THE The New Zealand Herald. SPECIDMUR AGENDO. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1875.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4217, 20 May 1875, Page 2

THE The New Zealand Herald. SPECIDMUR AGENDO. THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1875.

Tin: Provincial Council met yesterday, at tare oVlock. The I'r..viiiL-i:il Treasurer, m an-wer to a .motion l'Ut t<l liini. tli:it. inasmuch as „., ni.m.y h;il L.-.-n n-.-civ,,! iH.m tin- dn.i-.il ('m.v.iiiii;.-:it nut •■!' tin- sum v..t..-.UV.ri-..:i'l-> iiii.l "oil;.-, .V-rth of Auckland, tin- I'niviii ia! (l..v.■rnm.-iit i'oul.l not o], i: i ii[. t!ii' K;i>l <~ . >:i.-t ioa.l. Malu.vanu'i, via tin- Hot Spriii-s : t at tile I ;.-n-.-r;il Co-v.-nii.i.-ut lia.l l>. vii u.iUvn in t to tinKaiiiara Cailv.ay, lmt no answer h.nl lvi-u received: that tjliOO Wolil 1 1..; lieees.rny for the lei.air aihl eiilar-. nieiit of I In.liiin.'a wharf, an.l the Provincial (;.>vei-iiinei.t lia.l no finals : tliat the War.len at the Thames was to report upon the. cases of Mae' llanlon, and others, but had not sen! in liis report. Mr. Pargavillo moved a resolution in favour of a C.I duty on gum. .Mr. l.uslc moved an amendment that tin.' proposal lie. referred to a select eoinmittec- to take evidence and all facts connect.d with the -inn trade. A very loiiLjand ratliit int>'ri-.tiiilMlis.'ii.-.s:oiiriiMii'ii. \iith the i-e-ult that the motion was earned up,.u a divi.-iun— Ayes, 1•> : noes, 1(3. The tJra'inmar.sehoi.l ICn.lowmeiit Salu Bill was read a second time, passe 1 through committee, read a third time, and |i;w-.<:.1. This endowment is in I'arn. 11. The railway passes it. Tin- (leiieral I 1.e.-.-. .imeiit a-ived to Miv.. .L , tort to the Supel intciiilelit fur it. 1 .tit no power hail l>ce;i yiveu to the Provincial (iovernment to sell. The Hospital Kcserve Sale P.ill vas read a svc.nd time. It authorises the sale of a reserve at .Motion's Milt :or t■_'•_• an acre. The land is rcnuired for the water wuVks. The bill was read a second time, parsed through committee, read a third time, and passed. On the order of the day to read tli- I'ublic Buildings Act, I>7-I, ltcpeii' P.ill, H7.">, a sreond 'time, tlie Provincial Treasurer explained theol.jeet of the Kill. Power had been Ljiven to the Superintendent, by the bill of IS7-1 to raisu a .sum of money by inortThat was found an inconveniciu mode what was desired. It was desirable to bavo a more negotiable instrument to represent the property, and t > issue debentures with the same security. The proposal was to raise {.TiU.OOO—\:/.. :' t-'O.COO for the new hospital; i'L'o,ooo lor improvements and additions to the new lunatic asylum. Some disagreement h.'ii occurred with the bank, which had caused a little delay. The contract ''or the, h"-pital had been signed, and the work commenced, so that tile ('ominid-sioii.-i-s were cnu'.i.u'cd to the extent of ■L-O.UIW. which m'u.-i In; met. The proposal, further, was to rai>e t'nis money at 7 per Cellt. Tiler.' is M 1 p.Teent. s:ilkilliund. and . ii. re is a ,-aviiu enablinthe Supirinl-'ud'-iit to.-ill il t'..c int.-. '.-t be not p,id. 1 lie debate was a.'ijoiirned to :i.\t . 'ttiiiL;day. The C.uueil adjourn, d at a little after !) ~'cl..k. Till: lele:;lalns V.llicll IU! t.i-ilay aini".nice ihe l..ss ..f the mail steamer Semi!.-!', '■::■ llie S.-illy Isles. ..ii her way iV..:u Nev. V..rU in 1...i,.;..ii. Til..- r : hilier had mi l"Mid the Ausir.ili.iii and New Zeal.,.id mails v.lii-h were s,-iu IV.. n this bv l'le .Mi;>.-.d... bin iheiv is n.. r.-.i-..ii 1.. -.11].....-.' -h.. had .... 1,..:i1d :mv ..I 1 lie Mi!,'ai..'s ].a-..seiiu'l-rs. On (he cni'.rarv. it is hardly likely the passengers w.mhl to lint mail train, rmss the i-nnti-i:.-!,! at mail sp. .-d. and |.|-..,v, 1 ; ■ ..,,,-,■ ~;i b..ar.l th.. mail s:,aim-r. TheV ....il.l n -'.irallv ile.-ire !■> spend a l\ v. ".' vs at S.-ii Kr.<!.ei:.-.. :..i,.; •.!. :!i- ;•-..! •';,'..n-h t.. N, •> Y...L. .-.. i!ut mil.--. ':, il.e unlikely ease ..f .s..iu.- ..lie i-au T a> pu:.U llir.'ii;h at the greatest ]">.-- .' spri'l, tin re iii-Lil be 11' i ali\icty mi b. ii.... ■■{ ihe num. 'mus wlm kit 111 i-> 1 ■ ■.- the .Miliad... and uh'.se names We rej.rint t..-.lay. This view is rninirme.l 1■ v the tele grains, wliich say the passeliu'ers were eliiellv > ■ .iman. and ilia "im AiiMralialis :..'•,■' ir.,eealile." , whieh thev a-.<lir,.'dlv w..u!d be if they h.l 1 been .11 l.nard. 'The tele-raph'is in" cnMaiit w. rk l.etwe.n Kn-lan.l and America :ir 1 tin; pass:..!-.-!- list was ii.. dnnbt fully pi 1,-lix'u-.l in tin- L.in.l.H papers at least the day after the terrible accident was kim\\ n. Thu lns.s of .so many lives is in itself smlHcieiitly distressing, but we see m> reas.nito add t<. the distress amnii- thn.e wlm had friends <m board the .Mikado by anxiety which would be causeless except in the unlikely case nf .smue. hurried lias.seiiL;er tu which we have referred.

