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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3104, 26 July 1894, Page 2

An article on the Lands for Settlement Bill and other matter will be found on the fourth page. In order to present our readers with the usual amount of reading matter we issue tho Financial Statement as a supplement to-day.

Tho Rov J. J. Pendray’s subject for Sunday evening next is “ Scriptural and other stumbling blocks, which stand in the way of a sincere sceptic.” Mr A. Breuer, upholsterer, announces that he has a large stock of kapok on hand and is prepared to make beds, pillows, etc. at the lowest prices. Mr Oill, thinks that £l5O would be sufficient to test the question of an artesian water supply for the borough of Danevirko.

“ Blenheim is now a dirty, over-taxed, little pi ac**, and all that can leave it will do so.” That is how a resident expresses himself in the local Express. The Secretary of the Waipawa District Hospital reports as follows for the week ending July 21st, 1894 : Patients in hospital, M 28, F 1 ; received daring the week, M 7, F 0 ; discharged, M 5, F 1 ; died, M 1, F 1. Five Chinese gardeners have boon summoned to appear before tho Palmer etou Court on Friday next on a charge of committing a breach of the Police Offences Act, on Bth July, by working on a Sunday. The youngest eon of Mr J. J. Buchanan of Hampden while playing with some other boys in the school ground on Wednesday, fell breakiug a small bone aud dislocating an ankle. James Bailey, who absconded from his creditors and was recently brought hack from New South Wales, was committed for trial at Wanganui yesterday. Bill was allowed, accused in £IOO and two sureties of £IOO each.

During the debate in the lloubj last night on tho Land Tax Bill several raoai bers expressed tho opinion that tho Trea surer had no surplus at all except on pap*r. Several Government supporters were of the same opinion and it camo as a surprise to many to hear Mr Ward declare that “ the land tax was necessary to enable the Government to meet their engagements in Loudon at the end of October.”

Wo (Evening Press) hoar that a merchant in this city bad a letter from a Sydney correspondent to-day, in which ho tolls him that practically tho whole of tho Labour members there are Freetraders. Fnetrado with New South Wales, ought, therofore, to be assured.

None of the Government organs appear to bo delighted with the Financial Statement delivered by tho Colonial Treasurer on Tuesday night. In view of tho neces sity for a largo loan, which the Statement foreshadows, they seem rather mystified about tho alleged surplus of £290,000 which the Treasurer claims to have. A very sympathetic gentleman who had tho welfare of the ladies at he irt, delivered a lecture on “ Tho Duties of Husbands,” to a Cnattanooga (US) audience. In impressive sentences he urged the gentlemen to treat their wives kindly, and had not completed his advice when an officer appeared upon the stage aud arrested him for bigamy. A carrier of Mastertoo, against whom it was desired that a prohibition order should bo issued, p'eaded in tho Magis Irate’s Court that lie couid not be a drunken man because he was employed by prohibition and temperance men. The Magistrate observed that probably ho was employed by these gentlemen as a “ BUocking example.”

It is taid that two enterprising young ladies recently journeyed through the prohibited Clutha dietrict aud did a splen did business retailing drinks to customers at prices ranging from lo to 2i tho glass. The damsels went very slyly to work, driving from place to place in a baggy, and aro said to have been more than satis lied at the financial results of their country tour It is said that one “ gavo ” the liquor away, while tho other accepted tho shilling “for a charitable purpose! ’ The weather being very bad and tho roads muddy did not provent a large gathering at K.ikora ot relatives and friends of the deceased gentleman, John Steven, from attending to tho la6t ceremony attaching to mortals on earth. Fully 120 person* attended the funeral erreraouy. Mai y from Patnngata and Tamumu, also Te Aute and Waipawa were there. Near’y 40 of tho near relatives and those reJa’.< d by marriage wore among those in tho procession. The ceremony was irupres sivoly rendered by tho R-*v H. W. JohnstoD, minister of this district. The annual report of tho Department of Labour declares that tho working classes of New Zealand have had little cause to complain duriug tho past year, and this with twenty thousand idle men in tho Colony, and the number increasing rapidly day by day. Will tho army of unemployed in New Zealand endorse this statement, or will the employed who from day to day know not whether they will ho cut adrift, aflirni it, or will tho employers, who with sore hearts have to turn man after man away, endorse it ?—Wairarapa Daily. Mr W. A. Horn, after starting his scientific expedition on its exploratory tour of Central Australia, took ship for Europe. Questioned as to his movemonrs, Mr Horn said ho was going to search for a place where there was no taxation. “ You might try Paraguay,” suggested tho reporter. “ No,” said Mr Horn, “ there aro fools enough there already.” “ Well, you will find it difficult to find what you want.” “It’s not so much n place to live in as a place to die in, and if I can’t find what I want on land, I can go to sea and dio there.” The Duches* of Buckingham and Chandos has issued a book with the lengthy title of “ Glimps- s of Four Can ticenta : Letters written doring a tour in Australia, Now Zealand, and North America in 1893.” The New Zealand tour was mado in company with the Couot~pfi of Glasgow in the Hinemoa, and inter alia tho Duchess remarks : “ At Wellington, aall the people were anxious to boo us, I put on my best frock—a white an 1 gold brocade—and wo all made ourselves an emart as possible, . . A mass of people wero presented, and all tho rest of tho time I was in Wellington I was drea I fully afraid of cutting someone I was supposed to know. Tho party was rather an ordeal ; whenever one looked up rows and rows of eyes were gszing at one.”

