HOROWHENUA AND THE NGA-TIRAUKAWA CLAIMS.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 53, 30 August 1895, Page 3

HOROWHENUA AND THE NGATIRAUKAWA CLAIMS.

The Harbourmaster at Maoukau has reported to the Marine Department that Emm* Spit, at the onttanoo to that harbour, lmß extended to N.N.E., and tonohea the line of the North jlead beacons. Vessels entering should keep the North Head beaoona in line until Hnia Point opeiis off the Sonth Head, then open the beacons a little to the eastward. The South Head Spit has been washed entirely away. At the request of the Secretary of the Anti-Chinese League, we publish the following letter addressed to that body : — " In the oity of San Franoisoo, they (the Chinese) take the living away from domestio servants, goingin their places as help in every position in the household, thus foroing girls and women to got work where and bow they oan in order to proouie a living. The quarter where they live — J)npont-street, Stockton-street, Washington, Clay, and Saoramento-streets, and environs— is the dirtiest and filtbiestplace in the whole of tho oity j vice and squalor of every description pervading the atmosphere; opium joints everywhere patronised by both Chinese and whites. The Chinese compete with white labour in every branoh — bootmaking, tailoring, barbering — and everything whioh a white man oan do th y do. Thanks to the English— who in 1882 had a number of steamers running them into the United States as hard as they could before the 2nd of August, 1882, when the Aotforthe exclusion of Chinese immigrants came into force— the Bteamera thtt conld not conneot with the United States in time emptied the Chinese into Britifb Columbia. In Victoria, 8.C. , up to 1889 they used to do all sorts of roanu'U labor, hod-carrying and working in the streets, &o. The white man, he hod to get along as best he could in the winter time, when bnsiness was slack. The supatvi ors then acceded to the wishes of the oommunity, and cave the oity work to white men. The Chinese then got naturalised subjects of Great Britain, and ttied to got into the United States as Britishers, but the Constitution of the United States does not recognise naturalisation in Chinamon, and refused them the right to enter. On Pujret Sound tho United States has a revenue ontter patrolling the Sound, as there several sloops and small schooners are engaged in smuggling Chinese into the United .States on every opportunity, as the Chinese have an idea that they oan make any amount of money there. Yon go to other oities on the Sound, Seattle, Port Townsend, aud the sawmills, Port Blakeley, Gamble, Lndlow, Usalady, &o , and you find them doing all aorta of labonr, to the detriment of white men and women. It is no nncommon sight to see in any of the towns of the Pacific ooast, exposed in windows, a card labelled ' White labour employed here,' thus showing oonclnßiyely the inroads mode by Chinese labour in America. — Tonrs respeottnlly, Ch4s. E, Poinodistbe." Amongst the travellers' samples that C. Smith, the Cash Draper, Cnba-street, is selling at Glasgow prices for this week only will be found somo very choice blouses, some very pretty nmntioi, and a lot of very useful jackets and golf and other oapes, besides nmbrellas, parasols, ladies' aprons, children's pinafores, oorsets, underclothing, children's grannie hats and bonnets, stookings, gloves, and a lob of other very useful lines, at Glasgow prices for thiß week only.— Advt. *or conitnuation of r«ivt«nj matter ten Jourtfi

TO THK XDITOB. Snt-The fruite of Mr. P. E. Baldwin's Pyrrhio victory aeem to havo disagreed with him. The bare question- of law before the Court was— What is the legal meaning of the Order-in-Counoil conferring juris'diotion on the Native Land Courts P The questionof merits, on whioh his Honour the Chief Justice spoke with no uncertain voice, was— "Does the Order-in-Counoil carry out the aotual intention of the Government ?" The exlparte one-sided statement which pains * Mr. Baldwin has at all ovents the merits of being evidenoed by the pnblio reoords of the colony to the satisfaction of hia Honour the Chief Justioe, and the rights of Ngatiran kawa, who were 'oocupyuig at the Horcwhenua Lake when the disturbance of 1874 took plaoe, zeßt on the honour of the colony. By the jndstment of the Supreme. Conrt (if the Executive do not issue a fresh Order-in-Counoil) the home, of ' these people will become the property of native* from the Bay of Islands. It was solely at Mr. Baldwin's olients, and the proceedings instituted by them, that' his Hononr's expression of, regret was aimed. The" general interest in Horowhenua and the well-known olaims of Ngatiraukawa to their ooonpations are my excuses for troubling you to insert anything fortjher in this matter: ' ' I am, 40., C. B. Mobison.

"" Observer" writes: — There will be a total eolipse~bf the moon on 4th September, beginning at 2b. 49m. p.m., when the moon ' will enter the Penumbra, the faint shadow whioh precedes the full earth -shadow, the Umbra. This is entered at 3h. 30m. The moon will be fully oovered at 4h 37m., the middle of the eolipse 'will be at sh. 27m., and the end of totality at 6hr. 17m. The moon will pass Out of the Umbra at 7h 24m., and out of the Penumbra at Bh. 44m. These dates are those for Greenwioh, given in the Nautical Almanac, as if all of the eolipse were visible there, with llh 30m. our meantime difference of longitude added. It will be well for 'those who would watch the ' eolipse to .cc where the moon risas on the 1 3rJ September, as when it rises on 4th September it will be totally eolipsed, and io perhaps be not visible, from the bright twilight overpowering the dull reddiah light nroaUy seen on the eolipsed moon, from the. '¦*-- bending in of the arm's raysJby~fhe airat the edge of the eatth's diao. If the moon be visible the oolours on the- duo 'should be noted, and the colour at the -edge of the umbra m the moon is passing, out of it. Twice I have not been able to see the moon's diso in a total eclipse. An ordinary binoonlar will show the eolipie well. The Thorndon Carnival .Decoration Cominittee has it. -work- so well advanced that '•-j the stallholder* took pouairion of their ; "tails thU morning. The Oparatio Sooiety j neimbtr. hold their tehearsal to-night. I