The New South Wales Deflcit.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3161, 23 March 1889, Page 3

The New South Wales Deflcit.

Sydney, March 5,

♦ In view of tbo uncertainty which bns existed ns to the release of the public accounts, the Treasurer lias had a thorough investigation made by two leading Bank Managers and two professional accountants. Mr Burns, • the Tioaauiof in the Parkes' Governniont, stated in October last that the deficit of £2,632,000 would be reduced at tho end of the year'by £329,000, VilV'Mr Garvan's statement indicates adeficit of over four millions. Mr Qarvun made this announcement in the House this evening. He said lie had felt,it liin solemn duty to lunko the statement previously published so that the public might bo warned of the true state of their affairs.- After tho most searching investigation he found that at tho end of last December there was a dolioit

of £4,064,747. (Sensation.) The

, statement wiis endorsed by the report of two Bank managers and two leading accountants, whom he had engaged '° examine tho public accounts; he " ~ had also a certificate from the Consulting Accountant to the Treasury showing that the greatest .amount that could possibly bo saved from the Appropriation and Supplementary Estimates was £320,000. It might not have been wise nor politic of him to do na lie hud done, but he must any that ilie public finances were in a most discreditable stile. Two or three millions of trust funds had been ini|ii'o|n!rly used by the Treasury to carry on' the Government, and he pro. posed as soon as possible to put the trust funds upon such a basis tlut it would be impossible to so misuse them in future. As a vote of want of confidence in the Government was carried at ut later hour, Mr Garvan will have no opportunity probably of carrying out j£j)it< promise.

"Ouida" on Women's Clubs'

Continuing her remarks upon ■women's clubs in a series of pro- , v vincial newspapers, "Ouida" says "Club life will inevitably teach women tobemoreand more intolerant of privacy and monotony. Women usually like a tliiug to a dangerously exaggerated cxtont when they like it at aII. It is almost certain that if they once acquire a taste for Club life they will becomo impatient of any other; the constant quid mi, the constant change of society, .the mimicry of masculine liberties, and the ease with which their personal wants are supplied, will all become pleasures which will grow on them, Women's olubs will, I repeat, never be much needed by. women of the world, who already possess all that such clubs would ofter them in more satisfactory forms, but they will become a dangerous attraction to those classes of women, unhappily so .much upon the increase, who, not jftjistresses of any home where they ' can reign, educated enough to be restless and vain, owing or earning competence enough to afford them leisure but lioi luxury, professing a Bterile and unnatural indifference to the opinions and affections of men, plunge into charlatanism, science or politics, in their searoh for excitement;

" These women, meeting only pother women, will increase their own s_* ! discontent, and inoculate with it the contented, The Society of women is not good, in a great degree for woman. Women will harm the mind of a woman much more - dangerously than ninety-nine men out of a hundred. ' Beware of female intimacies,' was said by a wise diplomatist to his daughters, and the adv : ce was sound. Women's olub's will be hotbeds of such intimacies, The jealous dislike with which men «ard the attachment to a female nd of the woman they love is well founded. To.the frieod are confided the dearest secrets and the most dangerous confidences, and in her flie lover or the husband almost always possesses his greatest and most insidious enemy. Few men are very wise and few women are thoroughly loyal. All influeuce which has a tendency to estrange women from men is bad, bad in itself and bad- in its results. Men are not as virtuous as women would like them to be, nor are they often as clever as they imagine themselves to be, but such as they are, they are infinitely better objects of womeu's affections than women themselves,

and the mental atmosphere which AJliey bring with them is more ; robust and invigorating, whilst their views are, on the whole juster and more sensiblu about liiost matters. It k for the convenience of the averagpwoman that a female club is about to emerge into existence; and itis to the average woman that its effects will be eventally most baneful, if, at the commencement, it may appear to ofier lier amusement, repose, and economy. It may flatter the vanity and mislead the ignorance of the sox to pass their lives in public dining, reading, talking, and letterwriting, in the peopled rooms , of a Club-house; but it will not give to them Miranda's oharm, Desdimona's tenderness, Juliet's passion, or Cornelia's virtue,

