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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 161, 27 July 1889, Page 2

In conneetion with the reoent libel actions against the Beefton Guardian, the following appeared in the issue of the 10th inat :— "Our readers, will, we hope, excuse any imperfection in our issue, of to-day, as not only are the editor and publisher arraigned on a charge of criminal libel, but, at the last moment, the combination of talent whose endeavour it is to muzzle the Qnardian issued subpoenas against the compositors thinking, probably, the paper would be stopped. These people little know oar resources, or how muoh we have up our sleeves. They will be a little wiser ere this persecution and what will follow on it is all boiled down to a residue. " Everybody (a&ya a correspondent of a Home paper) is busy in the North exonpb the relieving officers. The Clyde ehipbailders have some 150 vessels, of an aggregate tonnage of 30,000, in band, and yet She output of new work during the past: few weeks has been considerably less than the contracts seoared. A similar atory oomea from tlie Mersey, while a Stpokcou cqrhßponden& writes that the good old times, when a beggar on Tee-sida was almost m rare as a dodo, "are rapidly returning. On the banks of the Tyne there aze 80 vessels, while at gfunderland some 60 or 70 are in course of construction. Perhaps the most striking way in whioh to show the extent of the shipbuilding industry at the present time is to state that there are on the stocks Bhips representing about 80,000 tons for Garmany, 17,000 for portugaj, 10.000 each for JNorway, and the Briiiih cqlbniea, 9000 for South America, 7000 fox Belgian, and no on,

The following 1 extract from the will of | the late John Bright, the People's Tribune, 1 •will be read with general interest : —"I I desire to be buried in the little graveyard I attached to the Friends' Meeting-house ab I Rochdale, alongside the grave of my late B dear wife. In that small plot of land are I the graves of my grandmother, of my dear I old aunt Margaret Wood, of my just and I generous father, of my sainted mother, of I my dear sister Sophia, of my two brothers, I William, who died in : childhood, and I Benjamin, and of her who was my precious j wife, from the year 1839 to the year 1841, J and her who, from the year 1847 to the year J 1870, was the light and comfort of my home, I and whose removal oast a heavy cloud over j the remaining days or years of my life. In | the same ground are buried many who were I the friends of my parents and the kind I friends of my yonth and of my life. Among I all these I wish to be laid. I wish, too, that J this graveyard should be undisturbed and J kept in order becoming its purpose ; and j feeling that the duration of a congregation I of our small seot in this town is not certain, I I wish to provide against the neglect, or I j sale, or appropriation to other purposes of I j this small burial ground, and I recommend I I to my Bine, and to my son John. Albert more I I particularly, to Bet aside in Bome way, at j such time as may not be inconvenient to I them, the sum of £1000 for the purpose of providing for the purchase of the burial I ground, and for maintaining it in perpetuity j in becoming order. This Bum, with accruing J interest, will perhaps be sufficient for the 1 purpose and for suoh arrangements as may be deemed needful to seoure the object I have in view." .-. Some practical joker oaueed a good deal of amusement in Melbourne over the presumed disappointment of fashionable society at the refusal of the Marquis of Lome to accept the Governorship. He issued a printed oiroular, purporting to be signed by Sir William Clarke, the mayor, Sir George Verdon, &c, &0., convening a" meeting to discuss the subjeot. The Ago was sold by the hoax, and gravely commented on the proposed meeting, and stated :— " The oiroular announcing the meeting lor to morrow is almost as unique us the movement itself, Beriously suggesting, ob it does, the raising of a privata subscription lto and guarantee fund to augment the present •• email salary" of £10,000 a year, at which the Marquis seems to fight shy. ' It is understood,' the ciroular pays, ' that his Royal Highness is naturally somewhat avers* to aecopt the pOßition by reason of the smalineta of the salary,' and. the good people of Victoria,' as a recompense for the lightening of their pockets, are told ' thaVtbe presence amongst ua of a person of suoh exalted rank, together with the Princess Louise, the second daughter of our beloved Queen, will strengthen the ties which exist between the mother country and her colonies, and be a refining influence of high social value.' J f There has been a great) deal of laughing over the sell. A report by Mr Walter B. Paton to the English Emigration Office on the colonies' growth was laid on the table recently. Mr Paton says of this colony:—"New Zealand offers great attractions to the British farmer. The soil is superior to that of South Africa and Australia, and produces wheat of as high an. average as 28 bushels an acre. The climate, more over, is more temperate and the rainfall more abundant. I visited many farms, both in the North and South Island, and sew very fine wheat, pasture, and fruit land. Wages are high, and good land expensive, as in Australia, but the crops are larger and more certain. " He speaks favourably of the Bpeoial settlement at Rakaia (Canterbury), and says he has not often seen settlers who have apparently Buooeeded so well. Sheep farming, he explains, requires oonsiderabis capital and experience, but he thinks a dairy farmer with £300 or £400 and experience would do well, especially if he had a family to assist him, and that there are openings for small capitalists of experience in markeb gardening, fruit growing, and fishing. He believes that the best settler is the man who cornea out as an ordinary emigrant and works for two or three others before taking up land for himself. Mr Patoa. concludes as follows : — " Regarding New Zealand as a whole, I look upon it as the pleasantest and best of all the colonies for a man who wants to settle on the land. It possesses gold, coal, a rich soil, good climate, well built bridges and roads, and a sufficient rainfall— or, in other words, about 'everything that a country ! requires, — and I do not doubt that with an increase of population the future of the colony is assured." Mr Herbert Gladstone has been interviewed, as president of the National Physical Recreation Society. Asked what phyeioal recreation did his father take, ha answered : " He used to be chiefly fond of rowing, riding, and shooting, but during the last twenty or twenty«fiva years he has bad to giva up those forms of exercise, and, aa is well known,' to confine himself mainly to catting down trees, whioh he does habitually. He always was a great walker, and not more than fifteen years ago be walked thirty five miles ovar the hills io Scotland. In my opinion, he is still good for a twenty mile tramp. He always attached the greatest importance to physical recreations, and he loat no opportunity of encouraging us in them. ■ . He has proved their benefits, and I think is not a bad epcoimen of their value."