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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2196, 26 August 1890, Page 3

A list of the shareholders in the Whitcombe and Tombs Company haß been advertised in the ' Lyttelton Tim's,' in order that such portion of the publio as sympathises with the persecutors of that Arm may . be able to boycott it. • We, ('Evening Press') understand that the vote Public Libraries, etc., £1000 (grant towards a working man's college and teohnioal institute at Dunedin) reduced by £950 in the Honse, is to be reinstated on the Supplementary Estimates. We have received from Mr A. D. Willis, of Wanganui, who is visiting the distriot, a ■ample of his Christmas cards. Tuey am very artistically done in mono-tint, and represent Maori soenes and personal characteristics. Mr Willis' work shows a distinct advance year by year, and those who desire to Bend seasonable mementoes to their friends st Home could select nothing better. In Committee of the House of Commons on the Directors' Liability Bill, Mr Healy was very severe on members of Parliament lending their names to companies, and said if it went on the House would become little better than a stye of guinea-pigs. A suggestive hint this to the Ms.L.A. and Ms.H.R. who allow their names to be flaunted on the provisional directorates of apeculative goldmining companies in New Zealand. Thk Hon. Mr Mitchelson has replied to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce that •very endeavor is being made to continue the San Francisco mail service, and failing this, the best possible arrangements will be made for carrying mails. The Postmaster-general, has telegraphed to the effect that it is hopeless to expect that the service will be renewed. It will be no great loss to the colony if it is not. The other mail services will bring our mails with equal despatch. The excellent washerwomen of Holland and Belgium, who get up their linen so beautifully white, use refined borax as a washing powder, instead of washing soda, in the proportion of one large handful of powder to about ten gallons of boiling water. Borax, being a neutral Bait, does not in the slightest degree injure the texture of the linen. Those who try this, will ba pleased with tho result. It is i toe also to wash 1 lankets or woollen goods in this manner. The Counoil of the Acclimatisation Society has recommended that the fishing season for trout be from October 1 to April 15, and for peroh from December 15 to April 15, the charge for a license to be £1. The subject of prohibiting Sunday fishing was introduced by Mr Chisholm. He thought that as it was supposed to encourage poaching, it would be well to prohibit it altogether to see what the result would be. After some discussion of this subject, the chairman pointed out that any radical change in the regulations would . require notice of motion, and the matter then dropped. Operations in connection with the Glen- ' ore Prospecting Company's claim are progressing. The company has. let tbe sinking of a puddled shaft to Mr Jno. Wight, of Milton, at a price which, should the water toot interfere to any great extent, will pay him well. The shaft is to be 50ft or more in depth if required to bottom. The stuff from the shaft will be carefully laid aside, and after a certain depth every three feet will be . separately washed by experts employed by and who. are interested in the Company, It thus will be seen that in a very short time the value of the claim will be accurately determined. . ; - The * Mataura Ensign ' of Friday says : — •• There was a large gathering at the Gore Railway Station on Tuesday evening last, the occasion being the departure of Mr J. Ludford (or as he waa more humorously called by his more intimate acquaintances «• The Colonel") for the Old Country. Mr Ludford has been in delicate health for ■ome time past, and a number of hia friends after taking counsel one with another decided to, if possible, collect sufficient money to defray his expenses Home. Lists were sent out, and the sum of £13 lis was collected, the balance required — £10 — being borrowed until Mr Ludford becomes in a position to repay it. The committee desire to thank ' those who so willingly gave to the above object. Mr Ludford Bailed by the Tainui, which left Wellington yesterday." The: ' Detroit Free Press ' has the following cutting remarks on Mr Stanley. The tone of certain cablegrams and mail items recently received indicate that it is well deserved : — It is a noble thing to be religions, but it is not in good taste to remind the World that ono is religious. There is a modesty of true holiness which leads one to be as reserved in matters of tbe soul as he would be in affairs affecting the domestic relations. Mr Stanley appears to be either . a little fanatical or somewhat indelicate, for he never omits an opportunity to make aome devout expression when he delivers a public speech j then the cable reports him, . and the whole world, unless it stops to .think, cries oub: "Behold a righteous _aan !" It is very unlikely that the devoted ' iDr Livingstone ever killed as many native Africans or talked as muoh religion aa has Mr Stanley. . Mb G. Coombe has received a letter from the proprietor of the Carlton Club Hotel, Melbourne, relative to the swindle attempted Upon him, lull particulars of wbioh we have already published. It states that two reapeotable young fellows called aud asked _)im to receive a cablegram for them, but he was told by a party in the bar to keep his ' «ye. oii them, as they were the biggest ! thieves in Melbourne. As be received no •cablegram, he oame to the oonoluaion that $heir object was to find out some means of effecting an entrance into the plaoe for the purpose of robbery. They have been seen in the neighbourhood, bat have not visited 'the hotel since. The proprietor has giveo ■» full description of them to the detective Ipolioe. They cannot be prosecuted for this 'affair without Mr Coombe's presence, bnt too doubt they will soon meet with tbeir 8 °P "W other charge.

Processor F. W. BaslAM (Professor of Oas ies a Ci..terbury College), in writing to deny that he is the Haslam named as a shareholder in the Whitcombe and Tombs Company, boldly winds up with : " I do not own, and ntver did own, a single share in Whit combe, Tombs and Co., neither did I ever intend to do go. But if any of the shareholders are afraid, and wish to sell their shares, I feel rather inclined to buy a few now." — * Timaru Herald.'

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