Wairarapa Daily Times [ESTABLISHED 1874.] MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1895. BANK LEGISLATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5167, 28 October 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times [ESTABLISHED 1874.] MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1895. BANK LEGISLATION.

Mu. Skddox, in supporting the lute Bank Bill, urged that no Premier before hint liacl had so much norry mid bother over any single subject ' as this Banking, and it was all liroughfabout through the log-rolling and generally vile management of j, the Bank in the past; but lie and his colleagues bad made one determination, and had carried it out in spite of all classes of opposition, and that was to prevent such a financial crisis as had overtaken the other Colonies. The Premier is doubtless both sincere ' and sore on the Bank question, but ho is still a little wide of the murk, There could not have been in this Colony, a financial crisis comparable to that which has been witnessed ll say in Victoria ; we might have had a breeze, but certainly nqt a cyclone. The Ministry lias averted a fairly innocuous financial crisis, but it did this at the cost ol a political crisis which has done much to wreck the Premier's party. Mr Seddon forced his BankBill on an unwilling following, and called in the aid of the Opposition S to quell the insubordination of his own supporters. Under these circumstances the Ministry found itself crippled and uuable to pass its own » measures; the House became demoralised and the session is being brought to an ignominious close. Once away from Wellington, Mr Seddon will be blamed by hisownsupporters and censured at public meetings throughout the constituencies. Aiid yet ho lias saved New Zealand c from a financial crisis of some sort, d but one of no considerable magnitude. r Two banks have been helped, but r the question with colonists is rather l' as to whether Ministers controlled the banks or whether the banks controlled Ministers. The old probs lent as to whether the dog wags the y tail or the tail the dog is here exeni- > plified. Were the banks in a position to dictate terms to Ministers, or were the latter free to save or to sink j the rachitic institutions ? This is a s poiut which Ministers havo never faced, or which they have not even explained. Till the truth is known on this head it is impossible to praise the Goyernment fpr a disinterested e service to the public. That the s graduated tax policy of the Governr ment assisted to kill tho Bank of 0 New Zealand by depreciating the value of t|)o estates in fjie Assets a Company is fully' apparent and it may fairly be said that while the Government, by'extraordinary and r questionable expedients, averted a financial crisis, it also by its extra--3 ordinary and questionable legislation " croijlod'it. Fireman Seddon might take ci'pdjp fgp extinguishing a-turn-ing holding if ji? hjniself had not been the one to set it ahgl|t,

i > The Wellington Fire misses BY. Underwriter's Assopis. piatiou lias been approached ivitJ» a yiew to the of an oflicer in Masterton who would devote time to A filial inspection of risks and of suspicious Josses, We have, ourselves, had ample .evidepo.o placed at our disposal to show us W an [ appointment of tins character Jms ; s been necessary, both in the interests ' of the Underwriters and of the- : 1 public, The cheerful alacrity with • j which the Underwriters have, on ; s at least one occasion, paid losses, ' lias been quito an encouragement to | wrongdoers, and it lias vetteoted little j | creditontheintolligenceoftheUndei'' , l writers. ___________

" H.M.S. Pinafore "is lo be produced : at (xrcylown this ovoniag by tlio MastertonJuvouile Company. 1 ' Several additions are made to Mr E. | ,H, W,ood's list of Show Exhibits, to be ( sold after tlio Cwierton SJjOff. < 1 Tlio EeV. J. Duies preached a power, I fid sermon at the Masterton Wesleyan 'Church'last evening, in'the courso of ' 'yliieh' he' spoke Very strongly ajamst j pHjudicj. 1

