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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 91, 28 September 1868, Page 236

; What’s your Police? ’ • recent debate iir the "House of Represent a- . tives on the subject of' ilie policy of the -Government, the following amusing passage of arms occurred , between the bon. .Rostmaster-Gleheralj Mr John Hall and . . the leader of the opposition, Mr Fox.. W« -. quote from the authorized Reports. In tlie course pf his speech Mr Hall said “The lion, member, for Collingwood echoed :~ the echo of,the.cry. we have heard so often, atidvsaid that ; :we . have, no policy, and ; therefore heis going to-, vote against the ,'-.Ct<>v«Ki»me'nt. One has really heard so much of tliis cry that .we shall have little hoys playing at: some game of * WliajtV •. your policy ?’■ and the question of every • 1 • ,:9?h;driver meeting.another will be * What’s your policy ?’ ” To this Mr Fox is re- ' I.P9 r fed as replying The'‘lion; the Post • J m'a ®er-Oen«‘raT told hs last night :that he • was sick of the word, policy, and that lie V was even asked by the little boys in the street, ‘What is your po icy ? ’ i have no doubt that-the lion, member is entirely , sick ;df the Void, as he has heard it so * often from lion, members on both sides ol . the house, and even from the boys '■jn the street. 'But he has ah extremely ‘' short way -out:of it; he has only t 6 tell us • • :and: tlie little boys -what his policy' is. . In- - - Stead ol doing this, the honorable members . on- those- benches have so wriggled/and ’■ twisted- 6ri the question of i olicy, and have been-so like the bull in the net, trying to fcrce themselvea out of-the difficulty, bu ! ' so<ihcapab!e‘of doing if, that I have no Jdoubt the hdhorable member is thoroughly >r wearied of tlie cry; I have -‘ho -doubt,we ’.. Bhall;8ee-the walls; of the. houses, chalked v'Wb’at: is your, policy ? * and 1/ hope >'-,' that, f V’p shall"jee On the, opposite wall, ,T ; f is our policy,’ and that the Govern',?.;inen.t will give .uf> in a few simple smitp n P e9 > ■>- a 'statement j'.of vwhat/tbeir real, policy is;. i - The;hon,-.thp;Foßtmaster-(3-enera,i said, lie , didjnot: wiiat. a ;ppl.iey~meant, I will 'i-teUthe.vhorioteblOmembei'whatl.mean v simply. this/ /Yf/hat are' * te'Xithe //way! ;of -* " d./fio/fai; Jheacithattefs .wb’ shulThavevyoui' polioy/ : :but do wn to this liourtwe have uot hadun jffikUngupa these poiute,”"

London papers' of/the"ißth Alay have' .the folic wing: —ln -'£he; H6u3e/of 'dom’motis, this' day, Mr-: Taylor asked ' whether 1 : a 'prisoner in pHjonj' wd,s sentenced ; to., penal ceJTon refusing to . declare his : religion." 'Tile Earl of Mayo said that the governorjiuquired.jin the, usual manner what,was the religion, of .the convict,.who stated that "he was of ' uo religion whatso ever and that he never attended any, place of worship. He added that he was a pagan ~(a laugh)—^and refused to be instructed in religion; of; any kind. . The director, being, a military man, ordered him to select his religion ' iihmediateily. (Loud laughter.) The governor stated that lio told the. prisoner wliat..was- required of him, but lie-objected to go to any place of worship, as he did not believe in any religion. He was, therefore,- put on penal diet for, thr« ; e days. (Much laughter). Two diiya afterwards, namely, on the 4th he was removed to the hospital, and after he left the hospital he was again placed on Denal diet for three days—(“Oh, oh!’) —-at the expiration of which time he selected the Roman Catholic religion. (Renewed laughti-r.) •

