COLONIAL INDEBTEDNESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1851, 28 November 1884, Page 2

COLONIAL INDEBTEDNESS.

. '{lrtm artiole.on - the]colonial debt, the Marlborough Express says:—The Session is now over, arid; we are in & position to give the 'exact amount udded-by'-.Parliament to: the colonial indebtedness :-New Loan for P£s; Worksi i -fl 1 50Q ) Guarantee, fop East and West. Coast Middle Island, £750,000" •; Harbor, £150,000; Wistport Harbor, ; Gisborne papier Harbor, :i300,0,00;; ' toD? £sfb,QQo, To for the purchase ofi'tjie''oißtfidt railways; which, though terJHiSecl by-the Legislative Council, €e; with' the concurrence of have determined to accompHgt' By a side wind, The total of actual indebVednsss sanctioned in a single session is thug, brought up ; to £4,150,006 i the North Island Trunk Line has ..teen also sanetioned, and a further miBM must be raised for that, the fatal Cis i ls0 l ooo.''; r ig amount „.were added -th&*feaponsibili-jj.ie.B.-w.hich' 1 the" colony ibisf entered intq. jn, connection. with "the East and West Coast and Nelson Extension Railway.Syndicate, the last sesßion of Parliament-.has- Sir Julius Vogel to -.pledge the credit of New Zealand to somewhat about the eight millions we originally predicted. The 580,000 inhabitants of thfitoony, including., men. women, and cmldren, had an indebtedness at the beginning of the. present-session of-Puilio Loans, £30,000,000; Municipals! Harbor, £2,000,000; total, £s,oQipo. An extraordinary struggle witfka dog has occured at Eduighton. TBe animal which was a cross between the mastiff, and a St. Bernard, suddenly attacked the son oi its:'owner, and threw him to tho ground. The son who was about'lß years of age.:\vquld' in all probability have been killed had not hia sister come to his rescue. -She bravely seized the dog,by the collar and by great exertions managed to hold'him seas to let her brother get from under it. A. desperate struggle;., then- ensued between the girl and the,infuriated animal, and the latter at last broko loose, ; >and. again set upon the brother. • Once rjiore his sister pulled the creature off,; and another sister-.coming to betrescue, thejyvo. the dog, whicf "has Bi'nce beiPshot. The;young man and his sisters have had their wounds cauterised and are now doing well. ..a ~ ~ ( . A pathetic story came to light:atin\ intjuest held at the' St' Clement Danes Vestay Hall, London,, on the body of ' Mrs ICacWell, ageil about 60 vears. It appeared froni the; evidence that the .: deceased, who charwoman, was a person of superior-education, and that > she had always-been very reticent ; when spoken to-'about' lier : '*'family. Little, therefore, was known of her, 1 She had occujiied.a,room in a lodginghbßße and had carefully guarded I .againib any intrusion ;.&&■; th&room, ; " 'even by7the J^dladjs^| tt "thls'ioom, 5 in which sKe had Bt a Bingfe article oj , furniture, *w ili'e ■ meoMies^uy--^ resulted froirßftry^iwyr^^yerdici^e ■ ■ this ■■ Aiuridug , place in' : H^' :V .. Court .recently'.,'. By ; an AcV.of-Parlial j nient paied in ihejeign of Charl.Sij|p irregular'' marriages' were'' declared %■} I legal aud.-.punishable/ M&r this' \ statute a young-man .and a- y6tfn'S[ W^' : man were brought before Bailie Half; charged themselves to be husband an 4 .: 1 wife in the presence pi witnesses with* - out registration or celebration, They"' » pleaded guilty, and two witnesses hay'-' r ing deposed to the correctness of-, the,., J charge, the accused were each fined one* . shilling. The curious facts connected'' with tho case are that the conviction becomes legally recognisable as a.cele-: bration of marriage, and the doouttenfc : recording the. conviction..-becomes a'certiticate of marriage to the registrar.'- ! The execntioner for'tho county of York'' * Billington, of Fariiworth, hW appoinieof '* ,- as his deputy % H. Somrhy * Bridge and Sipponden, printer, newaVgenM 4o It is stated that there were 'betwehu 200 and 300 candidates lor the officp.>. *- It is learned that: MissEmife|?? Wheeler, daughter of.A.' Wheeler/ Rockford, has been elected of modern languages in the Ohio uJBI' VA ■ versity at Athens. She is the only' : * lady in the faculty. .'..-. ■ ;.;.' f« Arrangements are being ma'de'ln"' various parts of Scotland for giving"'"" girls in.the last years of their atay at - school practical instruction in cookery, At present there are only thirty-sis schools in Scotland in which cookery is fought, .■':•.. •* Of the Viceroys of India, the first, Lord Canning, was English; the second ■ Lord Elgin, Scotch; the third,-Lord " Lawrence, Irish; the fourth, Lbrii ' Mayo, Irish also. The fifth, sixth, and. seventh-Lords Northbrook, Lytton, and Ripon-were English; but now the appointment'of the Earl of. reestablishes an Irishman on the J regal

NEGLECT IS OFTEN AS FEUTILE A CAUSE. OF SUFFERING as tho disease itself. Human nature, warned as it is by rcpcUcd examples, is.prono to forgot the salutary lessons they inculcate ami apt to lose by determent) tho good it may rcclcve from prompt and decisive action. When tho means a c within our grasp, it Is Blmost sinful to alio* their escape, and hoso who overlook the virtues of UDOLPHO WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AKOMATIO SCHNAPPS must sttnd forever self-criminated and repro.uhwl. Cuiied of Dbinking.-"A young iticml of mine was oured of an insatiablo thirst for liquor, that had bo prostrated his system that he was unable to do any business. He was entirely cured by hopbitters. It allayed all that burning thirst, took away tinappetite for liquor, mado his nerves steady.. and be has remained a sober aud steady mar for two yean, and ho has no desiro to return to hiß cups."—From a loading It.R. Official Bead Well's "hough on Corns". Ask fc; Well's "Rough on Corns." 7Jd, Quick relief, complete, permanent care. Corns warts, bunions, Moses, Moss & Co., Sydney, General Agents.—Aivvt. Flies and nrjfls.-Mcctles, insects, roach? & ants bed-bugs, iats, mice, gophers, juc W rabbits cleared out by " Rough on lta s ,7Jd. Moses Moss tCo,, Sydney, Gener .' Ai:enr?. :l „;