The Masterton Wesloyan Sunday School Anniversary Beryico takes plaCo nost Sunday. A Native grocor's shop, of very modern architecture, is being erected at Akura. Sir Patrick Buckley is suffering from prostration, and his medical adviser says lie cannot he about for at least a week, A Christian rising is feared in Aleppo and Adana, inland towns of Asia Minor near the north-east corner of thoLovant, A newspaper published in Birmingham, contains the following announcement: "Violin taught at (id a lesson; bun and glass of milk thrown in," The Masterton Municipal Fire Brigade Band lias been engaged to provide the music at the Carterton Show on Friday. Mr J. Swiiidley, who is acknowledged to be one of the finest footballers in the Colony, has left Wellington for Auckland, to join his father in business at Coromandel. It is stated that Walter lientley, the actor, has determined to give up the stage, and seek admission to the Adelaide Bar, and is now studying tor the necessary legal examinations. A match-cutting machine is quite an automatic curiosity. It cuts 10,000,000 sticks a day, aud then arranges them oyer a vat where the heads are put on at a surprising rate of spejd. A big patch of opal has been unearthed on Block Throe at White Cliffs, Wili caimia, by a tributer named Kenneth , Grant. _ The stone was sold for £(IOO, i Grant is still working on the patch. Owing to Friday next being Carterton Show day, the ordinary meeting of the Masterton Town Lands Trustees will . not be held till Friday, November Bth. A large order has been received in .Sydney for hardwood from one of the Continental capitals for wood-paving purposes. ' General Booth, it is said, believes in cycling. Two of his grand-daughters and their mother ride between Hadloy Wood and High Barnett for the religious meetings. A shearer named John Hill, a native of Dundee, Scotland, and lately of Creswiek, Victoria, fell dead while in the act of shearing at JolmLcith's Wamboo station, near Moana, 1 At Warwick's selection, six miles from Wileanna, a girl named Lily Lee. aged 15, was drowned in a tank near the house, A plank slipped, and she fell into eight or nine feet of water. , A day or two ago at Waituua, Mrs I Buckingham had a narrow escape from serious injury. She had just put a i shovelful of coal on the lire when an explosion took place, which completely wrecked the front part of the stove. An i empty cartridge case was found, but it is a mystery how it got among the coals Nelson is not (according to our I exchanges) the only place where lady bicyclists carry all before them. Oil ' the West Coast a few days ago a couple ■ of ladies were charged with furious rid- , iiig. Tliey were careering about at mid- ■ night with lamps unlit, The foolish virgins were not excused because they had forgotten to put oil in their lamps. Mr Parker, who until recently had a dairy farm at Makora, has now purchased the Island Bay Dairy Farm, and 1 assures us that lie has sale in Wellington for over 200 gallonsof milk per day, Mr Parker was in Masterton on Satar--1 day endeavouring to purchase from forty to fifty good milking cows. There is a bettor feeliug on the London Mining Exchange, owing to the formation of a syndicate in Paris with a capital of £2,000,000 to assist the ! weaker holders, chiefly in the African ■ mines, iu Saturday's settlement. | A train ran from Chicago to Buffalo ■ Creek (510 miles) in <lßl niiuutes, eseludI ing stoppages, which gives a speed of 111 r miles per hour. Another train, from f Eric to Bullalo, averaged 70 miles an . hour, and broke the world's record. ■ Bussia has ordered her Pacific Squadj rou to Corea, to prepare for any emert gcncy which may arise. The" liurik , fIO.OGD lons, one of Russia's largest lighting vessels) und other warships, are ' under orders lo join the fleet forthwith, A gruesome discovery was made by a person travelling from Numurkah to ' Wunglmu, in Victoria. He noticed in 1 a paddock a littledistancc from the road ■ what ho took to be a person lying in a I nude state, but when he got close enough L he found a swagger literally roasted lo . death, no clothing remaining but a small , portion of t]ie (roqsers. - At a meeting on Friday the Executive t of the Wellington Prohibition League , passed the following resolution: "T'iiat, , while thanking Sir llobert Stout and the ' other supporters of the Temperance j cause in the House of licprescntatives 1 for such improvements on the existing 1 law as will be effected by the Alcoholic > Liquors Bill, this Executive keenly ■ resents the large concessions made to the t champions of vested interests in the ! Legislative Council, and pledges itself to do its utmost to secure from the next session of Parliament such amendments as will place the absolute control of the liquor trallic in (he hands of the people." One of the most rcmafkablo funerals on fccord took place in the United States lately. It was that of a Miss Bertha liose, aud she was buried I entirely by women. Miss lioso was 22 , at the time of her death, and liafl for , several years taken the deepest interest in woman's work, She had started a , woman's