A Lost. CmiiD.—The Bathurst Times of the. 19th ult. says:—ln our. issue of the 24th June last, our Frying Pan correpondent relates the loss of a little boy a yen’and" ten months old, named Brown. It appears that on the previous Saturday at mid-day, an alarm was given that the little one had disappeared. The mother had left tlie. child with his elder brother (3 or 4 years old) beside a log in the vicinity of the house while she went for an armfull of wood-which was lying about a hundred yards distant. She returned ; to the log in about ten minutes afterwards and found the little one had disappeared, and his scarcely less' infantine brother was unable to give any account of him. A search for the baby was instituted but not the slightest trace of him could be found.’ The most intense anxiety was excited by the circumstance;, and the child’s disappearance was looked upon as a most mysterious occurrence. It was asserted by the parents that it was impossible for the child to have wandered far, inasmuch as he could not step over an ordiuary broom-handle without falling down. Nearly two months had elapsed since the boy was missed, when late last week news wais brought into the Frying Pan that some human remai is had been found at a place called the Rocks about a mile and a-half from the township. It subsequently transpired that tlie remains —simply a heap of bones from which every particle of flesh had disappeared—were those of !a child, and from fragments of clothing found near the spot, no doubt was entertained but that they were those of the poor little fellow lost two months ago. There appears to be a general impression that the unfortunate child had oeen dragged by dogs to the spot where it was found. Wie have not ascertained who discovered the remains. Hatjhaotsm in WAiKotrAiTl.—A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, who signs “Semi Pakeha,” sends the following intelligence:—Not many days ago a Ilauhau prophet visited Waikouaiu, attended with a retinue of his dusky brethren from Moeraki. Having arrived at the Maori pah, the prophet invited natives to assemble at the church; the greater portion did go, the-few that did not respond to the call were those who had been converted to the Wesleyan faith. No one was allowed to enter the church that had: not embraced the Hauhau faith. From the great uproar going on during the performance of service, it is supposed the congregation.was walking in procession or dancing whilst there. After the very exalted of prophets, Mr So tomon (for that is the.propliet’s.name), had concluded his sermon, he walked out and p'aced himself- at the door, holding a box of matches in his hand, from* which lie •opk matches and lighted them in succession, whilst the congregation left the church, each individual bowing-before the lighted match as he passed by. Several half-castes have joined the Hauhaus, so they muster pretty strong at Waikouati. The few natives that would not join them have had orders to leave the pah, consequently some have left for the south,, and others are on the point of going. Amongst those unfortunates who have got warning to leave is an old Maori Missionary, a disciple of the Rev. Mr Creed, a Maori linguist, well known to the early settlers as a zealous reformer of the aboriginals to /the Christian faith, during the earlier part of the settlement; Air Creed was called away in 1862, and since that time scarcely any white missionaries have been -amongst the natives. , Nevertheless, the old- Maori Missionary I have mentioned,/caused, .the Ohurch of the pah to he bujlt, wherein the old man has held Divine service twice every bumlay for years: 'He has also employed himself .teaching. the children to read and write in Maori;; -fc^'fruit-whereof-is, that the natives hitherto.have proved themselves peaceable and industrio.us,.therefore, -useful subjects. .... I think- it .very hard /That Mathew, .for, that is the ojd Maor/s native, who has proved himself the Pater Patrice of.his people, should be compelled to leave' hi 3 wigwam ahd bitbf grouud,'and go elsewhere in his old age, because He continues steadfast tb his Ghristian faith; and dbcs upt apostate to that:of.Hauhaui-m; /-/There seems , r Freemason ry .in; coimeebaits are allowedTo.be; preseht./duribg tiieir. iberemdnles/ vefnment To keep 'its eyes ori letter ;iSf>;,that-HauhamshuoT theNorth/is synonympuT-witlu-things/! shall not? IAQ in Otago. upQn liowever small a scale,

that the 14th Regiment goes home from Australia,, and will.be relieved by} the/73rd Highlanders from ..China;:: . The new Wesleyan Chapel, : Manners : street, Wellington, was opened on the 13th instant, with special services morning and eveiiirig. * ,?•'/

THE.Nevf. Zealand, Advertiser says there, is nothing whatever, so far as it can learn/ to lead.ito the belief that Colonel Q-prton is to replace— that he never could do—the gallant Von. Tempsky... ;- .

English Bisnops on tub Teish Chttroh. —The agitation against Mr GHadstone’s Irish Church measure has not been very prosperous this last. week. The Bishop of .Carlisle (Dr Waldsgrave) addressed a meeting ten days ago, in which lie authenticated Mr Disraeli’s dark and mysterious hints of a confederation between Rome and the Ritualists for the purpose of overturning the Church. But Dr. Waldegrave’s authority was his wenk point. He relied chiefly on a work of Cardinal Panzani!s, composed in Charles I.’s time and recently published, shewing the activity of the Jesuits under the second English Stuart. And from that Dr Waldegrave inferred—like a Bishop and a goose —that Jesuit intrigues of a like kind are fearfully menacing in modern. England. Archdea . con Denison has also held a meeting, in which if correctly reported, he seems to have spoken with more warmth than intelligence. “Mr Q-ladstone was working more mischief,” he said, *‘than had ever been wrought in this country" (venerable Archdeacons should not draw the long bow so very nearly double as that) ; there were such things as bloodless revolutions, as well as bloody revolutions, and he did not know which was the worst of the two. No men ever saw such a revolution without coming to blows, and they must come to blows.” Really the venerable Archdeacon should Iry and be more articulate, even on Church questions.—Spectator.