Among the other items of intelligence the news of .Mr. Vogel's illness will be heard with great regret. It is ii.iv.- clear that he will not be able to get out in time for the n.xt session,,f the Assembly and the great .(lastions, constitutional and liliaueial, which were to have been fettled will r<. main to be dealt with by the new Parliament. Whether the Ministry will stand through the session wil)i,.nt the Premier is doubtful. .Mr. N'ogel'sT'isence will open many .|Uestions al-n as ;., tin., poshi.in of the Ministry wi'.h a Premier il'il IV appointed by the Governor when assuming ollieo and whose re-appnintiiieiit caiin.it well be made in his absence. The chief ell'eet will be in dealing with the great .[Uestion.s with which the public mind is now occupied. They oniiii it be deferred without great injury to this province especially. Will the Ministry, if beaten, ask for a dissolution or will they be content to resign to a new combination ( If so, whence is that combination to come and of what are its members to consist? To those who know the /-< iwmiicl of the present 1 louse, the disorganisation of parties and tho heterogeiicrous elements of which the House is composed, these enquiries will oiler food for anything but pleasant rellection.

<>vir the ]mu-oiic:ui views tliovo still li'ivlts the siiiidiiw 'if tlic (.uiiiiiii; «;ir, to wliii'h poMplu sufin Uj be SL-ttliiiy ilown ;is a certainty without exactly knowiny uhoiu it will liojjin. ha.s paciliud Trussia for tho time, :itul thu iiinniliwicc of thu ilanyi.-r may liu read in thu fact tli.it thu (.V.ar of Iliissia with I'linco • ioitsjh.ilctl' interviewed Ilisinarck iin-niediatk-ly 011 his mrival at Berlin. "it is generally supposed," say the telegrams, ""that the Czar exercised pacific inllii--01100," from whioli wo draw our inference , that the dispute is for the time .settled. Prussia, h.>wover, has nut faltered in her course, but lias voted for the suppression of all the religious orders, which 13 an extreme measure that nothing but extreme need can justify. This law, passed by Prussia, will only apply in the lirst instance to that kingdom, but hur inllucncc will soon make it tho law throughout tho German Empire, despite tho great numbers of Roman Catholics in the other States. The last Papal encyclical <1 iic.;tiii'_c tlie bishops of all Human Catholics to ivi'u.-o üb L dieiitv 10 the civil law lias provoked this retort from tho Prussian Government. The encyclical

