The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1880.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 471, 22 May 1880, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1880.

The Waihenga railway project has come to a very unsatisfactory conclusion, In the first instance Grey town went into it with some rashness, in fact it was almost deluded into joining it, The origin of the scheme was the necessity of putting a large estate adjoining the Ruumahnnga river into the market on favorable terms. A line to Martinborough would probably increase the value of the Hon John Martin's estate there by some £30,000 or £40,000, and it would also increase to a far less extent the value of Greytown property. The fair arrangement under such circumstances would have been tor the proprietor of Martinborough to have guaranteed half the money, instead of which he apparently only made himself responsible for a tithe of the preliminary expenses. When the movement was under discussion we felt that the position taken by Mr Martin, in trying to get a railway made for his special benefit, instead of taking on his own shoulders the lion's share of the enterprise, was fatal to its success. The' outcome of the whole thing is that a public spirited man like Mr Barnard, watchmaker, of Greytown, who has not the smallest personal interest in the success of the venture, has had to pay almost as much out of his own pocket for the survey expenses as the.Hon John Martin, who stood to win tens of thousands of pounds on the event, The project was the Hon John Martin's project, and though he did not take a very prominent part in the public, meeting at which the committee was appointed, his henchman, Mr K, J, Duncan, was the life and soul of it, and by his eloquence succeeded in placing several well-meaning residents of the township in a false position. It would' only be a fair thing if the Hon John Martin were to recoup the members of the committee which we have referred to for the expenses into which they have unwittingly been led. As for the railway to Waihenga, it will be practicable just as soon as the proprietor of Martinborough sees his way to provide tha bulk of the money for its construction. It won't pay Greytown- to make it. It won't pay the public to construct it. It will pay the Hon John Martin to get it done because the immediate profit he would get on the sale of his land would cover his risk. To allot, however, the risk to Greytown and the profit to himself indicates shrewdness, but not exaotly that sense of fairness which one would like to see in one of our colonial lords,

The banks will be closed on Monday next, the Queer's Birthday. Notice is given to members of the Phoenix Lodge, LO.G.T. no meeting will take place on Monday evening.

Mr J. M. Gii'dlostona holds a sale ol stock to-day, at the Empire Hotel yards Masterton.

The athletic sports postponed from the 14th instant, take place at Greytown on Monday. A meeting of the Masterton-Opaki Jockey Club takes place this evening- at the Club Hotel.

Mr, E, W. Mills, the well-known hard' ware merchant of Wellington, has an an nouncement in our. columns.

t ''Punch" is to be .published in Wellington during the coming session. We hear that its circulation has been considerably increased during its sojourn in Auckland,

Tenders close to-day for felling aboui seventy acres of bush near Matahiwi, and for alterations, &c., at the Masterton HoS' pital.

B. A, Gardener & Son,, storekeeper; Carterton, direct attention to the fact that they have just opened and marked off goods for the autumn and winter sea' sons.

Persons in want of eligible investments in the Manawatu district are requested to apply for information to Thynne, Linton, & Co., auctioneers, Palmerston and Foxton.

Notice is given of a meeting of credi tors in T.'H. Hill's estate to be held "ol the 26th inst.,iu the Council Chambers Masterton, to consider the the debtor for his discharge.

Those in want of household or .blacksmith's coals can obtain the article from Mr N, King at the railway station, Greytown, or of Mr J. D. Oakley, Feathers-, ton,

A manufacturing jeweller, Mr- «T Barnes, of Willis-street, Wellington, an" nouncesthat he is prepared to do any work in the irade. Orders' may be left with Mr Keir, Featheraton, or Mr T.E. Price, Masterton,

The Denbigh Hotel, Fielding, Mr 0. Roe proprietor, offers special advantages to travellers. The stables,- we notice, are under the Management of Mr R. W. Morphy, who is well known to the majority or our readers.

Visitors to Wellington, are requested in another column, to make their way direct to Ulster House, Ouba-street, where they can obtain special bargains during the present week. We direct attention to ! Mr Hamilton's advertisement, which will repay perusal. On Monday evening a concert will be given by lady and gentleman amateurs in the Town Hall, Masterton, in aid of the Rifle Volunteer Band funds. We trust the public will appreciate the efforts of the Band in catering for their amusement and that the funds will be augmented to a considerable extent. '

The well'known sewing machinist, Mr Hudsop, Cuba-street, Wellington, has a special announcement in our front page columns of sewing machines and.requisites. Mr Hudson has sent to his agents in the Wairsrapa district, every known' fitting in the line," and they have also on hand some machines by good makers. Mr Price/acts as,Masterton agent,..Mr.Colvilla, Carterton, and Mr J. Fellingham for, Featheraton. Further particulars can" be learned on reference to the'advertiseraent.

A. meeting of Wairarapa County East will be held this evening. \ • Forty summoncea have already .been issued against Land Tax defaulters, and another batch is now being taken out. ' Special trains at single fares ace announced by the Railway Department for the Queen's Birthday_holiday.-:--^-::-r-rr^.

