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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 159, 6 July 1881, Page 3

I lUferbixg to Mr HursthOuse's resolution to the effect that thosa districts through which Government railways have bieu constructed should be rated io pay ttu difference between working expenses and receipts from such railways, and to the anoma lous position in which he, one of the Government whip*, jlaced himself in moving a resolution opposed by Ministers, the Pout says:---"It was obviously an indiscretion so amazing as to he, we should fancy, almost unprecedented for a Ministerial whip to bring it for a ard at all without the clear approval of his chief?, still more so f;r him to press it in defiance of their distinctly conveyed disapproval, and most of all to push it to an absolute douhie defeat of the Ministry. It was a singular and interesting spectacle to see Mr Hursthouse. Sir George Grey, MiGeorge, and Mr Moss all "pulling in the same boat" with such refreshing vigour. But it did seem to argue a most singular decree of party disorganization, and lack of Parliamentary discipline, for a Government to be "whipped by it 3 own whip." A recent Sydney telegram* says :— The efforts to christianise the Chinese of Sydney was referred to by Archdeacon King al the Synod yesterday. He said the ruffiadan; Tvbhh had iately developed, not only Einon.i; larrikins, but oiher classes, was degrading th • Chinese, who d-sily met in the streets oaths and curses, were turned out oi steamboats and omnibuses, pushed intc gutters and ejected with indignity from tram-car 3. May, the Chinese catechist, bad 65 of his couotrjmen at bis Sunday services, tut last Sunday the attendance had fallen to 20. He believed it would take ten yeara u> legain the influence which the Church had lost in Christianising the Chinese residents of the colony. The Dean of Sydney stated lhat he bad received a message from the Chinese catechiat to the effect that many Chinese were anxious he should tell the congregation they were wrong in treating the Chinese in the way they were doiog. Commenting on a case recently heard in the District Court the Wanganui JJeratu Bays that the evidence revealed an amount of youthful depravity and familiarity with vice of the worst description, for which the veriest cynic in Wanganui was totally unprepared. AVith our elaborate State Hchoo! system, our efficient police force, and countless Institutes and Young Men's Christian Associations, it seems marvellous that in our midst there should be growing up a population which can successfully emulate the vices of the heathen but can attain none of their virtues. At an inquest neld in Sydney on the body of a person named Buckley, a Gippsland squatter, his brother said that the deceased took a mob of cattle to gale, and received £159 and a draft for £20 cash. He was a strong acd healthy man, thirty-two years of age. He occasionally went on the spree for a week or two. The lanlord of the hotel in Sydney at which the deceased lived swore he ordered over 2000 drinks during three weeks at bis house. Shere is no doubt it was a case of alcoholic poisoning. Evidence was given that he was served with 100 ncbblcrs diiiy, and that thu landlord paid his own account by an order in Buckles's favour for £129. It's an ill wind that blows no one any good (says a the Wanganui Herald). The earthquake on Sunday morning has made the bricklaying trade very brisk, some scores of chimneys requiring repairs. Even where no bricks have fallen the mortar has become loosened, and in some places shaken out. The reault of the plebiscite taken by the South Canterbury Bible in Schools Association shows that 903 parents, representing 2314 children, were in favor of, and 87 parents, representing 239 children, against reading the Bible. All but seven small schools sent io returns. The Wellington correspondent of the Wanganui Herald writes :~A movement is being made by Sir Win Fox to abolish tho sale of liquor in Bellamy's. I am not sure that the effort is not in the right direction. It is a fact which cannot be "ainsaid that towards the end of the session, and often at the beginning too, certain members fall away from the paths of strict abstemiousness. A terrible diseasa has broken out amon" the Chinamen em; loyed on the Canada Pitcific Railroad works in British Columbia. The case of a Chinese cook will serve to illustrate the phases of this strange malady. He sat down, apparently perfectly well, to eat his dinner. His feet began to swell, and the swelling extended itself up his lega and body, reaching a vital part in about ten mm - utes, causing his abdomen and chest to expand in a most uonatural- manner, and he tumbled down dead, all in les3 than fifteen minutes from the time the disease attacked him. In this way the people are dying in dc?enj,