The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1877.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 287, 4 December 1877, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1877.

The sooner Mr Orniond ceases to occupy a seat in the House of Representatives the better for himself, for his constituents, and for the colony, as he is a disgrace to himself and a nuisance to all who are politically associated with him. Twice has ha brought himself into disrepute by losing his temper and making charges of a gross nature which he was utterly unable to substantiate, and now he has been guilty of a crowning act of tolly which should have the effect of closing the doors of the House to him for evermore. He is thus reported by our telegrams to have delivered himself last night:— "tie would for the session support the Ministry because he was ture it would get tht colony into a great mess bejote the next session." This is a man who is sent to the Colonial Parliament by a large and influential constituency to legislate for them, and to use his best endeavors in the direction of ensuring the good government of the colony. And he has the audacity to get up in his place in the House and to boldly avow that he will give his support to the present holders of office because he is firmly convinced that in the next six months they will largely assist in ruining the country. We cannot conceive that the electors of Clive or any other constituency in New Zealand will ever be guilty of so suicidal an act as agaiu placing in the Assembly a gentleman who could make such a speech. If they do they will for the future forfeit all right to complain of the couutry being misgoverned. A placard which made its appearauce on the walls this morniug has attracted some attention. It runs as follows :— « To all whom it may concern— The man who gives big dinner parties and doesn't pay his butcher's and baker's bills is a Snob. Yet such a case occurred here a few days ago.--Let the galled jade wiuce, our withers are unwruug." The posters, we presume, have been imported from Welliogton, where some of a similar inscription adorned the streets some few weeks ago, and where, it may be inferred, thegiverof tha diunor parties alluded to resides.

At the Licensing Court held at Brightwater, this morning, a license was granted to T. A. Bromell for a home at the junction of the Wangapeka and Buller Roads, on the condition that he k«eps a ferry and good accommodation. The license for the Red Horse Inn at Richmond was transferred from W. Ball to Henry Haycock. Messrs Smith & Co.'s fine panorama of the Franco-Prussian war having arrived iv Nelson will be exhibited for the first time at the Oddfellows' Hall this evening. The iuterest attaching to a war of so recent a date combined with the excellence of the illustra* tions should ensure a crowded house. A tea party iv aid of the fund for erecting a Church iv the district will be held at Foxhill to-morrow afternoon. In the evening an address will be delivered by the Bishop of Nelson. Tub quarterly cattle fair will be held at Richmond to morrow. A meeting of the Indiau Famine Relief Committee will be held at the Council Chamber to-morrow evening. The following is from the G. S. Argis:— The immigrants ex Waitara who anived here the other day iv the Charles Edward are rapidly meeting with engagements. One has already taken the preliminary steps towards a life bondage, having met her "affinity" in the shape of a stalwart nuner, who expressed the most supreme contempt for the calibre of New Zealand legislators wheu informed thafc the lady of his choice must be resident in the district for four days before the Registrar could assiafc him to thp consummation of his fondest wishes.

In his "Autobiographical Recollections," Sir John Bowring thus speaks of the celebrated Morrison, the fouader of the great commercial house in Fore-street:— "Morrison told me that he owed all his prosperity to the discovery that the groat art of mercantile traffic was to find out sellers rather than buyers ; that if you bought cheaply and satisfied yourself with only a fair profit, buyers— the best sort of buyers, those who have money to buy— would come of themselves. He said he found houses engaged with a most expensive machinery, sending travellers about in all directions to seek orders and to effect sales; while he employed travellers to buy instead of to sell, and if they bought well there was no fear of hia effecting advantageous sales. So uniting this theory with auother, that small profits and quick returns are more profitable in the long run than long credits with great gains, he established one of the largest and most lucrative concerns that has ever existed in London.

