The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1979.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 88, 19 February 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1979.

'"Who killed poor Gock Robin,' lists for-generations being a favorite nursery conundrum, and like many other reminiscences of our childhood will suggest a moral as well as a more profound or learned query. Even in the Wairarapa poor Cock liobins come to grief and thi'ov,'!! up the sponge, or, in lesi figurative language, file their schedules, ami it may occasionally bo worth while to inquire '"Who killed poor Cock Robin!' Our own particular Robin may have been a fairly prosperous tradesman, a man of perhaps no very great resources, but yet one to whom credit was freely extended en all sides, till one fine, day his credit went down, and poor Robin, from a commercial point of view, received his ' quietus.' Perhaps a few weeks before Robin read in his Wairarapa Daily that a big Bank had failed in England, and the news gave him not, the smallest concern. Robin was then in full feather, and never for a moment dreamt that at the other end of the world a shaft had sped which would transfix his own bosom. And yet, according to the laws which govern the money market of the world, a cause anil effect so apparently improbable are practically possible. London is the great monetary heart of the world, and when a big provincial. Bank breaks the flow to that centre is arrested in one or more channels. But the great organ must have its due supply, and so it calls up ail that it requires through other channels. Say one of the veins of the big heart is Melbourne, from that vein perhaps a million must come forth. Melbourne responds by putting a pressure on its own immediate small vessels, and taps New Zealand for a quarter of a million. Each sub-division of the Colony must spring to the call. Wellington, perhaps, has to find iitty thousand, and then the screw is put on our own district, and poor Cock Robin, who has a small overdraft, finds his advance suddenly called in, and collapses. The bolt losscncd in in a provincial town of Great Britain proves fatal to an unknown denizen of a country district in the antipodes, All this is very sad, but happily the cloud is followed by sunshine, not perhaps to poor Robin, who is bowled over, but to the other birds in the wood who have been more frightened than hurt, A few big Robins and a good many little ones have conic to grief all the world over, but the myriads which have escaped will soon be able to sing again and flutter their wings better than ever. The. big heart at London gets its supply, the reservoir becomes full, (ho great central organ is gorged ! Then comes the reaction. The tide turns. The vital coin is forced back through the arteries, spreading swiftly and surely to the smallest extremities, till even Alfredfcon rejoices and Castlepoint is right glad. At the present moment we do not think the existing depression will continue long. We believe the tide will turn soon, and that the now exhausted extremities will be revivified. In former years of crises and panics the circulation betweenthchcartandsay the little too in New Zealand was so slow that the latter was wont toget very cold before the timely aid arrived, but now communication is much more rapid, and a depression which would have been serious to the Colony ten years ago is now a much milder calamity. The Colony will soon be right again, and its health sounder and more vigorous than it was before the attack. The only regret will be the poor Robins who could not stand out in the day of trouble.

On Thursday next Messrs J. H. Bothuno & Co., sell 20 small farms at Wamui-o-raatii. At tlio kto special Meeting of the Borough Council it was unanimously resolved that a vote of thanks bo tendered to Or Renall for, his generous offer to assist the Council in its financial difficulty. One of tlio valuers for the Thames County under the Land Tax Act has had one form returned to him endorsed as follows:—" Being a Christian pure and simple, and a pilgrim on earth waiting for my Lord from heaven, and for the city of my Lord in the New Jerusalem, I hold no property, landed or otherwise, ■ on earth. lam simply a lodger in the house I reside in, and must refer you to < ; who is the owner thereof,"'

