The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 120, 28 March 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1879.

A Wellixgton contemporary advocates a broad distinction being made by trader? between tlv! cask and credit price of goods, so tlnit casli customers be not called upon to pay for the cost of bookkeeping, delays in collecting, cost of collection, and bad debts incurred under the credit system. This in theory is all very well, but in practice it is not so convenient. In a town like London trade can be sub-divided and classified to any extent. There may be one shop in one street where a profit of 100 per cent is added to the value of goods, and another shop in another street selling similar articles at 5 per cent, advance only, and the latter establishment may be the more profitable one. With a large population every description of trade finds a level and a channel, so that the cash and credit system may in ihe metropolis o; Great Britain' be studied in all its possible phazes. When, however, we come to country :ownsbips like those wliich exist in the Wairarapa, it is difficult to try and create different prices for cash and credit. It is not easy even to maintain •20-operative stores. The evils of the

;rcdit system exist more or less in full vigor, and it is impossible altogether to dud a remedy. We pay a high prioe for our bread, for our meat, and for our beer, but we do not always pay cash for hem, and we expect them brought to onr doors. It is only right under such circumstances that we should pay L 5 or 30 per cent, more than we otherwise •should do. Even supposing that we are taxed 20 per cent, for delivery and iOSt of collection, we would do very well if we did not suffer a still further loss by carelessness and bad management, flow much food is there not wasted day by day in bad cooking and jxtravagauec 1 Wo bolieve that the waste in bread, meat, and beer, is afar greater tax than the advanced prices at which they are retailed, It is not so much a change from a credit to a cash -system of business that is required as a fair economy in the consumption of i'ood and clothing, That we are as a rule careless and extravagant in supplying household wants is very notorious, t'lic butcher knows that big joints of meat are thought very little of in the . Iwelling of the working-man, The bakpr knows that the laborers' wife, •ooner than take the trouble to rrake 'iome bread for her family, will take a ighter bnt less nutritious article from "iim at almost double the cost in money to her gudeman, Clothes are half-worn mt and then thrown aside, with the ;ame disregard for thrift. It is not indeed the extra profit which tradesmen force upon us that does the mischief, but, first, waste and extravagance, and

secondly, the facility with which people obtain, credit, A man soOn forgets the value of money when, without recourse to it, he can get any mortal thing lie wants, In a town like Masterton it is not necessary to have, two prices, ono for cash and one for booking, but it is extremely-desirable that more discretion' should'bfe exercised as to persons to Avhom credit.should be extended. We hold that it is impossible to do a greater mischief to a man depending' for- his living on weekly wages, Jhairto induce him to take goods on credit to an iin-' due extent until all his earnings are, forestalled, and his chance of saving money or making headway is altogether crippled, It is not the storekeeper that is' the principal sufferer by the credit system—it :js the working-man whom the.'system 'apparently ; benefits .and .reallv injures; who - sustains the greaterloss -.through" it-. - "-- 2lf the present period of depression teaches' persons'"' JO-, j)V more frugal in their consumption of food, drink, and clothing, and to endeavor to apply their wages, not to the process of wiping out old scores, but to the purchase of present supplies, we can afford to let the cash v. credit question rest in abeyance, :

The.survey of the Waimale Plains lias been ag lin obstructed, ami as exaggerated rrprts may be circulated respecting the same, we aro glad to be able to give, from a reliable sourco, the exact particulars. The Hon. Mr Sheehan went to tlie native' meeting at Pariliaka. He demanded that Hiroki, the murderer, should be given up, which request was refused. He then jirhceecded to explain the course lie was abuot to pursue respecting the Waimato Plains, and was engaged in doing so for about twenty-six minutes when To Wliiti, in violation of a promise which lie had made bifon the Native Minister began speaking, interrupted him, and made one of his most violent and fanatical utterances, characterising the action of the Go. vernnient of a theft, and accusing the Government of being the murderers of McLean, and not Hiroki. After the Hon. Mr Sheehan had left Pariliaka on that day a meeting was held, and Te Whiti decided that the surveyor should be turned off three times peaceably and that on the fourth occasion they were to do what Hiroki did. Accordingly a party went down on Monday and removed the survey camps to the other side of the river Waiiigongoro, where they now are. The motive for Te "Whiti's action is perfectly plain. For the last seven or eight years he has deluded the peop'o by the assertion of prophetic and even God-like powers. Each year at his annual meeting lie stood pledged to do various wondrous miracles. This year lie was to have raised the dead, to have restored all the confiscated land, and to have ascended into Heaven with Sir George Grey. None of these things came to pass, and his speech at the meet ing on the 13th of March was one of the lowest and most, hesitating that he has ever been known to deliver. As a consequence the people begin to murmur, and numbers left Pariliaka in disgust. To save hinuelf he has thrown himself into the hands of a more violent party. So far as the Government are advised at present Titokowaru is not a consenting party to any violent measures. We have reason* to believe that the Government will take the necessary steps to vindicate the authority of the law.

