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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 17 January 1872, Page 3

j L4SQ 'has; been '■ '- subscribed iii 'Sydney towards ! the' 'Bishop ; Patterson memorial '■ timdfp'xs; : -v> •^.■...■■r\y, x-sn y u: ,--y A popular delusiotfftxist's' relative' to" "'the'' iriak ing o_ wills,: ; viz.;, that unleSs .ivpntten ■ with i p£n and ink they are , valid. A contested.: \^ll n , caie— Hatrisy- and ; Warner-^wK£ '. ' p6h-'' eluded j& the Sdpre.m'e ; -Ou_i', ; 'ySyd^iy, i'!re^ycfcntly, 1 'w_.eh''lns ; 'T_6h6r ; 'J"tf_ge' 'rlkirgrave | (among 6ther;:'rema-k_ : .uh .-fei^nee, to the! drawing out of wills) said— that ifc did -hot; sign if y Iwhat a will was- written with? iprofadea^ that lin rothe'r respects .: itk.w__>i'gemiine-___.d_ properly attestedx v. _?he iwilli (which .wasjdis-Ti pitted by Mi- Joseph Warner oh other, gi'ouhds, ■ .wasi;Klld :^,toy be t^|Jerfectly'f 'valid;* although.>b_fc,a scrap .of:pap'ei*ilwj;itt-fir:.up6 r i-i, with a lead , pencil.... This; simpleYdobumeirty will, doubtless,i prove? .. a cvamable :f fierid • \to* the mother and four children whom it 'Xob%-i ceins, as it. puts them inrpossessioh.;ofTa_iand4 some fortune. : ";. ■. x .;[;••.,■ ..u-.hpx: XxXn> Q JY'us ( _f

1 A ■yiouhgjlady-, «r?tiirriing late from:; a* • cbhv. cerjbj ; as it was. raining, •: ordered the coachman , td drive close to the :side-!walkjVibutitwas;stillT uhable to.step.acrpssthe^gutte^ you over." sai&cpactiy, nbj'" said she, " I am;' too yiteavy;"? V^ljbrd, mann," said Jbhny>' famtised to Kiting barrelsof sagar.'V

MR STAFFORD w (^L^NI^L - .After the vlate.sessionofrParliamttntynnd the nioji thti Mlitch'iWeiha.viffl pas'seiliiW t<tieheat of politics, it is quite refreshing 1 to see that those who havprf6'fip;ht hardestin t h e poUtic^L acen a-, 7 ; an d ; 1 whose) #J%& s l''i t & atiain 1 tp'*th ; c liighest' position in the State wipreidefealedjflca'nf/cßst'jasfdeiJirheir/.ca're!' .and'ior a season, as it were, renews -their Vyphth^ f'Pro r min^nt r Mvaoiig i^erii tv is fj Mf S t o&pfd:, ,wh q k from J)ei n gp, l^ad er of, Jtibe, QjJ • f po.Bi'tjd'n iihd'gxpeciant e Premi l er,;caia seeit to b:e^s^d l ii;^.^dur j jng I( 4^^ tp ; .j49j ft little to warcjs "directing: the attention/of the |rjsinp^gjenera:tion.Fto tihe^truthsyo'fcdhec Colonial life that is before thei"a. After a dry 'discussion on the Education Bill that* did not pass last session, it is quite refreshing tgrfipji) thaty §qioh r .men; asnMr Stafford can utterance to the opinions he enun'ciated>at Nelson- tbe^- Wther- r day.' andjto find that he has the, pluck p^blicly^ to differ with Mr Jiistice ! 'Richm ! on%' U \vh'B J hasias yet been very generally accepted as an authority. uppn. the question' o i (.tji£ j( edu^ cation of the rising generatiQn. At a'dinner, giyfinvCatuiNelsonUd.cJVliuJEledwood, .Mr Stiijfford congratulated the colony upon the number of native born yonng "mett -who were beginning to take an active part in its political, affairs, he. said-. r^ He -toofca.yery. deep interest in tjie. welfare of the Colony, and i^gaye^him.rve'ryjn.gr.eat.,.. p.ljeasiur.e . to : look around him arid see so many young Neivl'Ze'alaTid'coronistsOgrowing/i^up- ' and .taking an interest in the public ( matters :i of Colony. hi He doxiM' see 'rnßre^h^n on&; 'then present whose fathers had been intimate; friends „p,f, his lppgy before: those jSoos,. were born! Tnose young nien must of , nedessicy feeVfanJn.rer.esj; 1 -i-o:-j Mie tiCcilonyj .which had been their birth-place, and in "which their fathers ; had jfor. nQany-'-years lived, and some of them died, and it was such young, men who were ,to. form tbe istreugth 1 orse Coiony,~which L ' he believed •■wpiald-.rieyerj-attain.tbat, greatness for which irs igeograpbicai position and magnificent clubate so eminently.;.q;ualified ity: until. IK was governed by New Zealand born and bred colonists." It was .pn ( this point that, he' diifered' ! with a r recently-expressed.-opinion of Jqd.ge Richmond, who, in the cburse'of an address 'to" the College boys at •^ejson, : the.^tber/day^/said.; that We must,; for 1 a long time to come, look to the mother country, or ito' mien partly trained there, for! a considerable portion of. the men fitted to exercise amongst us the highest social functions. Mr Stafford, on the contrary, thought, that the .day could not-come, too soon when these functions were exercised by 'men whose, whole interests lay in the; Colony, who had been librn in it, andJived in it, and from their own experience; had obtained an iniimiite acquaintancewith its wants and its capabilities. These; were the men he shoild wish to see at the head of tifitairs, and not men who looked upon New Zealand merely as a place in. which to make. their pile, -and having done this to desert it. On this suliject Mr Stafford's ideas are practical, and suitedto the wants of the- Colony, and we trusr that when the Education Bill is next brought before the Assembly he will give expression to his practice instead of his' theory, and bpeak as plainly in rhe House . us he did the other da) r in Nelson. The time has gone bye for these old fashioned notions to be drummed into the ears of young 'colonists, tuat r fbr them there was no honor and no posirion — that nothing cgood can come out of New Zealand — that every .member of; Parliament or man ot mark has to be. imported from H^rne; and we. believe that ere long we shall see in 'the Parliament of this 'Colony.:: si, i! YoungNew Zealand Party,, the members of which will be as able to handle the ribbons, of the State chariot as they were "ln tbeir' earlier years tb ride a buckjumper or to. hold a- plough; ■■ It is almost a pity that then with.'such young, hearts as Mr Stafford^ should grow old, when we, , read of him. saying'at'N'elspn at a meeting to vvhich we have already referred, jthat he had' been so 1 -fortunate as to witness the . first champion race J fun in S^evr Zealand, wlien' Klbrmoh Was ?entdown to Dunedin to rr.n against the New Zealand horses. He should 'never forget seeing "Joe Redwood,'' tthen.a youth of seventeen, t with cool head and rare judgement, win the race On his father's mare. Ladybird, against the Victorian champion horse and a thoroughly experienced rider. The second son ot Mr r f£e.dwoodj Ered> asan amateur'mech'aniciariwas almost without an equal. He ha.d seen him on the shortest day of the year turn over 4| acres of hitherto unbroken' ■land, which, would have smashed any ordinary plough, and this too was a feat to be pfbudr.bf. S a ch lads-las these were a crpdft to fheir father, and the Colony in whiph. they were reared. — ' G' v ey ''River Argus I ,'