PELORUS GUARDIAN FRIDAY, 28th. APRIL, 1893.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 4, Issue 32, 28 April 1893, Page 2

PELORUS GUARDIAN FRIDAY, 28th. APRIL, 1893.

What with the excitement over the Home Rule Bill, the labour troubles in England and elsewhere, the financial difficulties in Australia, and the general political and social confusion everywhere the world appears to be in that state of unrest which foreshadows a great revolution. Whether it will result in civil war and bloodshed or a cure effected in a peaceful manner all depends on the ability of the leaders on either side to fully realize the seriousness of the position. That there will be a great change in society as at present constituted and in our monetary relations is as certain as night follows day, but whether the change will be violent or not depends entirely on the staength of the opposition to the natural law. In England at the present time the Conservatives are playing a dangerous game—one calculated to bring about their own destruction and that of their country. Let us hope for the sakeof the Empire their reasoning faculties will not long be overshadowed hj angry passions.

There appears to have been some misapprehension as to the purport of a local in last Friday's paper stating that satisfactory arrangements had been had been made for the purchase of a sulky for the Minister in charge of the district. We possibly did not so far explain matters as to convey a correct idea of the position, but had we done so we should have said that the satisfactory arrangements depended on certain contingencies, for there was not nearly enough in hand to pay for the sulky. Amongst others was the support likely to be accorded to the object by settlers in outlying districts, who are in every way interested in a cause which should commend itself to all. In this connection we learn that Mr W. Brownlee has generously given the Ladies' Guild sufficient timber to build a stable so as to keep the sulky clear from the weather.

We regret to hear that a miner named William Melville met with a nasty accident when at work on Wednesday in Dead Horse Creek, Wakamarina. It appears that a large stone slipped on to his foot, badly crushing the little toe and his ankle. His mate Herbert Mills did all he could and brought the sufferer down to go to the Picfcon Hospital. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, are in receipt of the following cable from their London office, dated 25 th. April:—Wool.—The sales progress firmly, but for superior greasy merino the market is inactive. Quotations are unchanged since last telegram. The total quantity catalogued to date is 239,000 bales."

Mr A. G. Empson, who held the position of postmaster here for many years and is now in the same capacity at Kawakawa, in the Auckland District,, has just been taking a holiday, accompanied by Mrs Empson, and visiting an eminent occulist in Sydney for the benefit of his eyesight. They passed through Havelock last week, spending a few days among ther friends in the neighbourhood, who were all very pleased to renew old memories and see them looking so well.

As a beverage, pure refreshing tea cannot be beaten, and nothing shows more clearly how people appreciate a first.class article than the way Messrs Lattey, Livermore, and Co., tea merchants, Wellington, have extended their business since they started about twelve months ago. The fact is colonials are good judges, and those firms who keep good stock reap the advantage. This accounts for the immense quantity this firm gets rid of.

As we stated in our last Mr James Hughes has withdrawn his nomination for the Pelorus sub-division and Mr R. Forrest has been declared elected a member of the Road Board.

The Rev. Ed. Ensor will (D.V.), on Sunday next, hold a children's service in St. Peters Church at 11 a.m., and the usual service at 7 p.m. Subject: " Religious education essential to a nation's prosperity." There will be a meeting of the congregation at three o'clock in the affcernuon to make arrangements for recommencing the Sunday school. The Rev. Father Aubery will hold services at Deep Creek on Sunday at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The kauri gum industry is a substantial one for Auckland. The export of the gum last year reached over £517,000, and this year it ought to be more. A special feature about this is that nearly the whole of it goes in wages to the men who find the gum, and those employed to sort and pack it in the warehouses. Country people are not altogether enamoured of the free and easy ways of gum diggers, but the industry has kept the Auckland streets free of unemployed, and has proved a godsend to many a man who otherwise would have had to starve or seek charitable aid.

The Rev Mr Harker will hold services on Sunday: at Deep Creek, Canvastown, and Havelock. Desmond, who was arrested in Sydney for disfiguring a Government proclamation in connection with the recent bank failures, was fined £3O, or two months imprisonment It is evident that the authorities on the Sydney side are not in the humour for joking. Mr C. H. Mills, M.H.R., will address the electors at Cullensville tomorrow night. A Minister of the gospel in San Diego the other day startled his audience by saying, " I have forgotten my notes and shall have to trust to Providence, but next evening I will come better prepared. Several companies in Invercargill, who abandoned gold dredging claims, were sued for arrears of rent by the receiver of gold revenue. They had paid during the time they occupied the claims but had not given notice of the abandonment. The Warden gave judgement for the defendants. In England seventeen men, consisting of Mr Gladstone and his Cabinet, are the political rulers of 300,000,000 of people, or one-fifth of the inhabitants of the globe. England is now becoming so democratic that it is quite likely, so the leading English papers say, that within a few years John Burns will be one of the seventeen. It is estimated that the insurances in force in Australian offices amount to £74,000,000, or at the rate of £l9 a head for every man, woman and child in Australia. Carpenters are working for Melbourne Board sweaters for 2s 4d a day, and labourers dig post holes for Is Id a day. Wit is brushwood; judpmeut is timber. The one gives the greatest flame; the other yields the most durable heat; and both together make the best fire.