MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3590, 2 April 1886, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Governor Treland writes a glowing account of the progress of Texas. Containing an area of 274,000 square miles its population has risen from 50.C00 m 183(i to two millions and a half m 1885 ; while the assessed value of its property is 120 millions sterling. It has twenty million acres of mineral lands, comprising iron, coal, copper, lead and silver ; it ha 9 forty-six million acres of fores!, with 191 varieties of timber ; it hns 7300 miles of railway, and twelve million head of live ttock maintain themselves on 353 varieties of grasses. Therefore the Governor invites all tho world to como and share with its population the blessings of Texus.

In a lecture recently delivered at Glasgow the Duie of Argylo said : — " In the last yearof his life Mr Darwin did mo the honor of calling upon me m London, and I had a long and interesting conversation with that distinguished observer of nature. In the courco of conversation I said it w.13 impossible to look at the wonderful processes of nature which he had observed without Bating tlint, they were tho effect and expression of mind. I shall never forget Mr Darwin's answer. He looked at mo hard, and said, ' Well, it often cornea over me with overpowering force, but at other times (and lie shouk his head) it seems to go away.' "

The Argus thus comments upon Sir Busden's history: — "Mr Busden adopted with new points, which must be his own, all tho stories told by tho 'goody-goodies' of New Zealand, tho ultra missionary or extreme Kxeter Hall party there to tho detriment of the average settlor and the ordinary British officer. It is a fixed idea with thesj curious creatures that the man of colour can do no wrong, and that the Englishman m tho colonies, civilian or soldier, is a monster. In days of peace the settler is supposed to bo plundering and cheating tho aborigine?, and m time of war he is represented as taking naturally to tho massacre of men, women, and children. The whole conception is a monstrous libel npon colonists, who as a rule are as just, as humane, and as forbearing as those Englishmen who do not emigrate, and it ought above- all to shock a colonist." But Mr G. W. Rusden, who is a very old colonist, throw himself into the arms of the detractors, and for the first time put their scandals into what purported to be a history. Pages that might with advantago havo been given to a description of the Poverty Bay atrocities, to accounts of how the bodies of the slain whites were mutilated, how their heart's blood was sucked, and their heads trailed through Maoriland on poles, and to arguing how a tight hand on the tribes was necessary, were dovoted to bottomless charges and unworthy insinuations against the white man who was fighting m self-defence."

Highway Robbery Almost, to sell tho poisonous, drunken, purging stuff as medicine to honest men, innocent women, and harmless children to weaken and destroy their systems and health, when pure harmless Hop Bitbera can bo had that cures always and oontinually at a trifling cost. Ask druggists, or physicians. Read [Advt.]