Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895. UNWRITTEN RULES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5149, 7 October 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1895. UNWRITTEN RULES.

Jt is somewhat singular that the members of (lie House who get into jjynible with the Speaker arc usually j,h.o njost (jnleriy and self-respecting moil i» tl'1! Parliamentary raiiks. It will he reniotnlwml )iow Jfrliryce, ii chevalier s«iw prur <;l sum repmche, felt himself compelled to withdraw altogether from Parliamentary life ju consequence of an adverse ruling from the Speaker, and on Thursday night the leader of the Opposition, .(Japtaiii Kussell, who is universally j'ecogniseil a§ fclie pjnkofPiirliainon; j. iffy .courtesy aild deconnft came very nearly to fepg suspended. 'iMie Speakers of Iho llouso iir,e n.ot alto; j gether to blliinu forthis. They must to a certain extent uphold tlio Government with whom rests the ruling power, but a condition of a- ParliaiiCTtajy institution where the very best nieii can/lot cjji on the benches witliout losing selfrrcspecfc is very much to be dcploristi. Tlifl causo of this grave difficulty is-, a personal defect amongst Ministers themselves. For example, when Jlr Ward quoted the other day in the Sfoast} fye private conversation of a ll.ead of 9116 of his departments, lie was undoubtedly guilty of a breach 0110 of tbe unwritten rules jylijch; are supposed to guide Dip conduct of gentlemen and members of Parliar ment. Again, whon tbo Hon, John JlcKenzie intimated that he knew the private accounts in the Bank of New JJealand, and might disclose them for .the e.oiifnsion of his foes, he was guilty of an'oiker breach of those unwritten'rules without wbipl) : even a Legislative Assembly cannot l\old together. On a. mcro point of .order the Speaker maybe right and .(j'aptain may bo wrong; but amongst hyfouriibh M9sbprs, the unwritten piles ,by which sooiij.l iiir is regulated 111 civilised IgommunitieSj should 'be paramount over eye)) points ,pf .order. Is .Gaplain Russell to ij,e jfyivgn 'from Piir'liament like Mr J3ryee, $ every self-respecting man in fcjig Rouse tg be compelled to withdraw from it? In other words, is the Parliament of Jfow Zealand to become a pandewwiua.

_ Tlio well-known Faust Family opon in Wellington on Wednesday noxt. _ Lieutcnant-Colonol Hume, Commissioner of Police, is now on a visit to Masterton.

Two thousand rainbow trout are to be • sent from Masterton to the Stratford Acclimatisation Society. There are about 700 golf clubs in Great Britain, with something like 35,000 members, A new kind of cloth is being manufactured at Lyons from the down of poultry, It is light and aud warm. In Norway a law provides that no person shall be permitted to cut down a tree unless lie plants three saplings in its place. The number of persons to the square mile in England is 519 ; Ireland, 110; Scotland, 136. In the United States it is about twenty. A sitting of the Bankruptcy Court takes place at Masterton nest Wednesday. The Masterton Wcsleyan Church was well-filled last evening, Mr A. Pybus conducting the service. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Hospital Trustees, takes place on Tuesday next, Mr John Murray, of Bank of Now Zealand fame, returned to the colony by the Hauroto. The Financial News says the Australian revenue returns indicate a welcome turn for the better nud greater purchasing power. Eighty British tars burned a rebels' camp at iUombassa. The chief Mbarue escaped and is being pursued by a party ' of sailors from 11.M.5. Phoebe. Cricket seems quite dead inMasterton this year and no effort is being made to set tlie old Masterton Club going again. On 31st March there were employed on Government works 2(538 men, 32 engineers and surveyors, and 82 inspectors and overseers. 1 A good deal of interest was taken yesterday in the special services at the Masterton branch of the Salvation ' Army. 1 The annual congregational social in connection with the Masterton Wcsleyan I Church will be held on Thursday next, . October 10th, at 7.30 p.m.

The Masterton Municipal Fire Jirigade Cricket Club held a practice on Saturday last, The wealth of the Rothschilds id present is estimated at£-100,000,000, and it is believed to have doubled within the last twenty years. The enormous quantity of laud in America held by foreigners is causing uneasiness in the States. It is computed that no less than 20,01)0,003 acres are owned by Englishmen.

Arising out of ut dispute about rent, a man told a London magistrate the other day that the house was over-run with rats, which were found sitting ou the bed if he woke up in the night. The captain of :tn American vessel reports having discovered in a cavern on the Greenland coast 18 human skeletons, which are supposed to belong to some unfortunate l'olnr expedition.

