THE COLONIST. Published Daily—Mornings. Nelson, Tuesday, May 31, 1892. TWO FAULT-FINDERS.

Colonist, Volume XXXV, Issue 7334, 31 May 1892, Page 3

THE COLONIST. Published Daily — Mornings. Nelson, Tuesday, May 31, 1892. TWO FAULT-FINDERS.

Sir William Jervois has experienced a stunning blow from Mr Ballance. The provocation was this: When the change of Ministry took place, and Sir Dillon Bell contemplated early retirement, Sir William was of opinion that whether the office of Agent- 1 General suited him or not, he in every respeot suited it. Accordingly he applied promptly for it. It will be remembered that about this time rumors prevailed that suoh an appointment was considered likely, those rumors doubtless originating with him whose interest it was that they should prove true, and more than that, that the aspirants should receive due notice that the field was full. However, in due time Mr Perceval was chosen to fill the office, for which it was an open secret it had long been understood it was arranged Nursing his wrath to keep it warm, the gallant knight took apparently no umbrage, for was there not a greater prize ? In the meantime, the resignation of the Earl of Onslow was announced, and speculation was rife as to his successor. Never dreaming that anyone so unlikely as the Earl of Glasgow would be thought of, Sir William pocketed his pride and his resentment, and besought Mr Perceval to telegraph at once to the Premier to use his influence with the Colonial Office to have him re-appointed to the Governorship of the Colony. Tbis, too, failed of its purpose, whe*her from some illfortune cr other oause. Enough to say that both the ex-Governor's attempts were made in vain, and then he indulged in wrath. The Premier does not believe in mincing matters. So long as good faith is kept with him, he will keep secret all that does not concern any other person, but the moment an unfair blow is struck, from whatever motive, there is prompt revelation. What can the exGovernor have been thinking about to let his tongue run away with him so wildly as to attack the policy of the Colony, and to - describe the Labor party as being led by demagogues. As far as the particular Labor members are concerned— there are no more than half a dozen of them - they have exercised no undue or injurious effect on our legislation. There could not be supposed to be any willingness on the part of Sir William Jervois to serve with a number of demagogues, yet what else can it mean ? The grapes are sour. Neither as Agent-General nor as Governor oan advantage be taken of his offer, and so he rails. There is much more to excuse Mr Brodie Hoare, even though there is little enough after all. That pretentious person, who found fault with our institutions, and would have reduoed them to sundry policemen armed with sticks to maintain order, has grievances of his own. Mr Ballance has a word of a sort for him also. When the Midland Railway was on the eve of being floated, and everything was in the heydeyof prosperity, Mr Ballance expeoted that one of the conditions would be that 50,000 acres should be set aside in alternate blocks along the line of railway. By what agency that condition was dispensed with will probably be never known, disastrous as the change was for the country, and even the line itself. When Mr Brodie Hoare figured as a Midland Bailway missionary in Nelson, misgivings could not be shut out that all might not be so flourishing as it appeared. The secret instructions were, that as some few yeara must elapse before Nelson could derive any benefit from the railway, its improvement in oredit should not be anticipated. And a good many years have passed Bince, and beyond the stipulated sum of £60,000, wrung from the Directors, of whom Mr Brodie Hoare is one, there is not only no progress, but pleas for further delay. So much then for Sir William Jervois and Mr Brodie Hoare. That every great industry is prosperous says much for the Ministerial polioy, and that the securities of the country 1 are rising speaks loudly for the impression i produced abroad. The Premier's troubles are of the kind that can be best met by sucwss, gmd tba. oomes ait .c due trial.

