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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 301, 24 October 1881, Page 2

We understand that a cricket match, Grocers r. Drapers, will bs played in Blenheim on Ist November. In our report of the meeting of the Lower Wnirau River’s Board, in last issue, we omitted to record the name of Dr. Horne’s as being one of those present. Mr Allen. Resident Magistrate at Picton, lias been appointed Returning Officer for that district at the next general election. Owing to the Volunteer Ball, which will be held to-morrow evening at Marlboroughtown, the Blenheim Rifle Volunteers will not hold their usual company drill. We arc informed that Messrs. Turner, Brown, Greenfield, and others have applied to take up a large area on the Wakamarina River for gold-mining purposes. The application will be beard at the YY arden’s Court, Havelock, on November 10th. The banking statistics of New Zealand arc interesting, says Mr Larnach, in addressing the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. It speaks well of a young country with half a million of people to be able to show deposits in band (not including Government) of nearly £8,500,000, and a note circulation amounting to over £900,000.

To-morrow night the Volunteer Ball will In held at Marlboroughtown, and we have every reason to believe that a very enjoyable* evening will be spent by all those who"patronise it. Retiring rooms will be provided for both ladies and gentlemen, and the ball-room will be tastefully decorated with various weapons of warfare, and as the Volunteers will appear in uniform everything will wear a very martial appearance.

At the Resident Magistrate Court this morning, John Cameron was fined 20s and costs, or in default, 4S hours’imprisonment for having been found drunk and incapable on the previous evening. The remainder of the morning was taken up with the ease of R. it W. Parker v. D. Draper, in which plaintiff claimed £lO for alleged wrongful conversion of two steers. The case for the defence was commenced this afternoon, but had not concluded when we went to press. The set of jewels for the use of the Wairau Masonic Lodge S.C., arrived in Blenheim on Friday, and arc now on view in the windows of Mr G. D. Mason’s shop. The jewels are fifteen in number, of solid silver, and have been beautifully engraved. We can honestly congratulate the Lodge Wairau upon possessing as handsome an array of smybolic ornaments as any we have yet seen, and we must also compliment the maker, Mr J. King, of Wellington, upon the excellence, of his work.

It is alwaysinteresting to notice any fresh departures from the beaten track in the direction of new local industries. —At a meeting of creditors in the estate of Wilkins and Davidson, cordial manufactures, of Dunedin, some pereuliar facts came out as to the plant, which comprised steel dies and brands, which were used to manufacture forged labels, &c. The chairman intimated that this precious plant of brands and dies was the backbone of the business. MrJago, a creditor, moved, “That the dies be presented to the Otago Museum, as an illustration of how cordials were manufactured in Dunedin.” The motion failed to find a seconder.

A meeting of the Committee of the Marlborough Agricultural and Pastoral Association was held at Clark’s Hotel on Saturday. Present —Messrs Paul (in the chair), j. Ward, T. Bed wood, Harding, J. H. Redwood, Gane, Coulter, Allan, Evans, Henderson, W. Parker, and G. Storey. Mr Coleman having signified that he would not he able to act as a judge of merino sheep at the coming show, Mr T. E. Hiley was appointed in his stead. A long discussion took place as to the manner in which the Cup presented by the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company should bo awarded. After a number of motions and amendments had been discussed it was resolved to award it as follows :—For the best pens of 2 "rams and 3 ewes, 2-tooth ; 1 ram and 3 ewes 4-tooth ; 1 ram and 3 ewes 6-tootli ; 2 aged rams and 3 aged ewes, making IS in alb The Committee then adjourned.

It is stated that Sir Arthur Gordon will visit England next spring. The Post says he will not return to New Zealand from the proposed visit, and also expresses an opinion that this colony iocs not suit Sir Arthur nor does he suit it.

A Co-operative Land Society has been formed in Christchurch for the purpose of enabling the laboring men fo obtain freeholds on the principle of paying half-a? crown per week for three rears. The idea has been eagerly taken up. and suitable blocks of land in various suburbs are placed at the disposal of the association.

