The Timaru Herald. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1883.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2827, 15 October 1883, Page 2

The Timaru Herald. MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1883.

Theee appears to be a considerable likelihood of a rupture between France and Spain. The complication that has arisen m the politics of those twe countries, indeed, is most curious. The Parisian mob insulted the King ol Spain. That was the beginning oi the whole affair. President Grevj apologised to the King of Spain The French Ministry, however, dis sented from this action of the Presi dent, and it is reported that they an going to resign m consequence. Sc far, so good. The King of Spain nexl demanded fuller reparation from France but the President would not give any beyond formally publishing the apologj previously tendered. This did not satisfy the King of Spain, who desired his Ministers to take further steps. Th( Ministers dissented from that course however, and at once resigned. A nev Ministry have been formed, and th< Spanish Ambassador at Paris has re tired. This we take to mean that th< King of Spain is to have his way, anc that "further steps" are to be takei for extracting reparation from France What those steps may be it is not easj to understand. Spain is as unfit to gc to war with France, as France is to gt to war with Spain ; and both woulc commit an act of criminal insanity ii going to war at all over such a trifle. We are very glad indeed to hear that the promoters of the Company for working the Royal Flouring Mills at Timari have succeeded m their object, and thai the Company is forthwith to be re gistered and to proceed to business. II will indeed be a welcome sight to see th< big mill at work once more, instead oi stauding idle, a dead loss of capital and industry, and a monument to the coin mercial apathy of the district. There are some, we know, who dc not attach much importance to the re vival of this enterprise, because, thej say, the mill consists merely oi a mass of labor-saving machinery and though it is capable oi exerting a vast productive power, il will only afford employment to an insignificant number of hands. Therefore they contend, it makes little difference to the place whether it is working 01 whether it is standing still. This is t view from which we must altogethei dissent. The very same arguineni might be applied to the employment oi any machinery or any improved ap pliances whatsoever. Yet we know that the employment of improved ap pliances and notably of labor saving machinery, has been the making o: every place where it has beeti resortec

to. By this agency alone Great Britain has maintained and enormously enhanced her industrial supremacy; and by this agency alone, the United States have reached their marvellous state of industrial development. In these days of world-wide competition, it does not pay to adhere to obsolete methods ; and to say that we are to have no flour milling here unless by hand labor, is tantamount to saying that we are to have no flour milling here at all. But it is a sheer fallacy to suppose that an industry which does not directly employ a great many hands, is of proportionately little value to the community. The very contrary may be the case. If it is more profitable to conduct an industry without employing labor, then the industry, so conducted, is of greater value to the place than if it were conducted by the employment of many hands. Why ? Because it is more profitable. It is of no advantage to the community m the long run to employ labor unprofitably; but it is of the utmost advantage to employ machinery profitably. The value of an industry to the community consists not m the number of people who live by it directly, but m the amount of wealth that it creates. Let us take the case of the Royal Flouring Mills at Timaru. These mills might easily be worked m such a fashion as to employ a hundred hands, and support say, five hundred men, women and children. But the profits would be nil. There would, m fact, be a heavy loss. The money coming into the place m exchange for the productions of the mills would not nearly equal the money Igoing out for the support of workmen and their families. Therefore the place would be the poorer every year and every day by the working of the mills, and the sooner they were shut up or burnt down the better it would be for the place. Sooner or later the smash must come. On the other hand, the mills might be worked m such a fashion as to employ a large capital and a