Marlborough Times. MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1881.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 211, 28 March 1881, Page 2

Marlborough Times. MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1881.

j With (his issue the Mai'usoroivii I Times (‘liters upon llie third year of its publication, and upon this occasion our readers will pardon us if we allude to our past career and future intentions at some length. Wo are manly induced to do so because we have this day taken a step in advance which we feel sure will ho appreciated jby the public as a whole. When Ihe i Times was first established il was issued as a do ;b!e-erown sheet, pub- j ''si ed twice a week. Business having j greatly increased during its lirst year, | it was at the end of that lime in- j i creased in size to a double-demy, in j order to enable ii to do justice to the : reading public: while fulfilling the ro- ! f|uiremenls of advertisers. Prosperity ! continued to reward its efforts for the j public good, and it is now found j necessary to issue it three times a ! week, in order to supply our subscribers with a due proportion of reading ; matter during the week. We are | encouraged to take Ihis step by the i licarlysupporl which lias been accorded j i to us in the past, and which it shall j j be our earnest endeavor to be worths' |of in the future. During the past- ! year our subscription list lias been I extended even beyond our most sanguine anticipations, and it is to this | fact that the increased demand upon I our advertising space may in some i I measure be attributed. Advertisers! ! arc quick to discover whether a paper ] I is well-conducted and widely read, | and we can safely assert, from our knowledge of the capabilities of the i district in this respect, that, besides ; being the largest-sized paper published ! in Marlborough, the Times is the j : most widely eircula'.ed both in town I I and country, ard thus affords the best |

; medium for advertising. Tlierc is no j necessity for us to dilate upon this, | however, as the pressure upon our | space since the beginning of the year i has heen sufficiently visible to prove j that this journal is high in favor with j the public for advert i. big purposes. We take what we eo: ceive to be a ! pardonable amount of pride in this, j for at the outset there were numerous j dillicuhies to contend with, and cer- ' tain prophets predicted for us an I existence of not more than.six months. ' Doubtless they wo e prejudiced by | (heir own wishes in making tin’s ; prophecy, for the fact remains that ! we have rot onlye :isledbut nourished ; to a greater extent than we antici- ; pated, having first been able to in--1 crease in size, and then to give an additional issue per week". We have to render our sincere thanks to the public which has enabled us to make , ibis rapid progress, and we accept the result as an indication of general j satisfaction with the course we have i pursued in reference to matters of public interest. We shall endeavor, : as hitherto, to further the general i prosperin' by every legitimate means lat our command, as we look 1 upon the progress of the district as j being intimately connected with our I own advancement. '1 iie independent i and outspoken maimer in which we have treated public questions will be i strictly adhered to, and to use an apt, though somewhat hackneyed quohi- : lion, our pen will always continue to , be, found ready---

“ For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance. For the future in the distance, \ And the good that we can do.” j The Trims will continue to be pub- ; lishodas a lid-weekly uutilsueh time as I it is expedient and desirable to trams- j form it into a daily. At present there is every indication that, (lie district is j not vet capable of supporting a daily I paper, and the proprietor is decidedly of opinion that a good tri-weekly will ; be received with greater favor than a weak daily. In our opinion it is better to hasten slowly, and perform our journalistic engagements creditably than to fail to execute them properly for want, of means or adequate support. So far as we have progressed our undertaking has prosed a tho-

rough financial success, and is entirely free from indebtedness to anyone. We have no bills of sale hanging over us, nor any of those harrasing drawbacks to encounter which have so often militated against the success of journals in Marlborough, the conduc tors of which, through want of business perception, have tried to execute engagements they were powerless to fulfil. Wo intend to keep free from these annoyances, and notwithstanding the insinuations of a mean writer in-our contemporary, are the better enabled to do this for the reason that the paper is, and has been from the outset, wholly and solely in the hands of one proprietor. In the meantime, while the district is growing to the extent required to guarantee the safe establishment of a daily paper, we are making preparations towards increasing our plant, Are. With this in view, n tow months ago nv<* despatches! an order direct to London for new jobbing machinery and type, and trust shortly to lie able to work our machinery with steam power. The‘expense involved in making these arrangements is of course a heavy one, but we have every confidence that the additional conveniences we shall he able to all'ord the public will fully justify us in the outlay of capital.