Our Letters and Newspapers. —How is is it that the' colonists of New Zealand are such “ consumers ” of letters and newspapers as the Postmaster-General represents them to be? The average number to each person is nearly twice what it is in Victoria or .New South Wales, and about one-half of what it is in the United Kingdom. What are we to infer from the fact ? r l hat we are a more intelligent class of people than the Australian colonists ? Tuat we are individually marked by a thirst for kuowledgd peculiar to ourselves ? That our bu-iness transactions are proportionately heavier than those of Australians? If we are to trust the official returns on this subject, something of the kind must be the case. For while our population is abo’it half that of New South Wales, and about a third of .that of Victoria, the average number of letters is 2 i in New Zealand to 14 in New South Wales, and 12 in Victoria. As regards newspapers, the balance is not so much in our favor, but still it is largely to our credit. The figures are 14 in New Zealand to 10 in New'South Wales and 9 in Victoria. Another curious feature in these caleiilalfcms is, that rhe number of letters and newspapers delivered to each person in New South Wales is decidedly larger than tlie number to each person in Victoria, although the population is so much- less. It would follow from this, that there is more business activity and more general intelligence in the one colony than in the other, not relatively to to the population, but absolutely. But inferences of this kind are so flatly contradicted by general testimony, that we are forced to. regard the statistics of the Post Office as very unreliable data in such cases. The number.of newspapers published in a country 19 frequently taken, as a test of the general intelligence : in America, for instance, the vast’ number of periodical publications is often d welt upon as an unmistakeable proof of American cultivation. The number published must certainly afford some indication of the demand for newspapers ; but the intelli gence of the people must be tested by the quality, and not the quantity, of the newspapers they consume. ‘ It appears from an official return of newspapers registered for transmission by post in New Zealand, that there are some seventy newspapers printed and published in the colony ; while in New South Wales there are about fifty, and about the same number in Victoriu. Pursuing .the comparative argument, we are told that, among the various Provinces, llavvke’s Bay takes precedence as a consumer of newspapers, and as regards letters is only eclipsed by Canterbury. The number of newspapers delivered to each person in Hawke’s Bay in 1867 was 22, and of letters 22 ; in Canterbury, of newspapers 15 and letters 15 ; in. Auckland, of newspapers 7 and letters 15 ; in;Wellingtpn, of newspapers 15 and letters 26;, in Nelsonj of newspapers ,7 and letters 12 ;. in Marlborough,' of newspapers 18 and letters 21; in Southland, of newspapers 16 and letters 19; in Taranaki, of n:wspapers 9 and letters:l2. - .Yet there, is a lai*ger -number of newspapers printed aiid published in Otago than there is in any other Province: there are . sixteen, registered for transmission, while there are only nine in Wellington, /eight .in Canterbury,: seven: in Auckland, six .in Nelson; five ..in. Southland, three ‘ in Hawke’s. Bay,;and two In Tarat naki. A far/larger hutnber of newspapers jvi». despatohed :froniOtago during year than :from aby otlier Province, the the/nb&rest approachTo .thisstpttd'jisr^madeby/Caiqterbury, from/which only /269,852 :were..ciespatched. ; Strange; to /say, -ffibwerer//: the ppsj|i<>n}i3 iireyersed with- reference to ffiews* received. .. , Of These:. /tlierei were there,were;.only 378,784 received id Otago. —Otago Daily Times. //

. . The Father op Teetotadism:/-—James Tears, .the founder of teetotalism; in England; died at Manchester on the 16th March.: Mr Teare waS- 64 years of - age, and unmarried., The only'relative present was Mr Paley, of Preston ; but the funeral was attended by many temperance friends of the deceased. Mr Teare was a native of ,tbe Isle of Man. When on his way to America in 1823, with his master, a boot and shoemaker, Teare was persuaded to settle in Preston, and there, in 1831, he joined the, party of abstainers from ardent spirits. On the. 18th of June} 1832, Mr Teare for the first time took the ground of entire abstinence- from all intoxicating liquors, and thus inaugurated the teetotal movement, which has since assumed so prominent a position.

