Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1886.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1519, 12 February 1886, Page 2

Lake Wakatip Mail. QUEENSTOWN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1886.

Whether the Liberals or Conservatives be i 1 office in the Imperial Parliament, either will equally have to face as serious a problem as has ever been presented to any Legislature or nation. Until the Irish ditliculty is disposed of in some fashion, the mechanism of party government is paralysed. The ordinary relations of Liberals and Conservatives—of majority and minority -are put out of gear by the presence of a heterogeneous element, actuated by motives and aims which have nothing in common with those that actuated the other two. The element is not only heterogeneous ; it is actively hostile. It does not simply stand aloof from other Earlies ; it throws itself directly across their path. ehind this hostile element in Parliament stands a hostile element in Ireland. There the law is set aside for the law of the National League. There would seem to be two ways, and two only, by which tiiis problem can be dealt with and upon the choice made between them, and still more, perhaps, upon the resolution shown in adhering to the choice when made, the fame of the statesmen who have to deal with this condition of things will depend. These two alternatives are resistance and surrender. Englishmen may cither say to Ireland—What you ask is an impossibility ; anything else in reason you may have, but Home Rule you shall not have. Or they may say —We are not going to resist your demand any longer; tell us plainly what you want, and if it be in our power to give it you shall have it. So far as right goes it is perfectly open to take either of these lines. Where the interests of a majority and a minority are contradictory, and there are no means of bringing them into harmony, it is the minority, not the majority, that must be sacrificed. Every compensation that can he made to them for what they have to forego should ungrudgingly be made to them, but they must accept the fact that they are a minority. Consequently, if Englishmen are convinced that the concession of the Irish demands is inconsistent with the safety of the Empire, they are bound to refuse it, unless that refusal involves yet greater dangers than concession. What the statesmen of the empire just now have to a3k themselves, is whether Home Rule is at all likely to be attended by such inevitable injury to the State as puts it out of the power of any patriotic Ministry to have a hand in conceding it. There maybe many objections to the concession, which do not go this length—objections based on the risks to be run, or the cost to be incurred, or the sacrifices to be submitted to. But none of these need be conclusive against surrender. Where the choice lies between various evils wc can but choose the least. In determining whether the mischiefs of surrender are so incomparably greater than those of resistance, several things must be kept in mind. First, the concession must be adequate. If the Irish people are not contented withal the labor would all have been thrown away. Next, the loyal minority who have riskeil all they had, in reliance on the" protection of England, must be ensured against ruin. Thirdly, there must be no loophole for any future Mutton between the two countriesno written constitution to be violated, no reserved Ewwers to be set at defiance, no specific sphere of egislative action to be exceeded, no warring Ministries to be reconciled. A scheme which contains any one of these provisions stands condemned beforehand. Fourthly, the Irish members must be removed from Westminster. Fiftidy, Ireland must not be suffered to become a starting point for military or naval attack upon England. If it lw possible to construct a scheme of Home Rule which shall conform to these conditions and have a fair prospect of being accepted by Parliament, it may conceivably be better to grant than to withhold it. The worst course that can possibly be taken would be to propose something which falls short of these essential conditions, for no better reason than it may be easier to pas? it through a Legislature which ha* a traditional preference for kali toetsarw,

The Brass Band issue an attractive programme of concert in aid of their funds, which includes, amongst the list of those who have kindly promised to assist, the names of some taleuted ladies and gentlemen which are new to Queenstown audiences.

We are requested to remind those of our readers desirous of professional aid in the special line, that the stay in Queenstown of Mr Thompson, surgeondentist, is limited to Wednesday next, on which day he purposes returning to Invercargill. We have to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of the first numlier of the Presbyterian Monthly (new issue), published in Melbourne by Messrs W. Inglis and Co. The periodical, which is well printed, is edited by the Rev. J. Ballautyre, and the present number contains excellent portraits of the Right Rev. D. M'Eachran, Moderator of the Victorian Church, and of the Rev. J. Cooper, of Coburg ; as well as an illustrated story, and other excellent reading matter. Two happy mortals, now made one, must feel honored above others through the presence of Cardinal Moran in this district. The auspicious event took place at Eichardt's Hotel on Wednesday —as may be seen elsewhere—the marriage ceremony being performed by his Lordship the Bishop of Dunedin, whilst his Eminence, Cardinal Moran gave the nuptial blessing. At the Waste Lands Board, Dunedin, on Wednesday, John Butement's application to be allowed to surrender Runs 14, 18, 19. 346 and 346 a, or rent to be reduced, was referred to Government for consideration.

