Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1874.] TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1895. A WILD CAT SCHEME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5108, 20 August 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1874.] TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1895. A WILD CAT SCHEME.

——t - A wiijDCiit scheme was outlined in a telegram published in our last issuei from a Wellington correspondent, which elated, that among the rumours floating about, is one thai the Government will bo asked tc proinote a huge schemo of Laud Settlement, in which the Estates ol the Bank will bo absorbed, and that the Lending Board under the Advances to Settlers Act, operations have excited a considerable amount of dissatisfaction, will possibly be abolished, with a view to the business of tho Office being transacted by tho Bank, which seems on the'nigh road to becoming a national institution. The Government is in a gravo difficulty on this question. It cannot bring down a proposal yhich will be generally satisfactory to its supporters without pandering to a wild-cat scheme, and to do Ministers justice, we do not think they desire to go as far as this. Afraid of its own (supporters the Government turns to clie Opposition and appeals to it to join-it jn setting up 4, Opm-, , mittee which is to recommend JJiei 1 policy which t|to Government itself dare not bring forward. Virtually the Government requires tho ftid of the Opposition to kill the wild-cat scheme of its own supporters. No doubt there are members of the Liberal Pavty. who believe that they could force the bank into liquidation and seize its business, or iu other words despoil its shareholders, but these views ai;e unlikely to prevail, though founded on a well understood liberal principle, that'any man who is a shareholder in a bank is rich, and that being rich it is meritorious to rob him, Then too, every now and again, the Colonial Bank comes on to the

scene and says to tho Government, "Youmust buy me at myownprice, which is a high one," Why this a Bank should be a factor in the question, we do not know, bat it is admitted that it has to be reckoned with, Iu some mysterious manner, it appears to be the master of the situation. With all these complicated and clashing interests, it is a little difficult to see daylight. Tho idea of a'State guarantee of more millions, of a boom in land settle--0 ment and a State Bank which will y mako advances to'settlers in a! '' becoming spirit, is fascinating, but £ tho Government, with the aid of the a Opposition, will probably defeat this j, rose-tinted project.

e —— t- The case against AL. Webster, o' it Greytown, has been further adjourned e till Thursday next, bail boing allowed. Notice is given, that all accounts duo to Mr C. Hughes, may be paid to Mr W. B. Cheimells, whose receipt will bo 1 •j a sufficient discharge, The S/iitisi urges Mr Joseph Chamberlain to terminate the commercial treaties with Gcimany and Belgium. LI A chimney in the East Ward caught fire last evening, but was put out belore ■ any damage was done. The annual meeting of members of the Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club,takes place at the Club Hotel to-morrow (Wednesday) evening, at 7.30 p.m. Edward Donoghue is the name of the youth who had a fall while trying to see Mrs Dean's execution, He climbed to the roof of Mr W. H. Matlieson's factory, and while perched on a signboard, was seized with a fit. Messrs Kirkcitldie' and Stains' first great show of new Spring goods opens ~ to-day. Particulars appear in another li, column. It is stated that the hangman offered Mrs Dean's boots for sale in tho express from lnvercargill to Dunedin, but, so far as wc are able to ascertain, robody ik purchased the gruesome relics,~ Mithmm Emilia. Doctor Pavy, perhaps the most cmi- - ncnt authority upon diet, says that the average man in a state of absolute rest, can live on sixteen ounces of food a day; , a man doing ordinary light work can live 11 on twenty-three ounces; and a man doing laborious work needs from twentysix and tliree-qualter ounces to thirty ounces. This is food absolutely free • from water, and it must be remembered that cveiything we eat contains more or ~ less water, so that from forty-eight to. sixty ounces