limited number of workmen at a net profit of £10,000 a year. The money coming into the place m exchange for the productions of the mills might exceed the outlay on those productions by £10,000 a year ; and the place would actually be the richer by that amount through the working of the mills. That £10,000 a year would not be folded m a napkin and buried m the ground. It would not be tied up m an old stocking, or stowed away m a cracked teapot. It would be spent m the place m one form of investment or another, and would thus support just as many people as if it had been paid away m wages at the office of the mills. The only difference is that it would be a permanent source of support, instead of being, as - m the other case, a precarious and short-lived source, which must dry up " of its own accord m a very little while. Admitting, for the sake of argument, that the Royal Flouring Hills will not employ much labor m the actual process of grinding corn, we contend, moreover, that they will directly employ a great deal of labor m - other processes necessary to, and dependent on the general business of milling. These mills are capable of y putting through a vast quantity of . grain every year, and that vast quantity has to be grown and threshed and : bagged and delivered, and ground, and re-bugged, and re-carried, aud shipped or distributed m one way or another ; r and every one of these operations in- ■. volve3 the employment of a certain „ number of hands. That ia to say, the gross earnings of the mills i. cannot but be shared by a large r number of people having no immediate Jj connection with the mills, and the greater the gross earnings of the mills are, the greater will be the number of participators m them. - There is another point m which these mills will bo of direct and unmistakeable benefit to the district. In - this climate there is always a risk of a large proportion of the staple product being injured by rain. Last season we 6 saw something like half the wheat harvest damaged or destroyed by this cause. Much of the moist grain, however, could be utilised with compara- » tively little loss, by the aid of f appliances for promptly drying it. Those appliances will be available at the Royal Flouring Mills ; and thus a means will be provided by which the risk of loss by wet will be greatly lessened, and the average value of the c wheat crop materially increased. This means a direct accession of wealth, widely distributed over the district. ' But to our mind, the main importance ' of the mills lies m their capacity for converting the magnificent wheat of South Canterbury into flour of the finest quality, at a minimum of cost ; f and thus creating a highly profitable ' export trade m that article which more than any other, this district seems to have been designed by nature to produce. We wish the Royal Flouring ■, Mills every possible success ; and we cannot but commend the enterprise and perseverance of those who, under very grave discouragements, have steadfastly persisted m the promotion of the Com--0 pany. d = q C.V.C. — All accounts against tho Cantorbury Yeomanry Cavalry must bo sent m to Mr Robt. Stewart without delay. The Blue Ribbon. — A second meeting of 0 the Blue Ribbon Mission will be held m the g school-room at Albury at 7.30 this evening. Ll Caledonian Societt. — A general meeting j. of the South Canterbury Caledonian Society* | will bo hold at the Grosvenor Hotel this '' ovening at 8 o'clock. Business — To consider t draft programme, receive report of ground c Committee, &c. f Frozen Mbat Trade. — A farmer near q Paten, and a director of tho West Coast Moat Export Company, intonds breeding pork for ' shipment. He is convinced that it will pay better than mutton, as the pigs will bo tit for 0 market at six months old. .. The Snow Gbounds. — The Timaru Agri- _ cultural and Pastoral Association had water » laid ou to their Show Grounds, Wai-iti road, *■ last week, and some drinking troughs '» erected. This improvement should prove a f boon to exhibitors of stock during show days, t and also prove useful m moro ways than one to other people. Artillery Band. — Tho Timaru Volunteer '■' Artillery Brass Band having had to go to cone siderable expense lately m one way or another, r intend to shortly make a canvass of the town a for private subscriptions, this being the only r resource they have of making both ends meet. , The result of their appeal should bo all that ■; they desire. 1 Alleged Larckny of a Watch. — A i- man named John Flynn was brought beforo v S. D. Barker, Esq., J.P., at Temuka on lm Saturday, m custody, and charged with stealing a silvor watch and chain, the property s of H. Mahanke, Temuka. Constable Morton, f stating that tho owner of tho property was d then uu'Jer Qxo iafluen.ee of drink and unable

