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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1325, 26 August 1886, Page 3

It is stated that a well-known Edinburgh gentleman, renowned for his munificence, has offered to complete the new University buildings at his own expense. The cost, it is understood, would not bo far short cf £50,000 or £60,000. The gentleman who has made the offer is said to be Mr M’Ewan, brewer, who has already most liberally subscribed to the building. News has been received ia Berlin from the German colony in South-west Africa of another sanguinary encounter between the Hereto and Kama tribe. The fighting took place on April 17. The Namas were defeated in several battles, and their dead were very numerous. The fighting arose, like the fighting last year, out of an attempt of the Chief Hendrik Witdooi to force his way through Heroroland. The Wellington Post quotes the following description of Nelson from Baron Hubner’e

“ Through the British Empire,” as a sample of the rubbish written by tourists:—“The inhabitants are retired men of business, who are living on their incomes, or if old officials, on their pensions. There is not a sign of life or movement, An unbroken Sunday hangs over this Pensionopolis, and contrasts, in my opinion, most agreeably with the bustle of tbe great centres of trade. I have seen in the colonies so many men crushed with business, absorbed with the desire and the need of making money, that these idlers seem to me like persona crowned with a halo. The dolce far niente is pictured on their happy, careless, and somewhat sleepy features. They are contented, pleased to enjoy repose, the shade of their gardens, and the gentle warmth of a sun half-veiled by the mists of the bay ; pleased also to find themselves removed from the plagues and worries of towns, and complacently conscious of having abjured the worship of the golden calf.”

Tho scene after the vote on the Home Rule Bill (says “ Atlas” in the II 'odd) quite throws into the shade anything that haa occurred inside the House within the memory of living man. Mr Ashmead-Barlett was sacrilegiously called a “ lin-pot militiaman” ; such words as liar, thief and scoundrel were freely bandied, and fists (some not too cleanly) were shaken in the face of Mr Chamberlain. Mr SeagerHunt was the subject of actual assault and battery, and Lord Hartington’s waistcoat was torn in the video. At one time a free fight seemed inevitable. The cheers and counter-cheers were taken up by the spectators; a mob of all sorts and conditions of men took possession of the outer lobby, where Lord Hartington (somewhat ruffled by his experiences inside) received an ovation; and amongst the distinguished visitors sat tranquilly the “ autocrat of the breakfast table,” who talked pleasantly to the diplomatists till de Stael claimed big place.