Nbi^ON Dsbatihq Social*.— The openinj debate of the season took plaoe last evening at the City Counoil Chamber, when there wa: a fair attendance of the members of th. Society, and a good one on the part of th< public Mr John Graham, the President was in the ohair. The following were sleotac _ as Vice Presidents of the Sooiety, Mrs A. S ' Atkinson, Meßßrs Jojnt, Trask, W. Bout sen.., and Grant; and Messrs A. S. Atkin son, Gibbs, 0. J. Harley, and W. Bout, junr. as the Committee. The debate was on the subject— " Is it desirable that the Governoi ! of tbe Oolony should be eleoted by the 1 People?" Tbe Bey F. W. Isitt Bpoke in the ' affirmative, and Mr Maginnity in the negative. • Messrs Atkinson, junior and Grant supported the former, while Messrs Fell, Joynt, Kingsley, Gibbs, and Piper supported the latter. , On a vote being taken there were for the | affirmative— members, 4; auditorium, 6; , total 10. For the negative— members, 9; auditorium, 16 ; total, 25. So a majority oi fifteen was againßt tbe Governor being elected by the people. The President speoially invited the young men of Nelson to join the Sooiety. The Temperanoe question ia to be i taken at the next debate, when, we believe, Messrs Atkinson, junr., and Joynt will be the openers. Masonio. — Trafalgar Eoxal Arch Chapter. — A regular convocation of the Trafalgar Boyal Arch Chapter will take plaoe at the Freemason's Hall, Oollingwood street, thh evening, at half -past Beven. Mining Eeturns. - Further Eeefton mine returns ate as follow: -Golden Lead, 87oz« sdwts 18grs retorted gold for four weeks crushing, one shift (clean up) ; Cumberland, 1 3790zs amalgam from 65 tons store (clean up) ; Inkerman, 1370zs from 245 tons stone (plates only) ; No. 2 Dark, 2700zs from 86 tons stone (clean up). The Globe has declared a dividend of sixpence. Mr. A. E. Mansfobd, one of the most genial and popular members of the Fourth Estate in Wellington, is leaving, probably to-day (Saturday), for Nelson, where he intends to reßide. Mr Mansford is a Bon of our late respected Besident Magistrate, of that name, and has been connected with the Press sinoe the seventies, being on the staff of the ' Otago Daily Times ' under Mr (now Sir Julius) Yogel and Mr Farjeon, the celebrated novelist. He was for several years on the staff of this journal, and for a time edited tha * Marlborough Daily Times.' Having secured a competency, with more good fortune than usually falls to journalists, he now leaves the active for the retired list, and intends to spend the next few yearß at leait in the Tyrol of New Zealand, Nelson, whioh he bas seleoted as affording facilities for his favorite pursuits of fishing and shooting. He oarrieß our good wishes.—Wellington ' Times.' Mr O'Conor, M.H.8., says that the road from Collingwood to Karamea was closing in piece by piece, There were 67 miles made, and the unconstructed portion 38 miles. He had great hopes of the future of that country. An Important Matter.— At the inquest hold at the Port yesterday, Mr Akersten raised a question as to what public body h<_d oontrol of the Morgue at the Fort. His evident objeot was to point out the neoesßity for the provision by the City Oouncil of a publio morgue in the city, and to show the impropriety of calling upon hotelkeepers to provide room for human remains in oases of violent death. Mr Akersten deserves thanks for thus publioly calling attention to a serious matter. It is a gross scandal that a house of publio entertainment should even temporarily be converted into a morgue, to the more than inconvenience of travellers and others using the same, and to the Beriouß loss of the proprietor, where ether provisions might be made with little difficulty. A very small expenditure would provide for the viotims of fatal aooidents a fitting plaoe of reception within a short distance of the Oourt House, and then the publio inquest might well be held in that building. We hope that the City Council will, on behalf of the oitizens, take action with a view to Beouring suoh provision in the cases alluded to. Memb_r for Waihea-Picton.— Mr C. H. Mills, M.H.8., arrived in town last evening, and wa learn that the objeot of his visit is that ho may gather feom those whom he represents the requirements of the oomtituenoy, iv order that he may make proper representation during the forthcoming Bession of Parliament. He will be glad to reoeive eleotors from this portion of the electorate who may have representations to make, and to hear what they have to say The Bey. G. 0, Grubb.