Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1886

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1973, 1 October 1886, Page 2

Marlborough Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1886

It seems quite useless to hope that the Press Association will ever he conducted on lines dictated by common sense, fair knowledge and intel. ligence, or even the teachings of experience. It also see ns useless to make any fuss about the wretched management, but we must let our feelings hare vent somehow. Hencs this wail. We venture to say that not a day or an hour passes but some luckless newspaper editor or proprietor burls imprecations at the head of the manager and the Association as a body corporate, and prays for the day to arrive when bis engagement with that organisation shall oease. But all this ebullition of temper is just as useless as the written or printed complaints and protests, We shall have to|grin aqd bear the stupidity and mismanagement of the Association just so long as it exists as an organisation— sonje fwo yeare or so yet. Our present complaint is that whilst the most horrible trash is nightly sent to us —most of which we consign to the vaatepaper basket, but for which we have to pay all the same—ltems of news which everybody would read are carefully kept back. A case in point was brought nnder our notice with the arrival of yesterday’s mail with our Southern exchanges. It appears that Captain Cain’s body was exhumed on Monday night last, but not a word was sent to the papers about the ghasMy business by the Association. Thanh Goodness! we think we hear some reader exclaim- But we look at the matter from g newspaper point of view, and we know half a column descriptive of what had taken place in the Timaru cemetery the night before would have read uncom-,

aonly well in Tuesday morning’s paper. This is an instance of what the maddylieaded Agents of the Association can lot do ; some day we mean to show what they can do by publishing a few of the telegrams we get, and are co npelled to pay for, but which we have refused to publish as items of news. We do not remember ever to have seen the philosophy of public office—if that term defines what we mean—put mo e tersely and accurately than it is by Mr Howorth in the Times. It is a modol of lucid condensation of a right view. Mr Howorth says—’* We are trustees for a great empire. We cannot, without a bre-ch of trust, treat the appointment of a Minister as if it were a reward for past services or a question of friendship. To put weak men into difficult posts in a Government because they are veterans i» to reverse the useful lesson of military organisation. There are no obligations in the matter. He who has served his country well has already been highly honored in being permitted to serve it at all. If he still can serve it well, his experience will increase the value of his other gifts; but if others can serve it better, it is his duty to stand aside ; and if he see it not his duty .then others may and ought to see it for him.” There are some public men in Marlborough who might do well to digest this paragraph. The Gazette publishes a new scale of fares to be charged on the Railways after the tth October. We extract the fol'owiDg for publio information Goods of Classes A, B, C, D (merchandise) booked through between Blenheim or other stations on the Blenheim-Picton Railway and the Ports of Wellingion or Nelson, consigned by steamship companies making suitable arrangements with the Government for through booking, will be charged 15s per ton, weight or measurement, according tn ships’ bill of lading. Ships’ goods of Classes A, B, C, D, from Picton, will be charged as Class B. Maximum charge, including wharfage, loading, and unloading 7s 6d per ton, weight or measurement, according to ships bill of lading All other goods of Classes A, B, C D will be charged as Class A. Goods of Class E (grain), consigned direct to ships for shipment will be charged 4s 6d a ton, including all charges. At Tua Marina and Spring Creek Stations, on goods of Class E preceding, no storage will be charged for the first four weeks, after which Id per ton per week will be charged. The Department does not guarantee storage room. Class F (hay, &c), The maximum rate on goods, of Class F consigned direct to ship at Picton for shipment will be 15s per truck, including wharfage and unloading. • Class H (wool) —Wool consigned from Blenheim to ship at Pietoa will bejeharged Is per bale for undumped, and Is 9d per bale for double dumped, including all charges. p laBS K (timber)— Minimum rates for distances not exceeding four miles, 8d per 100 superficial feet ; over four miles, 9d per 100 superficial feet. Timber consigned from Mount Pleasant, Koromiko, or Tun Marina to Par a will be charged 6d per 100 supercial feet.