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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 267, 21 November 1879, Page 2

A New Plymouth telegram of Wednesday says:— Te Whiti did not say much at the Parihaka meeting yesterday. Tohu was very bounceable, saying that the Government could not make laws affecting them; everything was at bis disposal. When he sent the Maoris to turn off the surveyors he did not do so to provoke discussion between men of wisdom or the Government and himself, but for the purpose of picking a quarrel with men of quarrels. The time, however, bad not yet arrived. I

The Members of General Assembly ifill was on Wednesday night introduced by the Hon Major Atkinson, and read a first time. The chief clause is the third, which runs as follows!— " T^ere shall be paid to every member residing &t a' distance exceeding three miles from the building or place wherein the General Assembly is summoned to meet the sum of £210 for every session at which he attends; and to every member residiog within three miles of such place of meeting as aforesaid the sutii of £157 for every session at which he attends." As an incident of ocean travel, it ia stated that a fashionable New York lady, who cannot drink tea out of any but her own china. has drought a .stilt against one of the steamship companies for breakages. It appears that she had her own Dresden cups and Baucers in the steward's pantry, and that during a heavy blow one night all were broken. Daily Newspaper. — A Boston editor has been refused membership in a church on the ground. that he works at his business on Sunday. The newspapers want to, know how many of the church members refuse to read a Monday morning's papers. I think the newspapers have the best of it. If an editor conducts his paper in such a manner as to serve the truth and glorify God, why should he not be allowed to do on Sunday the work which is necessary to enable him to ptepate for his issue of Monday ? One of the imprisoned directors of the Glasgow Bank was fioholy(?) that he would not countenance Sabbath-breaking by reading Monday's paper, people who •• strain at gnats and swallow camels*' are tery numerous yet.— Christian Siqnal. The Truth. — Adhere rigidly and undeviatingly to truth ; but while you express what is true, express it in a pleasing manner. Truth is the picture, the manner is the frame that displays it to advantage. The Chromograph — This is a new invention for the rapid reproduction of manuscript, and is being" Introduced by the Chropograph Company, 36, Farrington street. ft deeC/si likely to be exceedingly useful to persons who wish to reproduce a limited number of exact facsimiles of their letters. The M.S. to be copied is written in a prepared ink and impressed on an absorbent surface. From this surface from forty to fifty copies may then be rapidly printed off by merely pressing the paper on the surface. Old Saws and Modern Instances. — An old Grecian philosopher advises all men to know themselves. The American Rochefoucauld, on the contrary, suggests that people should shun disreputable acquaintances. The Post in writing on racing in Wellington says.'— lt is a. fact that the general public are steadily losing whatever interest they once had in our races. There have been ad many bare-faced swindles perpetrated on the Hutt Course, and passed over without re- | mark by the powers that be, that the people do not care to subscribe money towards en- | couraging such practices. Neither do they care to witness races which have been previously squared to suit bookmakers or Tirtualiy determined by the drawing of a sweep. Under proper management we are convinced that the Wellington meeting might by this time have been established as the principal one of the Colony and its Cop regarded as the blue ribbon of the New Zealand ;turf. The Wellington people have shown every inclination to patronise and support genuine sport, but their confidence has been so often betrayed that it is scarcely to be wondered at that they are now rather shy. Mr Henry Richard, M.P., read a paper at a recent meeting of the International Law Association on the armaments or Europe. According to his estimate there cannot be less than between four and five millions of men always under arms, at an annual cost of nearly £650,000,000. A half dozen drugs seetn3 to be sufficient to combat all kinds of disease. During the last Turko-Rnssian war the medical staff! of the Russian army ordered 38,0001 b of quinine, 16,0001b of chloroform, 130,0001b castor oil, and several thousand pounds of opium, gum arabic, camphor, and carbolic acid. With these they felt prepared for ail emergencies. She Did.— What to him was lore or hope 7 What to him was joy or care ? He stepped on a ping of Irish soap the girl had left on the topmost stair ; and his feet flew oat like wild, fierce things, and he struck each stair with a sound like a drum; and the girl below with the scrubbing things laughed like a fiend to see him come. An old Dominican monk has been fatally stabbed in a street in Rome by a man who advanced towards him saying, " It is time to finish with you fellows." Commander Ball, of the steamship Blenheim, has brought to England from British Guiana several specimens of an insect locally known as the borer, from the habit of the young, hatched on the sugar canes, of boring their way from top to bottom of the cane. In the absence of rain for the past two years, this insect has so multiplied that one-third of the loss of this year's yield is attributed to its ravages. The London correspondent of a Liverpool paper says that Turkey has contracted with the Providence Arms Company, of Rhode Island, for 600,000 rifles at £3 6s apiece, and 300,000,000 caps. The total value of the contract is put at £3,900,000. The terms of payment are not stated, but urgent delivery is called for.