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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5007, 15 May 1889, Page 3

Those big Silveratream potatoes bare bad tbeir eyes wiped by a Rangiora tuber, whieb tripped up 51b lOozs. The cold squalls of the past day or two whitened the mountains, and the sky clearing last night the country was white with rime this morning. The express trains do not approve of being called upon to run beyond their former rate. Yesterday’s train lost ten minutes or more between here and Ashburton through hot boxes.

HislWorahip the Mayor acknowledges with thanks the receipt of a shawl from Messrs Ballantyne and Co. for one of the Charitable Aid Board’s patients,started by the Board on a journey to-day. The Glenham Estate Company, near Wyndham, Southland, have leased 1300 acres for one crop, the landlords taking a quarter of the crop as rent; and 2000 acres on Wantwood and Croydon estates have been let for one crop at from 12s to 27s per acre. 'The Dunedin Navals have accepted a tender for a new cutter. The dimensions of the boat, which will pull 14 oars and carry a lug sail, will beLength', 35ft; beam, 7ft Sin 5 and depth, 2ft Sin. Her planking will be of kauri, and timbers of American elm, ash or hickory. The Post mentions that the notorious Agnews, who were committed to prison for six months in default of finding sureties that they would not annoy the Premier, are still in gaol, and that they wilhbe released just in time to receive the Members ns they assemble for the session.

A Wellington special says the Government declines to accept any responsibility in connection with the Bill drawn up under the direction of the Hon. Mr Fisher. It is stated to bo probably the work of Mr Habcns, the Inspector-General, and no doubt many suggestions of the late Minister of Education are embodied in it.

The following was found on the Dunedin Exhibition corner stone on Saturday morning, “To the memory of Continued Depression, eldest daughter of Yogelism and Improvidence, who departed from these shores 20lh March, 1889. She was an affectionate daughter, and clung to us. Not lost, but gone to Melbourne.” The Samoan correspondent of the Auckland Star says that when, during the hurricane, the 300 or 400 Samoans were assisting to save the lives of the wrecked sailors, the chief under whom they worked saw one of his men rifling the pockets of a sailor just washed ashore. Without a word ho strode up to him and slew him with one blow.

One of our Free Trade contemporaries says “ To the Victorian the impost of two shillings per cental (on wheat) means a charge of one penny for every loaf of bread he consumes, which is rather a heavy penalty to pay for the blessings of Protection.” But the Victorian says that similar imposts on other articles give him the extra penny, and he does not see where the “ heavy impost ” idea comes in.

The Social Reform Association of Dunedin has sent an invitation to Henry George to visit that city. At their last meeting the discussion of the resolution “That in the opinion of this society the imposition of a land tax is desirable as a step towards the establishment of the system of land nationalisation ” was resumed. Several amendments were moved, and ultimately the amendments and the motion wore withdrawn in favor of one affirming the desirability of land being national property, leaving the question of the method of land nationalisation for future consideration.

The following is a classification of the 204 students attending the Dunedin technical classes, according to the subjects taken: English 33, English literature 30, Latin 15, Arithmetic 46, Mathematics 24, Chemistry 31, Shorthandj77, Carpentry 13, The majority of the students are between sixteen and twenty-four years of ago, a few being under and some over these ages. The occupations comprise chicily those of clerks,warehousemen, engineers, grocers, drapers, carpenters, compositors, plumbers, chemists, ironmongers, draughtsmen, telegraphists, bootmakers, tailor? etc.

Mr Samuel Locke has been going into the Uriwera country lately with gold prospectors, and to show how little natives in that part care about the forms of civilisation, he mentions that many grown up boys and girls are running about without any clothing, and on it being suggested that it would be advisable to have a school, one dusky dame objected, pointing out that she was not going to have her children slapped on the face by a pakeha. The Melbourne Argus devotes a subleader to the case of Mr Fisher, and upon a review of the circumstances, condemns the course pursued by him. The article concludes : '* As Commissioner of Customs he was ordered to prosecute certain brewers, and ho disobeyed his instructions and compounded with them. A mutinous Minister, like a rebellious soldier, must be drummed out of the ranks.” Our now Governor hai corns to Now Zealand to learn, he has said, and not to teach. Referring to hii refusal to receive a Maori deputation the other day on (he ground that be was too tired, a contemporary remarks that if His Excellency is open to little instruction upon ono thing more than another, it probably is that tho Maoris in New Zealand occupy a very different relation towards the European population from that of moat other aboriginal races. They are not the “demmed niggers ” of some other colonies. The Dunedin Star does not approve of Professor Black spending his time in fossicking for tin ore in Stewart’s Island, , while the University students, for whoso instruction he is specially engaged,are waiting his return with what grace they may. “Why he should be permitted to roam at large on his own private and peculiar business, to the neglect of his educational duties, is not explained, and scarcely can be explained satisfactorily. If all the other professors were to absent themselves after tho same fashion how would the work of the University go on ? It is about time that be made his election between Stewart Island and the University, and it is more than time that those who are entrusted with the charge of that institution put a stop to his vagaries. There is not another professor to whom anything like the same latitude would be allowed.”

“ A Ipoliccman’s life is not a happy one.” This is laid down as a general principle in “ The Pirates of Penzance,” and the life of the constable at Aratapu, Auckland way, affords evidence of its truth. Aratapu is a bit of a port, and boasts of an hotel, —or an hotel boasts of Aratapu—and sailors coming to the port and the hotel, sometimes make things lively for the one constable. His difficulty is that his lock up is at another township, Kopuru, two miles away. If he runs a man in he has to look after him, visit him at regulation hours and so forth, and consequently when ho does take a prisoner he inflicts upon himself a sentence of hard labour in walking backwards and forwards between his home and station and his lock up. The other night he had three obstreperous fellows on bis hands at once, and os he could not take them all at once, be ran one along and left the others for the time being. When he got back to Aratapu he found they had run themselves in the police station, lit a large fire in the kitchen and had a good supper from his larder.

The noted quality of the Coffee made in the Cafes of Turkey, France, and America is chiefly duo to the fact that only Fresh Roasted Coffee is used ; so that none of the volatile oil and oilier essentials are lost. Ask your grocer for Anderson’s Coffee, and you will have a beverage alike refreshing and stimulating, as it is fresh roasted and ground at the factory, Timaru. — fAdtt.J