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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1006, 27 July 1883, Page 3

A recent number of one of the Church “ Reviews ” (say a the London Daily News of May 4) contained an article on the subject of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, the writer of which quoted a letter purporting to be written to tho late Lord Hatherley by an American clergyman, who Beta forth the grievous. social mischief which he said was caused by such marriages in the United States. Lord Dalhousie, who has charge of the bill in the House of Lords, felt it necessary to take steps to ascertain the truth of this statement. He therefore sent a letter of enquiry to every State Governor, and to the editor of every daily newspaper in the Union, asking for information on the subject. We are informed that Lord Dalhousie has received in reply an enormous number of letters from all parts of the United States, the uniform testimony being that such marriages are of frequent occurrence, that they are contracted by meh of the highest character, and are thoroughly supported by public opinion. Wei learn that the Marriage Law Reform Association intends to publish extracts from this correspondence for the information of the public. Lord Dalhousie’s letter 'hftt created a movement among American Presbyterians for the suppression'of the passages in their Confession of Faith, in which such marriages are condemned. Says the New Zealand Herald : —Last year a conference of delegates from all parts of America was held at Montreal, to devise measures to check that destruction of the woods unnecessarily and wastefully accompanying the course of settlement. Canada, which summoned the conference, has good reason to do something promptly, for timber is or lately was her main export; For instance, in the five years ending 1876 her shipments of timber to the United Kingdom alone exceeded the value of L 24,000,000 sterling, whereas her next most important export thither, namely, all sorts of grain, amounted to L 16,000,000, and the breakdown of this trade is stated to be in visible prospect. Two years previously the Government in London'took great pains to obtain and analyse complete returns of the condition of the fore ts and timber prospects of the Various colonies. In New Zealand we may well share the universal anxie - y in this respect. Indeed the loss of the forests is likely to make i self felt in more ways here than in many countries. Besides the baneful t fleets thus produced on climate, the productiveness of the soil, the flow of the rivers and their navigable quality which are among the things generally complained of, we here have to Jook out against two other evils. We need to reflect beforehand that the loss of facile means of shipbuilding would certainly cripple our prospects as a maritime people, the inhabitants of long and narrow islands lying in mid ocean. And again New Zealand is Nature’s Italy or Switzerland and Hhineland at this end Of the world; even thus early visitors increasingly come attracted by the exceeding picturesqueness of the country as well as by the mineral springs. Yery profitable it is for a land to be the resort of tourists, enhancing the value of property and of labor, as is understood pretty well on such routes in Europe; but New Zealand’s prospects in this line are not to be reckoned on if the beauty of her scenery is destroyed by the undue removal of her woods; Tes, a great variety of considerations, both'of soul and body, appertaining to mind and fancy, health and pleasure, pot and pocket, are bound up with the preservation of a suitable and requisite balance of the greenwood. When worn down and ready to take your bed. Hop Bitters is what you need to relieve you. - See.—[Advt.] S Weixs’ “Rough on Corns,”—Ask for Wells’ " Rough on Corns.” yj£d. Quick relief, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents.' i Don’t Die in the House.—" Rough on Rats ” clears opt rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, ‘ moles, jackrabbits, gophers, ?Kd- Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. i Thick Heads, heavy stomachs, bilious conditions —Wells’ May Apple Pills—anti-bilious, calhartid. v '" Sd and is. Moses, Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents. i

Far continuation of reading matter see fourth page. Late Advertisements WANTED —The public to inspect the SHOW of, PRIME MEAT TONIGHT, at the Ready-Money Meat Mart, next to Bullock’s Arcade. 7 173 p POULTRY FANCIERS. * Having decided to reduce my large surplus Stock of Prize Poultry, Pigeons, and Canaries, many of them winners at the Christchurch, Timaru, Sydenham, and Ashburton Shows, 1882-83. They will bd exhibited and catalogued at lowest sale prides at the forthcoming Show. Many of the strains are unequalled in the A BUT IEH FACTORY COMPANY. ’ ALTERNATE TENDERS, for one or two 'seasons, are invited from persons Willing' to 1 lease the P GGER BS, GRANARY, etc., and purchase the WHEY from the Flemington Factory. 1 Fall particulars of conditions maybe obtained from the undersigned. Tenders to close on SATURDAY, : ' '-A J ■ colony, ana pumy oi tne orcea can w guaranteed, v iva 5 . S. E. POYNTZ. BHBUBTON CHEESE A ,j D August A 7 174 S. E. POYNTZ, Secretary.