of ordinary food are neccsS sary to the work in which a man is engaged. Sir Lyon Playfair, anothir id great authority, gives the following as m all that is necessary tor a healthy man to eat iu a week; three pounds of meat with one pound of fat; two ordinary loaves of bread, one ounce of salt, and - five pints of milk; or for the meat, five ss or six pounds of oatmeal may be suber stituted. This sounds like starvation diet, but Sir Lyon Playfair generally knows what he is talking about. This is the Age of Woman, and a business man who knows says there is positively nothing that she will not . undertake. He was sitting in his office the other day when the door opened, ami a well-dressed, comely-looking young woman appeared. She wore a resolute expression iu addition to her other R. wearing apparel, aud in her hand she L carried a hammer. "Good-morning," ■s, she said, winuiugly. "Is this Mr Cash's at office. 1 Will you please (ell nip which is, chair it is that has that nail in it?" Thebusiness man was confused—the nice little woman was a stranger to him. He answered, mildly," What chair P What Et, nail ?" " Why," she exclaimed,"my husband. has come home three times recently with dreadful holes in his coat 10. and trousers, and he said he tore them - 011 a chair in your office. I'm tired of is darning and patching those rents, and Q d thought it would be more sensible to comedown here, pull the nail gut, and 5 have done with it, Don't you think so?" Still overcome with astonishment, the merchant agreed with her, found the of- ~ fending chair, extracted the nail, and with mauy thanks and smiles the enterprising little woman withdrew. >). There is fashion iu whisky as in all things else,writes our Wellington cornsis pondeut; to-day Scotch whisky triumphs over Irish, and of the many brands of ■' 3 the former that of Messrs Jolm Walker ro & Sons of Kilmarnock, has for nearly a )n century been famous. Connoisseurs 5 apply such terms as "matured," " mellow," " pure," to the Kilmarnock m brand, which is a blend of several choice 7 whiskies from the various distilleries,and li- is everything a good whisky should be. A contemporary goes the lengthof saying " There's not a headache in a hogshead 'd of it," naturally it is popular ami "■ " Walker's" is oneof the most largely j' consumed whiskies of the day. in An effort is being made to establish a Wairarapa Fire Brigades' Association, le to promote friendly competitions aud n ' reunions of the members of the various Brigades between Wellington and WoodvilJe, as it is felt that such an institution ~ will be to the well-being of all the .j Brigades. A meeting of delegates to consider a scheme of Association will be held on Thursday afternoon next at 3.30 p.m., at the. Mastcrton Central Station, jl which it is hoped will be well attended se aud successful in its object. The Greyst town, Carterton, ami Piiljiatua Brigades in have signified their attention of sending delegates, and l'etonc aud Woodville •• will probably ho represented, j] _At Nuggety Gully, near D ayl csford, ij Victoria, Mr George Brown, a miuer n made the lucky discovery last month of a nugget estimated to contain 2380z of „ gold. The discoverer for the past three years has worked small blocksof alluvial left from ilio early days with varying ■ ) luck. At Easter last he unearthed another nugget weighing 2-toz 7dwt, but for 12 months he did not make £5 by r following his fortunes onNuggcty Gully. The facts of the find, as related by Mr - Brown, brings back memory (says the Arijm) the history Qf several similar discoveries. "It was the last stroke of flic pick did it. I was just oil the point ■, of abandoning the claim, having worked pifttlfc small bits oE ground left there, 'i but a piece qf overhanging grouui) close 10 against ,the old working attracted iny it attention, I gave it a hit with my pick; '0 it sounded queer, so lat once knevy there 1( 1 was something more than wash-dirt there, jf iqd sure (inoijgh, when I picked 01, it the , side I got fair on io tho nijggpt and ' brought it down, I newj i)ot toll you le that I didn't wait long in tho hole lint > e got home as quickly as possible, much i'- to the delight of my wife, I brought the '1 lump straight down to Melbourne and iv sold it." The discovery was mado at „ depthof 12ft