The Clutha Leader. BALCLUTHA: FRIDAY, JUNE 7. A FOUR MILLION SURPRISE.
A rather exiraordinnrj stuteanl! was made by Sir Joseph Ward, Bart,! at the reception on the invasion ofii» ; arrival in Wellington from Melbourne 1 and Sydney, from which places, bytlf way, come charming reports of ft' ipiests made to him to enter politics 1 ; in tlie Commonwealth. The Welling!*) statement was to the eli'ect, that bti had just about completed negotiation' for the flotation of a lour million lou \ hen the results of the elections caßj; as a staggerer, and he proceeded Mi further with the negotiations, brotaj them off short, in fact. Apparently \t. believed it a good thing to tloat M-j other big loan, and the right thing k do, but in view of the unpleasant w, tun; r.f the results of the polls fit* lis point of view, and the strong »; tieism of the Opposition against tfct wholesale borrowing that had been go-; ing on, Sir Joseph' Ward "pulled out* of the negotiations, believing it «* better if a new set of men came into power that they should work outtWi own destiny, in other words thatth(J should commence on an empty ti» ury. A nice prospect to the w V uters surely, while if Sic -loseph m himself been in power, the tild have boomed along on ton oi» other four millions* of borrowed WWi having got to the end of the five B*j lions borrowed last year, anil looknf forward to borrowing another foot* five millions next year. Sir Jtwep Ward's easy optimism ahm^tdoes* good ; it is pleasant tfhen e\ erytning * in the garden is lovely and the p#» are strewn with golden sovereign What is the use of having our «* good, if we arc not going to W* use of it •> And apparently we <* mado haste slowly when we borrow a modest million a year, but no* w ire literally boomini/ along on tout*; live million a year ! The more we Wj row, and the tast^ 1 . the more pro** ous and wealthy we become! PosuwM Sir Joseph Ward had his way. *«« uld not always be content with "■ or five millions of borrowed w™j every year, but very soon he «gj have had us ambling along, booiPj and prosperous, at ten or twelves* ions a year. We do not w»* .vhat authority by Parliament 0* is for borrowing at the rate of » millions last year and four m™*» this year, though we have often w» Mr Jfassey ana his followers say»j the Government had possessed n*» ! extraordinary horrouing powers. V we are persuaded the people 01 . country never realised that it * BS , teKdod by the Government of country to add to the II(U,O . nB A by such huge jumps. A "1W prcssion will not do the people »> •Zealand very much harm, and "T of all, those who have to aJ»oufcWJ burden of our debt. The iinlort»»r part is that of the five millions rowed last year it is all V an empty treasury remains. j t. seems' to u« that Sir Joseph »£• was becoming too expensive a **£; ier for New Zealand ; his ideas *e»£ ginning to run in Continents aw in Islanr't ; and perhaps there. t» ~ ful work foi him to do in Ausf Quito clearly Now Zealand " g small for him. and if he had had* way for a few years longer tW'j try would have been boomed t' ll ■■ "busted" like an inflated bladder-
-mvg Warepa Bachelors have fixed th( j«h J« ne as date * or their annual ballTK e South Otago Freezing Works _V ftWO y its first shipment of lamt rjjr the Home Market to-day. Coniinunio 11 services will be held in •he Balclutha Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning. Monday next, the 10th inst., is the I t da)' which discount will be allowgas consumed during May. Tenders or o q®" 1 ? called Lor the erec- . 0 f an addition at the Owaka tool, embracing a class-room and a wokcry room. eX t Sunday will be observed as D ii' Sunday in the Methodist Church i sermons will be delivered by Kev. greenslade o* the Bible. Ihe Hon. J. A. Millar has suddenly wt the sight in one of his eyes, and ' threatened with total loss of sight. jj c has been ordered immediate and complete a*st. Owing to the Dunedin Winter Show, tt acting the attendance of several members of the Baldutha High School committee, the monthly meeting was jot held on Wednesday night. Our congratulations to the Stirling Dairy Factory, and in particular, Mr Offers its manager, on its success at Aj Dunediu Winter Show. Ail the fecial prizes for cheese, aggregating Rvalue sfi guineas, went to the Stirling Factory, jhe Education Department have authorised the renting of a room at Paonavvea for the purpose of-starting , school there. Arrangements will therefore be made to open a . school aS soou as possible. Ihe Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, after a strenuously busy time for three or jour days "in the south, left Dunedin yesterday for Wellington. He is in rood health and buoyant spirits, and | evidently lit for any amount of tork and "light." "Do you know,".said the Premier at Opuuake, 'my old messenger (.-named) 'old me one day that 1 had myself lest 1300 letters to farmers that year. That may give you an idea of iome of the work which comes within a Cabinet Minister's duties." The steamer Clyde during the past «eek lias taken up to the various landings at Green Held and Clydevale over iftv bales of empty sacks, a total o 12500 sacks. Mr Overton estimates tk« output oi the district this season St 50,000 sacks of grain, 500 bales of tool, -0,000 sheep, 300 head cattle ud 40 tons cheese.
