The Otago Daily Times. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 7263, 28 May 1885, Page 2

The Otago Daily Times. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885.

Whatever may be said against the policy of the present Government, it cannot be denied that they have a policy. The only question that arises is whether it is not too much of a policy. For many years past the House has been accustomed to deal in small beer and skittles. The quantity of legislation effected under the Continuous Ministry was enormous, but its quality correspondingly poor. The Statute-book was crammed with ill-digested measures, but since the introduction of manhood suffrage scarcely any policy bills of the first importance have been presented to Parliament. This session, however, is likely to see the introduction, and, it is to be hoped, the passage of more than one measure of the highest and several of tbe aecojid-olasß. From a

practical, as distinguished from a pany or sensational point, of view, it should be the moat important session there has been for many years. The reorganisation of the system of. local government alone is a Herculean task. To accomplish it thoroughly and properly would be a feather in the cap of any Government pr any Parliament. Whether it will bo accomplished this session it is too early to say. ■ It will be open to the Government to bring down their bill, have it debated on the second reading, and kept as a sweet mouthful for next session. Their decision, we may suppose, will depend largely upon the reception with which their bill meets, and this again will depend upon the nature of the measure they bring down. If we may judge from hisHawera speech, Major Atkinson will render Ministers every assistance in the settlement of this difficult question. Pie will criticise the finance of their scheme keenly. He will improve its details wherever hecan. But he haß every desire to see so troublesome a matter settled and done with before he returns to office. Self-interest and patriotism alike urge him to help them ovor this stile as much as he conscientiously can. The real opposition to the bill may be expected to come from Mr Osmond, the Macandrkw-Mont-gomery section, and a few independent members who really desire to nee a largo measure of local government granted. But the majority of the House will be best pleased with the smallest possible change. Wellington hates the very idea of local government; nowhere in,the North Island except Napier has there been any demand for it, Canterbury, which cried loudest for it, will be content with anything that it pleases Sir Julius Vogel to offer. Otago is the only part of the Colony where there is any general desire for a considerable change, or any enthusiasm about any change. We much mistake the nature of the present Cabinet if they do not cut their coat according to their cloth. We venture to prophecy that their local government proposals will be strictly moderate, and will cause considerable disappointment in this part of the Colony. That they will cover a vast amount of ground and introduce a number of small changes, however, we also believe. Sir Julius Vogel never doeß things by halves. But when all has beon Baid and done we shall be surprised if any very great reform is effected.

Whether the reorganisation of the tariff is to be attempted this session will necessarily remain a secret till the last moment. We should be tho last to deny that such a reorganisation is wanted 5 but under the auspices of the present Government, we prefer the tariff we know with all ita faults. In such a case those who put their faith in Freetrade have not much to make them hopeful. Ministers may count upon the active assistance of Major Atkinson in this direction also. Who ia to lead the forces of Freetrade? Major Atkinson fills the same office towards the present Government aa Sir George Grey did towards him. There ia no other leader of the Opposition possible. If he will not lead them, strong indeed must be the cause that will make them successful. There is ono great question, however, upon which he does mean to lead the Opposition. He evidently means to attack the Native policy of the Government. Seeing that Mr Ballance has got to bring clown a bill to provide a new means, of disposing of Native lands, and in view of the prestige of Mr Bryce in this Island, we may expect some very warm and interesting debates on the Native question this session, and the Government will probably be hard pressed. But the time has passed when Ministers were turned out of office on their Native policy. They may have to modify it; they may even suffer humiliation over it; but we can hardly think that it will go any further.

