Hawke's Bay Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1899. IS IT ASLEEP?

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11130, 24 January 1899, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Herald TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1899. IS IT ASLEEP?

We have been waiting with a I patience born of long-suffering for the putting into execution of that declaration stoutly uttered by the Opposition leaders at the end of I last session. They announced their intention of stumping the country from the North Cape to the Bluff, and giving Mr Seddon and his I myrmidons a dose of their own medicine. Mr Seddon and the members of his flock have been over many miles of the country since 1 then. They have visited remote districts and emphasised the beauties of " Liberal" rule, and been cheered and feted galore. In these places the people don't seem to believe I there is any Opposition. It is only a fiction which give the newspapers " copy" to work upon, such as the kumi, the taniwba, and other myths. I How are they to be perauaded there is an Opposition when they never see any of its professors ? Granting that they do recognise that there are men in the House who do not fall down at the feet of " Dr." Seddon, why should they take any interest in them, when the members of the Oppesition display no desire to make themselves acquainted with the wants of the electors, or to tell the electors what they require, and why they require it ? The average elector must conclude that they have nothing to say, or they cannot say it well enough to appeal to their judgment. Keally it is time the Opposition woke up and rubbed its eyes, and took a look around the political landscape to see how much of it is left since the Liberals took charge of the watch. In a few months the electors of . the colony will exercise their periodical privilege. The proba bility is that that appeal will be made much sooner than would be ! the case if the present Parliament ,; were permitted to run out to the Eull length of its tether. The chances are that next session will be 9, very short, one, and the appeal r made to the electors directly aftertvards. The high priests of the Liberal persuasion affect to believe bhat if the general elections take place in the early spring, the stationjwners will have no labor to coerce nto voting for their fancy. The Trades Unions are intended, as a »reat factor in the coming struggle, and the party in power intend to have the honest toiler under their noses, for they are getting afraid of him. The Liberal party has plunged so deeply that it must avoid at all risks any chance of defeat, and the inevitable revelations which would follow such a disaster. Three years is a long while to pull up in, and the books might be adjusted in that time so as to account for many peculiar items of expenditure which at present cannot be plausibly accounted for, and the disclosure of which might make an unreasonable people decide that Liberalism is not healthy for the country, but rather to be strictly avoided, and included among the " undesirables." It is not at all improbable that after some more Liberal rule, Liberals of the Seddon, Ward, and M'Kenzie stamp will be included with Chinamen and Austrians in the Eestriction Act and forbidden to land. And when the matter is soberly considered there is far less reason for excluding the bland Celestial and the stalwart Dalmatian than the ordinary, average, garden species of Liberal. But the Opposition ! Where is it ? What is it ? Is it nocturnal in its habits, and of so blushing and retiring a disposition that ita modesty cannot force it out into the public light? If it is hibernating in its habits it should be roused and informed that the winter was over a long time ago, and if it does'nf hurry up another winter will be or its tracks. The average electoi begins to believe in time what is continually dinned into his ears, anc as he never gets anything else in jected into his political system, anc nobody ever tells him there ii another side to the story, he absorbi the beauties o£ Liberalism, and si Seddon is king. The Oppositioi . leaders occasionally make a spurt and just when it is being popularly I believed that there is something ii what they say they die away, sinl into a soft gentle slumber/ and an no more, until something else prodi them up into spasmodic activity. A