The sheep and cattle auction at the Taratalri yards, takes place at 2 p.m. this day.

To-morrow F. H. Wood & Co. offer by auction, at Gveytown, the well-known butchering premises of Mr E. Strawbridge, To-morrow Messrs lorns & Fergusson hold an extensive furniture sale in the promises recently occupied by Mr G, T.. Farmer,

We a>'e glad to notice that a meeting is called in another column, for Friday, April 4th, in the Town Hall, Masterton, for the purpose of forming a Volunteer Corps. ..

At a recent fashionable marriage, says Truth, the bridegroom requested the bride to order her own jewels. This she did, and bills li we now come in amounting to above £IOO,OOO The bridegroom cannot pay and the jewellers decline to take back their wares,

We understand upon good authority that a writ has been ismed if not already served upon an old resident of Greytown, for £3OO value of a colt by " >Sator" and £IOO for detention, the colt was supposed to liavedied about two anda-half years on Mr Gilligan's run at the Taucru, The third sale of the Featherston sale yards on Wednesday last, was like like its predecessors fairly attended. But as a correspondent in our open column points out the supply of fat cattle and sheep was utterly inadequate. What are the fanners and l'linhuldersdf the Lower Valley doing ? are they asleep or two lazy to send their stock to market,

We have been shown the plans of the double-fronted shop about to be erected for Messrs Golder and Wilton to replace the premises recently destroyed by lire. The design, prepared by Mr H. F. Doveton, is a very neat one, and the now building will be an ornament to Queen-street. lie contractors are Messrs Williams and Barker.

We notice that the contractor for the Masterton Hospital is completing the exterior painting, and the building in the course of a few days will be ready for the admission of patients, For the present probably one wing of the structure will be only required to be furnished and fitted. Nurse Lyons informs us that gifts of old linen would be acceptable, and doubtless some of our lady renders will endeavor to supply the want, There is at present only one case in the Hospital, that of the woman whose leg was amputated and who as yet is not sufficiently convalescent for removal,

Old soldiers of the (!sth, or as they were known by the Maoris, the " Hikity Pip," will be glad to learn that one of its officers has been distinguishing himself. Brevet Major Gordon, who distinguished himself in the earlier phases of the Ashantee war by his devotion to duty while serving as a special volunteer, has been allowed to join the AfFgban Expedition, and lias been appointed to the staff of Bridgr,-General lytler, V.C., C.8., as Brigade-Major.

Lord Ebrington, who bad jnst returned from a lengthened tour in Australia and New Zealand, delivered an interesting lecture at Barnstaple, in the courso of which hp. astonished the audience by telling them' how ho had scon five millions of acres, of uncultivated land advertised for sale by one firm in a single advertisement ; also that so great is the preference for pastoral farming that only four millions of acres ave under cultivation, or less than the area of the four western counties,—" Truth,"

Tito meeting of Creditors in the Estate of Williams Cameron & Co., appointed at Wellington for yesterday, was postponed till this afternoon. '

'One of Messrs Gardner & Co.'s gas machines (Mullers patent) wasexhibited last Evening, at Mr Corbett's Empire Hotel, 'l'lieso .machines are very perfect, only making as much gas as is being consumed, and merely requiring to be liept supplied with gasoline and water to keep them in working order. The light is quite equal to coal gas, burns just as steadily, and costs only the samo amount -for its production.

During,the Maori war.in.lßGo, writes a correspondent, on the day.affcer.the battle of Wairaikt, a volunteer stationed in the Or.iato Stockade ..observed a Maori, near the Wairaiki Pah the distance being about 2 miles. The man used. tin. to -make a sufficient elevation for his riHe and tried the experiment to sea if the- rillo .would citvry.so far and' haying-taken, a. caisiil. sightfircd., An officer standinga field glass- observed tlio 'Moiiri spring' into the air -and fall down after -which they proceeded to the pah, andfoiirid liiiu' dead, shot through the heart, ' A little girl eighteen 1 months old,daughter of Mr W, it", Smarts had a very narrow escape from death yesterday.- -Mrs Smart, wlio, was engaged in the house, heard the dogj which was tied up outside, making a furious barking'and howling, went to ascertain-.the cause, and found 'him'scratching at the board which covered the well,- with his .paws bleeding from cuts from nails in the side of the well. Mrs Smart tried to pacify,the dog, and was replacing-the- cover bf the well when • she was horrified at seeing.her child's.-feet-above the water at- the bottom. - She called for ljejp and immediately went dnwii themsll, and held the child who was quite insensible in Jicr arms till assistance came, which- fortunately was very quickly. On reaching the top the usual remedies were resorted to, with favorable results. There are fortunately no hrtiises. nor any bones broken, and Dr Hosking who was, in attendance as quickly at possible, lias strong hope of the child's recovery. We learn this morning that the child, though very weak, is better,