PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1891.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9232, 18 November 1891, Page 2

PUBLISHED DAILY. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1891.

We were in hope that the exodus from New Zealand had Btopped ; in fact, we were led to believe it had ceased from a letter sent by the Secretary of the Bureau of Industries to the Premier on November 6th last, in which Mr Tregear says :—: — " The excess of departures over arrivals has practically ceased. For October, 1891, the arrivals numbered 1044 persois, and the departures 1051." Mr Tregear must have been misinformed, for the emigration and immigration returns, as published in the New Zealand Gazette, show, we regret to lay, a very different state of affairs. The departures daring October were 1,118, and the arrivals only 1,051, the emigration from exceeding the immigration to the colony by 67, or, for the first four months of the half-year, by 936. The exodus to New South Wales has by no means ceased, for in October 646 left for Sydney, whereas 449 only returned to New Zealand from that colony. For the last four months the departures for Sydney have exceeded the arrivals from by 1,108 jperions. During Ottober Victoria has been a gainer by 47 from New Zealand, the departures to that colony being 277, whilst the arrivals were only 230. Even to Tasmania some have gone, the departures over tho arrivals being ten. Where the colony has made up for its heavy losses has been persons who came direct from the United Kingdom. The arrivals from England and other distant places were 339 and the departures 141, showing a gain to New Zealand of 189 persons; but as we lost 244 in the general total, we cannot as yet flatter ourselves, we regret to say, that the exodus from the colony has stopped. Our loss may not have been quite so bad as in the preceding month, but it is quite bad enough, if we are not to " bleed to death." Why Sydney should still attract people, when it is publicly stated by a " returnor " from that city "that in one park he counted 122 homeless men sleeping under the trees," it is impossible to imagine. What with capital being withdrawn from the colony, and our population getting less by degrees, it is a bad look out for New Zealand, Some change from the present state of affairs is necessary j and the quicker there Ib a general election to rectify the evils that oxis*. the better it will be for the people as a whole.

Ha Wobship mm Mayor (Mr Bellringer), in a letter to our paper the other day, said " that he bad on several occasions been informed that many years ago the late Mr Oliilman lodged in the Bank of New Zealand here a sum of about £170, being the balance of the 'Taranaki Relief Fund.'" His Worship wrote, thinking that someone was connected with the administration of the fand would be able to give some information on the subject, but evidently, by no answer being sent in to us, the matter has passed out of the recollection of those who had the administration^ of the fund. We have made enquiries ourselves, and find that the late Mr R. Chilman paid into the Bank of New Zealand on- March 6th, 1862, the sum •f £170, as « Treasuer Taranaki Relief Committee," which has remained in that institution ever Bince. We have also searched through our early files of papers, and find that the Committee of the " Taranaki Relief Fund" consisted of the following gentlemen :— "G. Cutfield, C. Brown. H. A. Atkinson, F. U. Gledhill, R. Chilman, T. Flight, T. Good, W. Weston. W. K. Hulke, J. T. Upjohn, W. Bayly, sen., P. Elliot, J. C. ; Richmond." It will be seen that out of I the thirteen forming the Committee of the Taranaki Relief Fund, Boven are now | living, and who couW deal with the money |if they thought advisable. They might | not like to divert it to any purpose without the aid of the Assembly giving them power to do so, but they surely could draw it from the Bank where it is lodged, and place it at deposit, where it would be bearing interest, and thus be accumulating. It is a pity that a sum of money like that should be allowed to lie idle, when there are so many useful purposes to which it might be applied.