We extremely regret to learn that Mr W. Prince, electrician for the Phcenix mine, Skippers Reefs, met with a very serious accident, from which it is Indie ved he is past recovery. Mr G. F. Bullen, Mr R. Wilson, of Dunedin, Mr Fred. Evans and Mr Prince started from Queenstown lor the reefs this morning, and, from what we can learn, all went well till shortly after the party crossed the Saddle and were going down Long Gully. Mr Wilson, who brought the news into town, tells us that Mr Bullen and himself had got in advance about 200 yards (Mr Prince having stopped to tighten the girth of his saddle), when suddenly Mr Prince's horse shot past them at a tremendous rate—the rider with difficulty keepiug his scat, when, just afterwards, Mr Prince was thrown into the air and fell to the ground, head downwards. Mr Prince when picked up was insensible, and, it is stated, was fearfully cut and bruised. Mr Wilson immediately rode back to town for assistance, and Di Donaldson has gone to Arthur's Point, where it is expected he will meet the conveyance bringing Mr Prince in. We understand that the horse Mr Prince was riding is a very fiery animal of a description not fit for our mountain tracks, and this may, to a great extent, account for the sad affair. [We hear, by latest accounts, that the brain is seriously injured, and that Dr Donaldson states his patient is in a very critical state. This is the more sad as Mr Prince has a wife and family of two children in Dunedin.] We are informed that the Rev. Duncan Wright, the well-known evaugelist, who was here about two years ajro, purposes visiting this district again some time next month.

We are glad to learn that Mr Andrew Reid, who recently met with so severe an accident on his mining claim at Kawarau river, is rapidly recovering, and was enabled on Wednesday last to leave the Arrow Hospital for his own liomc. At last Friday's meeting of the Southland Education Board, the Cardrona Committee's application for an addition to the residence was decliued, and the Board expressed the opinion that a proper fumigation of the buildings would abate a nuisance complained of. The Hon. Mr Ballance, Minister for Defence, and Mr M'Kerrow, Goldfields Secretary, are expected here per Mountaineer this evening. f The result of the last washing-up of the Phoenix mine, Skippers Reefs, is 1400 ounces of smelted gold from 730 tons of quartz. This is a better yield than previous crushing*, but the manager, Mr F. Evans, informs u? that it is not because the stone was any richer, but for the reason that, during the latter period of crushing, he decided to discard a large quantity of the casing (which contained no gold). The battery is now to be stopped for two or three days to undergo alterations for adopting it to the electric power, "after which the stampers will again be worked by steam temporarily, provided ali the electric machinery is not complete, as the paddocks are full uf quartz and the men are busy 'getting out more. It appears that, under the Stamp Act Amendment Act of ISSS, any holder of a miner's right or a consolidated miner's right can assign or transfer the same, the fee for such transfer being Is. if the value is under £SO. This new enactment is rather repugnant to the old one, the more especially as all miners' rights at present on issue are endorsed with the words " not transferable." A miner, therefore, wishing to sell a claim can also sell his miner's right with it, and the buyer (who may not until then be a holler of a "right") will get the same at a figure commensurate with the term the right has to run. Another item of some interest in the same Act is that every transfer of mining property under the value of £SO will cost 7s. 6d. instead of Is.— for 3tamps —as under the old Act. The dearth of water in this district still continues, and in the Macetown reefing locality it has, as a matter of course, greatly retarded mining operations. The Tipperary Co. are just able to keep the stamper's moving, but the Premier, with a paddock full of stone, cannot do a stroke in the way of crushing. The New All Nations have also stone in their paddock and plenty in the drives, but, like the Premier, they are waiting for rain before the mill can be started. The Sunrise Co. (late the Keep-it-Dark Co.) have, we hear, started work on the co-operative principle, and have excellent prospects. There are only some twelve shareholders in this enterprise, and as a good sleigh road has been made by former companies right from the dray road near "Sawyers" to the mine, an easy method of transit exists for a trial crushing. That good payable stone is there no one that knows the locality can doubt; the reason of the late company failing to make it pay being not on account of the dearth of profitable stone so much as by the careless and extravagant management of the mine. The Mountain Maid Co. adjacent have also an excellent, though narrow, run of stone, the cmshings never averaging less than from lodwts. up to 2oz. to the ton. These mines are near the summit of Advance Peak, and the reefs there are presumed by many to be the feeders of all those at work in the lower elevations nearer Macetown.

A temperance demonstration at Auckland on Saturday was attended by over 3,000 persons, and was addressed by Mr Glover. The approaching licensing elections in that city are engrossing a deal of attention.

