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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 189, 9 August 1879, Page 2

The Council of the New Zealand Rifle Association (says tbo Post) held a special meeting last night. The balance-sheet and report showed that the financial position of the society was satisfactory. It haviog been resolved that the programme for the next firing at Nelson should be published three months before the contest, the meeting was adjourned until after the assembling of the new Parliament. In the course of hi 9 charges the other night Mr Barton contended that a man had a perfect right to get drunk in his own house if he thought proper. That, he said, would be even admitted by the hon. gentleman the leader of the Opposition, Good Templar as he was. Would an officer be justified in arresting any hon member if he should be drunk in Bellamy's (Laughter.) Such a thing might happen, and he might say such a thing had happened. (Loud laughter.) An Auckland telegram; of Tuesday says: —A native disturbance has occurred at Nate we Bay amongst the natives. It arose through the chief of one towu directing his followers to plant taro on land belonging to another town. The men who felt themselves aggrieved proceeded to pull up the laro planted, and while doing so were attacked by their opponeuts, and a sort of free fight ensued, in which one man was killed by blows from a club, and another seriously injured. The chiefs of the two towns appear to be more to blame than their followers, who only obeyed their orders. All parties concerned in the fray have been taken into custody, and no doubt those most deserving will receive well merited punishment.

Cholera nas appeared at fmost of the cities <>f the Pnnjaub. In Peshawur it is threatening to raise an obstacle to the prompt with•crewal of the troops from Afghanistan. The New York Times says of t"he Isthmus Canal : " For ourselves, we owe our immunity from international brawls, our peaceful prospects, our freedom from Ihe paralysing burden or standing armies, to the doctrine, that nations as well *s men, should mind their own business. Europe is an armed camp, and its military expenses sap the resources of her various nations, because each insists upon a concern in the affairs of the others, and all have common or conflicting interests, in one direction or another, jv y are ext rfcmely jealous. It would be an evil day when any such conflict of international Interests should be permitted to obtain a foothold on this hemisphere. The United States especially are concerned to prevent it. The Isthmus canal looks much like an entering wedge to cleave a place for European interests, with all the contentions in which they are continually involved. As a French enterprise, or an European enterprise, it will be a menace. As an American enterprise, it might be a blessing. Our commercial concern in it is far greater than that of any other nation. Our political concern in it dominates all others. The preaent project; under the txisiting auspices, and with the prospects distinctly forshadowed, is opposed to our interests in «very way. We should give it no countenance, and should not fail to provide ourselves with a distinctly-defined and strongly-forti-fied vantage ground, with which to meet the questions of the future if it goes on." Jonah in the whale's belly was safer than those who, being swallowed up of sickness and disease, yet neglect to take the only remedies that can save them. It is an indisputable fact that" Ghollah's Great Indian Cußrs " are the surest restorers to health of any medicines ever yet discovered. Persons wbo had been ill with Rheumatics aud Gout for over 20"years have been cured by these meritorious medicines. Sold by all Chemists joe testimonials.