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Waipawa Mail, Volume XVIII, Issue 3266, 13 August 1895, Page 2

The public works committee of the Wellington City Council decided to bring forward a motion that inquiries be made as to whether tho Corporation have pow.er to establish a Chinese quarter, and if not that steps be taken to obtain that power, and compel the Chinese to occapy such a quarter as' in Melbourne and other large centres.

Mr W. H. C;rdew, gunmaker, Napier, calls attention, in another colamn, to the fact that ho .is now booking orders for the 189 S season. Sportsmen requiring a really good weapon at a very reasonable price would do well to communicate with him at once. Mr Cardew has also on hand a variety of ladies’ and gents’ bicycles to be sol>i* for cash or upon the time payment systech.

One thousand three hundred and fifty five Canadian physicians were recently • asked if general health would be itajlroved by total abstinence, .and 106& replied in the affirmative- Out of 1340 who replied to a* qaestion on moderato drinking, 901 skid that the use of intoxicants, even in moderation, is injurious.to health, and to an active condition of body and mind. A public meeting convened by tho Christchurch Prohibition League,to con "sid'er the Licensing Bill was held last night. The following resolution wa 6 carried :—“ That this meeting regards the . prominent features of the new Licensing Bill ak Undemocratic and unfair, in its refusal to submit to fhe*people .without restriction the fate of the drink trade, and in its cuuniug devices tp ensure the splitting of the temperance vote.”

.In the lisj of cargo on board -the steamer Thermopylae, whiCb'left Sydney for Lou don was an unusual item. It is “25 tons of Canadian salmon,” which has been transhipped- frond the Vancouver rriail* steamer, has~bg%u*cariie<i aespss the Paci fit from British Columbia, and consigned to English ’market. By the time it reaches London''this salmon will have been conveyed nearly 20,0C;0 milea.by sea. * It is said that the rabbits are not-near’y so plentiful, or rather .that they are very scarce, ia the Oamaru district now. 'Three Oamaru sports went opt a day or two sinoe, an 1 although they got all they s*w, only brought in seven. They say that where they need to find the rodents by hundreds, and even by thodsands, scarcely one is to be seen now. This is certainly good nows, for not long since it was add that they were overrunning the whole of the Oamaru district?**"’ . _ At the Woodville sales on Friday the entry was smaller than Usual. - The demand was chiefly for young stock, all yarded being sold under the hammer at a slight advance on sellers* expectations. Cattle—2£ year steer*. £3-* 10-3; yearling to 18-month steer, £2 6s; weaners (small) £1 63; 20 month empty heifers, £2 14j. Sneep— Old ewes, 4s 31 ; hoggets (small and inferior), 2s 7J. Pigs—Weaners And slips, 53 91. ■ - ' The Oakland. Tribune, a Californian * paper, recently published particulars of a long speech by Major Pearce, who had just returned from his travels in Britain and the East, where be had been inspecting the various manufactories of the countries he visited. The conclusion he draws from what he saw is that British and American goods will soon be shut oat of the Asiatic markets by Japanese and Indian goods, which are made of better quality and a quarter of the price of the white men’s goods. ’ From an advertisement in another colamn it will be seen that the standardbred trotting stallion, Allan Dale, will do stud duty in this district during the coming season. An American gentleman, writing to Mr Nolan, thus refers to Allan Dale :—He leaves 16 hand horses, all catgut and pinwire, greatTjoints and feet, and legs like steel. Mated with heavy mares he gets handsome and stylish horses, and with well bred mares stock of great size and beauty. Full particulars as to terms, &c., will be found injhe announce ment.

At the meeting of the County Councils Conference on Saturday, Mr M‘Nab moved that with a view to affording local bodies immediate relief the Government bo asked to amend the Counties Act in the direction of giving those bodies power to borrow mouey for the purpose of paying off their overdrafts ; also that as soon as each a body has extinguished its overdraft it shall not be lawful for it to incur liabilities of the same description to an amount which exceeds the anticipated revenue at that particular period. As all members were not present the debate was adjourned. Protection is by its advocates held out as a boon to the working mao, increasing the employment open to him. How it actually affects the working man in this direction ia shown by some recent figures given in the report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for Victoria, where Protection has been rampant. In 1890 there were 47,813 persons employed in registered factories. In 1894 there were only 34,268. In four years the industries which have been protected to the hilt have ceased to fiud employment for upwards of 13,000 workers.

A remarkable report comes by the steamer Mount Kembla from Fiji. It is no less than that the crime of murder perpe t rated by the coolies who go to Fiji from Calcutta to work on the plantations is on the increase, and what is astounding ie that tho condemned murderers treat the death sentence with thip utmost indiff-rence. At a caee tried fofew days before the steamer left for Sydney the following occurred :—ln answer to the inquiry, “ Have you anything to say ? ’ the Hindoo said “ All right.” The prisoner’s counsel then rose and stated that be had questioned the man in gaol with reference to the mu.der, and he had replied toat he was quite prepared to be hanged*, as he wished to go to Calcutta, and he considered that was the quickest way to get there. One of the largest frozen meat carriers nfliut is now on the way from London to Q lotnsland via Torres Straits to load m-'-at, wool, &c.—a steel vessel named the Rakaia, of 5600 tons, the latest addition to tho New Zealand Shipping Co.’s line. She is equal to the carriage of 121,000 frozen carcases of mutton in her refrigerating space. The Rakaia will not visit New Zealand on her present trip, but will, it is expected, be here in time for tho approaching wool season. She was ex pacted to leave London for Queensland on 3rd July.

The death is annonneed of Mrs Glover, well known to old Glasgow people as a theatrical manager in that city. One of her sods, Robert, played in Auckland and Dunedin in the early seventies, when he was associated with the late J. P. Hydes, “Jimmy ” South, J. Thorpe and Launcelot Booth. Bob ” Glover also supported the late Bi ly ” Hoskins. He married Miss Jessie Raymond in Auckland and the couple came to Dunedin shortly after. They toured the conatry towns with a scratch company. Amongst the company were two ambitious amateurs, one of whom is now a member of the Hoose of Representatives. The Glovers have been actors since tho time of Charles If., and a G.'over is now proprietor of the Prince’s Theatre, West Nile street, Glasgow.

At the Court yesterday morning, before Messrs S. Johnson and A. St. Ciair In«lis, Justices, Ada Maud Carver was charged with endeavouring to obtain money by falsa pretences. Accused who was represented by Mr pleaded guilty and asked to be treated under the Probation

Aot. It was, however, found that t B rich had no power to deal with t offence under that Act, as accused bad 0 received the money. She wm scoteoc to three hoars’ imprisonment. The c camstanoes of the case were as follow* A person signing as “ Miss Blanche Bey wrote to Mr Sydney Johnston, Tskap, stating that she was raising a subscript;, in aid of a widow with nine childre, that the case was a very argent one ; tfc she had received £i 10a 6J at her Sand, school in earns of 61 each from \\ 'scholars ; she had given lCs herself and friend ss, and all contributions would | acknowledge J in the Mail, if desired, ; the recipient of the letter was doubts] to its authenticity, he referred it to t| almoner of the Charitable Aid Board, « at onoe saw it was fraudulent, as no case had occurred in Hawke’s* Bay, h] handed it.to the police for further inve« gation, by whom the letter waa .traced the prisoner.