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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 192, 15 August 1890, Page 2

Tbe Auokland Herald, in an artiole Oj labour unions, imp'ores them to moderate their demaudo, ar otherwise a number of industrial euterpiises will ba crushed out of existence, and the with* drawal of oapital will cause great stagnation and she wholesale disohatga of wage earners. Already there is a fear that the demands of looal saddlers will lead to large imports of English manufactured goods, A number of men have been thrown oat of work, such as oarters and storemen.

The following clipping appeared in the columns of the Canterbury Times during the year 1878, and is remarkably appropriate in view of recent cablegrams. It will be seen by it that Lord Salisbury had vory good reasons for parting with Heligoland, as he might by and by be asked where it was. "Is it, after all, quite so certain as we like to assume (says the Pall Mall Gazette) that in the animal kingdom man is cook of the walk 1 Take even so poor a creature for instance as the rabbit ; its place in the history of the world has still to be written ; but that it will be a very considerable one is already certain. There is Heligoland, for instanoe, whioh the rabbit is eating away, they say into the German Ocean ; and in that Great Britain of the South, in which we are always told to believe the future of our race will lie, -the rabbit is the one question of primary importance— beside which Imperial Federation is mere moonshine, and polioies in the Pacific only idle talk. What profit would it be to the Australians if they annexed every Island iv the Southern Seas if all the while the rabbit had annexed their own Continent 1 And now in England also, where the rabbit has hitherto only been thought of as conferring immortality on Sir William Harcourt, we are told by the British ABsooiation that it is undermining Stonehenge. What the storms and rains of centuries have spared, the rabbit is to devonr. When Stonehenge is gone the rodent will demolish the pyra* raids."

The trustees of the Wesleyan Ohuroh in Viotoria have been receiving -£100 a month from a mining company for allowing it to mine under a ohuroh reserve, being a royalty of two per oeat of the total proceeds. The company deolino to continue payment and the trustees of the ohuroh will take legal aotion. One of the points to be raised in defenoa will be that as the land vested in the trustees was granted for ohuroh purposes, they have no power to enter into an agreement granting its use to any person or persons for mining purposes,