North Otago Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7272, 21 October 1891, Page 2

North Otago Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891.

Thk Ministry, tho Premier says, will not swamp tho Uppor House with ft battalion of now lords next session, but will appoint a small number, trusting to tho Council being nwed by the voice of the pcoplo into passing the Government policy Bills. The now lords are to bo chosen from tho " flesh and blood" of tho colony, and no appointment will bo miidn until their friends — probably tho unions — haro phased their opinion on tho mon proposed to bo olovatod, It is therefore* not at all likoly that Messrs Pykoi Larnach, and Montgomery will reach tho political haven of refugo. Their political views, although what were ab ono timo called liberal, can no longer be t denominated by that title. Tb is not the liberalism thai these politic.il lights preached that will pleaso now-a-days. Whit is wanted is something that will make tho sparks fly, and tho man who cannot organise a revolution in a few minutes is not wanted. We do nob aay that the introdaction of a few such mon into tho Upper House would do any harm. It would have somowhat the samo effect as sticking a pin into a lethargic human boing. One thing is certain : tho present Ministry have »s much right to aend half a dozon mon to the Upper Houso bs had tho lato Ministry. There was and is no necessity for tho appointments. To appoint half i dozen mon to tho Uptor House will not carry the Government measures through tho Council. It would require over 20 men to achieve this, and tho appointment of anything less than that number will only add to the expense of administration without securing the object in view.

Onk of the Union Company's stoamers brought 200 pnssengers over from Sydney for JNW Zealand the other week. This has been seized on by somo as tin indica tion tluvt the tido has turned in favor of the colony's population increasing. We would be very much pleaaed to feel that it had, but such is not tho ens®. Tho majority of the new arrivals are shoa-crs, who, after they finished work on tho other side, journoyed to Now Zealand to take up similar wotk here. An increase of the population annually recurs about this timo of the year, and tho better prospects of Now Zealand is not tho attractive force in this instance. How it oun bo imagined that New Zealand is an attractive field for the working man it is difficult to any whon ovory town in the colony contains a largo number of working men who »re anxiouu to obtain employment and cannot get it. The colony has never boon worso in this reapoot.

Tho policy of rno QoTommont may bo credited, to a certain extant, with causing ii scarcity of employment, but at \h not, in tho meantime at least, accountabln for tho wholo condition of tho labor m irkot. That is duo to the reckless lmuinor in which tho affairs of the colony have been ndtninistored by ono Government after the other, the pooplo themselves being largoly to blamo for I he result, inasmuch as thoy insisted on tli« 1 wish expenditure of borrowed money. Wo are now reaping tho reward of our p.taf profligacy.

