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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 171, 17 August 1878, Page 2

The Timaru Herald of Monday has the following important announcement, which is doubtless made on some substantial authority: — It is the intention of the Government, we understand, immediately to propose a policy, in comparison with which in respect of the importance of its effects on the condition of the people at large, manhood suffrage or land taxation dwindles into insignificance. That policy is neither more nor less than a new public works policy, little leas extensive than the scheme of 1 870, and based on much safer and better ascertained principles. In addition to the balance of the loans, amounting to some two millions, it is intended to apply the whole of the surplus land fund both of the past year and of future years to the extension of the present railway system, and to the construction of new lines of railway. Should this project meet with the support of Parliament, which it is oniy reasonable to expect that it will, all the lines contemplated by Mr Montgomery's Bill aud similar measures last year will be taken in hand forthwith as ordinary Goverment railways, and several other works of a much larger nature will also be initiated.

Berghoff and Touzell, well known in the New Zealand trade, have resumed their old tobacco business in Melbourne,

Quite a diggings (gajs the Westland Advertiser) has been started lately in Fitzherbert'street Hokitika eight or ten claims Have been already marked out, and operations are going on, This shows how little the Coast has been prospected up to this time. If gold has been overlooked within the town, what may not have happeued through the country. Xne Rowing story is told by the Timara Herald t— " A geutfeman who occasionally wiles dwity", Ii dull evsniug by a game at 100, liad had it long run of ill-lucfe, which showed iib sign tit changing. At length o?>e nigni driven' to 1 afespfefaifotf,- he registered a solemn i *ti\v before cohimeucln^ pirty,- that ii hh Inck should change hie would give Tkbl£ bis windings io (he Church. His luck did change, lie w.ofi tremendously p\\ night long, and by the tittle tfjfe party Broke Up tdSvardS daylight he had pocketed Stfirife' iHree or four hundred pounds. Half of this he pat into 1 respectable currency— not lOU's— and enclosed it to the President of the Christchurch Cathedral Guild, with a note stating that he had much tfieaStife in jforwardiDg an amount which had been ' kiudjy contributed by his friends !" The Guild were of course delighted, but their joy was somewhat alloyed by qualms when tfidy.ttere informed shortly afterwards pf the , true nature of the kind contributions. They held a meeting to" consider whether thejr &mla apply money so acquired to church purposes • ktit Gve'ttttoiH? decided that to return it would be enfiflnfasing tice. When in committee on the i'raudalent Debtors' Bill Mr Swauson advocated the fotal abolition" of ir»>priaonment for debt, lpaviug 1 who give credit to take their chance. Mr Hofieii _e^pr'esafe'd Jaa almo3t identical opinion, believing liitti h wonld lead to a sounder aystem of erectly Us people would only trust those who they expected would pay. Debts would then become debts of honor, and debts of honor, as was well-known, were generally paid. What a country America is for big things! The Pittsburgh Barge Club opened their season by rowiug their eight-oar a mild spin of seventy-three miles J The boat must have been a pretty large one, as the crew were met tfiu miles from the finish by a party of ladies and gentleme&j who were all taken on board. Gortschakoft is eighty years old, the richest man in Russia, aud he in considered the most agreeable diplomatist in Europe, Holloway's Pii/r<s. ~-iftarrb.ee i and Bowel Complaints. — These maladies are everywhere preseut, and if left unattended W frequently terminate fatally. It should be everywhere known that both cholera aud diarrhcra originate in the presence of some undigested substance in the stomach or bowels, or of some deleterious matter in the blood, and that Holloway's Pills can expel either with ease and expedition. They combine in a surprising degree purifying, alterative, regulating strengthening qualities, and thus exert over every internal organ the wholesomely controlling influence so necessary for subduing excessive action in the human frame. Holloway's medicine may be adtantageously taken as a means of keeping the blood pure and the body cool — the only praticable plan of maintaining health in youth, manhood id old age.