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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 277, 21 November 1872, Page 2

Hpllpway's JOintinent and Pills.— A Cure for Abscesses, Piles, Vistula, and Sores of every description. — The very satisfactory results arising from the use of this invaluable Ointment, when the patients have been suffering from any of the above disorders, have induced the Medical Profession to. introduce it into the hospitals and their private. practice, *and in many instances where the sufferer, was considered incurable, HolJoway's Ointment in conjunction with his Pills has healed the most desperate cases. ■ These medicines are also unequalled for the cure of scrofula, scurvy, and all diseases of the skin, and the cures they effect are not temporary or imperfect, for their purifying powers oring about a marvellous and roost beneficial' change in the whole system, and enable it, with renovated powers, to resist iuture attacks of the same disease. 25 ! I

thetatufe of a quartet 1 of a million. Wk&t Mr, ; Brogderi " had to do was this. Wheti furnished with all specifications, plans, Bic.{ he vras to invite tenders; from such firms in England as he thought best fitted to supply them. When they were sent in, he was to take Them to the AgentGeneral in London, and advise him which to accept. This -was all he had to do, there was no trouble, no responsibility as to the quantity or quality, and he had nothing to do with the payment, and for this he was to receive five per cent , which on .£250,000 would amount to £12.500. Be (Mr. Curtis) thought that the Agent-General himself might have undertaken this, or if necessary to employ Mr. Brogden, that one-fifth of the remuneration, or one per cent., would hare been ample. This itself left a stroDg impression on the Bouse, arid led members to believe that the contracts^ were being entered into in a loose and unsatisfactory manner. Matters such as these came out in fhe debate snd led to the defeat of the Fox- Vogel Ministry: A new Ministry was then iormed, of whfch he had the honor to be a member. Objections had been raised to that Ministry on the ground that it included three Superintendents, but it should be remembered that had the Stafford Government existed through the session not one of them would have held the double office during the recess, but that all of them would have resigned their Superintendencies. This/he thought, whs an entirely different matter to retaining the office, as had been . done by Mr. Ormond, and which he (Mr. Curtis) considered to be thoroughly unconstitutional. It had been said that there was no difference between the policy of the Fox and of the Stafford Ministries, and so far as the rieterminß- - „ tion to carry out the public works scheme was concerned, there was none, but where the difference lay was in the mode in which this was to be done, as by the Stafford Government it would have been proceeded with with greater energy and economy than had been displayed by their predecessors. Another point was that they were dttermined not to enter into contracts beyond the total amount sanctionedby Parliament, as they believed that nothing could be more unhealthy than that the Government should first of all commence certain works, and afterwards consider whether it was desirable to raise the money for them. With the half million at their disposal, the Stafford Government stated that they were prepared to commence lines, the total of which was 168 miles.' This included the Foxhill and Brunner lines. Another point of dPerence was the way in which the interest on the loans was to be paid. Mr. Vogel proposed to meet if out of ihe loan itself. This, perhaps, was temporarily the most pleasant -way, but Mr. Stafford decided that it was neither safe, prudent, nor legal. Subsidising Road Boards out of the loan was another matter of which the Stafford Government did not approve. While fully recognising the value of these Boards, and having every desire to encourage them, they did not feel it right that any portion of the colonial loan should be devoted to mere repairs or small works, but they proposed to give the Boards power to raise money on the security of their rates. This would be a wholesome check upon over-borrow-ing, as it would only be resorted to where it was likely to prove remunerative, and the prudent ones would not have to pay ■ for the imprudent. One more point on which they differed was the carrying out of the Public Works and Immigration functions by the same Minister W hile abolishing the worse than useless officeef Resident Minister for the Middle Island, they decided that an officer would be necessary for the head of each of these two departments, each of whom would find quite enough to do if he attended closely to his duties The Stafford Ministry, as was well known, ceased to exist after holding office for four weeks. Had they thought proper to use the same tactics as their predecessors they might have remained in office during the rest of the session, but they would not purchase support by the application of the public money to public works in order to please individual members. They had decided what works to go on with, and after considering the proposals made to them, they preferred to accept the results of refusing them to varying their determination. One good result of the advent to power of Mr. Stafford was the investigation into the public accounts which, though . only partial owing to the short time the Ministry lasted, was most beneficial. It showed that Mr. Vogel had made an error in his statement of the financial condition of the colony to the amount of at least £15000, Be brought no accusation of concealment against the Treasurer, but the fact was that he did not know how matters stood, as owing to his frequent and continued absence from Wellington he could not keep himself acquainted with them, but had to trust to the irresponsible heads of departments for his information. The new Ministry was known as the Waterhouse Ministry, but as most people knew him only by name, the question is naturally asked, who is Mr. Waterhouse ? He was a man of the .highest respectability and character in every way, greatly respected, a man of large means with which he was most liberal, but he had not served his apprenticeship to New Zealand politics, and it seemed strange that the direction of the colonial policy should be placed in his hands. He had never served in the House of Representatives, nor had he ever subjected himself to election by any constituency, but after all it was perhaps of not much consequence, as the Ministry was virtually much the same as that of Messrs. Fox and Vogel, as it included Mr. Vogel, Mr. Maclean, and Mr. Hall, and Ms. Waterhouse would make but little difference, while the substitution of Messrs. Bathgate, Richardson, and O'fiorke for Messrs. .. Ormond and Reeves, would not be likely to affect the policy of the Government, which was the same as of that which Mr Stafford had succeeded. They were not prepared with any statement of the public works to be commenced, but when asked, replied that they intended to proceed with all, but would not mention, any particular one that they intended to begin, and carefully avoided any explicit statement as to . which was to be the fir*t. There was one measure to which he must specially refer, namely, the Railways Bill, which as originally introduced contained a clause which was to give Ministers the power to contract for railways at any price/they thought proper. This was a power which no Government was justified in asking from the representatives of the people,- and which those representatives would most certainly have not been justified in granting, but they could not carry it, and consequently it was withdrawn. .To show the danger ; of granting such power,' he might say that .the. ; , cost of the works undertaken as compared \ with the original estimates showed an increase of 40 . per cent, or £1,150,000. He i would'now refer to • and local matters. He .had long felt'' ' ■~t theneceßsity of some simpiification^df our laws, >nd had consequently introduced a Larceny! Bill; i di,thei&T^t:liadjnetivitliiiQ the House, en- : : the\ l^&^%itnmeMag might £:^; : >iiS^S^^ , ■■" '■'■;' ''': '-'"'■ ' \ .:»».. .s^iw.ja.feii:.j,--,',-f f --.-J I '-A».«<!>.'^V. 1 ;.;.:;?.K,w^..; V':; ,M--. ;.::-...;.; ,'.-, /,.

