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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 83, 7 April 1881, Page 2

Theie is one person iv Eugland who at all events bad uo idea that coercion ia necessary for Ireland, lib h a parSoii, a baronet, an absentee Irish landlord, and and «tn Englishman—about as hopeless a combination as a Parnellite could desire for denunciation. Heis Sir Cavendish Hervey hosier, rector of Theydon Gaittoti, in the lov*i^ wilds of Epping, in EBtex. This reverend baronet has an estate in Louth, one of tha counties ouppoßed to be the worst in Ireland. When the day came for the collection of his rent hesent instructions to his agents to deduct 10 per cent. The tenants unanimously refused to accept it. " Notning new in that," perhaps you say. Patience 1 They refused to accept it because they declared that their rents were low etioilgh already, their landlord a good and considerate one, and the harvest sufficient to cover his rightful demand. They therefore-insisted upon the agent taking their rents in full. A finer testimonial to a landlord has never been presented in our day. "In Sydney the administration of justice by Justices of. the Peace has reached such a pass that it is frankly confessed In Parlia: ment that the time has arrived when it will be necessary to dispense with the services of unpaid Justices, and have Stipendiary Magistrates. The Chief Justice bad occasion recently to animadvert on a case in which a license was granted under circumstances so disreputable that the Government have been compelled to cancel the license, and treat the action of the Justices rs null and void. The subject of packing the benches of the Police Courts had ftlao been brought up in the Legislative Council by Sir Alfred Stephen. .Tho evil is also rampant in Melbourne, where, iv the notorious Stephenson case, twenty-six Justices turned tip on the Bench to assist the Police Magistrate in coming to a decision as to whether the Customs had been defrauded or not. — Post. The competition amongst fire insurance companies at the present time is very great ; so much bo that it is hard to understand how dividend! can be obtained. Aa an instance of the anxiety of some of them to do business, we understand that one of the local offices took a large stfm (i: 1 0,000) on a flour mill in . the country at ISts 6d per font; and the agent is now running all over Dunedin tryiDg to re-iu3l )r 8 a. part of it at 20s per cent, but he cannot get it done at my price,— Oamaru paper. The Bey« Mr Byng (says the Dunedin Star of Monday) was very severe last night on those who neglect or refuse. to contribute according to their ttieltos to tbo sdpport of the church, lie safd there were dottie who were extremely careful not. to put afourpenny instead of ft ibreepenny piece into the plate, while others offered to tile Lord mutilated or defaced coins that would be ''shoved awuy at the grocer'a counter and refused at the bank." They did not mind giving that which was of no talus to themselves, but were not prepared to make the least self -sacrifice on account of the cburch. If people contributed accorJing to their means there would be no necessity to resort to tea-meetings and such^ like expedients to raise funds for the work of Gai. No one ever heard of a tea-meeting being got tip for tiiicli a purpoae as^ say, the repairing of the Caledonian grand stand. No ; if an appeal were made for such an object doe man' would put his uame down for XlO, another for a conp'le of guineas, a third for half a sovereign, and so on. But when it came to a collection for the church, instead of pounds, sixpences, and threepences — many of them so knocked about as to be worthless — were handed io. Such liberality was not creditable ; it indicated an unwillingness to make a self-sacrifice tuch as God demanded. Mr Collins, Eeuter'a agent in Melbourno, sends to the Argus the following memorandum:—"As an instance of rapid telegraphing, it is perhaps worthy of being noted that the news of the assassination of the Czar was generally known in the Australian colonies several hours before it could appear 1b print in the English journals. Renter's telegram containing the announcement was dispatched from London at twenty-five minutes to 9 p.m. on Sunday. It reached the Melbourne telegraph office at four minutes past 9 a.m. on Monday, thus occupying two houra fortynine minutes only in transmission, allowiug for the difference of time. It was nublished or posted outside the offices of the Melbourne papers by a quarter-past 10 a.m., equivalent to twenty-five minutes to 1 a.m. in London. As no paper is published in England on Sunday nisht, it thus appears that the news was made known in Australia at least four or five hours before it could be read by the public at home." A correspondent writes to an exchange : — I have known farmers whose reapers were never housed ; whose tools were left where last used ; whose yards were carpeted with manure that had rotted for years ; whose cattle wore sheltered from the wintry blasts ouly by gnawing boles in straw stacks ; whose front yards were ornamented, not with lawn and shade trees, but with pig troughs and cob 3. Perhaps theee sturdy sons of the soil attributed their bad luck to tha tariff. ; to some bloated monopoly ; or the contraction of currency ; or to high rates of interest ; never dreaming that the same waste and carelessness manifested by them would bring to poverty the men engaged in other businesses. The following is published as the Nihilists' programme:— The Nihilists may and ought to aspire to office, dignity, and honor. They shall mutually help each other with all their might. They shall denounce the false brethren aqd the suspected. They shall employ every means to assist tbt revolution, which consists in the most utter and radical destruction of the existing order of society. No more monarchy; no more recognised religions; no more property; tha land belongs to all; the soil is like the air, everyone has a right to sustenance; no more administration; no more armies. Kings, soldiers, priests, judges, the possessors of privileges and of wealth are our enemies; at these we must direct our blows. Sentence of death is passed on every official of the Empire who shall Bhow himself directly or indirectly hostile to our plans. The Hey Dr Someryille, who will be remembered by many, through his earnest ministrations some two years ago, has commenced a tour through Germany. Hia first public service waß well attended. His labours in Germany do not seem to be bo highly appreciated as they were in the colonieß. If appears after one of his services, the Doctor received two communications, one a post card, the other a letter from an unknown friend — threatening him with death if he did not quit Elberfleld that evening. Notwithstanding these threatening letters, Dr Somerville went to the meeting which had been advertised to be held on that evening. He said he was at a loss to know what offence he had given, as ho did not assail any party, and was not controversial. Dr Somerville then proceeded with hia address to the large audienoo, by means of an interpreter, as he baa done in Franoe and Jta,ly.