Already we Lave mentioned three great policy questions which may be expected to engage the attention of the Houbo this session. There remain the reform of the Legislative Council, the increase of taxation, the Federal Council Bill, not to mention the purchase of the district railways, which is comparatively a minor matter. The proposal of the Government to limit the tenure of office of Councillors will meet with approval, but with so many other more pressing questions on hand we do not expect that it will be dealt with this session. In whatever direction the increase of taxation may be proposed, a strong debate may be expected, but if the Government intend to pigment the property-tax to its former rate they will weather the storm without much difficulty. We have no doubt, Major i Atkinson to the contrary notwithstanding, that Sir Julius Vociel will bo able to satisfy the House and the Colony that the abolition of the Sinking Fund bas effected a substantial saving, and that his only fault has been an excess of expectations. If the sugar duty is raised the Premier and Mr Ballance may expect to have their inconsistency thrown in their teeth, as the Premier and the Treasurer both will over the property-tax. But charges of inconsistency rarely break any bones. Sir Julius Vooel's finance may not have the magical effect upon the position of the Government which it had last session, but that it will be approved we do not doubt. On the Federal Council Bill the cautious policy of the Government is thoroughly in accord with public opinion, and Major Atkinson will find himself powerless to do them any damage. The dead past will bury its dead. There may be ridicule about the Hine-moa-Samoa expedition, but it will pass off harmlessly. In spite of criticism upon details, the conduct of the Government about defence will meet with approval. The Treasurer will dilate upon his postal negotiations. Upon finance and Native administration the Government must expect to be dealt some nasty knocks, but, as we have already pointed out, they will only be with the gloves on. The district railways purchase will probably be confirmed with little difficulty. The "West Coast Railway Bill is a thing of the past. Minor sins of administration will be condoned. Time is always given to Ministers to sow their wild oats. The harvest .is not for this year. They may safely count upon having no serious trouble as to their past. As to their future policy, theyare launching heavily-laden barques upon troubled waters. That they will be buffetted • may be regarded as certain. The wind will not blow steadily in any direction, and the same waves which help one.vessel on will impede another. But if they do not all reach port this session, it does not look as if any one will sink.

Literary criticism is out of place in these columns, but we do not like to allow the death of Victor Hugo to pass without a comment from an outside point, of view. Like our own i?ir Walter Scott, Victor Huao waa at once a great poet and a great novelist, though both his poems and his prose works are of a different class to Scott's. Hia tragedy of "Hernani" has long taken its place amongst the UMtmrpiMM oi Fr«nob

literature-and the stock pi?Mß'nf the TheaU'e.Frangusii. Oyer half a century haa elapßed since iU publication, and it has been victor Hugo's singular good fortune .to live to arrive at au asauranoe of tho immortality of-hia chief works, and to see hia mine .enrolled along with Racine, Coknbille, 'and MoiiEEE.aa a classic. To' Englishmen who do not take a special iotorest in literaturo ho is best known by thoae wonderful " Les Misarablcs" and "Notre'Dame do Paris." Literati may contend that ho cannot be considered a novelist at all, for his romances are rather poems and dramas or proßo than novels in the proper acceptation of the term. But is not necessary to split hairs over VictorHuoo's-grave. During the latter part of his life he published much which was unworthy.of his reputation, and' brought down upon himself some ridicule in England by the turgidity and grandiloquence of hia style, as well as by his splendid conceit. But in the estimation of his countrymen ho had reached a height at which he was above criticism, and when to speak a word in depreciation of anything he wrote waa blasphemy. To have given birth to the greatest literary genius of the age waa the consolation of France whon her military glory departed, and this apotheosis waß rendered the wider by the staunch Republicanism of Mb political opinions. From 1852 to 1870 he preferred living in exile to bowing his knee in the house of Kimmon, and would not oven take advantage of tlie general amnesty iv which his name was included, aud return to FYarfce, bo long aa the Men of Decemhor lernainod in power. Bis Radicalism waa eminently poetical, and carried to a dangerous degree of exaggeration ; but his consistency extolled general admiration, and his impracticability was excused as a freak of genius. He carried tho same -qualities into every other department of life. Authority he never understood. Governments and churches alike wero repugnant to him Beginning his career by overthrowing the Classical School of French literature, and the chief glory of the new romantic school, he was a revolutionist to the last, dnd never would he moderate in word or deed. Cur own Laureate haa paid him an appropriate tribute in the lines :— Victor in Drama, Victor in Romance,. Oloud-weaver of phantasmal hopes aud fears; French of the French, and Lord of human tears; Child-lover; Bard whose frame-lit laurola glance Darkening the wreaths of all that would advance, Beyond our strait, their claim to be thy peera ; Weird Titan by thy winter weight of yeara Aa yet unbroken, stormy voice of France !

Reports of yesterday's meeting of the Land Board and the Forbury Park Land Company, with other matter, appear on our foiirtb page.

Our cablegrams this morning inform us that the order which had been issued for a second army corps to proceed to India haa been withdrawn. During his visit to Berlin, Lord Rosebery has had repeated interviews with Prince Bismarck, but nothing haa transpired aa to their object. The British troops have evacuated Merawi, a town 30 miles below the fourth cataract on the Nile.

