HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 1898, 29 November 1877, Page 3

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

' LAUD BIXI,. : - ' v ' ; ' On tho House resuming last night, Mr Sbeohan moved the further postponement of

the Land Bill, stating that the Gov.-rninetit were considering how best to alter it to suit their now land polioy, Major Atkinson strongly objected to this. If Minister:* were going to classify land this cession and insist on a uniform price, the session would last a considerable time, and all land would bo locked up this year at least, so tbufc at least half a million extra would have to be borrowed to meet deficiencies m the current year's revenue. He moved the House to adjourn till Thursday evening to enable Ministers to bring down their measures. A long discussion took place, m which Sir George Grey opposed the adjournment, as there waß plenty business to go on with. Tbero would be no avoidable delay m bringing down new land proposals, but the Government would not be forced or hurried into bringing down prematuro measure 3. After further discussion, the motion for . ( adjournment was -withdrawn, and the Lund ' Bill postponed. SECOND HEADINGS. Mr Sheehan moved the second reading cf the Maori Heal Estate Management Bill. It was gratifying to him that his statement of tho Native policies had been received with so much satisfaction by the House and the country. He denied that his policy was m any way inconsistent with his previous views, and he referred to his action m 1873. He had no hesitation m giving every credit ho could to the late Sir Donald McLean, and to avoid those points on which hostile comment might have been made. The Bill now before the House was to get over the serious difficulties m completing the purchase of lands m the North Island, owing to there being minors amongst tho settlers of the Crown. It was proposed to appoint trustees to act for these minors m completing their titles to Crown lands. Whether this should be extended to private purchase would be a matter for consideration next year. The Native Land Act Amendment Bill was to prevent fictitious appeals m the Native Lands Cjurt, by giving power to tho Court to require payment of costs m advance ; also proposing to provide an uniform mode of executing Maori deods. A third measure, to.be broughtdown to-morrow, would be to wind up the pre:ent land purchase system, and to protect all purchasers. The whole title with the Crown was pending, so that private persons could not interfere to induce Natives to throw up impending bargains with the Crown. He had already issued orders to a'l officers of the department that they must not, cither for themselves or others, be engaged m any way purchasing land. Tho colony would Iqse £300,000 or £400,000 unless private peopio wore prevented from trying to upset partially competed transactions with Natives on the part of tho Crown. If the House adopted the policy of the Government, something at least would be saved, and although nil lands under negotiation might not be obtained, same of it -would. He would brin;; forward at a future date a Bill to provent nil mortgage of Native land, but m the meantimo ho could not accept tho amendment of which Captain Russell had piven notice. Mr Orraond praised Mr Sheehau's reference to Sir D. McLean as creditable to his good taste and good sense. With the exception of one or two small matters, Mr Sheehan had really accepted nnd followed the policy of tho late Ministry. He challenged the correctness of Mr Shcehan's statement that his connection with the Hawke's Buy repudiation party was merely that of a solicitor and client. The party was a large political orginisntioh with extensive ramifications influencing the Native mind throughout the island m reference to the land question. Mr Sheohan's connection with ibis certainly was not a ordinary one between solicitors and clients, and his connection with it would certainly caueo him trouble. In future none of the Into Government would rise by unfair means like cho present one. In any way their conduct m this respect would contrast with the treatment they had received when m office from the members of tho present Ministry ; they would fight on grounds of publio policy, and not go into members' private business. Jt was very pleasing to the late Sir Donald McLean's friends to hear his services acknowledged by the Ministry of which Sir George Grey was chief, as Sir George Grey had always so strongly attacked Sir Donald McLean while alive. He spoke at some length on tho Maori schools question, their value, and the exertions of Sir Donald McLean and the Natives themselves to improve the system. He spoke most lengthily of the St. Joseph's school £o* girls m Napier. Tho