The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1879.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 272, 24 September 1879, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1879.

We trust the. spring and summer mouths will not be allowed to slip away in the Wairarapa without a vigorous attempt being made to prove and develop the auriferous resources of the mountain ranges, Mr Allen, the prospector who a few months ago went to the head of the Kuamahunga, declared that he found alluvial gold, and that had not the extreme bad weather prevented him from bottoming, he would have obtained it in payable quantities. He asserted that in a dryer season a considerable number of men could make wages on the ledges and terraces at the point where he was operating. In another part of the same range Mr Donald Donald secured specimens which were proved at the Government Laboratory to contain gold, These indications, together with the satisfactory test applied to the quartz reef found near the Western Lake, make & prima facie case in favor of prospecting still further. Gold mining is a great pioneer in New Zealand of population, settlement, and wealth. It is for this reason that we are anxious to avail ourselves of the chance which we undoubtedly possess. We do not desire.or wish to make a small fortune by goMmimng, or that any industrious tradesman should neglect his business to go prospecting. What it is desirous to determine is the existence in paying quantities of the precious metal, and to leave to professional diggers the arduous but exciting task of bringing it to market, Last week we suggested that the County Councils of both Wairarapa East and West and the Borough Council of Masterton should in some way or the other encourage prospecting, The question is one which may be of the first importance to the Wairarapa, and we feel that it is our duty to again and again call attention to it. We consider that the leading settlers of the district should display some slight interest in the matter, not for speculative purposes, but with the object of benefitting the district as a whole. We congratulate Featherston on the possession of a valuable quartz reef, and we hope soon to felicitate Masterton and Carterton on similar advantages. At present, however, the latter townships are a little somnolent in organising necessary prospecting parties.

Tenders are .invited for painting a cottage in Perry-stre'et. The usual meeting of the Education Board takes place to-day.

F. H. Wood and Co. hold their fortnightly sale at the Featherston Sale Yards to-day. Cable communication between Batavia and Singapore was restored yesterday morning.

An emergency meeting of the Thistle Lodge will be held at Masterton this evening. To-morrow Messrs Bethune & Hunter sell at Wellington two draught entiresYoung Melbourne and Glengarry, Mrs Gilbtb, of tho Masterton Poulterers' depot, announces that she is a cash purchaser for 500 turkeys, geese, ducks, and fowls.

An adjourned meeting of creditors in' the estate of Mr J. A. Petlierick will he held at the office of Mr 0. P. Skipper on Friday next.

Communication was restored on the Port Darwin line at 5.45 p.m on Monday evening. „ A steamer arrived at Batavia with messages yesterday morning,

A rumor has been current for the last day or two to the effect that the Grey Ministry intend to support the candidature of Mr Bunny for the chairmanship of committees,

A meeting of the creditors of Mr T. Evans, of Carterton, was held yesterday afternoon, and Mr Dimant was appointed trustee. Assets wero stated at £4070, liabilities L37G2.

Want of care during the winter leaves a cow very poor and weak in the spring. Any animal that is out of condition should be well cared for now. A mess of warm bran-slop, with one ounce of ginger stirred in, will bo very useful. It is not safe to over-feed, especially with stimulating food.

