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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 283, 25 November 1873, Page 2

Dr ITfijtor Ind -arrived at Blenheim, en route fcr tbo -southern piirts of tbo prosvinee, where he ia making a tour cf fnspectioo, more especially of tbe coast Ike. ,? -{.-The. total number of pages Hansard flcntainSithis year is 1556. Large aa this 'figure is, however, it is considerably Jess .tlian las* Seat's, w lien the talk of honor'abje.ui^cabers was embedded iv 170(fcpages. ;Gr/tO: take another form of measurement ,~lßßt year's Mansard contained 708 yards this year it contains 638 yards. 'Thfs, of course, is exclusive of nearly ail tbe debates in Committee. Had these been, reported it is fearful to think how much good paper aod ink would have been ;was(eK?i : - - The tomato sauce industry in Auckland is cited by the Southern Cross a3 an iaa^oce ; Qf what may be done in New Zealand by well-directed enterprise. Tbis industry, our contemporary says, " a few short yeure ago was a small venture represented by a mere patch of ground and a fow bands, and has grown to be an article of export so important tbat tbe enterprising proprietor now works a largo exlent of ground, gives employment io numerous bands, aud only a few moDths ago sent an order to England for £1,000 worth of Botllea! . The Westport Times thus sums up tbe fouFiorjal candidates for seats in the Provincial Council : — Their addresses, aB delivered last oighf, were amusing if not instructive, 'and in making choice the electors wiil be puzzled to elect tbe two beat men\obt : of Jour competitors so evenly ' MV Fisher represents tbe conservative candidate with a waverirjg tendency> to radicalism. Mr Sbapter's political' ideas are like a careless husbandman's stock of. last .season's seeds, good, no doubt, but mixed somewhat. Mr Lloyd holds a safe card, if originality of expression. aQd* a ; perfect individual con''viMon "of fitness for office will prevail aught. Mr Hume, as the miners' advocate, pnre and: simple, should at the present juncture of affairs obtain a numer,p^9 frspyfing. '".. , . , . _ The GlB. Argus says of one of tbe recentry.-deefed members ior the Abaura: —Mr Coibett T had great claims on the electors df No' Town district, and eapeci- i ally" oWitiii "miners. He is a resident of 7 -\ years' standing, and he is known to be a -shrewd, sensible, man, not at all dogmatic, and liberal in bis opinions. He wijl J>r,ing & considerable amount of practical ability into the Council, and being tbe first working miner who has beeu sent to Nelson as the representative of any constituency, ; bis suggestions on matters relating specially to the goldfields will, no doubt, be very valuable. In tbe General Government Gazette a lefterls published from Captain the Count Lovera de Maria, of H.I.M.S. Vettor; PJsani f reporting the .result of a trial of ;l^W;. y J Zesiand.flaf rope on the voyage !iroj&;&ew; -Zealand to Italy. - Tho rope dfrieldfrtfTep'dried to bain good order, after *ftur' monies' use, and although the phor.jjiumiß. .considered inferior to the beat dßustt'aorand Italian hemp, getting too quickly untwisted when used for running geir^itas -pronounced well adapted for laid and 'head rope," and superior fe-ihe Manilla rope, in being both stronger 'anale^'liable : .'to'be injured when exposed to water. It is recommended that the raw material should be exported to be .manufactured at home, in consequence . of 1&s iigh rate of r.wages in New Zealand. vjThej Argus of-Jriday sayss—Mr Oswald iburtis, Superintendent of Nelaon, arrived yesterday in the Murray, and in the evening : ao&e*Sßd the electors of Cobden nt the Scboolrhouse, which waa crowded. Mr..p.artis apokß for .over two hours aud grftalf,' Bwncipaify on questions more immediately affecting Cobden and its vicinity. After a long and- very strong cross-fire of a-vbte of confidence in Mr "Csdr«s7,aß Superintendent of tbe Province, waa" moved by Mr Peyman, aud seconded byiMTxWßlhTce. .Mr Glennon moved as *nncftfflendme.otr:-T!' 4 Tbat after the last i«Woo"yearß ; experience of the Curtis adfifirilffritroxi; it is the opinion of tbis meet ing that it would " be,a_ great calamity to thetjlfrpSKn^ of Nelson if Mr Curtis is %I(fife-!&&MXW4 *.j»8. i* 3 Superintendent." Mr C. Brown seconded tbe amendment. The amenfottient was put and negatived, there votings for it 17; and against it 27. tTfleindtior/ wascarrled amidst much cheering^^jlnj^e same paper we find tbe following:—Some time previous to tbe hour for holding Mr CnrW meeting at Cobden last nigb£/a;few very excitable and foolißh eteejors erected ft gibbet, stuffed an effigy, and' b.UUg .it .close to tho main road. Which of the candidates it was meaat to represent it is impossible for us to say, but as 1 it was Tather tell the inference may be gathered; ' The intention was to burn Urt^XhAt^oloseoithe meeting, but when ]aftt ? see,a. i it'wa&; atill dangling in tbe wind, and>-heingirather;a ghastly spectacle it is lobe hop^^e poiice h^ve sipce cut it down.

