A LAME EXCUSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2163, 5 December 1885, Page 2

A LAME EXCUSE.

We are taken to task by our local contemporary for having stated that Mr A, W. Hogg spoke in favor of Protection at llie Premier's lunch, anil informed that all debatablo matter was carefully avoided. When a protectionist speaks in support of ut Ministry that he supposes to be protectionist, and uses the following sentence, which we extract from the Star's report of Mr Hogg's speed), we should like to know whether Protection is not protruding from every word:—" The Colony hati al present a Ministry in power that he believed to 1)0 i warm friend to local industries, and if ouch a Government received fair play from the industrial masses, the artisans and manufacturers, he believed, would realise tho assistance which good and wise legislation was capable of administering." We do not think that Mr IiOQG is, as a rule, very particular as to whether an occasion is suitable or not, for it will, perhaps, be remembered that he delivered a pretty lengthy dissertation on the subject of Protection on the occasion ot the ploughing match dinner, and again before a public meeting convened to consider the best means to open the country. Would it not have been as well if, in place of issuing a challenge on t|je general question, it had been shown tp Air MfJiR in how far his own industry would be benefited by the imposition of protective duties ?

Lunacy Is spreading jn Wanganui. It has now obtained such a hold that jt is impossible to make out the papers properly of those who are sent down for treatment in Wellington, Mr Jno. Young, the cash ironmonger, of Cuba-St, Wellington, invites Wairarapa visitors to the Empire City, to call and Secure some of the bargains which he is offering, We regret to leam that Mrs T. W. Shuteis very seriously indisposed, and her friends fear that her illness is entirely due to a general breaking up of the system, The Treasurer of the Manterton Hospital acknowledges the receipt of £Blos, per Mr f. W. Hales, of Flat Point station, from employees engaged in bush falling. Attention is directed to an advertisement of Mr J. Ward's in which ho recommends the public to visit tho Red House, adioining the Police Office, whero his collection of seasonable goods will repay an inspection. The weekly meeting of the Masterton Froefchought Society at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening will be rendered attractive by a lecture by Miss Tessie B, Chapman, besides which, however, tho usual uuinbor of musical items will be given. Messrs Barker and William have just finished the contract for additions to Oxford House, Masterton. There are now twelve large rooms to this house, and for comfort and accommodation it is now, per haps, the finest in the Wairarapa District. Detached servants rooms have also been added, and the grounds have been nicely laid out. Under the management of tho lady in charge families visiting the district cp depend, upon obtaining superior accommodation. * We again remind pur readers of tl)o lectures to be delivered by Miss Tessie B, Chapman at the Theatre Royal. The subjects are, of courso, chosen from a secularist's point of view, and will undoubtedly prove highly interesting and instructive to those whose ideas lead them in that direction. Miss Chapman has a most fascinating manner, and always manages to increase her audiences in the course of her stay in a place. The subject .chosen for to-night is " Hell, Purgatory and Limbo." Charles Forsberg was charged before Mr Stratford, R.M.; yesterday, undo? the Public Health Act, with causing a nuisance at his slaughter yard, Mauriceville. 'The informant was C. Petersen. Evidence was given, by the informant, H, Aulin, Dr Beard, and W. Deadman, to fcljp effect that the refuse that flowed from the yard, polluted the stream flowing through. the settlement, Defendant admitted tho existence of the nuisance, and said ho had boon trying to remove it. Fined 20s, with £3 0s fid costs, Mr Deadman refusing to take his expenses. It will bo scon on reference to our advertising columns that Mr Forsberg is about to apply to the County.'Council for permission to erect a slaughter yard elsewhere, •

The Maatertou LodgeVE.O, holds an emergency meeting on Monday next. We understand that thepurvey of the Woodville-Tivaumoa Small Farm Association's block has beew completed, and that one of the. objects ofa. visit which Mr J. W. A, Mavchant, Chief Suveyor, is now paying; to the district .is-to pass the work. l ' ■■ , '. ! . '