The Ladies' Golf Tournament in Duncdin was brought to a close on Monday with the tinal match for the championship between Mrs Higgins and Mrs Melland, the latter winning by two up and one to play.

The seventh anniversary of the Carterton Presbyterian Church is to be colcbratcd this week. Yesterday (Anniversary Sunday) special services, both morning and evening, were conducted by the Rev. J. K, Elliott,of Wellington, On Tuesday the annual tea in the Assembly Jiooms will be held, and should bo largely attended. On Sabbath, October lllth, the liev, Hubert Wood will conduct service in the Bideford School. Mr Wood will also deliver his lecture on " Japan, its cities, customs and people," illustrated by ljme-light lantern in the Bideford School, on Friday, October ljtli. The mi|k suppliers of Bullance, Scarborough and Matarua, will be glad to learn that the difficulty with the IS'ew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., has been satisfactorily adjusted, says the I'tikkiluu Ifaruhl, and the factories will commence operations on Monday, October 7th.

Observers of the trout in the Maitai stream, inform a jN'elson paper that there is a peculiar disease affecting the lisli in this river. Il is a kind of fungus which attaches iisclf to the body, causing the tail of the fish to rot oil', and ultimately leading to blindness. The disease has not been noticed on any of the fish in the other streams

On Wednesday the powerful limelight lantern imported by'the Masterton CrosbyleVian Sabbath School, will be used to illustrate n second lecture ou " Japan," by the Rev. liobert Wood, iu the Presbyterian Church, Masterton. A number of new slides will be shown, and the choir will assist.

Mr L. F. Ayson, Curator of the Jjlasterton Fish Hatcheries, proceeds to the West Coast this week to superintend the distribution of young trout iu the rivers on Hint coast, which are under the control of (lie Wellington Acclimatisation Society. During tl)e next few weeks, a short course of Christian Evidence Loctures will be delivered in the Masterton Presbyterian Church, oil the Sabbath evenings, by the liev. li, Wood. The lectures will be answers to the following tmeslions: —First lecture," Why lam a Tlieist and Uot an Athiest nor an Agnostic;" second, ''Why I aiu a Christian and not a lilraldist;" third, "Why I am a Protestant;" fourth, Why I am a Presbyterian "

The liev. John IJeNeil lias tendered his resignation as an evangelist to the J'rpsbyterian Church of Victoria, and is applying for his cerlilicafe qE disjunction "as a protest against the manner in which certain congregations of the Presbyterian Church (iu Victoria) are setting at naught with apparent impunity the instructions of the General Assembly on the matter of gambling at bazaars." This year from thj? Masterton Fish Hal chcries, Taranaki has taken 30,000 brovvi| : trout fry aud'3ooo riiinbow fry ; Hawke'S 'Bay—2l-,ooo'brown 1 trout eyed ova, (i,006 rainbow ova, s>,ooo brown trout fry and B,oo{j r'nmbow fry: Wanganui—"B,ooo brown trout fry and 3,000 rainbow i'ry; liangitikei—lo,ooo brown trout fry.

In connection with the horrible murder at Clonmel of a woman who was jjcSjcved to be a lyitcji, the following facts'arc j&iljjif. As recently as at Castle Kediiighanj)' 'iji Essex, a pbor paralysed Frenchman died Uifoußli being " swum " by a mob, under tjie belief that lie bad been exercising ovil influences over his neighbours, and on September Kith, 1873, an old women named Aim Turner was killed by an insaue man at Jjpug Cpaipta), in Staffordshire, who was lab'oyHiig under a similar delusion. Agajii,' 18$ ai'East J)cw)iani, Norfolk, H mini wiis 'lined by iiiij magistrate for eorumittiijcf larj itßS?i|lt on girl whpsij motlior charmed him by n 11 walking toad" In April, lfl'JO, an account appeared in the Daily Neivi of iffl inaiiost on a child at Fressington, Suffolk, at which the parents confidently ascribed its death to witchcraft. iWfding to their jiyldwo the child's who died a few jiours before it, had been the cause ot its death, and t)|p father declared in all seriousness that \vhen out with his offspring in a perambulator, Jte saw smoke issuing from tho carriage, The mother also declared that on arrival hoinoihe cj))l,4 WW'tot and dry and Bniel.t of brimsto'no'l, Tliejp instances', all of which are within the reoosc.tjo)i of many living at the present'time,'gi .to show that even in ; the latter part of century'many of the ojd superstitions are still held in esteem among lliepf.oplo of ojiv country villages andnotlilhg lint a niorie'cqpiplete sysfcih of educatioi} will do anything to climili; ate them. ■"