from the surtace. Nuggety Gully has several large nug. gets, the latest being the fourth largest. The others contained respectively 521b, 2dlb, and 201b weight of gold. •° Mr Hone Ilckc made a witty and appropriatc speech to au empty House 011 f 1 ! Saturday morning. Heimproved on Sir s HbbeptStput'sstoryofthercd-petticoatcd a wives, by telling pf ' tfn jijiccs.torof his, 1 s who was with five of his nien at.Bajk e when ho heard of a Southern inyailiug s party coming to attack his pah, TJtq ■ , live men were immediately set to work j ' to make men out of manuka scrub, who ( s were boldly mounted on tho parapets, , " i?hilo the six, with all the power of lung < 2 and' limb thpy could muster, danced 1 f a war dance. Whei) ftp attacking i f party came close enough'to', aeo < f aud hear they imagined that the chief B j had gof reinforceuients', and (led the ti-tree mon, So Mr Ward in JLondon had marshalled his tl|ree of 5 "unpledged" securities. The mass of ' (horn were pledged, but the London 1 capitalist djd not know, and they took the bogus securities for real—another ; caso of the t-i-trec effigies-and they t turned tall aniloft the eolonios alone, .Mr Ward jntorjoetod that be.did not 11 i dauco a war-dance, Mr Hoke said ho a could not-answer for that, The Maoris J 1 had one form of war-dance-; the Europeans had another, They hoard of Mr ■ Ward being dined and entertained and making speeches, That was his war* n dauco.-Pcsf,

_ No 26 of" Leaflets for Farmers," has just reached us. It is by Mr J. fi, Charlton, M.H.C.V.S., and deals with swine fever, It was stated at the meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club last night that the Wairarapa Trotting Club is defunct, The next English mail, via Monto Yideo closes at Masterton at G. 16 a.m. on Wednesday. A now hydrant has just been procured Brigade. It is one of the latest patents, and the same as used at United Firo Brigade competitions, The Grevtown pol-ce cells are to bo made burglar proof. Since Trudgeon b.'oke out of them so easily they have doc been regarded as ( very safe cages for tho police birds, At the V.A.T.C. races at Caulfield Circassian foil, and the jockey, C. Lewis, a prominent cross-country horseman, was killed. Ilie Corcan licfoim Ministry lias collapsed, and the leader of the reformers lias lied. He is accused of plotting with the Japanese to seize the Xing. .The Daily Telegraph states that Viscount Wolseley succeeds the Duke of Cambridge as Conunandcr-in-Chief, but with limited powers. We regret to learn that Mr W. Scale, bailiff, at Masterton, was seized with paralysis, while attending to his-duties at the Mastertou S.M. Court Office, this morning, Dr, JBntement was at once called, and lias the case in hand. Mr TV, E. Bone received last night, on behalf of the North Wairarapa Gun Club, a further consignment of 200 pigeons fromChristchurch This makes over a thousand birds received by tho Club from the South this season, in addition to a largo number purchased locally; Messrs Lowes & lorns hold their foicniphtly sale of stock at their yards to-morrow, entries for which at present arcl'D turnip fed wethers, 180 ewes in lamb, store wethers,and ewes,hoggets, 10 fat cows, 115 head mixed cattle all ages and classes, 20 springing heifeis and cows, milch cows, draught colt and filly, hacks, spring cavfc, pigs, etc. Petty larcenies by boys are reported to be common just now in Masterton. A resident informs us that several pigeons wore stolen from his premises the other evening. He discovered the culprits but decided on this occasion not to prosecute, as the boys received a thorough'thrashing from their parents. The Macedonian rebels burned the Mahometan village of Dospot, murdering the residents, and destroying by means of dynamite a mosque in which a large number of pcoplehad taken refuge, Mr V. M. Eraund, Sharebroker, Weiiington, reports a brisk demand for Auckland rowing stocks. Mrßraund's special facilities for obtaining the latest and most reliable information, also the daily market quotations for all stocks, places liim in a position to give his clients the best results. In investment stocks Mr Braund is prepared to buv and sell at best market prices, and country clients would do well to communicate with him. At the Irish-American Convention 5000 Irishmen, representing