At yesterday's meeting of the Land Board Mr J, M'KeDzie, M.H.Tt,, proposed that the Board hold an inquiry aa to whether the requirements of the Land Act are being evaded in the case of the Benmore run, purchased iv 18S3 by Mr A. C. Begg, as attorney for Mr Docharty. Tho run is part of the Otago University endowment, and the inquiry would be for the purpose of ascertaining whether Mr Docharty was holding tho property for Meaarß R. Campbell and Co., who were the formorlesaeoß, but who were debarred from purchasing when the run waß laßt sold by the clause in the Land Act known aa tbe " M'Kenzie clause." Aa members of the Board were not clear that they had the power of holding an inquiry into the case, the matter waa deferred for one week, the Board's Rolicitor to be consulted in the meantime,

There aro now employed on the defence works at Dunedin and at tho Heads 105 men, excluaivo of the detachmont of 30 of the Armed Constabulary. The earthwork parapot at St. Clair is well advanced, and should be completed in a week or so from the present time ; and the magazines at Forbury and Lawyer's Head are practically finished, At Taiaroa Head three of the guns are mounted, and the trenches and parapet aro boing constructed acroßa the saddle forming the gorge defence. A dray road is also being formed from the Pilot Beach to the Pilot-station. It is proposed to allow the lighthouse to remain for some months, and to proceed without delay with the erection of barracks to accommodate 30 men immediately behind the Pilot-Btation battery; and at the beach a Btone landing ia being constructed. Although the necessity does not appear to be so great as it did some timo since, the defence works are being carried en witb all reasonable expedition,

A fire broke out yesterday morning shortly after 4 o'clock in a three-rooired wooden building in King Rtreet, owned by Mra Jane Little, and occupied as a portmanteau manufactory by Mr B, Kitt. A Binall lignite fire was left burning by Mr Kitt when he left the promises at 11 o'clock the previous evening. The fire buret out very suddenly, and 'although the Fire Brigade turned out in a very short apace of time from the alarm being given from the tower, the place being old, it was completely destroyed. The stock and implements of trade were insured in the South British Office for £200; the building in the Colonial for £100. Tho property destroyed was fully insured.

A large and enthusiastic Gospel Temperance meeting waß held in St, John's Primitive Mothodist Church, York place, last evening, many being unable to secure seats. The Rev. C E. Ward presided, and delivered a brief address, Mr Sutton and Mr F. Fulton also delivered addresses, the latter speaking for an hour, and being frequently applauded. At the close of the meeting several came forward and signed the pledge.

The replies received by the Harbour Board from a majority uf the other boards communicated with being in favour of the repeal of the exemption from dues of Government gooda, the Finance Committee of the Board recommend the amendment of " The Harbours Act 1878," with a view of repealing the exemption clause.

The Finance Committee of the Harbour Board will recommend at the meeting to-day that a copy of the plan of the dock endowment be sent to the Premier, together with a letter pointing out that the frontage to George street will be taken by the strip of land asked for by the Public Works Department, and the value of tho remaining portion will thuß bo destroyed. They also recommend the chairman to look into thia matter when he goea to Wellington.

Tbe adjourned meeting of the Y.M.O.A, Board of Management was held on Tuesday evening. Correspondence waa read from a number of persons, including a letter from tbe hon. secretary of tho Melbourne V.M.C.A., intimating that it was proposed to raise a teßtimonial to Mr Marsh on his retirement from the general secretaryship of tbat Association, and asking contributions from bis friendß here. Mr Rix was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy on the Board of Management. A committee was appointed for the purpose of carrying on the work of Gospel Temperance on Saturday evenings, and it was alao reaolved to have a series of social enteitainmenta on Wednesday evenings. The financial condition of the Association was considered, and it waß resolved to hold a public tea meeting about tbe end of June. Six new members and associates were admitted. The queation of shipping visitation, and the making of some provision for a room aa a place of reaort for Bailors on Sundays, was also considered.

The South Dunedin Presbyterian Church Mutual Improvement Society held an open meeting in the church on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance, and a long and varied programme of songs, quartettes, readings, and recitations was given by the members of the Society and their friends, and was highly appreciated by the audience. At the close of tbe meeting, the chairman, Rev, Mr Campbell, intimated that ladies were eligible to become members of the Society,

Mr David Anderson was elected yesterday without opposition to represent Higb Ward in the North-East Valley Borough Council,

The annual meeting of the Forbury Park Land Company was held yesterday afternoon, when the report was adopted and tbe retiring directors and [auditor re-eleoted. Tba report recommended tbo payment of a dividend at the rate of £4 per cent., together with a bcnus at tbe rate of £210 a per cent,, and tbat tho sum of £483 should ba carried forward.

