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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1306, 10 April 1883, Page 4

I Mr Oscar Wilde says hl. mission to reform ; the taste, and dross of the Americans has I been a failure. He has been in New York I for a month and has been entirely neglected. 1 He never was regarded seriously in any part |of the country. The public got us much fun i out of him as possible, and then dropped ; him. At the National Agricultural Society of i Victoria, during a discussion on the necesI sity of obtaining increased population. Mr i Lennon, an agricultural implement maker, I urged that there never was sufficient labour I in the colony at any time, and now nearly i everybody of both sexes seemed to intend j going out on strike. The colonial financial year 1882-83 terminated on March 31st. It will necessarily be some little time before its results are definitely known—indeed, it is possible that these may not be officially disclosed until the Colonial Treasurer brings down his Budget. We believe, however, (says the “ N.Z. Tinies”) that the general results will prove to be of a very satisfactory character, notably in regard to Customs, Stamps, Beer Duty, and Property Tax, all of which are understood to have fully come up to the estimate. Johnny Moran, the well-known Irish comedian, died in Adelaide last month, blind and 1 hard up. ’ Intelligent people make many blunders, because they cun never believe the world as stupid as it is. How many people would be mute if they were forbidden to speak well of themselves and evil of others. The Commissioner of Crown Lands in -South Australia says :—That during the last two years he had remitted the payment of interest to thousands of farmers, many of whom had previous remissions. In fact, all they had paid for their land during the last six or seven years was the first deposit of 10 per cent. As regards water conservation, the Government had constructed 12 large reservoirs, holding an aggregate of 11,500,000 gallons, beside wells and dams.