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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 243, 11 October 1872, Page 2

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The eippl -yees^re^iiiiqningtQojjerrfj. ment foVaii ni crease of wages, and half time on Saturdays.- y a;-.-;^.; x :j- : y <> ; h •■;:;-.;■''?.«•::'•,', It is feared that the" locusts will danaage the crops this season. ... f - .- ■. r n,, r T f The vacant Roman 'Catholic 4 bi'sh6prie^'will v probably be conferred upon Dr Quinn of Bathurst. .:. r;i;:„ ki 'tsia&d ■ A line of Mauritius light crystals have been auctioned, at. .£38,, f Breadstuffs inactive; flour £12 lbs 'tb J £ lS iosV wheat 5s Gd. 1 ■ '

"Vnrinirii r nun 1 1 1 nil nm r umi iw ir iiii»i^ff»iM^iwMan^i» m as yet only- in its second session, and is barely eighteen months old. To put/the colony to the great 'expense and inconvenience of a general election twice within so short ; a period could be justified only by the gravest necessity. (2.) It appears probable that the country /•'*• is as much divided as the Legislature which represents it. At all events, there has been no strong or universal expression of public opinion in favor of either of the. parties which have lately held office. Indeed, it seems evident that the country generally is disposed to regard the difference between most of its leading men as personal rather than political, and as concerned with matters of detail rather than of principle. (3.) There is absolutely no question of magnitude to refer to the constituencies.. Both sides in the present Parliament support the policy of Public Works and Immigration which was adopted by the iast Parliament. Both sides approve a policy of peace aud conciliation towards the Maoris. No measure of urgent importance, respecting which any material differ, ence of opinion exists, appears to be pending. (4.) If the nearly equally balanced state of parties in the Legislature (as shown by recent occurrences) be taken into account, it appears that Mr. Stafford may probably be somewhat too sanguine iv deeming it beyond doubt that either of those parties, as at present constituted, would find no difficulty in getting supplies, or in securing the passing of an Appropriation Act with a view to an immediate dissolution. (5.) It seems to be morally certain that the majority of the Parliament and of the people of New Zealand agree in desiring that there may be formed, on a wider basis, a new Administration strong enough to carry on the Government without further - interruption of the public business. It is confidently expected that practical effect can be given to that desire. . On, the whole, the Governor believes that a fresh appeal to the country would be premature until all proper endeavors in the direction indicated in the last paragraph shall have failed. Consequently, he has decided that his duty compels him to ..decline to accede to Mr. Stafford's recommendation of an immediate dissolution. G. F. Bowen. Government House, 7th October, 1872. P.S.-^With reference more particularly to the paragraph marked 4, the Governor wishes to add, that he does not intend any part of this memorandum to be understood to imply that he would make any objection, if Ministers still differ from the views expressed in that paragraph, and desire to test the opinion of Parliament upon the point at issue. In that case the Governor expects — (a.) That this correspondence shall be laid before both Houses, with the object of preventing any possible misapprehension; and, , (b) That the passing of the necessary Appropriation Act shall be regarded as evidence that the Legislature agrees with Ministers in deeming expedient an early appeal to^the constituencies. G. F. Bowen. No. 5. The Hon. Mr. Stafford to His Excellency the GovEKNofi. / Mr. .Stafford' respectfully acknowledges the Governor's Memorandum of to-day. The resignation, of Ministers would have been immediately placed in . His Excellency's hands had it not been for the postscript. ..Ministers have always, as expressed in Mr. Stafford's second Memorandum, recognised the necessity of obtaining the sanction of Parliment for the "requisite public expenditure before Parliament is actually dissolved. They have no reasonto doubt -that 1 Parliament will perform, its constitutional duty,' to -enable the public service to be carried on until the reassembling of the' Legislature. -Before,^ however, submitting to Par-^ liament proposals" founded on a contemplated dissolution, Mr. Stafford submits, that he should be enabled to announce that, on supplies being granted, Parliament will be dissolved. \By adopting any other ;cburse, ithe duty/ of deciding jwhetheriParliament should J be dissolved ,pr not would rin fact be relegated j tq-the^ppusei of^Repre^entativesv (instead* of^resting^Cas iiit ; ■ wit&pfrExcellM ;a f V Mr£ ;Staffo^ i\Bicplj(tyttej^i \thajt; :^^iss/i)lutiqh l A ; is,.y ,;ne#er/ , • ad^ise^. ii^We'totopmmand a;TeU JgJ^epi^j^ kk%

