LECTURE ON LAND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1516, 23 October 1883, Page 2

LECTURE ON LAND.

Mr Coleman Phillips with his recent mystic lecture on land appears to have roused some innocent and commendable curiosity. He laid down two principles Ist, The State was not to be trusted with land; 2nd. Tho people wero not to be trusted with it 1 Who, then, is to be trusted with it 1 This conundrum remains unanswered unless we assume that Mr Coleman Phillips alone is fit for such a responsibility. Mr Coleman Phillias' lecture teems with interesting material—there is a grand prelude, but just when the interest of the navrativo culminates the Delphic oracle appears to break down, The testimony and experiences of past ages are ranged before us, but when we ask what is their lesson the response from the shrine is simply "Bo I" We are told to read the 25th chapter of Leviticus, Dr Smith's smaller history of Greece, Dr Smith's smaller history of Rome, and Messrs Wallace and George's books, If any of our readers follow up this recommendation we venture to predict their minds on the land question will be quite as confused as Mr Coleman Phillips',

The Maslcrton Borough Council meets this evening. Wo are sorry to hear that Constable Leahy, a very efficient officer, is about to be transferred from Masterton to Wellington.

The Canterbury Young Men's Christian Association have written for a free copy of what they aro pleased to term " our valuable paper." Lot them render unto Csesar that which unto Csesar is due, viz,: seven and sixpence per quarter, and these pious young men shall have it.

Country settlers should take advantage of the opportunity now offered them by the Wairarapa Acolamatisation Society to store their creeks and streams with trout. The stock in Masterton has to be cleared out and is being sold at a nominal price, viz., ten shillings per hundred, Early application will have to be made to secure supplies and prevent disappointment. It is suggested that the best way of keeping them for a time is to construct a small poud and feed them in it till they are big enough to look after themselves, The return cricket match married v siujjlo will be played in Mr W. Dixon's paddock on Saturday afternoon, woathor permitting, when, in view of the mstoh with the Midland Club on November 9th, a full muster is anticipated, The ground committee have made arrangements with Mr Geo. Dixon for the use of his paddock for matches during the season, and the work of preparing it will be commenced at once, New York has 140 pawnbrokers, who are said to hold property to the amount of £'4,000,000. The Parcels Post brought to the House of Commons the other day a small tree addressed to Mr Gladstone, J, W. Mackay, the. San Francisco millionaire, is said to be negotiating for an English Duke's residence.

The Lancet has made the discovery that there ia no more powerful apparatus for the conveyance of disease than a book,

The latest Yankeo" notion" is zino tombstones, which are now sold in New York at from sdols to 25d01s each, These articles do not rust, are more durable than marble, will not chip easily, and will stand any climate. The spread of teetotaliam in the United Kingdom |ia reporting itself in an augmented consumption of tea, The falling off in the consumption of wines in 1882 amounted to more than a million gallons.' According to the verdicts of coroners' juries fifty-eight persons died of starvation in London in 1882. This number may include cases in which abundant food was provided, but nature was unable to assimilate it, It is stated that the Dutch Government has decided not to grant the Bum of 30,000 guilders which Baron Nordenskjold claims as the discoverer of the North-east Passage, According to advices received at Plymouth from Shanghai, H.M. ironolad Audacious having temporarily grounded, a panic ensued and two marines jumped overboard and were drowned. Don't die in the hodse.—"Bough on Bats" clears out rats, mice, beetles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, inseota, moles, jackrabbits, gophers. Moses, Moss, <6 Co,, Sydney, General Agwts,

• The Wellington Meat Export Company are busily engaged, savs the N.Z. Times, in preparing their shipment for the b.s. lonic, which will leave here about the 11th prox, Ah'oady 3800 sheep have Been refrigerated out of:6000 carcases whioh will comprise the shipment. • The mutton is of the very best quality, and the majority of the sheep were grown in the Wairarapa district, Some 800 or 400 sheep are expected to arrive from Blonlioim aB a sample lot, and these will be refrigerated and will form a portion of the lonio's cargo,

We call attention to the programme of the New Zealand loan and Mercantile Atjenoy, as published in our advertising columns, for the wool aeason of 1883-84.

| Mr J, Evans Brown, M,B;R, for Si, I'Albans, arrived in Maßterton last ovening I for & short visit,

The Makara quartz sent to the Thames for crushing has yielded at the Herald battery 45 ounces amaltjam from ten tons of stone. Ono lot of 68 bags produced 43joz, the other, l|oz. When retorted yesterday the result was IGoz lOdwt, of a richer color than ordinary Thames gold, It is stated that the new German colony which has been purchased from the Hottentots by a Bromen firm comprises 150 Bquare miles, and extends five miles inland, It is intended to work copper and other mines, and open up trade with tho natives,

The Queen of Denmark, mother of the Princess cf Wales, is an accomplished painter, and has lately presented the little village of Klitmoller, in Jutland, with an altat-piece entirely executed by her own hands.

<■ Hungary is becoming quite a silkgrowing country, In 1881 there were 2976 producers, who turned out 41,537 kilogrammes of cocoons, releasing 40,000 lloains. A State sohool has been established with the profits, Nearly all the officers who held commands in the German army during the war with France have now resigned. The promotion of the junior oifioers has of late been unusually rapid. The Duke of Westminster baa given 11000 and a site of six, acres of land towards the erection of a church at Caerfallwieh Northop, near Chester.

For the week ending July 24, the number of patents granted in the United States was 395, of which 360 were to American citizens, and the remaining 35 to foreigners, These do not include trade marks and designs.

It i 3 reported by a oontempovary that the Duke of Richmond claims (and has exeroised) the power of preventing widows who hold leases under him from marrying a second time without his consent, the penally being the forfeiture of the remainder of the lease.

Canada, it appears, is doing a large busjness with New York in frogs, Progs, which at one time were deemed the exclusive diet of the Frenchman -who, indeod, took one of his soubriquets, that of Johnny Orapaud, from this rather doubtful form of diet-are held in groat osleein by Yankee gourmands, As tho latter are people of taste, and have a very wide field of choice, this compliment to the amphibious edible protes its excellence Frogs—or their legs, which are the only part consumed—are very luscious eating. In appearance they resemble the most delicate chickens' wings, and their flavor is a curious blending of various exqusite tastes.

Rait & Hare's 2s Gd tea unequalled for purity and flavor.' Try it !—Advt, Tho Spring imporlationi of Mantles, Jackets, and Costumes, per steamer Doric, are the latest outcomes of fashion, and quite cast into the shade anything previously shown at To Aro House. The delta is a. handsome dolman in tho new Ottoman trimmed with chenille fringe, lace," And gimp. Tho Lydia is a charming visits in black cashmero, fully trimmed with lace fringe and jet ornaments, The Rosello is an exquisite dolman, of extra length, in broche silk, and is richly trimmed with fringe and jet passemeneria. The Zoraidc is a very handsomely-trimmed dolman in Ottoman silk, of tho newest and moßt fashionable shape, Tho Kobiha, in soleil cloth, is a perfect gem of a visite, and is trimmed with lace and passementerie. A host of ladies' capes in cashmero, Ottoman cloth, brocke and Ottoman Bilks, chenille and Bilk netted, will repay an early inspection. Abut 200 choice costumes for ladies and children, and in satoon, cashmero, ohsoked Nuns' cloth, &c., are now being exhibited at To Aro House, Onba-stroet, Wellington.—[Advt.]