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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3312, 2 August 1879, Page 2

;An amusing story comes, from Canada, which shows that the trials of Governorship do not weigh so heavily upon Lord Lome that he cannot enter into the humour of a joke with his fellow-country-men. Two Glengarry Highlanders, long settled in Canada, made their way to Ottawa to pay their respects to the Governor-General. They were inspired al3o with a laudable wish to shake bands with un hereditary foe, the Macdonaldfl and. the .Campbells having in old' times been always at feud; On arrival at Government House, the first persons he

met were Lord Lome and his aide-de-camp. Mistaking them for footmen, the visitors asked whether they thought the, son. of MacCallum More would care to have two Macdonalds call upon him? Whereupon, Lord Lome, entering into the joke, declared that the GovernorGeneral could not hate the Macdonalds as ohe. of the plan was his Premier, from whicli it-was also clear that the Macdonalds had forgiven the Campbells. Forgiven ? A Macdonald forgie or forget Glencoe ! Only when he's paid for it, and Sir John gets hiseght thousand a.year, for Bat mdh;;' but he deil tak' me whether we forgi6 : or forget. Fearing the interview might grow stormy Lord Lome discovered himself, and so handsomely refreshed his Scotch friends that they, too promised to forgive and forget,' dieelaring that they acquitted his lordship of all " responsi-, bility; in;;the Massacre of \ Glettcoei"— Home News y ; i ; .■,; ; ,r:r;ytiH :■•■•'. ?-■'> I

The Herald says that the following is the propoied programme of the Liberal Association :—l. A progressive land tax. 2. Abolition of plural voting at local government elections/ 3. Sending members of the House back to their constituency when they join a Ministry, 4. Ke-disfribution of' .■eats'' '6n *'■ the;,;; basis of population.' 5. iManhood suflFrage. 6. Parliaments. 7. Exten« sion of the powers of local governing;- bodies. Yi\la^e settfettientts; giving * *26 """acres.;; jpf * land to' each working man, "with a, residency of seven years, and no payment till the end of the term. 9. Encouragement of local industries. 10. ? , Charitable, aid on the revol-, untary basis. 11. Payment of members. 12. A responsible Government in its fullest sense, v 13. Transferring- to the /Judges of the District ■ Courts the functions now discharged by the Supreme Courtj and making the pregebt. Supreme Court Judges[;of ■ A^eal,' #hp f should hold sittings in all the centres of population every three months.' 14, The ■ modification of .our jla^s'., ''^S^^Btesitnc^ : tion of Chinese^^^m^rati^^Vlo. Aib.QlitiojfoT the honorarium ■!tp'WemWri,.ofrtJie i . : Legislative Assembly.

I At a meeting of the Auckland Chamber , of Commerce on Thursday? the Secretary j submitted a Tmemoria] } \?hioh had ;\been received from' thCSyjdney Chamber of j Commerce, and was addressed .", To ;the I Cftambej? w of Cpmme.rce f and Mercantile 1 MenYofthe^ United pfjAmeridltf>y> I the Chamber* of Commerce of Au«tralia ■and New Zealand,'' Ita object is to induce the men'of "America to j agitate for a rempval,of,the:heavy imposts •which ..effeetually close- its ports- toColonial products. Free, -cordial, and extending commercial relations were I desired be^weenf /the^^ respective countries and the desirability of repelling the prohibitive restrictions ,w,as. therefore ,Htrongly■•* set^ outr !iThe'; memorial," after being discussed, fSr tho jconsideratipn of a, special^meejting of the Chamber. i! "';.■':,","; .' ■• j A GOBHESPONpiNT sends us the follow-.i ing :«--'|Advanced Liberalism at the Thames An Association is, about to be formed at the Thames, whbs^/ leading principles will be as follows;;^fr A clean plate for every adult-membbr of "the 1 population of New Zealand to begin"with. 2. Quinquennial division of all property in New Zealand among the male adults. 3,.Universal suffering;.to be abolished;' 4. An act of parliament to be passed in the. next"! session' to carry out these dbjects." „....,'_