The Bush Advocate, Published Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1888. NOTES.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 73, 23 October 1888, Page 2

The Bush Advocate, Published Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1888. NOTES.

Thb action of the Americans towards the Chinese is ; briefly explained in the letter of the New York correspondent of a London paper, and read By the light of the following extract we are enabled to understand recent events, and also the influences that legislation is subjected to at the time of the Presidential contest, "It will be remembered," writes the correspondenfy " that as at first drawn up the proposed treaty with China restricted immigration, but authorised under certain limitations the issuing of permits to ' Chinese laborers once domiciled here to return after visiting their native country. China approved of this, but before ratifying the treaty the Senate inserted a proviso cancelling such permits absolutely. This made it necessary to return the treaty to China for fresh approval, which, it is now said unofficially, China refuses, as it was gonerally expected she would. As s Jon as the news reached Washington Mr Scott, a Democratic member of Congress, introduced a bill providing for the complete and absolute exclusion of the Chinese, and the measure passed the House immediately without a division. The bill makes it unlawful for any Chinese labourer, whether he was, is or may be a resident in the States, who left or may leave before the Act passes and has not returned, to reenter the country. It prohibits the issue certificates of identity, and declares all certificates previously issued void. Chinese labours presenting them will, not be allowed to enter the country. The bill was takn immediately to the Senate, where it was debated till the adjournment. It is" likely to pass without opposition, though it abrogates the existing treaty without notice, and breaks faith with the Chinese labourers who have gone to China holding permits to return. The object of this hasty legislation is to secure the votes of the Pacific Coast States in the Presidential election, as anti-Chinese sentiment there is very strong." Our Palmerston contemporary, the Times, has a word or two to say about railway management as up-* plied to the timber industry. As an instance of the way the business is conducted on that side it mentions "that for a long time past a Palmerston timber merchant has actually been obtaining the bulk of his supplies from Makino by road carriage, though the railway runs right past the Makino mill, and his own yard is within a chain or so of Palmerston Square. He has found, however, that he. can save something over 3d per 100 by the use of the road instead of the railway which has cost the public so many 1 thousands of pounds to construct. Does it not seem ridiculous that with a railway running past a sawmill 17 miles away, it is found cheaper to utilise the more cumbrous and roundabout means of traffic? As the case stands, the railway line loses the carriage of this timber, though its conveyance would actually cost it no more than the sum now expended in dragging along strings of • empties.' n . A new arrangement as to the passenger traffic over the Manawatu Comimny's line has come into force, and passengers, instead of being convej r ed right through in the same, carriages, over boththo Government and Company's line, will have to change carriages at Palmerston. ,The reason for this fresh .departure has not transpired, but it has been made at the request of the Company, and is likely to give rise to a good deal of dissatisfaction. The Times mentions that this plan was followed for some time at Longburn, but the inconvenience to the public was so great that it was eventually abandoned after a deal of grumbling, "and an arrangement arrived at wherdby the carriages travelled on both lines. The old order of things has now been returned to, the only difference .being that Palmerston will be the place of waiting for the traveller pwte«4 of Lon§fbw»,

The promoters of the Ormondville, nforsewood, and Makptuku Racing Club are to be complimented upon the energetic way they have gone about the business of forming their club; ' Sport in the Bush has not flourished hitherto to any extent, but jbhe hearty unanimity which characterised the proceedings at the meeting the other night augurs well for the future of the club and the prospects of racing in the district. We sincerely wish the promoters of the new club the success they so well deserve. ' . Peofessob Long has sent, a preliminary report upon the Dairy Industry in New Zealand to the Government. He has no hesitation in expressing the belief that butter, and at least four of the leading varieties of cheese, 3ould be made with the most perfect success and be delivered in England in condition to compete with 'the best produce of the kind sold in the market. To do this he contends that" it is necessary to educate the people in the manufacturing processes and advocates the establishments central training establishments in each island. In one year, he says,. 40 or 50 expert butter and cheese makers should be available for teaching the people throughout the colony. There is, no doubt, a gretit future before the Dairy Industry in this colony, and the adoption of some such plan as that proposed by Professor Long would be a step in the right direction towards developing a wealth producing source. The Fencing Act underwent an amendment last session, in the direction defining what shall be a legal fence. Settlers will be glad to know particulars of that so we quote the schedule : — A fence consisting of not less than one barbod wire and five plain wires, tightly stretched, with, in either sase, posts of durable wood or iron standards; the posts or standards not to be more than 9 feet apart ; the top wire not. to be less than 4 nor more than 5 feet from the surface* of the ground; or a fence commonly called the swing fence, with posts or standards half a chain apart, and slabs and battens not less than 4ft 3in in length, stapled at distances of not less than 6 feet between the standards or posts on to wires, which shall be not less than seven in number. Clause 2 of the Act contains the following : — The Council of a Borough or a Town Board may, within the limits of such borough or town district respectively, prohibit the erection of any fence composed partly of barbed wires or within such limits as may be provided by bye-laws made from time to time in that behalf. Clause 3 is to the effect that it shall' be lawful for. any owner or occupier of land, without notice, to enter upon the property of an adjoining occupier or owner for the purpose of repairing any dividing fence, but in so doing he shall do as little damage as possible, and shall only so enter when it shall be necessary for the purposes aforesaid.