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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3105, 28 July 1894, Page 2

Our Graphiological Column will be found on the fourth page to-day. The Woodville A and P. Society will hold their annual show on the 9th Nov. Messrs Rollo and Co., announce that they have just received a large variety of seed potatoes.

The Mail Stationery Depot have a largo number of new works of fiction on hand.

Early lambs may now be seen on several properties round about Masterton, says tl.e Wairarapa Daily Times. The Glenmark estate in Canterbury, 75,000 acres, is one which the Government will probably purchase before long.

Mr H. P. Petersen of Onga Onga, informs us that young lambs have made tbeir appearance on his farm. A Liverpool plaintiff, whose coat was torn by a barbed-wire fence rimning along a public footpath, sued for damages. The Judge regarded the wire in this instance as harmless, and gave judgment for the defendants.

Adolphus Bergmanu, ostensibly a ginger pop and cordial manufacturer, of Balmain was cotched on 13th July red-handed in the act of disposing of a gallon of sly made rum to a publican. On Bergmann’s premises were found a number of jars of rum, others of whit© spirits, and the means of fermenting spirits. Adolphus was committed for trial on the charge of sly grog-selling, and remanded till Wednesday next on that of keeping an illicit still.

In last night’s Budget the Treasurer only anticipates a surplus next year of £50,000. Wiore, then, is the money to come from to pay the interest on the enormous sums to be borrowed ? asks the Evening Press. Auctioneers up North manage, according to the member for the Thames, to set the Southern knights of the hammer a go. The creation of eineeure offices by the local body for the favored auctioneer, with a salary equal to half the fee of £4O, is the manner in which the oracle ie worked. Is this another unkind reference to Danevirke?

Suys the Push Advocate Land in Mi-skis Smith ai<d Cadman’s block shows no'sign of falling in price. On the other hand, late sales show that values have a distinctly upward tendency. Mr W. Rose, reports that ha has sold a 25 acre section, which was originally bought for £9O, the price now realised being £l5O Another Beotion recently sold showed a similar increase in value.

An interesting case came before the Benevolent Trustees yesterday afternoon (says the Press'). An old man who applied for relief gave some details of the labor troubles of 1890. “ I didn’t waot to strike,” “ but the union forced me.” His wife, it appeared, separated from him on thia account. “We parted quite friendly, like gentlemen,” continued the old man, who seemed to recognise that his wife had shown superior wisdom in disapproving of the great labor strike. On a recent Sunday afternoon in Blenheim the local band gave an open air performance. During an interval they were taken in to an adjoining house and treated to refreshments. In the meantime the small boys took charge of the instrumunts, and essayed to play a quick-step. The effect wa3 magical. When the bandsmen returned the spectators had disappeared, and the loveliest efforts of the bandsmen could not iaduce them to return. Mr R Cobb has returned to Palmerston after his visit to the Sydney sheep fair. In a brief conversation with the wellknown Romney Marsh breeder, he informed us that he considered the prices realised were at least one guinea below Now Zealand values. Mr Cobb also says that the New South Wales breeders require a large framed, well-cooditioDc d sheep with plenty of wool, irrespective of quality.—Mauawatu Times. The Buenos Ayres Standard referring to the collapse of the New Australia scheme says : —“ The absurdity of the scheme is abundantly apparent. The man Lane, who is a professional agitator of tbe worst type, bad a glib tongue and it was solely through his agency that the band of settlers for Paraguay was got together. The whole incident will serve as a practical warning to other foolish people who may be tempted to lend an ear to the vapouringa of these addlepated agitators.” Thus writes a working man to the local paper :—Any observant person must have noticed the largo number of men who travel through D inevirko in search of employment, and I think it is about timo that the mis-Government exerted themselves a little od behalf of their special (vido election speeches) pet lamb, tbo working man. I myself have been out of work now for over two months, and, in spite of all my efforts, seem to be as far off getting any as ever. The Bishop of Gloucester aod Bristol must be a very sensible man. Recently, presiding at the distribution of certificates and prizes to pupils of tbo National Society’s School of Cookery in LondoD, his lordship maintained that half the ills and quarrels in the houses of working men were caused by their wives not being able to cook a decent dinner and make the best of small materials. He rejoiced that tbe society did not pretend to find cooks for the great, but good housewives for honest working folk.

