Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly,Price ld. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1887. In Trouble.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2060, 27 April 1887, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-we ekly,Price ld. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1887. In Trouble.

The Wellington City Council could not by any stretch of imagination be called a fortunate body. On the contrary, it has been very unfortunate. Its internal troubles —the dissensions and strifes of the gentlemen who sit around the civil board and express their opinions in plain unvarnished eloquence—have been said but not monotonous. The greater misfortunes have come upon the Council from outside. The Wainui waterworks, which were to supply to future generations of unlimited numerical strength water pure and in exhaustless quantity, have proved to be weak in construction and to have a possible limit. The Te Aro foreshore owners whose frontages were heedlessly and foolishly spoiled, threaten all sorts of actions for recovery. The drainage of the city is admitted to be terribly inefficient—even dangerous—and a loan for the purpose of improving it is proposed. Finally, the overdraft for the last year has increased by a trifle of £4OOO odd. What a pretty pack of troubles ! For the defects in the Wainui scheme the Council is not responsible, neither is it to be blamed in any way for the drainage difficulty ; but as to the foreshore question, that is a different matter. The Council in 1886 decided to communicate with the foreshore owners with a view to an arrangement of their claims so that the reclamation might be gone on with. The committee appointed for this purpose was of opinion that the claims were not such as the Council could satisfy, liid the Council thereupon consider its position and make an honest endeavour to settle with the foreshore owners ? No. They were anxious to add to their landed estate, to do something, no matter what, in the way of a works policy, and they let the contracts for reclamation at once. The consequence of this brilliant policy is that the city is now called upon to satisfy enormous clsims for compensation. That those claims will be recognised as legitimate we do not insinuate ; but it is very certain that before the matter is finally settled the good people of Wellington will have had to pay very dearly for filling the Te Aro foreshore up with clay. And the estate they have acquired P Ask of the people who bought sites o» the Thorndon reclamation, where there is nothing but clay and water to show the march of civilisation into the sea.. Alas poor Torick !

Mr W Toogood, merchant, Feat here ton, is expecting some new consignments of winter goods, ex direct steamer Aorangi. Mr Moriarty's price list will appear in our next. The prices are particularly attractive. The following players will represent the Wanderers Football Clnb in the match with Carterton, to bo played at Greytown on Saturday next: \V. fully, S. Tuliy, E. Udy, A. Beard, A. (iripg, A. Udy, Byan, J. Beard, Goldsmith, Connolly, Hobman, C. Udy, Tommy, T. Ei.slier, and B. Grigg ; enter,, gencies—backs, T. Saywell, and J. McGmre ; forwards, Allaway, Ferrick, and Ferguson. The team is requested to turn out for practice tomorrow.

A magic lantern entertainment to defray expense of removing the Wesleyan Sunday schoolroom at Carterton, w.e held last night in the schoolroom, v, lioh was crowded to excess. Mr T. Johnston, of Ch-ey-town, gave a most instructive lecture in con« nection with the views he exhibited, and his remarks were listened to with evident interest and enjoyment. Among the subjects treated upon and exhibited were the Soudan War and the Prodigal Son, also a large number of comic slides ; the comic slides were exceeds ingly well brought out. A good picture of the Prince and Princess of Wales was received with vociferous approbation. On the motion of the Rev J. Ward a vote of thanks to Mr Johnston for his gratuitous, amusing and instructive entertainment was carried by acclimation.

Messns W. E. Bidivill, D. McDouall, and ■I. Fully have been elected unopposed as members ol the Featbeiston Road Board for Kxhmtiira, Taurauptmii and Pahaaa respectively. Messrs C. Elnar and M. J. H. Jacksou nave been uumiuated fur the Featherston -übilistrict.

funeral was over, and a few personal friends were .‘ ,lflu b' d i ,lner with the bereaved widow. Won', yon i,'*?* 8 / ‘ b f roast beef. Mr Smith?" she askeu. J he replied, I believe I will. The ride to uu. and back has given me quite an appeite.

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The final rehearsal for the cantata “ Under the Palms ” will be held on Friday evening next. Every cna taking part is asked to be present by half past 7 sharp. The Domination of a candidate to serve on the Taratahi Carterton Boad Board lor the Matarawa district takes place at the schoolhouse tomorrow at noon. Mr Jas. Stevens is the retiring member.

A meeting ol the Greytown Licensing Committee took plane this morning. Present, Messrs Udy, D. Cameron, and Dr Bey. Mr Forritt was reelected chairman.

A long night’s dancing takes place at Greytown Town Hall tomorrow night. A man was arrested at Gladstone last night, charged with attempted rape on a married woman. He was to be charged with the offence this morning at Carterton and a remand asked for.