Messrs F. Comer and 0. V. l.attinore, cadets at the local post oilice, fcave been transferred to other offices, Sr Comer going to Tijnaru and Mr Lattimore to Wellington. ' The iialcluiha staff presented the former with a brief bag, and the latter with a military toilet set, prior to uieir departure.
Ihe Postal Department is now issuing new stamp booklets which should be very popular. The booklets are very neat aud are supplied free of cost'. Each booklet contains Id and id stamps to the value of '2/ and is sold to the public at its face value, the itamp holder being given in free.
On Tuesday morning Constable Harvey "picked up" (literally) a drunk *io had not recovered trom his celebrations which his loyalty to the King (perhaps i demanded. The man was bailed out in the evening,and nuxjt morning, failing to appear to answer flie cEarge, before Mr G. W. Wood, J.P., of being drunk in a public place, the Bench ordered that the bail, XI, be forfeited.
Constable Harvey brought two eases of drunkeE.nes< before Mr CI. \Y. Wood, J.P., yesterday morning. He had found both offenders in a helpless conJition, recovering from a "keg party" ind gathered them under the sheltering wing of the law -from the bleak and wintry nig-ht. One was Charlie Hellstone. who had been convicted of drunkenness on Wednesday, and the olkr uas a first offender. Seeing their condition, the Uench ordered '-ho' pair to he remanded to Dunedin for seven days for medical treatment, >nd the pair were takon there last evening.
. & P. Mclneniey, of Tuapeka 'Mouth, " a whole-souled advocate of the Cluuw I alley Railway. Speaking at the deputation t» the Prime Minister on Wednesday of the difficulties in .keeping! met oj)en for navigation, to [,-roJ 1 means of outlet tor the district, ® said the i-iver was done for all time as regards navigation, and the Jtoney being spent on it might well be devoted to a better use. A railway "P the \ alley would pay handsomely, ™it <hoiild be the first to receive consideration. He had not much faiti-. in the hcitinir edi'i; - o' Money *pent j? keeping the r j ver o p Cn f or naviga-
n informal meeting oi the local ex- . nc "I the <. luthu Valley Railway ague was held oil Tuesday afternoon consider a letter from Mr Malcolm, n»n!k re I H '°P OSL> d visit of the (' ers ot lhe Dunedin Chamber of j-ri merce 'o view the country the 41 , traverse. It was stated cnni-a ,/" u P ( ;'\a Mouth settlers hould Vale v ' s ' ,ors asJ far as Clyde- ' .') f ' meeting decided that .the inten-if ''^ r "• should Boanl u of the River torn i :l v ' en tbe visiClv How !'° Uglu '^ own the river trom Tlie m 3 6 i *° '' a ' c '"tha in the steamer. members of the Chamber have f.xaudTi,? ate , of lh,;ir visit the 13th d« v ' living Dunedin on Thursftin„ i errKJOn for La-wcence, and return %aCoo tt of RaH,,tha ° n the Fri " T *ay of ° y . S ,l,' lo wt ' nt * or f" n by ®y. etc '• destruction of crockUsed bv k" 1 'i' 1C °. n reserve > that tL. r i I ! o( ' k , e y girls, are sorry V ey j ' for Constable HarHifl ; ee( n ,° i t ,' r '| 'he grass grow under 1 Painful 11 1 - a ' jH were su bmitted to teatter . - mterview shortly after the "ill bo u i re P° l "t e d to him. They Court oiw! i"n , re the Juvenile Vothers li These boys, with "I, , 011 tlw same day, be Clarke's n ! f,- °m Mr J. W. H. Bhop s . T) 
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