In the Provincial ' Council last 'night, tho Appropriation Bill passed its first reading. Mr Webster! s motion for! |a select committee to enquire into the financial position of the province was, after some discussion, lost on a division. On the motion of Mr -Lumsden, Messrs Kinross, Wilson, Toshack, and the mover were appointed members of the Education Board. Mr Calder moved a series of resolutions affirming the desirability of re-union with Otago, and opened tbe debate on /the question in a lengthy speech. At the opening of Council, Mr Johnston tendered his resignation of the position Ol Speaker. Mr Wilsori accepted, 'the chair,, reserving the right to leave it if he desired^ to speak on any question brought forward. During the evening the "gallery" was crowded by an eager - audience, a fe — ladies being > accommodated^•* j wdthin— the barr""Th'e House adjourned at a late .hour, after an understanding had been_cQi_e_to _b_fc_aa —attempt would be made to force on the debate, but that : full time for deliberation should be allowed. A full report of the proceedings will appear in a future issue. arr bt. Rose, bookseller, has submitted for our inspection a handsomely bound volume of exceedingly well executed chromo-lithographs from drawings by Eugene V. Guerard of Australasian scenery. Apart altogether from, the artistic merit attaching thereto, as a specimen of colonial workmanship, it is certainly very creditable, and we understand that it has been patronised by a very large number of the leading gentlemen in the different Australian Colonies, who subscribed for its publication. The copies imported by Mr Rose are to be disposed of on the art- union principle. A number of our readers will Be pleased to observe that the Popular Entertainments Committee announce a performance on Monday evenin" for the benefit of Mr R. B. Wotton. The Committee take this means of rewarling that gentleman for the praiseworthy assistance he rendered them during the last series, and we trust the public will likewise testify their appreciation by mustering in strong forje on the occasion. The publication of The Echo has been resumed by Mr Henningham. Wo ha*e received the first number of the new issue, which is to be weekly. Mr Osborne requests us to direct attention to the sale to-morrow, at the rooms, Esk-street, of section 21, block 62, and section 15, block 69, town of Invercargill ; as also of section 6, block 15, Invercargill Hundred We are called upon to-day to chronicle the death of an old colonist, although he may be known in Invercargill merely as a visitor to this province. We refer to the late Mr J. W. Danby who died yesterday at the advanced age of 72 years. Mr Danby was well known in masonic circles, having on several occasions taken p»rt in the ceremonies of the local craft. We believe that he was also connected with the order of oddfellows, and we presume that both these bodies will pay the last mark of respect to a departed brother by accompanying his remains to the cemetery. The best means of preserving our wharves from the ravages of destroying sea worms is a subject of some importance. The Harbor Commission of San Francisco has recently had prepared an elaborate report on the subject. It is stated in that report that the piles can be protected mechanically against the ravages of the teredo navalis by driving flat broad-headed iron nails (the heads being about one inch in diameter), as close together as possible without overlapping into the pile within the limits liable to be injured, or between the bottom aud high water mark. This process is, however, found to be very ex pensive, and recourse has to be had to a more economical one. The piles are sometimes covered with simple sheets of zinc or copper. Tho only plan which effectually protects the timber against the effects of wet and dry rot aud the attacks of marine worms and insects, is one which has been adopted by Mr Bethell, viz., to saturate tha timber with a solution of creosote or pitch oil. The Bobbins process is an improvement upon that of Bethell's, and has> been endorsed by all the most scientific and practical men in the United States. The process is by carbonization, involving the same principles as the Bethell plan, and a company bas been formed called the Pacific Wood-Preserviug Company, to treat over 200,000 feet of timber at the rate of ten dollars per thousand.