The cricket invasion of Algeria in 18G6, cost the Government five million francs, and two hundred thousand of the natives died of starvation. A single band of these animals was estimated to contain fifty thousand tons of them, and the nitrogen of them to weigh one thousand tons, Nets have been patented in France, so that in case of another invasion this valuable maniu'ial agent may not be lost. The crickets are caught in the angles of the nets and fall down into a pit, where they are to be treated with green vitriol, Two young men were out fishing the other day, and on returning were going past a farm-house and felt hungry. They yelled to the farmer's daughters: " Girls, have you any butter-milk V The reply was gently wafted back to their ears: " Yes, but we keep it for our own calves." Large quantities of grain continue to be poured into the Hobart Town market from the over-full granaries of Canterbury. What the farmers will think about it, I don't blow, for they are fairly run aground; but the bread eater will not be sorry to find that the baker can supply a cheaper loaf with the help of the New Zealand grower of wheat. The well-known firm of T. Kennedy Macdonald & Co., auctioneers, have removed to those commodious and convenient premises in Panama-street adjoining the warehouse of Messrs Thompson & Shannan, where, in addition to the Land Auctioneering business so successfully carried on in their old premises, they will undertake the sale and storage of general produce, furniture, &o. The premises h.ivingbecn specially built for the trade, they are enabled to show goods entrusted to them to great advantage. A correspondent informs the Argus that Mr Jamieson, of the Metropolitan Gas Company, received by the last mail a packet of peas which were taken from the folds of an Egyptian mummy, unrolled in the British Museum, 3000 years old. Mr Jamieson, on receiving them, placed some of them in a glass of water, and in twentyfour hours thay had swelled considerably. They were then taken out and planted in pots, with good manure, and are now springing into life. Query.

11l consequence of dairy operations about Terang, Victoria, having proved so unremunerative last year, those farmers who have land fit for agricultural purposes have commenced ploughing, with the object of growing the usual cereal and root crops. Par better do so than playing at dairy farming.

Complaints of the prevalence of grubs in grass land have come from several parts of Victoria, From Camperdowi comes one of the most recent complaints. It is said by the Chronicle that they are making great havoc amongst the grass in some places. They come up in the night and leave the place over which they have crawled quite black. If the farmers would also come out at night and take a few turns with the roller on the infested spotSj the result would be striking

The Greytown Borough Council practically owes its existence to Mr Bragging senior, who prior to its formation did a certain amount of necessary canvassing. Yet the Greytown Borough Council refuse to pay Mr Braggins his little bill of £4 4s for services rendered, We recommend Mr Braggins to bring his case before the Colonial Secretary. The Government might possibly pay the amount and stop it out of subsidy. If the Council is too mean to pay Mr Braggins it certainly ought to pass a voto of thanks to him. Without Mr Braggins there would have been no Mayor and no Councillors.

■:'.' It may be interesting news," says the San Francisco News Letter, "that the Rotterdamsche Handelsvereeniging loses 7,000,000 florins by the failure of the Afrikaansche Handelsvereeniging," but to impart such information by telegraph must be very wearing on the wires. That is the smallest part of the evil however. We know of three compositors and one foreman printer who have committed suicide by drowning since those Dutch banks began to fall, thereby causing a glut in the shrimp market and giving an inky flavor to the crabs. These unfortunate men did not belong to the News Letter office, Not at all. We are too careful of the lives of our printers for that, and have a machine (patent applied for) expressly invented for such emergencies. It is like a gigantic inverted pepper-castor, with holes in the lid large enough to let type slip through freely. It takes some time to get the name of a Dutch bank along the wires, and as soon as we are warned by the arrival of the first instalment our machine is promptly hoisted into position over the forme, As the name continues to come in, four able-bodied men shovel type into the Dutchometer from a well-mixed heap of all the letters in the alphabet. The machine is then violently agitated by being beaten with a cast-iron club, and after the type has rattled out for an hour or two wo have got that name as correct as any of the dailies. We hear that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Printers is going to award the News Letter an oriode medal for the life-saving apparatus.

Parliament meets this afternoon at 2 p.m,

In our report yesterday of the Wairarapa Reef, "Hdwts. of gold, and 2oz. of gold," was inadvertently printed for "14 dwts, of gold, and 2oz of Bilver." Another of the lately created magistrates (says " iEgles") has distinguished himself. (" Created" <is a good word, signifying to make out of nothing.) He was lawfully in debt a fow pounds to a manufacturer, but he habitually postponed' payment, At length a summons wa» out against him. returnable at the local court of petty sessions. With the summons iri his hand, he at once sought out his impatient creditor, and the following occurred :—His Worship: Look here, you'd better withdraw this." "I won't do anything of the sort. I've waited too long already." His Worship : " Then, if you go on with it, I'll have to sit on the bench, and dismiss the case." Creditor: "That would be very bad taste," His Worship : " Taste be —! A man must protect himself!"