glance at English political his . tory shows us the merit of continu ous activity. A British Ministry has no time nowadays to becomi corrupt and effete. Just when the] have been long enough in power t< carry things up to the furthest pom' within their abilities, the other sidi comes forward with a rush and takei the inside running. How man] times have Mr Gladstone and hii great opponents, Disraeli and Salis bury, retired from office with seventenths of the country against them That didn't discourage them in the least. They went to work and strove as strenuously out of office as wher jn power, wi£h the result that the very opinions that drove them from the Treasury Benches frequently (brought them back with the authority of f;he' nation behind them, whan the merits qf the question had been allowed to pint into the consciousness of the people, and the benefiting results which the far-seeing legislator had predicted were grasped by the intelligence ol the public. The people want to know the claims of the Opposition to assume the Government of the country. The leaders cannot be surprised if their silence is an ad- , mission that they are not animated 1 with"tbe' jus tide and righteousness of jtheir cause.' ' They cbuld soon, by li'al|t'^'ppergy displayed by their ppponenjts,' mjjifee $c people see that fcfegy |m j'ustjee afld rjghf, on ' "^ fi - ' ffev ¥9 %" people their «,. " - *«"e flfiFP? H d ? to know if the> " -««?gsfes.t If a man declared he was tiic o novelist or poet of the centuij, would he believed by the public if they didn't see some evidence of it in the shape of his works issued from the press? Then how, in all conscience, is the Opposition going to prove its worthiness to assiime office, when tb.e ayerage elector just comprehends the fact that ij: exists and knows little more about it, except the abuse and ridicule which Mr Seddon and his following are so careful to distribute concerning the members of the party. The claims of the Opposition are many. Their opportunities are great. It has the oratory of the House on its side, and the brains, though it lacks that colossal self-eßteem which the Liberal party profess. The Opposition, however, like Washington, cannot lie, except in so far as the restful meaning of the word goes. But that is one of its merits if it only let the public know that truth on any political subject has vanished from the Treasury side of the House. The Opposition have no policy, it is declared. Policy;! There is policy enough in the betrayal of .the political corruption abounding ia this

colony, and the methods by which j the people are cheated and aeeeived 1 into the belief of a false and specious I prosperity. I Shall we have to wait until the I Oppositiua is advertised for, with I reward attached, when some of theia I might see the inquiry and let us 1 know where it lias gone to ? A. I notification to the following effect I might result in their discovery : — I Lost, the Opposition ; seen in the House last session. Reward given to I anyone finding same, dead or alive, or I giving any clue as to the perpetrator of I the deed ; suspicion rests largely on a I certain D.C.L. I Seriously, though, it is time the I Opposition leaders were made to come forth from their lair, and woke up to a sense of their respon- j sibility and made to face the enemy, even at the bayonets' point.

THE FROZEN MEAT TEADE. Whew in 1882 New Zealand entered on the frozen meat trade and ex- 1 ported a modest 1,707,3281 bof mutton, there were not wanting those I who prophesied that the drain on our flocks would prove to be too great 1 to be kept up. Tet with one exception, in 1892, the export has increased steadily, until last year it was 159,223,7201 b, and the flocks in the colony in the meantime increased by something like 5,000,000 This was the greatest export on record, beating that of the previous year by nearly 8,000,0001 b. This increase, however, was mainly in lamb and beef. The weight of mutton was 108,005,3551 b, as compared with 103,625.6231 b the year before, the lamb exported increased from 40,828,3511 bto 42,005,8621 b, while beef nearly doubled, rising from 5.745,8241 bto 10,390,0141 b Ab usual, nearly all the lambs went from the South Island, but all the beef was sent from the North. The details, as supplied by Messrs Dalgety and Co. for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, were as follows : — '.

