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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3106, 31 July 1894, Page 2

“ Facta and Figures” and other reading matter will bo found on the fourth page.

Boil down the Financial Statomcnt and what is there left. Debt, a vanislide surplus, more borrowing. Rabbits are becoming so numerous about Norsewood that the settlers contemplate taking stops to abate tho nuisance.

There is no talk now about the LiberaParty shedding its last drop of blood before it will borrow a shilling. Tho annual meeting of the parishioners of St. Peter’s Church will bo hold in the schoolroom on Thursday evening. Cool storage chambers for dairy produce are being provided by tho Government at the four principal ports of tho colony. Tt is stated that the wool clip of one of the largest Riverina stations, which has hitherto gone to Melbourne, will be sent to Sydney this year. Mr John Watts has taken a lease of those premises lately occupied by Mr E. H. Newman, and will shift into his new quarters during the week. Mr Curnell is used to being laughed at, ho saj T s, —and there is little wonder that he is laughed at, says a Parliamentary correspondent.

Some 900,000 trout ova have already hern collected in the Wairarapa district this season. It is expected that 1,000,000 ova will bo collected boforo tho close of the spawning season. Mr G. Slater, formerly travelling representative of tho Wcclcly Press, has been oppointed to tho position of sporting editor of the N Z Mail.

Julia Wheelun, who has a string of aliases , was brought iofore Messrs S Johnson and A. St. Clair Inglis, Justices, yesterday, ou a charge of vagrancy. She was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. Sydney Truth writes that the latest American dancer has a pair of feet of perfect shape and whiteness, ou which she dances without shoes and stockings on a soft velvet carpet, her toes resplen dent with diamonds.

Professor Stanley 1101 l liae discovered that of the six-year-old school children in Boston, Massachusetts, GO per cent have never seen a robin, growing corn, blackberries, or potatoes, and 18 per cent have noTer seen a cow.

Wo (Evening Press ) have it on undoubted authority that hud it not bean for the recent borrowing proposals of the Government the banka would have lowered tho rate for deposits to 3 per cent.

A young daughter of Mr J. Adame sustained a nasty hurt to her leg yesterday. She was swinging on the hack of a dray, when by some means her leg got in- the wheel. The limb was severely wrenched.

With the view of testing the Victorian sheep market Mr J. Burrows, of Carterton, is shipping 300 Romney Marsh sheep to Melbourne for the mPa which open there towards tho end of next month. The shipment includes 100 ewes.

A bankrupt hotelkeeper, at his meeting of creditors held recently, said that there wero a number of debts duo to him for drinks. His solicitor pointed out that they were not recoverable by law. The Official Assignee thereupon remarked, “ People who Btick up drinks are those who take foil advantage of the law.”

It is proposed to establish in New Zealand a branch of tho Engineers’ Union of Great Britain. Whilst the steamers Kaikoura and Gothic wero in Wellington port their engineering staffs discussed the matter, and the question will be laid before the union in London on the arrival of the Gothic.

Tho County Council’s Conference, which is to be held in Wollingtou this week, will deal with many questions of groat importance to local bodies, and it is expected that tho conference will last some timo. Many of the delegates have been already appointed, and include several members of Parliament.

Says the Standard :—Mr Morrison, the member for C iver*ham, was exhibiting in tho lobbies of the House the other day splendid specimens of matches made in his electorate and sold at tho same price as the imported article.—lt is interesting to know that these “ splendid specimens of matches” ure made by girls who rooeive the munificent wagos of 3s a week.

The editor of the Investor's Review states in a recent number that “ there is scarcely a Government on tho face of the earth, civilised or savage, which is at tho present timo able to pay its way. Some of them havo budget surpluses, but almost all have real deficit**.’ 1