Ml' Beard, suvgoon, has, wo .understand, decided to settle in Masterton. On Saturday next Messrs P. 11. Wood and Co., sell without reservo at their auction rooms, Greytown, a'large quantity of now and second-hand furniture. A special meeting of the .Masterton School Committee, is convened for Monday next, to appoint three membora for tho Educational Board. Bay, says tho Wellington correspondent of ti\e Clmstchnxch Press, has purchased tho two-year-old Sauutevcv, by fetor, from altiddlesworfch mare, for £IOO. This is, I believe, tho first of fetor's stock tint lias appeared upon the turf. During the meeting of the Greytown Borough Council on Monday Hia Worship tho Mayor stated that he heard tho Now Zealand Insurance Company would .supply a Fire Engino if a Brigade were formed. If such is the fact, steps ought to be immediately taken to call a meeting on the subject. A disagrecablo woman in Dorset, has presented her husband with fivo children at one fell swoop—a boy and four girls. Her husband was in treaty for a free passage to New Zealand for himself and By thcrating acttlie judgesonSrafflsß inent Court cannot legally hold any Com" before the 22nd of February yet Mr Wardell appointed the various Courts throughout the Wairarapa to sit on the 17th lo'th IDlh and 21st Inst respectively. This is

another example of the way things are done in the Wairarapa, No wonder that the least possible amount of publicity was given to such sittings. At a special meeting of the Greyiown Trustees held on Monday evening, for the purpose of considering an application made by Constable Byrn on behalf of tho Resident Magistrate for the use of tho Town Hall for twelve months, for the purposes of a Court House, it was re solved on the motion of Mr Kempton, seconded by Mr Homblow, that the "Resident Magistrate be allowed the use of the Hall for tho purpose named for an annual sum of £3O, fire and lighting included, The Masonic Lodge of Ma3certon recently forwarded to England a carte-de-visite of the late Mr Joseph Masters, whoso connection with both Masterton and the Lodge is so well known that wo need not refer to it, to be enlarged. The enlarged portrait, measuring 30 inches by 25, has just been received, It will, wo understand, bo tinted by Mr Davis, the photographer, and after being framed be placed in the Lodge-room, Tho likeness is a very striking one, and as tho late Mr Masters was photographed in his ollicial costume as Master of the Lodge, a more appropriate mark of esteem to their first chief oliicer could not have been displayed by the brethren. Tho Saturday Advertiser, in referring to the lecture which the Rev Mr luglis is to deliver on Thursday, says:—"Tho peroration on " The Future of tho Colonies," was a grand piece of declamatory word-painting, containing sound, sensible, moral, and intellectual lessons, which every true colonist might take to heart with advantage. Tho Rev J. W. Inglis is, without doubt, a powerful lecturer. His passion has a genuine ring about it, his pathos is true to nature, and his humour is so contagion:', that the mo : ;t depressed hypochondriac would brighten up under its exhilarating influence. As a mimic, he is simply immense, and as a deelaimcr he is exceedingly effective. There is a sound, healthy, moral tone running through his lectures; and, after listening to one of them, you feel that you have been instructed as well as entertained.

A meeting of Hie Greytown School Committee was held on Monday evening in the school voom, thevo were present Messrs Bock, (Chairman) Fenton Wakclin Cowpcr and Hornblow. A letter was received from Mr Wakclin and in reference to it, it was rosolved that the Treasurer be instructed to pay Mr Wakclin amount due for Stationary to., to December 31st, and to ascertain amount due to date, it was resolved that the master provide requisites, cleaning to, and furnish accounts to the Committee monthly. The plan for teachers residence was improved with slight alteration. It was resolved that the application of Mr Turrit; as head master and Miss M. Ma'ier, a:; assistant teacher he approved. A meeting of the House Committee of the Mastertou Hospital was held at the Hospital building yesterday. Present: Messi'3 D. McGregor (Chairman) Bennett, lorns, Girdlcstone, J, Y, Smith and Payton. An account of Blyth Bros., £22 lis, was passed for payment. Home discussion ensued as to the maimer in which supplies were obtained for tlio Hospital as it was evident that an expenditure was being incurred without the sanction of the Committee which the funds of the Institution would not warrant. It was resolved on tlio motion of Mr Payton seconded by Mr J. Y. Smith-That Messrs Blyth Bros., be instructed that orders for food and groceries may be issued by the Custodian but orders for wine spirits furniture or clothing must be countersigned by at least one member of the House Committee. It was also resolved that the -custodian be instructed no longer to supply Mrs Bailey's husband with provisions. • The committee after considering the question of dividing the male ward came to the conclusion that it was not at present in a position to undertake the proposed alteration.