IN FORMA PAUPERIS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5387, 21 May 1879, Page 2

IN FORMA PAUPERIS.

It ia surprising and mortifying to find first-class New Zealand journals like the liTftteltoit. Times callihs; "iipori-the Grov©rn-' ment to relieve the present debiiefision by ■ floating another large' loan in England, .^o making money! plentiful in the colony. There is 1 fat too much dependence upon' the Government among, botli, eoniniuni- 1 ties -and tndiyiduals'iii.New 'ieaianjcL,'" As s6dii as , a 7 ~Qbrporation> ft County./' » or , a School Board, lias outrun the. constable,, it pitebUßly appeals to the Colonial Treasurer for aid. When individuals ifind themselves out, of .employment, they.; either '■ :take td' Jpbbying., Ministers for a* billet in' the' Civil Service, .or. hold tftaia meetings and call upon", the.^ovei?ument ttf put 'large ; contracts for public works in hand. From high to low, all exhibit far too great\ a readiness • to: fly to the Government"! for aid in. any trouble,. It is one^bf tha worst features of the Public Works and Immigration policy that, along .with* the good' it has dbney it ; lifts done much to foster this want of self-dependence^' Communities and 'individuals ; J in good times live as, if darker days ■ would never more ■ croirs their path, and when the bad times do. come , they have not only neglected to save anything, but have contracted such habits of extravagance that they find it.no, easy task to retrehch and to live in accordance with their reduced means. Too many do not even try to do so. They merely turn to the Government and say, " You brought us to the colony) and you must take care that we , are not out of workyV .In l«hglahd neither. local' bodies nor individuals would thns blindly turn to the Grovernnient at the first breath of .adversity, i .This miserable dependence is far from a gratifying or reassuring feature, of colonial life, for, bad as it is in itself, it leads to much worse things, and is one of the primary causes of the " log-rolling " in colonial' legislatures. "We sympathise with those out of work, and shall be glad if the Government can help them by putting in hand a few large contracts a month or two sooner than they would otherwise >have, done, but we deplore the want of independence shown in the appeals for public aid,. That a loan should be raised to cut the gordian knot of the present monetary pressure is an extraor-, dinary proposition. We want the loan to complete our railways ; the present would be a favorable time for floating one in the Home market, therefore let us go again to the English money-lender as soon as possible, but do not let us mix up sentiment with business in such queer fashion, as our contemporary does, and afford to those whom we ask to lend us the money the spectacle of a .people unable to aid themselves, and helplessly looking to the English- capitalist for aid.

Tho Napier Hospital ' Committee accepted yesterday the tender of Mr M'Kay for fencing the ground at £8 9s 6d per chain for ornamental, and £0 Qs for plain fencing. The cdrninititee decided with respect to concrete foundations that the expense was too great, and that it was i also objectionable „ at. present, because a portion of the site is'* made ground.-' We learn that the Government have au- ; thorised the formation of a road from the barrack gate's to 1 the hospital ground. An inquest was held at the Railway Sotol, Port Ahuriri, yesterday, before Dr Hitchings, coroner, and a jury, on the body of a sailor named Charley, who was drowned by the upsetting of a boat near the Long Point on the 10th msti The evidence showed that deceased, in cbinpariy with another man'" named Mansfielcl,' was crossing tbo , b&rbpr in a flat-bottomed boat. when, a sudden gust of wind, oaught the sail and caused the boat to. turn bottom upSvards.' , ' The deceased cauglit hold of Mansfield, and drew !!»«., to ' bottonj, and at jlast IVEansfield had to use.violshc'p ,to free , himself.. from : the. grasp ; of the drowning man. " A. ; verdict of ['. Accidentally : drowned n was returned. . :••. . ! There was no criminal business at the Resident Magistrate's Court -yesterday. The following civil actions were heard : ', -t— Taylor White "v. Robert France, claim of £69 10s Bd, ■ alleged to be defendent ? s proportion of the cost of a dividing fence. , Mr Lee (representing Mr Rees) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr CarlilG for tbe defendant. -Mr Kenny directed a nonsuit ito be entered, . Large and Townley v. R. H. M'Lennan, claim £22 10s, judgment for amount olaiin'ed ; J. : Leonard v. A. Wilks, £1 15s, judgment for amount claimed. ■ We are requested to draw attention to tbe notification in another column of "a sale of leases of education reserves to take place at noon this day in the Council Chambers. There are some valuable ' allotments in the town of Napier. ,to , bo offered. Section 513, which - has . been sub-divided, is most centrally situated at' Port Ahuriri, and should command com-' petition. A block of 5600 acres in the Maraekakabu district and certain sections in the Kereru bush will also be offered, as well as allotments in tho townships of Clyde; Mahia, and Olive. ' ' An account appearing in a Southern contemporary of the sudden recognition of a working man at Christchurch by Sir Hercules Robinson, who discovered in the " horny-handed son of toil" an old .schoolfellow, has caused to bo revived a good story current in Napier a few years ago. A Mr Nessfield, who afterwards kept a livery stable, was " down on his luck," and though a gentlemen born and bred, he turned his hand to anything which offored, and ultimately became the driver of a hansom cab in Napier. He was not, however, altogether "dropped "by his old associates; 1 as" his fall' in the social scale was due to no fault of his. One day lie went 1 with. ' .bis cab to the Spit, to meet a steamer. Judge Johnston was one of the passengers. Nessfield touched his hat in orthodox cabman's stylo, and obtained the judge for his faro. That night a ball was to be given in tbe town, and the judge told his cabman to call for him. At the appointed hour tbe cab Avas at tbe hotel, the cabman being muffled up in a huge overcoat. Tbe judge was driven to the ball, and tbe gentleman cabman first saw to the safety of his animal, and then followed his "fare" into the b'all,':ap- ':, .'i'.i-y.;., ' ' ;••;>