to give evidenco, asked for the accused to be remanded until tho latter ond of noxt week. Accused stated that the watch and chain had been given to him by Mahanke. A remand was granted until Thursday next. Thb Latb Accidknt at Fairlie Crbbk. — At the inquest on Aloxandor Sutherland on Saturday a verdict of accidental death was returned. A report of tho proceedings will bo found elsowhere. So far as wo can ascertain tho docoascd was about 35 years of age, single, and has no friends m this district. Ho had up to the time of the accident been working some fivo or six weeks for Mr H. Whitaker, tho contractor for the Fairlie Creek extension. Parish of Tr Noawai. — The following resolution was passed by the Dioceian Synod on Friday, on tho motion of the Yen. Archdeacon Harper, seconded by Mr W. B. Howell— "1. That tho prayer of the petitioner!) of the Tc Ngawai District be granted, and the parochial district of To Ngawai bo constituted a parish. 2. That Mossrs William Barker Howcll, John Scott Rutherford, Wnlpole Chcsshyre Fendall, and William Beedell be appointed nominators for the parish." English Cable News. — The following special telegrams appeared m ihcPress: —"London, Oct. 11th. The Order of the Garter has been conferred upon the Duke of Argyle. — At the Newmarket meeting to-day the Middlepark Stakes were won by Lord Falmouth's Busybody ; Duke of Montrosc's Royal Arch, second ; Sir J. Willoughby's Hermit—Adelaide filly, third. The Champion Stakes resulted as follows ;— Mr Lefcvre's Tristan, 1 ; Duke of Hamilton's O.uiun, 2 ; Lord Falmouth's Dutch Oven, 3. — Many of the Austrian and German papers are advocating a systematic colonising of New Guinea by Germany. TRINITY PIiESDYTHRIAN CIIUHCH. — TllO anniversary services of this church were held yesterday, the Rev. D. Gordon, of Temuka, preaching morning and evening. The attendance at both services was very good. In the afternoon a special service wns held for the Sunday School children. A large number were present, and tho addresses given wore listened to with much attention. Tomorrow evening a sacred concert will bo held m the church, the admission to which will be free, but a collection will be taken m nid of tho funds of the church. The Wbatheh. — A southerly Btorm of considerable violence passed over tho Middle Island on Saturday and yesterday, and from Buncilin and WVllingtJn -n-e lmve news of cold and boisterous wonthcr. In Otago pome snow fell low down, and the extreme cold has played havoc among the lambs. Some little snow fell m Oninaru, find the wind there was very strong on Friday night. On Saturday tliero was not much wind m this neighborhood, but about midnight a powerful squall, with rain, came on, and it blew pretty constantly most of yesterday. Tliero is very little swell m the sea on this coast, but Captain Edwin's report states that it is very heavy on tho West Coast. 1.0.G.T. — The regular weekly meeting of the Lifeboat Lodge, No. 101, took place on Friday evoning, m the Oddfellows' Hull, Sophia, street, tho chair being occupied by Bro. T. Fogarty, W.C.T. There was a good attendance of members and visitors. The Lodge continues to maintain its prosperity, the number of members und the state of the finances being most satisfactory. The balance-sheet of tho anniversary was submitted and approved of, and a cordial vote of thanks was accorded to those who had given their services on that occasion. This was carried by acclamation, and the W.C.T. duly responded. Some further business having been transacted, tho Lodge formally closed at 9.30 p.m. Royal Flouring Mills. — A meeting of subscribers to the proposed Royal Flouring Mill' Company was held m Messrs Mac-lean and Stewart's "rooms on Saturday afternoon. About 25 persons were present, and Mr Bruce was voted to the chair. Mr Bruce having explained the present position of affairs, it wns moved by Mr Courtis, seconded by Mr A. Martin, and carried unanimously — " That this meeting having heard tho statement made, authorise tho Company to he at once registered under the Joint Stock Companies Act, with limited liability." This mode of proceeding having been discussed, it was pro> posed by Mr Meikle, seconded by Mr G. Laurie, ' and curried — " That Messrs W Moody, R. Stewart, and J. Bruce be a Committee to arrange tho necessary preliminaries, to get the Articles