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South Canterbury Times, Issue 6237, 9 June 1890, Page 3

The train from Timaru to Fairlie Creek on Thursdays will start at 4 p.m. in future, and run at the same lime as tho train on the other days.

Beef freezing is now in full swing at Messrs Nelson Bros.’ Waipukurau works, about thirty carcases per diem being put through. A debating club in Wellington a few nights ago discussed a paper by Mr Menteath, M.H E., on “ Looking Backward,” the paper being (0 the effect that tho ideas in the book are incapable of fulfilment. The subject was warmly discussed, the general feeling of the meeting being apparently that, although Mr Bellamy’s was to a great extent an impracticable ideal, he set up a standard which it was desirable should bo recognised and aimed at. A future of the discussion was a gener' ally expressed disapproval of tho present condition of society, especially ns regards women and the relations between labour and capital. A blacksmith named Barclay, in business at Sefton, North Canterbury, states publicly that “out of 334 customers, only thirty-one paid me within a reasonable time, really only thirteen of that number paid mo quarterly! or within a month after; then I have 118 that, do not pay once in six months, and 117 that require twelve months, and some two and three years, and-generally when they do pay, it is only a portion of I he amount owing. Of these, the last class are the ones I lose most by, as many of them never pay at all.’’ Mr Barclay attended a meeting of farmers to discuss the horse-shooing rates, and ho appears to have become angry, for he offered to change places with any one of them, meaning that he could do it, for he believed that £SO would cover all the real Interest of some of them in their farms,

Mr R. Gooch is gazetted mlb lieutenant of the Timaru Nuval Artillery, date of commission, April Oth.

A horse tied up near Belford Mill this morning got loose, and made tracks northward along Stafford street at a great rate. Ho travelled on the footpath for a good way, but fortunately it was too early for perambulators to bo about, so that no damage was done. The horse was checked and caught near the Bon Accord carriage works. Dr Ewart, now of the Wellington Hospital, friends here who will be pleased to read the following letter to tho Wellington Times : —“ Allow mo space in your valuable journal] to thank Dr Ewart for the very skilful operation bo performed on my son : Edward Murtagh, who got kicked on the forehead by a pony. This I consider to be one of tho cleverest operations I have ever witnessed. I have had a large experience in surgical operations, not only in my own profession— [Mr Murtagh is a veterinary surgeon] —but also in the medical profession I eonsider tho operation in question to be one' of the most skilful that can be performed, as the frontal bone was completely smashed in, compressing the brain and the orbal artery. This bone Dr Ewart has raised without injury to the brain or sight. The good people of the province of Wellington should be thankful to know that they have got such a skilful and untiring gentleman as Dr Ewart in the grandest of institutions, the Wellington Hospital, P. J. Murtagh,” Mr Allen, M.H.R. for Dunedin East, says with regard to the acquisition of land for settlement, it must become increasingly patent to the students of colonial politics that something must shortly be done towards releasing for settlement those lands which have fallen into the bands of banks and loan companies. Two ways of doing this had been suggested by Mr Fergus, and one of them was a progressive land tax. This be did not believe in, for it would amount to nothing less than robbery. He was inclined to believe it a wise suggestion that reasonable time should be allowed to those companies in which to dispose of these lands, failing which the State would come in and purchase them. There were, however, many difficulties in the way of carrying this out. The danger of imposition would have to be guarded against ; and there was also tho difficulty of providing funds with which to carry it out. Another suggestion was to issue debentures in the colony for tho purpose. But he took it that it was the duty of the Government to find money at the cheapest possible rate. If money could be obtained in the colony at a slight increase in price, it might be right to do so : but if loss were incurred to any extent by doing so, tho proper course was to go to the London market. He was not advocating any loan at present, being as much opposed to borrowing as anyone ; but he did say that to attempt to borrow money on debentures issued in the colony was nothing more than' a shuffle, as money should be got in the cheapest place.