NEW ZEALAND GOSSIP.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3405, 15 June 1868, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND GOSSIP.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " AUSTRALASIAN." fiS.7 1 aye , P ur , ch *sed, read, and (what is more thau one in a hundred of your readera do) filed your ££u to r^ he \T *r ye ?"' ? tt much p we y «d TllvtoL yBe J f rr d T T m Z. fr , ien i B ' * n °<K>m« occasionally to have* look I think, therefore, lam indebted to you for* contribution, but I really don't know but they are worse. The crop of laws and lawUSE? , itn ?VT c ' but * he b*™st is chaff; every unfledged legislator makes a law for himself inter? prefrtlu. own way and acts upon it as he like*. S^M if- 0"*0 "* ° a s* ble ;eiZ6B; eiZ68 thft bull »7 tH« horns the Jo Jntr^ gOOdneM knowa wh »* **« become of a Hplendid future New Zealand might have. The EftiS S" m *Bpificent,.nd tht debt trifling An individual contribution of £5 would oav the Dg^ Mdt J en we would befree^open | port,, free trade, and a glorious future. But our I "tatesmen are so wedded to old institutions, that oSon,S PS * Dd "* ** Pc Ooua^^'* *• The old exploded doctrine of protection is as rife make wine, want protection, and there is a tax on colonial wines. Beef and mutton, too, I want. YoS have it good at Id. or 2d. per lb. I, with JhLands of others here and on the Weat Coast of New Zea land, pay 6d, or Bd. for it bad. Bufc, would you behere it, my gold which I produce, and with which ?.!Sn£r PP 5 jryO ?ft yo<lr beef ' mutton ' and Jt« v M° dj * n « d J h *^ e t0 P*y 2s - 6d ' » n ounce for count ° lendin g M y out of the * n J}Z I11!^I 11 !^* 11 thiB t«rit.geDd? Can't we have some one bold enough to come forward and say "Have done with all this humbug? Let us know £« *ut I 6I 6 * 9 P * y ** ODoe ' * ud no more ' »hannaklng • let us buy our tea, our mutton, or our groe and £S^ W fi *?d? d hOW We Kke ' and on»rge ÜBlif it must be) a fixed mm for protection. Knock off all your expenswe and rotten system of customs, and have one revenue office with a commissioner and Sled." ' h " wholetMn « " done and But look here, sir, just to illustrate the present system The • John W with her spirited owner, Mr. Johnson, arrived here yesterday bringing, inter al a, half-a-dozen prize sheep, i.e., sheep that have taken a pnze at the Port Phillip Agricultural Show These sheep (ewes) are just lambing, but before they can be landed they must be parboiled in tobaccowater. The whole province ia scabby j but clean sheep mustbe dipped before landing. In the same way there is not a well-bred bull or cow in the Middle Island,- but before any imported beast is landed it must be declared "for slaughter." And we go on, making laws for the moment, which would be far more honoured in the breach than the observance.' —I am, &0., Nelson.

< Losino thjb Balance.— The troop of Japanese jugglera who lately gave representations in Paris are now performing at Peath. A curious scene i« reported to hate taken place there on the oco»sion of the first exhibition. They had been invited to breakfast by an amatenr on the morning of the representation, and during the repast the strong white wines of Hungary were circulated freely. In due course, the doors of the theatre were opened, and all the seats speedily occupied. After a long delay the public became clamorous, when a commissary of police came toiward to announce that the actors were unable to appear in consequence of having drunk too copiously at bredcfwfc. Great tumult ensued, and the result was that the defaulter* were oblfgad not only to return the money, but also to pay a fine of 50f. for having failed m their duty to the public. They are edlfb VC MquiNd two w kofed»y« to recover their