HOME AND FOREIGN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2909, 27 February 1893, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN

(PJBR PKEBS ASSOCIATION.)

THE LOSS OF THE HO'WJfi.

London, February 24 The Admiralty have issued a minute differing from the finding of the court martial upon the lost* of ti.M.S. Howe regarding the captain and commander, I whom the Admiralty regard as guilty of unskilful management and neglect to take bearings. TtlE DtTFF APPOINTMENT. London, February 25. The comments of the Conservative press generally are averse to the appoiutment of the Hon. K. W. Duff as Governor of New South Wales. The "St. James' Gazette" states) that the Government failed to get a Liberal Peer, and were not patriotic enough to appoint a Conservative, therefore they perpetrated a job. "AS OTHERS SEE US." Mr Wilson, of the " Standard," re plies to the letter of Sir Saul Samuel, published in the " Westminster Gazette," contemptuously adhering to everything he had previously written. He ridicules the value of land rearing only one sheep to ten acres, and states that there are great stretches of land in New South Wales unable to be let at Id per acre. The funded loan scheme, he says, is still a fiasco, for it is probable that much of the money will be subscribed by English companies, or coming again to the London market is probable. The colonists, he believes, will not view his criticism like Sir Saul Samuel, and the Premier's pledge not to borrow on the London market until credit is restored is mere hocus pocus. February 26. The Earl of Meath, in an article in the " Nineteenth Century," on the Australasian colonies, says that the working man is a despotic king in New Zealand, where capital is weakest, chiefly owing to the absentee bondholders, and that the only poor men are runholders, clergymen, and clerks. In the Australian colonies, on the other hand, he says that capital has been victorious after a hard struggle. He states that he has never heard of good work being done in any colony possessing manhood suffrage, but there were frequent complaints that the legislators were of an inferior type as compared with those of the early days. The Earl adds that a clergyman in New Zealand informed him that he had to submit to most foul language from members of his vestry, who held the purse-strings. In concluding he saya that large classes of colonists are affectionately loyal to the Mother Country, and only need an occasion to astonish the world,