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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3081, 2 June 1894, Page 2

Our Graphiological Column will be found on the fourth page. Tho monthly meeting of the Town Board will bo held on Monday morning. Mr G. Abrahams th&Dks the ratepayers who voted for him at the Town Board election. Birds are so scarce in the bush that it would be advisable to l ave a close season or two. Montgomery and Williams, the Bridge street burglars, were hang< d in Sydney last Thursday. The Taieri County Council intend striking a charitable aid rate of one farthii g for tho year. It is rumoured that tho ffnia, a weekly Maori newspaper, published at Hastings, is to be issued daily, half in Maori and half in English. Farmers in the Masterton district are already complaining of the scarcity of feed for sheep or cattD. If much frosty weather is experienced the coming winter stock will be very greatly reduced in condition. A Dutch doctor claims to have found a skeleton of the “ missing link ” between the ope and the mau. The cranium measures exactly as much less than the cranium of the man of to day, as it measures more than tho cranium of the chimpanzee, which is nearest man We have to thank Mr Samuel Vaile for a copy of his pamphlet “ Railways and Sooial Conditions.” It contains a full description of “ The Vaile Stage System,” as proposed for adoption in Great Britain and the Colonies, illustrated by a dia gram. Mr John Harding kindly supplies the following : During the month of May rain fell on fourteen days, giving a total of 340 in- lies for the month, of which 150 inches fell on the 28th. Tho average temperature for the month was 52 01. Immense damage has been done to the roads and bridges in tho Palmerston district by the floods. There is hardly a bridge which has not been more or less seriously damaged. Tho work of restoration will involve a heavy tax upon the local bodies’ funds. It is stated that in future a female searcher is to be appointed and constantly employed nt the police depots in all the chief centres of the colony. When not on duty searching female prisoners, she is to be assistant clerk, typewriter, etc. Hitherto the wife of the sergeant in charge has performed tho duty of female searcher, and has been paid a nominal sum for each case.

It will be 9 week before the railway line between Mauriceville and Mangamaboe is cleared. The mails and passengers between Masterton and the Forty Mile Bush will have to be conveyed by coach from Mauriceville until the slip is cleared, owing to there being no train on the Eketahuna side.

The difference in the cof-t of s ndin* a mob of sheep by road and I y rail from Longbeach to Belfast, in Canterbury, was stated by Mr John Grieg to be—by road, 1 7-8 d ; by rail, 9£d. In the former .case the sheep lo*t lib in weight in the best season of 'he yenr. jVf Grigg f-ays he will tramp large n nntc rs pf sheep I y road during the best se isc-n of the year, lut no lambs. These ho always sends by rail.

The Maori band played a number of selections in front of Mr Pattisjn’s shop this afternoon

A football team picked from the follow ing will repr.-seut Waipawa against Te Aute to bo played at the College on Wednesday thj 6th iust : (J. Irvine, Rood Godfrey, Kroupa, Peters, Brown. Bath bone, Grenside, Reardon, Miller, Hopkins MoSherry (2), Sffiley, Garratt, S'.urm, Bibby, B tauiuout, Collett, Bliley, Jordan, Wallace.

A woman in Dunedin sent her daughter, aged 10 years, to got change for a pound note. The child visited three shops, but was unable to got it chuuged. A man in tho street, seeing tho note in hor Inn I, asked tier if she wanted it changed Sh<* replied, “ Yes,” and gave it to him, wlwn ho at onco pocketed the pouud and leit. New Zoaland, as we all know, has at la-t obtained suffrage for women. In a Wellington theatre some injured individual, whose view wns obstructed by s stall hat, cried out in a pleading voice “ Ladies, now that you have tbo franchise, you might really take your hats off.” The Premier the other day, when di« cussing with the members of the Westland County Council the question of tho expense connected with the recent elections of licensing committees, intmau-d that 75 per ceut of the local authorities having made representations to the Government it remained for Parliament to say whether th * State should or should not recoup the difference betweeu tho actual cost and the cost as it would have been under the old Licensing Act. OurHunpden correspondent writes: A special meeting of the (lamp ion schoi 1 committee was held on Wednesday, 30th instant, for the purpose of appointing a teacher in tho place of Miss Fri.-erg, who lately resigned. All tho members of the Committee were present, also a consi lerable number of household rs. Four applications w> to received, viz., Miss Nelson, Messis W R. Taylor, Smith, and Farram, nil of whom possessed excellent certifi cates. Mr Taylor was unanimously ap pointed to fill tne vacancy. The selection of the committee has given general satis faction in tho township. Mr Hill hold the annual examination on Thursday. Tho Eng'ish thrush lias been successfully introduced into the Hangitikei, says the Advocate, and exists in considerable numbers along the Tutacnui stream from Marton to Bulls. Anyone going along tho Marton Bulls Road on a «till evening will hear tho mellow notes of this useful and favourite bird in pretty full chorus. One -cannot help noticing, however, if he has been accustomed to tho thrush's song in tho Old Country, that the colonial bird affords an instance of “ evil comiuunicatons c orrupting good manners,” for tho imported bird has adopted a good many of tho Tui’s notes.

