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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 251, 29 June 1881, Page 2

We understand that an information has been laid by the Police against a resident of Spring Creek for a breach of the “ Arms Act ” in jelling arms without a license, and that the case will be heard at Blenheim on Friday. Mails for Australian Colonies, per Rotorua, close at the Bluff at noon on Friday next, July Ist. The San Francisco Mail will probably arrive here per Mohaka, failing which it may be expected via Picton on Friday morning. In the Isle of Man the right to vote has been accorded to all females who possess an estate yielding a pound sterling per annum.

L 300,000 lately arrived in Berlin, from St. Petersburg, to be deposited in the foreign banks for the Princess Dalgorouki, the late Czat’s second wife. The accident ward of the Christchurch Hospital received an unusual patient the other day. A man named Lynch was admitted with a broken leg, caused by him slipping while dancing, and his partner falling,on his leg. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club it was shown that the Club have a balance of £BOO, after paying £240 overdraft from last year. A new grand stand costing £4400 or £4500 will be erected before next Spring Meeting. To meet this £BOO is in hand, and £3IOO have arranged to be advanced by the Union Bank, payable in six annual instalments. W. B. Armstrong was elected a life member for services as architect. Libel actions should become fashionable when so great a personage as the wife of an English prince is mixed up in one. The Duchess of Connaught is subpeenaed as a witness in an aotion brought by a German lady who keeps a governess agency, against a governess employed in a noble family. Other ladies of title are required to attend also, at which, of courge, they are very indignant. A report on the work done in the Government Printing Office during the past year has just reached our hauds. In the course of the report Mr Didsbury says: “Arrangements are being made for procuring our supplies of parchment (of which about five hundred pounds’worth is annually imported) from a Blenheim manufacturer, who has recently started this branch of industry. The samples submitted by him are quite equal to the English-made parchment, and the price is reasonable.” The Wanganui Herald says : —“ We are pleased to learn that Mr Brewer has succeeded in obtaining 5000 ova of the true British salmon (Salma Salar), which will arrive here in July or August. The number is comparatively small, but Mr Brewer does not wish to risk a considerable sum of money until he proves by experience that they can be successfully hatched. The ova of British salmon require very cold clear water, and if it is of a temperature of above 59', it is likely to militate against the success of the hatching. In places where ice is available in large quantities this is easily remedied, but it is not obtainable here. •Should the hatching he successful arrangements have been made for 30,000 next season.”

The “local option” campaign still advances in Canada. The County Dikby, Nova Scotia, has voted the adoption of local option by a majority of 953 for adoption, 42 against. Nearly all Nova Scotia has adopted the law. Out of seventeen elections, all but one have been carried by the local option party by immense majorities. The Taranaki Herald says :—“ We hoar that Mr Saunders is a Spartan as regards diet ; a big loaf of brown bread, a few vegetables, and an unlimited supply of spirng water is sufficient for his limited requirements for a considerable period. Under these circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that he considers the salaries of the Civil Servants too high by one-half.” We have to acknowledge receipt of the following contributions to the “ Stark Fund,” in aid of the boy Stark who lost his arm in the scutching machine at the Peninsula Flax Mills a short time ago : Tua Marina Sub-division of Rifle Volunteers, per Sub-Lieut. Peake, LI 2s 6d ; F.D.F. 5s ; Jas. Fowler, 2s fid. We shall be glad to acknowledge receipt of any further contributions which may be forwarded to this office.

Close - breeding (says the American A'lriculhiritf) is the coupling of these animals that are closely related to each other. The Jersey bull Mercury is a son of Alphea, by her brother Jupiter. This is a good illustration of very close-breeding. Close-breeding is a means of perpetuating ttiose qualities that are common to the animals coupled. If good points predominate in the animals, close-breeding will tend to fix them ; if bad qualities are common to the animals, they are quite sure to be found in the offspring. In itself, there is nothing injurious in closebreeding. If the breeder starts with excellent animals, according to the general law of “Like produces Like,” excellent animals will be the result, with the good points more firmly fixed. It is in this way that excellent strains or families have been built up. Under ordinary conditions of the animals, and by unskilled men, closebreeding is not to be recommended. The following brief notice appears in a recent issue of the Wanganui Chronicle, under the head of “Deaths,” and if this sort of thing comes into general favor we will not lie surprised to see a column or so occasionally devoted to detailing the genealogicaltreesof thedeparted : —“Barry. -—After a long illness (11 years), born with Christian resignation, Ann Barry (better known as Annie), the beloved and only child of Richard N. Barry and Ann Farrell, died at her parents’ residence, Cookstreet, Howick, Auckland, at 11 o’clock a. m. on the 22nd of April, aged 42 years 11-12ths. Niece of Austin Nolan Barry, John William Romualdus, and James Josh. Barrys ; grandfather, David Barry ; grandmother, Mary Frances Nolan ; grand-niece of the Revs. Austin, William, and Richard Barrys, and grand-niece of James Barry, Merchant, of Tuam, County Galway. Home papers please copy.”

