A Protest.

Manawatu Herald, 8 May 1894, Page 2

A Protest.

It was a great-siirpris6- to -learn, on Saturday, that Constable Gillespie had received notice of removal. The constable has beeh offered no explanation. No one can accuse Constable Gillespie of. his duty, he has done.good Work; indeed in keeping the town- clean.* of- objectionable characters. As Clerk of the Court, the Stipendiary Magistrate and fche Justices have testified to his courtesy and knowledge. TheJpsfcices who have done a very large 'amount bf' work, 1 free for the Government/ deserve^to nave 'something to say about the Clerk of the Courfc, ( especially in these days of retrench 1 - ' rnenfc when a "constable only is i allotted to the duty. The appointment pf ; an incompetent ( person may, result, in, their haying ib pay costs of ah action. Under these circumstances it is not surprising to learn that every Justice is* ■' protesting against -this' sudden order. • We cannot, of oourse, expect Foxton to be considered before other places, for experience has proved to us that the present government has always slighted this town, but the present action appears to be more a departmental, than a Ministerial order.

We do nofc care where Constable Gillespie is ordered to, as we want him kept here, and if it depended on a vote of the townspeople he would be kept here, but we Understand his removal is not the result of promotion, therefore fche question arises why should he be removed **? Who has he made himself objectionable to '? These questions lead us up to the point. Nexfc month the Licensing Committee meets before whom a report of the licensed houses in the district has to be laid. In the Ofcaki Licensing District the only officer to make this report is fcbe senior constable, and Constable Gillespie is fche man* The Brewers have had an unpleasant experience in Foxfcon of fche outspoken character of Constable Gillespie's reports, one old tumbledown publio having had to be pulled down and ft new one huilfc in lieu of it> and anothel' old one has had much repairing and additions made to iti Both these houses belong to Wellington breWerSi The prospect of this man .being permitted to make further reports on other public houses in the district was just 100 much and his removal would be mighty convenient This may nofc be the case, ifc mosfc decidedly should nofc be, bufc if nofc, there can be no reason why fche need of Constable Gillespie's removal should nofc be made known. We approve of constables being changed about bufc fchen Constable Gillespie has only been three years here, and if rumour is correct, is fco be removed to fche town from whence he came. We do nofc wish to think ill ofthe brewers but the , case as we have put ifc looks mighty suspicious against them, and therefore for all parties) even to the officer mosfc interested > fche reasons for tile removal should be made public. Ifc was satisfactory to find fchafc the Borough Council afc ifcs meeting yesterday unanimously carried a resolution regretting the removal of Constable Gillespie and requesting a reversal of the order. We shall watch with much interest fche value of the fcwo contending factions in this argument, bufc doubfc fchafc the power of righfc and justice, as exemplified by the Justices and fche Borough Council will be allowed fco prevail with the power behind the democratic throne.