Our local earthquake prophet, Mr C. Golder, writes to say that he is not the person who predicts some alurming earthquakes for the sth of Auguet. The individual who makes this ransom guess is not blessed with the gift of prophecy. Mr Golder says that ho is not “ disposed to give pny earthquakes for August, save a mild one for August Bth.'* This is whet “ Bohemian” of tho Christ church Press says about “ Jack Point,” a writer not uuknown ia Hawke’s Bay :—I can conscientiously assure my readers that in one or two back block newspapers I have actually road sillier drivel than the “ humor” of the Star's “ Jack Point,” but they’ll scarcely behove mo. At a meeting of tho Tumutnu Road Board held on Saturday it was resolved that the offer of Mr W. Hallelt to survey the Tamurnu Pourere road, together with a road from tho said road to the respective properties of Messrs Me Hardy, Brown, and the Rev Archdeacon William**, Manga kuri estate, bo accepted ; contractor to form such plana as would enable tho Board to got necessary titles to now roads and give titles to land contained in roads to be stopped under tho Public Works Act. Tho North Otago Times is informed that the wool which heated ou board tho Gothic and nearly caused a great disaster was not shorn wool, but was a collection from fellmongorieu, etc. Had the wool been shorn at the usual time it would either have boon thoroughly dried ere this or have taken fire through spontaneous combustion. The question of shearing wot wool does not, therefore, como into the question. “An Edinburgh Lass ” writes to the editor of a Scotch weekly paper :—lt was a great want of enjoyment to me on Saturday in reading over your paper to find that there wero no love, courtship, or marriage letters in it. See you put some in this week, for I like to read them better than anything else, and so do plenty more like me like them too.” Euchre, as a gambling gum*, has deposed every other form of card game in Loudon West End clubs, if we except solo whist, which holds its own against everything. Euchre with the right bower, or single joker, has beou played in tho Uuitod States for nearly two generations, hut within the past three years the innovation of four jokers, or turning each deuce into a variable card, has completely altered tho character of the game. It was at euchre that a young peer recently lost £IOOO in a London club. Here is a good story told in one of the Dutch papers recently. A man bought 1000 expensive cigars aud insured thorn. Having smoked them all ho claimed the insurance money for “ destruction by fire,” and tho Court decided in his favour. But while tho jokor was chuckling over his success, tho Court further decided that, as ho had willingly destroyed tho property, ho was guilty of arson, and gave him throo mouths for it.

According to tho Bank returns just gazetted the deposits bearing interest amount to £9,477,739, and deposits not bearing interest to £4,247,959. In other words nearly fourloun millions of money is lyiug in the Banks in New Zealand ut the present timo. Yet our Colonial Treasurer is willing to believe that ho can induce prosperity by lending a comparatively small amount to farmors Let another Government in which tho people havo confidence got iuto offico, and the greater portion of those locked-up millions would be at once in use in ont< rprise and industry. — Manawatu Times. The lion John Madden, Chief Justice of Victoria, is a man of rather small stature, with shoulders as square as the proverbial floor, and a largo head with a big brain, which has garnered a vast quantity of experience since its owner first saw light in Cork. The Chief Justice came of a legal stock, for his father was a solicitor of no mean reputation. Tho family wont to Melbourne in 1857, and young Madden immediately went to tho University, where ho had a distinguished career, and of which, until quite recently, ho was a governor. Having taken his L L D degree, 110 was admitted to tho Victorian bar in 1865. Boforo he took the Chief Justiceship ho had so much work that ho had unwillingly to refuse hundreds of suitors who pined to place their interests in his hands. A few years ago ho confessed to an interviewer to having an income of £20,000 a year. A lecture, notable for its outspokenness, was recently delivered by Dr J W Barrett at tho South Melbourne Town Hall. He traced tho fall of the ancient democracies of Athens, Carthage, and Romo, arguing that the dissolution in every cqsj dated from the full extension of the frauebibo. Coming to modern times, he poiuted out that the people of Victoria now possessed almost everything that tho Chartists had asked for. Could tho result he deemed satisfactory? he asked. According to Iluxley, a high degreo of intelligence on tho part of tho members of tho community was an essential condition to democratic progress ; and, acoorJiug to Herbert Spenocr, the requi site degree of intelligence was not yet possessed, and was not likely for some time to como to bo possessed, by any

nation on the face of tho earth. 1 system of universal suffrage as it in Victoria resulted in government b«j carried on, pot by the whole people \ by one section, the section, namely, made tho most clamor. Dr Bar, pointed to the existing labor troublt America, and stated that if by any nubility the striking party, with the anoe or connivance of section* 0 f 1 Government, should become sucoeq the result would inevitably be— f lr| , state of anarchy, and, secondly, , speedy return to a strong mjL despotism.