The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 245, 22 August 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1879.

Mr Bunny and Mr Carter have both been cornered a littlo to declare to which party they belonged, and to take the electors into their confidence on the question which Parliament had remitted to the country. At Greytown Mr Bunny spoke out boldly and said he would not turn his coat, but would vote for the Ministerial side, We respect Mr Bunny for this declaration, and only regret that Mr Cartey did not, when pressed in a similar manner, make opan confession instead of dodging round plain straightforward ques tions, so that his mind on the subject is still a mystery to the electors, Mr Bunny might have been forgiven for reticence. Fourteen years of continuous service covers a multitude of sins, and though differing from Mr Bunny on party questions, we would not for one moment be so ungrateful as to decry his long and valuable services to the district. Mr Carter, too, is putting in a little bill for services rendered a generation back, but the statute of limitations is clearly against him, and if any claim of this kind is to be met and honored, it is plain that Mr Bunny's must take precedence over Mr Carter's. The, Liberal party is divided into head and tail, The personal friends of the Premier form the head, and the Liberal party the tail. "We fancy Mr Carter belongs to the head and Mr Bunny to the tail division, The electors, however, have a distinct right to tell candidates to stick to their party, and not come saying, " It's all the fault of the head, which the tail is going to remove;" or " It's the tail that is to blame, because it won't wag when the head nods, and we will have a new tail next session." The electors will not take the Liberal party piecemeal, and the candidates of it must come at last, as they ought to have done at first, as units of the entire animal, and not try to hoodwink the electors as Headites and Tailites, so that they may have a back door which, in the event of their being returned, will enable them to escape from all the election pledges they may have been supposed to have given, We have great faith in Mr Carter as a public man, and we think those who have heard his addresses will endorse the favorable opinion we have previously expressed ot him, and it is with much regret we notice him in the present contest running a "wee bit" crooked. We would much sooner see him follow Mr Bunny's example and run up his flag, instead of keeping it carefully stowed away in the recesses of an impenetrable pocket.

Applications are invited by the Masterton Borough Council for the office of valuators, Messrs!. H. Wood and Co, sell on Wednesday next, at the Featherston Sale Yards, twenty head of fat cattle and some well-bred draught and brake horses, A public meeting is convened at Carterton for Tuesday next to discuss matters relating to the Carterton Local Board, To-morrow Messrs lorns and Fergusson hold an unreserved sale of jewelry in the bankrupt estate of Mr Golder, at the Town Hall, Masterton,

The Masterton Borough Council gives final notice that it will sue for rates in arrear. Tim Carterton Rifle Volunteers meet for drill on Thursday evening next, instead of Tuesday next, A committee has been formed at Greytown to assist Mr Beetham's return. The first meeting will be held at the ffioce of F. H. Wood & Co., this evening. Mr 0, Phamyn invites the electors to meet him at Carterton on Saturday, at Masterton on Monday, at Greytown on Wednesday, and at Featherston on Thursday. The Cockburn family have the reputation of living to great ages, Yesterday a member of it, Mrs Jane Taylor died at Masterton at th advanced age of 9G years. We are sorry to hear that the promoters of the movement which constituted Greytown a Borough, have not as yet defrayed the expenses incidental to the petition, and that even the person who was employed to' collect signatures to it has now been kept out of his well-earned money for moro than a twelvemonth. A meeting of Carterton ratepayers will be held in the old Town Hall on Monday evening next, to consider the expediency of extendii'g the boundaries of the Carterton Local District, and to consider other matters in connection with the welfare of the district, and the forthcoming election of members to serve on the Local Board.

The fallowing are gazetted as the polling places of the Wairarapa:—The Courthouse, Greytown ; the Courthouse, Carterton ; the Courthouse, Masterton; the premises of the Hon J. Martin, Otaraia; the premises of Mr McLachlan, Springbank, Tupurupuru; Mr Brannigan's wool shed, Alfredt"ii; the Schoolhouse, Mauriceville; the Schoolhouse, Tinui. Featherston will be the principal polling place. It is understood that the election will be held during the first week in September.

The following tenders were received at the Public Works Office for the Greytown Branch contract:—Accepted: Bennett & Potts, Carterton, L 760. Declined :T. Riordan, Wellingti n, L 778; W. N. Park, Carterton, L 878; J. Farrell. Wellington, L 924; 0. Tait, Featherston, L 1225; Kirkpatrick and Oleary, Wellington, L 1274; M, B. Cave, Tauherenikau, L 1355 ; J. Powell, Wellington, L 1420 ; W. Kibblewhite and S. White, Masterton, L 1485. A meeting of creditors of Mr, Thomas Hope Murray, To Ore Ore, was held on Monday last, Mr, J, Vile in the chair. After some consideration of the affairs of the debtor, the trustee was authorised to take legal advice upon the general aspect of the estate and report to the creditors at a future meeting. The Hon. 0. J. Phavazyn lias devoted his honorariam of Ll4O as follows;—To the Wellington Diocesan Fund he has given LSO; to the Bishops residence Fund LSO; to St. Paul's Parish, L 25, to St. Mark's Organ Fund, Llo; and to St. Peter's Bell Fund, L 5. Surely if he has committed any political transgressions, he will receive absolution for them.