has outraged the patriotism of an immense number of thu Roman Catholics, as we have soon proved by the protest of their members in 'the Prussian .Parliament addressed to the Pope and published in the news by tho last mail. The Jesuits, by H'lioin the council-; of the Vatican hare of late years been dictated, are pushing Papal alfairs to an extremity and the good Pope Pius, reno'.vned and revered personally all over the world, is but a tool iu their perversa hands. Cloister-nursed and cloister-bred, these .lesuits will not seo the world as it. is but trust to their old broken weapons anil worn-out arts : ignorant of the fact that their hold over their own congregations will not now permit their successful use.

The Italian Government is blamed for its leniency to l'ishops. The bl-nio is discussed in its own Parliament ami we have the eurious spectacle of Catholic Italy, Catholic Austria and Protestant Prussia :'ll treading the same path tlwugh at dil.'cruit paces. The .Jesuit fathers will one day awake perhaps from their [.resent dreams and ask wl':.t all this means. They may then eudeseend i>< inist nmie to the arguments of reason and less ,n the terrors of the Church of which they are destroying the inllueuce and [lower by the way in which thev wield them.

In Kngland all continues peaceable, though much anxiety had been felt on the. Belgian aec-nint as thu Government made m> secret >>f their intention to side with and carry out their obligations under the tieatv which guarantees her independence ami neiif rullfy. A Wow at lU'lgium would have been a blow at Kiigland, and i>erha[n the consciousness nf this, made so plainly livii'ilV.-it, may h ivo had -..n;e .-.hare iu [uvscrviM'.f the pea.v of lOur.-p,. f..r the present at :dl events. i'i.'e ivlliers' striUe in South Wales has ended and the hmidreds of ihoiisand-i depeii.leiit on the coal trade are again briny; fed and clothed by tiio earnings from it. The mailers have been determined and they have, conquered. The men in the coal trade had .seceded i'rom the I'liion, the latter having refused (i> .support tlirm in an ill-timeil demand for incTi'.-nc/il wages sonic in mtlis ago. They wero therefore without claim on the friends of the Union, and entered on the present strike without its consent or advice. The, conduct of the Union in the first instance was much praised, and the masters themselves are overcoming the old hostility to tlit'sc o.gaiiisati.'iis. They see that when properly eonducied they avoid the blind outbursts of ignorance and passion to which they were formerly subjected.

Mit, Daih.aviu.k's fancy motion for taxing kauri yuin I's per ton for the purpose of raising a supplementary education fund, was carried in the Pro incial Council last evening by a majority of two. Eighteen lue'iibeis voted for and .sixteen against the motion. The legal ell'cct can, however, only be given to the resolution by Ihe powers of thu Ceieral Government. The idea of (.•'valMig a revenue from such a .source belong* .olely to the mover, Mr. Dargaville. Il ; s a "subject to which wo are willing f> believe h-. h:is uiven much tl-.night. This gentleman may, indeed, be 1....kcd up..11 a< an "expert" when dealing with and .speaking upon kauri gum. Therefore we should be sorry to oiler any opposition to a mailer upon whieh we can only fi'i'in a very unreliable, opinion. I!ut it dues ..ecu!- to us that if the <-..nMiiiiers .if kauri gum will submit to an imp..si;:..ii nf a L'-'i per ton duty on the ariieh: ill it the seller- (..f >\ii.>ui Mr. l.).irga\illi- is ..lie), in their own interims, would l> niej ago have asked l'."i per toll more from ihe purchaser. If the latier lun to this aiu.-.int in i-xivs.- -if what he ha-; hitherto been aeeu.st..mi.-.i I-, pay. it will n.it matter ..lie i-.ta t.. bin. whether the rise i-i due to a t,!\ .ran iiierea-ed dimaud in the price. Whv, [f ..iir gum un-rehaMt.-. cald ha\e raised the value to their own .special a-lvaniag.-. ;\ii;l have yi-l failed in .i..iiiL; .--.., is mij i.f i!i.>.•:■.• things hard to understand. Mr. Dar-.'a-ville >ays there is 'i-> substitute for kauri gi'.m. but tlnre are many who sliould know. an.", perhaps do know, who say that Mr. |).i.rga\ ille is altogether \> r.'Ug. T!ie experiment is danger..us iu this way. If, in cor.se.[Uenco of (he ta\, present e'oiisumen ivfu-*..; t-. beeme purchas.-.s, a large cla!-s of veiy ).oi.r. very hard-working men. will be thrown ..in of i-inployiii.'iit. i.r deduced in g:eat extremities. Audtlii* is not what any of us would like to l!-.f..re such a tax is agreed to by the General Government, it will have 'to be well ciidilere.! what eii'ect it will have U;.oii men engaged in the gum-digging industry. The object Mn Dargavi'llo has in view is a moat praiseworthy ono. If ho be right in his conjectures, that none but the foreign consumer will sutler, no one in the colony will care, while a very excellent object will have been attained. Perhaps the gum-iligger.s have .somu opinion of their own upon tho subject ; and we think it should be allowed expression, and all due weight given to it.

