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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1881, Page 2

The Post of Friday last says:— "His Worship the Mayor and Mr J. H. Wallace carried on a most energetic canvass of the city yesterday on behalf of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway, Their efforts were most gratifyingly successful, a large number of ehareß being taken up, many by tome of the leading business men of the' place. The prospects of the undertaking are now verj bright, and the provisional director! are exceedingly sanguine of success. Directly after the clock struck twelve on the night of 31st December the whole of the prisoners' for debt in Scotland were liberated, in'- accordance with Dr. Cameron's Act. Twenty five men and two women irere s&t free from Glasgow Prison. As' thpy passed out of the gates, carrying with : them their beds and bedding, several hundred persons w t hb were waiting greeted them wfth .cheer*. The following Extraordinary resolution was passed by the 'settlers in the Waipu (Auckland) district lately:— "That any collector of the said 'dpgtax visiting Waipu be considered socially on a level, of degradation , with the common informer, and "be treated as a voluntary outcast from all . possible as- j sociation with any respectable member of society." " Mr Hannaford, the collector, baa protested against beicg insulted in this manner, and requested protection feom the Government. Referring to the bankruptcy of Mr Mills ;iron merchant, of Wellington, the Pott ! says :—" Great sympathy with Mr Mills is felt ' on all sides, and we express the public sentiment in hoping that he may yet surmount ; his difficulties. There are many struggling | and deserving mep. in Wellington,, who have ! found in him a good friend aud,- benefactor,; while he pbssessed the means as well aai.^he,' will, to help them on. The wor lcings claseeSj also lose in him a generous and Urge (employer, of labour, at a time^whenvsttojlqanj •ill be sjiarea, and the city misses ope ' of its

most energetic and enterprising mercantile niflu. -Froni every point of view Mr. E. VV. Mills" failure is" a public calamity. : r The fallowing is the programme of the.Governors movements— '•His Excellency leaves Wellington by the Jlinemoa nex.ii .Thursday, and reaches Ctixistchurch on. the following day. He Will retrain there qn Saturday and Sunday. On Monday, the lithj he proceeds by rail to Dunedin, where he stays on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday, the 1 7th, he goes by Mil to Invercargill, where he remains over Friday, proceeding on Saturday, by rail to Lake Wakatipu, and staying 'there over Sunday; On Monday lie travels' from Kingston, via Waime.a Plains Railway, to Dunedin, and probably will remain there until after the Dunedin races "on the 23rd, stafng by fail for Christchurch, en route for Wellington on the 24th, and arriving here on the 25th. , The annual meeting of the -Hew Zealand Loan Alia Mercantile Agency Company was held in London on the 4th February last. The report stated that the net profit for the year 1880, inclusive of £8170 ICs 2d brought forward from the preceding financial year, was £63,168 15s 93 which the Directors recommended should be applied as follows, vizi— To payment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, and interest on calls paid in advance on old shares £31,376 9s j payment of bonus at .5 per cent, £15,637 >\6ii reserve fund, i£10,000?' to 1 be carried 1 forward,- £6 54 16s od. In July last an ad interim dividend was paid at the rateof ten per cent per annum, amounting, \yjth interest on call* paid fa ndvance, to, £15,688. 4g 6d, so tbat there remained lor disftribution the sum of £47,480 11s 3d. Tbe dividend and bonus proposed were equal to tbe maximum of previous years, and the addition of £10,000 to the reserve fund raised that fund to £170,000. Sir F. Koberfc3, the corquering hero of Candabar, and so styled "Saviour of Afghanistan/ says the •' Good Templar Gem," is the son of a clergyman of the Established Church, Waterford, Ireland. His brother, Samuel V. Koberts, is one ot the Commissioners of the Board of Public Works in Ireland. Sir F. Roberts is a member of tbe Order of Good Ttmplars and a staunch teetotaller. He has a Good Templar lodge attached to every regiment under his command, S'r Garnet Wolseley ia also a total, abstainer. The excbaDjh of abuse in the Legislative ! Assembly of New Sbirth Wales j sometimes J would put a Billinsgate fishwife to the blush. In the papeis by a late mail, we find a report of a scene io the House between Mr Mcllhono and Mr Buchanan, when the former charged tbe latter thus: — "He would not refer to the hon. member, but he would say that if he had put a man in the madhouse, and taken that man's wife for a Concubine ; if he had got tbat woman's son iuto the public service of the colony « if he were in tbe babit of denouncing such practices and still were guilty of them,' if he refused to stand for a constituency until an hon. member paid £20 on his account. ; if he occupied the position of some people, and bad been lugged about through the country townships in a wheelbarrow in a state of beastly inebriety, be should be ashamed to enter that chamber." The Buller News of Saturday says : — Five vessels in port, is not a matter we are likely to take much notice of when the Koranui Company has finished its branch line and are putting down coal, but so far the circumstance is noteworthy as being unprecedented. t Unfortunately there is, so to speak, no coal down, tho output from the Westport Colliery Company being of late most meagre. The why and wherefore this should be thus, is I accounted for in differeufc ways. On the one | side it is said to be owing to whisky having found its way up the bill. On the other, it is attributed to the existence of a state of thinks akin to that on board the "Pinafore," as expressed in the captain's song. '"Oh say, why is evftrj thing at sixes or at sevens." However it may be, we shall be glad to see the vessels loaded with as little delay as possible, and trust, for the credit of tbe port, thut it won't occur agaiH. The following paragraph appears in the Morning Herald of Thursday i— Yesterday's proceedings of the Resident Magistrate's Court were interrupted by an incident which ie doubtless unparalleled— at least in the annals of the Dunedin Courts. A solicitor in one of the cases elected to give evidence, but whilst on his journey from the bar to the box, either from bodily infirmity or more I questionable causes, he exhibited a desire to quarrel with the chairs. His Worship, evidently desiriug to maintain etiquette in Court, i indignantly exclaimed, "Mr , you are not in a fit state to pleai, and you are even in a less fit state to go into that box and give evidence. I will not take you or your oath — you are intoxicated, I warn you against ever again making your appearance in this Court in the state you are now in. I shall bring the matter before the Judge of the Supreme Court in some way." The case was then adjourned, for a week. It ia a very curious fact, and one which may well »ft political economists thinking, that; while England teems with money which can find no remunerative outlet, and literally swarms with people, many of whom are skilled cultivators of the soil, a very considerable area of her soil is literally going out of cultivation. Ifc was stated at the meeting of the Farmer*' Alliance this week that in almost any county in England it would be posiible for a man who really mearjt good cultivation to get 3000 acres of land in England for nothing. It would seem as if the English farmer has had such a terribl e experience of late years tbat when once he gets his neck out of the noose of a rented property he is afraid to put it in again under any condition whatever. — Correspondent iV. Z. Htrald. Tbe London Timet says :— Already the mines of Tasmania are beginning to astonish the world, and to make millionaires quite common in a country where poverty seemed to have made its home, and whence energy fled in despair.