club, the cardinal tenet of which was that no member should ask! ' a man to do anything for her that she could do herself. In accordance with this rule, aud acting on the expressed ! wish of their president, after her death Iter club members took charge of the body, prepared it for the funeral, read the Burial Service over it, lowered the cofliu into the ground, and then filled up the gravo with their own hands. Miss Leslie and Miss Bolus, of Masterton, met with rather a distressing accident, whilo out driying yesterday afternoon. Soon after leaving Masterton, the horse started kick jng, smashing the fropt of tjie buggy into splinters, Miss Leslie jumped out, and in the fall severely sprained both her ankles, and ■ was otherwise bruised about the body. Miss Bolus pluckily picked up tho reins and sent the liorsp into a fence, und beyond a severe fright, escaped unhurt! Miss Leslie was carried to the Empire Hotel, Drs, Hosting and Douglas were called in, aud attended to her injuries, The patient isnowprogressingfarorably An inquest was held at Nugent (Tas.t last week touching tho death of Alieo Brown,.twenty-six years of age, who was foipid hanging to a limb of a tree on the previous day. It transpired in evidence that the girl, who was about J# be married, bad been quarrelling with her intended nusb'and oij the road, and parting from him in a lit of passion, turned into the bush close to the road, broke down a slight gum sapling, and pulling tho bark off it, got ou a log close to the treo to which the strip of baak was tied, fprmed a rough noose, and fastening it round l;er nock threw herself off the log,'and although lipr foot was still ou the log managed to strangle herself. The deed' was committed within yiew of two house's, and within a few yards of (lie road, the body being found by a selector named Kcan, wfio was looking for some" cattle. 'After hearing the evidence Hie jury foi)ijd that the unfortpiiatp yoppg woman hqc) hanged herself whilo of unsoupd ip|n(). In tho Legislative Council on Friday the Hon. W. C. Walker moved, " That, in tho opjnion of the Council, soipo chango intbe matter of reporting should bo jnado which would result in the more oxpedltious publication of Hftmrd; ajid that the Importing Debates Committee be requested (o con? sider tho question and bringupa report," A discussion ensued, the majority of those speaking being of opinion that thero was too much delay in publication, The Hon. J. Kerr suggested somo ays- ' fejji by which Hansard should be published In the daily papers. _ A weekly, ■ and eyeu an uncorrected daily, issue of Hansard was also proposed. Ultimately J the motion was carried, (

Over 4,000 shares in the Collier Two Speed Cyclo Company hare been taken up. Tho words" Emerald Isle "as applied ; to Ireland vrero first used by Dr Drcnnan in a poem entitled" Erin." Messrs Lowes and to their salo listfor October 80th, 20 2-year steers, 40 yearlings, 1 Jersey bull, 12 stow pigs, aud2oo wethers in the wool. If the surface of the earth was "perfectly level, the waters of tho ocean would cover it to a depth of 600 ft. The money taken at the gates of the Show-grouud during the two days the Palmerston North Show was open . amounted to £SOO, as against £>l67 last , year, This shows a large increase on , last year's attendance. Recently in China a man who killed I his father was executed, and along with , him his schoolmaster for not having [ taught him better. t It costs Great Britain £4,000 a year to scrape the barnacles off the bottom of , one of its big mcn-o'-war and repaint it. This lias to be done twice a year in the ' case of nearly every vessel. : The railway companies of Great Britain pay a daily average of £2,700 in ( compensation, about, (10 per cent being j for injuries to passengers, and the ( remainder for damaged freight. i A machine has been invented that will labels on ono hundred thousand I cans in a day of ton hours. There is an . endless procession of rolling cans on a , chute, and each can picks up a label as it passes. The Panama Canal works are in full bbst again, with 4,000 navvies-some of i them yellow gentlemen from tho Celes- , tial Empire, others polished specimens of the great Black race irom Jamaica, and tho rest a mixtum-gathernm crew i from all quarters of tho globe. Boring . or cutting through the Culcbra spur of - the Andes, is the great difiicully, and on this the engineers mean to concentrate ( their efforts. Twonty-livi- millions sterI ling is the estimate for finishing tho ( great work that will give the West . Coast of America sucli a tremendous