The Speeoh.

Manawatu Herald, 13 June 1896, Page 2

The Speeoh.

We do not intend to inflict on our readers a repetition of the Speech, but one or two clauses in it so beautifully illustrate the confidence the Ministry have of their power to say anything so it will be believed by their supporters, as to be worth reproducing. We know in this district something about hard times, and down South it was mentioned only the other day there were more people out of work than has hitherto been known at this season of the year, yet Ministers make the Governor say ".I am glad to be able to congratulate you on the greatly improved state of affairs and the general prosperity of all parts of the Colony." " This is pretty strong, and were it the truth we should all be glad, but is it ? Not content with this piece of assurance the Speech continues " The temporary depression which prevailed Borne two yeara ago is fast passing away without any far-reaching effects." The word " temporary " is ingenious, for depression has rested on this fair land all the time tha Hon. Richard Seddon has been Premier. " With our any far-reaching effects," when oould thia have been penned as the Ward Farmers' Association has been before the publio some time ? There will be but little general prosperity in Southland for a few years we fear. The worst is to oome, for hypocritical regrets the following paragraph is hard to beat : — "It is a matter for regret that the onoe flourishing and remunerative flax industry has languished during the year, consequent on the unprofitable prices ruling. With a view of fostering the industry, and meeting a long-felt want, a substantial bonus was offered for improved flax-dressing machinery, but bo far without

satisfactory results. The matter lg deserving of and will receive every attention, and, with proper grading, improved maohinery, and capital awaiting investment at low rates, there is every proipect of the industry becoming once more payable and lasting." The Premier and the Minister for Lands know well enough that the " substantial bonus " put upon the estimates waa denounced by Mr J. G. Wilson, ourselves, and the Press as being totally inadequate for the purpose and the failure in obtaining competition with the samo bonus tbe previous year was pointed out. Now the Government have saved the paltry £1700 they can afford to shed crocodile tears over the flax industry. Ia no way haa tha present Government done one single thing to help it along, but they have used the millers to push their own ends on. Did not the Premier when speaking at Foxton tell us that he had great interest in the flax industry and that llr LeeSmith was going Home to examine into the business and report? Mr Lee-Smith went Home, partly at the flax-»millers expense, yet, though gome two years have pasted we have never had a word from him about flax. Talk is very cheap and plentiful with the present Ministry.

» ■ At the vestry meeting at Ramsey, near Harwich, the vicar (Rev. W. Hurst) nominated Mrs Isabella Saxby, wife of a farm labourer, as hia churchwarden. Mr Frank Robinson has a paddook of 50 acres in Swedes, whioh sinoe the begingmning of May has kept 1000 lambs, and looks as though tbey will do well on it for another six weeks. The Pahiatua Herald reports:— The Pahiatua Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages olaims to have established a world's record. At anyrate we send it. forth to the world aB a record, and ask the world to come right along with something stronger. The registrar registered three consecutive pairs of twins during the last month, all in Pahiatua. Lambs are not selling freely, buyers being frightened bow the winter will be faced by them. The Wanganui River Trust Board are so pleased with Mr J. T. Stewart'a services that they have voted bim an honorarium of £50. Dr. Robinson, ihe E. Eent medical officer, has issued a report of a family being made dangerously ill through partaking of milk containing boraoio acid, the latter being used as a preservative, This acid is a compound of boron with oxygen aud hydrogen, having the properties of a weak acid. It is obtained in a free state from the water of the Tuscan lagoons and in the voloanio formations of the Lipari Islands. In the United States it is made from the boras of Borax Lake" in California by decomposing it with hydrochloric aoid. Store wethers ran up to 109 5d eaoh at the Bulls sale. M. Nicola Teszla, the famous New York eleotrician, has announoed that, after experimenting for several years, he has come to the conclusion that it will soon be possible to dispense with telegraph wires, and to transmit messages to any place on earth, or even the nearer planets, by the scientific Utilisation of electric waves. Theosophists (adds the Chronicle correspondent) will doubtless claim that the Mahalmas anticipated his supposed discovery. M. Teszla hopes ere long to be able to demonstrate the practicability of his plan. The Department of Agriculture makes the average of wheat per aore over the oolony to have been 28 bushels. The Rev. George Aitkens' resignation is from the end of August. Mr Bauckham has now got the keel and ■tern post of the launch laid down on the river shore. The Messrs Robinson reoeived many tenders on Thursday night, and have let No. 1 oontraot to McGill and Webb, and No. 2 oontraot to J. Connell. Mr F. Talfourd, brother of the late Judge Talfourd, has presented the London Temperance Hospital with a donation of £50, as a thank offering for having attained 56 years of total abstinenoe from intoxicating liquors. Mr Talfourd is now 89. It is hoped that the Levin Churoh will be opened on the sth July, if the Bishop of Wellington can conveniently attend. Fowler and Milsom, who were convicted of the Muswell Lodge murder in London, and sentenced to death, have been executed. Moonshine says " Organists oannot be Christians," saiih a oountry vestryman. The remark is rather sweeping. But it is doubtless diffioult for an organist to bs a Christian if he is expeoted to drill an amateur ohoir. The Rev. George Aitkens will hold both morning and evening service at All Saints' to-morrow. In the morning there will be Holy Communion. William Seaman, ex-conviot, who murdered an old Jewish gentleman named Levy and his servant in London, has been hanged. Thomas Hardie and James Steen, charged with stealing £227 from the Rotorua Post Office, have been sentenced to three years' hard labour. The money found on the prisoners is to be paid over to the Postmaster-General. In Natal the Indian natives number 51,000, or more than the whole European population. News oomes from Noumea of the disoovery of oil springs, the oil from whioh gives a brilliant light. Mr Chamberlain, addressing the Congress of Chambers of Commerce, aaid a oommeraial union of all parts of the Empire would be the firet decisive step towards realising the most inspiring idea of British , statesmanship. All questions of commerce, oommunioation and defenoe oou d then be remitted to an Imperial Counoil. On Wednesday the leader in the Post ' oommenoed thus :— To-morrow will witnese the opening of the third session of the twelfth Parliament of New Zealand, and there will be present a Government that has touched a lower deep of political degradation, dishonesty, and ignominy than any of its predecessors in our short bis. Tory Mr Tos calls attention in his advertisement that he has a large stock of oatsheaf chaff on hand, and a lot of onions. Potatoes for eating or planting he can inpply in any quantity. As he grows large quantities of seeds for his own garden he has a surplus whioh he retails at very reasonable , prioes. Just now he is selling strawberry I plants cheap.

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