TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1025, 18 August 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

[per press association.] The Natives.

Opunakb, To-day.

About 170 Natives, many coming from Hawkes’ Bay and the East Coast, were turned back this morning by Oolpnel Roberts, Captain Messenger and a Native interpreter from Parihaka. There, were only ten A.C.’s under the command of Captain Morrison. A bar was placed across the bridge, but they did not attempt to force a passage, quietiy turning back. They said they would come back to-morrow.

Death of Immigrant. Wellington, To-day.

A man named Macguire, an immigrant by the Oxford, died at Newtown to-day. The cause of death was typhoid fever, contracted on board the vessel.

of the debate in the House of Lords on the' Deceased Wife’s - Sister Bill, Lord Cairns (an ex-Lord Chancellor) said the statement was made Tery broadly that men and women may marry in the colonies and be lawful husband and wife there, and come to England and be no longer lawful husband and wife. In that way it was said that a man r may marry two wives—one in the colonies and one in England. He denied altogether the idea that they, the parent country, were bound in all things to follow the colonies and adopt their legislation. There ought to be no misunderstanding as to the law of marriage in the colonies. He contended that the law was

this: That if a domiciled Englishman in one of the colonies married a woman whc was a deceased wife’s sisterjthey were man lfi , and wife all over the world. But if they were not domiciled—if they were residents there without being domiciled—the marriage was not good, and ought not to be . good. The idea that there was a peculiarity between this country and the colonies .. . • upon this matter was perfectly idle. ■ . ■Mr Joseph Cook, the celebrated Boston . lecturer, who was in Auckland » few . months since, having returned home, thus - : referred to the Australian colonies in an address he recently delivered :— ‘‘ Australia is the most Americanised portion of ;; the British Empire. It is so vast that in . the few months you spend in it, in meeting crowded lecture appointments, you cannot see half of it. Hut Australia concentratea its population in its cities. In £freen cities ef Australia and Tasmania in which you lecture, you find more than i - half the population. The towns cling to the river sources and the best seaports. Australia is, and for ages is likely to be, a orescent of population. The tips of it are at Port Darwin in the north, and at Adelaide in the south. The chief thickness of it is at Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne. This crescent will enlarge until perhaps there may be in it, in Australia alone, a hundred million of people. Near the crescent will burn two stars of the first magnitude—Tasmania and New Zealand. ' Minor stars like the Fiji and smaller islands under British control will snrronnd this group, and so the whole constellation will float through the azure of history.” ’ The Melbourne Leader has been “found out ” in a matter which, according to its • ' Contemporary, the Australasian, “ in- ’■' volves a piece of deliberate, though rather clumsy, deception practised on the public.” Some time ago the Leader announced that its agricultural reporter, Mr

John Lament Dow, had been despatched "■ to California to report on the agricultural : resources of that country, and a reference r to the passenger list of the Zealandia, the steamer by which he is alleged to have ■ sailed, shows that he booked in the name • of “J. Lament ” Soon after this surreptitious departure of its representative, the loader announced that the first letters from him would be received “early in July,” and subsequently it stated that ;'Had arrived by the City of New York, Jand ■ his first article was published in the header of July 14th, and consisted of a Circumstantial description of the voyage to San Francisco. “Now (says the Australasian) we ask the attention of the reader to some dates. The Zealandia, by which Mr J. L. Dow , sailed, left Sydney, on May 17, and wai due to arrive in San Francisco on ’ June 14. The mail by which it was announced that Mr J. L. Dow’s letters weSw received was to leave San Francisco ■ oh June 2, or 12 days before his arrival. As a fact, the movements of the steamers did not exactly correspond to the mail tables. Mr J. L. Dow arrived in San : Francisco on June 12, two days before due, and the City of New York suffered a detention, in, consequence of which she did not leave till June 10. But still this was two days before Mr ,J. L. Dow’s arrival.” Another Melbourne paper, referring to his exposd, says:—“Mr Dow’s experience of newspapers has taught him the truth of the saying that if you give a lie twentyfour hours’ start, you can never catch it. He has turned the adage round the other way, and given ns practical proof that if ?ou start a—well, an American letter orty-eight hours after a rapid mail steamer, it will overhaul the vessel, after its post-mark, unseal the mail-bag, and make ' room for one inside,’ long before '■the steamer reaches Australia.” ’u- ;

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