A M'lvlAl. meeting of tin; KdiK.ition tt..ard wxsluM wsterday afternoon, wl.cii rli..- aunual i--|..;,-c prepared by the seeret.-uy was presented, :ui.l the following niiimti.-. containing tin- u'ist of tin' lvpnrt, u..s :iii.»jjtt<l ii.i ;i iv-.iluti.iii :—"Tiiat tin- report, dal< d Ist May, 15:."., be presented t.i Uα Honor the Si,],., rint.-u.l. lit ; and Unit the I'.ount desire especially to I.rill:; to His 1 loiiofs notice the estimate "th. rein ill" tlio probable c...-t of education for ♦hi- ensuing year. It will li.j scon from comparison with uthor provinces :uu\ couiitrius that th« c>l in AuoUlaml is at it.f iiiitiiiiiiiiii, ati'l that tin: lowest i-stiiuaty is f_'l> 000 poraimiuii, exclusive of lniil.ling.s. For bwil.liiig.s the iioanl consiiler that-t.-n thousaml ].<mnil« slu.ui.l l.e ma.le available as s i as possihle so as to stipjily the city anil sulmrlis with proper schools, ami to meet the more urgent wants .if rural ami goldtields ilistriets. A further sum of tivu thousaml pounds will l>o reijuircil before accomniodation is furnished throughout the province, but this could be extended over a period of two or three years. There were I pupils (in the s-clmul rolls during the last, quarter ending .'fist March. The average attendance was *Ut2il, a proportion .smaller than in other quarters, and due to the prevalence of measles. At tho end of l.S7:i : according to the latest statistics on the subject, there were only 10.V2 children in the private schools in this province, and it isnoturdikelytli.it the opening of common schools li:u4 reduced this number in LS"4. The total number of children between 5 and 1.-> in the province on 31-st March last year, when the ceiiMt.i was taken, Has 1t!,715, and this number must since have increased considerably. It would, therefore, be fair to estimate that there -should be between 11,000 and 12,000 children on the rolls of the various schools in the province. The number actually on the rolls of schools, private and public, being below 10,000, there remain between one and two tlmus.ind to account for before the average is attained to which tho Hoard judge—by the experience of other countries—they have a right to aspire. The Hoard have shewn tli.U the present funds at their command are utterly iuadequate to meet the growing claims upon them. The operation of the Act is giving satisfaction in every country diutrict, anil there are few places now in which a common school—either whole or half-time —ia not within reach. Some of the country districts have .-xlabited praiseworthy libcraliry in subscribing towards school buildings ; Mid it has been a source of pain and disappointment to the Board that they arc not m i'uuus

to more adequately subsidise the voluntary etTorts. The list of schools attached to the report will show how wide has been the desire tu get the Act into operation, and the eagerness with which it ha 3 been taken advantage of by the settlers wherever it was IKissililo. to do so. The Board desire retiijectfully to bring these facts, and thu report attached hereto, to the consideration of his Honor the Superintendent. They hope, now that thl system has been so well and thoroughly established, that more adequate and mure certain funds will bo placed at their disposal for the purposes of education." A resolution was also carried, to be forwarded to His Honor. cxpres.Mii- the opinion of the Jio.ird that the probable receipts from the rate for 1575 would not do im.iv than niv.-t current liabilities, and carry the l'..iard over Au-u-it -">l»t. We tail to .see, in the prevent linancial state of the province, how His Honor will be able to discern his way .so iniincdiaU'lv out of the diilieulty as wil'l lie ne.ce.-?arv. the Council will, no doubt, lea-lily admit tl.e economy with which the .u/.lilo .it' the l;o:ud:ue conducted, but will be I- -■; ready to iiiul a source from whence tile li.onev is to come.