: Deluxe the past week a Minister and at ex-.M mister have appeared before their eon stitueiits, and, to some extent, have thrown light upon the past actions and future intentions of the Ministry. As might have been anticipated, the speech of the Colo nial Treasurer dealt childly with linaneia matters ; and it is exceedingly satisfactory to he told by the best authority that since the Hall Ministry took olliee the weekly cost of governing the country has been reduced from :L‘llo,ooo to between JtliO, and £70,000. in other words the country has saved nearly two and a half millionsince the downfall of the < '• ivy (lovernment. It appears from the above figures that the Polony had to pay pretty heavily for the privilege of being promised a “ free breakfast table" and “universal sull'rage.' Doubtless the electioneering tour of tin Knight of Hawaii, and the cab-hire of lib lieuehmau, the genial Mr Sheehan, contributed to increase the weekly expenditure, lint gross mismanagement must ha coexisted in other plae when it is since proved that the expenditure can be cut down nearly one-half, without detriment to the elHcioul working of the (ioveniment stall'. It is not yet low enough, however, as Majoi Atkinson observed, laic we presume that the tour of Messrs Batkin and Seed will result in some practical recommendations being forthcoming, the adoption of which will tend to still further reduce the outlay. On the ground of having proved their ability to retrench, when all former Ministries have shown a tendency to increase their expenditure, the present Ministry deserves the conlidenee and the thanks of the people. In theory the Prey administration was to have been the most economical government which had ever superintended the atl'airs of a colony 7, hut in practice it was found more expedient to spend money freely in the hope of gaining popularity. It was a red-letter day for the Polony when Sir Peorge and his following were east from their high estate, and it is very improbable they will again succeed in obtaiui ig the reins of power. in last issue we published a condensation of Major Atkinson’s speech, and commend bis views upon taxation to the careful consideration of our readers. Turning to Mr Bryce's speech, we find that the only noticeable feature in it is his explanation of the causes that led to his retirement from the Ministry. These turn out to lie the same as stated by us at the time of his resignation, viz., that he wished to settle the Native dillienlty by a sudden descent on lliroki

■ sary, to lie uriested, aril any attempt at j resistance was to bn followed l>y the appear* j ance of the Armed ( ‘onstabulary upon the ! .scene. The peaceable policy of the Maori ]i‘o diet was to he met with a blood-and-iron” policy, which, in Mr Jiryce's opinion, would have been short, sharp, and decisive Jin its result. In this view his colleagues i did not agree, and hence his withdrawal from tlie Ministry. Under different cir- | eumstaiices the proposal of Mr Bryce would have been a good one. Had he been i Native Minister some years ago, the question might have been delinitely settled, lmt lie was behind the times. The wily fanatic i who inlluerccd the Maoris proclaimed his policy as having pence for its foundation, \ and any action on the part of the (iovernI ment which might have resulted in provoking a war, would have been extremely hn- ' politic. Besides this, the country was not ; in a position to incur the expense, or to I face the damage to its credit which would i necessarily follow an outbreak of hostili- ! ties. In the face of these facts the ! Ministry were quite justified in their rei fusal to accede to Mr Bryce's proposal.

