SEPARATION IN CANTERBURY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1001, 4 March 1865, Page 5

SEPARATION IN CANTERBURY.

The Lyitdton Times seems gradually to lean closer towards the cause of Separation, but wants the courage t*^ bolillv proclaim itself an ardent advocate. Here i» an extract from an article in thnt journal upon the subject of Southland'u di£s--culties :—

"We have this dilemma. First, tilere is the necessity and duty of assisting Southland by means of a guaranteed Joan; secondly, there is only one resource really available for the purpose; and, thirdly, the provinces iotcretttcd cannot endure to have this resource dealt with as a common, fund by the colony at large. This dilemma seems" to drive us into Reparation. "If the-Middle Island were a separate colony, the dilemma would disappear. The provinces interested in preserving the local application- of the land revenue would then be for all purposes the siyrie as the colony at large. A General Government, formed by these provinces, might safely be permitted to resume for » time the nominal ownership of the 3and v because it would he interested only in administering it for the benefit of the real owners. It would te necessary, then, merely to raise one loan as that of the new colony, to allocate it among the province^ and to reserve Ihb proportionate share of interest payable by each, without interfering with the appropriation of the remainder by the provinces in the localities where it arove. That is, in short, to do for the Middle Island what was: done in

1656 for K"ew Zealand.

" One great: ad vantage would attend such a course of proceeding. The Land Pand would be an unimpeachable security. It would rise from the rank of a provincial to that of a colonial revenue; arid it would, therefore, be subject to none of tno doubts which aro now raised out of the fact of bb over-riding legislature. And it would be a first-clas* security; for, whatever share the Middle Island might have to'hear of the general colonial debt, upon separation, that would be a lien only upon the Customs or ordinary revenue, and the land revenue would remain uncharged. It is obvious that the change would enable Canterbury and Otago to assist Southland without danger to themselves; but na things are at present they will have to do so at very serious risk. If the prospect oi" separation were clearly seen,, we should recommend that a ; temporary loan be raised at once for .Southland, on such terms as will secure the money; and that whea the first debsntnres fall due, the debt be taken up and consolidated with that of the Middle Island generally, in the way that we have prorfosed."

The lata Mr John riuott, of tlio firm of Colnsfjhf, Bcott, aa<i Co., of Pall aiall Eist, be3ueathed his collection of fifty water colour rawing^' to tbe JMinbarjab, National Gallery, whrro in fature they will ba knowo as the •' J'cott drawiags." Thoxdrlcs of drwwing« compriac« water colotirs fey Dw.%, Girtin (me of the founders of thn Kngiiah school of water colour tnlminpr), Coliius, Unvid Cox, Kob;rls> Lswj!», Oiltormole, I*. Oerrint. J. < l>, HnrJios!, iosi>pii Na«b, Knell, Cillow, Kripp, Blmoro, and ■>vaml otber distinguieh'-d ai-tlsts, a^ well aa cencil druwinpa by Patrick NaMuytb, V/tlibm Bjr6, Sir WwSn liwaiMter, and Samuel Pcoat. Among tho lriost remarkable of thtse »ro ifac-88.by Joshua OrisUH, born at l'<-uri>; in Caniwal!, in 1708. Tb«y ere di^lnßuiislicd by a flae feelioir for colour,; ia^starJy oom'jo«iti"n» clever drnwiiisr, and Cm; ae;lal psr»i>ective. Mr Ci'wtall fti one of the iouu'|i;r?t of the criaiual society of puicjfccrs ia water O'i!b(iiA,;:wlw-is firat exhibition was opcaed lvi April-,' -1805 Tbe<o '• S»tt OrawinKo" ought; to have roiicb effect m jiromoting witai is so ftjui'h WHnted in S'-oilatiJ, nnmelvi a good school of■'.Wflterl colour painting* as i hey tillord K-H)il ep oim ;n«: pi the atylea of a nnmlicr of tmiucut artists, punfculnrly in land' >cnpe. and, though smal),, they are remarkably ■w*U/«B'ec'ed.'i";'-'I.;i;''':1.. .'■'1:-!:i:;;;.;.:/.1 „.■ 5 ..,; ■.. ~- .'

&. Caubikbiak Marvei,— Mr *V. Hanf" bow, of »iicr-.nieuto. Yuh iiivsntcd a bvJrasUtfa cnijr.e, viiHi is tims dtxcnbetl by a Califttralaß pap<-r: -'' This engine runs entirely by prensore (in t voluiQ't} of water, works cali w^arasaa j fspanKjve »Xer>t, so'i dooi it most nlmirs'ily- *• tin mcdeS It now beliig tuxbibyd, which, though, rudely constructed, ►Uow* the power of tbe • ngliJp, it ueiußrsinan'a work to stop ibe motion. It will Eupsr.&le swam v«hercvar a p«6-nre <t> water caa be obtaine-h In tlili wsptet i* wtU he especially aertiofsbltj and iiw<*ia<i'<>lo thmaitbavit (be miuinf? regions of Oalilomia and tlie Papifie cowt. b« well us itn onr ciiiea wiipro ihens i» * topply of water from public wi>rl«n. InfJ'sfMnt ; m i-haiiici who have exiroinedthsroiub «?***.' umte in pronounclog k tbe ereawat ;uveutii>n of the age; and, like aU great, inventions, it ifl w<* « pUotiy itoelf."