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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 179, 29 July 1879, Page 2

A New Plymouth telegram of Friday says : — The 25 ploughmen taken at Tikorangi were brought before the Police Court yesterday and remanded till to-day. Mahokoki in his defence said, •• Te Whiti has the land, no one else has any business with it. He has the right to command us, and no one has any business to interfere. Te Whiti is the ruling spirit over ua all, he always was and always will be j and that is the reason why we obey him. Te Whiti has talked this business over with Mackay, and told him that he wished to fight the question out with the Government. Te Whiti said that if any evil arose it should fail on himself. At each place where Te Whiti has sent men to plough, the ploughmen have submitted to arrest quietly, and we also have submitted to capture quietly." The prisoner on being asked to sign his name to this statement said, "I do not understand how to write now ; there is a spirit within which will not permit me to write." The prisoners on being taken back to gaol under escort threw up their caps, and chanted a song of defiance. A correspondent writing to the N. Z. Times with reference to the meeting recently called in Wellington waxes warm on the subject, and says :— Hitherto the city has behaved admirably, and shown all deference to the independence and high duties devolving on the supreme Legislature of the colony by not disturbing its deliberations in any way, and it is to be hoped this will continue] despite the efforts of a few foolish, or worse, demagogues. It is impossible for any large town to escape having such a class ; and it is the lot of Wellington, but not its fault that such now exists here. The stock-in-trade of these political adventurers is a fluent tongue, a brow of brass, an entire absence of honorable feeling, an insatiable greed, and a holy horror of honest work, and it is surely not likely that for these gentlemen of the pavement Wellington will consent to forfeit its honorable name among the cities of New Zealand. Mr Wakefield in his speech on Wednesday said that Ministers had a special liking for travelling at express speed. In the Middle Island for instance private persons were positively afraid to cross a railway for fear of being run over by a special train carrying a Minister. He gave instances of extraordinary extravagance in this direction ; among others, a case where both a special and express train had been used by the Minister of Public Works. In regard to the Hon. Mr Sheeban, the railway officials had absolute'y declined to stand it any longer and had refused to allow the Native Minister to travel any further unless he paid £80 for his passage money. He considered that the hon. gentleman was exceedingly lucky to be travelling with so much money in his pocket upon the occasion. At St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Dunedin, last Sunday morning, Bishop Moran referred to Pastor Chiniquy as one of the false prophets who the Bible predicted would arise. He asked the Roman Catholic* of the city not to act like those in Hobarton, but to pay no attention to what Pastor Chiniquy said, as he was a misled man, and the only thing they could do was to pray for him. The freedom of New Zealand from snakes and venomous reptiles is a matter of great rejoicing; but good people of New Zealand look well to yourselves, and see that no lurking serpent is nestling within you. You may be neglecting the stealthy encroachments of some deadly serpent in the form of insidious disease. Take the antidore ere it be too late. Whatever stage of disease you may be suffering, those marvellous medicines, " Ghollah's Great Indian Cores," can save you.