The Wanganui correspondent of the j Auckland 'Star' gives tbe following pleasing account of the 6tate of things in i Wanganui;— Actions for slander and libel aro as customary and prevalent as the sittings of tbe Circuit Court, and when ona arises in the morning he eagerly seizes tbe Wanganui Chronicle to ascertain if, among the locals, there is a paragraph commencing :~ We were yesterday served with a writ, issued at the instance of Mr &o. Tou have hardly been assured of tbis fact when the livening Herald announces *' that from enquiries we have mada we have reason to believe that several minor inaccuracies crept into our report, and we hasten to correct them, Mr having threatened us with legal proceedings," &c. Truly this is a promising state of things, and likely io tend to the total annihiliation of theMiberty of the Press. It was contemplated to start another journal here, but the course of recent events has hopelessly crushed that enterprise. These local papers have no reason to fear a " rival," as any proprietary must of necessity bave a bank at its back. If Mrs C.'s goat strays into Mrs B.s garden, the services of one learned in the law are at once secured, and this trivial occurrence generally assumes tbe form for insulting and abusive language. On tbe very evening of my arrival too well-known celebrities were earnestly discoursing tbe probabilities of the case of Watt v. Ballance, but finding that a stranger was within bearing, and a policeman in sighr, with a mysterious and aerio-tragic stage air they cautiously beat a retreat, and entered the neighboring "pub." A very handsomely-dressed young man (says an American paper), who was waiting at his horse's head for his sweetheart, one Sunday afternoon, and desired to demonstrate to the watching neighbors how familiar- he could be with such an animal, put tbe head of the noble beast in his bosom, and just then tbe animal sneezed, and — well, anybody who has seen a horse sneeze can picture to himself the state of that shirt bosom, and collar, and j I vest just as well as one of the old masters ! I could do it, i | Training.— We take the following remarks on tbis subject from the Melbourne Telegraph:— " The youth of the colony, baying survived the football season, are now at liberty to enter for athletic sports, and aquatic contests, and undergo the ordeal technically known as training. Now, training ie a thorough nuisance, the housebold is upsat because tbe sons must eat tbis, and cannot drink that, the youthful giant refusing beef, unless it be raw, and bread unless it be brown, and a shudder running through his frame should his attention be directed, to a square inch of gooseberry tart. Tbe hopeful himself dwindles under the process. He is afflicted commonly with one of the curses with which Moses smoto the stiff-necked Egyptians — to wit — boils; his temper is capricious, and he becomes as wan-viaaged ns a lover. His life cannot be happy to himself, while it is a blight upon his fellowcreatures. It is good news, and worth communicating therefore, that at the recent University boat race ia the States many of the crews dispensed with professional training, and sought, says tbe New York correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, to bring themselves into fine condition by following the ordinary rules of healthy living— plenty of good food, plenty of fresh air, a fair amount of exercise, and, above all, abundance of sleep — and the.evenfc has justified them. Two days before the College boat race, two of the foremost professional oarsmen in America, who had been thoroughly " trained" on tbe traditional method — Ellis Ward and John Biglin — rowed a race on the same course, and Ward broke down before he had got over two-thirds of the distance, with congestion of the lungs and brain. He was taken out of his boat more dead than alive, and it was feared for an hour or two that he would perish as poor Steve Renfortb, the English oarsman, did ;: at St John's, a couple ot years ago, of overtraining. Two or three of the college crews stuck to the professional system, but these all came in among the tag-rag-and-bobtai.'. The three miles were covered by the winning boat in 15min 16sec, and this is a good deal better time than will be made In our Melbourne regatta by "trained " men. Nor is this mode of training a mere " Yankee notion." Tho greatest athlete of the age, Captain Barclay, has put on record how he obtained tbe finest condition of his life, just before one of his most prodigious feats. He bad spent some months in the Scotch Highlands grouse shooting and deer stalking; to bed with the disappearance of the sun, and up as soon as the "glorious god of day" had warmed the mountain, and doing a sportsman's justice to tbe simple meals placed before bim. Such a iife gave Barclay his finest condition. Tbe young men who follow his hints will not come to tbe posts as white as ghosts, nor at the end of tho pull will they faint over their oars.