Untitled

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1946, 31 July 1869, Page 3

The Imperial Guarantee.—From correspondence in a Wellington contemporary, it appeal's that Mr llobert Pharazyn, at one time a member of the House of Be2>resentatives for Bangitikei—has been writing to Mr John Stuart Mill, asking him to use his influence in obtaining the Imperial guarantee to a fresh loan for New Zealnnd. The following is Mr Mill’s reply : “ Avignon, 2nd May 7, 18(5!). —Dear Sir—l have not sufficiently studied the present state of Ncw Zealand to have formed a positive opinion on the question on which you invite my aid ; and being no longer in Parliament, I should have little power or opportunity of working efficiently for my opinions it I had formed one. In principle I any not favorable to guarantees by the mother country of loans to Co onial Governments, but I have always held that this country cannot divest itself of its moral responsibility with respect to the aborigines; and if a loan of a single million under Imperial guarantee would avert such evils from the friendly Maoi is, as those you seem to anticipate, 1 do not think that Parliament ought to refuse Pf It ought not, however, to b,e grunted except upon the judgment of persona much more conversant with the state of things at present, and more competent to estimate the prospects of the future, than is the case with in self. I am, dear sir, yours very faithfully, J. 8. Mill. ” During the night of the late thunderstorm, an lerolite, “fireball,” “thunderbolt,” or whatever it may be called, hurst immediately over the brigantine Mary, then off Westport, and naturally caused some astonishment, if not alarm, It was at first supposed that the ship had boon struck, which would have been serious, as she had a large quantity of gunpowder on board, hut fortunately no damage was done. West Coast T'mes. Two Auckland tradesmen—a tobacconist and an oyster salesman—have been fined L 5 and costs for keeping their shops open on Sunday.