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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 208, 4 September 1869, Page 2

Mr J. C. Richmond has moved for leave to bring in a Bill to " restrict the giving of credit to Maoris." Mr Thomas Birch, Major of Dunedin, has been entertained at a complimentary supper, and presented with a piece of plate worth 1 50 sovereigns. "We notice it stated that no less than 7 tons of flaxroots have been shipped from Hawke's Bay for the purpose of being' planted in Canterbury. The Wanganui Times gravely proposes that a duty should be imposed on cattle imported from Victoria and elsewhere for consumption in the mining districts of this Colony. A protective import duty, says our contemporary, would benefit the revenue and enable stockowners in this colony to compete with those of neighboring colonies." Nothing is said as to tbe interests of the poor consumer. The barristers and solicitors of Dunedin I have, by petition, protested against a mo- ! tion made by Mr Borlase in- the General j Assembly admitting Resident Magistrates to practise at the bar. The Roman Catholic Church in Westport is now furnished with a belfry and bell. There is so little to remind people of the regular recurrence of Sunday that the bell deserves to be welcomed as a new and useful local institution. It deserves also to be complimented on its excellence .of tone. The bell-man will, no doubt, deserve to be complimented after he has had a little more practice.