Marlborough Times. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1880.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 135, 6 July 1880, Page 4

Marlborough Times. TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1880.

Owing to pressure of advertisements we arc obliged to hold over .a leader, and other matter, until onr next issue. A meeting of members of the Choir of | the Church of the Nativity, was held at the Parsonage yesterday, when it was agreed to take steps for holding a musical entertainment, the proceeds to be devoted to the Church Building Fund, or other suitable purpose. , There were no cases either Civil or a .jiminal heard at the Resident Magistrate’s “Court yesterday morning, an event which has not occurred ou a Monday for many months past. There were one or two small debt cases on thelist, but they were settled out of Court. , ~ The Nelson College Football team, as previously announced, may be expected here on Thursday and will try conclusions with tho Blenheim men in Mr Pyke’s paddock on Saturday next. A capital game and a keen contest may be expected on this occasion. A landslip occuirrei/l at the Picton Elevation yesterday,' which blocked the. railway for some hours and prevented .the morning train from getting,.through to Blenheim. A gang of men were put on to remove the obstruction and the line was cleared in the afternoon when traffic was resumed. ... Mr C. J. W. Griffiths Will sell by auction on Thursday next, in accordance with instructions from the . Bailiff of tlie R.M. Court, ih.ilie Matter of.Sclanders & Co., ,v. O’Sullivan, : a large and varied assortment of general merchandise particulars of which will be. foil ml in our advertising columns. Also a quadtity of Fruit aud Forest liees and sundries. • . i The election > for two members, of the Omaha Road Board' on Saturday dast was a very slow thing as far as the Blenheim polling booth was concerned. The following

is an analysis of the votes taken at Blenheim : —Sinclair 21 plumpers, do. split with O'Sullivan 3, do. split with Watson 2 ; O'Sullivan 2 plumpers, 3 votes split with .Sinclair, 2 with Watson; Mills, 1 plumper, 12 split with Watson; Watson no plumpers. 2 split with Sinclair, 12 with Mills, Messrs Watson and Mills arc returned as elected. uke*'*"

A meeting for the purpose of Instituting a Juvenile Lodge in connection with the 1.0.G.T. Blenheim will be held to-morrow Wednesday evening, in the Good Templars Hall, Grove Road at half-past G o’clock. Mr Collier has some splendid potatoes on view at his shop in Market Street. Some gigantic specimens of British Columbian, and American sorts, grown by Mr Smith, of Tua Marina, are well worthy of inspection, and the new seedlings grown by Mr Collier, are of excellent quality. The potatoes grown by Mr Smith, average about four roots to the cwt., and it would be difficult to excel them either in quality or quantity of any part of the world. A meeting of creditors in the estate of W. Stagg, of Blenheim, butcher, was held this morning, Mr W. Litchfield in the chair. The debtor was examined on oath, and it was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by Mr Lawrence and carried, that certain articles of furniture, silk dresses, &c., should be sold for the benefit of the creditors. The meeting then adjourned.

Mr William Oliver, manager of the Wakamarina Alluvial Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Limited, is about visiting Wellington to arrange about purchasing the necessary machinery and plant to work this claim cn a large and profitable scale. We hear that the men at work have struck good payable gold on the boundary of the lease in a prospecting shaft near the hill.

Mr P. Lawrence notifies that he will sell at an early date, pursuant to instructions from the trustee in Mr George Stevenson’s estate, coaches, carriages, horses, See. The The auctioneer will also submit to public competition sundry lots of land at Blenheim, Renwick Town, and Kaituna, particulars of which will be found in our advertising columns. Hibernian Society—The half-yearly meet ing of the above was held on Saturday last, when a satisfactory balance-sheet was presented by the Secretary, Bro. Joseph Ward, junr. The following are the new officers for the current half-year :—Patrick O'Sullivan, President; Vice-President, Morris Horan; Warden, Jeremiah O'Brien; Guardian, D. W. O'Connor ; Treasurer, .T. Morrison ; Secretary, Jos. Ward, junr. Seven candidates for membership were proposed. Tlie Society at present consists of 55 benefit and six honorary members.