The Daily News has the following concerning Major C Brown who has been removed from the Commission of tho Peace and who has had his license as a native interpreter cancelled .* —There can bo no question that had Major Brown been a supporter of Mr E. M. Smith or the Government he would not have lost his license, and consequently deprived of tho means of earning a livelihood. He was not tho only one concerned in the matter who erred, yet he is the only one made to suffer The irresistible conclusion is that ho is made to suffer becaus? ho is not of the same political faith as the Government. It is rather a serious matter to deprive a person of bis livelihood because his political opinions do not quite suit the inomber of the district or the Government. The administration of tho \ffxira of the colony is now carried on under a system of boycotting, espionage and intimidation. Unless a person is of the “ right colour” woe b'-tide him 1

This is what tho Sydney Morning Herald says about our Lady Mayor :—When the ratepayers of the little senport of One hunga determined on the innovation of electing a lady Mayor, they could have but little foreseen all the consequences of the step to which they were, light of heart, committing themselves. Little did they imagine that for some time to come the g tze of tho civilised world would be centred upon their borough chambers, as the spot where a great experiment was being worked out, fraught with unknown issues to humanity. Above all they coaid not have imagined that when they were seeking merely to provide themselves with a borough council, they were over and above securing to themselves a perpetual (ntertainment, in which the satire of comedy, the fun of farce, and the boisterous humours of a circus are all happily combined. The burgesses of Onehungn indeed builded better then they knew. Besides a borough council, and the first, and possibly the last, lady Mayor in the Southern Hemisphere, they have all tho delights of a free show, the attractions of which are always fresh, and which makes their municipal life a constant source of pride and delight. This is what the Rangitikei Advocate says about the Hon. W. P. Reeves’s poetry: The Hon. William Pemter Reeves, Minister of Labour, has just had a bad attack of versifying, lonic, Sipphic, Alcaic Pindaric, etc., and Hokianga is the long suff-ring subject of bis suffiitioo. He requests the traveller to “ own that our country has lingered to show. This sweetest of scenes as her last,” which mny be very pretty, but how could the country linger to show Hokianga. He also tells us that he has u seen her white wavelets flash back to the moon, And die on Omapere’s breast,” which is very sad for the wavelets, and kind ot Omt pere to let them die on his or her breast, for the gender is left in doubt. He also saw “ Shy nikaus of frost unafraid ” —one would think such nikaus were bold—and “ serpents of spray ” that hissed at the footprints of his horse in the sand, which was probably a demonstration against the Liberal Government, of which he is so poetical an ornament. Then he fitly ends as appended While the voice of the surges, uplifted on high Or lulling in magical fall, Cast, stealing and sinking, as cadences die, A mantle of slumber on all. This is bettor still. A voice tb.\t casts mantles over all, whither of slumber or good Mosgiel manufacture, w< uld bo handy, apparently, in co operative campn for it must bo prptty hard to buy them with the sordid 2s 44d per day. which the labourers under Ids kindly and poetic care earn at their work. But would the Hon. William Pember Reeves come down from his idyllic perch and give us a poem on ihe lot of the Levin co-operative labourer?—tho glories of un 'erecrubbing at 2s 41 per day, with a shilling a week rent to pay, and a family to feed, nnd tho children “ of frost unafraid ” whose clothes have to be bought out of that sum. Wo roiitht then have another “ Song of the Shirt,” not by Tom Hood, but by the Successful Sweater himself.