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Wairarapa Standard, Volume 6, Issue 506, 25 November 1876, Page 2

The Treasurer of the Wairarapa Hospital announces the receipt of the gunnel subscription of £2 3s from Mr Caselberg. In our last issue the name of Mrs Dr Smith was accidentally omitted in the list of ladies vho provided tea at Waihenga on Tuesday last. Ur Lee, the Inspector of Schools, will visit the Wairarapa next week to inspect the several schools under the Wellington Education Board. On Wednesday the old Board will hold its first meeting under the new Act, at the Education Board office, Wellington, at Hun. _

On Monday next Mr B. Lucas sells at Greytown the privilege of the gates at the Pastoral Show. The number of entiles is a guarantee that this year’s exhibition will be a success, and the gate speculation ought to be a remunerative one. We find in the fourth schedule of the Immigration and Public Works Appropriation Act, 1876, the following sums set against the Wellington and Masterton railway Cost os estimated to date £662,500. Expenditure to June 30th last £328,008, Amount appopriated for the year 1876-77 £137,000. For future appropriation £197,491. The following are the salaries and allowances of the officers of the Wellington and . Masterton railway:—Resident Engineer£6so; Resident Engineer £500; Clerk and' Draftsman £200; Assistant Engineer £325; Resident Engineer £500; Assistant Engineer £325. These salaries include commuted ( travelling allowances. There are in addition to the above two cadets and a storekeeper. M. Powell, the well-known ventriloquist, is in the Wairarapa with a talented company. A performance will be given at Carterton this evening, and at Greytown on Monday night. This troop have recently been successful in pleasing Wellington audiences, and will no doubt give satisfation to all who may favor them with a visit in the Wairarapa. A correspondent suggests that the Greytown Cemetery and Park Trustees should either act or resign. It is very wrong for public meetings to nominate private individuals to offices of trust unless they know that they will be ready and willing to discharge flie duties attached to them. We have some reason for believing that funds subscribed for cemetery purposes have now been lost through not being looked after. Visitors at the Pastoral Show at Tanherenikau on Thursday next need not be surprised if they find that they are supplied with new potatoes and green peas at Barratt’s refreshment booth. This is very early for the Wairarapa, and indeed for the whole of the southern division of the North Island, as the new potatoes, and peas which have been on sale at Wellington were imported. We understand that some extraordinary fine specimens of vegetables will be exhibited at the forthcoming Featheiston show, as the season, on the whole, could not have been more favorable for their rapid growth. We notice that the large additions to Messrs Black & Co’s, already large Coach Factory, is 1 now being proceeded with, and will soon be completed. In addition to this factory a door and sash factory is also about to be erected at South Greytown, by Mr B. A Wakelin, the requisite machinery for which is expected to arrive in the course of to-day. The establishment of these factories is an indication, and, to some extent, a guarantee, of the continued progress of the central division of the Wairarapa. We learn from tie Post that the Horticultural Society’s Show on Tuesday was very numerously attended; indeed we believe the number of visitors greatly exceeded those of any previous [show, and we hope tne funds will be benefited substantially. Even during the hours when tbs charge was 2s 6d, the room was almost inconveniently crowded an unusual occurrence—and throughout the latter part of the afternoon and all the evening the hall was densely crowded. His Excellency the Governor, Lady Normanby, and suite, amvsd soon after 4 o’clock, and were received with the National Anthem, played by Messrs Kohler and Ward. “ The Castle Point Harbor Act, 1876," as it finally passed, is to consist of the Castle Point Road Board for the time being, and is to be a body corporate. A piece of land known as the Reef and Lighthouse' Reserve, containing 32J acres, is to be granted to the Board, and any other land below high watermark as the Governor may think fit. Such land may be demised by the Board for any term not exceeding thirteen years, subject to such conditions as they may think fit. All money received by the Board is to be applied towards the expense of management and improvement of the harbor. A libel case, in which Mr Birch, a brewer and wine Merchant, was plaintiff and the proprietor of the Liberator, a temperance newspaper, defendant, was recently tried in Dunedin. 