The lire at the Wesleyan Church was the lirst occasion that the services of the new Blenheim Volunteer Fire Brigade were required. The following memhers were present when the roll was called at one , o’clock on Friday morning : Captain i BythcM, Lieutenant Falconer, Foreman filing, and Messrs Foster (hranchman), I’irani, Storey, Stenliouse, Clianiiing, J. S. Carroll, Whitely, Hunter, Lip.seombe, Cheyne, Carr, May (engine-keeper), Merry, J. dames, T, daekson, and if. S. Simmons, The following are the weights for the Christchurch (treat Autumn Handicap, I A j miles : —Le Loup, Ost Dili; Natator, list gib; (trip, Sst Kill); Billingsgate, Sat lllli; I Sir Modrcd, Sst ]011»; Bandwiok Sst dll) ; j Fishook, Sst 71b; Volunteer, Sst 71b; Libeller, Sst 21b : Longlands, 7-st 1211) ; Titania, 7«t 12lb ; Virginia Water, 7st I lib; Lure, 7s t 71b; Ifarkaway, 7st 71b; 'Pile doker, 7st 71b; Trooper, 7st 71b; On Hit, 7st 01b; Lima, 7st 21b; The (lover- I nor, (Ist Sib ; Norseman, fist Slq ; Laertes, j list : Lady Huinia, fist Bill) ; Sylvanus, ost |

121 b; Hilda, ost 71b; Waikari, fist 71b; I llolderman, fist 71b; Mischief, fist 71b; { Castanet filly, fist 71b. By Oirjlh- published yesterday, the flovernment notify that they are prepared to receive proposals from any person willing to establish a factory for the manufacture of blasting and sporting powder, the pro- ; poser to state what amount of bonus he ! would require to induce him to undertake the manufacture. The < lovernrnent are to approve the place where the factory is to be erected, and also the plans and specifications of the building. All the internal fittings and the arrangements for carrying on the manufacture of the gunpowder are to he subject to the inspection of an officer appointed by the fiovernment.— Punt,

We must apologise to our readers for the non-appearance of our usual batch of latest telegraphic intelligence to.day. Our correspondents were telegraphed to on Saturday respecting the change in our clays of publication, but they have omitted to attend to our request. The Kaikoura Slur reports that a ease of “ Boycotting ” occurcd in. that district during the last few days. They 7 are quick to adopt the latest fashions in Kaikoura. Largely attended harvest thanksgiving services, and public meetings in connection therewith, have been held under the auspices of the Wesleyan denomination in Feilding, Manawatu There would appear to be at least one newspaper in New Zealand that may with truth be described as a “ paying concern. ” The profits of the New Zealand Ihruhl I (Auckland) are, we are told, set down at the present time at the rate of £25,000 annually.

An interesting case will l>o heard in the R.M. Court to-morrow morning, in which Kuliert Patrick Mackliu will sue the education Hoard for the District of Marlborough for .1'22 10s, being one month's salary as 'Headmastri* of the irienlieim Borough Schools, Mr Rogers will appear for plaint-ill’and Mr MeNab for ilefcndants, 'l’lio eni’iuiry re Mr Firth, at Havelock, concluded on Saturday. The Commissioners intimated in reply to Mr MeNab, that they would report to the (iovornment as speedily as possible, and would point out that it was a hardship on the successful party in an enquiry that no provision was made as to costs. i A Nelson vignoron claims to have disj covered and effectual and inexpensive i method of preventing blight in vines, lie j boiled sulphur in various glass-houses in I which vines were growing, and the vapour I arising from the vessel in which the sulphur [ was boiled was allowed to entirely lill the houses, with the result that not a vestige ol blight was to been on any of the vines. The hackers of Mavis in the totalisator on the Napier Tradesmans Handicap will doubtless believe in that method ol staking money for the future. There were 18(1 shares of L‘2 each in the pool, only 3 being on Mavis. Her hackers therefore each took L'l 13 Ss for their ,L2. In a ,L‘1)(M) Calcutta sweep the previous night Mavis was sold for i'3. Mr Ceorge Williamson informs the I'm-rr/;/ I'nii S/<iix/itn/ that he has discovered a most ell'ective hut at the same time a very simple cure for blight. Alter trying all sorts of things, he by accident found that cold tea leaves thrown at the roots of trees successfully combated with the disease, and in a very short space of time caused the trees to become perfectly clean. We believe it could he demonstrated (says the North Otago Tim<■■■<), that out of a hogshead of first-class beer, bought by the publican from the brewer for ,CO, the former will, by selling it in sixpenny glasses, derive a total of nearly L2I, or nearly 3.">0 per cent, prolit. For an inferior class, bought at L' l per hogshead, the publican will, by selling it in pints, realise, it is calculated, about .CIO. or a prolit of sonic I of) per cent. In a table attached to the last report on lunatic asylums, the consumption of wines and spirits at the Wellington Asylum was Ills !)d per head : in that of Auckland, Is 3d. A contemporary says, Why lunatics in Wellington should require eight times as much alcohol as in Auckland is not clear. Was it given to thorn at all It is within the hounds of possibility that some of the strange occurrences in that institution may he traceable to an unequal distribution of exhilarating lluids. A remark able case came before the 15. M. ('uni tat Arrowtown, Otago, recently. A well-known storekeeper and late Mayor of the borough, was charged with selling wholesale under a bottle license. It came out in the evidence that he had a wholesale license made out by the town clerk, on ! the Ist duly, 1880, but did not pay for it. j As soon, however, as this charge was | brought against him he went and paid for the license, and produced it in Court. The Bench did not appreciate this smart practice, however, and fined him l'l-f and l'l (tost**.