The Report and balance sheet of the Union Fire aud Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand for the year ending 31st May last is of a very satisfactory character. Notwithstanding increased competition, reduced rates of premiums and losses, there remains an available balance of £18,058 lGs 1 Id. The Directors recommend a dividend of ten per cent, and that £SOOO be carried to the reserve fund of £20,000, leaving a balance to be carried forward to next year of £558 lGs Id. The Directors propose to continue the present co-operative policy, feeling convinced that it is the best course to be pursued.

At an auction held by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, at their wool warehouse, Wellington on Wednesday last, the following very satisfactory prices were realised : —Sheepskins, crossbreds, medium quality, 6|d to Gfd per lb ; do. do. full wool, 7d to 7id do; green skins, 3s each; pelt Is Gd ; merino skins, medium quality, 5Jd to Gfd per lb, do in bales, 7sd do, wool, coarse greasy crossbred S.jd do ; locks and pieces, 4d to 6kl do. There was a numerous attendance and brisk competition for the w’hole of the lots. Both tallow and hides are in good demand at full rates.

Mr P. Lawreuce is putting up some very commodious and substantial yards for the sale of cattle and other stock. The yards extend from High Street to Wyncn Street, having a frontage to both thoroughfares. The ground is 126 ft long by 66ft wide, divided in the.middle by a run of 17ft feet in width. There are eight pens on one side and four on 'the other, and there are two drafting yards, a: crushpen and drive. The post and rail fencing is of the stoutest kind, and the uprights arc fixed into the ground in a solid and workmanlike manner. On the top a footbridge is being constructed all round, and when completed nothing will be wanting for the accommodation of buyers and sellers who w;ill, we have no doubt, avail themselves of it to an extent which will amply repay the proprietor for his outlay.

A meeting of persons desirous of establishing an Amateur Dramatic Club, was held on Friday evening last at the Club Hotel. Mr M. Hart occupied the chair, and there was a good attendance. After some preliminary remarks from the Chairman, the meeting proceeded to appoint an interim secretary, the choice falling on Mr Montalk, and then to the election of a sub-committee of fivo } w'ho were charged with the duties, of obtaining all necessary information and framing a set of rules for the future guidance of the Club, to be laid before the next general meeting for approval and adoption. Gentlemen, desirous of becoming members are requested to communicate their intention to the Interim Secretary as early, as possible, so that they may may be ballotteil for at the next general meeting.

The new Law offices in High-street which Mr Rogers has erected ai - e an ornament to the street, and both externally and internally are so handsome and convenient as almost to tempt a man to go to law' in so iuviting a place. The building is of brick with concrete foundation, and the strong room for the deposit of deeds, &e., is of a description which may be pronounced invulnerable. It must be a most desperate fire which would destroy anything placed in such a receptacle. The fittings both in the front and back office are substantial and in excellent taste, and the painting and. ornamental glass work introduced have a very good effect. Outside some neat carving from the hand of Mr Ah Gee relieves the front from all appearance of heaviness., The architect for the building was Mr Ddnslin, whose plans have been faithfully carried out by Mr \Y. B;> Ravil,'{ the contractor, and the painting has been thoroughly well executed by Mr J. Campbell. The carpenters aud others engaged in the work have certainly combined to make this ono of the most finished buildings in the tow ; n. It is not imposing as regards size, but in every detail it is very complete and reflects much credit on all concerned in its structure.

Our contemporary last evening, again accuses us of .“ plagiarism ” from his columns, which accusation we most emphatically for the second time deny. He has discovered a veritable mare’s nest, as the following will show. Knowing how unreliable biiv contemporary’s telegrams are, and how terribly they are jumbled in ’’the production, it is our custom to wait for our exchanges in order to procure the best