impulse. The canal will ruin the Straits of Magellan and summon Macaulay's ! New Zealander to a seat on a bridge at • Sandy Point (if there is such a tiling 3 there) long before his services and his ' sketch-book will he required on London Bridge. j "It won't work," said Jones, sadly. B " What won't work ?" " Hypnotism. I I tried it on the butcher. Looked at him fixedly until I had his undivided attention ; then I said very slowly and s with emphasis, ' That bill is paid.' " 1 "And what did the butcher do f" "He 1 said' You're a liar.'" ' Tea tabloids—the best of the tea leaf i minus its heavier fibre, strongly comt pressed—have recently been introduced , into En^landandaremcetiiigwithpopular success. A single tabloid makes an r excellent cup of tea, andthe portability o£ / the artielo secures the tea drinker the I maintenance of thequalily of jjis favorite c beverage, A combination of the sugar interests , of the world against (he United States . and the inauguration of a Sugar Bank in London would have a paralyzing effect upon tho sugar production of America. II Such a plan has, however, been ongagj ing the serious attcution nf certain poi\ erful factions, and is among tho pos- > sibilities. The public will doubtless ' soon be apprised of the project in detail, j How John Bull's vigorous hands have levelled up Egypt, which is fast becoming the health resort for the swells and • plutocrats of Europe, who like to have 6 it to say that they "have(ravelledin " Africa," without explaining that it was c not exactly in the Livingstone orStaniey 11 sense of tho expression. Ten years ago the number of European visitors to a Egypt from NovembcrtoAprilconsisted chiefly of the friends o( the English army occupation. Five years later the tourists reached an aggregate of 4,000, and were nearly all English, During tho winters of 1892 to 1894 tho numbers were raised to 5,400, aud in the season just concluded there were no less lj than 7,492 arrivals into the country, t either by way of Alexandria or by the e Suez Canal, and of (his number only 45 per cent, were English, 45 per cent, were American, and the remaining 10 11 per cent, were made up by German and 0 other nationalities. Some of (he hotels 11 arc already building extra accommoda--1 tiou. I ( The following tenders were dealt with Q on Saturday:—To Ore Oro-Bidcford I Jioad Conlract, No, 22, formation, etc.: —J, Tobin k Co., £B9 las, accepted. Declined: —ll. Kerrins, £92; McKce 0 ct O'Dowd, £93; Tate & Barclay, £lO5 e 7s. p A doctor in South Africa claims to D have discovered a new method of curing disease, which he terms "lacteopathy." r It struck him, ho says, that as milk J absorbs poisonous germs Irom a bucket, ' it might also be used (o absorb poison- • ous germs and gases from (he body. p He put his idea to the test, and now claims to have cured people of suiall-pox, 1 fovcrs, diphtheria, spinal disease and many other maladies, by simply wrapping ' the patients in milk sheets. Ho lays his i patients ofl 4 mattrass covered with blankets, lakes a sheet just largo enough s to envelop the body, warms it, saturates 1 it with about a pint and a-half of warm s milk, opens it without wringing it, aud wraps his patient in it for about an hour. I subsequently sponging him over with r warm water or putting him into a warm 1 bath, Ho declares that in one bad ease J of small-pox, where tho eruption was f ivoll out, tho milk sheet drew the poison c so entirely from the skin that tho next day tlis eruption disappeared and the j patient was convalcsoeut. l A syndicate of American paper manufacturors is supplying a largo amount of j the print paper now being used for Lon- , don publications. Tho reason is that j American paper is cheaper that English aud, strange to say, the carriage from tho Yorkshire mills to tho metropolis is 35 shillings per ton, whereas it is losis > than 12 shillings from Now York. Its ! stated that two London dailies contem* ' plate running their editions on American ' paper. : An Amorican capitalist is opening a new colliery near' Eekington, Derby- ' shire, which will serve ps a practical ; example of tho utilization of electrical | energy of no small amount. The colliery ! is to be lit and worked entirely by elcc- ; tricity. High-pressurs boilers, with ! high-speed steam-engines, will be put ' down, with suitablo dynamo and motor 1 plant. The under-cutting of coal will . bo donti entirely by electric coal-cutting ) machines of tho latest design, and the 1 ventilating-faus will be driven by separi ate motors of their own. Mr Chandos ; Polo is mentioned as tho