DUNEDIN NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3237, 22 June 1889, Page 2

DUNEDIN NEWS.

Dunedin, June 21. A cable message Las been received from,, the 1 -Victorian Government uotifymg • their. intention ..be D 8 officially represented at jbe 'jwibiia > tion. The - space required DjFlhat ne Colony , will probablybe..-60,000.: square feet, representing: about 200, an exhibitor Tbe Commissioners ha\e °w reason to beJiovo that Now bouth 1)0 Wales avill also be officially lepreon sentedi ire Tije Queensland - -Acclimatisation n y Society are sendiugovera quantity lo ' of stag-born iern, l nB News lids been roooivad tbut a .reef ! a Bft - Ginwido baa ■ beeu - sU'iick, m ei | Gieens ieef, and there are seven e " working in the claims-It shows splendid prospects. -- f" • £ - : ♦ k PAMJAMiiHI. ' ■ 2.80 yesterday, and, out of respect to ! SB the memory of the late Colonel Brett,, ?" who had during a: period oftwenty1° one years been a member of ■ tho m Council, adjourned. J 10 . The House of Eepresentatiucsmet 1° m tho . afternoon and got through a , ! e lot. of preliminary busiiieiitebePremier promised to lay .uiaTOrrea- - a P pbndeiice between: himself'and Mi ?• Geo.' Fisher on tho table, although,' t0 he said, it was a very "bad precedent. 3S ' At the. evening sitting tho Premier lC '' said if the debate on tlie Address-m- ---?" Ueply was concluded tho Financial 18t Statement would be brought down on ,ev Tuesday next. ro l _ Mr Harlmess moved the Addiess--01 in-Roply, andreferroi to tbe speech as , a non-committal kind,^He gave credit ■ J?" to the Government for their reduc-' le " tions in'the Givil Service. He thought- .°° they were already encumbered *? 9 enough.with laws.. What was wan'id In was a wise and economical adiAi-- . tration. He held that no Aid Bill was worthy the; aseeil® : r y the House that did not provide that--|H ' the colony should bear the cost: of charitable aid.; 'He advocated an ■ entire repeal of the property, tax and in lieu thereof a land and income tax. • , Mr Lawry,. who seconded the motion, opposed the Property Tax ' He objected to the .appointment o Mr Maxwell as a Eailway Owßnssioner. He hoped the Charitable' Aid' ad would be a national measure, - T and was advorse to the Hare system 5 ; of voting. He, however, praised the . , financial .administration- of the - I® Government and their land policy. ' !® Members spoke on the motion and" 0 drew attention to several .'important, . mattors that should have been dealt; 111 with in the Speech. ' " m a mo ' , ' ou ,va3 carried and the ™ 8 House adjourned to 2,80 on Tuesday., Consultations. We have often commended to tho'attention of the ruling powers'the jre desirability ,of licensing sweep promotors and, consultations,", and, f Ol , with Parliament now ,on tho evo of' , as commencing its session, it is an an}/ time to onco; more deal [l_ matter. Whilst believing in , e j legalising of "consultationg,"'" we | rn would be no party to let anyJ)ick, Tom, and Harry run them a Aece ite the jmblic at their own sweef will, but what we have always! advocated y is'tlin liceusing by Government' of in j certain torn Jide " coiisultationißtß," 3r . who, for the privilege of running the , 3- sweeps would .pay a fixed license, fee j, 6 to the colonial l'oyenue fund. The |a j clause in tbe Gaming and Lotteries jj 0 Act, which prohibited, the promotion of sweeps in . this colony, has not [3 ; abated tbe gambling instincts ,of the sit people one,whit; it has lost our ijl Postal and Money Order Departments a large amount of and it has been tho means of, thousands of". t 0 pounds being sent out of New Zea v ladd to Australia by those—and their' 1j 0 name is legion—who love this mode , 0 . of speculation, Not only is it . that 0 f the money is sent out of' tho Colony, . rßi but it is only too frequently sent to unscrupulous persons, 6iich,' for ,j|[ instance, as the promotor of the n . 11 Sydney Jockey . Turf Club" Swindle, But to .such tried and true sweep promoters as "Tattersall," • "Adam Bede," and "Eobiu-Hood" (the two latter being especially well- - knou'n to Now of pounds are annually sent froßjis colony, and we would 98k-"Hy d, should not this money be kept in this ii'i colony ?" Thoyaro favorite modes as ot speculation aro these consultations, -> 10 and people will persist in indulging' a in thorn despite all interference oh ie the part of tho Government, When a, the accounts of the Postal and Teleie graphic Departments are made up it would be interesting to find but what re is the shrinkage in the revenuo of st these dupartments since the passing '■ e of the Gaining and Lotteries Amend--1,1 ment Act, and what is the corres, 'O ponding increase in the . revenue of id the similar departments in New.South p Wales, The oldest colony of : tho 'f Australian group has, we date wager, ■ made a nice thing in postal and " telegraphic revenue since sweeps were 6 abolished in Victoria and. New a Zealand,—Referee, $ ' d " I —— / lt Holidays in London. I j— . I ~ Tho. following account will -give 3 some idea of the ' way tbe Easter a holidays are spent in London. (The "■ crowd on- Hampstead Heath ltftjn ' r the main composed of factoryPds' V j and lasses-(between the- age of ( j fourteen and eighteen), and working j I men with their wives and families, ' ! not to mention, of course, countldp [ small boys. These last seemo( ® ■ . go about in gangs, and to; husband , their money resourcefully. 11 Cookshies" for cocoanuts appeared to bo' the most popular game, if, I except" the swings, of which there were 4 • , eevsral liundrpd doing a roaring trade. The wliple time wo were on the Heath I noyor saw a tipsy man' or >ypraan. Tliis, I suppose.' is : ■ ■ because there, are only two public houses or hotels near, and they can fortunately only accommodate a very - small proportion of the swarming thousands at a time. The best way to give you some idea of what tho popular resorts of the metropolis are like on a holiday will be to turn to" figures. -1 see, for .example, no fewer than 78.047 persons passed through the turnstiles of the Crystal Palace alone on Monday,' JfeLie Alexandra Palace's recofdMvas '18,761; the Zoo's 71,408; Hampton Court 25,000;'. tho Botanic Gardens at Kew, 02,000; Epping Forest (a resort for the massep) > 00,000 (this being the Great Eastern ( Railway's best on record for a bank ) holiday), excursions to Brighton 34>Q9G t. tp, spu.tji-eastern ■ pverside iesort?, 48,172; and so oi) down {lie British Museum, whioli scored 8/ worstonrecordwith 9000 odd-visitorsJic-Tho influx to the metropolis for holiday 16 of course far smaller than the, exodus; but.-, still-, copsidjjsj) • - s -

between Good Friday and Monday. For insiauco 16,01)0 wore booked for London from Bristol, 15,000 from Birmingham, 12,000 from Cardiff, 7,250 from Plymouth, 6,700 from Newport, aud so on.