The Rsv. Lloyd Keating, M.A., at present incumbent cf St, Thomas', Auckland, has undertaken to share Mr Gilford's work at o»w»rw.

Onr Wellington ooirespsndsnt telegraphs :— " It will be lenißinbarod that, some days Ago the Premier nont a congratulatory cabletrruiu to tbo Premier of Now South Wales ou the approaching return of the Volunteers of that Colony from the Soudan,' and that in replying .to the Premier of New Zealand tho Premier of New South Wales invited Mr Stout to be prosont at the demonstration of welcome to be tendered to the Australian contingent upon their arrival at Sydney. Owing to tho near approach of tho session, however, it is impossible that any New Zoaland Minister can bo present. The Government have, however, decided out of complifnent to New South Wales that thiß Colony shall be represented on the occasion, and they have appointed Colonel Haul tain, a well-known.Colonial officer, to act as representative of this Colony. '

' The Princess Theatre was crowded below stairs aud very nearly filled in the dress circle last night, when the Pollard Company gave their farewell performance! The management had reserved for the closing night the opera in which the company, perhaps, appear to the beat advantage, "Littlo Duke," and the success of the piece was as marked yesterday evening as on the occasion of its former production at the Queen's Theatre. The performance was then fully noticed, and as the cast of characters was virtually unaltered little more remains to be said. The two diminutive artists, Marion Norman and Lucy Onbb, filling the parts of the young Duke and Duoheaa de Parthenay, were, as before, the pivotß upon whioh tbe success nf the performance hinged. They sang well, but, independently altogether of this, their acting and mode of speaking the dialogue was remarkable for such young children. Ol" course the hand of the instructor ia visible iv ail that children do or say upon the stage, but it requires a clever inatructor and apt pupils lo couipaee bucli a, euccosa us these two little people achieve iv "The Little Duke." The audience were not Blow .laßt night to recogniße tbeir efforts and the etfortß of several others of tbe company. Ampng the best of these was Mias Amy Brooks' Frimousse —a caricature, of course, but a clever one; and Miss de Lorme's as that of the Oaptain. As regards the others, Miss Maud Pollard played very well as Oaptain Monteband, but her siugiug must be severely let alone. Miss Eva M'Olementa, Lizzie Donnelly, and Minnie

Recce filled their respective parts 'satisfactorily. The performance as a whole was most commendablo, and it ia to be regretted that it conoludes the Beason. The company leave for Hobart to day. The Southland Times gives the following obituary notice of Mr William Hugh Nurse: — " Mr Nurse was one of the early pioneers of this district, having taken up a cattle run on the banks of Te Anau Lake along with the Mesars Hankinßon aa far back, we believe, as tho year 1858. Some years after that he purchased the estate of Blackwater, near Riverton, where he resided till Lib death. Of late years Mr Nurse—though a member of the Upper

House—has not taken a prominent part in local

politics, but in the early days he was in the front rank cf thoso wbo asserted the independence of Southland. He was on several occasions elected to a seat iv the Southland Provincial Council, and besides being a member of more than one Executive

Council, he for aome time occupied the

position of Deputy-superintendent, during the late Mr' J. P. Taylor's term of office. About 18 years ago Mr Nurse was called to a

seat in the Legislative Council, where, though

a man of few words, his'influence madeitseli felt. He also held various other public offices,

Mr Nurse entered tho royal navy at an early

age, and saw a good deal of aotive service in Chinese waters, and also in the Baltic during the Crimean War, shortly after which he retired on account of his health, having attained, at a comparatively early age, the rank of lieutenant. Those who knew Mr Nurse wiU agree with us in saying that he was one of. the fastest of friends, but being of a retiring disposition only those who knew him well had an opportunity of. becoming ao quaintcd with many of his best qualities. He was a man 'of the highest honour, delicate susceptibilities, and a true and kind-hearted friend, At a special meeting of the Maori Hill Borough Council, hold last evening, it was resolved that a special rate of ljd in the pound be made on all rateable property in South Ward for the year ending March 31, 188G, payable in one sum on March I,IBBG, for the purpose of forming,and re-grading the Maori j Hill diatrict road. Tho executive committee of the Oamaru Blue Ribbon Army presented Mr R. T. Booth with the sum of £25, the surplus from contributions, &c. in connection with the local tern!' perance mission. The North Otago Times states that Mr Booth promised, if health permitted him, to return if possible in a twelvemonth's time, and hold [a fortnight's mission, The failure in Mr Booth's health is attributed in a great measure to the state the Public Hall was in on Sunday afternoon and evening. The ventilation of the building is defective, and in addition the gaspipes were leaking or were also defeotive. Mr Booth will not now visit Timaru, Temuka, and Ashburton, but proceeds to Christchurch, whore he awaits a Bteamer proceeding to Wellington, at which place he gives addresses,

