Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 1897.

Manawatu Herald, 2 November 1897, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, NOV. 2, 1897.

Political Humour. . « Those who are not engaged in any one of tbe various parts connected with the political parties, cannot bht regrfet mat the tone in the discissions in Parliament are seriously lowered to what they used to be years back. . We do not pretend to say why this should be so, but it undeniably is the fact, 'there are a few reasons that niay bave caused a iftant of consideration on the part of Members when speaking in the House on parsons outside, and one is that every word said in Parliament is privileged I That this should be i 3 right as it is meant by such allowance, to give any member a chance of free speech in the cause he upholds. In this use it was supposed that the natural training of the man elected to represent the constituencies would have been such as to have prevented them from taking advantage of their liberties except under most earnest necessity. That this opinion is not now beld, is shown by reports of the Members' utterances, and is so much to be regretted. Parliament, from tbe language used, promises to fall from being the first club in tbe land to a place where no gentleman would care to be in. Surely such is possible of rectification, and we beheld one ray of sunshine on this dark blot when the Premier urged that the Opposition should abstain from hurling imaginary wrong-doings at the head of the Government. The Premier's visit Home has thus been useful in letting him appreciate the most unpleasant etate parliamentary tactics have reached in this colony. Though tbis ray has broken in upon this scene we doubt its power to dispel the clouds of talk, and partly for this reason, that the Premier in his time has been as great a sinner in this respect as others, and that his Minister for Lands is most unruly in this respect. The Opposition is very much like the Government, made up of the same materials, and objectionable speech-making should be discountenanced by tbe Premier on his side of the House before be can expect to improve the Opposition. Tbe members bave much to unlearn as to learn, and, the experiences of an election contest fresh in their recollection when they enter Parliament, are apt to make them forget who really composes their constituents, and they temporarily place too much confidence in the shouting cliques at election meetings, forgetting that tbe multitude who are silent at such meetings, are quiet and sober citizens wbo are however supreme at the ballot box. We are anxious to see the time when any Government will make & strenuous effort to forward the advancement of the Colony without references to the past, and who will endeavour to to secure support for themselves by direct action instead of shielding what they do by the excuse tbat previous Ministries did as bad or worse. The past, " wretched," or otherwise is past, and no good purpose can possibly be achieved by so constantly referring to it, and it would seem possible, even if not probable, than any Government might " paddle their canoe " in future work. Keferences to the past only excites animosity and delays tbe progress" of the business of the country. We may, perhaps, live to see the day when the whole duty of a member of Parliament will be acknowledged to be, the promotion of the good of tho colonists without respeot of men or party.

Messrs Abraham and Williams hold a stock sale at Palmerston on Thursday. Miss Silby, for some time a teacher in our school, left yesterday morning for the Poukiore Schoo', to which she has been transferred. Mr Henry George, the weU-known Single Taxer, has died in America from apoplexy, brought on by exhaustion aud overwork. Mr G. A. Harrison has assumed the proprietary of the Clyde Quay Hotel, Wellington. A projectile from the new wire gun in a recent trial at Shoeburyness completely penetrated an 18in steel-faced compound armour-plate, backed by a 6 n wroughtiron ' plate, Bft of solid oak, and 3in of iron, and was found embedded in a clay bank 35 j yards behiud the target. >

The Wanganui river steamers oommence their twice-a-week tourist summer eet'Vi .o this week. Mr and Mrs ). Ot. Wilson, of Rangitikei, and their two daughters, return to the colony next month. Messrs Abraham and Williams, reporting on the Levin sale, ?ay Ihe Btock generally were inferior and terribly low iv *ionditiom We beg (o acknowledge the receipt of statistics of the seven colonies of Australasia from the Government Printer of New South Wales. The Minister of Lauds, has laid a Memorandum m feohnectiou with tho Horowhenuji Case on the table of the House. Inconsequence of. the scarcity ti. me_t in South Africai owinjj to the ravages of the rinderpest, 2000 River Plate sheep and 1500 quarters Queensland beef have been Bhipped from London to the C&pe. The flood in the Rangitikei River which committed so much destruction to the Bettlera' property ftlsd. rbinedthe bar, owing tb its hiving divided into two stifeams before reaching the sea. The result is that uo steamer can now call, in there, and it is probable that most of the wool previously shipped from there wiil be diverted to thia port. The Inspeotor of Customs has prepared a table showing the estimated amount paid by^ New Zealand producers on produce shipped to the United Kingdom at rates current in New Zealand, aud amount which would be paid if the rates ot freight were the _a_3e as those existing in Victoria, and arrives at the conclusion that roughly it may be assumed that the New Zealand producers pay about £400,000 a year more for freight than wou'd be the case if the ratecurrent in Victoria were in ezi&ten.eih this | .olony. Tne Borough Council notifies that the ranger's services are suspended till the Ist of January. An assertion having been made that Cardinal Va-. ghan had declared that «' the converts to the Catholib Cihurch do not borne horn, the High Chuieh pßvty, but from the ftonCbnformists and the Low Church party," a letter was written to Cardinal Vaughan on the subject. The Cardinal has just replied denying that he ever said " anything so false and so foolish." The Pope has determined tb take all measures to ilvoid the l'econstitution of the Jewish nation at Jerusalem. He will shortly send a .pecial envoy from the Vatican to Constantinople, who is charged with an autograph letter to the Sultan, in whioh the Pope will earnestly urge on the Sultan the undesirability of ceding Palestine to the Jews— this on 'he ground that they would be proud to be able to di prove, even fdr a few years, the prophecy acoording to which ihey were to be for ever dispersed over the world and incapable of forming a united nation. The London Sohool Board spends £78,---000 a year on the clerical staff at the office on lhe Thames Embankment, and £12,000 on clerical salaries and work at the divisional offices. Certainly the most effective medicine in the world is Sanders and Son's Eucalypti Extract. Test its eminently powerful effect iv Coughs, Colds, Influenza ; the relief instantaneous. In serious cases and acoidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy — no swellings — no inflammation. Like surprising effeots produced in Croup, Diphtheria, Bronchitis, Inflammation of the Lungs, Swellings, &c, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Disease of the Kidneys aud Urinary Organs. Iv use at all hospitals and medical clinics ; patronised by His Majesty the King of Italy ; orowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trust iv this approved article and eject all others. — [advt.l To The Deaf and those troubled with Noises in the Head or other Aural Troubles. Dr Nicholson, of London,. the world famed Auial Speoialist and mv. ntor of Artificial Ear Drums, has jus, issued the 100 th edition of his illustrated and desoriptive book on Deafness and Aural Troubles. This book may be had from Mr Colin Campbell, 160, Adelaide Road, Wellington, N.Z. Mr Campbell was cured of hi- deafness by Dr Nicholson's system, and takes pleasure in spreading the news of the great specialist in New Zealand. A liltle boook on the cure of Rheumatism Corpulence, Lumbago, and Indigestion by the .ame author may be had from Mr Campbell, also free.