ihe Lyttelton Times thus comments on Mr Larnach's Financial Statement and New Zealand Financial Statements in general:— There is one satisfactory feature which pervades tho whole Financial Statement delivered by Mr Larnach on Monday night. That feature is straightforward simplicity. It is q. Lite refreshing to be again in the presence ot realities. Sic Julius Yogel introduced and continued the practice of bringing out theatrical Budgets. We looked forward to them as Londoners looked for the annual Pantomime. Novelty was essential; new plot, new scenery, new dresses, new tricks, new transformations. Everything must culminats in a Bower of Bliss, where all are to be made happy by a beneficent fairy crowned with the mystical Three, Golden Balls, throned on a pile of short dated debentures, and clad in floating Treasury Bills. Three generations must look on from the boxes, and above everything, the author must be called forward and make repeated bows to an admiring public amid shouts of rapturous applause These Budgets were addressed to the eye and the ear, but, not to the reason. To the reflective mind they were clever shams. After hearing or reading them, one always felt that Budgets were made for Yogel, and not Yogel for Budgets. He was always the central figure; and the public felt that it had been Vogelised. As for understanding what was the real state of the finances of the colony— what it had, what it got, what it owed, and what it spent— the very idea was preposterous. Amid all the glitter and excitement, it seemed to be almost profane to ask such plain and prosaic questions. Major Atkinson i 3 a man of quite a different mind from Sir Julius Yogel. But we must say that in mystifying a Financial Statement he is is almost his equal. What he fails in is the poetry of making it attractive. We are shown sham surpluses, but they are not irradiated with tha colors of the rainbow. Their want of attractiveness makes ua sceptical, and scepticism leads to detection. If the recent change of Government did no other good, we should be thankful that it has given us one invaluable boon. It has bound the Treasury Proteus, and we now can force him to do our will. We know where we are, and that knowledge is our best guide to finding out what to do.

Tha military correspondent of the New York Times at the seat of war, who is said to be no less a person than General Sherman, does not seem to have formed a very high opinidn of tha Bulgarians from what he saw of them at Sistova. He describes their faces as being covered with thick layers of bronze and dirt, the accumulation of many years, and goes on to say:—" As I may not have another opportunity, let me state one peculiar circumstance about this interesting people, for whom so much sympathy has been claimed and expended. According to the 'discipline' of the Bulgarian Church, with the exception of a bath of salt given to each new-born infant so soon as he comes into the world, 'it is a deadly sin to wash a male child until he shall have attained the age of seven years,' and the only bath permitted to a female dnring her lifetime is that which she must take on the eve of her marriage. There is no exaggeration in this statement; it will be confirmed by all who have really passed some time among those people, and I give it in order to explain my repeated use of the appellation ' dirty,' as uncleanliness in every form appears to be, with cowardice, the chief characteristic of the race."

The new spring hat worn by ladies (says an American feminine fashion writer) is just too big for anything, and happily we shall be rid of the mouotony of hearing this feminine decoration called sweet. Hats that started some yeara ago no larger than an acorn have grown to such sisje as to cast a shadow half across jthe street, and a couple of them would save the promenaders on two blocks from suustroke. No husband or father need fear that he will not get the worth of his money when iuvested in hats for wife or daughter. They— we are talking about hats -are so large that a mortgage even will not cover them, and it is probable the really fashionable hat will have to be worn in the country for want of room elsewhere. Thera will be a death-blow to the trade in parasols and umbrellas; two or three of them in a theatre will make the place look crowded, and clergymen who have to stand in the pulpit above a few of the newest hats will feel as if they were preaching to a gaily decorated, but greatly overgrown circus tent. If the amusementseason were not virtually over there might be a sensation in hats, but that will vow be left to the camp-meeting, where the real utility of tha new style will be developed. A well-known Hawke's Eay resident, at present in Syduey, writes to the Hetald as follows:— The reports thafc we heard in New Zealaud of the losses of sheep in New South Wales have been confirmed over here. The losses have been very great. I met, for instance, a gentleman yesterday whose losses have been £40,000 this last year or so from the effects of drought. Of course he is but one of many who have been heavy losers, and it is only to be expected that there will be a great diminution in the amount of the clip this year. As it is an ill wind that blows nobody good, our New Zealand merino wool should commaud a good price at the ensuing sale,