utmost efforts to civilise and educate, however, wero often foiled by the pupils relapsing into old habits, and, despite their education, going back to the pah. In regard to the proposed policy of the Government respecting the land purchase department, Mr Sbeetian ho thought should havo said that hia proposals were only to carry out what the late Government had decided on before they loft office. He contended that tho lands purchased were worth far . more than they had paid for them. For the fault m the system, Parliament had itself to blame m having abrogated its own functions, and unconditionally placing £400,000 at the disposal of Ministers charged with maintaining tho leases of the country,Jand who not unnaturally used it largely for political purposes as well as for land purchase m the ordinary way. Ho reviewed. tho management of the department since he took charge of it last year. The latter proportion of the incomplete purchuse were far advanced towards edm;pidtion. Probably, however, a larger sum; but not much m excess of the available sum, ; would be required to complete all these purchases. The leased lands were oil m Taupo district, and out of a million acres probably not 1000 wero fit for leases. 1 The 'reason they were leased was, m 1869 to prey ivent private people obtaining leases, as their: occupation of the land. there and then might have involved the colony 'm difficulty. The leases were taken rather for political purposes than to enhance their value, and all these leases could easily be oompleted. The ldto Government had m view either completing them er letting the leases drop in* the oolony ■being recouped the £10,000 or ". £12,000 they had cost... He thought arrangements of this kind could easily be made, and the late Government had intended to abandon al further land purchases, and had months ago given notice to officers to this effeut, .as well as to obtain more direct control over officers engaged m purchases, and all the: commission . agents ,were done away with m January last;' :The late Government intended to. hold Natives Jo their bargains m those cases whichit was desirable to proceed with. He understood the present Government.did not, intend to do this. ' \ ' He hoped they would . reconsider the matjtcr, and have the bargain a made m good faith on both sides carried out m their, in-i tegrity. He :urged";this-as;a matter of great importance., 'Messrs .'. Maokay -and Hamlin were the only officers employed on commission when the late Government left office, and proposals had actually been made to do away with Mackay. .It was arranged to olose his transactions, and for that Mackay came to Wellington just before the late Government left office.- He did not find any fault with Mr Sheohan's proposals m regard to the temporary allocation of the Land Purchase Fund. He saw very little difference between the Native land polioy sketched by Mr Sheehan and Mr Whitaker's Native Land Bill. He approved of the proposal to employ Native chiefs largely m tho Natives Lands Court. Ho was sure Natives would never be induced to ■; agree to place their' lands under tho Waste Lands Board for disposal. Nothing would suit .Natives, but _ dealing -with; their own lands m their own way, and the individualisatiou of title necessary to accomplish this would have beenlargely accomplished by Mr WhitaXer's Bill. Pc defended the polioj of theNativeLandSales Suspension Bfil.'lt would ' havo checked -the -large speculations which are now going on all over the country. He could pot see how the Government; could fairly do this, as they proposed, under the Act of 1873, and he objected to the very large powers that Act left m the tiands ofthp Government to interfere with ordinary ope-

rations m laud. He belioved the Suspension Bill would have had no danger m it, and would have proved very useful. Mr Tawiti agreed with hii late eolleawuea m this matter. He regretted the Bill had been withdrawn. With regard to Native represent it ion, he would give the most determined opposition to the proposals of the Government to increase Native special representation. He thought as Mr Whitaker had proposed, the electoral registration should be insisted on, and that while Natives had special representation they should not have also or.linary electoral representation. Inhisown district of Clive, the Natives could by a block vote over-vide the Enropenn electors. He did not think the Natives would object to his proposals. Mr Sutton thought tho Maori Eeal Estate Manngeinent Bill should be made to apply to .private transactions as well as Government ones. Ho objected to clause 9of the Bill. Mr Sheehan, m replying, admitted the fair aud tomperate manner m which Mr Ormond had criticised the Government policy. He replied