owner of this i up to date colliery, i In a Lincoln rillago lives a family who suffer under the curious deformity of ! boing fingorlesß, This peculiarity does 1 not appear to be one of those freaks of Naturo which may appear in one indivi dual, and not bo transmitted to the next generation. From what can bo learned, the singularity has existed in this family so far as history or tradition extends, and there sppms at presnt no signs of its ■ dying out, as the grandchildren are as devoid of fingers of thoir grandsire. The hands of this remarkable family present the appeafance'of having had the fingers amputated, or chopped off roughjy and uuevenly below the second joint, leaying a short stump- There is no naj! qr hard substance, an<j weje j( not for the absence of anything l|koa cicalpjcp a would concliido that the defect was due to accident; but, as though Naturo had attempted to compensate for the absence of fingers, the thumbs are sbnormaliv l?fge an 4 strong, Thp farpily are |n ptuor respects fully endowed by Naturo, aud do not appear to suffer the disadvantages the absence of fingers might bo expected to entail. Ono of tho daughters, aged twenty, can write, sew, knit, and is iu every way as dextorous and accomplished as other girls of hor ago and station, When asked if sho "did not Audit awkward to be flngerless," she replied 1—" No! If you had never had fingers, you would not know you needed them." Tho only drawback that seems to be occasionedis the curiosity the absence of lingers crokes from strangers,

s Acceptance for tho Taratahi-Carter-1 a ton Paeos, to bo held on Monday November lltb, close this evening. 1 Several good baskets of trout were • taken from the Buamabunga yostorday. A Mastcrton Chinaman fell asleep r whilo driving his cart on Saturday ■ eyening, and was jolted out on to the 0 road, but quitp escaped injury. t Mrs Treader, wife of Mr Jacob • Treader, of Upper Manaia, died yestora day. Her funeral will tako place tomorrow, at 2 p,m. e Mr A. L. TVhyte, tlio well-known and e popular caterer notifies that he will have 1 refreshment booths at the Carterton t Show and Taratahi-Carterton llaces. 1 The Premier states that he expects to prorogue Parliament on Thursday next 1 but that the House ounht to finish all ii its business and adjourn on Tuesday. ? The Poverty ]3ay Agricultural Show was a great success. Crackshot was d awarded first prize for thoroughbred f horses. McKenzic, for Eonniey ram (bred by Matthews. Wairarapa), and c McFarlane for Leicester (bred by Feizzle, Canterbury), took first prize in j their classes. a A large party of youngsters from tlio ; Foathcrston School visited Mastcrton to- - day. They were driven up by coach and return this afternoon. 1 Mr 11. Arundol, Federal Hotel, Ber--1 rigan, New South Wales, drew Trenton i in the St. Albans Lottery, nudhas insured i him for £SOOO. 3 The many frionds of Lieutenant-Col-onel McDonnell, of Wellington, will 1 hear with regret of the death of his eldest f daughter Coral. Deceased was only l'J. . years of age. s At the sale of the portion of the Stud- ■ holme Estate, including some of the best r land in South Canterbury, the prices I realised were as followsloß acres at f £lB, 107 at £ll, 29 at £l6los, 17G at i £l6los, Bli at £15,2G8 at £11,45 at £(5. [ The Bey. liobert Wood delivered the first of his series of special sermons last , night at the Mastertou Presbyterian s Church, s Mr 11. Taylor writes to say that Mr s O'liegau is mistaken in supposing that ,t Is each is paid for shirtmaking in Weig lington, The rate is <ls (id per dozen, s the seamstress finding her own cotton. II A member of the Napoleon family whose Christian name is Jemmy, tried , to do for himself in La Plata recently, j' by striking at his own head with a pickj axe. Ho is kid up in ordinary, but not likely to die. d Complaint has been made to us of the ' careless way in which loose horses arc <> sometimes driven to their paddocks within the Borough. Yesterday, a lady j had a very narrow escape from being j. trampled under foot in Colombo lioad. j Wc believe that driving horses in this fashion, is contrary to the Borough Byn laws. 