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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 50, 18 July 1890, Page 2

The Auckland Star is of opinion that party government has proved a dismal failure, and says:—"What the Colony wants is a party' of progress, and neither the present Premier and his few attached followers, nor Mr John Ballauce and his personal friends, come up to anything approaching the leader required at'the present crisis of our affairs. Such a man mus fc put all party feelings on one side ; he must he filled with an earnest desire to sweep away as Cromwell did, the glaring abuses which now exist in the working of our most important institutions. This, and not the lust of office, must be his recommendation. "

We (Press), understand that-be-tween eight and ten tons of antimony have been got out of the ground now being worked in Edgecombe Bay, near Endeavour Inlet. The ore is of good quality, and we expect to see the ground worked to good advantage. Samples of the ore have been brought up to Picton, The Gore rabbit-tinning factory is said to have in three months paid for and put through 100,000 pairs of rabbits, and the Ensign says that the question may well be asked whether the Government system of poisoning is not a direct waste of produce ? Over forty men are employed at the works alone. Mr Alf. Lines, who left Reefton for the South African Goldfields (says the Guardian), returned here last Aveek, being quite assured, we believe, that dull and all as Reeffcon is, it is infinitely preferable socially or otherwise to the locality of the Great South African Goldfields bubble. Mr Arthur Clampett, who, it will be remembered, conducted mission services throughout New Zealand under the name of Sullivan, returned to the Colony by the Ruapehu, and goes on to Christchurch, where he, as the reputed brother of J. L. Sullivan, was unveiled as Arthur Clampett some months ago. We have received an interesting letter on the subject of the Property Tax v. the Land Tax from a correspondent signing himself " Manaroa," which will appear in our next. It is reported that lung worm has made its appearance in flocks in the Wellington province, and that the mortality is great.

A letter from an Aucklander in Sydney states that there are thousands of people out of work and homeless. The inmates of the Sydney Poorhouse number 900. He warns people not to go there,

I It is said that fresh butter ig being sold in the Woodville district at 3d I and 4d per pound.