to a few points on which Mr Ormond differed from that policy. He stated the Government would next session introduce a Native Lands Bill, which would be distributed during the recess. The Bill was tben read a third time, ac was also the Native Lands Act Amendment Bill. THIRD READING-. The Law Practitioners' Act Amendment Bill was read a third time. The House rose ut 11.10. Tho House met at 2.30 to-day. QUESTIONS. Mr Sheehan, m reply to Mr Richardson, stated that the local officers had insti uctions to pay over to the Harbor Boards moneys collected by the Railway Department for them, and the local officers were tho persons responsible for delay. Replying to Dr Henry, Sir George Grey said tho Government had not arrived ut any decision a< to the office of Agent-General or retention of Sir Julius Vogel's services. Replying to Mr Wood, Sir George Grey suid the casa of Captain Thomas Turnbull, and other siniilur cases of harbormasters, were under the consideration of the Government. NEW BILLS. . Tho -Waste Lands Boards Continuance Bill (Mr Maeandrew), the Government Native Land Purchases Discou tinuauca Bill (Mr Sheehan). motions. : Mr Rees postponed for a week his notice of motion for rescinding the decision of the House m tue case of Mr Lush. On the motion by Dr Hodgkinson that the House will to-morrow resolve itseif into Committee to consider au address to the Governor, requesting him to cause to bo placed oc the Supplementary Estimates a sum sufficient for the erection of a bridge suitable for heavy traffic on the Opawa River at or near Collies Ford, a long irregular discussion took placo regarding such motions iv general, and which some of thq House was responsible for such questions being brought forward. One side attributed the evil to Abolition, and the faiiuro of the County system, aud then thiß branched into a discussion upon whoao fault it was that the County system had failed. There were a gr;'at ranny references made to Sansard, and much recrimination ensued. Messra Barff, Rolleston, Sutton, Seymour, Stout, S'.ieehan, Qisborne, Douglas, McLoiin, Montgomery, Russell, Rocs, Rotve, Fiahor, Macandrew, Ormond, and Hunter, took part m the discussion. The only important suggestions or remarks made were those of Mr Sheehan, who said iL was absolutely necossnry to have some buffer between the Government and members m regard to local works, nnd lie suggested a Sessional Committoo m future years to report, on all such motions. Mr Gisborno suggested Boards of Works for provincial districts, and , Captain Russell thought that tho power of obtaining grants from the House should bo taken.out of the bunds of members altogether. The motion was agreed to on a division of 20 to 15. Mr Sheehan stated that ho would tp-morr row move the suspension of the Standing Orders to allow a Bill to be introduced as o publio one to' continue tha Nuisance Act, which was a private- one. Dr Hodgkinson moved that free sections m Rivertpn, with immigrants' cottages on them, should be givon as an endowment to the Wallace Hospital. Mr Maeandrew agreed to it, and the motion piissed. . Mr Rowe moved that tho House on Wednesday next resolre itself into a Committee to consider an address to tho Governor to place oh the Supplementary Estimates the sum of £12,750, m addition to the amount already proposed, for the following works at'Coromandel: Rood to Tokntea range, £2000 ; from Coromandel to Thames main road, £2000; from- Mackay Town to Waitekain, £3000 ; fencing roads and Tapin Native lands, £750 ; from Tauranga to <Mackay Town, £3000; from Mackay Town to Tearotra, £1000 ; from Thames to Hastings, £1000— £12,750. , , Mr Reynolds opposed the motion. The debate was interrupted by the dinner hour. ". . ; .

' Resident Magistrate's Court, TuiAßtr. There was no business transacted at this Court ycßlerday. i Smabt Work.— A« a proof of the . quick despatch which Press telegrams receive now-a-.days, we may mention that one put m at ' tho Wellington : office at 11 a.m. yesterday • reached us at. 4.10 p.m. ; ■ ; ■ Mileobd Habbobßilli. — We are informed that a private telegram received from Weir lington yesterday conveyed the intelligence that tho above Bill had been thrown out altogether by the Legislative Council. . Harbor Commission.— We understand' that the Timaru Harbor Commission will probably conclude their duties tomorrow. The /decision at which they arrive will, of course, be fir'afe conveyed to tno Government, ;To Otra Readers.— ln this morning's paper will be found the first of a series of ar tides entitled "PeopleWe Moefc,' 1 written especially for the - Timaru Herald. They ■^rill appear every Thursday and Monday. : Bankruptcy. — A meeting of oreditors m the estate of William Collins was held yesterday m the District Courthouse, Timaru, at irhich Mr' Richard Turnbull was appointed creditors' trustee. • ■ ! Judicial Jokes.