Rearing, when stripped di his outer garment, in full evening dress. He danced, ;with the best until. the small hours. ..Next morning a friend of the judge rallied hint on his ','. late hours." "Oh," with evident appreciation' of the joke, responded his Honor j • " it was ndt my f ault j biit riiy ddnf dilnddd Bajbnian would dariee" Until 3 d'clock;" : ! . >'■■)/ It is not often One finds any tiling*, humourOiis in the columns df the WairaVapa ShnUUs out thti fallowing 1 is an except tion':— Another sign of the times 1 A secretary of a certain association in Grey"town "was distributing circulars to members df" the committee for a meeting, At the residence of one member a lady came to the doer and. was asked .to kindly, give it to Mr So and So. She replied} ' ' Q% I yes; but I know there- is itt ebttrige" ill tnß house* > arid its too late to get Any nchy-.'V A correspondent .of the • WairatatJa" Standard- writes ': — You have ' p'ro'b^ably, heard speculations Upon tlie,, climate m New 'Zealand; SBifl'e'i attributing the comparative weakness of youth bdrri in Ne\V Zealand to anything but the" right I cause, have actually adopted a theory, that New Zealand is not ripe for; po£ula- ! tion ! But a more reasonable explanation is at hand. Flesh is the niost injurious food a man can takeV and as" tHe 1 peer's 1 boasted ih& \&k£s ddyVft' new chum 5 had nidre meat in one day than .he 'had in England in six months : "while meal broad is extensively used at- Home, here* it is unknown, In England you measure your tea with a tea-spoon', 'here you plunge your fist into a tea ohest; Tobaqco ; is more. used here than it is in England, • while the hard work at, -Home ;is more calculated to diminish the effects of butter and other greasy articles; The climate 1 of New Zealand.is admirable} its soil is #ood, and there is .plenty of it, if the debtors choose to help our Premier in his efforts to place it in the hands-- of tile 'masses, ; and thus to:save it from, foreign and.'do'mesticlandsharksvi, .»/, :> . .-.'■„> i : ■ - : Beviewing the staid 'of trade, - the Wellington PsW says' t—^-The bank's,' hbt ; unnaturally perhaps, got frightened after the Glasgow crash, and they, put the .'screw on with s6me severity, it t was no 'doubt high time. t6 riull Up, but"th<a /break, should "nayS * been applied more ' gently^ afc first, for those in whose hands it Was were very largely responsible' l f6r itne headlong rate of \ speed which had been attained. They had urged the team, ■qnj-^nd then they tried to pull- up itib sharply.^ !I?hat. the 'vehicle ' should lurph-« dangerously "Was i' natural result." 'A ; . good many of the ■ passengers have been thrown otlt in consequence and more or less hurt ; but we very shrewedly suspect : that others, under the influence of fright or calculation, have jumped" out when they should pi'operly have .retained -.their seats. In plain, terms we' do ;not. think; that any sufficient reason exists for. the general panib -which seems to have set in. .'•'■■■-'-« The Taranaki Titanic sand may yet become a . local l marketable commodity. The' Continental Gazette of a recent date,referring to the question of ; sea* s'i6kriess, says the ; many , remedies offered; for thia malady are powerless to conjure the enemy if he once lays his clutches on the victim. The most effective antidote, or, remedy, as yet known, is a belt of silk, stitched and disposed to form parallel ribs, wherein is put titanic iron powder, which is naturally magnetic, and divided in- its whole length by another rib, which .creates a -constant electro-magnetid 6urre'ht, so* that the iron powder is pretty equally distributed over the entire surIfac'e of the belt. Such a belt is 'buckled ito the body before setting out on a sea journeyi ' When the belt is on,the:body , ; is in a real magnetic bath, which exerts its . influence on the epigastrium^ and consequently on the muscles of the diaphragm, so that the 'stomach is in its normal state, free from those movenctents which, as is '; well known, create. ' that dreadedfeeling of nausea called sea sicknes.. , . '.' ' •We clip from a Dunedin paper the following curious advertisement, : and give it insertion, gratis : — " I, Alexander Johnston, with deep