selected items of English news. The mails not proving favorable we had recourse to Our Picton contemporary’s summary as on previous occasions, but that only on our publication day, and having a pressure of other matter on hand were unable to insert more than a portion of the news. Had we wished to steal the diabolical blunders of our contemporary we could have done so some days before, and so published them ■in ext.enso, but as matters turn out it is as well we did not. The concluding portion of our contemporary’s' “confession of faith” is remarkable for its outright untruthfulness. Wc again affirm that we have never knowingly pirated from any journal without acknowledgment, and the instance from the Post quoted by our contemporary occurred through a compositor’s carelessi ess. At any rate, our contemporary may feel perfectly easy that we shall never break our rule with regard to his columns after the confession of last night, wherein ho u lblushingly a fits. that he , purposely misspelt and misc strived the information he supplied to his subscribers and took payment for as the genuine article. We could instance one or two “ genuine ” acts of plagiarism, the Wellington Pod's summary of the Financial Statement, and the Civil Service Report for instance, but the thing is too petty aid we refrain, feeling sure that our subscribers place implicit reliance on our willi igness and ability to procure for them the “ very latest ” items of news, &c., the sneers, ill-disguised jealousy, and “special wire” of our contemporary notwithstanding. Replying to a deputation of the unemployed at Wellington the other day the Hon Premier is reported to have said he hoped the unemployed would disabuse their minds of the idea that the Government could find work for them in or near Wellington or any other town. The only place they could find work for them was in the country, on the railways and other public works. If the unemployed thought they were likely to find permanent work in the towns, they were fostering a very mischievous idea, both for themselves and for the country at large. AY hat was wanted was that men should go upon the land, and then they would provide work for the people in town. The Government also could only provide the unemployed with means of subsistence—not the ordinary rate of wages, which they did not want to interfere with, and which must settle itself. Then when trade revived, the men would be able to get work from private sources. We understand (says the Pud) that a leading member of the Opposition lias been requested by several of his party to table a motion, requesting the Government to take back their Estimates and reduce them L 250,000, but that he has declined to do so. His reason is stated to be t 1 is:—The motion would, ho believes, be carried, and that would necessitate the Government going out, and his being “sent for” by his Excellency ; and lie had no idea of going into office till the policy of retrenchment is carried to the bitter end. This is decidedly self-sacrificing on the part of the gentleman in question.

Mr George M’Lean thinks—at least he so expressed himself in the House on Tuesday evening—- that it would not be a bad idea to make the late Government a present of the Hinemoa, a copy of John Stewart Mill’s “Political Economy,” and L 2,000,000, and send them off to found a colony on their own account. What an excellent opportunity this would afford Sir George Grey to stand his candidture for the Dictatorship of a young colony, Hecoull nip serfdom in its early bud, and no doubt his exertions in the interests of “the whole human race” would bethemcansof handingdown hisname to that “ posterity ” on which lie loves to dwell, ilr M’Lean’s suggestion is not at all a bad one, and is worthy of consideration by the House and the country.— Post.. The Government and their supporters, and indeed the whole of the members of the House of Repesontativcs, were tlioroghly astonished the other night by an extraordinary speech delivered by Mr Ormond, who seldom speaks, but, whenever he does, is listened to with attention and respect. The property tax, however, will hit him so hard —for be is one of the wealthiest of the settlers in Hawke’s Bay—that _ lie appears to have been unable to sit quietly under the grievance to which he is to be subjected and was bi or and violent to a degree in bis denunciation of it and wild to an extent that none of his most intimate acquaintances would have believed possible in the proposals in made of substitutes for the obnoxious m sure.

We have rccei. d a copy of tho Australian annual edition of the “ American Exporter,’’..which is circulated gratuitously amongst importers and exporters of Australia and the United States, with a view of developing reciprocal trade between the two countries. The publication is calculated to do a great amount of good, and to be the means of familiarising the people here with American goods, and especially with all kinds of labor-saving machines, for which the States are renowned. _.The paper, is well advertised, and both as regards the matter itself, and the manner in which it is placed before the reader, it is a most creditable production; Wc copy the following paragraph in reference to protection to New Zealand industries, a subject which has been frequently in our columns “Canada is not the only colony of Great Britain that refuses to follow the example of the mother country. New South Wales and Victoria, realizing their own ability to produce may articles heretofore imported from Great Britain America and ether countries, have devoted themselves to the policy of protecting their home industries by levying a tax upon such, imported goods as may compete with those of their own production. Though we suffer a loss by such a policy being adopted by one after another of customers and find many articles of our manufacture shut out of the markets of these countries, we cannot complain. It is the first law of natious and the primary function of their government to protect the best interests of the people under their jurisdiction. New Zealand seems to have caught the spirit of self-reliance aud independence to the extent, of caring for itself in such matters as will tend to awaken the latent energies qf her people, and develop the products of her iron and coal deposits To this end,an; advertisementappeared; last year to the effect that the Government of this colony was prepared to accept tenders for 100,000 tons of steel rails to be manufactured within- her borders from New Zealand ores. This was considered as. a step towards shutting out English iron.”