Our readers are reminded that Messrs Maxton and Webster’s opening auction sale takes place at their new premises on Saturday next. The sale will be of an important, attractive and varied character, and the new firm intend to provide a certain amount of refreshment to the public on that occasion. Some of the young lady members of the St Luke’s Church Confirmation Class, have presented Mrs Western, wife of the Rev W. T. Western, with a very handsome album, as an affectionate parting gift. The names of the subscribers are suitably inscribed on the title page, together with an address couched in the following terms -.—To Mrs Western, Madam, —We, the) subscribers, ask you to accept this as a token of regard and as a slight acknowledgement ol the many kindnesses ol yourself and Mr Western while attending the Confirmation Classes at the Parsonage. Here follow the young ladies names.

Mr F. H. Wood’s sale at the Taratahi yards, to morrow (Thursday) should be well attended, there being a large number of entries of all kinds of stock, store sheep, fat sheep, bullocks, beef, mixed cattle. Various other lines are all largely represented. Messrs Murray, Roberts & Co., of Welling-

ton, have received (he following cable message from their London Honse (Messrs Sanderson, Murray & Co.) relative to the state of the wool market" London, 23rd April. The sales have closed firm. Greasy merino is about equal to the closing rates of last Loudon sales. Scoured merino ‘2J to 5 per cent, and crossbred 5 per cent above the closing rates of last sales.”

The gentlemen who have under-

takeu to arrange Monday evening concerts and entertainments in aid of the funds for obtaining a suitable tire engine for Greytown will meet at Mr F. H. Wood’s rooms tonight at 7.30. As the cause is one worthy of the general assistance of all the residents, no doubt all efforts in that direction will meet with unqualified success. About twenty of the members of the choir of St Michael’s Church, Christchurch, visited the hospital one Sunday lately, and sang some Baster and other hymns in the corridor. The annexes of the Melbourne Exhibition will be similar to those of 1880-1. They will be of wood, iron, and glass, and cover fifteen acres. The cost is estimated at £67,000. At Napier Mr Ormond was called to order for speaking of the Premier as “Mr Stout.” He replied, “ Did I say Mr? Well, I may be excused, seeing that it ii only a year ago Sir Robert said he would be ashamed of any such title as he has now got.” The Southland Protection League have revised the Customs tariff, and in many cases resolved to recommend the imposition of additional duties up to twentyfive per cent. A man in New South Wales was attacked by a monkey the other day, and received 13 gashes on his leg, rendering him a cripple for some considerable time. There are signs that the end of the lean years is at last at hand, says the London Spectator. Not only is the revenue improving in every branch except the Excise,hut the railways are declaring better dividends, and the banks report that their earnings rapidly increased during the last half year. The prices of iron, steel, wool, and cotton are going up, and even the wretched farmers are receiving prices at which wheat can be grown without actual loss. There is still no rise in copper, lead, or tin, and coalowners are threatening reductions of wages; but the general belief of experienced men is that the tide is turning at last. It is time, for the depression has been the longest upon record, having lasted ten years. Dermatine is the new substance of soles of boots and shoes. It is impervious to wet and has a stronger resistance to wear than leather. It stitches very well, and hence is superior to india rubber, and gives a better grip in walking on wet surfaces.

White Island has been giving magnificent pyrotechnic displays of late, sending up flames, smoke and steam to a great height. At the opening of the criminal sessions at Nelson on Wednesday, Judge Richmond delivered himself of some curious remarks when charging the grand jury. After stating that in one case a question similar to that in Hall’s case—whether evidence in one trial could be admitted into another--would arise, he said “The English criminal law gave prisoners a fair start—like a fox or hare -and the jury were not allowed to look back into a man’s past lile and see whether 3U years ago a prisoner was a naughty boy and had bitten his nurse. Juries were to go to work with blinkers on, looking neither to the right nor left, but confining themselves to the case before them.”

Fortyfive ratepayer# of (be Borough of Feilding have requisitioned the whole of the Council to resign, on the following grounds : 1. The affairs of the having been for many u ‘°- • 4 Itv the Council, years tmsmanageu . -a,nin2. At the present time the a,* tratiou nf Borough affairs is giving great dissatisfaction. 3. That during the last f'ow years most of the best members of the Council have resigned owing to maladministration. 4, That if the present Council will resign t io burgesses will protect their own interests by electing a new Council which will have the confidence of tho ratepayers. The* West Coa>! c .rresi'imdcnt of the CbrMtclu:rcb \\ <’. i>l V 1 n ss rays ; Tho do-ire f-.r mmol improvement in ti reyinnni hj is rmu at its lowest ebb, bill hi Him Us fi.nirish, ami euchre .-fill holds ils fascinating sw.iy.

Otago Kughy F.mdiUl Union are inking steps to scud a football team round the colony.

