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WELLINGTON.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Pahliamotahy

Like Scobic Mackenzie's now historic " wounded worm" the debate on the second reading of the Customs and Excise Bill has, during the past week, been dragging its weary length along. Last night it concluded, and the Freetraders discovered themselves a compact minority of 28. Every member, or nearly every member has had his say, We hove had speeches grandiloquent, conversational, scornful, deprecatory, condemnatory and approbatory, but every orator, as he rcso in his place and fixed Mr Speaker with lii.s eye, really looked away and beyond that stately oilicial and in imagination addressed himself to that, to him, more sacred auditory—" My Constituents,

Cui Bonn /

And of what use have these streamlets, these-rivors, these oceans of talk been ? i)oes the country, do members themselves know one whit more of the respective merits of Freetrade and Protection than they did before they started ? I think not, The average member—and most of these gentlemen are very average—regard these parliamentary speeches, their own and oth.ers, much as Tennyson's Northern Farmer regarded the parson's weekly sermon:

' An' I halhis coniod to Ghooroh afoor may

Sally will' (load. An' 'ccrd 1111 a bunimin' may lolke a buz-

zard-clock owcr my yeail, An' 1 nivei 1 hiave'd wliot a mean'd but I

thowt n'ad summit to saay, An' I thowt a said wliot a owt to 'a-said, and I coomed away.

As so our patriots'. Tliey do not always know what they mean, or what their neighbor means, but go 011 bravely ' inimmiii'' away, and when they have said what they deem ought to be said, " they cooked awaay." But the cost of it all! "fwould be interesting and instructive to discover what this debate—this dobato that liftfj graved ijothing, explained nothing altered no mail's' preconceived opinions-has cost the country. Would that our legislators would do their speechifying as a certain hill tribe of Indians do their prayerswrite them 011 paper, put them into a box witli a wheel, and grind away. Pahliamkntaby Elocution. Parliamentary eloquence would no' be quite so unsupportable jf parliamentary olooution wero not so 'dreary a thing as it is.' British and Colonial youths learn a lot of useless lore at school, but seldom or never learn to read aloud or to speak in public decently. With one or two exceptions our representatives apparently conceive that the thundering exhortations fif the fold preaclier, or "the prosy iWuhderings of tl},a old-style Anglican

clergymen, are'the beau ideals of delivery, The consequence is that'the unfortunates in the gallery are doomed to listen to one eternal sermon. The voice may be different, but the inflecions and intonations are nearly identical. TheO'Callaghan always preaches a funeral sermon; Fergus vociferates as 0110 who would frighted Satan by shouting at him,; Fulton gently fulminates, Perceval reproveth sin after the manner of a Ritualist curate; Buxton's political efforts are of the hollelujah order; Barron monotones like a country Rector; Pylte deliveves himself of a muffled piety like all Army Chaplain grown grey and obese in the consumption of mess dinners and the relation of good stories.

Horses for India,

Tho Indian Government has requested tho Victorian authorities to make public the fact tint they require 912 Remount horses at an average price of 642 rupees, or, at current exchange £sßlos sterling. This estimate will include delivery in India, and reckoning, freight, feed, veterinary charges and attendance, I calculate the vendors should realise from £3O to £4O per horse. The Victorian Government have telegraphed to India for information regarding the class of horses required. The usual army remount is a line, upstanding horse or mare from 1G to 17 hands, and from 8 to 4 years of age-age counting (in English) from the month of May in the year in which he or she was foaled. The Indian Government, two or three years ago, appeared to think that remounts from Australia should be acclimatised to tropical heat (in the northern territory of Australia) before they were shipped; As, however, army horses in India are always, save when on the march, tethered in covered-in lines, I imagine the Victorian and New South Wales horses—by no means tenderly nurtured animals—would take kindly enough to tropical Bengal, and the handsome treatment they would meet with there. Even the half-bred Arabs, heretofore fashionable in India, suffer a good deal from sore backs when first they leave the luxuries of cantonments to take the road, but care and attention soon put them all right. The 1)1 ew Zealand horse might not however do so well the first hot season.

Bbacken Silage,

Some of ray agricultural readers may be interested to learn that the common bracken makes, according to the North British Agriculturists splendid silage. Specimens sent to the above named paper shewed a very high percentage of nitrogenous matter and a very large amount of albumen. Sheep greedily oat it and thrive upon it, The plant must be cut when it is very young, long before attaining full growth, before the curl is off the leaf. Likewise a high temperature must be attained in fclio stack to procure good silage,

The ' Have-His-Coki'us or Lo Pak, The application to the Supreme Court of New South Wales forawritof habeas corpus on behalf of Lo Pak—on of the Chinamen alleged to be in possession of an exemption paper, and refused permission to land by the Government was the occasion of perhaps one of the most able and interesting speeches aver delivered by an Australian lawyer. Mr Salmons, Q.C. who represented the Government, made tho speecli in question, and it will amply repay perusal. Mr Salmon's dedefended the action of the Government on grounds which however novel, appear unanswerable notwithstanding that the judges ruled against him. Briefly stated his argument was this, viz. that any laws that related to the entry of the Chinese were treaty laws and not the common law of the country. That, m the matter of treaties the judges had no jurisdiction, tho power of the sovereign being supreme. This is a very rough and imperfect way of slating the contention of Mr Solomons who said: Here the Queen's perogative is the sime as it is in England. Would anybody say that foreigners have a greater right here than they have at home ?" Mr Justice Windeyer replied;" Tho Governor cannot exorcise the perogative of which you speak,"

Mr Salomon's i "Yes the Governor can exercise it. The power in any country, whether it be a limited monarchy, a republic, or a colony, could prevent the entering of any subjects of a foreign nation into that territory. . . Your Honors admit that the Queen in England can prevent any foreigners coming into that country, but that here we cannot." Lo Paks aliases, It appeared 011 the affidavits that Lo Pak's name would vary according to the district of his native country in which he found himself. In one district be would be Lo Pale, right enough, but in another be would be Ah Pak; moving 011 lie would fiud styled Al} Bupk, and ii) other places li Bik, This, if true-anc] is it not true-must confuse the mandarins and others having authority in far Cathay. Fancy a man being Ah Brown in Auckland, All Jones in Wellington, and Ah Fish in Dunedin. Handy for a M.11.R, though,

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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2926, 16 June 1888, Page 2

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WELLINGTON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2926, 16 June 1888, Page 2

WELLINGTON. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2926, 16 June 1888, Page 2

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