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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 143, 23 June 1871, Page 2

A cueious motion has been tabled in the Otago Provincial Council by Mr. G-.E. Bartou, barrister : — "That with a view to assist in diminishing the difficulty hitherto experienced by Otago constituencies in obtaining a sufficient choice of candidates for the General Assembly outside the pastoral tenants of the Crown, this Council is of opinion that for the future it is desirable to pay out of the Provincial revenue to each Otago representative in the General Assembly the sum of £150 per annum. That iti order to secure, this desirable object without placing any additional burden on the revenue, this Council agrees to ab ; olißh the honorarium heretofore paid to its own members. "

By the ship Helenslee, which arrived at Port Chalmers from the * Clyde, on the 20lh ult., the skilled operatives required for Mr.. A. J. Burns's projected cloth manufactory reached the colony. The Times of April 7, in its city article reports as follows on the negotiation of the first instalment of the New Zealand loa« : — New Zealand Government 5 per cent, Debentures for £1,200,000 were disposed of to-day at the office of the Crown Agents for the Colonies by public tender. The total applied for reached £1,829,600, and tenders for £707,100 at and above 96, and £492,900 at and above £95 10s the minimum price fixed, were accepted, the average rate obtained being about £95 16s 6d. The following rather strong language with reference to the new mail service, is from the San Francisco News Letter. The paper, after touching upon other points, says : — " This action is quite insignificant in comparison with the more broad and general iuiquity of refusing a subsidy to the Australian line of steamers, after the petty colony of New Zealand had been true to the intelligent British policy, aud voted a handsome sum fo the enterprise in which she is not half as much interest as we. We think this motley crowd of niggers and intelligent idiots known as the Congress of the Uaited States has covered itself so thickly with infamy that the same tnighc be scraped off with a knife ; and if we were deputed to do the scraping, it should go hard, but some flakes of skin should come off aloug off with it. ? ' $' . v The Paris correspondent oL v the Daily News writes : — "Few things have caused a more painful sensation here than the recent message of President Grant, in which he proposed -that the Minister of the United States at Berlin should have the same rank as the similar functionary at London and Paris. The people of Paris are horrified that he seems to pay court to the new great power which has risen in Europe, and has not a word of sympathy for the nation on whose wreck Germany risers to so much glory. French Republicans*counted on the sympathy of the American Republic. The United States was the first, indeed, the only great power which recognised the Provisional Government. The French were delighted with this evidence of fraternity. They regarded America as their Datural ally and their closest friend; and they do not seem to understand that if America be close friends with France it may also be close friends with Germany. Whereas in the earliest stages , of the war it was declared France could never again be in alliauce with England, and must look to America foe friendship, now the current of feeling is reversed, and America — ' Our sister America' — is in disgrace, while England who has sent so many hams and cheese, is in the greatest favor." A certain judge living in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, having had a load of wood brought into his dooryard, a Chinese wood-sawyer applied for the job of sawing it. " How muchee ? " asked the Judge. " Hap-dollar," replied John. A bargain was about to be struck, when aa TrishAmerican citizen demanded the job. "Howr^i much ? " again asked the judge. "A dol-lar-aud-a-half," replied the American citizen. The Judge demurred, replying that the Chinaman had just offered to do the same work for half a dollar. " However," he said, as I prefer to encourage white American labor, I will pay you a dollar and-a-half." The Judge returned some hours afterwards, and to his surprise found the Chinaman, and nol the white man, at work on his wood pile. " How's this ?" said his Honor; " who told you to saw my wood ? " " Melican mac," said John. " How muchee he pay ? " queried the Judge. " Hap-dollar," said John. The Judge accepted the lesson in protection to native industry. For remainder of news see four th page.