THE ARMED CONSTABULARY.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 160, 9 July 1879, Page 3

THE ARMED CONSTABULARY.

The news of the employment of. tlio Armed Constabulary to resist tho unlawful entry of Natives upon the property of European settlers, is the best ne-v's that has come of late from the Waimate Plains. The proper persons to pul down illegal acls are those to whom the business "has* been entrusted by law. Their action speaks to the disaffected of a settled purpose, and at the same time is likely to avoid unnecessary violence. The settlers behaved very well, but as they are naturally in an excited condition and not under discipline, the continuance of moderation on their part was very uncertain. The continuance of the ploughing is, on the other hand, if reliance can bo placed on the reports of the positive instructions of To Whiti, very certain. The orders (o (he Constabulary are, as our telegrams inform us, to warn off the ploughmen, and make arrests wh'm necessary. One party of ploughmen has been already removed, that at Oakura, but it was not deemed necessary to arrest anybody. From Hawera, m the neighborhood of which place the Natives were reported to be mustering in force for further ploughing operations, there is no news. As the prophet's directions to these people were, as the saying is, "to go in bald-headed," without thinking of consequences, we may expect when' the news comes from Hawera to hear of arrests. It .vould be an advantage to hear at the same time of the arrest of the prophet himself. The spread of disaffection to the Mokau district makes a vigorous policy more than ever necessary. Te Yf.etere, who was to some extent whitewashed not long ago in the matter of the "White Cliffs massacre, is reported to have made himself black again declaring war against the Europeans. Taken by itself this intelligence would not, if true, be very alarming, for Te Wetere is not a chief of sufficient consequence to produce a great deal of mischief. But taken in conjunction with tho fact that the European settlers at the Mokau have been warned to go, and that a steamer has been sent to take them away, the action of this chief looks ugly. Since Ileivi declared his respect for Te "Whiti's character, as he is reported to have done the other day in an interview with the representative of a Northern paper, there is no knowing what there is behind Te Wetere, When Kewi declares that the land claims of Te Whiti's people are just, it that there must bo a good deal of sympathy amongst the Waikafo tribes with that prophet in his present attitude. It is, of course, possible that Te Weterc's action at Mokau may be quite independent of Te Whiti, for' if we mistake not. Te Wetero never had. any interest in the Waimate plains. But at r,ueh a time as this any sign of smvadbig hostility looks very suspicious. It w uld not be surprising at any moment in hear that more troops are wanted to proceed at once to Taranaki.—' Lytteltou Times.'

A writer in the Echo has unearthed some remarkable statistics respecting the amount of public money received by the second Marquis Camden, who died a vear or two ago. As part of the reward to Ins father for giving up the permanent position of Lord Chief Justice for the insecure one of Lord Chancellor in the Chatham Ministry, a sinecure tellership of the Exehequer was bestowed upon the son, who had at (he time just attained his 21st year. The emoluments of the post then amounted to only L 2500 a year, but during the American War they rose to L7'ooo, and by 1807 to no less than- L 23,000 per annum. The subject was brought before Parliament by Mr Greevy, but Lord Camden still held his tellership, though he never had -anything to tell, and at the time he was forced to resign in consequence of the increasing scandal the value of the post was between L 30.000 and L 40,000 a year. On his resignation it was aggrecd to pay him a fixed annual sum of L 3653, and it is calculated that this eminent placeman had, when he died in 1840, received altogether the modc-fc sum of L 825.000 for doing literally nothing. Yvhatever gratitude the nation might have owed Lo rd Cli. ncellor Camden ','■ luusfc be admitted that they acknowledged it in a pretty handsome manner to the son. The Harrisburg Patriot is responsible for the following :—" Singerly, formerly proprietor of the State Journal, and State Printer for a term of years, who died suddenly after travelling from Philadelphia to Pittsburg one hot day about two years ago, was a very heavy man. weighing from 350 to -100 pounds. He was interred at Pittsburg. t Y few weeks ago the relative of Mr Singer!y made preparations to have him resurrected and taken to Philadelphia, where his parents and her relatives are buried. When th persons to wnom the work was entrusted had dug down to the top of the casket, they were surprised to find that no offensive odour prevailed The rough box was opened, but the attempt to remove the casket from it was ineffectual, on account of its extraordinary weight. When the lid was removed the face and body were found to have undergone petrification—they had assumed the colour of yellow marble, and the entire face and form seemed like one mass of marble chiselled frt>m a block, not one of the featun. s or linensrn'ii.ts being out of place or unnatural in the slightest degree. The body was raised from the grave by means of a block and fall, and was found to weigh, when weighed iVn- tr:!n=:port.at.iou to Philadelphia, 980 " It is 17 long years," as the man in {lv melodrama says, since a charming voung girl, well endowed by nature

, and aliT.'ul'- a trained vocalist, made, at i the ];•■> ,e! Italian Opera, and in the | part of .N mina, her first app■■arain-e on ; any stagy. Wie i- at pros- nfc pi- ■ Oeh •; twice a- lihl as siie was lima ; and i( j would i-.: little to say of her (dint as an artist she is twice as good. Year by year (remarksan Englishpaper),iMdauie. Patti’s voice has grown in fullness, richness, and power ; her execution has become firmer and more brilliant; and, a borne actress, she lias steadily improved in all the niceties of the . histrionic art. Her Lucia, the part in which she returned to us hist night, is not a more engaging impersonation in the year 1879 than it was in the year 31(12 ; but it is more intensely dramatic. Her singing is scarcely more expressive now than it was on the night of her debut ; but in shakes, scales, and ornamental gassage of all kinds she exhibits a certainty and a self-reliance which coidd not he looked for in a beginner ; and flights of vocalisation to which some years ago the epithet of “daring” might have been applied have now nothing audacious in them whatever. The only change we notice in Mdamo. Patti since last season is an increased fullness of voice—especially observable in the lower notes. In the finale to the second act, and in the mad scene, it is enough to say that she was, not “ plus Patti quo jamais,” as M. do Lenz once put it, but ns much Patti as she ever was. No one can surpass her; nor can she surpass j herself.