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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 97, 27 April 1894, Page 2

The Premier seems to have made himself very ridiculous over tho question of refusing admittance to representatives of tho Even- ; ing Pou to the Government buildiugs in ' Wellington. It appears now that Mr Seddon would like to constitute himself censor ot the Press Association, and tho Post of Wednesday last states that a communication has been sent to the manager of that body intimating that the supplying of information to tho Association, with reference to public matters, is dependent upon Mr Sed don's approval of tho manner in which the agents of the Association discharge their duties in reporting hia sayings and doings. It the Association or its agents send out what he does not approve or or neglects to send out what he desires, the supply is to he cut off. It is well that the press of the colony Bhould understand the positiou. We hope, says the / o.t, tho manager of the Association also will understand that what the press requires, pays for, and has a right to demand, is full and correct information on all matters of public interest, quite irrespective of what Ministers desire or object to. Mr Seddon says his refusal only went to the length of saying he would not, under the circumstances, put himself out of the way to give news. This is uot quite correct. In regard to tho recent Legislative and medical appointments, the Premier put himself out of the way to prevent the Association—and through it the morning papers generally outside of Wellingtonobtaining any information regarding them. It was only by a lucky chance— a representative of the Association meeting a visiting member of the House of Representatives to whom Ministers had given the information — that the news was sent to the morning papers generally. The Premier is reported to have been very wild when he found that his precautions had been of no avail, and that all the morning papers had obtained the news he desired to reserve for certain favoured organsi We underatmd that Mr Felix Campbell, of Greyruouth, has acquired the whole of tho plant owned by Mr Mitohell, the West Coast mail oontraotor, iuoluding horses, coaohea. eto, and that he will run the mail service in tho future. At the Chrysanthemum Show held yesterday Mr Cooper, of Wellington, a first-olaes judge of flower shows, stated that the local show was a far better one than any he had Been in Wellington, and that the blooms surpassed those shown in that oity, A Nelson resident, who has recently returned from Melbourne, iuforms us that in ODe suburb alone there were 2000 Louses to let. Hundreds of families have had tu leave theirhomas, owing t> the great depression existing in Viotoriu, and ia many instances seveial families were found herded together ia a small tenement, la a Bhort artiolc published elsewhere reforenoe is made to the dire distress prevailing in the Viotirian Metropolis, and from what our informant I fctatea the utter destitution described is by no means exaggerated. This sad state of affairs is due in many oases to unwise speou« luti^r, the land boom a few years ago beiug respoi.sibla for a vast amount of the preaeut distress. On the fourth page will be found the prize list in conutotion with the Nelson Horticultural Sooiity's Chrysanthemum Show. Heoently, in conneotion with a chrysanthemum show, the Manchester Examiner delivered itself as uuder in regard to big flowers. By the over-growth of ohryea themums it is Been ta^t competitive hortioultare does not always conduce to beauty. In many flowers of fragrance sham art forgetß Nature a moet evident beauty, aud oultivatea colour; but in ohrysanthe. mums horticulture is being applied fci pro* duoe flowers of pantomimic size. " Pothunting " threatens to spoil the magnificent autumn flower. Fault is laid at the doors of the committee who get up shows for fixing standards of size, and of judges who favour speoimens of Brobdiguagian proportions. A naotion is at work amongst gardeners against the inartistic flowers as big as a diuner-plate— a monstroeity of no uso for bouqutto or ornam ?utal purposes— in favour of the pretty single flower. Thk aanual meeting of the members of tho Nelson Aoolinutisation Sjoiety will bo held at tho Masonic Hotel on Thursday evening next eight o'clock. Tho business will be t j adopt the balance shettaud report, aud to 6t>p sale of gamo outside the Society's District after the present seasou. The annual general metting of th e members of the Nelson Camera Club wil 1 bo held ia Wigley'a Hall, this evening. The s s. Waipara will leave for Westporf, Grejnnuth, aad Hokitika on Saturday afternoon. For freight aud passage apply on board or to Messrs J. H. Cook and Co. In another oolumn will ha found a Wellington telegram, whioh states that the husband of the woman who oreafced some exoit9iuent a few weeks ago at Wellington by Baying " No" at the Altar, has committed suioide, It will bo further seen that tho bride loft her husband at tho first opportunity. We are asked to remind rotepayors of Waimta West that nominations for the Eleotion'of two Members of the Waimea West Road Board will be reoieved up till noon to-morrow. There was a narrow escape from a serious accident on board tho ketoh Argus tbismorning. She was alongside the shear legs at lliilway Wbarf having her mainmast taken out with a view of its being replaced by a now one, aod two of tho orew were aloft, while tho master of tho vessel was on deck attending to them, whon