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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 204, 26 September 1878, Page 2

A writer in the Marlborough Press commenting upon tile public works proposals, says:—" It is df the lit most importance that some steps aholild be takeii tjy the public of Mtirlbproughj and that as sjieediiy .'is j)Ha s »hlfe Were it only poor Marlborough that 'was the recipieut of stlch treatment at the hands of Government, all our best efforts would be of ! little or no avail, this thrie ilie idtb ot a | more influential district is linked with tlia't of Marlborough, and and the united and determined action of both Provincial Districts will have to be met by the Government Nelson has already spoken out boldly, and her Bishop has taken a manly and patriotic course ihat shouid earn for him the gratitude of all lovers of justice. Where is Marlborough all this time ? Is she perfectly satisfied with the distribution of the loaves and fishes as proposed by the Government, or has long mis^govetument rendered her callous to tyranny In any and every form ? Let me strongly advise my fellow-seitlers not to remain inactive at this i nportant mement. Some steps 3hould be taken immediately—some bold and united effort in uuisou with Nelson, that will plainly couvince the Government that we are net the men to submit without a struggle to such iniquitous measures." The railway communication between Christcburch and Dunedin is already beginning to bear fruit. The Press says :—" The connecting of Christchurch and Dunedin by rail is an event fraught, we hope, with happy consequences to the colony. From this uuion their will come better' knowledge and goodwill. In the past there have existed, it must be confessed, Provincial feeliugs and local jealousies, which have wrought us much harm. The two greatest of New Zealand cities and districts have beeu isolated from each other, or father have ranged themselves on opposite sides, to their mutual hurt. This has, we trust, now come to on end. The iron horse has brought us within easy visiting distance of one another. The resul of this will, no doubt, be that, we shall come to knoweach other better. Not only will business men make more frequent journeys from one city to the other, but private citizens, who have hesitated to face so formidable a journey will now interchange visits." [Might it not be fairly anticipated that similar satisfactory results would arise from uniting Nelson and Marlborough with the rest of this colony, and thus making the inhabitants of those districts feel that ihey are New Zealand colonists instead of regarding themselves, and being ngarded by their more favored fellow settlers, as outcasts g —Ed N.EM.-] The Auckland fJeraldsays:— 1 ' The Tablet, the organ of tbe Koman Catholic Church, contains vehement diatribes against Mr Sheehan and the many influential members of that Church who claim for themselves some right of judgment in political affairs, for their opposition to Mr Curtis' Education Act Amendment liili. Those in the .Roman Catholic Church who are recalcitrant against denominationalism are numerous, and comprehend all its most intelligeut members. What value Mr Sheehan and the others we have referred to attach to the spiritual censures of a newspaper of limited circulation, we do not suppose amounts to much. We have often censured in vain— and we have as much right to be considered infallible as the lioman Catholic Church orgau in Dunedin; and, indeed, wo will lay the flattering unction to our souls that Mr Sheehan, at all events, would attach more importance to our censure than to that of any ecclesiastical newspaper. On all occasions we seek to magnify our office, but we cannot help acknowledging that it is a "come down " to fulminate what is something of a nature of a "bull" through a newspaper. That medium brings it down to the editorial " we " whose opinion, as the phrase is, " may be taken for what it is worth." "Should the anti-Chinese party succeed (says an American paper), it would be wise for Chinamen hereafter to register from Japan, or shave off their pig-tails and come to America via England, Irelaud, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, the Sandwich Islands, or any other country but their own." To this the Pilot replies:— This won't cure the evil. There's more objection to the Chinaman than his pig-tail. If he comes to this country on the same footiug as the Germans, Irish, Trench, and other emigrants, he must live as they do, according to civilised ways. He must settle down as an American citizen, marry a wife, and bring up children, and be a respectable individual, and not be a cunning, cow-hearted, immoral, selfish little rascal, who makes do ties, lives iv swarms in dirty cellars, supports nobody but himself, and so can underbid civilised men and starve their families; and who saves his money in a bag till he has enough to return to China, to the worship of his absurd Joss, where he laughs iv his big sleeve at the " Meiican man" he bled for his independence. What may happen to heathens in a Christian land was exemplified in Sydney. The Syduey News has the following :— " The Chinese cabinetmakers in Castlereagh-street, near Bathurst-street, were attacked, at noon on Sunday by a band of larrikins. Two Chinamen were seriously injured, one being rendered unconscious for a considerable time, and the premises somewhat disfigured. Two Chinese workmen were quietly talking together in front of the factory, when half a dozen young men walked up to them, and made some insulting remark, and, without