— The Lyttelton ' Times ' Btates that the Reverend G. C. Grubb, who has been conducting a mission throughout New Zealand, was a passenger by the R.M.S.S- Coptio, which left Lyttelton on Thursday laet for London. A large number of the ladies of Christohurch who have been assisting in his Christohuroh servioes went to Lyttelton for the purpose of seeing the reverend gentleman off, and as the vessel steamed away from the wharf, they engaged in siDging hymns. Mr Gladstone is said to receive a hundred guineas for each of his articles in the ' North American Review.' For the series on " The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scriptures " he was paid a hundred pounds each for the English rights, and a like sum for their simultaneous publication in America. Three young men belonging to some of the best families in Paris arrived in Madrid with a determination to qualify themselves for the profession of bull fighters. They were waited upon by a Spaniard, who offered to instruct them in the art in 15 lessons, for which each was to pay £150. This was done, and the pupils, after expending £400 in suitable costumes, made their debut at a bull fight at Leganes, where they were considerably gored, and during theii' absence from Madrid all their portable property was stolen by their instructor, who was no matador, but an adroit swindler, who has since evaded arrest. Curious stories are told of the New Zealand Bench sometimes. It is stated tbat in the good old digging days (says the • Marlborough Express ') not long ago, a certain West Coast magistrate and his clerk used night after night to get • glorious ' in company. It was a common thing for them to be found by the policeman on his beat, rolling home in the early hours of the morning. On such occasions they would be locked up in the cells for safety, and liberated about daybreak. It happened, however, that once they had a bigger drunk than usual, and when the morning oame the clerk was still refractory and contumacious. In vain the keeper of the lock-up advised him to go home ; he indignantly refused, exclaiming: "You've locked me up, and I'll make you explain why you did it." The police could not help themselves, and when the Court opened the clerk was duly convicted, severely reprimanded, and fined 20s. Stepping out of the dock to his accustomed place, " Lend me the money," said the clerk to his superior, in an undertone. " You know jou were every bit as bad as me." The Btrength of the New Zealand Polioe foroe is 500 men. Of theße 220 are Irishmen (Bays the Wellington • Herald '), 84 are English, 59 Sootoh, and 11 are Welsh ; Kew South Wales also contributes 31, Queensland 15, South Australia 7, Western Australia 4, Viotoria 5, Tasmania 5, whilst 5 hail from Germany, 2 from Franoe,. and 52 are New Zealanders. Some years ago (says the 'Bulletin') a man named Dyer was oonvioted at Auokland (New Zealand) on tho clearest evidence of an atrocious murder. He had saturated his paramour with kerosene, set fire to her, and afterwards, relenting somewhat, threw hei into a oreek. The woman with her last breath endeavored to shield her murderer. The Anglican Bishop Cowie— tallest and perhaps the handsomest of Australasian eocleaiastios — who attended Dyer before the execution, was asked subsequently if he considered the woman had prejudiced her chance of salvation by her falsehood. "It is not foi us," replied the Biehop, "to Bay what is the limit of divine mercy. The woman lied, and died lying, but, Bir " (raising his voice in an enthußiasJic crescendo), " it was a magnifioenl lie." An old Blenheim identity, Mr Joseph Taylor, blacksmith, died at Wanganui (where he was on a visit to come of bis family), aged eighty-one. Few will go to their last bourne with a better reoord than Joseph Taylor, and in his death Blenheim has lost a true-hearted and upright oitizen, and the genial presenoe of the old gentleman will be missed by hosts of friends. The Senate of the University of St. Andrew's, the oldest college in Sootland, have deoided to opea to women the University's departments of theology, ar.g, and soienoee. Another viotim of the land boom (says the ■ Dnnedin Star '), Professor Elkington, of the Melbourne University, has filed. It is statec that his liabilities are £37,000, and bis assets