According to the Oamaru Mail, the following petition ia being forwarded to the Government by the Bottlers of the Upper Waitaki:■— " We, the undersigned residents and settlers in Hakateramea, South Canterbury, pray tbat you will cause to be thrown open for settle, ment a block of 15,000 acres under tbe perpetual lease system. The land referred to is the southern portion of the Hakateramea run, at present leased by the Government to the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, and adjoining the Hakateramea Valley settlement. The boundaries of the portion we desire to have opened for settlement would be along the front of the lun and running parallel with the Hakateramea Valley settlement for seven miles, and then in a north-west me to Coal Creek, said creek to be the boundary on that Bide, with the Waitaki River on the weßt. Your petitioners would poiijt out that this land referred to is well adapted for and would make an excellent settlement nnder the perpetual-leaao system, in blockß of the maximum size of 640 acres. Your petitioners, therefore, earnestly hope that, witb a view to the permanent Settlement of the waste lands of tbe Crown with an industrious class of bona fide settlers, you will at the earliest possible time cause the Baid block of land to be opened for settlement."

At a meetiug of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Sooiety on Tuesday, a letter waa read from the Secretary of tbe Otaeo Acclimatisation Society, stating that tho salmon ova had arrived in good condition, and had been placed in the batching boxes; and suggesting that Mr Parr should write a full report of the means employed to bring the ova from Scotland, with drawings and plans of the boxes used. The-'secretary feared that the Otago Society had not got their full proportion of the ova, and requested to know bow many egga bad been Bent from Christchurch. Mr Parr said that perhaps it might be well to send some of the ova out of the Christchurch hatchery to Dunedin, in order to make up any possible deficiency. He was afraid that the ova sent to Dunedin had hardly been treated with proper care after leaving Ohristohurch, Dr Prankish thought that it was hardly to be expected that the Society Bhould give up to others the benefits of the special advantages which had resulted from their secretary having brought, out the ova for Canterbury according to his own plan, which had not been followed in the case of the other ova. Mr i'arr, iv answer to Dr Prankish, said that be had sent about 17,000 eggs to Dunedin. Mr Cooke believed that the Otago people had "oruelled" the! success of the experiment, by letting the egga remain in the boxes over night, instead of putting them in the water, as had been done in Ohristohurch. -It was finally decided to leave the matter in the hands of the secretary.

The sympathy expressed by colonists at Home with Lord Rosebery in tbe bereavement he baa just sustained, by the death of bis younger brother, will (says a Homo paper) be fully shared by his Lordship's numerous friends in Australasia, Colonel Primrose was one of the most popular officers on Lord Wolsoley's staff, and his death at Abu Fatmeh will be Beverely felt by his brother officers in Egypt. This, it may be mentioned, was bis first campaign, he having resigned the poet of Military Attache'to the British Embasay in Vienno in September laat in order to aociompany Lord Wolseley to Egypt. Lord Rosebery is now staying at the Durdans, Epsom. Some sensation has been caused at Berlin by tha report that his lordship was on bis way to the German capital on a special diplomatio mission. 'The origin of the rumour ia thus explained. When Count Herbert Yon Bismarck was staying witb Lord Rosebery he invited him to have a few day's shooting on the Chancellor's property. Lord Rosebery said he could only come during tbe Easter holidays, but at the last moment be was presented from doing so. The England and German Governments are now said to be in tfawmgb accord.

An adjourned meeting' of creditors. In the estate of Peter WLuren, which waa fised for yeßterday uftornoon, was allowed to lapse iv the absence of the Official Assignee, A quorum of creditors was prosent.

The introduction of the shilling tariff for 10-word telegrams between Victoria and New South Wales ha 3 proved a great sucoeaa. There has been only a slight deoreaso in the revenue, while the business haa incroaaod fully ono third. The attempt made by the Victorian Government to induce New Zealand to reduce their Bhare of the revenue for telegrama between the two'Coloniea has so far failed,

The amateur performance under the auspices of the Otago Rowing andCarisbrook Cricket Clubs comes off at the Lyceum thia evening, and as the rehearsals have bean well attended the performers should give a good account of themselves. A large number of tickets have been already disposed of. A full band under Herr Mosch will be present, and should assist in making the entertainment an enjoyable one.

