FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 141, 30 April 1879, Page 2

FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Masterton correspondent of the ' New Zealand Times ' reiterates his statement that Te Whiti has written to certain Wairarapa chief.*, asking thorn to be prepared, as the day of blood had arrived ; and adds that he could supply names of those who received the letters, they having made no secret of it at the time. ■ At a banquet given to Lord Lord Granville proposed the health of the new ambassador, and in doing so referred to the connection between the colonies and the Mother Country, which he maintained should be voluntary and not enforced by restraints. But when the privilege of self-Government was granted, the duty co-existed of self-pro-tection ; and, acting on that principle, the Government withdrew their small detachments of ,/troops from various parts of the globe The noble earl went on to say : li Now, my*.lords and gentlemen— I will not deny that in the period of transition some friction arose. I take for example New Zealand. There they yielded to what I believe to be a reasonable temptation, which is, when you accumulate Imperial troops in a colony, to wish to make use of them. Lord Carnarvon very wisely determined to withdraw these troops. He offered to the colony to leave one regiment, the cost of which was to be defrayed by it. The colony did not choose to make that

payment. The negotiations Avent on during the time of the Duke of Buckingham, and when I came in I felt obliged to give very peremptory orders on the subject. Great complaints were made, not unnaturally, when I tried to defend myself in dispatches, in which I did not, and have never been able to discover discourteous words. Complaints were made that he had insulted the colonists. The Governor, the local Government, the settlers, all said that with the departure of the troops the ruin of the island must come. We were told that there was to be a massacre of the whites. We were told that a separation from the mother country was perfectly certain. Well, I know that we Liberals are a timid and spiritless race, and [ know that it did require the little nerve I am possessed of to enable me to go on in the policy which I believed, not only for the mother country, but especially to the colony, was to its great advantage. (Cheers.) What was the result ? Was there a massacre ? Was there ruin ? Separation 1 On the contrary, there was peace, prosperity, and a more friendly feeling than ever existed before." How Lord Granville reconciles his argument with the continued presence of Imperial troops in Mauritius, South Africa, and in fact almost everywhere but Australasia, I cannot say. But the opinions of so eminent a Liberal statesman as the noble earl, speaking at a dinner to a Colonial Gover-nor-General, are at all times worthy of attention, and these latest words on a once well-known controversy will be read with interest even now, when you have thoroughly realised and reconciled selfgovernment and self-protection. The Kelly scare has somewhat subsided. The black trackers, under Superintendent O'Connor, of Queensland, have again started off, it is supposed towards the Wombat ranges, and other parties are looking for the trail. Kate Kelly is said to have put in an appearancs lately at a local racecourse, and became the observed of all observers. Ned Kelly has maintained his character for impudence by sending a £5 note as " part of the Jerilderie money" to a committee in the Rodney electorate, with intimation that he hoped to be present at the celebration of St. Patrick's Day. The example of the gang has produced many imitators, and created some enthusiasm in the larrikin element. When Mr ! Emery, the actor, read some time ago a telegram befoi'e the .curtain at the Royal, about the Kelly movements, there were many applausive movements to the outlaws, and one ruffian, louder than the rest in his demonstrations, called out repeatedly, "Goodjjoys. Sam, good boys.'' In the eyes of our street youth the Kellys are both dashing heroes, and are held in a? much admiration as was the character'ot" Jack Shepherd when the diama of Harrison Atnsworth's unwholesome novel was played a quarter of a century ago at a London transpontine theatre. There hav.e already been several cases of personation of the Kelly's and Steve Hart. Byrne seems altogether ignored up the country. In some cases substantial plunder has resulted, but the majority of mal apropos visits have been •made with an eye to the larder and rum bottle, and have passed off harmlessly enough. We had a case, however, at the Central Police Court the other day which may illustrate the effect of the bad example on our arabs. A youngster, lately employed as bellringer at an auctioneer's in Pitt-street, stole a watch from one of the assistants, and to induce a pawnbroker to receive it forged a letter, purporting to come from his (the boy's) father, saying it was all right. He got the mouey, and, in his own Avords, " went to Spencer's (a shilling evening entertainment), then to the Vic, and then had three plates of oysters, some icecream and a gingerbeer, and then I bought a pistol and sword to play Ned Kelly." After striking terror to the youth and aged of Woolloomooloo, he was brought before the Bench, and, at the intercession of his mother, sent to confinement for three days. It is stated that one of the first proposals that Government will make to Parliament next session will be to raise a four million loan. They have received a cable message from London, advising them that recent°New Zealand five per cents stands higher in the market than they ever stood before, and that New Zealand securities generally are very firm. In an apparently semi-official article, the ' Chronicle' to-night says:—lt is evident that if the time has not already arrived, it will soon come to be opportune to place another loan on the market. By virtue of the verbal assurances given by the loan agents to the Bank of England, the colony is prevented from arranging another loan before September next, and Ave should say that one of the first proposals to be made by the Government next session Avill be a fresh loan, the amount of wbi'.-h is not likely to be less than four millions. It is now plainly demonstrated that the Opposition in 1877 in reducing the loan from four millions to two and a half millions seriously injured the colony. Another million and a, half now at the disposal of the Minister of Public Works would have given the colony a lift over the temporary period of commercial depression by relieving the pres- [