On our fourth page to-day will be found a report of the meeting of oreditors yesterday in 0. E. Morton's estate, sporting news, and our Danevirke correspondents letter. A Brindisi mail was brought over to Auckland by the s.s. Westralia from Sydney, Mr P. Pirani, M.H.R., has been summoned as a witness in the Marine Department cases to be heard at Wellington to-day. The Gisbprne School Committe have decided to vote for Dr. Sidey and Mr F. W. Williams to fill the two vacant seats on the Hawke's Bay Education Board. Miss Amy Stewart, for four years a nurse in the Napier Hospital, has been appointed matron of the Masterton Hospital. Miss Hettie Tansley, the popular Danevirke vocalist, has acoepted a twelve months' engagement with the Payne Family, She leaves to join the company on Monday next. Miss Henn, pupil of Mr Charles Macfarlane, having taken over that gentleman's students of the banjo, is prepared to give tuition in that instrument* and mandolin. Captain Edwin wired at noon yesterday : — Wind strong to moderate from west to south-west and' south at all places. Barometer further rise everywhere. Sea. moderate on both coasts. Tides generally decreasing. In connection with the flood memorial carnival which is to take plaoe on the evening of the 15th prox., the directors of the Recreation Ground Company have granted the free use of the ground for the evening. An inquest will be held at Hastings today by Mr Beilby upon a child named Waldron. The child was aged 9 months, and died suddenly yesterday morning at the residence of its parents, Mr and Mrs J. Waldron. It had been ill for some time, The number of co-operative -workers employed under Government departments in December last was 2789, of whom 1397, all laborers, were under the care of the Survey Department, whilo 219 artisans and 1154 laborers were in the employ of the Public Works Department. For the convenience of Petane, Western Spit, and Port people a 'bus will leave the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Co-operative store, Spit, to-morrow at 2 p.m. for the Highland Society's gathering at Maraekakaho. The Napier 'bus will leave T. Parker and Co.'s corner at 2,15 p.m. sharp. The usual weekly meeting of the committee of the Wanderers' Bicycle Club was held at the Masonic Hotel last night. Mr W. J. Gutnrie was elected a member of the club! In response to a request from ' the "Flood Memorial Committee it was decided to renfjeV qll the assistance possible at the {J'4a tow beirijjf arranged. A moonlight rjde for members was arranged for Thursday evening, the procession to leave the Marine-parade rotunda at 745 i In the oase of Archibald Clark and Sons against M'Ofreevy, an appeal by the defendant against the judgment of Mr Turnbull, S.M., in favor of the plaintiffs, argued before hia Honor the Chief Justice at the last Supreme Court aittings at Napier, the judgment of hia Honor was read yesterday by Mr Turnbull, dismissing the appeal with XlO 10s costs against the appellant. Mr Sainsbury received judgment for the respondent and Mr Stock for the appellant. The 'fire at the Rangltikti Advocate office on Thursday evening is supposed to have originated on or 'under a "frame " fao,jng ojje $ thb widows'.' Jt wiya., liowey.er, jjispoyered before, v^uph damage was done by fire, but everything was |hppug])ly 4«t fa se4 Tfift T ?'M ier - The *& iS fel c Wril VTOWifcu.t the general " - •* jfiai n w we w»rt of an opinion Bjsh.o.p and a inoendiary. »n>a SPg*gsd, sergeant from Wonganui — investigating. Mr J. E. Page, who was skip of the Victoria (Wellington) team at the Wanganui bowling tournament, furnishes the JV.Z. Times with some notes on the tournament, in the course of which he ?ay? ; _« The skip of the Bluff Hill team, too, s?as andf;ii^v conopjouous figure. He is a tall, ttiin mau.'with' a iftOift pronounced Scotch accent, and to knyone who esin appreciate the Scotch vernacular it was ljke a whiff from the Land o' Cakes to hear hjm, in his jthin voice, and yevy 4ejiberaitie m.ann,er, urging his third man to .corae ffj? witt " just a n^ce quiet dra-a-w alongside tfe>'ja,ck y if you can manage it." Thero was ak^j opo other conapicjuovjs figure whom I must mention. This was the skip of the Car.terton team, a prominent member of the Napier Club. How he caina to fcp stip <4 the Garterton team I do not know, tot jye .did not question his right to play, «r t})g team had played ueveral other games before we met them. He is a stout man with a big strWoiifc voice, which he was not sloth to use. Ho conld be heard all over the green, and he gave us considerable amusement by his raiinner of ' going for ' his team when they did not do what he required. 'What are yer up to?, I didn't want yer thore. I wanted yer round 'ere be'ind the jack. We aint got £cthin£be'iud!'"

