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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1879, Page 2

The Fost says :— "lt Is stated that Captain M'Gee, the able and popular commander of the s.s. Wellington, has decided to retire from the service of the Union Steamship Company, and to enter iDto business in Wellington. He has our best wishes for his success in his undertaking." And there are hundreds of others in New Zealand who have been in the habit of travelling with Captain M'Gee whose good wishes he will also possess. In the course of his recent address to his constituents, Mr Bowen said:— As a matter of fact, we do not know what floating debt we have to meet when the House is called together. lam sure we shall have to meet a considerable amount of liabilities, and liabilities of promises incurred. We have had another instance during the recess of the utter contempt of the present Government for Parliament, in the commencement of the Thames Valley railway, of which the Premier recently turned the first sod. Will it be believed, living under a Constitutional Government as we do, that the Thames Vailey railway has not even been authorised by Parliament ? Yet such is the case. It was decided to construct a railway from Waikato to the Thames at a point where navigation commences there, under certain conditions, but those conditions have not yet been fulfillpd. Not one word was said about carrying a railway to Grahamstown alongside a navigable river for miles, and I never dreamt that the work would be done without authority. I say again, that the Premier, in thus commencing a railway in the district which he represents, has committed a scandalous breach of Constitutional law and Constitutional principle. And all I can say is, that if the House tamely submits to that, as it tamely submitted to the Tapanui business last year, when Mr Macandrew made a railway, without the consent of Parliament, in Otagp, then we need not boast so much about our freedom in New Zealand. If such things can be done with impunity, then we had better give up all ideas of liberty and freedom, and be content to give under a system of tyranny— the greatest l example of which that I can conceive is that the Government should be allowed to spend the taxpayers' money without the consent of the taxpayers themselves. Commenting upon the honors recently conferred on some of our fellow-colonists the Fost says :— Mr Larnach's elevation to the degrity of C.M.G. ia most astonishing. A tolerably successful land speculator and Bank manager, with a millionaire uncle,, he, after a comparatively brief residence in Otago, managed to get a seat in Parliament, and by a fortuitous occurrence of circumstances found himself, during a political crisis, forced into a position of prominence simply because be was a rich man and bad no political history, attachments, or.it was was thought, enemies. Mr Larnach, however, soon showed that these negative qualifications but poorly compensated for the positive disqualifications which he was lavishly possessed of. He held nominal office for a brief time as Colonial Treasurer and then' departed for England onasemi-public mission.There he has, to the intense astonishment of his fellow-colonists, picked up a Companionship of St. Michael and St. George. Certainly he never did anything in the Colony to deserve this or any other recognition of public services, and when we find Imperial honors thus conferred on men whose claims are so slender as those of Mr Richardson and Mr Larnach, it cannot be wondered at if their value becomes depreciated in the eyeß of the world. An honor conferred on met not deserving it ceases to be a true distinction and lessens the value of the honor itself to those who really earn it. Another instance of the absurd method of dealing with Maori offenders against the law (says the New Zealander) is shown in our telegrams. A Maori chief chooses to obstruct the passage of a railway train, by placing sleepers across the rails; a most serious, offence under the Railways Act He has been arrested, or rather as it has been mildly put, "brought in," and charged with the offence and remanded, but allowed to go at large under surveillance, virtually in custody, as stated, " though he does not know it." Why was not this Maori treated as a European offender would have been for this offence; either called on to find substantial bail or locked up ? Save yourselves. The time has come" when it behoves all sensible people who may be suffering the tortures of Rheumatism, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Liver Complaints, Biliousness, &c, not to allow themselves to be trifled with, and the cure of their maladies delayed. AH these complaints can be speedily and effectually removed by the use of those never-failing remedies, " Ghollah's Gbbat Indian Cures." They can be had of all Chemist^ and obtain from them the testimonials given by well-known Colonists who have been cured of longstanding disease, - I