Tlio Gas and Library Committee of the Masterton Borough Council meet il this evening., Mr Charles Edward Bawson, S.M., ( retires in December on a pension of £241 Os lid. j Two new Government Bills arc.thclm- i pounding Act Amendment and Foreign Insurance Companies' Deposits Amendment Bills. ; The Premier lias consented to preside at General Booth's meeting on the Bth, ] and members of Parliament have re- ' ceived complimentary tickets for that evening. On Saturday evening last the police were making an effort to prevent loitering on the footpaths, to the much greater comfort of pedestrians. Amongst those who had to be " moved on " was a member of the Borough Council! In the estate of the late firm of Osborne and liichardson, a first dividend of 3s (id in the pound was paid on Saturday by the Executor, Air A. MoHutclion. The Hon. li. Pliarazyn has given notice Hint when the Legislative Council is in Committee on the Liquor Bill he will move that the clauses relating to clubs be struck out, with a yiew to bringing clubs under the provisions of ■ the Act of 1881, Some idea of the value of the gold boom at the Thames may be gathered . from the fact that whereas the gold duty . credited to the local bodies in that (lis- . trict for the year ended 31st December, 189-1, was £'t;l80 3s <ld, the duty for the , first quarter of this year is £2,989 16s i Bd, or more than half the whole year's ' return for 1891. A recently published book oil railway systems, contains this new version of the | old story of an aged lady's first journey by rail. As the train was pitched dowii an embankment, and she crawled I from beneath the wreckage, she asked a ! passenger: "Is this Stamford?" "iS'o, • madam," replied the man, who was pinned down by a piece of limber, " this i is not Stamford, this is catastrophe." , " Oh!" cried the lady. " Then I hadn't 1 oughter got oil' here."

Mr L. P. Ayson informs us that the Rainbow trout ova secured by him this year have hatched out-particularly well. After_ disposing of a considerable quantity to other Societies there will still be it line lot of fry for distribution in the Wellington district rivers. The Rainbow trout is a quick growing iisli, gives excellent sport and is also a very good table lisli, A return of all the machinery nwl plant employed in alluvial and quartzmining in .N'ew Zealand for the year ending March 31st. IKIS, showed the value to be Willi, 175. During the same period the value of llie water-races, tailraces, dams, reservoirs, and groundsluices in operation was estimated at £1,275,1(12. The value of the gold entered for duty during the period above mentioned was £9ll,,Sit,

It is a curious fact that the scent of llowcrs depends to a considerable extent upon their colour. Thus a larger proportion of white llowcrs arescented than is the case with those of other hues. One white Hover in every six is pleasantly perfumed, while with yellow llowcrs, which rank next in this respect, sweetly-scented llowers occur only half as often. With brown flowers only one in twenty smell sweet. Tho Mossburn correspondent of the Suiillilml Times reports that Mr Williamson recently found six large lambs killed by a kea and several sheep that hud been attacked. This is a most unnatural occurrence, on the plains, as the ken is seldom seen except on the mountains. Mr Williamson was near enough to lire sevcr.il shots at it, which drove it away.

Here is a bolt from America Jlung at the sparrow, which our jS'ew Zealand farmers will no doubt appreciate. It is from the Bin/x Culmlur, by Mr Parkhurst " After such daintiness, what could look more ignoble than the dirty and detestable English sparrows ? Imported from Europe to wage a certain local and vermicular warfare, in the estimation of competent judges, the remedy has proved infinitely worse than the malady. Of more than doubtful utility, but with unparalleled fecundity and audacity, like some contagious disease they are spreading over the country, to the disgust of all who know their worthless, impudent, and quarrelsome nature. Clumsy, pugnacious, coarselooking, andcoarservoiced, ever washing and never clean, making a vulgar show of refinement by invcterately wiping their mouths-which ceases to be a virtue when it becomes a habit—unutterably common in thought or deed, discredited alike on economic and lesthetic grounds, what can possibly be the mission of these, the vilest of the race ?"

Tho Swtlihuul iVfiM says that Mr F. O'Shannassey, one of the discoverers of the Golden Site llcef, Wilson River, but now in West Australia, writes to a Waikaka friend" I was not here three weeks before I found a splendid reef, but.l lost it through not pegging it out-, it was nearly dark when I found it, and 1 left it until morning to peg off, init some fellows tracked me and saved mo the trouble. I was nine miles away from the camn and I did not want to be out all night, for the darkness is bad in some places. But " faint heart never won fair lady," so I looked for something else and dropped on Mount Morgan 'What you read in the papers is quite true, but it is not all gold as the papers say. However, it is sold for £-10,(XX). We get the money in about six weeks—£2o,ooo cash and £20,000 in fully paid-up shares. The plant is coming from England, so I think 1 am right. I have got five more reefs; and they look very well on the surface, but we want fo sjnk on them. We are sinking at present, and by iiext letter I hope to be able to give you a good account of lliem. We were offered a good price for them, but we would not take it. Of course Mount Morgan is different. It is all gold for hijndretjs of fept! It is like Mount Morgan iu Queensland. The same men bought purs that owned the Queensland mine. I would not advise anyone to come here, for you might only be here a few weeks and get a rise, or you might never get one at all. It is' all luck' jn llie bush, hundreds nf men cap't ijnd anything—apjl good ineu jo."'