According to the estimate of the harbor engineer, there were 762,000 cubic yards of sand accumulated round the New Plymonth breakwater in November last, and the average drift of sand for the last 18 years has been about ?0,000 cubic yards per annum. The cost of maintaining the port for over by- means of sand-pump dredging should not exceed JCIOOO a year for working expenses. The Hawke's Bay Education Board scholarships have been allocated to the following : — Herbert Benson, Clive ; Hilda Burns, Clive; Lily M'Kee, Chye; Drucie Jones, Gisborne ; George Morice, Gisborne ; Harry Morgan, Gisborne ; David Humphrey, Hastings ; John Dawson, Hastings ; Robert M. Egan, Hastings ; William Brabazon, Makotuku ; Lily Russell, llakotuku ; Helen A. Taylor, Napier; Alice Rauzi, Napier; Thomas Lang, Napier ; Ina' Dugleby, Napier ; Francis Campbell, Napier; Mary Teychenne, Napier ; Kathleen Kerr, Napier; Charles Wilson, Napier ; Gertrude Fletcher, Napier; George ■• Peach, Ormond ; Sarah Weaver, Port Ahuririj Gilbert Bogle, Waipukurau ; Arthur Lowe, Waipawa; Frank Nicholson, Woodville. Our Waipawa correspondent writing yesterday says: — The committee of the Waipawa Racing Club met on Saturday night, when were present — Messrs J. Harker (chairman), H. H. Bridge, Symons, Whittingtori, Arrow, and W. H. Bathbone. Correspondence with the Metropolitan Clnb was read re Mr Baynor'B protest against Mrs Quralivan receiving the stakes in the Maiden Plate run at the recent meeting. The correspondence in the case had been sent and a ruling asked for, That body decided that the club, as shown, by the evidence submitted, appeared to have sufficient information to enable it to arrive at a decision. After discussion it was resolved that Mr Kaynor's protest re the owner of The Frenchmon retaining the stakes be upheld, and 'that Mrs Quinlivan be informed that she must return the stakeß. A plan of the proposed alterations to the straight, as suggested by. Mr Percy Martin, was laid on the table. Mr Carroll, surveyor, wrote saying it would make the course 11 chains - longer, while the distance in the- straight would be increased by two chains. The bend leading into the straight would be an excellent one, and would remove all fear of danger. The area of land required to make these alterations was 3 roods 32 perches. The alterations were approved, and the work iB to be put in hand at once. The secretary was instructed to write to Mr M'Greevy and ascertain on what, terms he would let the dab have the necessary land. Messrs White, W. H. Bathbone, Arrow, and Symons were appointed a sub-committea to deal with the matter. — Thirty-five volunteers answered the roll call at '4 o'clock this morning, and proceeded to the site of the camp, where they erected 11 tents, arranged all necessaries, and bad breakfast by 7 a.m. It is expected that there will be 60 on the ground for irill to-night. On Wednesday afternoon the band will be present, and a large number of visitors fire expected. Mr J. Hutcheson, M.H.K. for Wellington City, was interviewed in respect to the Marine Department scandals by the Wellington correspondent cf the Auckland Star. Apart from the allegation of issuing irregular master and mates* jertificates, he challenges the efficiency d£ the provisions made for testing the variation of compasses, and when it is understood that a very slight error in a, ship's compasses might mean her wreck and the loss of many lives, the serious- • ness of the allegation is apparent. Mr Hutcheson declares emphatically that a wholesale system of crimping is almost openly and defiantly carried on in at Least one of the porta of the colony. The modus operandi is to procure the discharges of men who have completed their articles at the port of Wellington, and to transfer these discharges to mere lubbers and incompetents who are anxious to return to England. These ■ receive a shilling a month for the passage, and when it is stated that the common rate of pay is £12 a month from that port, it is evident that the men engaged in the crimping trade make enormous profits, whioh are divided between them and unscrnpulons masters of vessels, who of course enter in the ship's books against the name of the shilling a month men the full average rate of pay at the port of departure. It is also alleged that crews who have signed for the return trip are often covertly encouraged to ■ desert in order that the master and his accomplices of the crimping fraternity may find cheap substitutes. Mr Hutcheson suggests, as a remedy for