Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 1 June 1895, Page 3

Notes and Events.

The Japanese assembled their / squadrons for the pacification of faEifcy our Colonial Treasurer. It is well, far, better that the. Japanese kept themselves in training on the inhabitants of Formosa, than on those in New Zealand. We hope the author, whoever he is, of the ••. Undesirable Bill" will take recent avtnts into account, and soften some of th* expressions made use of in tb> Bill introduced last session.

Qf.oourse we are not frightened of the Japanese, oh, dear no, so long as' they stay in Japanese waters, and " we don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do" we must wait until the Government have the rifles, o&ly lately ordered, on hand. With: our present appliances Joe causing unpleasantness to obnoxious visitors, ** should out as sorry a sight as the brave soldiers of the Emperor of China who went forth to meet the Japanese with bows and arrows.

Fognosa it 245 miles long, And contains 14,982 square miles. The population is three millions, only a portion being Chinese. The island Ifaw off the Province of To-kein in China, and is opposite the treaty porfcojAmojr.

In the Supreme Court on Wednesday W. R. McKinstrey recovered damages to the amount of £120 frodi the Union S.S. Company, on account of the company's steamer Orowaiti having run down a boat in which plaintiff was fishing near Magazine Point, Wellington Harbour.

.jA^the State Farm at Levin we J^arn that eight acres are being grubbed to plant an orchard. As the bush was only burnt this season, attiixnaoh has been said about the value received from tithes for timber, tHH^will give a better idea of the wonderful practical manner the colony's property is being woiked. Withappleß, in some districts, left rotting on the ground, the Manager of thp Farm still believ.es the prospeotjve profits of an orohard justifies the present large outlay. The question: arises " Who else does ?"

jQ^mmonHnp nn thft Propoffftl to establish Government sawmills, a writer in the Nolson Mail caustically remarks:—Of course the result of th^eiperiment will be an expensive one to the colony, because to enter into competition with the legitimate

traders in the industry (which is not nourishing) id employ log thousands of men and supporting their families) will certainly shut up soiHe tiillls and send the. men adrift • then an Unfair: cotnp'etltion between . geriuine traders and! bounty fed 1 rHillS) add finally a collapse of the Government slaughterhouses, for they will be little else. Messrs Seddon and Reeves may consider themselves adepts in State craft, but they are babes in the intricacies of sawmilling. There is, however, one detail which may be suitable to their conceptions. %mjir efcpertj Mr ,, Jfieeyburg; sug|elted; that soraefcbtay? might be ao|e With sawcldstl^We agree with him. This bye |||jjduct could be utilised through the, agency of the " deserving unemployed " in stuffing dolls and pincushions. No great outlay would be necessary. They could not hurt themselves or each other as they would if axes and circular saws were given them to work with; very, few inspectors would be required, and the unemployed and the sawdust would assimilate*