'Mr Justice Williams, in summing up, said to the jury:—“Now you must clearly understand, gentlemen, that the law allows the fullest criticism upon the public acts of public men, provided it is done with bon& tides. The criticism may be mistaken or the fact may be mistaken, or the criticism may be very vulgar, or very coarse; but that is not the point. The question is, the criticism a fair criticism upon the public acts of public men? I take it that the acts of a public man would be considered public acts if performed in such a way that they must come before the notice of the public. For instance, if a man in a public position is guilty of notorious immorality, and so conducts himself that his conduct must inevitably come before the public, then it is quite right and proper that his acts should be the subject of criticism. No person who holds a public-office, however high, is free from criticism, and it would be a most unfortunate thing for society if he were free from it.” The jury gave the issues in favor of defendant. A correspondent of the Australasian, under the signature of “ Eohuea, ” says:—“ I have had something to do with breeding cross-bred sheep, and were I again a sheepbreeder, and desirous to establish a cross-bred flock, I should start in this way. Get, say 56, more or less, of pure-bred Lincoln or Leicester ewes; with these I would put a pure Southdown ram. Prom that cross, as most breeders of sheep know, a class of sheep would be obtained, not second to anyforwooland mutton With the progeny of these, the ewes, I would again use another pure Southdown ram, but first take great care to cull out any objectionable ones that may have a tendency to show coarse, ot hairy, or grey wool. After that, and with the next produce, I should use the two pure-bred rams, a Down and Lincoln, taking care to class the ewes, putting them m two lots, while using the rams, those showing the most Lincoln to be put with the Down and vice versa. On no account, for some years, would I venture to nse a cross-bred ram ; the sure results would be a coarse kind of wool and carcase, neither would they be so apt to fatten. There is far more care and judgement required to establish a cross, bred stock than a pure one ; any year young ewes would show up an objectionable character these must be taken out, and endeavor to get the faces as near alike as possible, showing a good deal of the Down type; then, in course of time a breed may be established worthy of tiie name, and be called the Victoria Downs.” The Evening Post, in reference to the Chairmen of County Councils says:—With respect to the election of Chairman by the numbers of the Council, we think the system provided by the Act is a bad one. It is quite possible to conceive the likelihood of a chque being formed in a Council to elect a particular councillor as Chairman, who might not be at all the best man for the office. It would have been better to make the election oi Chairman a popular one by the whole body of county electors, and to provide that candidates for the office should be chosen from outside the Council. In fact the system of election now in force, in the case of Mayors, who are elected by the great body of the ratepayers, might well apply in the case of chairmen of County Councils. As to the question of salary, there will doubtless be much discrepancy in the amounts agreed upon m different cases. A chairman of a County Councu who was a practical business man, with abundance of leisure, and who would devote a large portion of his time to the business of toe County would be worth a good salary; while, on the other hand, a chairman who regwded his office merely on honorary one Th«ro ent , itled to remuneration, i here will be a large amount of work to be danem connection with the administration doMit^wlfti, 0 * a ‘ e . o( T ties - “4 whoever aoee it, whether be be the oheirwiftn 0 r the otark ofCounoil, should be proportionately anv ‘ Jl™? J® howeTer > *<> express decided opinion about toe Act at simply because its merits and shortiiwiiuUua

Tenders for painting the Greytown Parsonage are invited up to the 9th ult. Mr B. Lnoas will sell on the SOth insi, at the Pastoral Show, Tsuherenikau, the heavy draught gelding '• Major,” and a choice collection of saddlery and harness. The sheet of the R.M. Court at Carterton, yesterday, consisted merely of three small debt oases, two of which were paid in, and the third settled out of Court. We regret to learn, says the Post, that the splendid Lincoln ewe, imported by Mr Gilligan from Mr Hill’s celebrated flock in Canterbury, died last night, The cause of death is supposed to have been internal inflammation brought on by the blocking about received in a rather rough passage.