this, that a reliable officer should board all the oceangoing vessels immediately prior to their departure, have the orew mustered on deck, the roll called, and a comparison made between the particulars given in the certificate of discharge and the age> and appearance of the person to whom the certificate is said to belong. The member for Wellington chuckles dryly as he explains that very frequently youths of 16 ship as A.B.s on the strength of a discharge issued to a man of 50, while old men past the age of efficiency, are represented on their alleged certiti-^. cates of discharge as mere juveniles. " We want a sort of nautical Tunbridge," remarks the member for Wellington, " to deteot and put a step to these gross abuses," Consumption is responsible for mora deaths than any other disease. No lesa than 523 persons die' annually in NewZealand from consumption, and as medical authorities now hold the disease to be not merely preventable, but curable, the directors of the Australian Widows' Fund Life Assurance Society have had 100,000 copies of a pamphlet, by Dr. P. Jamieson, printed for gratuitous circulation. The society intimate) that a copy of it can be had at their office on application, personally or by letterj I STOPPED THAT~cbIJGH ana CUBED A YEBT BAB COLD by a single bottle of Dr. Pas call's Cough Mixture.— (Signed) C. H'Donald. Is 6d and 2s 6d. Ecolea, Chemist. Napier and Hastings. Ecoles' Corn Painthas no equal for the gpeedf, permanent, and painless care of hard or sore corns ) ÜBtially cored after a few applications. In bottles, Is, from A. Ecoles, Chemist, Napier and Hastings.— Advt, ~ J. S, Welsman's Special Proprietary Medicine —the Liver Mixture for biliousness and indigestion, Dysentery Mixture, Neuralgia Mixtore, Quinine and Iron Tonic;- Wins, Wind Mutora for Infants, &c, Lococks Hair Lotion, Com Paint, io., &o. The Pharmacy, HastingS'Streeta —Advt. The Hawke'a Bay Permanent Building anct Investment Society axe now prepared to advance money on mortgage on freehold and leasehold securities on the new reduced tables of redemption payments aB low as 5 per cent per annum, which are lower than any other society in the colony. Apply to the secretary, J. B. Fielder, at the Society's office, or Joshua Bennett, Hastings, —Advt. Orion Ranges, all sices, from Sft to sft, always on hand. A large assortment of Kearsley mower fittings, knife bars, driving rods, section, &c, just arrived! 10 per cent allowed on cash purchased of Ironmongery.— J. A. Fryer, Hastings* streot, Napier. SYNOPSIS OP NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Partner wanted with small capital to trave) with New Zealand Blondin* ■ Two albums misViM, in. leather casa. Regain Lewis Steo,d, Dtckens-street. ' Loa^iy's Wahoo, an infallible remedy. Urgent meeting Waka'marino, G.M. Company, Thursday next,' noon, Clarendw Hotel. Election of "three meanbera to Harbor' Board, Nominations close.' Jfcnuary 3lst, Miss Heimresunies tuition January 30t&, - PuroVred Shropshire ewea and rams lor sal* H. i. PurkerTKnrerslea. Waikoto. Mrs Macfarlane. l»gW9 music lessons February 7th. Dr. TiWJea" vi-cqcoa extremely beneficial. Applications invited to perform various ditties ill Nnpter borough, to cluso Monday next, noon. Reasons why Quibell's sheep dips sell so well. Bankrupt stock in estate of C, X, Morton at) Blythe's Thursday noxt. Grapes at The Cafe, • Wanderers' Bioycle Club runs Thursday and Saturday. Weights autumn meeting H.B. Jockey Club declared March 10th: acceptances cloae March 13th. Sailing of P. and 0. boats February and March, Mr Davies, of Messrs WilßOn and Davio9, dentists, attends Hastings to-day from 10 a.m. t<s 4.30 p.m. ENQAQEMKNT. Haraston's Circus^ next Clive-sjiuare, 8. I That nopnlar remedy. Nl Dr. Pascall's Cougi 1 Mixture?' has ma^de hosts, of friends since ilq ; introduction here. Everyone woo lias tried it : speuks highly of its wonderful qualities* and . take pleasure in recommending it to their frwnda i as the very best remedy they have ever used for > coughs and coMs, ls6di»nd2BpSbo».. Whole* ! sale and Botail Agent, A. Katies, Napier and Hastings Qwak Beauotiouß m Table and Dessert Knifes, FqtXSi BpoODs (C. Jolraaon and other reliable? -Var|), V>rvW. Steel», Bread Saws, KniTetf, mv. * •? rare Tatae trad selection of Croets* and Platters; ■, v jm Sfooos, Csse» CMrere, Teapots, .5 o cloj-- *£ ki r j, read Forks, Pen, p,sh Knives J"*! 0 Knives, Princess Piano £££ "In W m^ea 'at sa.e prices,-. James Hardy (

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