A PENSION FOR SIR HARRY ATKINSON.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 7325, 28 January 1891, Page 2

A PENSION FOR SIR HARRY ATKINSON.

Till! organß of tho landgrabbere and monopolists are advocating the claims of tho hilo Premier to a pension. We can fancy tho yell of virtuous indignation tlioEO same people would give vent to if tho Liboial Party were to mention sucb 1 wold as "pension " in connection with any of their pust, present, or future leaders i The attempt to draw a parallelism bctwocn tho case of Bichard Cobdeu and Sir Harry Atkinson is vory woak. Cobden ruined himself by leaving ono of tbo beat paying commercial houses in which ho was 11 partner, and our respected totvnanmti, JXr Francis Sheriff, now mi oclogonarmn, the houd, to fight the battle of tho poor, whose bieud wiib being taxed. Sir Harry on the oilier hand made politics the business of his lifo and has had to retire broken in health and poor in pocket. Ho fought for tho uch ; Cobden for tho poor. Wo fcol every Bjmp ithy for Sir Harry and sorry that his affairs shou'd have turned out co ill; but wo do not think ho has any claim to a pension indoed no would be much grieved to see him humiliated by tho oilor ot one. 'Iho Conservatives never tiro of singing his praises. Let them put their hands in their own pockets, and ronard him for tho yoars ho has served them. They can afford to make him a present of such a sum aa would keep him in his presont sphero of life, without feeling it Aro they genorous enough to do bo ? Oiaro (heir pmisos empty words, mid the solo reward they have to offer a man who has sacrificed health and fortuno to enrich his patrons? We are al'iaid Sir H.irry will find Iho common cxDciionco and that his rich friends aro dovoid of generosity and forgcllul of post services. Ho did a wronc aw' a fooli«h thing whon ho cut down Mmistciiul salaries, and he is now Buffering from his own folly. Tho country was quito willing to pay its Ministers at the old rate, and ha» no wish to beggar thoae who devote their time and talents to its affairs.

Government have decided, says a Pi ess wire, that after the Ist Feb. tbo goldflrldi allowancoto tho police shall be discontinued. Mr T. Morrison has been re-elected chairman of tho Press Gallory of the House of Representatives. Mr A. Cohon ban been elected vice-chairman. The Hon. W. J. M. Larnaoh was man isd at St. Paul's Wellington yesterday afternoon to Miss Constance Do Bathe Brandon, eldest daughter Into A. Do JBivmtloa, M.L.C. Lord Aneram, A.D.C. to tho Karl df Jersey, Ohncrnor of New South Wales, purposes to loave Sydney in a few da} a on a visit to New Zealand. Bishop Moran hasrecched a cable staling that Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, Bishop Moore, of BalUrat, and Dr Uiggins, Auuhary Bishop ol Sydney, left for New Zealand yesterday. Messrs Hatnclv nnd Co. advertise tbtifc they ha\e just landed larzc shipments of conwacks, English and Colonial rye grass seed, clovers, and other lines 'Jho fimi aho hi their advertisement cull tho nttontion o£ fanners to the fact th.it they aro the largest purchasers of grain and Hour produce of all descriptions on the coast By train this morning, tlio following marksmen arrived from camp at Napier .—. — Private Pui-noll, City Rifles ; SergeantMajor McLean, Troopers Coghill, and Thorpe, Wairoa L. H. j and Trooper Strachan, Alexandra Cavalry, Tho romaindcr of tho Wangamu Kcps arrived byaftoruoou tiain. The following arc the amounts paid over by tho Wellington Racing Club in connection with their lato Summer Mooting. — ■ Mr G. Hunter, iTiOS ."s ; Mr J. Paul, £199 10s; Messrs M. and C. Hobbs, Cir>2 ; Mr J. D. Ormond, £99 15; Mr G. P. DonoJh, £71 ss; Mr P. Laneral, £60 10s; Ah- 1). Rutherford £0G 10<! ; Mr A Lloyd, isa ss; Mr W.C.Webb, £23 15s. Smaller amounts £137 15s. Total £1430 10s. Tho Chroniclo b^ tlie aid of " a facetious correspondent" — no one suspects itof being able to perpetrate n joko on its own nocoiint — tries to be funny at our expense. Tin 1 joke in question was a sorry 'uu, us the uiunaii in question is more typical of our local contemporary than of the now Al misty, which has a much firmer footing than the Chroniclo cares to acknowledge, hence its tears — " Crocodilo's tears ?" An important notico to farmers from tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, re new season's grass seeds and corn sacks, appenrs in another column Tho Company offer a largo variety of seeds for an intending purchaser to ehcoso fio n, and asonly tho primest aro kept satislaetoiy results from those giving them a trial aro alwoßt certain to follow. Settlers aro complaining bitterly of tho continual sheep worrying that is going on around Wanganui, One sheep owner on No. 1 lino had several valuable sheop killed a lew nights since by dogs, and is determined t» trace them lo their owner-, and mako the ljttor pay for their depredations. It is not only the great loss ot sheep actually killed by these wretched ours settlers have to complain of, as the fright HlO other sheep get fiom being chased about the ptddocL> does them a lot of barm and causes some of them to dio afterwards At the conclusion of the last parado of the D. Battery of Artillery, Wellington, Quartermaster-Sergeant C. Robinson «as the recipient of a handsome tea and coil'co service by the Battery. Mr Hobinson, who was greatly surprised, thanked tho donois in a few appropriate and feeling words. Mr Robinson, who has beon connected with the Battery for the past 12 years, it is about to leave for Auckland. The presentation w.is made by Captain Moorhouse on behalf ot tho Battery. A Martini-Henri carbine was also presented to Mr Robinson for lorg service. Tho recipient is a son of Mr Charles Robinson, of Wanganui. Tho Pope haa announced his intention of conferring the seat in the Sacred College rendered vacant by the death of Cardinal Newman upon Mon»ignor Edmund Stonor This gentleman 13 the son ot the late Lord Camoys, and uncle of the present peer. Tho Stonors aio one of the oldest Catholic families inEughnd, and a direct ancestor of the new cardinal took his place in the ilouae ot Lords as a b.vron in tho reign of Biehaid 11. Mooaignor Edmund Stonor, a Canon of St John's Lateran, was raised to the Archbishopric of Trebuond by Leo XIII., and thiee of hui sisters entered nunnenes. He is a great favonte as well as a considerble power at the Vatican. Ihu immediate rause of his elevation to the Sacred College is ttie diminution of the number of English cardinals by the death of Cardinal Newman, and the hopeless mental condition of Cardinal Howard.