of Association drawn up, and any other business, and submit the same for approval to a meeting to be called foi next Saturday." T.A.P.A. — An ordinary monthly meeting of tho Committee of tho Timaru Agriculture' and Pastoral Association was held on Satur day. Present — Messrs Pringle, Talbot, Camp. bell, Goldio, Davie, Hardie, McLaron, McKay. Bnlfour, Aplin, Grant, Gunn and Stcphonson Mr Talbot was voted to the chair. After the minutes of last meeting had been read am: confirmed tho following correspondence was dealt with : — From Mr K. Sando, asking, oi behalf of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temp<sranc< movement, to be allowed to erect a small tent just inside the gates of the Show ground After some little discussion, it was resolved— " That the application bo refused." Fron Mr Samuel Mills, requesting permission k exhibit v. model of a sheep-dip at tho Show ; what fee he should have to pay for doing so ; nlso that he should like tho judgos to examine the model and express an opinion on it. It was decided to charge Mr Mills a fee of 6s, and to ask tho judges of sheep to inspect the model. Tho Secretary said that tho proprietors of tho Acme Barb Wire Factory hac: given a coil of wiro to the Association as a special prize. They left it with the Couv mittee to say what it should bo awarded for He believed" tho proprietors intended exhibit' ing thoir barbed wire at tho Show. Aftei consideration it was decided that the prize be given for tho best dairy cow Tho Secretary reported that one of the judges of light horses had written stating that he would not be able to attend the Show A list of names of gentlemen likely to act was then drawn up, and tho Secretary was requested to communicate with them. Some minor matters wero left to the Ground Committee to deal with, and after passing accounts amounting to £29 odd the meeting adjourned FARMEHS' CO-OPERATITE ASSOCIATION.— Tho third annual general meeting of the Cair torbury Farmers' Co-operativo Association was held on Saturday, when a satisfactory report and balance-sheet were submitted by the Directors. Tho balance-sheet ia explained m tho report and m the statement afterwards read by the Chairman. Tho gross turn ovei for the year was stated to be £81,366, oi which £52,740 represented transactions ir produce — 19,179 sacks of grain sold locally, and 19,217 sacks shipped, and 1022 bales wool— the balance, £28,626 representing sale! of merchandise to shareholders. The capita] now called up is £7738, an increase of £3626 during the year, but tho average for the yeai was only £5447, on which the profit for the yoar, £1-130 Js 3d, represents 26£ per cent. *A dividend of 7 per cent was eleclared, and the balance earriod to the reserve fund. Th« maximum dividend for tho future was fixed at 8 per cent. Neither tho Directors' report nor balance-sheet was discussed, tho Chairmau forgetting to invite remarks or questions, and putting the resolution to adopt both immediately he had concluded his own remarks, and tho rest of the business was quickly got through, tho resolutions to bo put having been all arranged beforehand. The vote of thanks to tho Chairman wa3 only moved as the meet> ing rose, and the usual vote of thanks to the Manager and staff, was quito forgotten, except by Mr Pigoon, who moved the vote, but m the confusion of the meeting breaking up no one hoard him except tho reporters. Emigration fob Mbdical Men. — The Medical Prtss and Circular says : — " The cry is so frequently raised that the profession of medicino is overstocked m this country, that any prospect of improved practice to be secured by emigration may be acceptable to a good many young men who are ' waiting for something to turn up.' In this connection it is interesting to learn that Australia offers advantages which cannot be exceeded at homo, if we may judgo from the roport of a transaction noted m tho Bendigo Independent, and by which a Dr Henry L. Atkinson, of Sandhurst, became tho possessor of au antipodean ostato m consideration of a money payment of £40,000. Wo are authoritatively informed that the gentleman m question proceeded to Australia some years ago as surgeon on board a. sailing vessel, and that tho whole of tho largo fortune ho now possesses has been accumulatec during bis prof.«iional career abroad- Sucl