Mr Reynolds, in addressing the Waikato dairy farmers, said the reason why Victoria was running New Zealand hard in the London market was simply that the milk suppliers proper y cooled and serated their milk before sending it to the factories. Waikato settlers bad not properly attended to the matter which was one of the very greatest importance. If they coaid not get water conveniently to cool it they could pass it through a tin with a perforated bottom with a drop of a few feet into the receiver, and this aeration would cool the milk and take away the animal odour which gave the butter a bad taste.

The member for Rangitikci has appar ently beeQ making fun of one of his correspondents, becauso of that correspondent’s lack of education. Tbe Times prints tie address of a letter received by Mr J Stevens, as a good joke, as follows : —“ To the Hon John Stevens, the member for Rangitikci, crown land and surve department, labour Burue, Welling ton.” The constituent, who is not quite sure of his spelling, might hesitate uow to write to Mr Stevens lest be find hie orthography exhibited in the public prints as very funny. —Rangitihei Advo cate.

The following advertisement appears in the Blenheim Express : “ Wanted ten strong men with ropes ladders, and planks to stand round tbe Market Place and help to extricate persons and vehicles that got bogged. Men must be webfootod and good swimmers. Every precaution will be taken for their safety, but any man who may get smothered will be extricated and buried if possible, or a buoy will be anchored near the spot where he went down, in place of an ordinary tombstone. No responsibility under the Employer’s Liability Act. Apply to —Amphibious.” During the past twelve months British brewers manufactured more of tbo national b verage than in any previous year. Tbo of barrels on which duty was paid was sufficient to give every inhabitant of tbe British Empire three gallons ; as, however, only one barrel in 80 is ex poited, an average of 39 gallons per head is consumed at Home annually. It appears that the largo brewers, as a rule, are growing largor, and the small ones becoming less, year by year. Last year over 500 of the latter class were extinguished, their trade having been purchased by the larger brewers, and as this decrease bas gone on year by year since Mr Gladstone introduced the B*er Duty Act 1880, the abolition of “ home brewed ” is only a matter of a short time.

At the Christchurch Supreme Court last week John Evans appealed against tbe decision of Mr Bishop, S M., convicting him of a breach of section 2, subsection 1, of the Police Offences Act Amendment Act, 1890, the charge against him being that ho had driven a traction engine along a public road without the engine having been accompanied by two men at least to keep constant look out in front and behind tbe engine to warn riders and drivers of horses and vehicles of its proximity and to assist them in passing it in safety, and submitted on behalf of appellant that two men on tho engine met the requirements of the Act, and that it was not necessary to have men in front and behind. His Honor said that the sectiou seemed to be one of the puzzles which the Legislature had provided for judges to deal with. His Honor held that the Act required two men, in addition to those workiDg the engine, to accom paDy it when being propelled along a street, road, or highway.

For some years it was the custom » ayi Truth, at the Kaiapoi Court, to Maori defendants in civil cases, with*! ordinary copy of tbe claim in Englj.? Recently it bas been decided that a translation mast accompany the summon? To-day four of tbe Native defenda D t a oj jected to the translation fee of 2e 6d eaoh aooount, and alleged that the tr*n? lations were so bad as to be neither nor any other known language. As instance, one Maori pointed oat that io h! account be was charged for Topaoo ; tberl was no such word in Maori, and he * told no such word in English. The p* siding justice said that it was probabU “ tobacoo ” was meant. Then said th defendant—“ If wo bare to pay f or * translation we should bare it.” The refused to make a note of “ the point ” fjj reference to the Stipendiary Magistral who happens to be an excellent Maori' scholar. They considered tbe objection quibble, and ruled it oat.

Tbe late Judge Manning, who waa od, of the very earliest settlers in New ZtT land, ut.ed to tell a story of how the tim Maori capitalist was extinguigbe? Traders were just beginning to come ttl the country, and the wares they broovbt were beginning to be appreciated by tb Natives. The fame of tbe sharp they brought, new spades, and other woa derfully made tools spread to a Maori in the centre of the island, who being industrious man, set to work to collect , number of pigs, and his family cleared, quantity of flax. In doe time they set on from the interior, driving the pigs in front of them and carrying bundles of clen flax on their shoulders. On their arriTJ at Auckland their goods were oxcbaoiJ chiefly for axes and spades. When th. Maori aud his family got back they war hailed with the greatest enthusiasm, beim met by the whole tribe with songs an! dancing. Soon he became rich beyon compare, for he could get all his choppi D , and digging done in return for tbo loedq the excellent tools wnioh lie was pro?id« with. This went on until with envy aod other causes, the tribe came to the ooc elusion that he was too bloated and overbearing to bo endurable, and knocked him on the head.