The Waitotara. —lntelligence of a rather ominous character is to hand from this district. It appears that the chief Paul, of the Waitotara tribe, whose latent hostility would seem to have gathered bold ness by the late adverses on our side at Ngutu o te Manu,hasnow more authority tively than politely ordered the settlers off the block he declares it is no longer safe to remain. Part of this tribe have already espoused the cause of the rebels, the remainder are wavering in their choice. While, we believe, there is some ground for apprehension in these threats, we are confident the settlers on. the Waitotara—banded together and determined to defend their homesteads, —will maintain a bold front to, the wily savages and thus avert the ruin that would surely follow pusillanimous or temporising measutes. Au independent determined body of . settlers is a power the Maoris have a salutary respect for.—Wanganui Chronicle.

Sufferings op a Wounded Man in the Bush at Waihi —The correspondent of the Evening Herald, under date 12th September, writes : —A man belonging to the Wellington Rangers, named George Dore, crawled into Camp Waihi at daylight this morning, having been five nights in the bush without food or raiment. His story is that he was wounded at an earl) part of the engagement, and left; that some time after our men had gone on he heard the rebels approaching, and stretched himself on the ground, feigning death ; thit the Hauhaus came up to where he was lying,. stripping him of his clothes, boots, &e., and, thinking him dead, passed on ; that whilst lying concealed he heard them take up another wounded man, whom he recognised by his voice to be Corporal Russell, and drag him off to the pa, poor l Russell exclaiming, “ I’ou wretches! kil me at once. ’ That they also took off another man who spoke Maori; that he endeavored for the ensuing days and nights to get out of the bush, often finding that lie was travelling in circles and had got back close to the pa ; finally, that on the sixtii day after leaving Waihi he managed to crawl into camp after unparalleled.sufferings from pain, exhaustion, and hunger, ble states that he was lying close to the pa on the night after the engagement, and the noise was something fearful. Dore’s arm' is broken, and has festered. It will, I fear, have to be amputated. How the man managed to exist for that length of" time without food, and badly wounded seems incredible.

A Parliamentary Sleeper —We copy the following account of an amusing incident in the House of Commons from an English paper:—During the debate on the Irish Reform Bill, after a division upon a clause proposed by Professor Faw cett, Mr Mill was one of the tellers, but his colleague in the representation of West minster, Captain Grosvenor, so far from imitating his activity, was asleep on some obscurely-lighted bench while the division was called. As he failed to find his way into either of the division lobbies, he was taken into custody by the tellers, according to custom, and brought to the table. The captain did not seem to be yet awake, and-his puzzled demeanor excited much merrirrent. Having penitentially confessed that, although within the House when the division was called, he had not .beard the question put, the chairman said that such being the case, it became his duty to. pul the question again for the lion, member's special information —namely, “ that this clause be now read a second time” Re membering that the captain had just woke up, and had not heard the debate, the House laughed at his perplexity, for it was no part of the.chairman’s dury to explain what “ tHis clause” was; When the laughter had subsided, Captain. Grosvenor was heard meek y pleading—“l am noi prepared to record my vote, sir.” Then there were cries of “ You must vote,” and more laughter. !- ‘‘Being in the House,” said the chairman solemnly/ “ and having now.heard the question slated, the' hon. member is.bound .to give his vote.” Cupt. Grosvenor looked more helpless :,and foggy than ever; but a bright idea occurred to him for getting out of his scrape.. “In that case, sir,” lie said in the sleekiest of tones, “T shall support tlie collective wisdom -of tlie house by voting with the majority.” This compliment to the collective wisdom was received with./shouts of mirth. , As the numbers bad not been announced, the majority had not been declared,:, and the chairman was not. supposed to know, on which side the lusjoriry was, he rejoined —“The. hon. rpemoer isust state whether he votes~aye ioit/nb.”. “Then,”:; said Capt. Grosvenor, in a state of desperation, “ I vote for 4h©/hoeß.”b 'The moes cheered and laughed inA/breath,;/. for Mr’ Mill’s hon: and gallant ./colleague .and/..LordEbury’s son . had;; gone dead . againet his party. Howeyerj the tellers for /tho noes, added the vote to their/number, and Mir Noel announced a victory of. 2.10 votes against 55iT‘''-V*/ -■ /^-///--:/ . . V •/;