Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1895. COGITATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1743, 29 May 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1895. COGITATION.

• This above all—to thine own seif be Ira®, Ind it roust follow as the night the day Thou cansb not than b® false to any m&a. Skakesfearb.

“ He that calleih a thing into his mind whether by impression or recorda- • .tion, cog-tatetb .and considereth ; and he that eoiployefh- tbe.faoulfy of his fancy also cogitateih,” , . —Lord Bacon. Another important case under this Act has occurred at Wellington. The facts

Workman’s Lien Act

are the following: —• A contractor undertook to •uild abridge with a clause

* • -■-> ■ t • • o for maintenance period. “He could not .proceed for want of capital. The local authorities took over the contract,, but the contractor. owed his .workmen a hundred pounds ;.in - wages. They apply to the local authority for payment, Tho local authorities, promise to pay\when the conditions of the contract are completed, -. and; state 'that they have no funds to pay from. The solicitor for the workmen urges that the local authority; should* have kept (according to the provisions of the Act) a quarter of the contract money in hand to pay such claims. The men are,to sue fpr the money.

It is one of the aspects in the present political situation, that should the sections of the Temperance move- . meat supporting the Temperance . Government, and that Question section which refuses its

■ ■>.confidence to Ministers, at any time coalesce, the result would narrow down the Ministerial majority to an exceedingly narrow margin. For this reason'a good deal of importance is. attached to the opinions of the more proDiinent advocates of temperance, who sit on other than the Ministerial side of the House. The following is on extract-from the speech of Mr H. D. Bell. He advocated the most drastic legislation for the regulation of liquor traffic, including local prohibition by a bare majority and colonial p:ohibition by a majority of districts ; and the American system of the re sponsibißbf of hotelkeepers to persons injured through drunkenness or to their relatives, and also for the sup-1 - ■ M

port of those impoverished by the drunkenness of their relatives.

The Nelson Evening Mail in a recent article says : “Mr Ward is now expected back early in July, so that .-it. is not likely

The Treasurer

that Parliament will

know anything about the Financial Statement until he fixes up the figures: therefore tho first few weeks in the House will bo comparatively tame. For a Red-raw-Radical, J;G. has found his; way into very toney society in L ndon, and he is emulating Dibbs, of N.S.W., who went home as a Republican of the sternest type, and Came back a K.C.M.G. Our Treasurer’s departure from London will notbeuntil some days after the Queen’s Birthday, and his friends are cocksure of his returning with a handle to his name. Some think he will only obtain an ordinary colonial knighthood, but the more sanguine admirers consider his transcendant abilities entitle him to a peerage- —the title, Baron von Bluff—and his badge a six pointed golden star, with the emblem 3 per cent in the centre ; his Secretary following him with a despatch box marked Liquid Assets £3,000,000.