It will ho recollected that, failin-,' the ..I" a l.ill through l'arliamciit lor tin; abolition of the gold duly, the Provincial Council of Otago carried ;i measure through their own chambers last year, the inteiit'of which was to reduce the "duty on mild in that province sixpence pel- ounce bv returning that amount out of the revenue paid upon it to the seller. Tljia bill, it will also bu rccoKceted, was very properly disallowed by the Oovernor for several reasons, one of whicb, and the principal o:ie, was set forth to beas follows, in a letti-r addressed by the Colonial Secretary to the Superintendent of Otago :--" Heeause there <lid not appear to be sull'ieieiit provision in the bill to prevent tile repayment of the gold duty being mailo for gold the plmluce of oilier provinces i-hippvd from' Jta-o. Although tliesf<:oud.s.:olioii of the bill refers to the -uld a.s b.-in- the piuduee of the pr.ivin.-eof Utau'o, the third section requires your '. nor to be. satistied with the proof only of .(_• gold shipped from the province." Thus inducements would lie otletcd to transmit to Otago, for shipment, the gold produced in other provinces, thereby causing loss to their revenue. It may be doubted whether any provision for givnig a bonus on g..ld shipped could be he.l-ed round with sullieitnt jir.,liibiti«n to prot.'et the interest" jf other provinces ; but provision might be made for allowing the L>o' us directly to the miners, on their .satisfying the Warden, or other authorised ollieer, that they obtained gold within any district and forwarded it to the coast for shipment. A measure of that kind, whilst answering the purpose of the Ordinance lately made by the Ot.-v,o I'rovineiaU'ouneil, would be free from the great objection to which I have referred, as well as from another which might be urged against it as being, in appearance at least, an unconstitutional interference with the authorised taxation." A paragraph suggestive of the fact that further, and probably not unsuccessful, steps to le-nove any disabilities in this direction will be, or are being taken, appears in the Superintendent of Utago's address to his Council, and recently delivered. It is this :—"The consent of the Covernor to the bill passed by you last session for a partial reduction of the export duty on gold was withheld. I understand, however, that the Colonial C.nwr.iineiit lias lately intimated to the Otago I Miners' Association that it lias now no ob- | jection to the duty beiiii; reduced. 1 have > written to tl.e </o|.,,iial '< lovernnient to the I i lieet that, if this 1,.- ._„. r[ u . lYovir,,-i;,l Co-

vernmciit is prepared to relini|uisli eitlu-r a portion or tlie whole, if the former will imli-i-ite the particular iiivhn i.j,.-,;n,t>; of aeeomI>li-— liiii.u tlii.s, which will meet its concurrence." To permit exceptional legislation in thi. matter would be no less now than it was when the. Colonial Secretary aadressed the .Siip.rintenae:it la.-t year, '• in appearance, at l.a-t, an unconstitutional interference with the authorised tax-iti.-ni.' .

