THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1884.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1302, 15 July 1884, Page 2

THE Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED DAILY. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1884.

A quantity of interesting reading matter will be found on our fourth page to-day. Mr Dick is reported to have said at Dunedin that if there was a coalition between Grey and Atkinson, he would not join such a party. The Chief Postmaster informs us that the Wakatu will leave Picton at noon to-mor-row for Kaikoura. Mails will close here at 9.15 a m.

Mr Ward addresses a meeting of electors at Fairhall to-night, at Marlboroughtown on Tnursdsy, and at Grovetown on Saturday.

Mr W. Gray, Secretary to the Post-office and Telegraph Department, arrived here by the Waihi this morning and leaves again this afternoon via Picton.

Mr W. H. Eyes holds a meeting at Pieton to-night, at which lie will express his views to the electors of that town. He also addresses the electors at the Picton Road school to-morrow (Thursday.)

The Blue Ribbon Union will hold their next meeting to-morrow night, when several addresses aie promised from the Rev. Mr Robb and others, and a number of hymns will be sung during the evening. The following gentlemen must certainly be considered lucky in being returned uuopposed to the House of Representatives : —Mr Macandrew, Port Clalmers ; Dr Newman, Thornclon ; and Mr Barron, Caversham.

Wc are sorry to learn that the Hawcra football team are not likely to pay us a visit after all, A Press Association telegram from Hawera yesterday says : —ln consequence of several of the best players having received injures in a practice match on Saturday last the Hawera football team will not be able to leave for the proposed trip to Wellington, Nelson, and Blenheim to play the representatives of those towns. To-morrow will be nomination day and no doubt there will be a large attendance at the Courthouse at noon, the time fixed on. The election lias been attentively and keenly watched from the beginning, and as there are sure to be addresses from both candidates on the occasion it is very probable that, though the hour is rather an inconvenient one, a large number will be present. The following is an extract from a letter, dated Ilrninster, May 22nd, and received by Mr E. Paul, Spring Creek, from his sister, Mrs Bryant:—“ We were very delighted with your letter, aud also highly pleased with the lamb. It was indeed kind of you to send such a liberal supply. We enjoyed it very much, and considered it a great dainty coining such a distance in such splendid condition.” Thq following gold-mining leases cancelled are published in the last Gazette ■ W. E. Dive and J. Barleyman ; Wairau Claim, Wairau and Pelorus Mining district; 16 acres 2 roods 4 perches. The Forks Sluicing Company Company (Limited); 10 acres, Wairau and Pelorus Mining district, William Evans Dive; 15 acres and 20 perches, Wairau and Pelorus Mining district. W. E. Dive and G. Cleghorne; 16 acres 1 rood 38 perches; Wairau and Pelorus Mining district.

Our contemporary discovered a mare’s nest the other day in the shf.pe of a strike amoDg the butchers at Koromiko. We need not assure our readers of what they knew all the time, viz., that such a thing never took place. What we now speak of is the unfairness of our contemporary in withholding Mr Hawker’s letter, and publishing only such portions of it as suited his purpose. Why not give the letter in its entirety ? The reason can easily be inferrred. As to the sanitary arrangements, when they are complained of by others it will be time enough to answer the charge. The great complaint is that the fleeces contained thorns and hurt the hands of the men. We are sorry that this should have occurred, and are pleased to learn the men -are recovering ; but is this a solitary esse ? Do not- men at any boiling down establishment get their hands wounded ? The whole affair is a petty and underhand attack on a local industry which ought to be supported by every man in the community, and we are surprised that such a suicidal policy should be pursued even by our contemporary.

. A worshipper of Bacchus who had imbibed “not wisely but too well,” was run in this afternoon.

The Gazette contains the new railway tariff, the only portion of which affects the local line is the reduction of qte shilling per ton on meat from Koromiko, presumably with a view tc-j oncourage the frozen meat indusfry. A more misleading and totally untruthful article than the local which appeared iu our contemporary of last evening, in reference to Mr Ward’s country trip, it would be impossible for anyone to pan. Everyone knows, and none better than -our contemporary, that Mr Ward’s meetings in the country were most successful, and that is just where the annoyance comes in. It is gall and wormwood to some persons to hear how warmly Mr Ward was received, and having no fair menus of finding fault, facts are being perverled and truth ignored altogether. The person who works up these little articles has a very unpleasant task, and can’t help showing his distaste for the work. We can only pity him, and hope he will mend his ways. ' Many residents of Blenheim who arrived in the year 1875 by the ship Carnatic, which landed her passengers at Picton, will remember the ' gentleman who. figures in the following telegram from Timaru, dated July 13:—Mr J. M. Twoorney, a candidate for Gladstone, lastuight addressed a meeting of the electors of Pleasant Point, and received a vote of confidence. He announced himself a cautious follower of Sir Julius Vogel, and advocated the Government buying out the Bank of New Zealand in order to lend money to farmers at a lower rate. He proposed that the Government should buy six-acre' plots 200 acres apart, lotting the same at a nominal rent to laborers to foster ground peasantry.

Mr Dodson’s speech as delivered at Renwick and Mr Dodson’s speech as 'printed (in the Express) are two very different things, and we confess we did not recognise in the latter any semblance of the former. What a tremendous amount of re-touching, smoothing, and manipulating, the speech must have had before it went into print! The man who could perform such a task with such materials must be an artist. What good ears he must have, to have heard so much that was never spoken, and how deaf he must have suddenly become when certain little damaging statements were made that would not read well from an electoral point of view; We would advise him to emulate Miss Georgie Smithson, and go in for instantaneous changes of character on the stage.’ 1 ,

Our Havelock correspondent writes : Mr Eyes addressed a large meeting on Saturday evening at the Havelock Board of Works Office, and explained his views on the different matters of interest to the electors; a great many questions were asked on various subjects, education, vaccination, &c. He could not promise to reside in the district if elected ; he was in favor of abolishing oaths ; he did not know why they appointed Mr Conolly AttorneyGeneral; the Government were certainly expending too much, on education ; no schools ought to be subsidise for teaching anything ucyond the fourth standard; he was decidedly iu favor of Government purchasing the Pelorus, tramway and opening up the Rai Va’ley tor settlement. A vote of thanks for his address was passed, and one for the chairman, when the meeting separated.

Don’t Die in the House.— ” Rough o Rats ’ clears out rats, mice, beetles, roache bed-bugs, flies, ants, insects, m-Jcs, jack rabbits, gophers. Kempthorne, Prosser,) - Co., Agents, Christchurch.