THE LORDS MOVING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4953, 30 August 1887, Page 3

THE LORDS MOVING.

The House of Lords h getting on. Ik took a considerable step on July 7 towards abolishing primogeniture. In cases of intestacy, that is to say, the succession to real property is to bo governed in future (30 the Lords voted) by the same rules as now apply to personally. Of courso that is nob everything ; people will still make their wills on the basis of primogeniture, and the law will not say them nay. But (says a Home paper) the concession amounts to a good deal more than Lord Salisbury cared to confess. Primogeniture, he mnde out, was one of those enormous benefits which people ought not to be allowed to enjoy without taking some trouble. If they were so lazy as to die intestate, they ought to be punished by their land being devided. That was Lord > Salisbury's minimizing argument. Buc the V argument is too clever by half. Law, no doubt, is often only the embodiment of custom ; but custom in its turn often follows the law, and the abolition of primogeniture in cases of intestacy, to which the Lords agreed by a majority of 11, will ba the first step towards its final disappearance.

It 18 beginning to be noised about that Jay Gould will astonish New York next winter by some magnificent receptions with which he hopes to take the social world by storm. He has found society unwilling to recognise him in ordinary channels. Several prominent clubs have declined to admit him to membership, and even the stock exchange declines the honor of his company. But tho old man has his money and his family, and does not mind it for himself. It is only on account of hia boys that he desires to break through the wall of prejudice. Society shut its doors grimly against the elder Vanderbilt and Astor, but opened them readily to the millions of their sons. It may not receive Jay Gould, but when the boys shall come knocking for admission with £12,000,000 jingling in their pockets, the golden knocking at the door will be found to be irresistible. The town of Great Karolyi, which was partly destroyed by firo on May 6, has again been visited by a catastrophe in tho Bhape of a hurricane and waterspout, which swept over it on the night of July 0. In the course of an hour tho town and surrounding district, were converted into one vast lake. All the houses, without exception, were damaged, some very seriously, many having collapsed. Several persons wero killed by tho falling walls, and panic and despair prevailed among th 3 inhabitants. Not a single building remained intact, all the roofs being carried away, and tho houses woro filled with wator, tho rain filling in torrents. Large trees were lifted and carried through tho air liko feathers. The town and its neighborhood resembled a foaming sea. Ihe people were awestruck, and believed that the day of the Last Judgment had arrived. A startling attempt at realism was made recently in a church in Sicily. Tho Naples correspondent of the Daily News writes: The priest of Oanicatti, a large town in the province of Girgenli, caused to appear beside him in the pulpit a youttg man whose face was blacked, whose head was furnished with two large horns, and who had a long tail, from the end of which crackers went off. Tho priest informed his flock that this figure wa3 the devil, and a threat panic ensued. Women and children present at this unseemly comedy were injured in the crush to escape. Henry George, the celebrated author o 11 Progress and Poverty," was asked to en lighten the pupils of Packard Institute ir New York city as to his doctrines, am got some posers, especially from tho girls One of them asked: "Did I understam you to say that all land was God-givei and for the benefit of mankind ?" ♦' Cer tainly," replied George. "Who made tin Netherlands, then V pursued his querist " Was not the land at the bottom of tin sea before tho Dutch dyked it and brough it under cultivation ? Were not they,anc not tho rest of mankind, entitled to thi labor of their hands ?" The new prophe made only two converts out of 20< students. The enormous wealth which Groat Bri tain has attained under Freotrode is showi by a return prepared by the Economist o the known investments of British capita in colonial securities. At the close of 188! the total investments were estimated a £620,000,000, returning £30,000,000 ii the shape of interest. The estimated in vestments at the present time ar £744,000,00, or an increase in four year of over £120,000,000, and the interest ha increased by £4,000,000, or a total o £34,709,000 Of the investments, Aua tralia, New Zealand and Fiji are creditec with a tplal of £281,000,000, returnini interest amounting to £13,027,000. Am besides these investments within th Empiro there are the enormous outsid investments in America, Aeia, Europ and Africa. Almost the whole civilisei world is England's debtor. Her money i circulating everywhere, developing re sources and cheapening production,

Jo.ieph Oounseil w<»3 brought before tho majs'crato at Contain undra, N.S.W., fur non-compliance with ;in ordor issued ut Dnncdin, to pay liia wifo £1 per week, and for his child 8j \\ week. Mrs Counsoll is living in New Zealand. This case has caused quite a (hitter in *' society " there, as there was a " Mr 3 Counsetl " living with Joseph at the Club H.»tol, and they were invited to dances and. other gatherings. A London nowapaporropoitsthata very important new departure has been made in fcho manufacture of paper by thp erection of works, iv the neighborhood of London, for the utilisation of stable refuse, etc. The results obtained in this process are said to be so satisfactory that, after duo irovhion has been made for tho value of the residual products of tho materials employed, the cost of producing the paper is next to nothing. Addressing tho electors of Dunstan lately, Mr Vincent Pyke said, in reply to a question, (hat ho would vote, as he had bofcro, in favour of the Biblo in schools although ho would not go tho length that Bishop Nevill did. He saw no harm in boys kissing a pretty girl, and did not believe the yarn about the teacher having to get his wif» to protect him. He thought it wa3 far more likely she went to protect tho girls. (Great laughter). Sir Robert Stout is fond of quoting about America. Well, America has C 0,000,000 inhabitants and, pays ita President £10,000 a year and its Minister* £1000 a year. New Zealand has GOO, OOO inhabitants only, bus pays its Governor £10,250 a year in salary and allowances and its Ministers £1750 a year. Yet Sir Robert Stout does not like retrenchment in Ministerial and gubernatorial salaries. Benefactors.— " When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the discovery that by combining some wellknown valuable remedies a most wonderful medioina wa3 produced, which would cure such a wide range of diseases thst mo3t all other remedies could be dispensed with, many wore sceptical, but proof of its merits by actual trials has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by all ias benefacrors." Re id. "ROUGH ON PILE 3." Why suffer Pilos IrameJiate relfri and ' complete euro guarante-d.- Ask for " lloaghon Files." Sure cure for itching, pro-tru-lln-r. hieerHnir. or unv form of Piles "liOOOH ON CATAUUH"corrects offensvie odors at onco. Complete ucre o; wortcluonic cases ; also unequalled asa gargle for diphtheria, soro throat, foul breath.