—^His Honor Judge \yard seldom allows an opportunity of " cracking a joke " to pass him, even while presidingpver the Court. Yesterday, during.tbe hearing of the' caso Psters v. Watkins, a set-off was put m, and amongst the items m it was one for chaff. In the course of discussion a learned counsel asserted that the items m the set-off were for food supplied to the men, and hia Honor naively asked was the item set down as chaff supplied as food to the men. The learned counsel did not answer his Honor's innooont question. Shark. —A gentleman, while fishing on the beach yosterday morning, immediately opposite the end of North-street, hooked an immense shark on two different occasions. Its girth whs larger than a man's body, and its length about six feet. When it tried to make. away it pulled the person fishing into the water, and is described as like a big calf pulling at a tether-rope. Both times, after playing with it for some time, it was landed into shallow water, but managed to get away by breaking the hook, owing to the weight of the monster. It would be an ngly customer to meet m its own element. Land Sales. — Messrs Jonas and Hart held a sale of land yesterday, at which there was a large attendance. Mfj Yardley's swimming bath and property was disposed of at £li6o to Mr William Evans. Mr Doubles' property m 'Bank-street, consisting of a cottage and a quarter acre section,' was knocked down at £475 to Mr, Watkinß. Several quarter 1 acre sections dt Pleasant Point were sold, at Sums varying from £9 to

Winchester Faiu. — The next Winchester Fair will take place on Wednesday, the sth December. Cokhectiok. — We are requested to 6tute that the civil cases heard on Tuesday m the Resident Magistrate's Court, were brought by Hobbs and Co , and not by Mr W. A. Hobbs, as was slated m the report of the day's proceedings. Public Holiday. — His Worship the Mayor has proclaimed to-morrow (St. Andrew' 3 day) a public holiday m honor of tho cricket match between Chri3tfhurch and Timnru. i'r-OKAL AND HOBTICULTOE.II. SOCIETY.— A meeting of this Society was held m tlie Town Hnll lust evening, and it was decided should Saturday, loth December, be pr.>cLiimed a public holiday, theSiiow should be held on thut day. Bank Holiday. — On Friday next, b i-g St. Andrew's Day, all the Bunks m Tima v will be closed. The agencies of the Bank of New Zealand nt Temuka, Geraldine, »nd Pleasant Point will also bo closed. Education Boabd Examinations. — Pupil tenchers and others who may wish to send m their applications for the January examinations for Canterbury, are reminded by advertisement that Saturday next, December Ist, is the last day on which these can bo received. Foeestehs.-— Tho Court Southern Cross, No. 3123, A.0.F., have accepted the tender of Mr George Gee for catering at their anniversary banquet on January Ist. Lkvels Koad Dibteict. — The Levels Road Board anounce their intention to inako, on the 11th December next, a special rate of 2s m the £ on all rateable property abutting on LuCren-street, Sandictown, for the purpose of forming that street. Particulars will be found m our advertising columns. The same Board nnnounces^that Chivers-road, Otipua, is closed until further notice. Cricket, — A meeting of the Colts' Cricket. Club, Timaru, was held last night at tho Grosvenor Hotel, to take into consideration a challenge cent by a similar Club m Temuka. It was agreed to accept the challenge, play to commence at 2 p.m. on Saturday nest, at Temuka. The following were then selected to represent Temuka :— J. C. Perry, F. W. Mansfield (captain), J: King, W. Kin?, F. Jones, D. Gerity, E. Wood, 0. Woodj W. Hollidny, — Burgess, B. Hibbard ; emergency men, J. Cramond, J. Smith, and Ogilvio. The Temuka team will be: — J. Roberts (captain), P. Thompson, G. Craig, R. Guy, J. Clinch, A. Clinch, J. Nelvin, J. Martin, — Mcßrntney, J. Heap, and R. Guy. Battalion Paeadb. — The Timaru Artillery Volunteers and Cadets assembled for battalion parade yesterday evening. The muster of both companies was rather poor. The two batteries were marched to a paddock near Mr Tu'rabull'a residence, and put through a variety of movements by Captain Jackson. It has been arranged to hold these parades fortnightly, each of the officers to take command m turn. Tho next paivide will be commanded by Lieut. Wardlo. Temuka Chorae Society.