The Carterton Rifle Volunteers are requested to assemble at the Government Reserve on Monday (Queen's Birthday), at 9 a.m. A feu-de-joie will then be fired, and all who, wish to., compete for the various prizes given by the townspeople ■will proceed to the butts. In the evening, a dance will take place in the hall, The band will attend.

An old indentity of some 25 years standing in Wellington, Mr J. Rowley, announces in another column, that he has on hand a very large stock of fancy goods, tobacco, &c, and trusts Wairarapa residents will not forget to give him a call when in town. One special feature we should advise Wairarapaites to see is a novelty in Mr Rowlev's establishment which concists of a counter covered with over 2000 different copper coins of all realms, which are well worth inspection,

Tne Maaterton Volunteer Band will play, weather permitting, on the balcony of Wrtson & Winteriugham's saddley establishment this evening, the following selections:—March, "Soldier's Tear;" quadrille, " London by Night;" Schottische, " Kingfisher;" mazurka, " Wanderer ;" murch, " Come where my Love dreaming;" galop, "Nenfchatel,""God Save the Oueen."

George" Lorimer was arrested at Carterton on-Thursday night,' charged with assisting to procure abortion on one Kate Chitty sometime in April last... Some evidence was takeu last evening, andthe accused remanded till .this morning at. iO o'clock, being liberated on his own' recognisance. • The unfortunate" woman was not examined, being too ill to be brought into Court, and she lies in a very precarious state. This case has excited Carterton somewhat, as it is broadly hinted that.the mysterious disappearance' of a medical gentleman has something to do with this case." Detective Sullivan has been engaged in this matter.''' The Daily Telegraph;' believes Aat ; the coal discovery in-HawkeVßay'is likely to be attended with consequences most important in its results to the people of that province- The coal-field is situated in the Seventy-Mile Bushy -within easy access of the railway, and the- outcrop of three seams, soino five feet in thickness, showed a. continuous improvement in: quality as the tunnelling proceeded. The analysis furnished from a. sample" taken from the 'surface by the Government Geological Survey office gave the remarkably small percentage of five 'per cent of ash. An experienced coal miner on' the spot is ! of opinion that when the seams are opened out jthey will "produce coal of a quality second to none in the colony. ,

They are a smart people in,dork, but the laugh thistime ,is pot on; their side. The other night they Vociferously refused to allow Mr Archibald Forbes to. deliver his Zulu War lecture to them, on account of some old grudge dating from the period of John Mitchell's candidature for Tipporary. When they had accomplished their purpose, interspersing the proceedings with eggs heaved at the would.be lecturer, they serenely demanded to have their money returned to them, but they did not get it; and now when they reflect that Mr Forbes has pocketed their money without having been put to the trouble of delivering his lecture; th'ey begin dimly to recognise the truth of the geographical axiom that the Scot is far too north of the Irishman.

• Theoontrovesy between Dr Russell and Sic Garuet Wolseley anent the behaviour of the British troops in South Africa has now assumed such important dimensions that nothing Bhortof a full and complete inquiry into the truth or the falsity of tho charges brought against the soldiers by the well-known correspondent who wrote 'of the ".thin red'line"'of Bala, elm, aiid chronicled the suppression of the terrible Indian Mutiny, and whose name is,now a household word throughout the whoje of South Africa, will satisfy the British public. Sir Garnet's'report," in answer to the oharges, is in military circles considered by no means complete. He admits that poultry yards were bleared out,'but not traced to soldiers.' Canteens were broken into, but not reported; also, one of the stores, not reported nor traced. In his rejoinder, the doctor'retires not one jot from the position he has taken up, but repoata the charges already made, and looks npon.Sir Garnet Wolsely's reply as "delusive and defective," The Daily Telegraph firmly believes that only a inoiety of the revelations to be made has as yet seen the light, and that this evil of discipline—which it was Dr Russell's duty to expose, and theirs to publish—is a real and wide-spread evil, incidental to the imperfect working out of, a new system, and calling imperatively' for a remedy.