| A novel case recently came before a New ; South Wales bench, when four persons ! were charged with tin-kettling the I’. imi- ! five Methodist minister on Ids return t- ! Kcmpsy after Ins marriage. The defence | was that no offence was intended. ! They were advised by the m ilister temporarily oflieiating to welcome his j oni/iY-rr home with kerosene tins. Tlie ' argument of their counsel was that the i defendants wore morally hound to obey | the precepts of a minister of the gospel. ; The bench dismissed the ease, although the I facts wore proved. | It will he remembered that on the open- \ ing of the ?vlc*lhourne Kxhihition a prize j cantata was performed. It does not appea” !to meet with much approval at home. The ; Ailic:)iih,ii of 1 8th December says: — “We have hail an opportunity of examining the i prize work—the cantata ‘Victoria,’ by | Leon Caron —and are sorry to have to o::j pressauunfavoitrableopinion on it. Itisim- | possible honestly to describe it as anything j hut trash : and the conclusion is force 1 ! upon us that either the standard of musical i ability at Melbourne must be very low, or that the judges, who, we are given to understand, were mostly amateurs, were altounqualified for their v. - ork.“ American ingenuity, observes the London Dn'iln 7V/,•;<//■///;// “ has put forth an amazing project for connecting Croat Britain with the United States by a transatlantic railway. Rejecting the notion of driving a tunnel under the ocean, the scheme purpose to sink upon the Atlantic lied an iron tube some 3000 miles long and •Jfiftin diameter tin ougli which two trains might pass simultaneously with perfect convenience and safety. As, however tins tube would he subjected to exterior water pressure equal to that of about. IdO atmospheres its'casing will have to he at least ISiii. t hick. The tulle is to consist of

sections, each 100 ft : n length, and is to be laid down in the following manner : —Five such sections are to he welded together upon (irmly-anchored pontoons, both ends of the length thus prepared for sinking being hermetically closed, hut in such sort that they can be opened from within. Then the entire compartment, 800 ft. long is to be lowered into the sea by steel chains, so that it shall reach the bottom in immediate proximity to the .section it is destined to join. The junction will, of course, ho ellected by submarin workmen; and these processes will carried on with undeviating regularity starting from the American coast until the shores of Ireland shall he attained by the mighty tube. Meanwhile the laying of rails, telegraph wires, lighting and ventilation apparatus, and so forth will go on inside the tube as it grows longer and larger. Mr Edison believes that he can perfect an electric locomotive to draw the trains along through the tube in f>o hours, from shore to shore, and the cost of the whole line, rolling stock included is not to exceede 100 millions sterlings.”

1 The Royal Oeograpliical Society have | under consideration a new arctic expedition i -—-the object not being the mere feat of | reaching the Pole, but to also explore the ! unknown area between the 79th and SOtli | degrees of latitude.