The latitude of debate allowed in the New South Wales Parliament is something extraordinary. Bays' the Post. Members in one Chamber arc allowed to answer the speeches of members in the other Chamber, and to " slang " the speakers iii a manner not to be excelled by even a New Zealand Minister taking advantage of privilege to abuse and vilify some political opponent outside ot Parliament, Oyer the Dean case tlicrch'asbceh'a beautiful 'display. Mews Crick and Meagher arc members of''"the Legislative 1 Assembly—in every senso the Lower Houso—4tid Sir Julian Salomons is a momber of the Council. Mr Crick, on Thursday, 26th September, began his speech by saying: —" By tho papers I learn that a statement has been laid on the table of the other Chamber in reference to the now notorious Dean case." He would not jiayc been allowed to go any further in our I{6usc;'but on this test he mado'a Jong and violent speech in th'o Sydnoj House, In which hp alludod to Sir Julian Salomons—whom lie lmd just previously called a d—il liar, to his face in the rofroshment room—as ''this wily Jew," "tin's canting little Jcvv" " this cantiw? Hebrew," "This L.s7d. nfc," » ot|i.er similar epithets. Then he referred as fojlov/.s to the AttorneyGeneral " Then'in combs Jack JJJuijt, Wliat'Waiit said was the action of "a cur, and a coward." A' man' who is I simply using the' Justice Department of Mi colony ,to cloak up his own iniquities . . . Talk about blulf, honest Jack Want', 1 3flfuff,'li6riest JUck pevilj This is another thing Wliaif donii 'to prostitute the administration of justice, and to cover up his own delinquency." Neither the Speaker nor any •member see/))? to'liavo tjimigjit lir Crick at all out of order iu fyis E|ys of l?[d^icc,'

Tho Carterton Rifle Club will open i its season next Thursday. ' More than half the police of Toronto, Canada, are now oyelo mounted. 1 Tho liov. J. it Elliott, of Wellington' preached at Gladstone yesterday afternoon. j Twenty-five new mombers have recently joined tho Wairarapa A, and P. Society, The Sunday excursions by road from Masterton to the Lower Valley and Taueru were well patronised yesterday. It is claimed that the tirst New Zealand made bicycle was turned out at Port Chalmers. A number of Lower Valley cyclists passed through Masterton yesterday on a trip to the Bush. The regular monthly meeting of the Masterton Masonic Lodge takes place next Wednesday eyeniner. Messrs Lowes and lorns add to their list for next Masterton stock sale, 10 young cattle, and 4 three year steers. We are requested to state that only performers will be admitted at the remaining rehearsals of the Juvenile Operatic Company. Some joker cut off the moustaches of several members of tho Wellington Garrison Baud at Timaru, while they slept. I Tho well-known policchorse"Nobby," who lias done about twenty years active ■ service in this district, was sold by auci tion by Messrs li, E, Homblow & Co. ' on Saturday, realising the sum of £■! 15s, 5 Messrs W. Hankc and Pinhey Bros, announce that they will run drags in conjunction, to Greytown and Taueru ' on Sundays during the Summer. ■ Further particulars appear in another '' column. j Messrs J. Graham anil Co., store:l keepers of Masterton, publish an inset with this issue, in which special quotaj lions arc given for many articles of every s day use. The inset is worthy of careful II perusal. '

Messrs Simms and Mowleiu add six store pigs and seven yearlings to tho list of entries for their next stock sale in the yards on Wednesday, Oth inst.

Several members of tlio Masterton Cricket Club have thia season thrown iii their lot with the W.F.C.A. Club. Wo understand the combination is to be styled tlio Midland Club, nud will jilnce both Thursday and Saturday teams in the field,

Greytown was considerably onlivencd yosterday by a musical programme played on tlio Eeservo by tkclocal Band. The Bandsmen intend to visit Carterton next Sunday, and it is probable they will also give an afternoon concert in Maeterton at an early date. The most dangerous portion of tlio Taratahi-Carterton lioad—(hat opposite the race-course—is being improved, and , travellers are unanimous in their approval. The ditches are being filled in and the onco narrow road is now a full chain wide, and tlio improvements are a credit to the Board.