In portion, ~[• Xcw- Zealand—noticeably Maril..,rouy.h-iin-ii are employed to d.-troy rabbits, as ;i p,->t. tin- .-kins only 1.. in- pi-.;, si-rved i"..r >.ih: in \"ift-.cia ;t j.r..:it i- n.t le out .»!' '• liuiiiiy." Ai Colae, in that '.-..!■-in-, I , Hiv is a rabbit-pi-.-.-crvin,' e-tabii-luucnt, and rabbits i-,.iiM In.-l>ix-a in Miili..-ifiit .|iiautit:..-, in p.uts ni" tin's j.r.n-iii.v, to p.-iv f..r til. ll- i»?-i- —1-\ in — i.ii a .-imil.tr 'The. fol.ie. .-t.J»!i.-li:n,ntf:r.]. , ...y- about .'l> hands, ' and the .juaiititv tiiriu-.! uiit is al>..i;t suUD tins p..,- „,..];, a 1:!,,,,,-!, the [;ujt,,r\■ U capai.K en" lO.iHii). The <,f re- ' rnit h.iine .sale- .-U.-h- a r<-.luai..n in thu I-lu.y3i.-Ji valiu- of r.-.1.1,it5, .so that it is only !•>• opirations (.11 a lar_'..- seale. ' ami yet u-iu.i,' tl.e most u.ir.-ful ana eeoin.mi- j cal nia:..i-,ni,nt, that a prolit oau lie realise.l on thfir preservation. 'I'he sUins ale either -•la in M-.-11. -in.- or fxp..i-te.l. \tU !,.,th in-tni.live aii'l (say- the uoniuniporaiv fi'oin uhi.'h w>; ijiiote; to v.ateh thepioth.- raM.it.s liav.- to go throiuh iV.mithc time of skiniiin- until the tins are iva.ly for : .in u-U.-t. The skiiiniiii; ileiiartineiit is "situ- ■ at.i-a at tile s,, u tli eii.l of the limMing, from ! v.'iiie'li tin , skins arc remnvrii l>y Ix.vs, ami ' liniii; iijioii frames to ilrv. Thei'r b.>.'lie.s are ! elioppe-a up, ana submitted to a .-eal.lin- \ process in a lai-jji: tub, I>y means of steam, i ami are tla-n carried on to the tilling-in I>rancli, from wliioh tliovare passcrl on in tho tins to the soMwrers. They are then put ill the pres.-rviiiL,'-r.Mim, where the temperature is put at a particular point, ami kept for a certain time steaming, ami then removed further on to the testing-room. They are then paintea ana packed, ami sent out, labelled an , ! shinin-, into market.

Mi:n.o!-i:M: tele-rams to the 13th instant are to hand, via llokitiUa. There are .several items nf inteiv.-.t, but iii.ne of imp .rtauec. Anew Koniau (V.li.ilie Church at Cordon, near Uallarat, ha 1 l-«-n opened and dedicated, when Aiehbish.,], C0..1d made an attack upon the system i>l public secular cduivliini, uliieii la now tile law and in full force throughout Victoria. Thu Koiiian Catholic l.ierarel.v el.im the right, to educate the children of parent-, of their own creel, ami demand that a fair proportion oi' the moneys voted l'..r educational purposes be handed over to the authorities representing the Koman Catholic Church. Uf course, without the pre/eiit l.'.lueatioii Act is amended in Parliament, the demand cannot be complied with. Every facility is, however, allowed to the ministers of the Roman Catholic faith to give instruction to children at all seasonable times and hours. The agitation upon the i|ucstioii is much stronger in the country districts than in the large centres of population.

Tin: long continued decline ill the yield cm the Victoria goldlic-lds has led the Government to try what can be done in the way of boring-rods for prospecting auriferous areas. In lSti-l a company tried the Cresv.ick Creek district by the .same means, expending somewhere about ,t:iilOO un the experiment. .Vo gold was discovered by the means tried. Three weeks after operations ceased a rich field was proclaimed on a spot where several trials had been made, and in less than six months the diggers had taken thirtv thousand ounces of gold out or their claims. The chances of discovering gold by means of boriug-rods is stated by those who have been engaged in the experiment to be altogether very remote.

In the report of the Warden (Capt. Fraser) of the Ilauraki (:. .1.1 tit-1.1, it is .stated that .since the end of March, the time to which the returns extend, there has been a very large increase of business in the Warden's Court department, owing to the extension of the boundaries of The "ilauraki Gold Mining District" including various blocks of laud at Tairua, on the East Coast. The prospects of the new portion of the tield are most encouraging, and new claims are daily being registered. Applications for riftcea gold miniDg licences, each of very large area, have already been received. The number of ca-us disposed of in tin. . Court of the Warden and Uesidtut .Majistrat.-, for the V'-ar t;iidiii--» :Ustof March, lsT.'., w.-r,.-: 473 ; criminal, 594 : tutal, 1072.

The report o£ the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr. D. A. Tole), recommending the reservation of sites for future townships and other public purposes in the Tairu.i block, has been laid on the table of the Provincial Council. He says that "as the native grantees of this block, claim to be entitled to select 1000 acre 3 therein, it becomes, I need not say, a matter of urgency and importance that the reserves proposed to be set apart should be made as speedily as possible, lest by any adventitious delay the |niblie interest illicit sutler.