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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 119, 11 May 1876, Page 2

! The Hdn'Mt Bowen has telegraphed to ...the, . Secretary. , of :, the , . A, Q,¥. v ( at Christchurch as follows:— "The Erieridly Societies' Bßilki k willx. soon, , ■be: ready for circulation among societies, and I will send yb'ii copy' as soon 6a -possible : ; Tjjit' there is great presSu'ra. of work in office; and jit could rnpt be! prepared sooner.' It will be sent to all the : societies in Netf Zealand." '■"' :-■ i ..,-:. -n „-. 7 ?,-,.■ j ;'An.'Au'cWM Post, of ; iyesterday -says i-rr" Mr , .Cr-eighton,' ' jate; editor, of -.the-.- Wellington* Times, was a passenger byf-tbe Colima to San FrahciscO. '' He inahaged to get a free passage this . way :,:— -The; mail, contract provides that . a mail, agent and- an > assistant mail agent shall be furnished with Tree passages. :. The office of assist-, ant . ; mail agent has never been filled, but; Mr Creighton applied to the Government and got 1 it for this voyage, to the ias^nisnmeht of the steamer's agents who amazed; aY Mr Creightoh's ingenuity in the art of dead-heading.' C I y The Auckland Star of a recent dateiri l oopmentihg upon the rumor that Mr jE^teber.bert bad been offered and , had ; Refused! ,the : jSpeakersnip makes' some' remarks that in the light of later events are peculiarly interesting. Our cbntem^ijary^t^eri^aid;^--'' The refusal of 6 Speakership by Mr fitzherbert; will hdd another to itbeirecor.dsiof ■self-sacri-fice for conscientious' conviction which ialready^- .bea'i?-' ;tliV names', of Gfrey, e >:and,others, who have incurred great, personal i -loss: in their advocacy. / !of what they firmly believe to be the' true-cause : of the people/" What does he/say no^; '/ XiJi' .V'!. ! ;';"' ■ '/ : X ; j Referring to the verdant notions, which some peopl«, entertain of farming, :the ,Waikato . Times quaintly remarks.that"The immigrants' •• guide books' tell him that 'the land of TNew Zealand, needs to be 'tickled with a hoe<to be'inade to laugh with a harvest,, but the man who relies upon such a short cut to Success m farming will find that whateyer. the, land may do;, be at least will have very little to laugh at.". . ; - ■ ' The demoralised and corrupfrstate: of says the Post, which has been allowed to grow up ih the "United States in connection with Municipal [Grovernfment, shows how necessary it is" that the working\Qf;such r mß\i<;utipns should be vigilantly „„scrutinised? r utinised by the press jana the-pubiiri.'s All recent writers jvvhp; have visited ,the .TJnited States dilate! on:; the; fact thatv the' educated jclasses as a rule shrink 7 back 'from taking an active part* in public and -that political and municipal matters are thus iha 1 great measure left in; the Jiahds bf the ; unscrupulous,. wh6 take them, up from motives of selfinterest. 7'A 7571 7 ■■'■■] A : 7•" ; -

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