Can anybody tell us where is the Governor ? That commission has not been signed yet, and the delay is having a most unsatisfactory effect on the waiter upon him. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick especially when the liquors are mixed. Onr Mayor deserves the thanks of the Councillors and the public. Yesterday's meeting was got through with the greatest despatch, time one hour. Best on record for years. Keep it up. • Bicyclists nearly got a warning from the Borough. They were nearly, very nearly, warned off the footpaths, some very sad instances of gross stupidity on the part of the riders being mentioned as to how they tore round corners and ran into people. 'One. young man who should know better was particularly mentioned. Messrs Loveday will open in their new shop some day this week. Cheap lines are to be had at the present shop while it is open. The Mayor, like a sensible man, writeß his resolutions out before the meeting, thus saving time. Yesterday the Council table was like an autumn field in the Old Country, strewn with leaves of paper. Councillors went to work signing them. One, ancl one alone, sat grim and stern, not a leaf reached him. His neighbor, observing his want of occupation, handed him one to second, and immediately re•fjgWtfied- doing so as it brought upon him the remark : " I say it is a piece of impertinence niy being asked to second this resolution when no others have been passed to me." Some one else did. Cr Bradcock made an effort, which, however, sjgpally failed, yesterday, to clear the gateway at -the railway -station of carts, i A little fogginess on the part of the proposer, also, on, the part of the Councillors, prevented the matter being discussed upon its merits. There is no doubt some bettin' '•management and regulation' wdnts making about the drays blocking up both gateway and road, and perhaps the mere mention of the fact may have the result. On Thursday Messrs Abraham, and Williams hold a sale at Palmerston. ' : tfjje Manawatu .County. Counoil . meet to-morrow at Sanson. It may be as well to mention that the usual tram is* now discontinued. . . . The two shops erected 'by Mr Jonson for ,Mr .Thynne on the .Main-street,. on ■. the site of the premises destroyed by fire, are now finished, and the work reflects great credit onMr Jbrison and the designer, Mr Easton. Messrs Loveday and Tos will open up in them at the latter end of the week. . A * person i under sentence of death is civilly dead and therefore is unable to give evidence.: This was the dictum of Mr Jvistice Barnes in a case where a written confession was attempted to be put in, in a trial against another person. The Palmerston drainage loan was not carried -dußt --week. The, Standard commenting upon the f-ot states that •" extreme measures will, undoubtedly have to be resorted to to meet the financial exigencies 'of, "the case." ';.* The ratei will probably be unpleasantly increased, - Fair Play is not a jewel, but it is a good monthly magazine, tt was origiually published by a company once a Week, but is now owne.d sojely by Messrs McKee . and XiumMeyiwtip have .decided on publishing 6nfy-6nce a month. Mr Arthur McKee, who was for fifteen years connected with .journalism > in.: thet Old Country, is editor. The first number, under the new management, is noy-f and is profusely 'illustrate'-.',' and has likewise good reading matter. The price is most reasonable. We hope that, better luck will attend this ve*Bfiiri a"t7cf the proprietors' De saved from excess of law. The dramatic critic of the London Times does nbt believe in the view that the drama is educational, the theory is mere foolishness; A play never has been, and never will be, anything but an entertainment. Pere Ollivier in a lenten sermon preached in Paris on "Liberty of Conscience " declared that the Inquisition was " a tribunal of equity aud mercy for the guilty."