That apparent nonentity, the New Zealand Militia, is, so far as the Wairarapa is concerned, to be no longer allowed to remain without a medical staff. The following appointments are gazetted : William Henry Hosking to be Surgeon ; and William Bey to be Surgeon, . A good deal of nonsense is from time to time talked and written as to how much the colony benefits by a rise in the price of wool. The last rise in the market has set a contributor .to a Wanganui paper calculating, and he has come to the conclusion that it means-an additional income to the colony of somewhere about £174,000. As the rise took place after nearly all last season's New Zealand wool-had been sold, and before any' of this season's had been put on the market, the writer is just a shade out in his reckoning. If he were to knock off one of the noughts ho might be nearer the mark,

A special meeting of the Masterton School Committee was held yesterday afternoon. Present—Messrs Boildington(Chairman), Payton, Reese, Hogg, and Woodroofe, The object for which the meeting had been called was to consider the question of providing school prizes. Mr Hogs; moved, and Mr Payton seconded, "That, as no prize fund can be provided from the capitation grant, and parents have failed to contribute an adequate amount in the past, the opinion of the Committee is that'the annual distribution be discontinued for the current year."—Carried. Mr Payton moved, and Mr lleese seconded, '' That the sum of £5 be voted for sewing prizes from the Town Lands Trust grant."—Carried. Mr Payton moved, and Mr Reese seconded, " That it is expendient that the incoming Committee provide a fund of, say, £2O, for the purpose of giving prizes at the close of 1880 ; and that Mr Grundy and Miss Keeling be recommended to adopt a system of marks from the beginning of the year, as the basis on which prizes should be awarded."—Carried. It was suggested that the prize fund should be obtained early in the year. . This concluded tho business,

Tho Sydney 'Daily Telegraph,' commenting on tho late speeches of Sir Julius Vogel ami the Hon. Mr Stout, says:—" We must confess that when we read these speeches they seemed to us more fatally discouraging than any amount of depression, The danger to the patient is not the malady from which lie is suffering, but which the strength of' his constitution would enable him in time to shake off. His peril is in the nostrums which political quackery is offering him as a medicine. Surely there must be a large number of people in New Zealand who can seo that the only genuine remedy against the consequences ot past extravagance is present retrenchment against the difficulty imposed by debt, is the resolution to borrow no more or as little as possible, and against the depression of the leading industries due to fall in the prices of their produce is to reduce in every way the cost of production ; an end to be reached rather by lightening taxation than by increasing it, With what feelings must they see the Minister in charge of their fmancea tell tliem that tho best remedy against the effects of over-borrowing is to borrow more; against over-spending to spend more,' and against depression the increase of taxation? And above all, what must be their reflections when the Treasurer complacently assures them that the restraints of Parliament on the Government are all ineffective, and that if they can raise the money thoy do not care what were the purposes to which Parliament restricted its application ? In private life we all know the inevitable termination of such a financial career as that here outlined.

We shall watch with interest for the

saving conditions which will yet, yyehppe, save Now Zealand from such a catastrophe." We beg to draw the attention of every householder and others to the liberal inducements offered by Messrs L. J. Hooper & Co,, of the BonMarche Drapery Warehouse, namely, every customer pur: chasing value of one shilling and upwards, will receive a coupon corresponding with the amount of -he purchase. On the 24th of December these tickets will be collected and one-fifth of the whole amount of purchases made will be returned in value as .a Christmas box. For instance, a person pureliasing'fia will receive valuo Is; 10s, 2s; 20s, 4s; 30s, Gs :40s, 8s; 60s, 12s; 80s, lCs; 120s, £l, and so on for every shilling spent, This is the best inducement wo have ever yet met with, and ought to induce every one to purchase

drapery, millinery, and clothing from L, J. Hooper & Co,, Bon Marcj)e, the cheapest and best drapers and clothiers in the Wairarapa.— Advt. In the Exhibition there is one special exhibit, which is greatly admired, namely, the wool mats and portmanteaus made by Mr Field, of Dunedin. The whole of the exhibit lws been purchased by Mr Tl)orburn, the clothier, ,of Willis-street. Parties wishing to puroliase any of the above,can now selec them, to be delivered on the Ist of November,— Advt