an example may well commend itself to those ' who aro on the look out for openings hero ; cv J and whilst it says much that is highly credit- __ able to the perseverance and industry of tho — practitioner m question, it nlso indicates tho J? likelihood that others might fairly hope, with the exercise of similar qualifications, to gain at any rate a competence by tho exercise of ~ their profession." " Some years ago " is almost as indefinite a period when uttered by Australians as " once upon a time " was when used by the old nurses m our [f grandmothers' time. When an " old Colonel " uses the expression m relating his experiences ono takes it for granted that the dato m question may be any within tho previous quarter or third of a century. Possibly, therefore, the " some years ago from which the arrival 0 | of Dr Henry L. Atkinson dated, may menu a] tho year 1850. We believe tho Doctors m a Timaru aro driving a capital trade just c , now owing to the prevalence of various ■ affections or diseases such as whooping cough, >ronchiti3, low fever, etc , caused by changeable weather, bad smells, and so forth, and they might tell us how long it will take thorn, Cl provided the present good times (for them) continue, to be able to pay £40,000 m hard cash for an "antipodean" estate. We do not wish to see young medical men lured (. from the Old Country by falso or misleading statements, any more than wo do young lawyers. IIOW OCR MBAMNO IS CONVEYED TO Animals. — A correspondent writes to the t Spectator : — " The following anecdote may p interest some of your readers : — Some years (_ ago, when storting for a foreign tour, I f entrusted my little Scotch terrier, ' Pixie,' to j tho care of my brother, who lived about . three miles distant from my house. I was away for sir weeks, during the whole of which time ' Pixie ' remained contentedly at his new abode. The day, however, beforo I returned, my brother mentionod m the dog's hearing * that I was expected back the noxt day. Thereupon the dog started off, and 1 was found by me at my bedroom [ door the next morning, ho having been seen 1 waiting outside the house early m the morn- t ing when the servants got up, and been admitted by them. 'Pixie' is still alive and | flourishing, and readily lends himself to ex- | periments, which, however, yield no very , definite result. lie certainly seems to under- j stand as much of our meaning as it concerns ] his own comfort to understand, but how ho , does it I cannot quite determine. I should be sorry to aflirm, clever as lie is, that he underntnn'ds French and German, yet it is certainly a fact that he will fall back just aB readily if I say ' Zurilck ! ' as if I say ' To" hcol ! ' and advance to the sound 'En anant ! ' as well as to ' I [old up!' As m both cases I am careful to avoid any elucidatory gesture or special tone of voice, I am inclined to think that there must be here a, species of direct thought-transference. At the time I am bound to add that without the spoken word I am unable to convey the slightest meaning to him. This, however, may be due to what I believe to bo a fact, that it is almost impossible without word or gesture to formu'ate the will with any distinctness. If this theory bo correct, tho verbal sounds used would convey the speaker's meaning, not m virtue of tho precise sounds thomselves, but of the intention put into them by the speaker. I should be glad to know if the experience of others tends to confirm this theory, which I do not remember to haTe seen suggested before." A Remarkable Vessel. — A remarkable vessel was launched on August 16th from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs Hall, Russell and Co., Aberdeen. She is named the Churchill, and is of unique design. Under the auspices of the Natal Harbor Board, the harbor of Port Natal, which forms the outlet not only to the colony of Natal, but also to the rich and important districts of tho Transvaal and part of the Orange Free State, is being enlarged and deepened at great oxpense. The entrance to the harbor is obstructed by a bar of shifting sand, and the sea at the outor anchorage during an easterly gale is extremely heavy. The completion of tho- harbor works and consequent removal of the bar is expected to neutralise this source of danger by allowing Teasels of deep draught to enter the harbor. In the meantime, however, tho Harbor Board decided to build a eteam vessel suitable to the service of the port m its present state. The conditions were that the vessel should tow ships into and out of the harbor over the bar m all weathers j should be capable of acting as a very powerful fire engine ; of carrying large supplies of fresh water for the use of ships or troops ; of landing troops from transports too large to enter the harbor ; of succoring vessels m distress