SECOND EDITION

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4456, 10 November 1885, Page 3

SECOND EDITION

For tho stock of Mr A. W. Coham, Mr E. 11. Newman is tho successful tenderer ut 9s Ctjd in the pound.

Mr Carnell would like to see the pensions of those iv tho Refuge annexed, as, lie says, at present tho result is tho pensioners come down town, and if " hearty men they go back and thrash tho others."

A man in the Refuge is possessed of £200 iv cash and has £200 on fixed deposit in ono of the local brinks. What a glorious institution that must bo. The above is known as a fact to at least four members of tbe Hospital Committee

Tbe Chairman of the Hospital Committee gave a nioo illustration of a mean man at Makotuku, who owed I'll for his child's maintenance in the Hospital, while he himself also owed a considerable sum to tho institution, the total being £'23. The patient enquired why ho should have to pay those amounts; lie is in receipt of £250 per annum, and never had anything .topped whilo he was an inmate of the Hospital, and in addition received a pound a week from his lodge while in tho Hospital. Tho mean man is in tho employ of the railway department, and in consequence his chief has been communicated with.

Our Waipawa correspondent wires this afternoon as follows: —"A meeting of Justices was held here to-day, present Messrs. Gaisford, luglis, Johnson, Rathbone, R. Harding, Dillon, Todd, Buchanan, and Harding (in the chair). A telegram was received from Mr. Wilding stating his inability to bo present. It was moved by Mi*. Gaisford, and seconded by Mr. Johnson, ' that the Justices assembled are unable to settle a rota of attendance, as they consider the Act unworkable in this district.' The motion was carried unanimously."

Dr. Grabham reports as follows on the Hospital:—On tho afternoon of the 3rd October I paid a visit to this hospital, which is under the care of Dr. Keyworth. I found 21 beds occupied, 18 by mule patients and 6by females. The children's ward was not iv use, but throe young girls wero under treatment in tho women's ward. Everything appeared to be orderly, and every patient well cared for. The matron, Miss Kobelt, bus, I am informed, resigned her appointment, but she is sull'oring from a mild attack of typhoid fever, which will necessitate her remaining in tho hospital for a short time longer. I have nothing to udd to my former remarks concerning tho establishment, which is, in my opinion, the best arrangod hospital in tho colony.

The Melbourne Herald is informed that Seymour Luke Robinson, tho young bank clerk who was recently sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for tho Federal Bank robbory has come in for a sum of nearly £3000 by tho death of a relative in England. Robinson is employed as clerk in tho office of the Melbourne Gaol.

Tho Southland Times writes :—" MiPatterson, the Clutha County ongincor, has recently perfected a plough for filling in ruts in gravel or clay roads. A trial was made tho other day, and tho plough was found to work admirably. Work that would have engaged a surfaceman for a wenk was performed by the plough in ono day, and in a more satisfactory manner. Tho Council are so pleased with tho success of tho inachiuo that they have ordered two more to bo immediately manufactured."

The Tasmauian Mail, referring to tho meeting held in Melbourne lately to endeavor to open up a wool trade with China says:—That tho fall iv the price of wool occasioned by the large importations from South America should suggest to those engaged or interested in tho pastoral industry the advisability of seeking for fresh outlets for their produce is natural enough, but that China should bo looked to in this connection appears to us a rather remarkablo illustration of how tho whirligig of timo brings about its revenges. For years past tho Australian colonies, at tho instigation of tho Trades Unions, have been legislating to keep out tho Chinese. In Queensland, in New South Wales, and Victoria a poll-tax is levied upon them, yet now, because there is a fall in the price of wool which promises to be permanent, it is suggested that efforts should be. made to induce tho Chinese to become customers for oar wool. In tho interests of tho Australian colonies, wo shall, of course, bo glad if theso efforts should prove successful but it strikes us that it argues a considerable amount of assurance on our part to ask the Chinese to oblige us by purchasing our wool whilo wo will not ullow them to laud iv any of our ports without paying a pcnulty of £10 a head. In plaeo of cultivating trad, relations with us wo should say the Chinese would be amply justified if they paid us back in our own coin, and refused to admit our wool on any twins. With respect, however, to the reduction in the prico of wool, wo have no doubt that it id a sufficiently serious matter for those engaged iv the wool industry, but we are not disposed to regard it as an unmixed evil, at least so far as this colony is concerned. Ono of the probablo results of it, should the reduction prove permanent, will be tho sub-division of some of tho largo pastoral estates, for tho purpose of devoting them to agricultural purposes, which will certainly bo productive of benefit rather than of iujury to the country.