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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 196, 7 August 1875, Page 2

Speaking of the Agent -General and his disagreement with Sir Julius Yogel, the Oiaga. Guardian says: — " When a man is paid a handsome salary for the performance of his dudes, be ia expected to give at least a decent degree of attention to them, and thia Dr. Featheraton has never done yet. We observe that Sir Julias Yogel and thia officer have not agreed top harmoniously, and it affords us real pleasure to know that it ia so. . And when the carious revelations pratnjsed.arsniade known to the assembled wisdom of the colony, we trust that no personal considerations whatsoever will be allowed to influence our representatives. Without any particular revelation at all, sufficient of dereliction and wanton disregard of doty oh the part of the Home Agency is known to them, as to all New Zealand, to warrant Dr, Feathersion'a instant dismissal." Noticing the fact (hat, within a few weeks the National Bank forwarded from Reef ton 4177 oz of gold, the Inangahua Times says: — " This is, indeed, substantial testimony of the increasing productiveness of our mines, and it is questionable whether any othet district ia the Colony can beat it. The quantity of gold we have mentioned reprsants only a oart of the gross product of the district, and could we furnish the total returns they would, we are convinced, satisfy* the most sceptical persons of the richness of our reefs. Large as is the quantity stated, it is merely a tithe of what returns for the future will be, for to the companies now crushing there will shortly be added the Golden Fleece, the Fiery Cross, Hopeful, Caledonia. Golden Treasure, Independent, I .my Creek, Alexander, Just-in-Time, Victoria, and several othera, When the whole of these corapunies are crushing, as they probably will be between now and December or January next, we shall then be better able to gauge the measure of success which has attended quartz-mining in the Inangahua." In Cromwell the following episode is said to have occurred, which indicates a specially sensitive development of (he physical system, happily, rarely, met with :— *« William John Rode 1 , a lad of about 17, had to pay 9s 6d costs in respect of a summons issued on the requirement of the Rev. Gr. A. Warner, who said he wns under the doctor's treatment on account of his ears, and <h*t while making purchases in the meat market a few days since he was annoyed by Rodd's whistling — ao much so as to be obliged 'to leave his purchases, money, and marketing in the meat market." The proprietors of tha Times took a rather unnsual course in reßpect to the great Kenealy-Orton debate, They had the full report given by the Times reprinted, preceded by an incisive lead» ing article, and sold it for a halfpenny, The number of copies thus disposed of was very large. The object of the stop was to show the poorer classes what a sorry figure Kenealy cut when lie was called upon for the proof of bis lying assertions, and certainly if any. thing could open the eyes of the deluded followers of the disgraced Queen's Counsel (who is said to have been making the handsome income of £10,000 a year by blinding the understandings of the ignorant masses), a perusal of the speeches made ia thia debate would do so.