The corrf eponclenfc of the Dunodiu St>r, writing from the Lake District, says :— Sir Arthur Gordon was very reserved, and rightly so, as some persons were toadying and annoying him by continual " talking at him " His Excellency evidently wished to escape " boredom," aud the only way to obtain freedom from the infliction was by a series of polite snubs to those who either would not or could not understand the proper position they should occupy. Says a writer in the Oamaru Moil :— "One hundred and thirty-five pounds for the privilege of selling drink upon the racecourse during a two days' meeting ! What food for reflection is here presented ! What scope for the eloquence of our moralists 1 What a fruitful field for the employment of acute arithmeticians! I fancy I cau see one of these figure-wise gentleman arraying before an astonished multitudo a calculation showing the enormous number of " refreshers " that the i)"? nd possessor of the privilege must sell in order to L^e a profit ; for mind you, in addition to the ?W sum paid for the right of sale, he must also pay for his stock, for fitting up stalls, for car.°e c ? for waiters, &c. Tell me, then, ye profound calculators, how many glasses of "creature comforts," aB they are euphemistically, but cunningly, termed, must the vendor sell in order to recoup himself. Then tell me how many acres of land, how many teams of bullocks, how many horses nnd drays will have been swallowed by the bibulous. This is tho way some of the Paris papers chronicle fashionable arrivals : — "The beautiful Lady Dudley has just arrived in Paris. 'Lady Diulley is one of the most beautiful 'wbmen in Great Britain. She is thirty yenfs old— ihe ftge preferred by Balzac ; her eyes are blue, her features adorably delicate, arid her figure as otliereal as that of a sylph. She takes gloves at s£, and boots at 25£ (4J| English)." The fi.ecodd prtea in the Wanganui Sweep on the Cup rttce was won by Ernest Wilkinson, who is awaiting his trial at New Plymouth on a charge of embezzling Govern' ment moneys. It is a strange fact that a similar occurence took place in connection with North's sweep on the Wellington Cup, of 1880, the third horse beinp drawn by a prisoner then serving a bard labor sentence. The imperial crown of Germany is of gold, heavily set with yeirls, and about a foot high. Tho Sceptre ia about two feet in length, and made of silver guilt. The globe carried in the Emperors band is of the finest gold, 3J inches in diameter, surmounted by a cross that blszes with gems. Two circles surround the globe at right angles, both enouß'ed with jewels. A Paris correspondent writes: — " As soon a«i the impress JSugeoie suajl have definitely settled doWn in her new residence ut Farnborough Hill, it is her intention to publish, rt volume she herself bus written duii'ig her residence at Chiselhurst, to be entitled " History ot the Life ftnd Death of lie Prince Imperial," compiled from hitherto unpublished documents. After tbie history, the Empress purposes to give to the world another work containing unexpected revelations concerning certain political men of the present day who are not as yet sufficiently known. An ex-Minister of the Empire, in possession of his Sovereign's confidence, supposed to be no other than M. Rouher himself, has assisted the Empress in putting together the notes that Napoleon 111. was wont to write every day during the course of his r-Mgn, and which, in 1870, formed several voluminous parcels that have been preserved." The steamer Akaroa (says the Christchurch Telegraph) is bringing a cargo of about ten tons of cheese from Le Bon's Bay which is i iteuded to be shipped to England by the New Zealand Shipping Company's sbip Orari, now taking in tftrgo for London, in which a compartment has been fitted up to hold upward* of sixty tons. The dairies in the neighborhood of Akaroa and adjacent bays are using every effort to make the shipment a success by forwudmg every cheese they cau get. The following "shark story" is told by a Sydney paper s — " On Sunday afternoon, whilst walking along the old halfpenny bridge across Blackwattle Swamp, Glebe, I saw somo boys standing close to the water's edge. Whilst watching a valuable retriever dog, bs'onging to Mr G. T. Brown, an engraver, of the Glebe, swimming about in the water, a monster shark, about 15ft in length, was seen to approach, and almost immediately afterwards seize the unfortunate dog, biting it in two pieces. Ho thsn nnde off with the head portion. The shark was not satisfied with thw exploit, however. On the tail end of the dog floating ashore, the boys drew it out of tha water and began to examine it. Whilst the boys were holdiug the remains slose to the water's edge, the shark to their utter amazement, swam closeup and snatched the piece out of their hands, obtaining a firm hold of the tail in doing so. On getting out into deep water another shark came up* and a fight for the booty ensued, the original possessor coming oft victorious. This sama brute then went to another part of the bay, and performed a similar operation on another dog." A monster Bhark, estimated to be 30 fept long, attracted some attention in the Napier hubor the other day. The fish at one ime took half the circaee of a Bheep, which was lost overboard from the Sir Donald and was floating about the harbor.