the finding of other infants' bodies in Bean's property was properly admitted in the ease on which she was convicted, says the Wellington Times. The meeting of the Juvenile Branch of the Mastcrtou Tent of liechabites was held last night in the Foresters' Hallatßp.m.,Bro,Norman Lee,C.li., in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Four new inemheri were initiated into the Order, A reading was given by Jiro. Frank Temple, a recitation by Bro. Norman Leo, and a song by Bro. James Lyons. The business having been concluded, the meeting closed at the usual hour.

The great reduction sale which has so successfully been run by the J).LC'.> Wellington, is now drawing to a close, and Wairarapa residents who intend to take advantage of the inducements to buy drapery or furnish during the D.I.C. sale, should hasten to visit the warehouse or remit their orders by post. Tlio guarantee that every article throughout the establishment is liberally reduced in price, andthatfresh, new, and serviceable goods of the Company's own importation arc offered, should stamp this sale at tlic D.LC.as a great departure in trading, which, of course, is altogether to the benefit of the purchaser,

The following is the prograinmo to be submitted in tho Mastcrton Presbyterian Church, to-morrow (Friday) evening, in aid of the organ fund:-Piano solo, "Scottish Airs," Mr Kearsley; quartette, " The Forester," members of the Choir; song (selected), Miss Craun; song, "On the Banks of Allan Water," Mr Simms; quartette, " Sweet and Loir," members of the Choir; song, " Angus Macdonald," Miss Johnston; violin solo (selected), Mr Mowlem; piano solo, "MrKearsley; song, "Ye Banks and Braes," Miss Walker; quartctte, " Sleep Baby Sleep," members of the Choir; song, "Annie Laurie," Mr Simms; song (selected), Miss Johnston; song, " Skyc Boat Song,"Mr Meadows; glee." Carnovalle," Choir.

Mr Tlios, Boyd, of the firm of Boyd & Son, cycle makers of Christckurch, is at present in Masterton and thus our local wheelmen have an opportunity of obtaining some valnable information from th» oldest and most practical cycle maker in the Colony, who will be only too glad during his short stay, to discuss cycle interests with them. Mr Boyd has with him an " Atalanta" full roadster, with non-slipping tire, on which he has ridden over 150 miles, and in spite of all the muddy roads over which he has lately travelled, the machine looks as good as if it had only just left the fitting shop. This speaks well for the quality and finish, and together with the flattering testimonial of a famous English wheelmanwhich is published elsewhere, marks the " Atalanta " cycle as a machine cijual to the host English makes. Mr Boyd informs us that hjp firm h&yo special efforts for noif season's machines and many new features have boon intro? duccd which wheehnon ?annot fail to appreciate. During ids stay in Masterton Mr Boyd may be seen at the Empire Hotel, and we would strongly advise our local cyclists and those desirous of purchasing new machines to call on him,

Tlio milk supply of Wellington is obtained from 2,100 cows. The Parkville settlers intend to widen and metal the No. 1, South Eoad. Only one patient out of the 77 treated at Mastorton Hospital last year died in the institution.

A Palmersten North resident claims to liavo invented a gun capable of liring 1,000 shots per minute. Tlio Post lias discovered that Mr Ward romanced about the unpledged securities in Canada as well as in London.

llie Second-hand Dealers Licensing Bill has been circulated; the third-baud dealers are still safe.

Mr W. Hutchison is asking the Government what it proposes to do in view of Lord liipon's condemnation of reciprocal treaties.

Wc have to acknowledge receipt of the usual complimentary tickets, for the Grcytown Band Ball, which takes place tliis evening. A new scheme of excursiou rates, which will apply especially to long distances, is to be proposed in the .Railway report. It will affect the bands going to the Tiinaru contest, Messrs Simms and Modern add to the list of entries for their next stock sale in their yards 011 Wednesday the 31st inst, SO prime fat wethers. Mary Walker, nine years old, residing at South Dunedin, came home from school 011 Tuesday complainingof a sore throat, and died yesterday morning. The cause of death is supposed to be inflammation.

Thirtoen students of the I'rincctown College, New Jersey, who were proceeding to the Yellowstone National Park to study geology, are missing. It is believed that they have been captured by Indians at Union Pass, Wyoming, the Pedskins being enraged at the restrictions placed by the Government on their hunting.

further particulars of the collision in the Gulf of Spezzia show that the captains of both vessels were asleep at the time of the occurrence. The Ortigia was going 11 knots, and the Maria, travelling at 10 knots, crossed her bows. The Orligia's engines were reversed, but it was too late to avoid the collision.

Dr MacGregor's annual report shows that there were 131)8 male and 8110 female lunatics in New Zealand asylums at the end of last year, an increase of 120 on the previous year, the total admissions for the year having been 57G, against- 'l3O in 1893. Mr Peter Smith, who has been about 42 years on the various goldlields of the Colony, principally on the West coast has been prospecting for the last few months in the Tararua ranges, at a spot about ]ii miles from the Upper llutt, and h.is discovered some specimens, which lie submitted to Mr Skcy, the tiovernmeiit Analyst. MrSkeyreports that one sample contains minute traces of gold, but that other specimens which he tested are not auriferous, and none of the specimens seem at all likely to contain payable gold. Mr Smith is convinced that the place is gold-bearing and that eoal would also be found there, although lie is not sure whether the minerals could he found in payable quantities. He intends, however, returning to the district and to continue pros•peeling, says the X.Z.Thm. One ot the sights ot Wetlinpton, at any time is undoubtedly the magnificent establishmeat,known as Te Aro House, and now that every department within its walls is filled to overflowing, with a bewildering variety of the season's novelties in millinery, mantles, dressy, etc., it is more than ever a pleasure and profit to visit the wholesale family drapery warehouse, To Aro House,

Particular attention has been paid this year to the requirements of country customers, and the result is to be seen in the immense and varied stock of calicoes, shirtings, flannels, tlannellettes, strong wearing dress materials, men's and boys' clothing io. The choice in each department, is almost unlimited, as may lie imagined, when it is stated that of flannelctto atone, over 50,000 yards have this season been imported at Te Aro House, Wellington.

A specially organised department, has been established to deal with country orders. Patterns of any materials in stock, will be forwarded to any address, post free. Country residents are invited to write (or prices, or any information regarding goods wanted. It is confidently asserted that nowhere can such a wide selection, or such sterling value be obtained, us at To Aro House Wellington.—Advt.

If you study practical economy you will buy your drapery and clothing at Hooper's Bon Marche. You ask why 1 We'll tell you why! You've twenty pounds to spend or twenty shillings i!you like. Your object is to get all you require for tho money you have. If you buy of Hooper's you will get all you determined to secure and a bit left for something else. Also jou will get the best of everything; the goods of standard manufacturers. If you buy elsewhere your twenty pounds or twenty shillings, as tho case may bo, will not go as far as you thought and yoa will either have to sink the i|uaiitj- or slu II out more cash. Will that suit you ? Wo trow not. You're no fool; you've been wandering up and down this blessed world for years and you know your book. One may say this is only assertion, where's your proof? We reply, uso your eyas, exercise your judgment and criticise and compute, and your verdict must he for Hooper & Co,, ready money drapers, lion Marche, Masterton. -Advt.