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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 56, 8 March 1886, Page 2

The Auckland Star's special reporter at the Rifle Association meeting wired the following i to that journal : -The weather is beautifully fine, and the men are delighted with Wanganui and its people. They are unanimous in approving of the action of the Committee of the Association in holding the meeting in Wanganui, which i3 a second Nelson, with the additional advantage of beiug encircled by a lovely river, about 100 yards wide. So satisfied are the shooters with the place that some of them freely express the opinion that Wanganui and Nelson should be chosen as the fixed places for firing, and confined to these, one township having the honor one year and the other the next. Those representatives who were at Wellington last year say there is no comparison between it and Wanganui, the letter winning " hands down," as the sporting men say. The town is made somewhat lively just now by the presence of several hundred natives, whose white tents have been pitched on the banks of the river. The place boasts of a Maori billiard-room, which is crowded nightly by aboriginals. The marker is a Maori, and the proprietor, who is also of the dusky race, rents the place for £4 a week, while his takings average £20 a week— rather good profits at all events; evidently the charge is not by the game, if the statement of a Naval Volunteer is to be believed. He looked into the room and asked what the score was. " Ten plays fifteen," said the marker, " and tea has been playing fifteen for two hours." Sir George Grey delivered one of his characteristic romances the other night at Aucklaud. The higher he soared in the regions of fancy, we may be sure the louder he was oheered. His references to the increased value of land in Hawke's Bay must have made the mouths of his jealous audience water. The pity was that only the few really acquainted with Sir George could appreciate the fiotion. Any idiot with sufficient nerve cau get upon the platform and tell the truth ; but it takes a statesman of tried ability to stand before people and pour out facts and fancies in which che truth will be as a drop in a bucket of water. We are glad to see that the old knight is as imaginative as ever. — Napior Telegraph. If England were to lose its colonies (says an American paper) there would be nothing to preveut its falling back into the rank of Holland and Belgium, and the present relation between the colonies ancl the mother-country is one not likely to last. The ties which bind the several parts of the British Empire together are too frail to endure much tension. There should, therefore, be a closer union between them all. Great Britain may learn a lesson from the history of the United States. This Government, now held together in an indissolubbe union, is but the result of a federation between thirteen English colonies. Before the rebellion from England, the colonies were as distinct as are Australia and Canada, South Africa and India. After the close of the Revolution they retained their local governments, but formed a confederation among themselves. This being found to be insufficient, they met together, iand "in order to form a more perfect I union," they established the federal republic which we call the United States. Scene— Doctor's house. Little boy, at the front door : "Is the doctor in ? ' Cause if he is I want to see him at once." Servant : "He's not in." Little boy: "Well, jusfc as soon as be gets home, you tell him to come over to our house and take that baby away he left last week. It's in the way." Holloway's Ointment and Pills. — Safely and Securely. — When the severities of winter have yielded to the genial spring, invalids should make a determined effort to regain their lost health ; when through confinement indoors, want of appetite, and disturbed sleep, the entire system has been weakened, and the spirits have been broken down, Holloway's remedies are equal to the occasion. The Ointment rubbed over the regions of the stomach and liver, aided by the internal administration of his Pills, will rectify the digestion, regulate the bile, and purify the blood three sanatory actions which will speedily confer renewed vigour, braoe up the falling nerves, confirm the flaccid muscles, and restore to the ailing cheeifulness, that great charm of existence.