A “fall” has boon taken out of tho Hon Mr Reeves by tho London correspon dent of the Argus on account of one of the articles which the taxpayers aro called upon to pay for circulating through the medium of the Labour Journal. The writer remarks: —“ A good deal of amusement lias been caused hero by the dis eovury that the New Zealand Government has reprinted and circulated a crazy article of Sydney Olivier’s on the recent dispute in the coal trade hero as a State paper. The New Zealand Government seems to suffer from deficient knowledge of perspective. At close quarters Sydney OIL: r is seen to be a very sin *ll a nth ority on any serious question.” Mr Olivier is d ecri o-.i by the writor as a so ia'ist of “tuo wildest pattern.”

T;.e secretary of the Waipawa District Hospital begs to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of a donation of £3 Is 6d through Mr P. Gow of Wai. pnkuran. The oil-tank screw steamer Baku Standard, 3700 tons burthen, bai arrived at Avonmouth, Bristol, after aolving the problem of steaming long ocean voyages by using oil for fuel instead of coal. 8l«e was built a few months ago her bunkers being fitted up for coal or oil, and she was equipped with a!l the appliances for using oil in her furnace*. After a trial trip from Newcastle to Dartmouth she steamed to America and has now re-crossed the Atlantic from Philadelphia, using only oil out and home—the first steamer which has thui crossed the Atlantio. Wo do not often hoar of each an txciting chase as took place at North London when Henry Littlebalos, a sharp looking lad, was charged with embezzling £l, Detective-constable Lee, of the J Division said ho saw tho prisoner on the Kiogeford Bridge at Hackney Wick. When the prisoner saw him (witness) he ran away. After a chaso of about half a tuile the prisoner jumped into the River Lea and swam across, and got out on the other side. Ho (witn< ss) followed through the stream, when the prisoner plunged into another canal close by, also followed by him (witness). Tho prisoner got out of this, and again ran ; but was caught aud ttken back the same way as he wont Mr Dickinson through the water ?—Tho constable : Yes. The result was three months’ hard labour. Experiments conducted at Townsville Queensland, with Guiuea grass, so an to get a supply of green fodder for dairy purposes, have shown that with irrigation the productiou was at the rate of 17 toui 15owt. per acre por cutting, or 180 tong per acre for several cuttings got in 279 days of growth. The cows eat the feed ravenously. The number of plants or stools to tho aero i* 19,000. and each stool is cut down fr qneatly by the scythe, and then a haudfuli of grass is nsod to protect tho crown until new shoots appear. The a i vice of Professor Shelton led to this experiment being made. A football match between the Waipawa and Waipukurau clubs was played on Scrimgeour’s paddock yesterday afternoon and resulted in a win for the homo toam, who s ored 6 points (two tries) to their opponents’ 5 points (goal from a try.) The match was mainly a series of forward scram-dee. Noithor club was able to pat its strongest fifteen in the field and a number of emergencies were pressed into the service. Some of theee afforded considerable amusement to tho spectatorg. Play was of an oven nature during the first spell and neither Bide scored. Daring tho second half the Waipawa players kept the visitors on the defensive for most of the spoil aud Collett crossed the line twice, but neither of the tries were converted although tho kicks were easy ones. 13ailey who soorod for Waipukurau, intercepted t pass within Lis 25, ran the whole length of the field and grounded the ball between tho posts. McShorry converted. At the conclusion of the match the players were unrecognisable in consequence of the! coating of mu 1 which enveloped them. An instructive item from Protectionist, Victoria. Tho farm-rs there are trying to get the duty taken off binder twine, which is such a grevious burden upon the reaperu?ing farmer. The twine maun of that colony, not content with a monopoly of the hardness, are now demanding a price more than equal to the cost of imported twine and the wbok of the duty besides In these circumstances (says the Telegraph ) the reaper and binder firms have decried to import full supplies of twine this season, and to soli pure m anil la at 6J and Now Zealand 11 ax at 4$ per lb. The important fact ia this connection is that a leading “harvester” firm publicly aonounoes that, should tho duty be removed, the whoi amount of tho duty will be taken off tho prices to the farmer, who will then bo a'de to purchase bis supplies of manillt al 51 and New Z mlaod at 3£d per lb. At the Victori m twino manufacturers haw officially fixed th ; price of the former it 71 per lb, the removal of the duty will enable tho farmer to save about 6J per aero each year.