Carrier wounderfulpnstinct of locality which the cat shares with carrier pigeon has been put to some practical use in Belgium. Thirty-seven cats, residing in the city of Liege were recently put into bags and then taken a long way into the country. Here they were , liberated at 2 o’clock one afternoon, and at a quarter to 5 on the same evening one of them returned home while all his companions arrived there within 24 hours after being set free. It is, therefore, proposed to establish a regular system of communication between Liege and the neigh bouring villages by means of cats. (This is a-.sqn)ewhat | novel; parß for pussy to play and' if it 'be feasible, we hope that she will be properly protected in'it.

The Otnifo Dtiilii Timex explains Mr Conyers connexion with a contracting firm supplying railway plant to the Colony as follows, and if that journal is correctly informed it certainly seems that Mr Conyers has been rather roughly dealt with by the Civil Service Commissioners in their Report “ The facts appear to be that Mr Conyers’connexion with the firm is confined to having lent the head of it a sum of money for which he receives a fixed rate of interest, entirely independent of the profit or loss accruing from the business ; and that the amount of work successfully tendered for by the ‘ firm contracting with the department ’ is so ridiculously small as to be scarcely worth mentioning, namely, in two years, 72 tons of castings at £2O per ton, the price having been fixed by tender

Christian Names in Yorkshire. —In examples of curious Christian names, says a correspondent of ‘ Notes and Queries,’ there is probably no district richer than the West Riding of Yorkshire. Every out-of-the-way scripture name is to be found. Levi and Moses are great favorites. Marquis, Duke, Earl, Lord, and Squire are common, and children are often baptised Little Tenter, Little Scribbler, &c., from the branch of the wooden manufacture carried on by their parents. I have met with a boy christend General George, and a girl named Tegotubuline, and still more extraordinary a boy called Wonderful Counsellor (from Isaiah, ix-fi). Nicknames are quite common —Tom, Ben, Bill and Jerry being conferred at baptism instead of the full name. In some of the rougher villages, I should add that surnames are still dispensed with or unknown. Tom’s Bill means Tom’s son Bill. Tom o’ Bill’s is the same, while Tom’s Bill o’ Jack’s means that Bill is the son of Tom, the son of Jack.

At a political meeting in St Andrew’s Hall, Glasgow, in April last, at which there were some 5000 persons assembled, a somewhat startling accident occurr jd. The audience on the floor of the hall consisted of a mixture of Liberals and Tories, and of course there was a “ rumpus.’ The Tories were in the minority, and distinguished themselves by hissing and groaning because the speakers on the platform were Libcarls. The whole mass of the Liberals on the floor commenced swaying their bodies towards the corner where the rowdies had located themselves, with the intent of ejecting them ; upon this, the occupants of one of the galleries made a rush to the front of the gallery to see what was doing down below. The result was that the front of the gallery gave way, and with it about 150 people were precipitated Oil to the heads of those below. Everybody was frightened, but only one person seriously hurt.

The native humour of the member for Riverton (says the A Tew Zealand Tunes), provoked some laughter in the lobbies on Friday night. He had declined to be appoiuted°to the Local Bills Committee on the plea that he had been overlooked in the appointment of the various sessional committees, and would not even be pacified by the Premier’s explanation that in the appointment of these committees the Government had been influenced by a desire to support those members who had been notable for attending to the work of the session. Shortly afterwards members clustered in the loddies, when the representative of the Thames strove to smoothe the ruffled feelings of his cofere from the South, and at the same time score a point and at the same time score a point for his for his own side. “ All, my dear M’Caughan,” insinuatingly observed the Knight, *' the appointment of these committees was all arranged by a caucus of Government supporters, a most unconstitutional proceeding.” “Yes,” replied the member for Riverton ; and then intuitively divining the hidden motive, he replied with ready repartee, “and they accuse me, Sir George, of not attending to committee work last session. Now you know that I never missed a meeting of the Christchurch Election Petition Committee.’ Thus unexpect with the Christchurch seat Sir George smiled sardonically and left the lobby, whilst he of Riverton, plunged his hands into the lateral openings of iiis inexpressibles, winked at the laughing auditory about him and strode away in another direction.