j Thb 'Launceston Examiner' unearths a j story about Judge Wrixon, father of Sir H. 9 J- Wrixon. He was courtly and bland, s priding himself on a memory for faces, and 9 got one time on the box seat of Cobb's coach, , when a fine young lady dashed up beside _ him. 'Ihe Judge ; *' Dear rae, I think I have . seen your face before," " The Lady : " Seen , me before, you old vagabond, I should think - you have ! Didn't you give me three months. , For two pins I'd sling you off the coach. 3 The arrangements for the German Emp peror's whale hunting excursion in Norway _ have been made by the well known Nor--3 wegian whaleman, Herr Glaever. The Em- . peror will avail himself of one of Herr [ I Glaever's fishing boats, otherwise a steamer . fitted with all modern improvements for . whale hunting. Whale hunting, it may be ) added, is very exciting sport; but, as in- ; dulged in under existing conditions, ; it is attended with hardly any danger. A I harpoon is shot from a gun on board the I steamer into the whale, and when the line . which is attached to it is lightened, a shell j fixed to the harpoon explodes, and the animal i iB killed. , A kindebgabten in Wellington has an i average attendance of 415, all the ohildren being between 5 and 9 years of age. The ■ sohool oountß as an ordinary board sohool and : reoeivea the usual capitition. ; Ax Mr Ballance's meeting at Invercargill, 5 Mr Buxton, a local celebrity, asked the Premier whether he thought it right to give a i man who had neither stick nor stone, or roof i over him, or coat to his back, the same 3 power aa a man who had worked hard, made , a home for himself and family, and made t provision for a rainy day ? Mr Ballance at > once, and with telling effect, replied: "I I would like to say that there was a Man . eighteen hundred years ago who had no place to lay his head. If we were to allot the i franchise on moral considerations we would i require a properly constitued oourt to enquire , into tbe obaraoter of every man in tbe com- , munity, and if it pursued justice without i meroy a very large seotion of tbe community, ■ and not tbe poorest either, would be dis- . qualified." This sentence was reoeived with i oheering, and the Premier may be Baid to 1 have soored heavily. In connection with the broken cable across Cook Strait, the < Wanganui Herald ' suggest*!. , that it would be sound eoonomy to lay 1 another cable, containing say five wires, between Wanganui and Wakapuaka, as the present cable is known to bave been laid on a smooth candy bottom. Dr Lemon rather favors the suggestion of the ' Post ' to sell the Hinemoa and Stella, and purohase a cable i repairing steamer, able also to undertake the Hinemoa'B work of oarrying stores to lighthouses, etc. An old woman who lived in an out of tbe way village all her life had never seen a traiD, so she deoided one day she wonld go | and ccc her friends, and Btarted one morning I for the railway station. Having purohased a tioket the guard put her in a carriage, and off Bhe Btarted on her journey. But they had not gone far before tbere was a oollision, and . in searching the oarriages they found the old woman in the far corner, covered with luggage. As Boon aa Bhe saw the guard she said, " Mester, do ye always stop sharp like this ? " J. Hancock, who was twenty-five votes behind for Colliogwood (Victoria) at the general eleotion, thus aooounts for his defeat : — "He was not wioked enough to be adopted by the atheistio party, nor good enough to be taken up by the Bible in State sohools party ; he was not enough of a drinker to be taken in hand by the brewers, nor of an abstainer to be taken in hand by the teetotalers. The National Association tabooed him, and he was not taken in hand by the young Australian idiots under forty." Bricks must be considered (says the ' Napier Telegraph ') as artificial stones, and their use dates back to the earliest period of the history of man. It is known that the tower of the City of Babel waa built of bricks, and numerous bricks whioh have been found show the exact size, form, and qualhy of those used in remote times. The remains of the tower of Babel are supposed to form a mound about six miles from Hillah, on the Euphrates. At the top is a solid pile ol brickwork about 38 feet high and 28 feet broad, which is partly vitrified by the action of fire, while the summit of the mound is strewn with vitrified masses in which the courses of the bricks can be easily traced.