Japanese jugglers are deft smokers. Several of them will sit before a curtain, and from the tobacco smoke which issues from their mouths will form a succession of readable letter***. The St; Gothard tunnel is the most Stupendous engineering wdrk of the preseut generation: On either side of the mountain the railway ascends in spirals like the turns of a corkscrew, the same object in the landscape being passed ancl repassed at different elevations. The tunnel, which pierces the mountain at a height of nearly '1,000 feet, is close upon ten miles in length, aud cost over two millions sterling. The undertaking, however, lias proved commercially successful, the dividends of the shareholders rising every year. Even in the old days of the Pass some 12,000 travellers used to cross the St. Gothard every year, that being in a very liberal sense the main highway from Switzerland to Italy. Moonshine says :— Mr Thomas Ellis -is the new Chief Whip. A Scotch Premier, a Welsh whip, an. Irish majority. Where do we English come in ? We db not come I in ; -We ettty outside and let them rule. We ate an inferior race, we Saxons ; we must gt'in and bear and pay the cost. It is our own fault, we were matte in Germany. I am always beitig asked, says a writer in a -tome paper, how to stop fowls from eating one another's feathers. I give now the best treatment to be adopted in such a case. Firstly, the disease is usually caused by neglect, especially in the matter of cleanliness*-. This makes the fowls pick out the nits which cover the head and neck, and in so doing they pick out the feathers too. When the quills commence to grow again they are attracted by the moisture in the quills, and so the picking process goes on, keeping the fowl quite bare. Watch your fowls from a distance and you will soon spot who is the feather plucker. Then separate the culprit for a fortnight or so. In case of this not proving eincacious, Mr Cook, In his " Poultry Breeder and Feeder," recommends a mixture of mustard and vinegar being applied to the necks of the fowls who are being plucked. "If this fails," he says, " wring the feather plucker's neck." Mr Gladstone, speaking at a meetpag to consider the proposed memorial to the late Sir Andrew Clark, said that modern luxury was increasing, and that disease was demanding greater devotion from the doctors and additional Skill. A letter received in Sydney from Coolgardie by a member of Parliament contains a strong warning against people rushing to the field, and says that to those without means the journey will end in starvation. The writer regards the Way in which the field has been boomed as nothing short of a conspiracy, and believes it will prove the most disastrous rush that ever occurred in Australia. While patches of stone from Bayley's Reward -claim warrant that mine being considered a good one, the stone throughout the country is for the most part of a worthless character. He blames the Western Australian press and the " wild cat " boomers for much of the trouble that must ensue. A year or two back an Australian came over to Waikato, and bought several thousand acres of land from the Maoris for one shilling an acre. This area was practically a desert which (to use an Australianism) " would not fatten a bandicoot." The new settler got to work at once, and men hauling ploughs were soon turning up the ungrateful soil in all directions. The neighbouring settlers viewed' the circumstances with wonder and pity, and the stranger and his operations was a kind of standing joke in the region round about. The next thing that the sceptical neighbourhood heard Was that the Australian was actually sowing gorse, and that he proposed fattening sheep on the same, and this circumstance amused his fellow settlers more than ever. Now the newfangled farmer is recognised as one of the most prosperous in these parts, and gorse growing is a prominent local industry. Land has gone up in price, and there is no more available at one shilling an acre. The soil is turned up every year, and a new crop sown in the same way that oereals are with us.— 'Exchange. The Queen was asked to purchase the necklace, ear-rings and brooch, in the Eglinton collection of jewels, which had belonged to Mary Queen of Scots, but her Majesty declined, as Queen Mary was not one of her " favourites." Some time ago a fine portrait of Charles II came into the market, and the Queen was urgently requested to buy it for the royal collection at Windsor Castie. Hor Majesty refused, and then an elaborate " memorandum " was sent to the palace in which the reasons for buying the picture were enumerated. Ultimately the Queen decided to purchase the work, and she thus endorsed the "memorandum"; "I consent, but with great reluctance, for I do not like Charles II." The improved bullet-proof coat invented by tailor Dowes is about two and threeeighths inches in thickness. Although the coat haß been a success so far as its impenetrability is concerned, it is nevertheless doubtful by military men whether invention oan be put to practical use for an infantry soldier as its weight is about eight pounds. Blacks on the Batavia Biver attacked a miners', camp and speared a well-known prospector named Baird to death, and dangerously wounded two others. They also took the rifles and ammunition belonging to the men. A police force has been despatched to the soene of the. outrage. Another instance. The Government have purchased from Mr Bright one and a half acres of land at Otaki as a site for a Courthouse. Mr Ewen McGregor, of Bangitikei, intends erecting on his property an electric dynamo of 2000 horse power for saw milling purposes and the transmission of light and energy to dairy and other factories. The motive power for the driving of the dynamo (says the Advocate) will be; got from the Mangamako creek. A fUnnel.will be driven through a ridge for about twenty chains, by whioh a fall for the water of about 270 feet will be obtained, and the energy to be obtained in this way willbe sufficient to do an enormous amount of work. The project will entail an expenditure of several thousands of pounds, but we are assured that there is every probability that it will be carried out. It is stated on the authority of one of the best London jewellers, that most of the jewels in the crowns of the Continental sovereigns are, in reality, nothing more than coloured glass. Of all things in this world of sin and change says some one, that stiok tighter to us than oar poor relations, bad habits, or liquidators, are our fads. Every living man past the age of forty has one, just . aa surely as each of Joseph's brethren had his money in the mouth of his sack. Perhaps he may harbour a whole crop of little fellows, but there is the one, tite bright particular boss fad which he nourishes, and cherishes, and guards with even greater care than a young mother lavishes over the rolls of fat dimples and a smile she calls her first-born.

The Borough Council issues a warning that a section of a certain by-law will be strictly enforced. A English Roman Catholic newspaper, the "Weekly Register, announces that though the failure of eyesight is the immediate occasion of Mr Gladstone's retirement, his real motive is to havru leisure "to make his soul " as they gay m Ireland. — The Board of Directors of the Greta Colliery, Sydney, has decided to shut down, and to retain only a staff sufficient to keep the mine dry, unless the men accept rates \ which will enable the property to be worked at a profit.