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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 93, 23 December 1890, Page 2

To allow our staff to have the benefit of a holiday the Guardian will not be published on Friday next.

Those who are in search of enjoyment (hirin'? the holidays will find no lack of amusements.' On Boxing Day there will be a picnic on Mr Twhlle’s Island, and sports at Okaramio. on Monday, the 29th, there will bo a regatta at Havelock, and a dance in the evening, on New Year’s Day there will be the sports in Mr Reader’s paddock, at Kaitnna, with the additional attraction of the Nelson Bijou Band, and a dance at the Atheneum Theatre in the evening. Besides the above we have no doubt there will be various private pic-nio parties, fishing excureions, &c., which will make the Christmas week one round of pleasure. We have received a letter from one of the promoters of the Caledonian Quartz-Mining Company in answer to Mr Grattan, The subject is not one of public controversy, and if we say that the writer in question is sorry that Mr Grattan’s name should have appeared on the prospectus, and it will he erased therefrom we think this will be aufijcient publicity and all that is needed.

Messrs Specie!es Brothers wijte to the Wellington Harbour Board under date ’Frisco, 18th November, with reference to making Wellington a port of call for the San Francisco steamers; “The, information contained in yqqr

memorandum is valuable, and we do not fail to recognise the advantage which its central position gives to Wellington, or its growing commercial importance. Before deciding the question of the port of call which has been opened by your legislature we shall give various points in your letter due consideration, and consult our representatives in the colony.” Mr Smith, the new School Inspector, arrived in Blenheim on Saturday, and there will be a meeting of the Education Board to-day. It is stated in Wellington that Sir William Fifczherberfc has greatly improved in health, but the cold from which he has been suffering has slightly impaired his hearing. His son states that this may possibly prevent him from resuming the Speakership of the Legislative Council. A telegram from Waipawa, Hawke’s Bay, states that Colonel Herrick, one of a pic-nic party, was killed yesterday by a fall of eighty feet near the Oporae falls, Weber district. He struck on a rock before reaching the river. He was one of the oldest Hawke’s Bay sheep-farmers, and commanded the Colonial forces at the pursuit of Te Kooti.

There will be a meeting of the Regatta and Sports Committee tonight at Dorreen’a Hotel. The Wellington Woollen Company have declared a dividend of 8 per cent.

We notice that the Evening Post thinks that Mr Ballance acted uniwisely and unconstitutionally in protesting against any farther appointments to the Legislative Council until the state of parties had been ascertained. We have very little faith in precedents, and think Mr Ballance took the only course which might have been suggested by commonsense. It was quite clear that it was necessary for a protest to be made to prevent a political job being perpetrated, and Mr Ballance as recognised leader of the Opposition, was the right person to do it, failing this it was the duty of the people’s representatives, or the people themselves. We have had enough and to spare of political jobs in this country, and it is nearly time they were put a stop to.