Mnils for Tonga and Samoa, per Wainui, closo at Russell at noon to day. Wo have received from the Government maps showing the now electoral districts of ' both island*. The Hon. Mr M'Kenzie is announced to address the electors in tho Town Hall, Palmoraton, on Friday, tho 23rd instant, at 7.30 p.m. xWessrs J. J. Douglas, J. \y, Johnston, Oeorgo Morton, Goorgo Oliver, and P. J. Murphy are gaxotted as tho Licensing Committee for the Hakateramoa dist ict. A general meeting of members of the Marti ni-llonry Rifle Clnb will hi) hold in tho Cofteo Rooms this evening at 7 30, when important business will be dealt with. The installation of the R.W M. and tho investiture ot officers ot tho Lodgo NgaP'im takes placo to-morrow at 7 SO p.m. After tho installation a banquet will bo hold at Woir'« Railway Hotel. Mr Nell Fleming has offered the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association three guineas for the best American stnudard trotting stallion at tho forthcoming show of tho Association. Sir William Fox writes a long letter to tho New Zealand Herald, pressing Mr Rcea to say what ho did with the L300 which a Parliamentary Committee reported had been improperly paid to him in 1879 by the Grey Government, for which ho rondcred no servico to tho colony, and which tho Committee recommended ahould bo recovered from him. Sir William accuses Mr Recs of shirking explanation. "A Lunatic" sends us the following: 41 An amusing occurrence happened in the vicinity of tho Breakwater last Sunday morning. Certain ominont citizens, as is their wont, were taking their usu<l Sunday stroll, discussing tho politics of tho day, when a largo seal suddenly niado his apppaiance. The expression on his face was a distinctly sad one, and after gazing at the logicians for a few seconds two large tears were seen to emerge from hia eyes, and ho dinappcarcd from their nstoimhed g.r/e. Why was tho seal so sad ?" Perhaps it is unnecessary to ask the police to keep an eye on "A Lunatic," whose name can bo obtained at thio office, A despatch from Berlin dated September 12 says: "A Hamburger correspondent writes a sensational article entitled the •Cossack Stroke on tho Bosphorus.' According to this article Russia meditates a sur) rise to Constantinople by the conjoint landing of 30,000 troops in Europe and Asiatic Turkey. Tho Bosphoru3 forts, it is said, are to bo attacked from tho rear, and tho approach of hostilo fleets is to be prevented by torpedoes, while it is calculated the Russian torpedo fleot could enter the Golden Horn at night and completely destroy tho Turkish fleet, and that tho whole could bo accomplished in twenty-four hours. Complete plans for everything are said to bo ready and only tho command from St. Petersburg is now needed. A plan for the destruction of small birds has been used for some timo with great fuccesn (saya tho Lyttelton Times) on Mr John Grieg's Longbeach estate* Tho system is one which has been employed afc Homo with success, and lias been introduced into Canterbury by Mr Frederick Powell, now an employe on tho Longbeach estate. The ordinary method of poisoning grain is by steeping, and the strychnino permeating every corn and making it bitter tho birds are apt to reject it. In the process used at MrGrigg'stho application is dry, and the kernel of the wheat is not affected in tasto. It has so immediate an effect that the birds are picked up in thousand* on tho spot where tho poisoned grain has been laid, and a small quantity of poison suffices. So groat has been tho destruction of small birds at Longbeach that tho adjoining road boards have applied to Mr Grlgg for supplies of the grain thus prepared, and are ceasing to purchase tbo heads and eg<?9, as they find that wholesale slaup liter results from the use of the grain prepared by the new method, Mr Powell hns secured a provisional protection order ponding a patent being granted him for his method. Tho usual monthly meeting of the Hospi* tal Trustees was held last night, when there wore present Messrs Mainland (ohairman), Headland, and Shrimski. Tho minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and the outward correspondence approved. Tho Visiting Committee reported having visited tho institution and found everything in good order. Tho Committee authorised tho warder to procure two seats for tho waiting room. Tho thanks of tho Trustees were duo to tho following donors: Mrs Shrimski, enlarged photograph ; Mrs John Reid, Elderslio, jam, illustrated papers, and linen ; Mr M'Hutchison, books ; other donors, flowers. Accounts amounting to L62 15s 7d were passed for payment. Tho Chairman reported as to tho result of the conference between tho Hospital Trustees and the Bonovolcnt Trustees with a viow to the Benevolent Trustees takiug over the chronic cases now occupying the hospitali The Bencvolont Trustees had deferred a reply until they had inspected the Homo, and had informed the chairmau that the Homo could bo put in order and made habitablo for L25. Tho work would bo dono, and tho infirm and aged men transferred from the Hospital to tho Home. Messrs Shrimski and Fleming were appointed a Visiting Committee for tho month. This was all tho business, aud tho meeting adjourned. At tho Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, before H. A. Stratford, 12sq., R.M., tho following civil cases were heard : Reid and Gray v. Thomas Hartley, claim 11s fid for repairs effected to liis order. Jas. Blyth (for Reid and Gray) stated that tho repairs had been effected bv tho order of defendant, To defendant : Tho goods had not been charged to his account at first, but to Jonas Hartley s, who declined to pay, as tho goods should have been - charged to Thomas Hartley. Jonas Hartley said he had lent his brother a grubber, but had \ given no instructions to have it i opured. Ho had never got the implement back. Thos. Hartley said ho had borrowed the grubber, and had been told by his brother to take it to Reid and Gray's for repairs. Judgment was given for tho amouut claimed witli 223 , costs. Henry Connell v. Thomag Hartley, ! claim L93 9s 3d on three dishonored pro- ' missory notes. Tho case had been before j tho Court tho previous week, when plaintiff was non-suited. Mr Leo (HMop and Creagh) appeared for tho plaintiff. Defendant said morally he was nob indebted, but on being told that that plea could not bo accepted, pleaded not indebted: A. G. Robinson and C. W. Cooke gave evidence, tho latter being crossexamined at length by the defendant, who, however, declined to givo evidenco on his own behalf. Judgment was «ivou for amount claimed, with costs L5 11s. Tho defendant asked for time till he could bring an action against Henry Connell for damages for soiling wheat without instructions. Mr Leo objected. Judgment was left open. An extraordinary practical joko (says an English exohango) has been played at the village of Minister-in-Sheppey, about three miles from Sheerneser, The perpetrators aro unknown, but it seems that during tho night hours they besmeared the windows and doors of almost every houso in tho villago with whitewash. Tho Kent county constablo stationed at Minator had his house •• beautified" in common with his neighbors, and tho windows and doors of tho Minater-in-Sheppoy board schools were also bedaubed. Tho placo presented a most striking appearance at daylight, and such a brooming and mopping has never boon witnessed in Mjuator before. Suipiolou hts

fallen upon two yonng tnon visitors wba disappeared on tho morning after the midnight exploit In accordance with the proviiion of her Into husband's will, Mrs Isabella Bird Bishop wont to Cashmere, India, and founded a hospital about two years ago. After this was done, she determined to visit tho stored city of Lhassa, tho capital of Thibet, a plac; hitherto utterly inaccessible to foreigner. Sho reached tho outskirts of tho province unmolested, and the Thibetians hardly know what to do with her. They could hoik! a man about his business undrr menace of death, but even they hesitate about treating a woman in such a cavnlierly fashion. So she was told eho might go to Lhns»i in safety, but that the official of ovcy villago through which sho passed would loso his h<nid for letting her through, and every district through which sho passed uoulil bo heavily fined. Thio was too much for her, and she promptly rotraccd her steps. A DaJziol telegram, dated New York, August 18th, states : "Groat indignation has been excited all over America by tho conduct of Tompkins, the Piivatc Secretary to the Governor of .South Carolina, who 'reprieved a condemned couple on the aciffold on Friday after their egs and firms had been ptnioucd and tho nooses adjusted. It appears that Tompkins travelled leisurely for half » day with tho reprieve in his pocket, it having been given him days before by tho Govoruor, to bo usod or not, aa his judgment dictated. Ho arrived at tho gaol on Friday, was piescut at all the arrangements for tho execution, and in the condemned cell urged the two victims to confess. Ho was present when the miserable mother bado her last farewell to a prattling little threo-year-old daughter. Ho followed tho procoision to the scaffold, stood at tho foot of tho staira, and hoard the last words said, and when all hope of a confession was past and tho trap about to be sprung, presoutcd his papers to tho sheriff. Had the condemned under tho terrible strain uttered a word which could have been construed as a confession, they would now bo dead, Their sentences have been commuted by the Governor to impriaonment. with hard labor, for life. Ninian Hyslop and Co.'s "Imperial' Teas when once tried will bo always used. They aro strong and flavory,

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