the colony. : Although other matters had pre-vented-him from proceeding with it this last session he meant to bring it on again, and had great hopes of success. Wirh reference to the City Loan Bill, he had been blamed for the risk it ran of not being passed, and it had been said that he had taken it up with him to Wellington, but the fact was 'he did not receive it until three weeks alter his arrival there, and consequently a number of other local Bills had taken precedence of it. It had also been urged that he might ha*-e used his influence as a Minister to ferce it on, but tlvs was simply impossible. In the matter of the Gas and Waterworks loan it had been said in the House by Mr Luckie that had it been handed over to Mr Vogel when he went to Australia it might have been negotiated on far more favorable terms, and it was compared with what Mr Luckie called the Wellington City Loan, which had been raised at 103 instead of 92, but "the fact was that the loan for Wellington was for the province and . not for the city, and, indeed, if Mr. Luckie had said for the colony, he would have been still nearer the mark. The loan for Nelson was raised on the responsibility of the city alone, and on the security of the rates only, while the other was oa the means of the colony as a whole. He would undertake to say that no loan had been raised by any other town in the colony on such reasonable terms an that for Nelson. It had also been said that had the principal and interest been payable in Australia, the loan might have been negotiated on more favorable teems, but the Act expressly provided that they should be payable in Nelson only, and this was a condition to which he had been compelled to submit by the House. Mr. Curtis then said that he had on his notes many more subjects of interest, but as the hour was growing late he would not touch upon any more of them, but if any person present desired information he should be happy to reply to any questions. Alter a considerable pause, a voice was heard from the body of the Hall '•• I think you've shut 'em all up." No questions reing asked, The Hon. N. Edwards said that he had great pleasure in asking the meeting to give Mr. Curtis, first a vote of thanks for his lucid explanations of the principal events of the session, and secondly, a vote of confidence in him as their member in the House of Representatives. Mr. Gouland seconded the resolution, which was carried by acclamation. A vote of thanks .to the chairman terminated the proceedings.