The Edlmgham Burglary Case. For some months past a Scotland Yard detective has been quartered in Alnwick, and has been making enquiries into the circumstances connected with the trial ot firannajan and Murphy in 1879, on the charge ol breaking into Ediinghom Vicarage, and shooting at the Rev. Mr Buckle, Both men, it will be remembered wero * liberated last November, after serving several years ol the sentence ol penal servitude for lite, and received free -pardon, with compensation omounting fcjauOeach. All tho information; gained JSSs detSjivo was laid before the Director of PuHio'Prosecutions; On January 11, at the instigation of the Home Secretary, applications were xnade.&Qd summonsea granted against the four policemen who gave evidence at the trial, via,, Thomas Harrison, lodgekeeper at Alnwiok Forest under the Duke of Northumberland, and lately inspeotor of police -at Alnniok; l'obort Sproot, constable, stationed at Beg- ■ ' hill; Issao Gair, jpolice sergeant stationed at Low Walker; and James. Chambers, retired policemen, Alnwick. The summonses has been issued and each man is now charged with conspiracy to give false evidence.

Pliun Spealong-

Mr Hodgson, Inspector ot Sohools in the Kelson diatriol, has the oourage ot his opinions. He was recently askad for a sort ol testimonial as" to a work on morajs that it was proposed to publish for us in the primary schools, ana this is how he replied: -To begin with, the book is bristling with debateable matter, with matter as to which there is the widest diversity of opinion among the leading scientific men of France, of Germany, and of England. Next, many of the statements so positively made, seem —not only to myself, but to. thouiands of others far batter able to judge—to to scientifically untrue, and to be practically cofilhdicted b:r the experiences of every. djßse. A lirge proportion o( the busiest olmen—brain workers and hard workers alke-hare for generations found themselves alt the, betfcr for taking a certain portion ol their nutiimeat in the form ol . jtJjhatVn eminent German professor, has styled "liquid bread." And it is the Opinion'of'many men, whoso opinions are v.-

out Colonial! il wholesome home-brewed beer were substituted to a largo extent tor tho enormous quantities at tea and oihor slops now consumed by tliem, I have no personal experience ol the use ol tobacco, but, judging from the halo and hearty looks of tho hundreds of aged men who have been habitual smokers from their youth upward, it appears to me that, the so-called "narcotic poison" must be at least as slow in its action as coffee, which has - been denounced with equal ferocity. Life has not so many pleasures, especially among the poor, that we should needlessly curtail them.' A Hard Case. A very strong feeling is prevalent among tho Mediterranean squadron at the result of tho Court-martial recently held at Malta on Henry Foan, captain ol the hold of tho Benbow, who was charged with having in his possession 301b of ooooa belonging to the Boyal Navy. The prisoner's statement wa3, that about eleven o'olock on the nijiht of November 22, ho was passing through tho new archway at Isola on his

way to tho ship, when ho saw a bag lying on the ground containing cocoa. Placing it on his shoulder he was proceeding with it to the police station, when he was accosted by a stranger who asked to be allowed to join his company, To this Koan assented, Upon arriving at the elation, die stranger turned out to bo a detective, who took Foan in charge, and accused him of stealing the cocoa. A bluejacket swore to meeting tho prisoner just befor eleven, and that he then had no cocoa with him; and the ship's corporal, who saw him. leave tho ship, swore that he had nothing with him. Notwithstanding this, and the fact that the cocoa was not reported misjiug from either his ship or any ship in tho liaibor, Foan was found guilty, and sentenced to si: months' imprisenuicnt, and to he discharged from the sorvioc. The prisoner has nineteen yo.irs and three months' service, and the good conduct medal. Tho «Uair has oreated tho.greatesl indignation m Malta, and already a petition has been forwarded to tho Admiralty in London praying that the sootence be not confirmed. —United States Gazetto. SKIXXY.MBN " Well's health reuewor" catoro health and yigor, curoß Dyspop la, lin putonco, Sexual Dtbility, At chemists and druggists. Koinpthurne, Prosser& Co, 4?onts, Wellington.