“Givis,” in the Otago Wihms, moralises tluisly:—“ What is a “ local preacher ?” I thought I knew, but after reading the latest batch of Parliamentary papers I find that my ideas oil the subject arc all abroad. I supposed that a “ local preacher ” was merely a Methodist or Baptist who had “a gift,” and exercised it gratis. Like the Apostles, he earned his bread by some kind of honest toil during the week and gave the Sunday preaching inr fo nothing. The Hon Thos. Dick, for example, was, and probably is still, a very diligent '• local preacher.” He doesn’t look happy on it, but that’s no matter, A man’s theology may be dyspeptic, but that dosen t prove him a bad man, and I should say there was certainly presumption in the case of a “ local preacher ” that he was a very (food man. But if one is to believe the testimony of Mr A. J. Burns, manager of the Westport Coal Mining Co., a “ local preacher ”is bound not only to be a , bad man, but so very bad a man that even the moral tone of a coalpit would be lowered by his working in it. Last year the Government selected in the North of England, and brought to the Colony, fifty colliers, moved thereto by the urgent representations of Mr Burns that ho wanted that class of labourers for the Westport colliery. But before their arrival Mr Burns had read in a Newcastle paper that the party included “ seven or eight ‘ local preachers.’ ” He at once wrote to the Government that lie was “ much amazed at these men being selected to be sent here.” that he would not be able to “tolerate their conduct very long,”—that his Company, in short, hadn’t ordered “local preachers,” and wouldn’t have them. To this position Mr Burns stuck with such persistency that the miners on their arrival were kept for months in the barracks at Nelson, pending the efforts of the Government to convince him and his directors in Dunedin, that though a man was a local preacher he yet might be fit to work in a coal mine. “As manager of the ' colliery,” wrote Mr B, in reply, ‘‘l have got to have coal dug from the bowels of the earth, and deposited in the holds of ships in Westport and this cannot . be done by local preaching by practical coal miners.” Finally the Government got;the fifty men distributed through other collieries, and had the satisfaction of j hearing; from the employers who took them that they were “just the class .required/’ The transaction with the implacable Burns has resolved itself: into a claim lodged hy the Government for £239, cost of rations supplied to the Evangelical miners whilst detained in the barracks. This sum the Dunedin Director's will pretty certainly have the pleasure of paying for the theological antipathies of theif manager. Probably the loss of the money will not irritate Mr Burns so much as the knowledge that local preachers /alii over/the country .are uniting to pray for him, and that there is a general disposition amongst them to regard his name as prophetic.”

Independent Order of Good Templars.— The eleventh session of the Grand Lodge of England of Independent Order of Good Templars working under the jurisdiction of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge of the world as the Supreme court of the Order has just been held at Birmingh am. In the reports the number of members were set down at 95,000. and that of juvenile members at 44,000 Bro Joseph Malins was re-elected as Grand Worthy of the Templars for the eleventh time, it a salary of L4OO. Two hundred and eight delegates were in attendance and had travelled an aggregate of 2(3,000 miles. The inscrutable beings known as boys are probably more quick-witted than men in getting out of a scrape. A lad was being catechised by his pastor, and had the question put to him as to the number of things necessary in the rite of baptism. He replied Three. Stupid boy! exclaimed the holy man ‘ ‘everybody knows tin re are only two—the prayer-book and the water. What do you mean by thrce?”The boy’s prompt answer came in the form of a question: “And how about the baby?” A new Atlantic yacht race has been arranged, but this time the vessels are to be steamers, and the winner will receive L 9,000. Four steam yachts are being built at Chester and Newburgh, in the United States, which, when completed, will race from New York to Southampton. The stakes are L3,oooeach, the winnerto take the pool. The affair is mainly a sporting event but it will unquestionably have a great effect on the languishing steamship building trade of the States.

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