In a controversy to which the A rgus(.Melbourne) opened its columns, the doctrine of Calvinisim, as stated in the Presbyterian standards, has been severely criticised, several correspondents declaring that ministers dare not preach Chapter 111. of the con fusion of Faith, although they arc required to subscribe to it at ordination.

Professor Yichow, Professor Mommsen, and Professor Hildebrand all appeared in public condemnation of the anti-Hebrew agitation in ( lermany. The Crown Prince and his wife also mit no opportunity to show their dissaproval. Prince Bismark has never pretended to like the Jews, but lie has made use of them as occasion has offered from time to time. Ashamed of what ? that you are a farmer's son or daughter; why? Is it disrespectable to be a tiller of the soil and feed the people? Be proud of it, as you arc of your native country. It should be the boast of every man that cultivates land that be is a soverei"ii citizen, a producer; and none are more honorably engaged. Daughters, you arc the models of womanhood. Sons, your glory should be that you plant- and harvest. The farmer is king among men, and his wife is a queen, and his children are members of the nobiht y.

It is better to be born lucky than rich This will probably he the opinion of most people on reading the following incident, related by a Queensland journal : —A party of Chinese took it into their heads to chip a boulder of stone at the Margaret River, and found inside TOO ounces of go’d. Horens of people hail sat upon it, and a pai \y of miners had made their fire rgaii stir, regularly. “John" lie plenty s.ivee, ami scored the trick to the tunc of ,L'2700. Welly good.

!*b\pulsion from an English Order is a very rare occurrence, but a (!<r.rth‘ published in November last contained a Royal “direction " that the name of Mr James Craig Doggie should he erased from the register of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. It appears that Doggie, who was originally a Sergeant in the Sappers was created a C.M.tD for services rendered during the Ashantcc war. He was subsequently made Civil Commandant of British Slierhorough, near Sierra Leone, and while holding that post misappropriated the public fn ids, for which he is now undergoing a sentence of two years imprisonment;. A female patient in the hospital at Now Ha ven well illustrates the power of the imagination. She is a weak woman, -to years of age, with chronic gastritis and several other chronic aileetions, and had been in the habit of taking morphia in the form of “ sleeping drops." For the first few times she was given morphia, but after this they hud a bottle carefully labelled “sleeping drops,” and tilled with water. Of this she took a dram at bedtime. At first she complained that the medicine was too strong and made her head feel badly the next day so that the dose was reduced. This she did for nearly a month, slcepingiiicely when she did take it, and not sleeping at all when it was withheld.

We were reminded the other day of the story of a well-known Irishman who sits at present as a Home-Killer in the House

of ('ominous. The gentleman is now 99 years of age, and is yet a noticeable object in the House from his stalwart proportions and venerable aopearance. During bis long life lie has fought sixty-eight duels, and upon each occasion has been the challenger. Upon one occasion he challenged a man who hesitated to meet such a formidable antagonist, but confided to his wife the fact of bis having received the challenge. The indignant wife laid in wa : t for the seeker after her husband's blood, and administered a severe hoist-whipping. The Irish M. I’, was non-plussed at the suddenness of the attack, but stool it ’ike a lamb for some time, when his assailant being exhausted, lie quickly raised her garments over her head, and addressing the numerous spectators, said, “ Contlemeii, she's a woman."

