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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume III, Issue 316, 25 November 1881, Page 2

Mr A. R. Seymour will address the electors at the Marlhoroughtowu Public Ila!!, at S o’clock to-morrow evening. Tenders close to-morrow for the right to erect one Publican’s booth and one refreshment booth on the Pastoral Association show ground. ■Shareholders in the National Eire and Marine Insurance ('ompany of New Zealand, are remined that, dividend warrants for the half-year ended ftOtii September are now payable at Messrs Sharp and] Pickering’s oliice. The spring show of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association will take place on the grounds, Maxwell road on Wednesday next. The day following is nomination day for tli* coming elections, and after that Mr Dodson will waste a little time in speaking to the electors at various places throughout the district. Wc arc informed that Sergeant-Major Pullen, who Ins been appointed to this district, will arrive in Blenheim by this afternoon's train to take charge. Sergeant Kiely, who lias made himself very popular by hi? courteous and obliging conduct, will return to his former position in Pieton. Mr Seymour addressed a well-attended meeting of the electors at tile .*e!ioolliouxe, Wairau Valley, last evening, MrT. Carter in the chair. The speech was mainly a repetition of those previously delivered, and at the conclusion the candidate received a unanimous vote of thanks on the motion of Mr. James White, seconded by Mr Charles Watts, In addition to the prize list already published, a special prize was awarded at the Horticultural Society’s Show to Mr I lavid Wemvss for gooseberries, 30 of which weighed lib. A beautiful collection of geraniums and other pot plants, which wore put in, for exhibition only, by Mrs Fowler, m.xtet hilly assisted in decorating the room.

A clerical error occurred in our report of ! Mr Seymour’s meeting at Remvick. Mr . Thomas’s question to the candidate relative j to the Curtis’ Clause should have lead: j “ In the event of it not being brought for- i ward by any other member, will you bring I it. forward To this Mr Seymour replied i that it was the duty of (iovernment to I introduce an amendment of the kind, and j not of a private member, hut lie would sup- j port it when introduced, a* lie held that the j Catholics were entitled to consideration in ! this matter.

Besides the exciting amunemcnU in the shape of political meetings, to take, place next, week, it is announced that. .Messrs Rent and B&chclder’s Christy Minstrels will perform in the Lyceum Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday evening*. The opening programme will terminate with the burlesque on “The Rohsmian Girl,” all the | musical gems of the opera being retained. 1 As the prices of admission are reasonable, and it is some time since Blenheim was j visited by a company of tbs sort, the Minstrels should attract a crowded house, j In referring to the Gambling and Lot- ; tones Act. yesterday we omitted to point ! out that Mr Seymour exerted himself to liavsthe clause preventing small bets struck out and for that purpose voted against its third reading. Before till Bill dually j passed the betting clause was removed, '• after a conference between tl| p two Chambers. Mr Seymour thus showed that j although he was rightly of opinion that j those monstrous swindles known as “con- . saltation*"’ should be repressed, he alto ! thought that the Ace should not interfere i with private betting. Most of our readers will approve liis action in voting against ; this obnoxious clause, as if passed it would j have seriously interfered with a harmless amusement, without which hot.sc races cud : similar atthirs are apt to become very tame and uninteresting. A cricket match will be played on the ’ Star ground, Manse road, to-morrow, be- j tween the second eleven of the Stars and an 1 eleven from the Blenheim school. The fol- ; lowing arc the iiam-s of the players : j Stars -Harris, Oliver, Chirk, Gubin, Wilcoeks, Mclvor, Woods. Alexander, Mullat, ie, Gi'imstooe, Horne, and Jtayucr, Jilcu- j

heiin School—Lucas, Burnham, Dobson, Matthews, Hii3twiek, Horne, Miller, Douslin, Gillespie, Simpson, and Morlson. The second eleven of the Borough Schools also nlay fifteen of the Grove Town to morrow, including Mr Ogilvie, at Grovetown—Carter, Dodson, Elliott, Hyde, Clark, Hodson, Matthews, Fulton, Watson (2), Millington. In connection with this matter wo are requested to *tatc that only the usual number of wickets will be pitched, anil not eleven an »tated by our intelligent contemporary yesterday. The game will commence at 2 o’clock sharp.

According to a local paper, the latest industry that Masterton has developed is the manufacture of catskin rugs. Mr Edwin Quick, sailmaker, has prepared one from cats shot in the bush, which is the admiration of all connoisseurs. Catskins are likely to come into great inquiry—moro so than rabbitskins. One of the skins prepared by Mr Quick was fully two feet in length.

