LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 106, 23 August 1876, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A civil sitting of tiie District Court will take place to-morrow, before his Honor Judge Ward. At a meeting of the Football Club, held Jr.st night, the team to play against Dimedin elected Mr. A. Y. Smith as their Captain, and also appointed two sub-committees —one t«"> -see thai the ground is in proper order for the match, and the other to make arrangements f«>r a dinner to lake place after the contest. It was decided that the uniform to be w->rn on the occasion should be white Jersey and trousers, blue cap. The planting on the Canterbury railway reserves, north of the River Styx, was completed last week. The J.ijUHicn Time* says the total number of trees planted will be about 7.3,000. The l)a<lij Ti-lr.),\tjih understands that about ll'l) Celestials are ni>w employed on Mr. ('Jake's contract at Pakuratahi, ami that they arc giving satisfaction. The average w<>rk is almost as much as that of a similar number of Europeans, their wages are slightly lower, and as they are (juiet, steady, and inolVefisive. they are on the whole valuable. At lirsir the British navvies on the contract had a '>tron<; prejudice against John Chinaman coming near liiein, but this feeling, we understand, is gradually wearing away, and John Hull begins to admit the sterling qualities of John-Chinaman. i Commenting on the complete refutation 5f the charge'brought against the Hon. Mr. Reynolds by Mr. Stout, in reference io Uiverton Harbour' "WSrks, the Caiiterbuly Pro** says :— ■'' AVe dornbt envy Mr. Stout his position. There has been a very great deal too much of'this sort of thing during the present-.SesSieii.*' 1 -"'Attacks-- oh the personal integrity of Ministers,' and wholesale charges of venality ami 'corruption',' unsupported by-a particle of pvi'l^jtec,, and repeated in the teeth of flat contradiction, have been among the favoritejvejapous of th.c Opposition, fjir Ccorgc Grey_and Mr. Pees arc, we fear, jncorrigi&ie. ""l)o£ "Mr.' Stout may, perhans> learn a lesstjnr We/believc he has some je" gard'-for his good name, and it must be pain-ful-to»''hifn -tii" be "openly denounced b\f a number of liis.fellow-citizens as a retailer'of falsehood.' But the exposure will not be without its good, if it teaches him in future to abstain from gross imputations on the honor of public men," which rest on no better authority than bar-room scandal, magnifted into fact by his own pmrient imagination."

I • According, to the Auckland film; the Cotfi.l/,)itiidvf;Jlrid, like the Plutnix of anfciquijfj", .[ has .risen once more from its ashes. I|ie Ooromandclites-are a-peculiar people. "WBjle the M'HI was in'existence the}' witlidjajw [ their support; but no sooner does it collapse I than the}- hasten to the rescue and set it'^pn [ its feet again.- -'A*£elogram from Coromanflel ' to thdAucklahd ftl-ar 'sa-ys :—"The business and mining interests would not allow the 'J/fiif to'fall thfbueh. and in one C " • vr. people subscribed as much as would placeit on its legs again. A i . .Some'"copies of i Western Australia have. been left ; office by Mr. Morris, of. this' town (says , the Ihni'jitibf They i literary curiosity' in their way, and are »riot \ devoid of interest as showing-'the rdpd strides which jounialism hasdiiade of'kite years. - Among them is ?copy or the seeffU& '■ publieatirtasof the Guardian r q& | March 6th*lS33. It is a small demy oc^ol of eight pages, and is published -at the *£<?«' ■ rate of Is. per copy.!. From 13 ofiifcne WeMern j refreshingly candid *paragr%h :—" A pwi&j^

much longer than we anticipated has elapsed in the non-production of 'this paper, and we candidly confess we have seriously debated with ourselves on the policy of again putting it forth, for reasons we will explain. It is unnecessary to enter into a detail of the various circumstances which operated in the delay in the publication, because many of them are well known to the colonists, and are of no interest to our friends in other quarters. We shall content ourselves therefore by offering one cogent reason, which will be conclusive; it is simply this : the paper did not pay even the wages of one journeyman printer, and we did not choose to work any longer on such terms. The fact is, the population of the Colony is too small at present to admit of a reasonable hope of a work of this nature being made a source of profit. Influenced by these considerations, wc purpose for the present to only issue this journal occasionally, at periods when, from the nature of events, it would be likely to become a desideratum." Mr. Morris has hies of several of the papers from their commencement, and anyone curious in siich matters would have no great difficulty, we believe, in negotiating for the transfer of their ownership. Members of the Assembly who pay their accounts at Bellamy's regularly, are very indignant just now with the House Committee in consequence of the indiscriminate issue of a circular stating that " the amount of upwards of £7OO being outstanding at Bellamy's, members are requested to pay the sums due from them at once ; and for the future to pay their accounts regularly once a week." They think it should only have been sent to those who are in arrears. If- about a hundred gentlemen, in seven weeks, between them managed to run up debts to the amount of £7OO, Bellamy's must do a line trade, as many of the hundred never spend anything in the establishment, a great many pay cash for what they have, and still more do pay their bills regularly. It is stated by some of the indignant ones that a large proportion of the £7OO is due by members of the late Parliament, but those who have succeeded to the seats of the defaulters do not hold themselves responsible for the liabilities of the previous occupiers.

"How happy could I he with either." The following is the political creed of Mr. Carleton, as laid down in a letter to the New Zealand Iftrold : —" I believe that the two men who have most injured the Colony (politically are that brotherly pair, par vobifn fro.lriim, Grey and Vogel; the tirst from his advent, in destroying the political morality of the Colony, preparing its easy fall before the tempter : the second in Lis appeal to the baser passion of cupidity in a scheme for sacrificing the future to the present, ' bring money into the country ' — in plain English, putting money into pockets ; in Parliamentary language overwhelming the Colony with a debt, which may pay if it can. But if, on the other hand, Vogel thinks proper, with the plain assent of what you call ' the people/ to destroy what 1 believe to bo the most fertile oasis of jobbery—the .Provincial Governments —to smoke out some nine or ten wasps 7 nests, I am unable to see why I should be debarred from giving what support I can, so far as that, at all events."