I After the taste given for astronomy by ; Mr Proctor's visit, our readers may lie | interested by the following prragraph from I the New York Sun on the astronomical events of 1881 : “Tlie sky will not present such a brilliant pageant again this century as it does during the present years. Among the phenomena are a remarkable series of conjunctions, and double and triple conjunctions. The most interesting of these is the great twenty-year con junction of Jupiter and Saturn in April. As this conjunction occurs in the sign Taurus, which astrologers say rules Turkey and Ireland, they feel safe, on account of recent occurrences, in predicting very momentous cliects in those countries from the conjunction. 'I here will also he eon junctions of Jupiter and Mars, Venus and Jupiter, Saturn and Venus, and the far-away giants Uranus and Neptune will play a part in this remarkable planetary levee. Venus will reach her greatest brightness, and Imr delicate crescent should be a favorite object in the amateur astronomer's telescope. Satin n opens wider its wonderful rings, and Jupiter is remarkably brilliant. Mars will begin to brighten in the latter part of the year, and then his snowy poles and shadowy continents will again become the admiration of those who gaze through telescopes. In short, there will be no end of attractions in the starry heavens, and all the prognostications of soothsayers will not be able to darken the sky of 1881." The “Loafer in the Street” writes as follows in the t'hristchurch /Vr.ss ; Home kind friend lias sent me the third annual report of the Minister of Kducation. It’s not quite the sort of publication one would delve much at for amusement, but from one table 1 was perusing 1 should say the system of examinations for standards needs a little reorganising. Lu the table 1 refer to, No. (i, page .I, 1 find that in the Wellington province there are oii;’.;! regular attendants. Of these t>(! passed standard Vi. In Otago there are 17.7 J-- regular

attendants, of whom 1 .'>7 passed; while in ; Canterbury, out of 1 g.'iO, only IT passed. The system of examination pursued must be very diKerent in the Otago and Welling- 1 ton provinces to that in Canterbury, or' else the “regular attendants ” must be a precious sight smarter. Tin not expressing any opinion as to whether our children get it put on too hot here or there too light; but tns tiling seems uneven, don't it? I j have heard that sometimes here they are in too much of a hurry to run the young- [ sters through, which may or may not he a fact. Assuming it to be so, its rough on the i/i'ip-A'i when they don’t pass, because then his highly educated committee who , don’t know the difference between a school Standard and a picnic banner come skipping around and want a change of instruc- ■ tors for their festive progeny, I know all about it, bless you. But this education j business is, as I have told you 100 times, • overdone. On the ground of economy it is. j We can't afford so much style, ami if you ■ write an article predicting that there will j be a row in the House over this business, I you will get your name up as a good prophet. I

The Kaiapoi Woolen Factory Company are about to erect large premisies for manufacturing clothing. They will employ no less than -100 operatives.

Two gentleman recently arrived in the Colony have brought with them the necessary appliances for manufacturing starch, and have, we understand, leased premises near the Water fit' Leith. As considerable quantities of starch are used in the Colony we trust the new industry may prove successful.—- i lln'uld The bomb with which the Czar of Russia was destroyed was probably one of those “ infernal machines/ 1 now so w ell known in Europe. By some they are called “Orsini bombs, ” after the Italian who attempted the life of Napoleon HI, There are several patterns, but the simplest and most clfechve is thus described:-—The bomb is a pretty little globe of brittle iron, about as large as an orange or perhaps rather larger, which is idled for action, with gunpowder, or some other explosive. It is bored all over with small screw holes, and into each of these is inserted an ordinary gun-nipple. When used each gun-nipple is capped, and the bomb being filled is fit for use. It is thrown from the band, and in whatever way it falls it drops with considerable force upon at least one cap, which explodes the bomb. That used by Orsini indicted a hundred or more wounds and destroyed several lives. Many such bombs have been seized at times and it is believed that they are usually made at Birmingham, and transported to the (‘ontinent.

/ /iillntra //’*■ PHI* are admirably adapted for the cure of diseases incidental to females. At dill'erent periods of life women are subject to complaints which require a peculiar medicine, and it is now' an indisputable fact that there is none so suitable for such complaints as Holloway's Kills. They are invaluable to females ot all ages, young or o'd, married or single. They purify the blood, regulate the secretions, correct all suspended functions, give tone to the stomach, and clear the complexion. The lirst approach of disordered action should lie met with appropriate doses of these Kills; whilst taking them no restriction need he placed over the patient. They contain nothing which can possibly prove injurious to the system. They act by purifying the blood and regulating every organ.