The London Slmulnrd regards marriage as an institution specially and peculiarly halonging to a man’s original condition as a farmer. A young man needs a mate the moment lie is moved by the ambition to plant bis own potatoes. Hence in South Australia, where the small wheat growers are numerous, the marriage rate is high, whereas among the stock raisers of Victoria and New South Wales it is low. 'l'he Poverty Bay <S 'Unnlnrd states : —To the Ngatiruanui tribe, the staunchest adherents of Te Wliiti, can ho traced the germs of almost every Native insurrection the Colony has suffered from. That part of Mi« West Coast has been, in years past, the hot-bed of disaffection. A turbulent tribe of Natives, intellectually inferior to any of their countrymen in the North Island—a tribe which the early missionaries almost totally failed in imbuing with tiie Divine precepts of Christianity-—has been only repeating its past history in raising such prophets as Te Wliiti. The I'm Mni'irc-Unnh'in doctrine, which proved so infectious throughout the North Island, can lie traced to 'J'c Ua, a Ngatiruanui prophet. ft is a common expression among the Natives of the East Coast, when discussing among themselves on state oscasions in their runmatters of a purely national character, and pertaining to their fatherland, for the old men to impress upon their more youthful hearers, in sorrowful strains, the sail warning that the loss of their lands, through the action of past administrations, on sccout. of the “ sins of the Hauliaus,’' is solely owing to the influence exerted in the past by evil counsellors from the West Coast.

What a strange career lias been that of Sir Gavan Dully, K.C.M.G. Forty years ago he was a leader of the Young Irish party, and joint editor with John Dillon of its organ, the Nation. Two years later he. was tried with O’Connell for sedition, and convicted, though, as everyone knows, the conviction was quashed by the House of Lords. Soon after lie split with O'Connell and started a now party, the leaders of which were tried for treason-felony in 18H though a conviction was never obtained against them. Ifc was M.P. for New Ross for a short time, hut further diH'crcnees with his party induced him to resign and emigrate to Australia. Here he mice more took to politics, and with so great success that- lie rose in fifteen years to he Prime Minister of Victoria, and in lSfiS he was decorated by the Sovereign of whom in his early years lie had not been, to put so mildly, the most loyal of subjects. And now (says an English journal) in his old age lie is talked of as a possible leader of those Opportunists.

Lord Shcrbroke proposes in the August number of the “ Niuteenth Century" to abolish all bankruptcy law. lie says:— “If I am asked what I would put in its place, I would answer without hesitation Nothing. I cannot see that we require any thing more except, a very considerable shortening of the statue of limitations. If is quite reasonable to trust a man for his wealth, his ability, bis honesty, or his industry ; but every days experience shows us that nothing is so unsafe as to trust your money to the fear of disgrace or punishment.. The cll'cct of such a law would, I believe, be most salutary : with nothing but tbe estate of the debtor to look to there would be fewer bad debts ; trade would be more safely and therefore more profitably managed ; and the ridiculous notions as to the peculiar wickedness alternately imputed to borrowers and lenders would be for once ami ever exploded. Von cannot, call back what is lost, but you make it less by bankruptcy. It is better that debts should bo paid unequally than that the property should be destroyed in the effort to attain and equality which yields a purely metaphysical and imaginary satisfaction to the thirsty creditor.”

