TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 257, 29 October 1872, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

[P__b GkbviliLe's Telbokak Company.] P ROVINC IAL. .Weu.in'gton, October. -297: The Independent.^ yesterday, in writing on the . Rangitikei and Maria watu .Bill, censures the Government in strong terms for the course ppurr r sued by the Premier in the Legislator Council .. on the last day of the session. It says that a great slight was thereby inflicted upon the; House,. and that this was the, .first, occasion "on^ which so 7 gross a breach of Parhamehtary etiquette , had occurred in the colony. '. '•'■'..., 'SSSmm^'"' 7 11 SSm^m^^m^mm^mmmmmmmmSmSSSSimimmmimi^''

Danes v. Norwegians as Immigrants . ~-Mr. Halcombe writes to tbejMin.Bter of Public Works as- folio ws ! — "As a rulie, the. Daneaiare physically unable to contend) _with-^ s .hi.^ft life ; and ; whilo the .^prweg.ans Jipus<* 7 themselves com fprtaSly with the : riide* j-maieria-/;'atS^ make: good wages \to7'ivbrk_ ; 7jana;^u^ jmany simple comforts^ and, are, moreover, |;<jneerf ut .- and contented aa feai- rule^tlie^

work with the axe, aad uneager to learn, and are,^.therefore, A uhable to earn nearly as j much as;'theii neighbors, and as a result;?? For continuation of news see fourth page. 7 7'

nre discontented, unreasonabe in their expectations from Government, and ready to magnify every little unavoidable difficulty into a great grievance. Nothing can be more marked than the contrast presented in the Masterton camp between the two nationalities. The temporary huts of the two; parties, are erected; close together, the Danes on tbe one side of a sort of street, the Norwegians on tbe other.. The, houses of the Norwegians are comfortable, exquisitely clean, and in most cases even tastefully decorated, their: inhabitants clean, cheerful, and contented. As the result of two months' work, tbe Norwegian party have paid their store account for tbeir two months' supplies, in full, and tbey have to draw for one month's work hesides, which w.ill probably, most of it, be paid to the Government in partial liquidation of tbeir debt for passage, &c. The Danes, on tbe other side of the street, are comparatively poorly housed ; there is no sign of comfort or thrift about their rooms — their houses and persons are filthy. They are heavily in debt to the storekeeper, and though they bave had per head nearly fifty per cent, more food supplied than the Norwegians, they complain tbat they are not allowed to run more heavily into debt. Having in view the additional difficulty which must result to the Government in re-cpuping itself advances for passages, &c, made to the latter class of men, and fear that a large ( number of them will merge into the "loafing." element of the community, I desire to suggest the desirability of encouraging the Norwegian and discouraging the Danish immigration as far as "possible, and of exercising a far more stringent supervision over the selection of the latter immigrants than has been obtained in the case of the two shipments already made. I desire to point out that tbe mixed immigration of Norwegians and Danes is a mistake, in consequence of the existence of a very bitter national feeling of animosity between them, which prevents their co-operating in anything, however much it might be to their mutual advantage to work together." In the course of some remarks upon New Zealand affairs, the Melbourne Daily Telegraph says: — "Things said old colonists, could not be duller than before the loan; and yet it is possible that they may be after tbe money is spent, and interest has to be paid by the most heavily taxed colonists in tbe world. With gold all over it, with coal seams numerous and thick, and with iron also, nothing can keep New Zealand back for long; she must sooner or later take her place as the Great Britain of the South." The Glasgow Herald sometimes takes 11,000 words of a Parliamentary debate in one message, at a cost of only £5 10s. The same message in New Zealand would cost, at the rates now charged, £22. Flexible Marble. — A flexible marble slab has been exhibited in America, procured from Portland quarries. Professor Hay, of the Pennsylvania Western Uni- * versity, described its constitution as, carbonate of lime, 97.5; magnesia, a trace; silica, 2.05; water, .45. Its composition* and crystalline character proclaim it to be a pure marble. The flexibility of the slab is its most remarkable feature; it is about two inches thick, and is nearly as flexible as an equal thickness of vulcanized indiarubber. ' . In a letter on the tobacco question, the I Lancet says : — # To the poor man working hard and living hard at the same time—to the soldier, fatigued, cold, and ill-fed during a campaign— tobacco is, we believe, both useful and comforting. It soothes some excitable men, and enables many another to concen trate his attention on subjects^requiring thought. If tobacco be the poison that its enemies declare it to be, it is eminently slow in its action, for every workhouse, lunatic asylum, and charitable institution has its grey-haired votaries to the pipe." Is this sarcasm or. otherwise ?* The Depopulation op France. — The British Medical ! 7 Journal^ reports rthat M. Decaisne has communicated to the Academy of Medicine in France* ari im^ portant paper concerning its vital statistics. Comparing it with Prussia, he, shows that there IpO marriages produce 460 children, while in France they give only 300.: ;The per-centage of births to population in Prussia is 3.98 j in France only, 2. 55. The 7-Uinual excess of births oyer ;deatha . iri^russia is 13,300 per million ;in France 2,400. 7As to future, .vtne French ; population would .^require.. '; 1 70.7 years., to double • that of Great 'Birtain^ s2 V that t)i Russia Y^6o'-j^axßi7Z' l 'Z''7yX77 ■yyXZ'X* y y ■■ ' -. -'■■i- '-.'',■- ■'■ '•''.''■■■'■■'• ■•'■'.•-. AA"' ':'■'. 777; - 7-7. " ' ~'' v 7''-'. \AAA /7;£;A___<^^ •ko|p»M^ ; man ;'; joamecjv Hawker brought a claim of £5. against the. Government for- damage done to a c'rdpi 7vof^cer^ post in ; a corner of his paddock, combined with the poisonous effect of the dew that vinipsiQner^to;;;:.wbpm^the'' : ,. claim was : made

referred the claimant to the local Bench, 'fori. 'certificate of damage*, and the •-local; Be nch referred him to 'Appraisers.' '«■ 'The* latter estimated the damage at £25. We would advise the commissioner to come to some compromise at once (says the journal) for should the estimate of tbe daibage Uo Hawker's lucerne keep increasing at that rate, we shall soon require a new loan to meet it. Horrible Murder in America — Mr, aDd Mrs. Ormes and their two children and Daniel Dickinson, wbo where oh their way from Kansas to Minnesota, allowed a man named Tanzey to travel with them, and : he . conceived tbe idea of murder.Dg tbem for the purpose of possessing himself of their team aod effects. On tbe night of tbe 18th instant, while the party were asleep, he proceeded with his bloody iwork, first shooting Dickson, beside whom be slept., Next be shot Ormes, and killed his wife with an axe. The two children, aged respectively three years and fifteen months, he despatched by cutting their throats, because he says he was fearful their cries would attract persons to tlie spot. But the most horrible feature is tbe fact that the assassin put the corpses of his victims in the waggon, covered tbem with cloth, carried them with' him for miles, and was finally discovered, by the stench wbich arose from tbe decaying corpses. His captors, after his confession was made, took him to a tree and hanged him. 7-1