without warning the maet came down with a orash. The Bkipper seeing that he was in danger of being struck jumped overboard, and by his presence of mind saved himself from serious injury if not from death, as the mast fell where he had been standing a few seconds before, The two men who were aloft were preoipitated to the deok, but both esoaped without sustaining any injury whatever* Yesterdav afternoon an acoident happened to Mr Cooksey's express, but fortunately no damage was done. It appears that in the course of his business Mr Cooksey had occasion to tako his express into tho Convent Grounds. On returning to town Mr Cooksey noticed a branch of a treo projecting across the road and put out his arm to break it off. It was too strong, however, and did not break. This caused the seat to be dragged off the express, thereby throwing Mr Cooksey on to the ground. The horse took fright and ran away, dashed out of the Convent Grounds, i galloped into Collingwood-street, and continued along until it came to tho junction of Collingwood and Hardy streets, where the animal took a very wide sweep, turning into Hardy street. The turn was too much for the horse's equilibrium, and ho fell, opposite Mr Snodgrass's shop. Mr Cooksoy, apparently, is none the worse for his fall. Owing to the small attendanoo at the Foresters Hall lastovening Mr Millis did n't give his dramutio reoital . " The Lady of the Lvons" will be recited by Mc Millis on Monday eveningi A London correspondent writes :—Merriment is made by the 4fa>'dcen Express of Mrs Yates and tho Onehunga Town Counoil. It remarks that Mrs Yates ovidently believes firmly in the patt's words, »' Tho hand that rooks the cradle is the hand that rules tho State," but that in this oase an amonded version is needed!-" All women rook the cradle, not with the hand, but with the foot, and hero we have Mrs Yates, first kioking out her opponent", and then jumping on the remainder of the unfortunate Town Counoil of Onehunga.'' Mr Bakewcll's extraordinary paper in last month's Nineteenth Contury on "New Zealand under 'Female Franchise," has brought upon him a most trenchant reply from Mrs Henry Fawcett jn the current Oontempo* rary. She points out his numerous mistakes —as for instance bis assertion {that New Zealand young men who have grown up under tho existing sohooi system •'•'nover read the Bible at home and havo no ouoh book at home; never go to Sunday school or to ohuroh except to look after some girl, and are as destitute of any religion as a horse or a cow"™ whereas on another page he speaks of the Auckland streets at the last eleotion being as quiet as on Sunday afternooß» " when the children ,are gbing to Suuday sohooi, or on Bunday ovening when : people are going to ohumh." Again, she points out that his prediotion that the female vote would be practically unanimous and would go againßt tho MiniHt»rial'oand}dates had been completely falsified by the evont. Mrs Fawoott prooeeds to deal in detail with eaoh of Mr Bakewell's wild and epreadeagle assertions, and disposes of them all, "turning him inside out," and "leaving him not a leg to stand upon," as one oritio remarket},

T may interest our -a d-rs, and e?peoially i genu famish, to beer that Mr Macquar e ibcrated yesterday, at 9 a.m, two Homii g ligeons— " 0 iveand Winohiii.re"—bilonfcng to the niitod New Zealand Homer brecdt-r Ir Anther Smith, of Cbristohuroh, and that hey arrived at their loft the smie day nt !19 and 3 o'olook respectively. Cousiderit.g i^at the b rds were out of condition, and not [uile over their moult, it was a very good lerformanoj. A meeting of the Board of Health will ba laid at the Counoil Chambers this eveningA Napier contemporary in aa Article leaded " Neglected Napier," refers to the jondition of the Gover iment oflldes in that .own, which it is slated are a disgrace. Noihing could bo more contemptible than t'".fi iesoription of the oflioes whioh is es follows :•-" Everybody knows the p'aoe wo mcaa - the tumb'e-down and worm-eaten pquare box on the Government Lawn, with ito broken fl :orp, its rooms ai smaU as aver ago pa trie*, ita flaunt porpeudioular and unsafe two-fcet-wido af.iiiroaae?, its dirt, aud ito diwjmfort of all kinds. A ridio of the old d»ys, when arohiteots took as inude'ia the htest thing in paoking-oasos, a-id when buildings were put up as ono now pitohes a t j nt in the bush— with a view t.> temporary shelter only it is nosv a dirty a' d dilapi~ dated ruin , calling for demoliib on." " And yet," the writer goes on to say, "into this unhinlthy, unsafe, and inconvenient box the Government crams a number of publ o servants, and the most valuable and importait dooumonts." The building appears to be a very dilapidated condition. The alleged ''strong room" is said ta be iu such an advanced state of decay that it would crumble ibefore flre. There is some* thi ig ludioroua in tin account of the various « broken down series of hutohes." Wo aro told that thß Sheep Inspector owing to laok of proper aooommodation, can Bomatimrs be found at his office and aomptimes not— oftener the latter. It is a snoa'.l room in the Supreme Court building?, and when the Court sits the roam is wanted, the Inspector haying to paok up and clear out. If the buildings are as bad as desoribed, and we have no reason to doubt the aocuraoy of our I contemporary, then it is time t at tie I Government pull, d dowa " the decayed paokmg oase whioh oumbers and duflguros the ground," and buiit more suitable offices. ' The Ohristohuroh Press siys that there ia , every