The s.s. Arawa, from London, via way ports, arrived at Wellington early this morning. Her dates are— Plymouth, October 3rd ; Teneriffe, Bth ; Cape, 24tb ; and Hobart at noon on November 13th. I She brings 193 passengers for New Zeai land, and 1700 tons cargo. Passengers for New Plymouth : Mr and Mrs Atkinson, | and Mr J. Leslie. , Owing to the casualty to the Duke of Buckingham, it will be seen by the advertisement of the New Zealand Shipping Company that the Tongariro will now leave Lyttelton for London on the 28th instant, leaving Wellington for Lyttelton on Wednesday, 25th instant. The Rev W. J. Habens, InspectorGeneral of Schools, is expected to arrive here on Friday night, and will inspect the High School on Monday next. We are advised that Mr Newton King has received an intimation from the Mt. Egmont Freezing Company that the s.s. i Tongariro will arrive at Waitara on Friday afternoon, and that all shipments of butter and other produce should be alongside on that day. The Sjfratford Cointy Council will not b» represented ia tk« Hospital s*d Charitable Aid Board nntH the next triennial appointment (sec 6 Act of 1886) in 1893 according to the following opinion (dated November 14), received from the Hospital and Lunatic Asylums Department, Wellington, by the secretary of the local Board, Mr Mills :—" In reply to your letter of 11th inst, as regards the representation of the local authorities sineo formation of the Stratford County, I have the honor to inform you that owing to an omission in the Act there is no power to give Stratford County representation until the next triennial appointment (see 6 Act of 1886) in 1892, and that the other bodies will elect the same number of representatives as before.— B. H. Govbtt, for Inspector." The Minister of Lands is expected in this district in about a fortnight. The Minister of Education is also expected to visitthis district in a few weeks, and it is his intention, it is reported, to address a public meeting in the Alexandra Hall. His Honor Justice E. T. Conolly arrived by the through train on Tuesday night, ! and proceeded to Auckland the same night | by the Mahinapua. The Star Cricket Club have obtained Mr Mitchinson's leave to play in his paddock. I In our notice of the "Alexandra " Cream Separator on Saturday last, the accidental omission of one little word made a sentence read the reverse of what was intended. The sentence, " the cylinder being kept well below the centre of gravity, there is risk of its leaving the spindle," should read, " there is absolutely no risk of its leaving the spindle." Sir F. Dillon and Lady Bell and Lieut. Bell are among the passengers by the Arawa, which arrived in Wellington today (Wednesday). A sitting of the Native Land Court will be held on December 1, when Judge Ward will preside. There were 11 patients in the Hospital on October 1 ; 8 were admitted and 10 discharged during the month, leaving 9 remaining at the end of the month. The daily average was 9*09. It is reported that when the crew of the ketch Elizabeth, recently wrecked at West Wanganui, were clambering over the hills after getting ashore, they found in the crevice of a rock three human skeletons. They subsequently learned that some flaxini'l hands had previously discovered four skeletons in the rocks at the same point, but they removed one of the skeletons^ and, horrible as the desecration was, tied it up to a tree. One of the men who was on board the Elizabeth appears to have made more than a cursory examination of the skeletons, for of the three he saw one was that of a man of middle age, as evidenced by the state of his teeth ; one was that of a woman, and the other was that of a child, and he was convinced himself that the remains were those of Europeans who had been shipwrecked there. It is possibly dae to the fact of the fiaxmill hands having previously discovered these skeletons, says a Nelson contemporary, that no report was made by the •kipwrecked, men as to the finding of the remains when they first returned to a centre of population, but the disgusting callousness displayed by those who removed one of the skeletons is most discreditable to a civilised country, and only the coarsest of natures could have treated the remains with disrespect, and have neglected to report the finding of the remains to the constituted authorities. Messrs Dingle and Corke invite inspection of their large and well selected stock, which will be found equal in extent and variety to that of any famishing warehouse oetween Auckland and Wellington. For tables, chairs, suites, cheffoniers, bedsteads, wardrobes, dressing-tables, chests drawers, wash stands, &c, there is no better mart on the coast. Carpets, rugs, linoleums, china and other mattings, &c. ; a large selection of fancy goods, vases, cabinets, Japanese ware, &c, always in stock. Dinner aud tea-seta, toilet sets, glass and crockeryware, cheapest and best in the town. Cabinet work and upholster ing done on the premises by competent workmen»\ also, undertaking. — Advt Wolfe's Sohnapps, accept nothing bu the original, since al! 4 imitations are apuriou