The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 260, 9 September 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1879.

Tiie elections during the last day or two have taken a turn favorable to the Ministerial party, and it is with some misgivnig that we view the result. Sooner or later a reaction will sot in, and the people will wake up to find that tliey have been betrayed and deceived. The only fear is that irreparable mischief will be done before the colony discovers the true character of the men to whom so many are now according their support. Penniless adventurers who have failed to get a living by any ordinary method are now getting seats in the Assembly by telling the electors things which arc not true and making promises which they can never fulfil. If the Ministerial party triumph, we venture to prophecy that the honorarium will be increased during the first session of the new Parliament, that triennial Parliaments will be shelved by those who have been loudest in their favor during the present election, and that even the extension of the franchise will be put off to a more convenient season, So long as Sir George Grey continues at the head of affairs capital will flow out of the colony, landed proprietors will be unable to employ labor, small farmers will be sold up, tradesmen will have to shut up shops, The late period of suffering and distress will be prolonged until we obtain an administration which will have not only the confidence of the colonists but that of English capitalists also. Of course, the five million loan will make things pleasant for a short time, but it will not do much towards settling people on land, or enabling those who are already settled to hold their own. In the present contest the towns are voting one way and the country the other.' The towns are far more dependent on the country than the country is on the towns, but this seems to have been forgotten, and it will not

perhaps be till we have passed through greater suffering than that which has already befallen us that we shall know good from evil, and recognise that we have alienated our best friend;! to serve a number of idle demagogues who have been seeking their own interests rather than ours,

The usual monthly meeting of the Masterten Hospital will be held on Tuesday afternoon. Messrs lorns and Fergusson announce a sale of furniture, for Saturday next, in the Town Hall,

Mr Meredith, sen., invites tenders up to the 20th inst., for ploughing 200 acres of land on the Wharauna flat.

We have to inform owners of draught stock that all entiios intended for insertion in the second volume of the N. Z, Stud Book, must be sent in to the Secretary, A. and P. Association, Herefordstreet, Ohristcliurch, on or before September 13 h, as no entries can be received after that date intended for the second volume,

A writer in a Home paper says There are thousands of people m New Zealand living and enjoying life, who would have been in their graves long ago had they remained in England, A " special" ship is about, to shirt from this colony in September, for the express purpose of affording superior accomodation for farmers who may wish to avail themselves of such an opportunity of proceeding thither. An English paper saysA T e\v Zealand is just now attracting more attention, probably, on the part of all classes of English people, than any other Colony. Thousands are seeking recent and reliable information on the subject. Home readers are informed in a recent description of Sew Zealand, that an Englishman, on first'lauding, discovers to his surprise, that he cannot well judge the distance, His eye needs to be educated. The air is so clear in New Zealand that lie imagines distant objects to be near at hand,

The Oddfellows meet this evening, F. H; Wood and Co., sell to-morrow at Featherston, 15 head of fat cattle, etc. The Phoenix Lodge, 1.0. G.T., meets this evening at the Foresters' Hall, The Volunteers parade this evening in the Hall. The next sitting of the R.M. Court, at Masterton, is on the 18th inst. The first annual meeting of the Masterton Fire Brigade is convened for Wednesday evening next. To-morrow evening the Greytown Foresters' hold their quarterly summonsed meeting. The declaration of the poll yesterday, j at Featherston, was merely a formal proceeding. One elector only, was present. We remind painters that tenders for painting the new shops for Mr C. Brown, close to-morrow, at 5 o'clock, All accounts against Mr Pharazyn's Masterton Committee, must be sent in to the Secretary, MrEasthope, before 2p.m, to-morrow. Wo have received a letter signed "Observer" It contains personal allusion which in our opinion should not be made anonymously. Horse Parades, under the auspices of the W. and E, C. Pastoral Association, will be held during the ensuing season. An advertisement will be found elsewhere. Tenders are invited until Tuesday, 30th inst,, for the old telegraph poles and wires at Vallance's Range, Te Ore Ore, and Masterton, A new firm of pahters, paperliangers, etc., Messrs Haskell and Boulder, announce tliey have commenced business. The W. and E. C. Pastoral Association invito tenders up to the loth inst, for leasing the Associat ion's grounds at Carterten, for twelve months. At a meeting held at Gladstone yesterday, Messrs Buchanan, H. Beetham, E, Meredith, jun., and Fred Moore, were elected Trustees for the Wainuioru Rabbit District. At a meeting held at Gladstone yesterday it was unanimously resolved that the price of shearing this year should be 17/6 per 100. We were unable to obtain the result of the polling for a Maori representatvie, held yesterday, in the Court-house, but are inarmed that Henare Matua headed the poll with over 40. A case was heard yesterday, before A. W. Renall and W. H, Ilosking, Esq's., J. P's.—Sergeant McCardle v. J. Stanford abusive and abscene language. The charge was proved and Stanford fined £5, in default two month's imprisonment. We believe it if the intention of some ladies and gentlemen at Greytown, to give an entertainment in connection with the Cricket Club, at ano distant date; from what we have been able to hear the entertainment "..remises to be one superior to most of the sort in the district. We are sorry to report that a boy of MrGooden's, of Waihakeke was drowned while crossing the river belonging to the Black Bridge, on Sunday last, We hear that Mr Hudson, the proprietor of the Surprise Party, is so satisfied with his sojourn here, that he intends paying us another visit after the Troupe have been to Auckland.