mdioation that the approving winter is goiog to be a mo3t trying one for the > working men of Lyttletou. The great majority of thorn are entirely dependant on the ehippiug for work aad nt present the wharves are bare, with no prospect of their I being muoh otherwise for some months to 1 ootne . I xu T^ R , K hftve ba<m 802 onminal cases in tho Wellingtan Police Court einoe the beginning of the year. It is stated that Gisborne has increased I more in stee and population during the past ! year than any other town in New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald says: -When Captain Hunter-Blair was here, acting as A.D.C to Lord Glasgow, he was very much pained, while up the Waikato, to witness the neglected state of the military cemetaries, where lay the remains of brave men who had bled and died in maintaining the supremacy of the Queen, aud giving security to tho colonists . He communicated with officers of legiments who had been in the Waikato and other campaigns, with a view of raising a fund for putting the military cemeteries throughout) the country in a state of decent repair. Captain Hunter* Blair got a hearty response in many quarters, and there is reason to believe that the publicity given to his action, through the press, stirred up the colonial Government to perform a long neglected duty, that was of making the renovation of these military cemeteries a sacred national trust— a debt of honour which the colonists owed to the memory of the gallant men who had laid down their lives in their service and interest. At the eleventh hour the Government aro seeing to the various burying places, but as showing the interest taken in the matter by regiments which served here, and are now in various quarters of the globe, Major Elliot, the Governor's Private Secretary, has received communications from officers asking how this question now stands, and oflering further subscriptions for putting the cemeteries in a fitting condition. It will be a poor day for the colony when the colonists, looking upon the broad acres won by the blood of British soldiers, ever permit British officers and men to bear the charge of keeping in reverential order the graves of their comrades who have fallen in the various campaigns in this country. It is to the credit of the officers and men of the Koyal Navy serving on the Australasian station, that they have for many a long year, whenever opportunity oflered, attended to the graves of those belonging to their branch of the service, who fell in the various engagements. Two or three weeks ago the wife of a farmer at Wioiam, about five miles from ' Neill, Victoria, was at home with her children, her huaband being away, when Bhe heard a rushiug sound, and looking out at the door saw a terrific rotary wind storm approaching directly towards the house, She managed to shut the door, and with a baby in her arms, crept under a table in terror. Her other children scrambled under the beds. The full force of the etarm soon struck the house, lifting, the roof liko a feather and breaking it into a thousand pieces . Bedding , and even a box of clothes, were carried away. The fire on the hearth was soattered in all directions. Fortunately there had heen beavy rain early, or the terrors of fire would have been added to those of the storm, Everything ia the house was destroyed except, strange to relate, the table and bedsteads under whioh the mother and children Bought refuge. A neighbouring house whioh was untenanted, was completely wreoked, A 600-gallon tank half full of water disappeared ■, A bag of flour was blown a considerable distance, and a four-ton stick of hay was destroyed. All this was the work of a few seconds. Jauetzi on going home found his wife and family in a terrible state of cxoit3ment. Muoh sympathy is shown for Jauetzki, who is a etruggling farmir, A contemporary has the following:— A gentleman lately associated with mining pursuits in South Africa has been paying a visit to some relatives at Te Puke, and at the faina time is makiDg enquiries aa t> tho possibility of obtaining totara timber delivered in South Afrioa at a prioe that would enable some of the large oompanies to open up a mutually profitable trade. There is a great fioaroity of suitable mining timber in South Africa, and moßt of what is used has to be obtained from America. If totara could bo landed in South Africa at a sufficiently low rate, there is an inexhaustible demand for it. The geutlemau in question is one of the leadiDg raining engineers at Johannesburg, eo he knows perfectly well what be is about, and here might be an opening for an impoitmt export of New Zealand timber, if tikon energetically in hand. Messrs Bisley Bros and Co will continue to sell to-morrow at eleven o'olock at their room* fio reminder of the Brussels and Tapeftry oarpets, and also a quantity of furniture; pictures, blauketo, &o. The extensive auction sale of drapery &c. being carried on at tho Theatre by Mr Lock, on account of Mr Ford, will be con tiuued to morrow at eleven o'clock sharp. DKiiSStfAjylNG.— Our dreFßmaking dep>rt ment b^ing under new and oompetent management, we ore now prepared to tike orders for day aud evening costumes, weddiug and mourning outfits, etc., wbioh we guarantee to turn out iu a highly satisfactory manner. We aro making to order for tho running season very nice tweed costumes in the latest styles, iu tho new hop s ioks and diog.innl tweeds and sergos at 10/- tho complete costume ; tbeso are honestly worth 56/-. A trial order solioitcd. — Everett Bros.