THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, AUGUST 10, 1894.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 763, 10 August 1894, Page 4

THE KAIKOURA STAR. KAIKOURA, AUGUST 10, 1894.

Eldest daughter of Hon. Mr Miller, Speaker of Legislative Council, died last week.

The Ashwick property has been withdrawn from sale. Mr Gooch informs us that he purposes living there. Vernal weather is being experienced here, and increased temperature is marked by such signs as the development of buds on fruit trees—peaches, etc.

Mr W. Vaughan, an old colonist, styled, in South Ashley, the Sefton-Waikari merchant prince, died suddenly last Saturday. He knew Kaikoura well in the old whaling days, and was, if we mistake not, once a ‘ mate ' of Mr J. Poole’s.

Owing to people who go up the coast pighunting disturbing tbe flocks of the Maoris, the dogs of tbe parties worrying sheep the property of the Native, notice is given that persons found trespassing on Native Reserve A, above Maungamaunu, will be prosecuted. Mr Meredith has given notice in the House to ask that a school be erected on the Cheviot Estate. As Chairman of the Education Board tbe questioner knows that it is the duty of the Board to supply the want existing, so that the move is in the direction of further aid to Education Boards. Does it mean that there is trouble brewing?

Last week a number of Parliamentary representatives paid a visit, at the expense of tbe country, to North Marlborough. Parliamentary junketing is all very well if Members pay the piper, but it is rather outrageous to make the tax payer pay tbe bill, especially when there are so many men out of employment, and taxation is being wrung from colonists.

A meeeting of the Directors of the Dairy Company is to be held on Saturday, the 18th inst., at 2 p.m. It is amusing to see the Member for Wairau chaffing “ The O’Regan ” over his Single Tax ideas. Why, it amounted, almost, to a mania with Mr Buick when he first stood for Wairau, so that he should not be so severe, even jocularly, upon his young friend of Inangahua. Remember, Mr Buick, we were all young once, but hope to get wiser with increasing years.

There was about an average attendance at the Mutual Improvement Society on Tuesday evening. Mr Mclver, Secretary, read a paper treating of tbe writer’s thoughts when under tbe assumed influence of a Spook— it professed to be prophetic ; a fair amount of discussion was evoked. A question ‘ Are Members of the Mutual Improvement Society under constraint ’ was debated in the negative key, and the vote was unanimous in declaring that the Members are not so.—(No one has publicly declared that they were ; the question was brought up as an answer to a statement made by a member of the Library Committee regarding people not of the Society.) Tbe proprietors of Fair Play, Wellington, were recently fined £5 for printing and publishing a leaflet without an imprint. The omission was discovered by them, whereupon they gathered in all the copies that could be found and reissued the leaflet with their imprint. Notwithstanding this they were prosecuted. Tbe law, whatever it is, should be observed, but in this case tbe omission having been rectified the law was complied with aud the action taken against Messrs McKee and Gamble amounts to nothing short of persecution. We have seen printed matter issued from the Government Printing Office without an imprint, but no prosecution followed, even though the omission was not supplied subsequently. —Pier Hotel to let. —Footbal meeting next Wednesday. —J. Haswell has Seed Potatoes for sale