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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 72, 27 June 1877, Page 3

The Bishop of Chester has been taking vigorous action with respect to ririkirig. He regards this- amusement as vicious m the. extreme^; and even, before the disease penetrated to Chester, he had been much ■exercised by its growth. At length' a company started m Chester for the purpose of starting building arid laying down a rink, and the Bishop' s horror reached a crisis. He brought every, pressure to bear upon the company, m order to iuduc6 shareholders to refrain from liheir desecration, but without avail. : 'he. r i^ly(Sdy^toi--' : make\ a pecuniary sacrifice, arid offered to. buy up the: rink m order to close it. tThe'dirfectors asked £4000 for the property,, and the Bishop at once handed theni a cheque for 'the amount. He will probably find that he has made a grand mistake, and the effect will be similar to that produced by giving an organ-grinder a penny to go away, hundreds . coming shortly afterwards for similar payr ment. ; ■ -"*;■■ ''"■:.■ . \ "■ - < ■■ The- Hon. John Toung>; the Canadian Commissioner to the Sydney Exhibition, is now visiting Queensland.; Alluding to the fact that a large trade could be established/ . between Canada and the Australasian Colonies, including New Zealand, he .. remarked -in 'a recent speech. addressed to the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce :— " There is a trade now, but Canada gets no credit for it. . Canadian goods and Canadian timberare sent inland "frpm Canada to New York and Boston, and are shipped" from there and other ports as American goods/ Canada is never mentioned. Why, the other day j I went into a music' store m Melbourne, and i 1 was Btu*prise'd; tosee the name of a, Canadian inanuf acturer on "several musical instrumentsitasked "how these instruments were liked? The reply was, 'First rate,' and tliat he had ordered 20 mOTe of them. Then' T 'asked;' c^here are tKey^ from?' 'America,' was the reply. 'I said, ' You are mistaken ; these instruments are; Canadian, and not American.'" No," no,' said the | seller, ' I have the bill of lading from New 1 j -York'.'^ 'That is no doubt true ;. but there, are the words, . " Bournavillej: Ontario," ;and that is a Canadian town> and I know the manafacture.' jCanada had/ so: far, done little to ship her own goods froni-her own ports , to Austrah'a. The Canadian manufacturers ought to be able to turn; out goods as cheap ajs >.. those m the TJhited States, and -as good, fbrall raw materials entering into their production were ' admitted free of-.] dutjl^'Spßt," - ■;' ' :; " v ' ]