A Home for the Aged and Needy, to celebrate the Royal Jubilee, is considered the best thing among Wellington citizens. Applications are invited for the appointment of secretary to the Wairarapa and East' Coast Pastoral Society.

A petition is to be presented to Parliament against the employment of barmaids. It will have no effect, for Members of Parliament have a weakness for barmaids, as well as other people. At the Supreme Court at Timaru a case for libel was commenced on Saturday by Martha Gibson, a married woman living apart from her husband, against David Wilson, to recover the sum of £2OOO for alleged defamatory statements in two letters inserted by the defendant in the Ashburton Mail in August last. The parties reside near Ashburton, and over 40 witnesses are to be examined. Butter Market, Sydney, April 15. — Best local 9d, N.Z. nominal. Melbourne —Is 3d to Is 8d (good), ordinary lOdto Is Id, cask 9d to Is, potted 8d to lOd. The Easter encampmentnear Sydney cost £17,000. Large numbers of persons communicated with Sir George Grey, con gratulating him on haying attained his 85th birthday. The recent volunteer troubles in Auckland are to be brought up iu Parliament. Lady Loch has written a letter to the Mayor of Melbourne suggesting that a Jubilee Fund should be formed to relieve women in distress in the colony of Victoria. The Mayor, in reply, has promised hearty cooperation in the suggestion. Lady Loch has also written to the Governors of New South Wales and other colonies, suggesting that funds for a similar purpose be raised in each colony. We bad the pleasure of being present at a rehearsal of the cantata, Under the Palms, on Friday evening last. Several attractive additions have been made. The chorus has been rendered still stronger and the orchestra has been increased until it numbers ten perfoimers, the new instruments being of decided benefit. The ’cello especially is of service, and lends weight and balance to the choruses. The first of the three coming performances will be held in Grevtown on

Monday next, and judging by the sale of tickets many intend to take advan tage of the chance of bearing what certainly is, so far, our most ambitious musical undertaking, and what has already proved itself a pronounced success. Parkes’ Government carried their Freetrade Budget by 64 against 19 ! That’s the style ! When the new tariff comes into force, there’ll be a fine market over there for New Zealand produce! That’ll put those Opunake farmers on their feet again! Tes, but in the meantime they’re rather awkwardly fixed ! They have to pay their rents sharp up to time and there’s no ready money in the district! There’s plenty of money’s worth ! What’s the good of that, if they can’t turn it into cash ? The

Government ought to accept payment of rent in kind, a fat pig and a cheese and a couple of ducks from one, and a calf and a tub of butter and a skep of bees from another, and so on! Well, really, joking apart, that’s about what it’ll come to! Oh, no, we needn’t go back to quite such a primitive style as that! If the worst comes to the worst, the settlers could charter a small vessel among them and load her up with produce and sell it for what it would fetch at Sydney or Townsville or some other place ! Better sell at a loss than not sell at all! —Press Cigarette.

.Referring to the late Easter encampments, the Nelson News says ; What is wanted is not these large camps, but smaller ones to be held at centres which would be accessible in a few hours by the volunteers of the districts. Let them attend smaller camps, and be thoroughly taught battalion and brigade drill, camp duties of all kinds, and outpost duty, of which two last they are most of them entirely ignorant, and let the Government have a large camp, say once in three or four years, when the advantage of having had the smaller camps will be felt, camp duties will be performed more correctly and everything will go much more smoothly than is the case at present.

Who would not be an iVI H. R ? Return tickets at single fares for themselves and families on the U8 S Go’s boats during session time. The Christchurch Telegraph is of opinion that “ it the New Zealand Volunteer service prove a failure it will not arise from the fact that it offers too little facilities for promotion. Ihe growth of mushrooms is a slow process in comparison to the rapidity with which volunteer officers pas's from rank to rank in the New Zealand service. A volunteer company may he formed today and its captain elected. Before little more than a year passes away we may find its newly fledged chief a major, or commanding a dis- j trim, or holding some distinguished military position. That, we think, is a mistake. Promotion should not bo obtained <>n such easy terms as exist at present.”

With reference to tho proposed brass band competition in the Wairara" 11 - a correspondent has suggested to the Star tud* fairest way to test the efficiency of the halloa would bo to give each bandmaster a piece of music (pure melody, no piano copy), each bandmaster to receive the same c.py, and let him arrange it to suit ins own band. This is a very good idea, as tho bandsmen in the Wai rarapa are only amateurs, and cannot be classed with the bands in the city or the South Island. Arrangement e 1 ukl bo made for a gentleman thoroughly acquainted with music to act as judge. It would not only boa rood way of celebrating the jubilee in ho Wuitarapa but would tend to bring 1 : ic hands into a state of efficiency,now i being aimed at, 1