m the open sea ; of recovering the largo number of derelict anchors and cables of which it is estimated that threo hundred of the largest size lie along the coast, and lastly, of acting m times of need as a torpedo or coast-defeuce vessel. In tho Churchill these conditions aro believed to be fully met, one of the most novol features of tho vessel being a large Martin anchor carried upon an overhanging platform at the stern, to which is attached a heavy cablo. Tho looso end of this will bo passed by a rocket or other apparatus to ships m danger of drifting ashore, and the Churchill will steam seawards to drop the anchor as far as possible from the ghoro. Harvest Calendar of toe World. — Wo are all taught (says a Home pnper) that by reason of tho inclination of the earth's axis, the several seasons happen at different times m different portions of our globe, bo that seed-times and harvests do not correspond m the various zones. But probably fow persons realise that if all the harvest poriod3 of the world wore groupod together they would be found to occupy altogether more than threefourths of the whole year. As a fact, leaving out of sight altogether the equatorial and neighboring regions, "m which different seasons are actually contemporaneous, there are, perhaps, enly two months out of the twelve m which the harvest is not being actually gathered somewhere on the face of the earth. Thus, m tho greater part of Chili, portions of the Argentine Republic, Australia, and New Zealand, January is the harvest month. It begins m February m tho East Indies, going on into March as we come north. Mexico, Egypt, Persia, and Syria reap m April ; while Japan, China, Northern Asia Minor, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, and also Texas, do so m May. California, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sicily, Greece, and some of the southern departments of France gather the harvest m June. July is the harvest month for the greater part of France, for Austria, South Russia, and the greater part of the United States of America ; Germany reaps m August with England, Belgium, the Netherlands, part of Russia, Denmark, part of Canada, and the NorthEastern States of America ; September is tho time for Scotland, the greater part of Canada, Sweden, Norway, and tho northern midlands of Russia ; while tho harvest dr.igs on slowly throughout October m the most northern parts of Russia and tho Scandinavian peninsula. It would thus seem that November and December are tho only months which have not a place m tho harvest calendar of tho world. The Bad and Worthless aro novor imitated or countorfoited. This ia especially true of a family medicine, and it ia poaitivo proof that tho remedy imitated is of tho highest value. As soon as it had been tested and provod by tho wholo world that Hop Bittera waa the puroat, bost, and most valuablo family medioine on earth, many imitations sprung np and began to steal tho notices which the Press and tho pooplo of tho country had oxpressod tho merits of H. 8., and m overy way trying to induce suffering invalids to use their stuff 1 instead, oipecting to make money on tho '• credit and good name of H. B. Many others 'i atartod nostrums put up m similar stylo to H. g B. t with variously devised names, m which tho word " Hop " or " Hops " were used m a way 0 to induce people to boliovo they wore tho same v as Hop Bitters. All such pretended romodios 'f or cures, no matter what their stylo or name 1 is, and especially thoso with tho word " Hop " ' or " Hops "m their name, or m any way cone neetod with them or their namo, are imitations 0 or counterfeits. Boware of thorn. Touch g nono of thorn. Use nothing but genuine i» American Hop Bitters, with a bunch or cluster I- of groon Hops on a whito labol, and Dr. > Sonlo'B narao blown m tho glass. Trust c nothing elso. Druggists and Chemists are warned against dealing m imitations or ooun--0 terfeits.— [Advt.] (1) J- SYNOPSIS OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTa ir B. Turnbull and Son— Will sell household furniture a and effects on Wednesday, • 0 Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association —Are prepared to mako cash advances on wool, grain, etc., n lor shipment 10 B.C. Caledonian Society— General meeting this a evening at the Grosvenor Hotel, at 8 p.m. ° R. Mackay-Has ploughing and harrowing to let on r ' Rainclifl Btatlon. id W. R. O'Connell-Notiflfs shearing will commence :]j on Rolletby BUtioo od Koveotur 18th.

Presbyterian Church— Sacred concert to-morrow evening. Lost- One notico.