Some idea of the rate at which the American forests arc being devastated, may be gathered from the following paragraph, taken from the Fishkill Standard, America. To make shoe pegs enough for American use consumes annually 100,000 cords of timber, and to make our lucifer matches, 300,000 cubic feet of the best pine are required every year. Lasts and boot trees take 500,000 cords of birch, beech, and maple, and the handles of tools 500,000 more. The baking of our bricks, consumes 2,000.000, or what would cover with forest about 65,000 acres of land. Telegraph polos already up represent 800,000 trees, and their repair consumes about 300,000 more. The tics of bur railways consume annually thirty years’ growth of 75,000 acres, and to fence all our railroads would cost 45,000,000 dols., with a yearly expenditure of 15,000,000 dols. These are some of the ways in which American forests arc going. There are others —packing boxes, for instance, cost, in 1574, 12,000,000 dols., while the timber used each year in making waggons and agricultural implements is valued at more than 100,000,000 dols.

According to a Wellington contemporary Mr W. T. L. Travers, who some time ago descanted upon the “rascally hills of costs” prepared by some members of the legal fraternity, has again been alluding to the extortion practised in the name of the law. The Post says :—“ Prior to the commencement of the business at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, one of the members—Mr W. T. L. Travers —treated his auditors to a little story at the expense of his own profession. He said that, in the course of some conversation the other day with an eminent German scientist, at present on a visit to Wellington, the man of learniug remarked that what struck him most in connection with this colony was not its climate, its resources or natural productions, its magnificent scenery or its expensive building, but- but the large number of lawyers, who were as thick as mushrooms, and “ appeared to be doing devilish well.” Enquiring how such a large number of lawyers managed to make their money, Mr Travers replied, “By a systematic course of robbery—legal robbery, of course,” and this seemed to satisfy the mean. ”

An it please you, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Langtry desires to become a journalist ! This is a fact for which I can vouch. You will not find it recorded in any of the society journals, so far as I am aware, but it is tiie sober truth. Neither has it been announced—so far as I am aware—that she has added another tax-payer to Her Majesty’s already numerous host, and yet, the same informant assures me, the baby is also a fact. The tools and chattels of Mrs Langtry are advertised for sale by auction. She herself is out of town, either in Jersey or France. lam unable to say which, and—she wants to be an editress. “Would you ha’ the truth on’t ?” The Beauty is, vulgarly speaking, hard up. Her husband is in America, and she is here, and, if rumour is to be credited, the supplies are to be cut ott. This was the root of the report which obtained some time since as to her going on the stage. I do not think there is much likelihood of Mrs Langtry’s succeeding in her efforts to obtaiu a journal, and I think it quite likely that she will yet adopt the profession of an actress. —Cape Ary us.

The European Mail says : —A statement has been published to the effect that the Fenian “Skirmishers” of New York have consulted together regarding the recent affray between the police and people at Ballaghaderiu, and have decided that the deaths of the victims must be regarded as the outgrowth of the Coercion Act, for which they hold Mr Gladstone responsible. The “ Skirmishers ” have, it is added, sentenced the Premier to death, and arc now stated to be deliberating as to how the sentence shall be carried out. On receipt of this intelligence, which comes from New York, tne authorities at Scotland Yard were at once communicated with, and th* police officials of Cheshire and Flintshire will take extra precautions in the district of Hawarden Castle. 4he above statement has been denied by the “ fraternity.”

The Blenheim Rifle Volunteers paraded in Ewart’s Hall last evening. After being exercised in company drill the members of the corps was drawn up in two files when Captain Robinson called upon Lieut. Rogers to come forward, and presented him with the Marlborough Ti mbs Cup which was offered as the first for competition on the Queen’s Birthday. Owing to a variety of causes the Cup did not arrive in time for presentation with the other prizes and only came to hand yesterday, when it was forwarded to this office through Mr W. Tucker. The Cup is of silver, elegantly chased, and will be engraved on one side with the words, “ Marlborough Truss Cup,” and on the other, “ Lieut. Rogers, 1881.” In making the presentation Capt. Robinson said—“ Lieut. Rogers. I have much pleasure in now presenting you with the Marlborough Times Cup won by you on Queen’s Birthday last, as champion shot of the Blenheim Rifle Volunteers. I sincerely congratulate you upon your success, but at the same time I trust some other member will succeed in winning the first prize next year, as you are already loaded with honors. You have, however, richly earned it, and this together with the various medals and other prizes you have been successful in winning will make a good display and show your children that their father was, at one time at least, a good shot.”

At a time when we hear so much about payment of rent in Ireland it may be interesting to many of our readers, to know the origin of the payment of rent for land, and the time at which it commenced. In 1350, agriculture, ns carried on under the feudal system of villeinage or servile tenure, by which laborers were bound to the soil, and transferable with it from one owner to another, received a severe check owing to the pestilence known as the “ Black Death,” which had carried off well nigh half the population of England in the preceding year. Labor being scarce, the villeins, or laborers, hoped to improve their position by obtaining daily wages for their daily work, but the rate of wages was fixed by Parliament at too low a scale to admit of any amelioration of their wretched condition, and things went on in the old way until 1381, when the imposition of a poll tax in addition to the other grievances provoked the insurrection undor Jack Cade and Wat Tyler. When this was quelled the abolition of villeinage was again brought before Parliament, which refused to sanction it by direct legislation. A few landowners, however, began at this period to take money payments from those who held land under them, instead of personal suit and service, and thus arose the system of tenant-farm-ing which is still in vogue, and which may be considered to have been in operation in England for exactly 500 years.

