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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 13, 24 September 1901, Page 4

A piscatorial friend informs us that trout are very plentiful in the Motueka and Riwaka rivers. Disciples of Izaac Walton should remember that the season opens next month : armed with the Society's license, they have a large and extensive river frontage to select from and it is to be hoped the hauls will be record ones. A genuine sample of peat from " Ould Ireland" was exhibited in Motueka. this week. It was brought out by Mr J. W. Whelan, having been secured by him during a trip to the Old Country. It should be a curiosity for Colonials to look upon. Candid Australian Governor to a. prominent detective : Fact is, I am very beholden to the pressmen. They hold the philosopher's stone that turns my leaden speeches into gold. I never read a speech of mine in the press without having a much higher opinion of myself than I deserve."—Melbourne Punch. It only now remainf for the Unionist agitators to make Parliament do the work the Court is too honorable to. do, and legalise still farther spoliation and robbery. —Ellesmere Guardian.

it, a claim, would certainly have been made "when the application for the borough was sent in. That the County Council is angry with ; -Motueka, for having separated, has long been apparent and an opportunity of getting spuare presenting itself, the Counci[ took it and some members of that body appear to be afraid that justice is going t > be done, and in conjunction with certain unscrupulous newspaper writers in Nelson (whose every eflort is strained to mislead the public on the question) they are determined to thwart Motueka if they can. Our freind the Major is not a bad man, but very erratic, and not to be- depended upon. Therefore little notice is taken of anything ho says on any question. He told the writer that he was in favor of giving control of the wharf to Motueka. That was just before Mr Hursthouse's notice of motion was dealt with by the "Harbor Board. Where is he now ? Now, with regard to the Borough claim. As I have shown, the claim is allowed by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1900, and it was thought that the cost of administration would be small under an established body representative of the owners of the structure. But as Mr MeK.er.zle, M.11.E,., said that he would ratle? e-tablish a district Harbor Board for this side of the bay, giving that body c njtrol of the wharf and harbor, the B'trough Council said, "All right, we 1 ave n."> objection to that being done; go and do it," and we under.st i:i(l that is what is be-ng do.ie now, Lut it must be remembered that.the cost of administration of the new harbor board would necessarily be greater than it would if the Council were constituted a harbor board. Should the proposed poll be taken of the districts interested, the people can then decide the matter. The petition, however, has gone to Government asking that the wharf be vested in local control, and it is a matter <-f perfect indifference t > every member of the Borough Council whether that bouv is the Harbor Board, or a representative district Board set up. Cr Franklyn says the whole agitation i-; a "political job' worked by a few politicians at Motueka. The statement is characteristic of the speaker, and needs no .-comment. Should Motueka be successful in its eiibrts t) secure local administration, .t is well to remember that Nelson has been ghten considerable endownments amounting to over .£2,000 a year. Motueka. should, if possible, secure similar assistance either by a land endownment or an annual subsidy on a direct steamboat to our markets, Wellington and West Coast. I am etc.. Interested.

Sir; The shooting and death of President McKinley, of the United States of America, has caused a just • .at burst of wrathful indignation throughout the English speaking race, indeed of the whole of the civilised World. Yet within our own nation are a worse society(to my mind); I mean the Iji.boucheie-Stead Little Englanders, w-ho distribute their pernicious literature to the extent that it is sadly prolonging the war, thereby causing the loss (if many valuable lives on both s les, besides the enormous expense. Oar f. lends who reside in South Africa have their correspondence subjected to a strict cencorship, yet their injurious writings appear to be allowed to pass out of England. I am etc., Strong Measures.