In this district Toxa has been found a most valuablo poison for the destruction of the rabbit pest in the summer time, and with a view to encouraging farmers and siieep-owners to use this commodity to the best advantage the manufacturers announce clscwhcro that they have made a reduction in tho price of Toxa this season. Messrs Lowes nud loms are the agents for the Wairarapa. The Rev. John Moir, of Wellington, died yesterday at the great age of 87 years. Twenty-seven years ago ho retired on a pension as being too old for active service, and was succeeded at St. John's Church, by the licv. Jas.' l'aferson. A pension has always been supposed to contribute to longevity, and Mr Moir's case was a good illustration of its beneficial effect.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, held at Wellington on Saturday, the following subscriptions were acknowledged:—Masterton Band of Morcy (per Mr Jackson), 7s 3d. Per Mrs Fannin, Masterton—Mrs Coubourne, 2s Gd; Mrs Fannin, os fid; sums under 2s l ! d, 4s. I'er Mrs Graham, Masterton —John Graham, 2s lid; Mr Pay ton, 2sod; sums under 2s (id, lGs Gd.

A Wairarapa oorrcspoiulent of The Firmer writes: —" There lias been a heavy per centage in tlic birth of lambs this season in our district. I attribute it to the fact of feed bciug scarce mid the ewes being in poor condition when the rams were turned out; for it has been proved that fat animals do not breed as readily as those in poor condition. _ The converse of this fact will also explain why, In somo reasons, cows arc barren. It is because they get too much to eat. Ido not think that any farmer who keeps his paddocks well fed down in summer, ever has cause to complain of the barronncs of his breeding stock."

Tho following memo, has been received from MrT. W. Kirk, F.L.S. etc., Lond., with regard to a specimen of a plant forwarded from Mastorton;— " The plant fornardod by you on behalf of Mr 11. Brown, is a poisonous plant belonging to the senus Euphorbia. It is commonly known as "caper spurgi," Persons have been known to suffer, seriously from having eatfn the fruits of this plant in mistakp for " capers." The whole plant contains a considerable quantity pf acrid milky jwico.—T, W. Juhk." Wc might add that this plant is common in several parts of this district. |

The following is an extract from a private letter received from Auckland D,y a Napier resident" Business in this province has bcon very dull for some years past, and I am astonished . to hear it reported otherwise, 'Die only department in which it may be said things are booming is on the Exchange, where many have got a had 'attack of , the niining fever, and aro speculating their little capital in scrip, even to the extent af mortgaging their property. There is every prospect of good results in the future, when foreign capital is largely invested on the gold Gelds, hut at present it is merely surface scratching that is being done, and investors are living on hope, which to many will not he realised. They arc wild with excitement and count their chickens before they arc hatched. Some will undoubtedly be lucky i(i the lottery, and many will ' suffer from great depression in the race after a chimera. Still,''(ho scrip goci up and down, and cash is'deviated from legitimate lines to such au exfent seriously afl'ect business in all its departments. Companies are floated upon a name and without much prospect of success, even if they had capital sufficient to work the same. Thcy : arc merely "prospecting! and after their little reserves are expondetlitwillbonecessary to make calls,' and tjioso who are riof prepared to : njeet the same wil| too syffcrers. It is is tin easiet matter to buy low-priced scrip than to wait until it rises in the market." One of tho drawbacks of country lilo, at least to the small settler, is undoubtedly tho increased price he has to pay for any articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason of the extra charges for freight or carriage. This drawback' ncfid exist no longer, for pjjn( ohargeq dqne attay with under tho new 'system which has bcon inaugurated at Te Ado House, Wellington. Undor this system, any of the parcels advertised, wilt be sent to any address in Now Zealand, rosr hike, the prices charged being exactly the same as those at which tho goods are sold over tho counter in Wellington. As may bo imagined, however, in!s liberal offer is only extended to cash customers, and all orders for advertised parcels, must bo accompanied, by cash lor the amomjti before tho ordor can be executed at Te Atiis HoDBB, Wejl|ngtop, In' illustration' of this system; wo will give an oxample. 'Take 'for instance No. 8 Parcel, 'which contains 1 Lady's White Maihsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with the new butterfly collar; 1 Navy "or Black Sateen Blouse, with white spots, new style 1 1 pair of Blaojt Or Coloured Taffeta Gloves,aud 2 pairs o( Ladies Block Cashmere Hose. ■ This completo parccl'will be sont, post ireo, to any address, on receipt of 12/6, from' ft- Aro Houee Wellington.—AdVi.