WAIRERE NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 6429, 29 December 1899, Page 3

WAIRERE NOTES.

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Monday. Save the usual preparations for the Christmas season and the talk consequent on the coming festivities there is little else engaging the time or attention of settlers. Shearing is completed in this part of the district, and we await patiently the pleasure of the carrier to take the money away, which may or may notbe till after theNewYeardawnsupon us, for our means of transit are still in a primitive condition, News fromlthe ;Cape has been so inglorious of late, that even indifferenco to read the cables has set in with some, lest further calamities should meet their eyes, and one settler is •so _ hopelessly despondent as to assert that if he opens the paper at all, it is only to see what the "Wairero notes" contain, for in reading them, even if they fail to furnish him with a grain of montal pabulum, they have at least no depressing effect and are not calculated to spoil his appelite, like some of the later news from

,he seat of war. This goes to prow tlio varied taste of he reading public and how incumbent t is on the journalist, to so arrange his nenu that all who rise from his literary 'east will not think they have dined in pain. From recent press reports we learn ihat horse flesh is coming into favour as [ood. In 1897 no less than 4,472 tons me sold in Paris. This amount was obtained from 20,928 horses, 53 mules, ind 132 donkeys. The choice parts brought 9d per lb; most of the inferior portions being used for making sausages, May not the consumption of the latter inimal partly explain the late assinino jonduct of the French people, and the mulish portion account for their other vicious habits, or their proverbial discon tent under any form of Government ? Seventh-day adventisls, have a strong aversion to tbe consumption of pork and e frequently refer in their pamphlets to i the nnhealthiness and sinfulness of par- ] taking of the flash of swine in any form, i Ihe following, culled from one of their j journals, helps to strengthen their belief i and the writer is salerical in describing | the incident at the espouse of all who ] are fond of a rasher of bacon;-" Sad i afFair.-A shocking occurrence is re- I ported from St. Brieux, where a baby i sii months old has been killed and n almost completely devoured by a pig" To make the matter even somebody will eat that pig 1 In response to a buyer, seyeral settlors put themselves to tho troublo of drafting their sheep for inspection, but later on were. informed, their labour and trouble was in vain, at they could not be taken away at present, as the Bailway Department had decided not to truck sheep till after the holidays. Is this due to shortness of rolling stock, notwithstanding the big surplus, or a departmental vagary, which can be explained? In an article referring to tho cost o War, the LmionMly Times says: "It must bo. remembered, however, that England supplied large sums of money to many of the European Powers, in their struggles against the Emperor Napoleon. The war with France, which culminated at Waterloo, bled the British purse to the tuno of £831,000,000." What is often true with individuals may also apply to nations in regard to pecuniary assistance. Hence the saying, "If you wish to make an enemy you should lend him money," resentment not infrequently taking the place of gratiForeigners, when raying in the Continental press against Great Britain in hor present trouble, forget that but for her assistance they might have been in a vory different position to what they are now, and others residing amongst as, enjoying our laws and institutions and a freedom they never knew before, would be acting in better taste, or more honorably, if tbey suppressed their hostility till such time as tho obligation aboye referred to has in some form or another been returned. wmmmm^ —