A public meetinn- is called for Wednesday next, in the Town Hall, to enable Messrs A. Bisli, Edmund Feist, and W. W, McCardle to explain their views on Municipal questions. Mr Walter Johnston lias beaten Mr Halcombe in the Manawatu The votes were, Johnston, 493: Halcombe, 442 : Snelson, 214. The result may be regarded as satisfactory. Mr Halcombe is an honest and industrious public man, but he is not the equal of Mr Johnson in ability. A correspondent sends the following to us. We will undertake to give the answer, if he will find the pins Take a chess board, which contains G4 squares. Now if one pin be placed on the first square, two on the second square, four on the third square, eight on the fourth square, and so on, doubling each time, hew many pins will there be on the whole of the squares ? Also give the weight of the pins, supposing that 100 pins weigh 1 ounce. Let both answers be in figures and writing. Must be given to the Editor as soon as possible. -J.K.H.E, The gaps caused by the late fire are now beginning to look filled up. The handsome ollices fur Messrs Dalrymple and Co. are completed, all but a few inside fittings; and the contractor, Mr G, Russoll, has nearly completed his contract for two shops for Mr C. Brown. The new brick building for the Bank of Australasia is idso rapidly approaching completion, while on the opposite side of the street Mr D, Dixon has nearly completed a handsome shop for Messrs Watson and Wintringham.

The usual monthly meeting of the Mastortnn School Committee was held yesterday afternoon. Present: Messrs Feist (Chairman), McKce, Brown, Payton, Me Cardie, and Wrigley. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. The Treasurer reported the balance in hand to be £O/7/2. The Teachers monthly report was read. It stated th"t the average attendance for the past month was 215, It was decided that an estimate should be obtained for cost of refurnishing the sohool and an application made to the Board for' the cost of the same. The other business' was merely of an ordinary character.

If we rccdon that a single grain of wheat p 'oduces fifty grains, and that these fifty will each produce fifty grains more, and so on, we find in the second year, 2«00 grains; in the third year, 125,000 grains; in the sixth year, 15,025,000,000 grains; in the twelfth year, 224,140,625, 000.000 grains. The third year's crop would give 300 men one meal, leaving enough bran to teed eight pigs for one day. The produce of asingle grain in the twelfth year would stillice to,supply all the inhabitants of the earth with food during their lifetime.

It is somewhat singular that, while we in Now Zealand are now agitating to make the Upper Chamber elective, our neighbors in Victoria, who have been blest for many years past with a Legislative Council appointed by the voice of the people, are moving in a contrary direction. The lieLrin Bill, introduced bv Mr Ferry, the Premier of.Victoria, contains a clause making the Upper House a nominee one, as is the case here. The anomaly is certainly a strange one, as Mr Berry is certainly as ultra-democratic as Sir George Grey, who is lining his best to make our Legislative Ci.'H cil elective, What Mr j.'erry means by this change of front it is diliicult to conj r i;tuiu But it must certainly have taken many by surprise ? and none more so, we shaild opine, than Sir George Grey.