Anne Richardson, a domestic servant, is the last victim of what English lawyers grimly call equity. She had saved L‘24o, to which her master. Sir George Balfour, added a free gift of LGO, lodging the whole with trustees, who were to pay her the interest. After a time Anne wanted to go to New Zealand, and naturally desired the possession of her capital. The trustees had no objection provided they obtained the leave of the Master of the Rolls. For that purpose a friendly suit was issued, and the leave obtained, but the costs amounted to L 216. Thus merely to ask the formal assent of the Courtof Chancery to a natural change of this kind—nobody opposing, and no extraneous interests being involved — swallowed up more than two-thirds of the sum in question. Lord Coleridge on hearing of the facts, said, “It appears as if Chancery, to prevent anyone from being hurt, sometimes takes care that nobody shall get any good.”

Umbrella flirtation : To place your umbrella in a rack indicates that it is about to change owners. An umbrella over tho woman, the man getting nothing but the drippings of the rain signifies courtship. When the man lias the umbrella and the woman the drippings Vindicates marriage. To carry it at right angles under your arm signifies that an eye is to be lost by the man who follows you. To put a cotton umbrella by the side of a nice silk one signifies “ exchange is no robbery. To lend an umbrella indicates “I am a fool.” To carry an umbrella just high enough to tear out men’s eyes and knock off men’s hats signifies, “ I am a woman.”

A n examination of the census returns, disclose a very considerable diversity in the rates of progress on the part of tho different provincial districts. Taranaki occupies the place of honor with an iucrease of over 54 per cent., whilst Westland is at the bottom of the list with an actual decrease of 12 per cent. Marlborough occupies second place, next to Taranaki, with 22 J percent, increase’ Canterbury follows with 21 per cent., and the other provincial districts in the following order : —Wellington,. 19 per cent. ; Auckland, ISpercent. ;Otago, 17 percent. ; Hawkes Bay, per cent. ; an l Nelson 4 per cent.

“There is a story current,” says the London Cuckoo , “ that the late Mr Carlyle was a terrible domestic tyrant. At breakfast time he would come down grumbling, and glancing to the well spread board, declare the food to be unfit for a dog. Mrs Carlyle thereupon would order the girl to take the despised viands back to the kitchen. Presently when the philosopher was beginning to get desperately hungry, his spouse would order the same dishes to be brought back, which her husband immediately proceeded to devour with infinite relish and without any more ado. No wonder the sage considered his wife a greater woman than either George Sand or George Eliot.”

A gigantic railway scheme is on the tapis in Australia. It contemplates the construction of a line connecting all the capitals Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. It is said that capitalists are prepared to undertake the venture if they can obtain certain concessions in the shape of grants of land. It is considered that with the provinces thus linked together the federal sentiment will become a reality, and that the various Colonies will seek than closer union which is so desirable for the proper development of their resources and the attainment of a national position.

A correspondent in Wellington sends us the following : —“The session has as yet been dull in the extreme —it has been nothing but Licensing Bill every day—of which the Committee is making a great hash. The first flag for the next hustings that has been unfurled is Local Government, but no one yet has ventured to propound where the money is to come from to make it successful. Another cry for the North will be another loan to complete railway communication to Auckland. In the meantime as the Government is not yet ready with the Representation Bill and willonly declare its views on Local Government after the Financial Statement has been made, things are in a stagnant state. We were properly shaken by an earthquake tins morning, but not much damage is done, except in Manawatu where, it is said, all chimneys are down.

Two residents in the Awatere, Messrs W. Bennett and F. Bennett, appeared in the police court, Blenheim, yesterday mornincr, charged with riding in Maxwell-road oif the 27th inst. at a pace to endanger the lives of persons passing. Sergeant Goodail proved the commission of the offence, and defendants were fined £2 each and costs, that amount being the minimum penalty provided by the Constabulary Ordinance under which they were prosecuted. Holloway's Pills.— Good Spirits.—Every one has frequently experienced sudden personal changes from gaiety to gloom. The wind and weather oftentime receive the blame when a faulty digestion is alone the cause of the depression. Holloway’s Pills can be honestly recommended for regulating a disordered stomach and improving digestion. They entirely remove the sense of fulness and oppression after eating. They clean the furred tongue, and act as a wholesome stimulant to the liver, and as a gentle aperient to the bowels. They healthfully rouse both body find mind. Holloway's Pills are the best known antidotes for want of appetite, nausea, flatulency, heartburn, langour, depression, and that apathys so characteristic of chronic derangement of the digestion.— [Advt.]