'f In Hapgood's liussian Humbles, refere cute is made to a variety of pea growing e about seven feet high, and producing pods seven inches long and three inches wide. Also of double poppies, six to seven feet in high, with flowers the size of peonies, while tlio pods of singlo poppies are nine inches mcirctimfcroiice. Thousands of struggling pauper Jews • from ileisarabia and from tlio Crimea, havo during the past year settled in the fertile plains of Entre liios, Buenos s Aires and Santa Fe, where, owing to the care and precision of the Jewish Colonisation Association started in London a few years ago by Baron Hirscli, they nro supplied with farms, homesteads, agricultural implements and provisions for tlio first year. The island of Juan Fernandez immor--0 talised as the residence of ltobinson 0 Crusoe, is about to bo colonised undor j the direction of the Chilian Governl! ment, The lonely hut which Alexander , r Selkirk, the real Eobinsou, built aud occupied, is to be torn down aud a prison L erected on its site, Early in the present j century the island was used as a convict e station, but in recent years it has been , s let to a trader at a rent of £2OO a year. '< A well-known engineer, M. Plistcr, t nays the Rmlmty Seme, is stated to 3 have discovered a remarkable property '• of the trunks of trees, namely, that of retaining the salt of sea water that has j 1 filtered through the trunk in the direcls lion of the fibres, and ho has constructed an apparatus designed to utilise this property in obtaining potable water for h ship's crews. It consists of a pump, d which sucks up the sea water into a -: reservoir and then forces in into a filter, 1, As soon as the pressure reaches I' 3to 2'5 ® atmosphere the water makes its exit from '5 the other extremity of the trunk, at first in drops, and then in fine streams, the to water being described as free from g every trace of its original saline con- " stituents. _ How long can the sun go on giving | litjht aud warmth to the solar system '< J The llev. Edmund Ledger (Gresham Lecturer on Astronomy) suggests an . auswer in an article on "Stars and ' ( j Molecules" in the Nineteenth Cenhsry:— "As regards the sun, it is £ believed that the heat evolved by such contraction as may bo taking placo in it at the present time keeps it very nearly at a constant temperature, and is just n about enough to counter-balance its loss of heat by radiation. It has however, been calculated that such evolution of jj heat by contraction cannot, in all probability, maintain the sun's temperature sufficiently to support life as at present 1 upon the earth for much moro than ten n millions of years to como; nor that a , similar supply can haye been kept up ' for a period variously calculated at from ten to eighteen millions of years past, In auv case, however, it is very intercsti- ing that the maintenance of the sun's 'f temperature depends upon the knocks of i- its molecules, as affected by its radiat tioii and gravitation, during the present h existence in it of a condition chiolly gasen ous. Apart from these knocks the eartu s would almost immediately become a s frozen lifeless waste." The knocks of 5 the molecules aro thoir frictions and • clasbings together as they arc drawn a inward by the gravitating attraction of the sun's mass, 1 An advertiser requires a good ploughman. A good general servant with references is required. Mark Twain's Toast, -The Babies—We have all been babies. Heaven bless thciu ! To make them strong and healthy use l)r Kirk's Farinaceous Food. Sold by all store- ' keepers. j One of the drawbacks of country life, at , least to the small settler, is undoubtedly ' tho increased price ho has to pay tor any " articles of clothing or general drapery, by reason of tho extra charges for freight or 5 carriage. This drawback need exist no 5 longer, for extra charges are dono away with undor tho now system which has beon > inaugurated at Te Ajio House, Wellington, f Under this, Bystem, any of the parcolß j advertised, will b? Bent to any address in p New Zealand, post mee, the prices charged being oiaclly the same as those at which tho , goods are sold over the counter in Wellington. As mßy ho imagined, however, i this liberal offer is only extended to cash ' customers, and all orders for advertised i parcels, must be accompanied by cash for i tho amount, before the order can be exei cutcd at Te Ana Hoube, Wellington, In illustration of this system, we will • give an example. Take for instance No, 3 [ Parcel, which contains 1 Lady's White : Mainsook Blouse, trimmed with embroidery and with tho uew buttorlly collar; 1 Navy or Black Sateen Blouso, with wbjte spots, new 1 stylo;} pair of B|aok or Coloured Taffeta ■ Qloves.and % pairs of Ljdies Blaok Cashmcro 1 lfo3e. This complete parcel will be sent, ' post freo, to any address, on receipt of 12/6, from Te Abo House Wellington.—Ann. Itise in wool I Tq make your Sconcs, Cakcß, Bread, etc,, ueo Anderson's Jumbo 1 Ijrand Baking Powder, Sold by all store-1 keepers, i