— The third quarterly concert given by tho above Society was held at the Volunteer Hall on Tuesday evening last, and was well attended, the front scats being quite filled. Many who had first-class tickets had to take second seats, and the Society may bo congratulated on their great success. Mr Rutland, who acted as conductor, had spared himself neither time nor trouble m making everything go as smoothly ns possible , and a meed of praise is most undoubtedly due to him for the great pains he took to make the concert successful, ibout thirteen ladies and twelve gentlemen took part m the concert, which chiefly consisted of songs, glees, and choruses. Misses Quinlan nnd Brown presided at the piano from which they elicited some excellent music, and won the applause of the audience. The programme was carried out m its entirety, and. almost every item m it whs encored. A solo on the violin by Jtr Jones, accompanied by Mias Jones on the piano, created quite a furore, which necessitated its repetition. On the whole everything passed off most pleasingly, and reflected great oredit on all concerned. Abchitectubal' Definition. — A question m architecture arose m the District Court yesterday, during the hearing of the case Peters v. Wntkins. The defence, m order to prove thnt the work was badly performed by the plaintiff, stnted that the parapet was leaking. His Honor asked whut was meant by a parapet, and the witness answered that it was v sign-board over a hotel with a gutter behind it. Subsequently another witnesß said it. was a " cornish under the heaves," but his Honor was not satisfied with these explanations, and examined the plan himself, and after running his eye over it very critically, came to the conclusion that a parapet was very much like a chimney pot. Notwithstanding that the witnesses who had given their definitions as to what a parapet was, were according to their own evidence carpenters of 15 and 20 years' standing, not one of them questioned his Honor's judgmont m the matter, and which of the definitions the future lexicographer will accept, remains to bo told. Type Whiting Machine.— We have been shown a type writing machine, which has been recently imported by a firm m this town, aad certainly it may be regarded as one of tho great triumphs 'of the inventive genius of man. It is constructed on the same principlo as a piano, and worked by touching keys, exactly m the same manner that a piano is played. The act of touching one of theso keys sets the wholo machine m motion, and the paper on which tho impression is • being made • moves so as to leave tho necessary space betweon the letters. The paper is placed on the top of the instrument between the two cylinders, which pass it on to an ink ribbon. Then tho piano-like key (on which the letters are marked) is touched, and a c immunication is formed willr the corresponding letter m the inside ; of ' ths machine. This letter strikes against the ink ribbon o<i which the paper'is restiiig, and thus the impression is made. This operation is so simple thut one «ho never before saw the instrument working cm manage it without instruction, and we are told that it. only requires a few mqnt hs' practice to be able to write sixty works per minute with it. ,' , ; : The Kdto of Dahomby.— His Majesty King Gelele is said to have jumped for joy on hearing of the loss of the oil. he had beer, induced to pay for his bad treatment of British subjects, and when he heard that the Sirius had broked down arid was compelled to return to England, his delight wss unbounded. He attributes both theEe events to "fetish," and believes his powers of working evil upon his enemies are great indeed. After this he will be as much inclined as ever to do just what he pleases, for he looks upon the late blockade as a failure so far as England is concerned. It cost him nothing, and thus far we have gained nothing, sndit is very generallybelieved that we shall not receive the second inetnlinont of the find imposed upon him, but which he compelled the traders to pay. — Army and Navy Gazette. . ; Volcanoes.— Mr Henry Humphries writing from Bay Cottage, Wandsworth, sends us an extract from a. letter he has received from Ecuador :— " Gtnayaquil, June 30, 1877. We ara all well again here, although we have had fearful times of late since you left, with terrible sickness and rains. Now all this is over, another plague has settled down on Ecuador. The Volcano Bangai, about 125 miles from here, has taken it into his crater to give us an eruption, and has been cannonading away so fearfully that we have heard it plainly here for days, and everyone at first mistook it for cannon firing off. at the fort just outside the town. J?ine ashes, have been -blowing right over and fallen down like rain on the town, getting into one's eyea and nose while walking about, and rendering the day quite misty.' In Bodegas they say it : has been far worse, and wears every day expecting to re? . ceite bad new* from the interior. As I write, t even, the news comes m. It is not only San- ) gai which has burst oat, but Cotopaxi, which is far worse when it (Joes commence. They

