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Kumara Times, Issue 1039, 29 January 1880, Page 4

It is rumored here on good au hority (says the Lyttelton Time), that the Governor has prepared and printed for transmission - home an elaborate paper reviewing and criticising the financial position of the colony, showing how large is the accruing indebtedness, th e extent of the Civil Service, and the amount by which it could be reduced some L 200.000 a year, and predicting a severe financial depression when the borrowing power of th e Colony ceases, or is checked. The total subscriptions received by the Canterbury Acclimatisatiou Society for the year 1879, amounted to the munificent sum of Ll 4 9s. The Times very truly r marks that the Acclimatisation Society could do very little in the way of stocking our streams and introducing valuable birds and animals if they depended upon public support to carry out this work. A recent Gazette contained an entry that is memorable because of its uniqueFor, the first time in our “island story” has a British commander found .himself palled on to acknowledge the services in the face of an enemy of a newspaper correspondent. Litem script* menet, and the Gazette had to print what General Tytler wrote ; but it is understood in India that the officer in question waff visited with the displeasure of his superiors because of this unwelcome innovation, and was, indeed, called upon to cancel the portion of his despatch which commended Mr Forbes’s cool purposeful conduct under fire. General Tytler, having a will of his own, and having named Mr Forbes on the pressure of officers of his column who witnessed and admired Mr Forbes’s timely good services, declined to strike out the passage. It is of course, quite needless to observe that the gallant general’s recommendation will be utterly barren of effect. Our authorities wisely regard it as a gross impertinence on the part of one not a soldier to be guilty of any service on compaign, no matter whether that service consists in saving human life or in conveying important intelligence under the most hazardous conditions. I am informed on excellent authority that Jushie Wooyano, the Japanese Minister at the Court of St. James’s, and now in Japan on leave of absence, will not return here in that capacity. It k said that his services are required in Japan, where the new treaty arrangements between that country and the Powers in Europe and America are being actively negotiated, and of which subject he has great knowledge. His successor as Minister Plenipotentiapy here is to be His Excellency (Mori, who was formerly accredited to the United States. Besides having a good knowledge of English, he has a reputation for a great ability;