emotion beg to thank the gentlemen, farmers, bakers, and few grocers in this district for their kindnessin i presenting me with a pony and cart, which are both doing well. ' There are some smart isportsmen about Blenheim. The other day four of them went after pheasants, but averaged only one' each. They discovered that they had promised to friends an average of two apiece. One' of them was an ingenious man — he would have made his mark in America— -and he suggested that they should shoot four swamp-heris, ! and transfer the plumage of the pheasant to the homelier bird. This, the Express gravely assures us, was done, and the eigh£ pheasants were sent, /r Three; days afterwards there ; were four cinner par-' ties:at which a brace of pheasants figured as the principal item onithe bill of fare. On the same day four, sportsmen took to the woods for a week's shooting. <{ There, is a 'degree of haziness with, regard' to the compact between the Nelson and Maflborough members last session, the which' resulted an thq promise to them of constructing the main trunk line by ; the , West; Coast,", says the Metric borough ;We didn't see • much '•haziness about it. Tho; Nelson arid Marlborough members merely aaid^ "Make us a useless railway or^ we Will throw out Lthe Railways Construction Bill," and this bit of shameless Jogrolling was successful. Dr D., of Balranald,, is an industrioug naturalist, and. is always collecting entomological specimens. ' He arrived the other day at. Braganza station ( with a pickie-b r 6ttle full of beetles', grasshoppers/ &c.,' Upon which he. had poured 1 a. little whislcy' as a px-eservative." After 'dinner he producbd' ' for : inspection his bottle of specimens. Going out' to the stable's to prepare * for departure," he left his bottle on the, table. ,Just , then : a visitor came. in, for whom lunch was laid. On' ; tixe'yclqqtor'?. returning to the room, -he, found the visitor with a piqkle-fork and a, wry face, wondering why* put whisky in the. chutney. * ■: ■ . "Marry in haste and repent at leisure is the' experience of a Mrs Emily Gibbons, who sought an interview with Mr Mansford, E.M., at Wellington last week. She told the worthy magistrate a painful tale of neglect' and cruelty at the hands of a brutal husband, whom she had married six weeks before, and from whose attacks she had sought refuge by. taking a situation five days after their marriage. Mr Mansford did hot think there was ground', for a protection order. » . The parties were young and had taken each other "for better for worse," and the wife had. a, large share of "the;-worse." They had been living separate ever siace the marriage. Tho parties apppeared to have had no knowledge of each other before marriage. '■ "Wicked and indefensible as th.® coup d'etat may have been, Napoleon lit. had a long and not inglorious reign. Ifc is a question, whether he did not lay ' as it were the second foundation of a historical . dynasty — notwithstanding Sedan and all which has therefrom resulted. The Keilys are "still at large somewhere ; nobody exactly knows where, They are still in office as the ' boss,' bushrangers, and, being amply provided with funds, do not seem likely to evacuate the position. They appear to have the sympathies of the people, at all events in the districts they frequent." Who would think, to road tho foregoing in tho Dunedin Star, that it was simply premonitory of an attack in the native policy of the Ministry ? The. State of New Jersey, U.S., owes £10,000,000— equal to fully 10 per cent, of the rateable value of the whole State, and representing a burden of £8 for every man, woman, and child in the State. The indebtedness" of New Zealand pales by comparison,

Pap % er teeth are the iatest ndy'eity, ac- • cording tci the Homeopathic Meview. What; is a professional jnan ? A lawyer and an editor^were calldd upon to give evidence as experts in a case heard at Wanganui. 'They were brdught sixty. Rule's' And the 1 GWrti aildwed <&chflvd shillings per day. The clerk asto'nisndd Ddtn witnesses by inf orniing them that neither the law nor £ot£rth estate cdnstitiite'd a pro j. .fusion. The Crown Prosecutor said that; rieitlldi/ MWyers or journalists were professional gentlemen.