Mr John White has been duly elected a member of the Westland County Council, in room of Mr C. E. Button, resigned. A correspondent .of the, Lyttelton writes ; : — With regarl to - the beist- method of cleaning the Phormium, tenax, I find the same process used in. the disintegration of most other fibres,; mnets • with the same success when ju liciously applied clwaufnlg^of the 'New Zealanitflax, aS T know from actual experience gained in tfuVand other countries dui'ing the last sixteen .years,- in-which-tt >ne- knave -experimented [ up;ons Plantain and \&*s™{ " Penguin, ftlo£s, jpme apples^ sijk^^a^joohro, nettleT ba^nhoo, &C, &c, besides sereral ot^er fibrous plants, the names of which I do notj at ! this instant recall. In all cases I find the great' requirement is water ; it i 3 impossible to have too . much if properly appliel. Water should Ibe applied simultaneously with the blow that bruises the leaf, or where possible, water should be running over the flax leaves in considerable quantities too at the time the blow is given to the leaf, by this means a clear white fibre is obtained. = ; The following notification and regulations appear in the New Zealand Gazette of Nov. 6 : — Her Majesty the Queen having been graciously pleased to extend to the Colonial Forces the grant of the Decoration conferred for. the War in New Zpaland, and the Government having taken steps to receive the Medals, applications in accordance with the regulations hereafter set forth will be received afc the Colonial Defence Ofiiee, Wellington, from persons entitle! to receive the medal. Regulations : — The medal will be given to all persons, whether belonging to the Local Forces or Loyal Native tribes, who during the war in New Zealand, were actually under fire in any engagement with the enemy, or were otherwise conspicuous for distinguished 'service in the field. It will also be given to the nearest relations of those who —-ere killed in action or died from wounds. 'The applications must' set forth the name" ahd (date of the action or service on which the claim is founded, a-'d specify the names in full of the applicant,' hia regimental .number and rank, 'and that of the corps to which he belonged, together with the name of hid' immediite commanding officer and that of the officer commanding in; .the engagement. Applications from the relatives of persons killed in action, or who-died from 'wounds, must be accompanied by. a statutory , declaration showing nature of relationship and claim. The medal will not be given to any person who, since the occurrence of the service on which a claim might be founded, has done anything unworthy of a soldier. All applications must be; made through the officer who imm "diately commanded '. the applicant in the engagement referred to, or, in the absence of such officer, direct to the UnderSecretary for Colonial Defence. The 'Patea district (says the : Wanganui Chronicle), is beginning, once more to assume the characteristics of settled and orderly life. The* occupiers of : land at Hawera have a reading club, which is itself an indication of ; the marked change that has come over the country. Two men who were engaged sawing timber on a hillside at the Thames, had a very narrow escape. Some goats which were above them detached a piece of -rock, which came down the incline at a trem^nJona rat©,, and the men had barely time to move aside, who« *Ke huge mass struck the tree at the very sppt where one of the men had stood. The New Zealand Gazette of the 17th inst., contains . the appointment of John Hire, Esq., to be Registrar of the Supreme Court, and Clerk to the Bench at Napier. The Engineer of the 3rd September states that the gum of the New Zealand flax is now being used in England in large quantities in the preparation of what are called "safety, envelopes." It seems that the gum when prepared for this purpose, " unites the surfaces of paper so thoroughly that no process of steaming ov soaking will permit them to be separated again " The "Rev. J. Thornton, Baptist Minister, late of Auckland, recently delivered a lecture at Maitland, N.S.W., on "The New Zealand War, its causes and cure." Of this lecture an Auckland contemporary gives the following abstract : — Th c causes of the war were legion, prominent among them being, in the lecturer's opinion,- the teach iigs of the early missionaries, who imbued the Maori mind with the idea that every acre of land in the colony was his by natural right ; the action of the New Zealand Company, who took a mean advantage of the ignorance of the natives, and purchased large tracts of land for worthless trinkets ; the treaty of Waitangi.which precluded the natives from the highest market, but limited them in the sale of land to Q-overnment only ; the morbid sympathy entertained for,- the Maori by Bishop Selwyn, Governor Grey, and others. He believed the only way to put an end to the war was to treat the natives as murderers, to seize the ringleaders and make terrible examples of them — a -very^effectual remedy,- no doubt, - but one- whieh the ringleaders have never seemed inclined to give us an opportunity of applying. Mr Thornton denied, that the Maori possessed the intelligence usually attributed to him, and he believed he was incapable of a high degree of civilization ; the lowest orders were very low indeed. In Westport (says the local paper) the Prince of Wales's birthday was partially observed as a holiday, and proved to be such a holiliy as Sunday is to some " without Bell's Life." It was decidedly slow. A maj >rity of the stores were shut, and so were a majority of the public oflices. Only a minute minority kept open voluntarily ; the Custom House compulsorily. Some hotels exhibited bunting, at others the proprietors' loyalty was as it should be, but their halyards were not. One or two boating parties were formed— some going above Snag Falls to eat hard sandwiches ; others disturbing the solitude of the lagoon by sounds from banjo and tambourine. A few went — " happy thought !" — dibbling for rock-cod. One gentleman and his top-coat formed an excursion party on their own account. If they had' a poor appreciation o£ what a holiday is, they formed an accurate estimate of the weather. It rained., ;In tjiei evening it ceased j to rain, and the streets became," brilliant" by! the explosion of squibs and crackers, or a very : occasional Roman candle. Each commanded,: on ah* svera'gei one ' spectator— the f proprietor of the individual squib or cracker, j People felt " pumped " by having a second WesN port Sunday so soon in the week, and went to 1 bed early, wishing no harm to the Prince of Wales.
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Southland Times, Issue 1171, 26 November 1869, Page 2
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