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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8228, 8 June 1895, Page 3

Most unseasonably fine and warm weather continues, more like advanced spring than advanced winter. The fine day brought a good many country people into town to-day. The woman Bessy Davy, >vho was fined £5 at Ponsonby, Auckland, yesterday, for not registering her baby farm, at times had several infants in her house. The police are hunting for one child which the woman says was adopted by a person at a distance up north. When the Tekoa returns to Lyttelton to complete her cargo for Home she will take on board there a small lot of live sheep, on account of Mr E. O. Cox. They are three-quarter-bred Shropshires, cost 12s 6d at Addington; and are expected to fetch about 60s at Home,

1 At the meeting of the Canterbury Land Board on Thursday, the following applications for land at Arowhenua Y.S were granted:—Section 805, Ir lip, to James Douglas; section 823, 1 rood, to Mary Spillane; section 755, 1 rood, to Simon B. Norton. It was resolved to authorise the Commissioner of Crown Lands to consent on behalf of the Board to mortgages under the Government Advances to Settlers Act, 1894. Mr A. J. White, the well-known furniture dealer, who died at Christehurcq yesterday, was a native of Taunton, Somerset, England, and for some years carried on business as a currier in his native town. He came to Lyttelton in the ship Zealandia in 1861, and in 1863 embarked in business in Christchurch in a very small way in High Street, and later on removed to the well-known premises at the corner of Tuam and High streets, where he built what is probably the largest furnishing business in the colony. He came to New Zealand without capital, but by perseverance, business ability and probity made steady progress on the road to opulence. He devoted the whole of his time and energies to his business, and for that reason took little or no part in public affairs. On Tuesday last a young woman, who had four children, applied to the trustees of the Wellington Benevolent Instition for assistance. Her husband, a total abstainer, was on the Government co-operative works in the Forty-Mile Bush, but was unable to send her any money because, after paying for tucker ” and tools, he had only 5 shillings for a month’s work. A letter from the man to his wife was read. In it the writer said his ’plight was better that of others, as one man had received only 2s clear for a month after clearing up. Ninepence a week was charged to the roadmakers for the use of a crosscut saw. The applicant was ordered rations, and the Trustees expressed surprise that such a terrible state of affairs as was described in the letter should be permitted to exist. The Secretary was instructed to write to the Premier on the subject. Liberty , the organ of the Auckland National Association, is rough on Sir George Grey for remaining so long at Home : —“ Leaving the consideration of Sir George’s conduct, which would have been bitterly attacked by him if followed by any other New Zealand representative, we cannot but marvel at the unaccountable silence of his constituents under the cavalier treatment they have been subjected to. Is their silence to be explained by the fact that they now realise that the political seed scattered by Sir George for years throughout the colony, and carefully fostered and nourished by the present Government, was the seed of dissension ; and that its growth and development is accountable for the distrust, class prejudice, and confusion now prevailing, and which stand so much in the way of the colony’s happy progress, If this is the case, the electors would no doubt be indifferent to the return of their member, and would feel safer in his abscence than in his presence. The spectacle of the New Zealand Tribune running to and fro among the second hand book shops of the Strand, while the colony he professes to love so well is in a state of crisis, and while legislation of the most momentous character was being passed into law, is certainly unique—but Nero is said to have fiddled while Rome burned.” The usual fortnightly meeting of the Congregational Young People’s Union was held on Wednesday evening last. There was a fair attendance of members, and Mr G. Hogben, M.A., vice-president, occupied the chair. The subject set aside for the evening was a lecture by the president, the Rev. G. Williams, on “Charles 11. and the Nonconformists.” Mr Williams described the position of the Nonconformists under the tolerant rule of Cromwell, and on his death the combination of the Presbyterians and the High Church party to restore the Stuarts. The character of Charles was sketched, showing how, under the pretence of piousness and by extravagant promises which he never intended to keep, he deceived the Presbyterians. The various conferences, after Charles had been crowned, between the Presbyterians and the High Church Party, were given in detail, the former wanting some reforms in the liturgy, and the latter unwilling to concede anything. At last the King took the side of the High Church Party, and by putting his seal to the Act of Uniformity the persecution of the Noncomformists was commenced. The consequences of this Act, and various others, such as the Conventicle, were enlarged upon, but although persecution was rife the ranks of Nonconformity steadily increased. The lecturer by numerous illustrations showed the privations some of the clergy endured, and also their heroic conduct at the time of the Plague. The lecture throughout was very interesting, and was listened to very attentively. After a vote of thanks to Mr Williams for his lecture, the meeting terminated in the usual way. “ It is a pleasure to sell Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy,” says Stickney & Dentler, druggists,Republic,Ohio, “Because a customer after once using it, is almost certain to call for it when again in need of such a medicine. We sell more of it than of any other cough medicine we handle, and it always gives satisfaction.” For coughs, colds and croup, it is without an equal. For sale by J. C. Oddie. A Wellington correspondent of the Press telegraphs that the statement that has been published that the employees of the Midland Railway Company had refused to take any instructions from the Government as controllers of the Railway is inaccurate. “I learn that on the Saturday proceeding the Queen’s Birthday, Mr Blow, Under-Secretary for Public Works and Railways, personally intimated to the manager of the line

that he would be required to act under his instructions, and upon the Manager declining to do so, Mr Blow gave him twenty-fours hours to decide, when, if he persisted in his refusal, he would be deposed from office. The manager decided to comply with Mr Blow’s demand, and all his brother officers followed his example. As to the General Manager's- (Mr Wilson) refusal to surrender the plans and necessary records for the continuance of the construction of the works, I am informed that the Minister is prepared to proceed, if necessary, with fresh surveys, which it is claimed he is empowered by the terms of the contract to cany out.” Otayo Daily Times , July 25th, 1892, says “We have received samples of Gawne and, Co.’s locally manufactured Sauce—mild and piquant. The bottles are neatly got up, and the'quality of the contents appears to be quite up to the standard of other sauces before the public. As it is a local industry, it should be encouraged.—(Advt.) The costliest Parliament in the world is the democratic one of France, the two Chambers annually costing the nation upwards of £300,000. Next in ordercome the Parliaments of Spain, £89,000; Italy,. £86,000 ; Austria, £72,000; England, £51,920 ; Belguim, £36,000 ; and Portugal, £30,120. The German Reichstag costs £19,000. In France £Bl5 per diem is the price paid for the privilege of having laws made by the Chamber of Deputies. The expenditure of 1895 is fixed at £297,420. More than £200,000 is swallowed up by the salaries of the legislators, each deputy receiving £360, and the President £2830. The staff of the Houseconsists of 243 persons, costing £28,860. There is, consequently, nearly one servant for every two deputies. The librarian’s bill for new books never falls below £BBO, most of it being spent on works of fiction. Among the officials is a rat-catcher, who has a salary of £2B, and one whose duty it is to mend the umbrellas of deputies. The expense of the medical staff is £460. Sander and Son’s Eucalypti Extract.— (Advt.) The difficulty of securing social reform in the United States, owing to the obstacles of involved written constitutions, has been illustrated in the States of Illinois and Ohio. In the former State the Supreme Court has declared that an eight-hours law applying entirely to women is unconstitutional. The leading capitalists of Chicago made common cause against the factory inspectors and other officials of the State to break that law down, and they have succeeded. In Ohio a Circuit Court has declared that a progressive inheritance tax passed by the Legislature, and much more moderate than the new taxes we owe to Sir William Harcourt, is unconstitutional. Decisions like those make the American social reformer despair. A leading American ship owner says the vessels in the future will be 100 ft in length, and will cross the Atlantic in three and a half days.