Pcnnsvlvanian societies, were present. flic Mayor ot Pittsburg presided. Besides deciding upon physical force, the meeting advised the foimation of a secret service. A resolution mis carried that a corps should arm in readiness to strike tl'fi hereditary enemy if a European war took place. The aviary of the Noith Wairarapa Gun Ciub, at Mr Bone's resideucc now contains an exceptionally fine healthylooking lot of pigeons. With recent con. signments the total number being about 320 birds. Given a line day on Thursday next, some good shooting may be looked forward to. "People arc constantly asking me what has become of Mrlsltl?" writes the London correspondent of the N.Z. Times. " I can only reply that I wish I could tell. Useler Hall knows him not, and neither at your Government offices nor the Colonial Institute has lie been a visitor. This 1 blooming unseen' is said b be not at all characteristic of the eminent teetotaller, which makes it the stranger. Vet since he was interviewed by the Echo lie has disappeared." " SirGeorgeGrevscemed, I was glad to notice, a little brighter when I saw him recently (writes aLondon correspondent), but every week accentuates somewhat the loss of memory which is now his greatest trouble. Not that the graud old veteran forgets the events, great or small, of the distant past, it is the trivialities of the present which trouble him. If you ask him whether lie's been out of town, he cannot tell you without reference to his secretary, and ho constantly loses continuity of thought, or cannot think of the word lie desires to use. These lapses formerly distressed him a good deal, but now that lie has decided to acknowledge them openly I think lie finds it a relief. You may takeit as tolerably certain that Sir George Grey, like Mr Gladstone, lias made his last speech in public." It is reported that an effort was made last night to break into the residence of Mr Holdaway, Albert-street, and Mr Holdaway being absent from home, his wife received a considerable fright. She states shchoard someone prowling about, and presently a window was forced open, aud a man looked in. Mrs Holdaway called out for help and the intruder decamped, nothing more being heard of him, The police liavo made a careful inspection of the premises to-day, but can find no trace of the allegod midnight visitor, and discredit the story. An adve..iser requires a number ot working bullocks, The Maumcvillo poundkecper has a notice in another cdlutn.

If you study practical economy you. will buy your drapery mid clothing at Hooper's Boil Marchc. You ask why 1 We'll tell you why I You've twenty pounds to spend or twenty shillinjs i!you like. Your object is to get all you require for tho monoy you have, If yo J buy 0! Hooper's you will get all you determined to secure and a bit loft for something else. Also you'will get tho best of evory.hingl'l-o goods of standard manufacturer If you buy elsewhere your twenty pounds or twoniy sbil'iogs, 'as th'o case may bo, will riot go as far as you thought and you \vill c : ther Lvo to sink the quality or shrll oiit'more call), Will thai suit you ?' We tow not, Vou'ro no fool; you'vo bepn wandering up and <|qwn (his blessed world for ypars and you know your book. Olio may siy is only assertion, whero's your proof? Wo reply, uso your eyes, oscroise your judgment end oriticiso and compare, and your verdict must be for Hoopor & Co,, ready monoy drapers, Bon Ma.cM, Mastorton. -Anvi. One of the sights of Wellington, at any timo is undoubtedly tho magnificent establishment,known as Te Aro House, Rnd now that every department within its walls is filled to overflowing, with a bewildering variety of the season's novelties in millinery, mantles, dresses, oto., it is more than eyer a pleasuro and profit to visit the wholesale family drapery warehouse, Te Aro House. Mtioijlar attention has been paid this year to we'requirfetaehK of gountry oustomere. ami tho result is to be seen iri the immense and varied stock of calicoes, shirtings, flannels, llsuDellaites, strong wearing dress materials, men's and boys' olothing, &o, The ohoice in each depart, mont, is almost unlimited, as ma? be imagined, when it is stated that of flannelette alone, over 50,000 yardß'havo this season been imported 'M' Te Aro House, Wcllington.~Ais'' !