The Evening Post understands that about £150,000 of the funds of the Government Life Insurance Association has been withdrawn from Government securities during the year and re-invested in others equally good at an advance of I to 2 per ceut. on the interest.

The Christchurch Garrison Band protest against the decision to divide the prize of £25 between them and the Auckland Garrison Band, who scored an equal number of points with them at the Exhibition contest.

The Oamaru Mail says that last year's legislation for the suppression of consultations have proved ineffectual, as one is being run in Dunedin and another in the North Island. It says that in one case the Colonial Secretary has been blinded. A new oat called the "Triumph," is advertised in agricultural papers. It is described as a white oat, which as to its prolific character may be termed extraordinary. The seed is only of average weight, but the heads of grain so far surpass those of the common strain of oat in size that, at any price, it cannot fail to be an immense acquisition to the grower. The straws are so long and stout that, although averaging from 6 to 7 feet high, they carry their heavy load of grain without yielding. One seed has yielded 2000 grains, and many plants have more than ten vigorotisinus some heads carrying 300 gf ains. One gentleman got an ounce of seed, and had a crop of seven feet high, with ten to twenty straws to a root. The oat was an astonishment to the neighborhood. " Blthit-Paiba."— Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. At Druggists. Kempthorne, Proawr & Co., Agents, Chrigtehnrch,; * -

Mr George Muller, the veteran philanthropist and founder of orphanages at Bristol, is making » round of the colonies and is at present at Sydney. He has been for eleven years visiting various countries with the view of strengthening Churches and preaching the Gospel.

Mr Mackay, principal of the Wellington College, at the inauguration of the Caledonian Society in that city, said:—"He maintained that it was the absence of any system of free education that made Scotchmen what they were—self-reliant. The fact of every man, no matter how poor he might be, striving his utmost to procure for his children the incalcuable benefits of an education inculcated habits of thrift and self-denial more beneficial than any that a free education con Id give. We made education far too cheap here, and he would far rather see people denying themselves to procure education for their children than any purely free system, no matter how highly it taught our youth.

At latest advices the trial was proceeding in Rome of a butcher, his wife, son, and daughter, accused of the murder of another butcher, at Monte Rotondo. According to the indictment, the victim was entrapped into a cellar, killed and cnt in pieces, and his blood boiled into black puddings and sold in the shop. One of the accused told the story of the crime with such cold-blooded cynicism that he provoked a storm of popular fury. Dr Huxtable, of Auckland, was found dead on the floor of his drawing-room yesterday morning. He had been suffering frutn sleeplessness. A sponge saturated with chloroform was found in a cup. After inhalation his head had fallen forward, the face being jammed in the cup, th«j print of the cup being left on the face. He had but recently returned from England, and leaves a wife and child. A flood of light is let in on the singular spread of Socialism in the German capital by statistics showing that in Berlin no less that 49,000 families, comprising nearly 400,000 individuals, have to live, sleep, and often work in " suites," of a single room. In 3000 of these rooms there is neither stove nor fireplace. One-fourth of their tenants are poor lodgers. Twenty-five thousand families live in cellars under sanitary conditions that are characterised as absolutely shocking. Such meagre accomodations as the despised New York tenements afford, with their two or three rooms to each family, are at a premium, and would be accounted a great boon by thousands. Only of the poorest and best classes of dwellings—those renting at 10,000 reichsmarks a year or over—is there abundance, for the Berlin builder is a speculator, not a philanthropist. The poor have not even the chance of going to church on a Sunday to meditate on better things to come were they so minded, for all the Protestant churches and chapels in Berlin have together hardly seats for 50,000, while the servant girls alone number over sixty thousand. An hotel-keeper at Benmore, F.C. Benson, called his creditors together last week. He stated that from the day before Christmas he had not taken £2. He attributed his position to the fact that all the people in the district had either taken the Blue Ribbon or become Good Templars.

The number of persons drowned in New Zealand waters was 45; the total from date of earliest returns, 2156.

The Taieri County Council has decided to appeal against Mr Carew's decision that Councils have no right to impound cattle off County roads.

Not one favorable answer has, it is said, been received from County Councils in response to the circular asking them what they would be prepared to contribute towards the erection of school buildings. We notice from a Parliamentary paper just to hand that from 1882 to June 30, 1885. the total amount applied for by local bodies under the Roads and Bridges Construction Act was £1,717,939, the amount granted £431,'J87, and the amount expended £298,068.

At last metting of the Ashburton County Council, £BB was voted for the payment of claims in connection with the small birds nuisance. This sum represents payment for 118,650 birds' heads and eegs.

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