sure on the Bank reserve, while it would have strengthened its position with the Bank of England and the English market by extending the interval of our demands —an important consideration with the fin uncial linns on whom so mucu of the success or! every loan depends. Sydney having achieved immortal fame on the cricket field and on the river, has put forth her champion in the prize and a fight for £SOO a side lately came off "satisfactorily" within the police boundaries of New South Wales. Larry Foley, the champion, is a colonist, not yet 30 years of age, of powerful make and nnsubduable pugilistic propensities, whose ■ostensible oc.-upation has been that of a publican, but whose attention is mainly directed to tutelage in the noble art of self defence. For all that he is a fairly well conducted .man, by no means of the larrikin type, "and in appearance an ordinary tradesman* Abe Hicken, his opponent, is a Melbourne chicken, and C/ L. W., or cliampion of the light weights, also a sporting pub-keeper, and a trainer ot the "fancy. 1 ' The promoters of the fight were the book-making Thompsons and Jim Mace, the English champion, who now keeps a gorgeous sporting saloon in Melbourne. Considerable interest was felt in the match by the Corinthians of both Colonies, and it was arranged to brrrrg, it off in Tasmania, but the Melbourne police prevented the departure of the Aldinga, excursion steamer, and the principals and backers were bound over in £SOO each to keep the peace. The mob then started for New South Wales, and were received at Echuca by a posse of police who had strict instructions to prevent a breach of the peace on this aide of the border. The combatants, however, managed to dodge them, and settled down on the following morning with out interruption, on a run near the Murrumbidgee, where the fight came off, and after 16 rounds—■ the longest of which occupied 22 minutes —the sponge was thrown up by the friends of Hicken, and Foley was declared the winner. Hicken was a terrible sufferer aboutjhe head and face, and now lies up threatened with erysipelas ; but Foley got off with a few scratches, and came up smiling twd days afterwards at the Central Police Court to give security for his appearance at Deniliquia on the charge of a sault with intent to do his opponent bodily harm. It is said that some of the superior officers of the Melbourne police force were heavily interested in the fight and connived at the whole affair. The suspiciou is somewhat strengthened by the fact that Mace, Thompson, and Foley, were allowed to leave for Sydney notwithstanding that warrants had been granted for their detention.

