TARANAKI.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 311, 17 September 1874, Page 4

TARANAKI.

-Taranaki has been— and, so far ac we know, is still— termed the " Garden of New Zealand." It excels ia beauty of scenery,: in the exquisite loveliness of its coastal outlines. Its peaches, for flavo* a and juciness, surpass all other peaches known in the world. Its women are beautiful to the gaze, and its surf boate beyond all compare for conveying to its shingled beaches perfectly stefej though thoroughly saturated, passengers, arriving by calling steamers. Bafc Tarariaki, so superior in many things, surpasses all other provinces of New Zealand, for the system of elaborate legislation which the representatives of ao intelligent a community indulge in. We have, before us minted on note dapfcr.'^cTose " : opon forty ordinances passed in a late session of the Provincial CouDci), a,nd of these ordinances five* B »Ss# Amend or repeal or interpret ordinances passed in previous sessions of the same Council. We need hardly say,~there is an ordinance passed, allowiflgttheTown Board to borrow money. This time it is only £2000, bat then to do this the, ordinance must possess a "title," a 1 "preamble," "a power to issue debenjtoree,'? "debentures whoa payable/* "provision for paying in. tereat,*?? provision for paying principaT,* * "short title," and a schedule. All the forms and ceremonies are required, as if a Colonial Treasurer, a Premier, and an Agent-General were negotiating a' ! ten ' million loan with power to increase the, amount, and not forgetting the reverential, .« God save the Queen." Then we have an ordinance forbidding lotteries, and an ordinance to amend the Dog Nuisance Ordinance, an ordinance to amend the Scotch Thistle ordinance (as if there were no thistles anywhere but Scotch thistles.) We need hardly say that Taranaki has .an amended Educational Ordinance (1874), and a Public Works Ordinance, and a Provincial Council Ordinance (ibis latter and all previously mentioned being amended ordinances of ordinances which amend ordinances previously amended.) Then we have an Appropriation Ordinance, and a Branding of Cattle Ordinance, a Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance, and an Ordinance for the Suppression of Improper Behaviour of Eomalea in Public Thoroughfares, and a^Lfceifeiog Ordinance. There never was for its size" and capacity soch a province for the passing of ordinances as Taranaki. We should imagine that if inhabitant was a paid official of the' Provincial Government, they would net be sufficient in number to enforce every law which the Taranaki authorities have passed or amended, or to recollect those which had been repealed or disallowed, or were found unworkable. — Herald