say that it was accompanied by an earthquake,, wbich hits deployed many parts of the town, and that Quito and the adjacent town 3 -were m darkness fop two days. We have no full particulars as yet of the whole affair, but I fear that it will be worse even than I give you to believe m this. By next mail I shall send you nil the particulars I can obtain about it ; but you may look for very bad news incl.ed from the interior of Ecuador. This news will be a sad blow for the poor bondholders, who .have been strainiug every nerve to get a new contract for the payment of their debts."— The Mail. BiBONESS BuEDETT-CorTTs' DONATION. — His Exct-lloncy Musurus Pasha has transmitted to the Baroness Burdett-Coutls v telegram, received by him from the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, conveying — m advance of the original, which will be sent to her ladyship hy courier — the contents of the following letter, written by Turkish ladies at Constantinople : — "My Lady— We have been deeply touched by the news of your mugnifleent donation for the unfortunate refugees — men, women, and childien — who have been able to get out of our cruel enemies' reach, and we feel profound admiration and gratitude. Allow U'~, my lady, to offer you, on behalf of all the persans whose sufferings ara being relieved through your liberality, our most Bincere thanks, and to give you the assurance that we — mothers, wives, or sisters — now suffering for our beloved country, will never forget your kindness and generosity towards the innocent vietras of our traditional enemy." The Jeddah Fugitive Slates. — Mr E. Sturge writes to us {Mail) from Devonshire House Hotel : — " The report on this cuso has now been laid before Parliament. It shows the lamentable confusion m which, after a debate and a luboroious Royal Commission, this subject still remains. Conceding for a moment tho Banctily of properly m: a 'domestic slave,' it is here deposed ' thai after his capture he was driven to Berber and Ka3seir, wns brought with eight others to Jedduh, and sold by the slave dealer to his master this year.' Now the African 6lave trade has been declared unlawful by Turkey and Egypt for eoruo years past. Colonel Gordon, m the name of the Khedive, is freeing the slaves of every collie he can capture, whether at Berber or Khartoum, or on their w»y to Kasseir. We reverse all this m respect to those who have, unhappily for themselves, been mtde to delude his vigilance, and (officially) esteem them good and lawful property. It is lime to define at once what constitutes a ' domestic slave.' In the present case the slave fresh from the chain and the dhow has been held to be ' domestic' Surely such an anomaly cannot long be endured. I scarcely need point out what the effect would be m paralysing the slave trade were distinct instructions given from the Consular Department to claim the freedom of every slave who presented himself, and could reasonably show that within a given period he had been captured and brought from Africa. It is earnestly to be hoped that such instructions will not bo long delayed. When those are given I know of no one who will carry them into effect more faithfully and fearlessly than Her Majesty's present vice-Consul at Jeddah." This Wreck op the Generai Gbaxt. — Tho following short record of the latest and futile attempt to recover the gold m the Bhip General Grant, lost some years ago at tho Auckland Islands, appears m the Southland News : — The s.s. Gazelle, which left hero on the 14th July last, returned to port the other evening. Captain Giles reports that ho hud 11 fine weather pasaago of thirty-sis hours hence to the Aucklands, and that out of the four months they remained at tho islands tliH'O wns only one and a-balf days' fine weather, and then the sea had not gone down sufficiently to allow thorn to work with fafety to the vessel on tho west coast, and it was simply impossible for tho divers to attempt to go down. From the wreckage seen on the coust it seems probable that some vessel has been broken into fragments, imy quantity of white pine timber being found strewn along the beach for a distance of fifteen miles adjacent to the cave m which the General Grant is supposed to have sunk. As the wcither continued unsettled, and appearances were strongly m favor of the "sunken treasure" never bieng obtained, tho Gazelle left for the Bluff. Coioh. — Soys Macmillan's Magazine, the seniution of color is caused, by vibrations or undulations of the etheriul medium of different lengths and velocities. The whole body of vibrations caused by tho aun is termed radiation, and consists of sets of wovss which vary considerably m their dimensions and their rate of vibration, but