DUNEDIN.

Southland Times, Issue 745, 4 November 1867, Page 2

DUNEDIN.

Nov. 1, 5 p.m. Wellington, Thursday. —It is rumored that a short clause concerning original securities for loans, not being lessened, introduced by the Government at the last moment, is likely to create difficulty. It is said that the clause was introduced by the Q-overnor's desire, as the only condition on which he would give his assent to the bill. There is also a difficulty in connection with the Treasurer going to England. In some financial acts there is no provision for his absence, the Comptroller being constantly compelled to require the Treasurer's signature. The Law Officers do not at present see any way to obviate the difficulty. Crawford, R.M., having voted against the Grovernment on the Consolidation Bill, has been offered by Stafford the choice of resigning his magistracy, or his seat in the Legislative Council. The Otago Provincial Government has accepted the delegsted powers. Bradahaw is here closing the agency accounts. No further news of the suspected murders. Ethel, from Mauritius, with 14,000 bags sugar. Galatea arrived at the Cape on the 15th August. Confidently expected to visit Mauritius on the way to Australasia. Mb Gladstone ok the NewoPapbb Pbbss. — At the annual dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund, held at Willis' rooms on 29th June, the chairman — the Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone — made the following remarks in reference to English journalism : — " The press, which was formerly the privlege of the educated clas3, has become the patrimony of the people. There is not a man possessed of the first elements of knowledge in their simpl st for m to whom the press, at the price to which it is now descended, is not easily access ble ; and if there be any among so many who have not arrived at those first elements of knowledge, that, gentlemen, is their misfortune, and it is a reproach wh.ch I trust, i.ho Legislature of the country before many years are over will have taken effectual measures to efface." * * * Speaking of the criticisms of the newspaper press, Mr Gladstone observed, " If the criticisms and censures are unjust to an individual they will do him no harm, except it be through his own want of manliness of character. If on the other hand, they are just, they are to him invaluable ; they become the mirror in which he acquires the view and knowledge of what otherwise he could not discern j from them he learns thejjmeans of amending his faults, of avoiding the M-rors he has committed, of making his abilities, whatever they be, more available for the benefit of hi* iellow-countrymen, of doing — I won't say none periectly, but at any rate lass imperfeotly, ih-i arduous work which Pron<Jejic©l«aftpnoiut«(l lumtad.Q,"