A railway accident, unattended by loss of life, but representing a spectacle at once terrible and picturesque,.took place* on the New York,' Lade Erie, and Western • railroad, in the woods hear Southfield, New Jersey, a ; small station about forty, miles distant from' New York. -An oil train) containing 20-tank cars'was run into by a freight train,, whose-'driver, .owing to a heavy snowstorm, was unable to seo the.signals,.against.hiui, The engineer and driver of the oil train managed to;save their lives by jumping into a snowbank just before the collision ; : but the engineof the freight'train orashed into the oil-carß and lay hnddled up with thenv on the tracks. ...The fire, of the engine soon spread to one of the oil tanks, and in a few minutes the whole mass'was wrapped in flames, Nine tanks containing 180,000 gals of crude petroleum were at once in a blaze. .The oil ran into Lthe woods","" and "giant tongues of flame shot heavenwar|i" Occasionally... an \ oiltank would become over-heated, the gas •would generate too.ifastj and an explosion, from the effeots;of which the ground trembled as from an earthquake,. would ensue. "A scene of- wilder>grandeur," it is stated, " could not well be imagined.". The scene must, indeed have been almost inconveniently grand, for not only were the treeß in the neighbourhood reduced to ashes, but "one by one.the telegraph, wires were separated-, arid : their'endslfell to the ground." The heat was so intense that the rail way 1 officials and a few hundred spectators from the adjacent villages were obliged to remain'at a distance until the fire had expended its force, and things assumed-a less sublime but more comfortable aspect. ■) ; A new photographs process has been in Japan! One of the substances employed in -the. manufacture of Japanese lacquer' has the property of; becoming almost as hard as stone under, the influence, of light; . A' slab. covered with this material, and: duly exposed behind a . photographic .negative for twelve hours, is v the softer parts' are •riibite'd away, !j and the hardened portions stand out in a low relief. The slab oan then be used as a block for printing.

, \ t The prizes given by the business portion of the inhabitants of MastertorijStq:be competed'fo? by the Rifle Volunteers; on Mon'd»y,/are now on view in Mr Chin, window. • The Instructor has given •rprize oF a wooden spoon and pair of spectacles to the lowest scorer.

yesterday afternoon at thTEmpire "Hotel,'on ""the'"cause of burning of Mr 6. McKay's stacks at Te Ore Ore a short time back. A num-•be'r-ofj witnesses were called, and the proceedings lasted until about 7 p.m., when a verdict of " wilfully set on fire, but hy whom the'evidence adduced does not show," was returned, ~' The Carterton Volunteers intend celebrating Her Majesty's birthday by prize firing at their butts, Taratuhi, The com-' petition will be for prizea kindly given by tradesmen and others, and comprise a host of items, with as wide a range as it is possible to imagine. One prize will be 500 feet of timber, another a pair of boots; one man gives a lot of preserves, and a patent washing machine will also be in the list, which is made still further interesting by ejntainiug a baby's cradle, etc., etc., etc, so that amongst such a number of prizes our gallant defenders will probably be well pleased, It is under consideration to purchase a challenge cup. which will have to be won twice before passing out of the hands of the company. The challenge cup system is in vogue in almost every corps in the colony, and is certainly an incentive to keep up steady practice, . without which a man cannot rely on his power to make good scoring at any distance. We therefore hope the Carterton Volunteers will succeed in thoroughly establishing the challenge cup system; in tlieirfcompany. An'epidemio is prevailing amo.ug sheep in the.Waikato, some owners losing thirty or forty per month. The cause ie undefined. ;

An exchange says;— The Glasgow Town Council have a Town Olerk named Dr Marwick, who receives a salary of £3500; ;He recently sent in a bill for £BOOO for special work, and the Council paid him £4OOO on account, but have now asked him to refund that sum,.

A shipping disaster notice in a Glasgow paper ends as follows:—" The captain swam ashore, so did the stewardess; she 'was.insured;for.five thousand pounds, loaded witi...iron, and floated bottom up nearly 24 hours after they abandoned her." -• Mr Edison's two electric lanrns turnout to be similar in every respect to two that were patented so long ago as 1828 and. 1840, and were found useless afterwards, So,me one has described Edison as "having a passion for electrical antiquities," "Gas shares are not going down any more.i • . The Great Eastern, which has lain idle at Milford for. some four years, is undergoing extensive'alterations, Her paddle-' engines are 'being taken out of her, andshe will in future be driven by twin screws. She is being fitted for .the con-" veyance of cargoes of; live cattle from' America, and her passenger saloons-are being redecorated.' .' The West Coast Times ia informed that a miner named Charles Banks, who has been working in the Okarito district for the past five, or six yeaw, has struck a " patch" lately. He is reported to have extracted gold from his claim at the Okurito Porks to the value of £256 for 11 weeks work. The gold was sold to the Bank of New Zealand in Ross, and the " hatter" has returned to his claim. It is also stated that Zala and party averaged £4los per week per man from the claim at Lake Mapourika. The Hokitika'Star states tha,t Mrßonar informed the Railway Commissioners that the timber land along the proposed line of railway, if sold after the finish of the line, would nearly realise, the cost of making the line. ' The' whole of the traffic on the line he estimated at about £168,000 per annum, and allowing 75 per cent for working expenses, it would leave, a profit of about £40,000 per annum. The following goods were... named as contribur! ting to the traffic :-Coalj timber, sleepers; merchandise, cattle, sheep, and passenger traffic. "'"■ " -'■*■■■■■-■•'■•--

The Lake Wak'atipu County Oouhbil are bent upon doing things handsomely. 'They have purchased a site on which they propose to erect a handsome stone building, to contain a Council hall for meetings, chairman's, clerk's, and collector's offices, and a strong room (in all five apartments). It will,be erected at once, the estimated cost being £I6OO.