The contemplated scientific exploration of Now Guinea by tbe Sydney branch of the Geographical Society of Australia is still in abeyance. The following letter to the Colonial Secretary of New South Waleß gives the present position of affairs :—The Admiral com manding at this station, and Major-general Scratcbley, the High Commissioner of New Guinea, whose material aid and moral support will be indispensable to the succbbs of any scientific exploration on a large scale which may be undertaken, have both advised delay until t liey have assumed their respective offices in the new country, and are in a position to Biipport on the spotan expedition organised and acting under the patronagß of tlie Geographical Society. Witb the funds now at the command of the Society it will only be possible to carry out a very small expedition, because a good steam launch and men are indispensable for exploratory purposes in New Guinea, and the purchaae of such a vessel would absorb more than one-half of our available funds. Nevertheless, we have it in contemplation, subject to the approval of the authorities above quoted, to undertake with tbe least possible delay the exploration of the Aird or gome other important river on the coast, with a view to ascertain how far an expedition can penetrate the country by water, and where the most advantageous point from which to explore the interior overland can be found, and we are now only awaiting an answer to our letter before deciding upon

our plans,

Tbe Australasian noticed aa a curious incident of the recent war scare the withdrawal of sums of money from building societies, savings banks, and ordinary bauks, under the belief that the money would be safer in some place of concealment. It is curious (saya our contemporary) as illustrating a survival of, or rather a relapse to, tbe hoarding inßtinct whioh it waß thought that advanced civilisation had nearly eradicated. Modern methods of bank ing call upon the money-owner to forego the pleasure of seeing and handling his money, a pleasure which, when money more and more took the form of paper promises to pay, had practically disappeared. The system induces him to forego his sense of actual possession of saved money, and in exchange it offors him the gratification of interest. His pleasurable feeling of ownership was in a great measure withdrawn from the principal, and concentrated itself mainly on the profit yielded in the shape of interest. It also induced him to accept tho bank's guarantee of safety in exchange for the security be could provide for himself by means of secret hiding, But when a time of war alarm comes, an early symptom is the return of some among the less instructed classes to the old primitive method of wrapping the money in an old stocking and hiding it under the hearthstone or in a corner of the chimney, or in a hole in the garden, the owner preferring to take all the risks in a material shape rather than in the undefined, and, to him, less easily estimated form involved by safe keeping in a bank.

The correspondent of the Melbourne Age with the New South Wales contingent gives the following explanation of the burning of Tamai:—" We burnt their poor village aa we returned to the zareeba—a contemptible thing in the abstract, but perhaps the only means of conveying wholesome terror to the Ravage mind. If we had left the huts untouched we should have had only a costly fool's errand. Had we killed 2000 of them they would have published their losses among tho tribes at SO 5 but now it will be known that Tamai is burnt, and with a few hours' labour the little hamlet will be as flourishing as ever,"

Tbe Timaru Volunleors are Inviting tenders foi uniforms

Messrs Wright, Stophouson, and Co. will sell horte on Saturday; on tho 3rd they will soil sheep at Burn, sldo.

Mr J. O. il'Ardell w.ll sell sheep, linci, implements, &c, at Edendale on Juno i. Mr 0. Stronnch will Bell grain, &c, to-morrow. Mosßrs J. A. Park and Co. win hold a sale ol books on Saturday. Mrs Barton wlehes to correct the statement in our report of the Police Court proceeding j esterday tbat she bad made a claim upon htr husband for Lor own support. The c'aim was only for that of her children. Oysibsbl Oysters I Oybtsrbl Qraud Hotel Restaurant. An oyster-stall has boen opened In shore rooma. Open tilt 11.30 p.m. Oysters In every style of cooking. Plato of Oystera and bread and butter, le.—J. and J. Watsoh. [Advt.]

Who villi deny that stagnation ln trade Is brought about by tho Bcarclfcy ol money, and thia hy the high rats cf Inlerdßt we have to pay, which drains us, makes us poorer aid the companies at Home who loan it richer ? For a moment cooelder, If 5 ond 0 per cent, could be saved how much m ney would be circulated ho-o which makes the ilch richer at Home. Become rich hero by saving your money by buying your meat from no one cisc but A Dornwbh.— [ADVT] .