Tiie ' Figaro' publishes the following letter from a French marine respecting the King of the Zulus :—Mr Journalist, I write to you because 1 like your paper, which ffills on our enemies and protects us ; for I am an ex-sub-officer of marine artillery, ''/h'i>*tetired in 1867. Now I am well acquaintedjwith the affairs of the Zulus, for I passed,, three years in the 1 country as parkmaster. I am personally acquainted with Cetewayo. I made his acquaintance when he was Prince Imperial yonder. He gave his father much trouble, for instead of looking after his cattle, h n spent most of his time at Grey Town. There he amused himself ing brandy, smoking pipes, and leading a ..dissolute fife. He made the acquaintance of a coquette called Arabella, and wanted to take her to his kraal to avoid having to visit so often the " Generous Britain," where she Avas barmaid. But Arabella was afraid of being strangled by the other wives of "ttetewayo, and would not go without being Quarried in "Engnsh fash.ion. He promised her to send away ail others ; and as he- was far from his father, whom he dreaded, Cetewayo asked a clergyman of the English mission to marry'him publicly. The clergyman refused, being angry with the Prince, on whose territory he lived, for not allowing him to deal in brandy and powder, and only permitting him to preach. Cetewayo was very wrath, and vowed vengeance iigainst tl|§ missionaries in particular, and the I&Jfelish. in general. Soon afterwards he w;!s sent to the Transvaal fide, where he made the acquaintance of Joseppo Diario, a Portuguese, who furnished him. with brandy.'etc. Cetewayo did not pay, but Joseppo was accorded a slave privilege, and made a good thing of it. When I left the country the Zulus were beginning to pillage the Transvaal, thanks to Joseppo, who passed off as a wool merchant. The Zulus, aided by Joseppo, used to attack the farms, sack them, and keep all the plunder except the negroes, who were handed to the Portuguese. I should not be astonished if this very same Joseppo, who was formerly sentenced to death in the Mauritius," turned out to be the cause of the present war." The editor draws particular attention to this communication, and congratulates himself on the amount of foreign information he is able to lay before his readers. The Victoria -Fire and Marine Insurance Company is to be wound up and a newcompany formed. The assets, which amount to nearly a quarter of a million, will be divided anjbngst the shareholders. Nothing has b|jfp heard of the Kellys. The ten men knf|||i as the Kelly sympathisers, afterffnqng kept in gaol five months, have been discharged as no evidence was brought against them. A body was found in the Avon river Cliristchurch on Monday, of a man named Bush, who appeared, from a letter found in his pocket, to have committed suicide. The letter was to his father in England, and referred to an appeal for assistance which had been refused. It also mentioned a wife and child, and wound up with " You will soon be rid of one that you liked in time gone by to call 'son.' " The letter was addressed and ready stamped for transmission to "J. W. Bush, Soho square, Lincoln's Inu, London." The police are endeavoring to find out more about the unfortunate man. The 'Post,' in an article on the Waimate question, says it is not probable any definite action /will be taken on either" side relative to Waimate Plains until after the great Maori meeting at Te Ivopua next week. The article is based on a private letter from Te Whiti, a sort of secretary to Te "Whiti. The letter contains, among other statements, the following :—" Te Whiti at the Parihaka meeting bluntly accused Mr Sheehan of pretending to put out !he fire with the one hand, while with the other he secretly tried to re-kiudie the bl-'ize.'' They allege, also, that the boundaries of the confiscated land, as originally proclaimed,

have since been fraud nlenfciy !••:•..."■! so •■:h to include a lar. : e area of Nai;\e bind never legally coMiis--.it-d. The position taken up i.y"'£v"W!iiti :>.: d John is s;d 1 be tin-": T.:..;••• e.mid hi iiu ll (hey h;.ive S*e"n w<•'•■-■ f\-i bv t ! iu Government m the •v;>,rv •!=« :-.';> ct'- above indicated. They lie U:vd'ii:u G' VHi'iiu:enfc of trying to provoice them into \vrtr_Mi'cV secrecy w-ollccf-'%HK ::n armed cui^h *£:?. They protest 4%ed ;.: .>i'ong.-:, but utterly disclaim all liiten-" ; tion of trying to redress them by force of arms. \ Prince Louis Napoleon sailed from . Southampton on April 24th, on board the Union Company's s.s. Danube, for Natal. The Prince strenuously petitioned for a commission to serve with the English force in the Zulnland, but failing to overcome the unavoidable objections to the proposal, he has resolved to go out as a volunteer, and to attach himself in that capacit. to the column that is most likely to see the sharpest fighting. In a letter to M. liouher, iu which lie explains his motives for Ibis step, the Prince says:— "For the last eight years I have been the guest of England. My education _ has been completed in an English mildrry school, and I have strengthened my ties of friendship with the English army by taking part in i.'s annual manoeuvres. The war at the Cape having assumed a more serious character, I have wished to follow the campaign. I could not remain aloof, and not share the. dangers and fatigues of the troops among whom I have so many friends. Moreover, the time spent in witnessing the struggle of civilisation against barbarism will not be wasted." Hollo-way's Ointment and Pills.— Rheumatism and rheumatic gout are the most dreaded of all diseases, because their victims know that they are safe at'no season, and at no age secure. Hollow&y's Ointment, after fomentation of the painful parts, gives greater relief than any other application, but it must be diligently used to obtain this desirable result.. It has been highly commended by rheumatic subiecH of ail ages and of both sexes for rendering their attacks less frequent and rigorous ; and for repressing the sour perspirations and soothing the nerves. In many cases Holloway's Ointment and Pills have proved the greatest blessing iu removing rheumatism and rheumatic gout which had assailed persons previously healthy and in the prime of life.