We take the following remarks on Mr j Seymour’s Blenheim meeting from the | Picton Press : “ Mr Seymour has opened , the politics! campaign in the Wairau, and i had a very large audience at his meeting in Ewart.’* Hall, Blenheim, on Monday evening. We arc unable to publish even a precis of his speech, owing to pressure on our space, but it is well worthy the attention of people who think. As a chief reason for this we may mention that the Express disapproves of it, and has devoted a column and a half of bad English and worse logic to say so. The Ecprexx thinks a fourth Standard boy could make a better hash-up of political m tfcjrs than Mr [Seymour, but it seems a pity so much good paper and ink, ami bad printing should have been expended ou their own column and a half of puerile basil. Mr Seymour is condemned because he takes credit for bis promises, but we do not wonder at this doctrine being preached when they have to “ run’’ a candidate of the Dodson type. Another point made is that when Mr Seymour explained the action he took in suppressing the stonewallers, the boys at the back and some of the older boys hissed ; but Nature must always assert itself, and geese, young and old, when they don't like a thing, or are annoyed, always hiss. Mr Seymour is then charged with being a liar, for having in the course of his canvass stated that the Dog Tax Act was repealed, j We all know that Mr Seymour is essen- j tially a truthful man, and does not even ; tfjl at election times, an alienee which j was sheeted home to a certain candidate j during the last election, by Mr Coulter at j (irovetown. However, the charge made : by the “ Express’’ does not require con- i tradictiori ; it wiil only amuse people who look on at the spectacle of Satan reproving sin. The nevt. charge is that Mr Seymour entrusted a clause to a friend in Committee. We always thought tlj*t such was tlje tisqal practice of the Chairman of Committers, and still think so. \\ e must be charitable, however, about this last charge, for the “Express" is about a' ignorant of parliamentary practices ai Mr Dodson and Mr Eyes of Colonial politics, j As a final cmrit <!' nviiii, like the last kick j given by Mi Bryce to Te Whiti, ,\fr Eyes is I dragged on th* scene ; however, this no I doubt is p-.rt of tbe BaiUuee-cmn-Dodson- ; cum Eyes cunirTerry Compact.’’ }

Cremation appears to be flourishing in Copenhagen. At a recent meeting of the Cremation Society of that city it was reported that it counted fourteen hundred and nine members, among whom were 83 physicians and some prominent clergymen. In the furnace projected by the Danish Society corpses are to he reduced to ashes in a little over one hour; anil it is ealculated that the cost of incineration will be reduced to the insignificant sum of from three to five crowns —between one and two dollars. It is stated that this economical feature of the project has met with great favor among the poorer classes, funeral expenses being high in the Danish capital. Mr Sutton, of Napier, in a recent electioneering speech, made the following statement on the Property Tax Of the ISO,OOO people in the colony only 22,087 paid the tax, so that 400,000 did not pay the tax. Of those who paid, '>4l7 paid less tliau LI ; 9048 between LI and L 3 ; 3207 between L 5 and LlO ; 2140 between LIO and L2O ; and 2211 over L2O. The Bank of New Zealand paid the highest sum, L7OOO, and one or two wealthy firms from LIOO9 to L3OOO.

“Scriptor” in the Dunedin Echo says : “There is one way of testing the relative strength, and muscular development of American and New Zealand children—at least those in Otago and Southland. An enterprising American firm forwards to New Zealand paper patterns to cut children's clothes by, and I learn that for an Otago reared child you must almost always select a pattern one or two years older than is marked on its outside. For example, if you want a pinafore for a Dunedinite of four years, you must choose an American pattern of five or six years. Her* is a fact for immigration lecturers and the next edition of Mr Bathgate’s hook. Fact it is anyhow.”

What may be termed a ‘ cricket curiosity ’ occurred in a match between Basford Institute and West Hallain, in Derbyshire, when the former eleven in the first innings were all disposed of for a single run, and this either a wide, bye, or no ball—which of them the score does not show. At Lilly white’s benefit, held at Brighton, prior to the departure of the England eleven under his captaincy, the match, with the Gentlemen v. Players had a most extraordinary result. In the first innings each side scored 204 runs, and in the second innings of the Players they scored 112. This was deemed an easy task for the Gentlemen; hut so good was the generalship of Shaw, the captain of the professionalists, and so well backed up was lie by them, that the Gentlemen were all out for 111 runs : thus the match was won by one run only, a result perhaps without precedent in a first class match.

The following suggestions for using the tattoo-mark are. ottered to sheep owners : --

(I) obtain proper tattoopliers, with the head set at right angles to handles. (2) A small brush something like a a ail brush, but soft and flat on the face, to rub in the ink. (3) A small thin piece of hoard, about the size of a playing card, to he put at the hack of the ear when rubbing in the ink. (4) Make up a sufficient quantity of lampblack and spirits of wine into a thin paste in a handy tin dish to get. the ink from as required, and nail the tin to a post. (3) One hand would hold the lamb as for ordinary car-marking, another would snap the ears with pliers, and a third holding a hit of hoard in his left hand would catch the car on the hoard (it would of course be placed behind the car), and with the right dip the brush into the ink, and rub the impression made by the pliers with it, the bit of wood at the back of the ear forming a hoard to rub upon. If a brush cannot lie got it will answer quite as well to make the ink somowhar thicker, take up a little on the point of the finger, and rub it into the ear.