Alluding to the approaching elections the N.Z. Times makes the following remarks, which are worthy of attention : “ There is a duty incumbent on the electors throughout the Colony which we cordially concur with our Southern contemporaries in describing as of paramount importance—namely, the avoidance of sending into the House men who cannot worthily fill tlie position. Every election period brings to the surface all that is impudent, impotent, useless, loquacious, and vainglorious in the body politic. The more unfitted by training, education, social position, or ability a man may be to represent his fellow-colonists in Parliament, the greater his confidence in thrusting himself prominently forward as a candidate. The country has suffered grievously from men of this stamp, and the electorates should, if they desire to see wiser counsels and more dignified procedure prevail than characterised the last and preceding sessions of Parliament, resolutely set their faces against the election of mere “plugless word spouts,” as they have been most aptly termed ; men who have no real faculty of usefulness, or, having some good ideas, utterly deluge them by their own incontinent babblings.” The deputation which came out to New Zealand last autumn for the purpose of reporting on the state of agriculture, have returned Home, and express themselves thoroughly pleased with their visit. Mr Edward Herring has already made known some of Ilia views in connection with fanning in New Zealand in an agricultural newspaper, and wc have no doubt bis remarks will lead many British farmers to make up their minds—as lie himself has done—-to proceed to New Zealand in the spring and settle there. Mr Herring does not advocate a wholesale emigration of English agriculturists. Speaking generally, he says men who cannot invest LI 090 ought not to trust themselves and families in the Colonies, the present prices of produce being so much lower than in the past; ami as to the prospects for general laborers they are not much better. To sum up, Mr Herring is satisfied that both Australia and New Zealand offer every inducement to the sheep and arable farmer of Great Britain, but the moist climate and running streams in New Zealand will always give it the preference in an agricultural point of view. The report which Mr Herring and his associate will make to the body of English capitalists who sent them out will clear up some of the questions left open by the Lincolnshire delegates, Messrs Grant and Foster, and there is no doubt that when these two documents are studied by the agricultural class throughout Great Britain, that a very large and valuable addition will be made to the English farming clement already located in Australia and New Zealand.—Taranaki Herald.

Mr Joyce, a candidate for the Awarua (Southland) district recently expressed his views on Protection v. Free Trade in this manner :—“ He was a Protectionist out and out. If there was one thing more than another that would give a country a start, it was protection. He looked around him and saw the children as they poured out of the public schools, and wondered to himself what they were to do in after years. They could not all get a living in the towns, neither would they all go to the country. They must have industries for them, and to have these they must, in the first instance, be so far self-sacrificing as to be wiliing to pay a heavy duty to prevent the importation of goods which were made by people who worked long hours for small pay. They should make in the colony everything that could reasonably be made here, and by doing that, in less than 10 years they would have a country that they would scarcely dream of now. The Hail Government had gone in for partial Protection, and therefore did not want to make it a strong card at the elections.”

One of the most extraordinary inventions, perhaps, of the age is that for which Professor John Gatngee, of London, now residing at Washington, has obtained a patent for —-his thermodynamic engine. The future Arctic investigator will have no trouble in keeping warm, nor will darkness trouble him, for the harder everything freezes the faster the engine will run. What is to become of the coal industry if this engine really will be what it professes? Fuel will no longer be required to produce either motive powers heat, or light. Tneso great factors in human welfare will in future be enjoyed by mankind without labor or cost; all the industries of the world will be revolutionised, and a majority of them discarded for lack of further use. It appears that a person named Kcely claims to be the prior inventor of this wonder, for it is nothing else.

His Honor Mr Justice Johnston likes a good joke. When the Grand Jury was empanncllod on Wednesday morning last (says a writer in the Saturday Advertiser) his Honor turned to the-Registrar and said, “ Is this the common jury, Mr Registrar ?” When I inform my readers that the Grand Jury was composed of some of our leading local magnates an idea may be formed of the intensity of the shock received by them on hearing his Honor’s observation. Several noses were turned up in the air with indignation, and one Grand Juryman, who is a member of the Shakespeare Club, addressing his Honor, said “Ho you not know me, Mr Justice?” His Honor replied, “Justice is blind ; she knows nobody !” From an exchange we learn that the first annual meeting of the Canterbury Farmers’ Co-operative Association was held recently, and was largely attended, the results exceeding the anticipations of the most sanguine promoters. A dividend of 7 per cent, was declared on the subscribed capital, andL3so was carried to the reserve fund, while 2-i per cent, on the gross purchase made from the Association, and 25 per cent, of the commission and storage earned on produce having passed through the Association’s hands is to he returned. Comment upon the foregoing is supetfluous, but it certainly should afford proof to the farmers of this district of the benefits to be gained by co-operation, Some of the returns disclosed by the Education Report for 1880 in England are rather startling. Each scholar under the Hull School Board costs the ratepayers (is 2jd; and each scholar under the London School Board costs the ratepayers £1 13s 7d. Thus Hull educates something less than ten children, and Sheffield something more than five, for the sum for which London just manages to educate one child. In addition to the above, in Hull each scholar costs the parents Os S’Jd, and in London 8s 4d.

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