any provocation, struck one a blow that knocked him down. The other Chinaman resented the act by striking back, whereupon a fight ensued, and the larrikin reinforcements, as if by concert, began to arrive from all sides, till at least sixty or seventy were present. The noise attracted men, women, and children, from the neighbourhood till over 150 persons were cougregated observing the scuffle proceeding on the elevated ground in front of the Chinese workshops. One Chinaman was carried in unconscious, having been struck on the head either with a stone from the crowd, or other weapons in the hands of the assailants. The Chinese were forced to retreat, when a volley of brickbats was poured at the shops smashJ ing doors and windows." I The ordinary incidents of life sometimes take a theological turn. When a lady was half-way up the Itigi she asked the conductor what would happen if one of the cogs of the railway should give way. He replied that there was a brake at the forward end of the carriage. She imagined that the brake itself might give way, and asked what would be the consequence then. The conductor assured her that there would be no danger even in that extremity, for there was another brake at the rear end. " But" she persisted " suppose that should give way too, where would we go in that case ?" The conductor, who was a Lutheran of the old school, replied, " Madame, in that case it would depend entirely on how you have been brought up." The Synod of old Catholics at Bonn, Germany, has adopted a resolution in favor of the marriage of the clergy,

A soap mine has been struck in Richmond district, near Tuscarora, Nevada. A commercial treaty between France and America is under consideration. The Duchess of Argyll left £50,000 for the relief of the poor of London. The blood from the Sydney abattoirs is to be taken in open punts to the sea. The new Mormon temple in Salt Lnkp, now being built of granite, will cost i 11 .250,000. Three Sundays in succession, pndiu.tr wi!h .tune 1?. London >Van fJsJtfrf Vyy terviiic thunderstorms. The Nihilists in Kussia show their contempt for religion by smoking cigarettes in cathedrals and churches. The outlook for hop-growing about St. Helena is better this season than for several years past. The Western farmers in America arc harvesting by moonlight, to escape the terrible heat of tbe My. The French Ootetn*»ent has appiopriated £8000 towards the relief of th-e sniTorers by the late rising in JS'ew Caledonia. Tn'e £irc?e of 12 detached forts surrounding- the fortress of Strasbourg has at length, after six years' labour fc/eeri completed. Maharajah "Holkar placed l\h troops at the disposal of the Government of [ndia for home and foreign service during the recent war crisis. It is said that Edison never went to scheol but a month in his life, but has taken out 157 inventions and filed 77 cayeats, and is only thirty oue. The liev. Mr Maekonochic?, so the London newspapers report, has paid no attention to the sentence of suspension pronounced against him by Lord Penzance. Sonic live roots of shamrock, from the Hill of Tara, sslenth, were brought out' by the I Chimborazo to Melbourne, and landed in healthy condition. " Cbalk sermons" are the latest novelty in j America. The preacher is accompanied in I the pulpit by an artist who illustrates the discourse by sketches in chalk on a large blackboard fitted up at the side. The Secretary of the N'evr South Wales Commissioners at the Paris Exhibition writes that the wool exhibits from that colony gained the iJrnt prize by the unanimous verdict of twenty judges. Mr Edison's latest acbievment is the " Telescopophone," which is a marvellous ear trumpet with an internal arrangement by which the voice of a person two miles away can be heard. A man who was recently hanged in Canada for killing his landlord, made a speech on the scaffold, in which he expres ed a hope that this might be a warning- to other landlords who persisted in dunning their poor tenants. A Cape paper states that during the war about 0,000 Kaffirs have been killed, and a like number wounded. From private accounts, the I) umond fiews can quite believe these figures to be within the mark. [n January last, 546,559 acres of land were under cultivation in New South Wales, the yield of which was 2,445,507 bushels of wheat and 3,551,5C0 bushels of maize. Tbe holders laud under cultivation numbered 40,329. A joint roasted by the heat of the snn is oue of the chief attractions of the grounds of the Paris Exhibition, where M. Mouchot, a Tours professor, when the clouds permit, daily cooks a portion of meat by means of a strong reflector. A telegram from Home in the London Standard says the Pope has stated that the action of England in the present crisis will be tbe means of saving Europe from Russian barbarism. The Vatican will favour any alliauce of Latin Europe with England as a barrier against Slavism. A man dressed in sailor costume was brought up in a criminal court the other day upon a charge or stealing a pair of boots. ! I As he had no counsel, the court appointed a J young lawyer to take charge of the defence. ! The lawyer opened the case with a speech in which he alluded to his client as " a child of the sad sea waves, a nursling: o£ tbe storm, whom the pitiless billows had cast.J a forlorn and friendless waif, upon the shores of time, after a^ife spent in fierce and heroic contest with the raging elements." The evidence revealed that he was cook upon a canal-boat, previous to which he had hawked fish. Tbe " nursling of the storm, " is now in gaol for I six months. ,