The following amusing anecdote is related in a London paper.: — "Lord Norbury had frequently seen a; low .at tor-?; ney touting in the dock for business amongst tbe prisonersfiand was determined to punish him. So, on one occasion, as the attorney was climbing over the rails of the dock, after conferring with the prisoners, his lordship, pretending to mistake him for a prisoner, called out to the gaoler, •' Gaoler, put that man back — one of your prisoners is escaping;'* Whereupon the gaoler thrust the lawyer back into the dock ; but, having worked his way to tbe front of the dock, the following conversation took place between them : — Attorney : My lord, there is a mistake. I am an attorney." — Lord Norbury : '* I am very sorry, sir, indeed, to see a gentleman of your respectable position in the dock as a prisoner." — Attorney : But, my lord, I have not committed any crime." — Lord Norbury : " Oh, sir,. I have nothing to say to that —that must be decided by a jury of your countrymen, " — Attorney: "But, my lord, there is no charge, no indicraent against me. " — Lord Norbury: "Then, sir, you will be discharged by public proclamation at the endpof the assizes;" .(Tp: the gaoler): " Gaoler, put backtho prisoner. " Where-, upon the officer thrust back the limb of the law, and kept him until the rising of the Court, when his lordship sent the gaoler a message instructing him to let him out." f The Japanese in America.^ Perhaps of all the phenomena of chaDge which this changeful age presents, the most remarkable is that which is taking place in tbe empire of Japan. It is not only that that extraordinary people ;have so readily embraced the material inventions and mechanical contrivances of the western nations. The real point of wonder is that the most exclusive people in the world, those who drew around themselves the' most rigid line of prohibition, should now be the most eager in informing themselves of the sciences and modes of thought and forms of education of other nations, and the most' ready to adopt them where their adoption appears desirable. In connexion with tbe recent visit paid by the Japanese Embassy to America — a visit undertaken mainly for the purpose of inquiry and acquirement of information— a volume has been published, entitled the "Japanese in America." Besides conveying, as an English paper says, the opinions of an embassy " representing an empire of 35 millions of people, who are, as it were, knocking at the door of Christian civilisation," the book contains some interesting .essay.B-,contributed to the volume by some of the many Japanr ese students 'iiow studying in America. One , of these is -very severe upon the Americans for their worship of money to the",, exclusion of culture. He says, "without sympathy, without frankness and generosity of feeling, despising human nature, they have no more use for their riches than the Peruvians had for theirs before the Spaniards came to rob them. As to religion, they consent to pay their pew-tax, and to be bored, by an occasional sermon on Sunday, for appearance' sake; but their real churches are their countinghouses, their real bible their ledger, and last of all, their real god, is not Almighty God, but the '.'almighty dollar." "Several ; of the, .students," says the? jqurnaljn. which we find these particulars, " express a very strong feeling, about 'the hypocrisy in religious matters which, they have observed; and one of them publishes . an earnest appeal to the western powers with whom Japan l is now in treaty,, begging them not to send .missionaries' thither. He, says ■■■■ they probably never beard a heathen publicly speak but his notions on religious questions; and that it is unfair to judge of any creed before having it explained., \His,, chief, objection to, the missionaries is that, according to' his -theory, -they go out and enslave the minds of ignorant and uneducated people with •superstitious s/ears.' lEducateAthose people firist, he says," give them capacity of judgment, then placejbefore them any systems of religion fairly, and let them choose for themselves., /The missionaries, he contends^ are"* the' fathers' Of 'ignorance, and the enemies of free religion;' and he wants the schoolmaster to be the first herald of civilisation," Pro.bably, .. the next thing that we may expect- is the" introduction of a law providing for secular and compulsory ■ education mV Japan. — Australasian. BAPiDjjteowra;— A oCincinnati Ipaper . publishes theifoiiowingf^wfiich is^prdbably from '•" Mark Twain," and is one of the class of stories that seem^to find a good de-3 mand^ in thejUnitedi, JJtates :%A man<iinl pMrolnS gave me some fdea of the richness of the soil in that vicinity v JHeyß^.^iere was,n'tVany^J>la^ grew as do thejre. He said his wife • never a made bread. ""She always made , little; biscuits the size of an ess. and, she would AJeafel fam ;an hbur|to?i ßw]eU:fby lltel^ayesi c : . jib -:*niiiyßelTl^ytfa;V.l(ro: - -; t, A' r :.':.''C ? :•,'['<: k. ■ ■■'■; \. r ' ,\r' •■*: > X' , :> k't''"''*' y'?'y*^ky-:': yt- :

a loaf-er. Ho continued, this . growingtale and said. * Once there was,, a .man. He went -into the, 'yrppd'ii* and chdpped down four treeß; He used the four stumps. for corner 'post's, ab^hei. built "'him .a" nice log-house. on those ißtumps. Then he and his ...family : went to bed in the house. The next morning he.. found, himself and his family .up 60ft. jn :the*air,,aud a. lot of Indians below waiting to cut their hair off, and the Indians did <Bcalpr the. whole of 'em.' "Stranger,' said 1,, 'you .don't,, meaia^o telt ; me tlipae tre^a.^rew ..teOft. 2 in one ■' "night, ] 'Sir, ; I- do,' , says .i hey, i* and/ not t>nly .that,; they hoisted the: :boase r up wjiVei^^^ ( Are76iißiire-!|^Mn^-6if^^' I : a'sk"ed' meekly; ; 'Sir,' Skid fre^l/neve* prevaricate, f especially on one " foot. ' So tbey : topk,and scalped 'em all, did they -?;** * They did- said he; -'How in the" name of every thing; Sacred did^'they gef-np^to 'em ?' I asked. Says he, ' Kespected Sir, those Indians -each one eawejjd oflf,/a tree; then each Indian sat pn_ a jtuqip^ those^stumps •;grew tJVlndians jup totbe house, and ttietti&6%-Bca\pjis}siis Jamily. ' It certaroly-^vai^hV^ ' ! of ft up a tree I ever heard ■ of.^'Stranger, that story is pre ! tiy lough, ' but -t Believe it, because I know something about growing trees, and I know" they l^6w;darried^ fast sometimes. For^my father had some soil on his place; goodJTdU^ for trees. He couldn't afford to keep' a s dogr, because there was so manyof' I youttg''' ! un¥;y' f H6 had toiboiliwJiat bdnea-tKere^was ife'ft'Ao l mak'e V soup for us. He had~sbme trees, and in^ . the -place a I -dclgf ; he t ' bark off^^^T^e^^^j^^pJ^^^Bcare away robbers^. obe(Cftiis,e -Uhftfe^bork ?,.wx>uld last all night. One day- 1 ufied .some of the wcGd^to.ifflßk las sour allspice, stranger; those toothpicks ; grew so that'mexf 'day^l^ord" ' em for graph-'jpole^ and-fthey^ had to be , saweXjni >b^bto „Btranga^ot'rip^ ,?Wl^#PS3l^ii :• I^^ --<:::">■ '■'. '■':