of which the middle portion only id capable of exciting m ■us 6entatioiiß of light and color, Beginning with the largest and slowest rays or wavevibrations, we have first those which produce hcad-sensa ! ions only ; as they get smaller and quicker, we perceive a dull red color ; and as the waves insrease m rapidity of vibration and diminish m sizs, we get successively Be.naations of orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, nnd violet, all fadiug imperceptibly into each other. Then come more invisible rays, of shorter wave-length and quicker vibration, •which producej solely or chiefly, chemical effects. The red rays, which first become visible, have been ascertained to vibrate at the rate of 458 millions of millions of times m a second, the length of each ray being l-36900th of an inch ; while the violet rays, which last remain visible, vibrate 727 millions of millions m a second, and have a wave length of l-64516th of an inch. Although the wavesvibrato at different rates, they are all propagated through the other with the eaine velocity (192,000 miles per second), just as different, musical sound?, which are produced by waves of air of different lengths an) rates o£ vibration, travel at the fame rate, so that a tune played several yards off reaches the ear m correct titm*. There are, therefore, an almost infinite number of different oolor-produ- . oinp vibration*, and these may be combined m mi a' most infinite variety of ways, to aB to i-ioi c m us the sensation of all the varied i-olor? aud tints we are capable of perceiving. Whoa all the different kinds of rays reach us m the proportion ia •which they exist m the !!ght of the sun, they produce the sensation of whito. : If the ray» which excite the sensation of any one color are prevented from reaching us, the remaining rays m combinatiou produco a sensation of color often very far removed from white. Thus green rays being abstracted leave purple light ; blue, orange-red light; violet, yellowish-green light, and so on. These pairs aro termed complementary colors. And if portion! of differently colored lights are abstracted m various degrees, we have produced all those infinite gradations of color, and all those varied tints and hues which are of such use to n» m distinguishing external objects, and which form one of -the great charms of our existence. Primary colors would therefore be as numerous as the different wave-lengths of the visible . radiations if we could appreciate all their differences, while secondary or compound colors caused by the simultaneous action of any combination of rays of different wave-lengths must be still more numerous. In order to account for the fact that all colors appear to us capable of being produced by combinations of three primary colors — red, green, and ■violet— it is believed that we have three sets of nerve fibres m the retina, each of which is capable of being excited by all rays, but that one set is excited most by the larger or red waves, another by the medium or green waves, and the third set chiefly by the violet or smallest wares of light; and when all three sets are excited together m proper proportions we see white. Te3Sbib Strtjok Ofp the Begistbb. — la July, i 14. Bailing vessels and 10 steamships belonging to the United Kingdom and the colonies were struck off the register. Of these 67 belonged to the colonies, 2. to Sunderland, 4to the port. of Newcastle, 6to Scotland, 3 to Yarmouth, 6 to Ireland, 6 to Liverpool, 7 to London, 5 to Waleß, 2 to Whitby, 1 to Hull, 1 to the Channel Islands, and 7 to various ports of the West and South of

England. 76 had been built m the colonies, 8 m Scotland, 7 m Sunderland, 2 at Low Walker.l atSouthwold,2atWhitehaven, 2 m Ireland, 2 m Yarmouth, and 1 at each of the following places, viz: — Blackwall, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Liverpool, Ulverston, Kingston on- Hull, Il'racombe, Gloucester, Redbride, Winßford, Weymouth, Sonthwick (Durham), Southampton, Shoreham, Bideford, Wei's, Scarborough, Leftwich, and Portmadoc. 1 1 was constructed so far back as 1756 ; lin 1778 ; 1 between 1800 and 1810 ; 4 between 1810 and 1820; 2 between 1820 and 1830 ; 4 between 1830 and 1840 ; 8 between 1840 and 1850 ;29 between 1850 and I860 ; 44 between 1860 and 1870; 25 between 1870 and-1877 ; and sat dates not ascertained. The cautes assigned for c'osin;; the register were as follow : Sold to be broken up, 2 ; broken up, 26 ; sold foreign, 21 ; stranded, 3 ; lost, 18 ; abundom-d 3 ; missing, 8 ; wrecked, lfi ; burnt, 9 ; locally registered, 2 ; sunk by collision, 2 ; foundered, 3 ; sunk, 1 j converted into lighters, 3 ; condemned by order of tho United States Court, 1 ; sold by order of Admiralty Court, 3 ; ' and unseaworthy, 1.