Sir W. Fitzherbort has not improved lately, and his condition is considered serious. Loid Onslow paya a vi->it to the Aniwa tribo shortly aftor parliament is prorogued, and will probably mako a tour of tho Westland mining district, accompanied by the Hon. Mr Scdilon. Tho desirability of calling Sir Maurice O'Korke to tho Legislative Council, in mow of the probablo retirement of Sir Frederick Whitaker and tho Hon. Dr Pollen, 19 being discussed by the Cabinet. At Nolson yesterday, the Picturesque Atlas Co wore plaintiffs in a case that excited eonndorable interest. Tho defence w.19 that defendant verbally agreed for only a portion of the wark. Judgment given for plaintiffs for full amount and costs. Dr Haeusler v at present in Wanganui making a collection ot tertiary fossils for tho Zurich museum. He has arranged exchanges with Mr Drew,and is to send ethnological specimens illustrative ot the Swiss lake dwollers and early Kom.in remains. Mr A. J. Burns, himself a descendant of Burns tho poet, mentioned ac a Burns' dinuor at Dunedin thattherowereat present lineal descendants of Tarn O'Shanter in tho colony. One grandson was still alive in Christchiivoh, and gloried in reciting tho poem on every occasion. A sad ease comes to us from the North On loth December, Miss Margharette Burgess waß married to Sir Alfred Tindall, of Waharoa and on the 28th of tho same month, orjust thirteen clays after marriage, tho bride died suddenly, aged twenty-on^ years. Entries for all classes for the Agi {cultural and Pastoral Association's grand Autumn show close with Mr I. X .Tucloon (hou. 6C0.), at nino o'clock to night. Tho privileges in conmWion wilh the Show will bo cold on Saturday by Motors F. R. Jacksen and Co. On Friday last Air F. J. Moss, the rocontly appointed New Zoland Resident for Parotonga, left for Wellington to interview tho Governor and Ministry on business in connection with tho affairs of tho Hervoy Group, and tho reforms which ho is instituting thero. News received at Chrhtcburch by cable from Vhe Agent-Gonornl announces tho death of Mr F. J. Stoudmun, who occupied tho pOBt of Registrar at tho Canterbury College for fourteen years. Ho left for JDnglund last yoar, owing to ill-health, and to secure medical advice. Tho nows of his decease 1a received with tho deepest regret, feovcral pugilist passengers left by tho hist trip of tho Alameda for 'Frisco. Iko Weir, the American feither-woight, is returning home to tho States from a trip to Austialia. Three Australian members of the ring aro going to try thoir luok in San Fianoisco, namoly, Abo Willis (champion bantam-weight of Australia), " Shadow " Alabor and Jim Hull (tho well-known light and middle-weights respectively.) Three femalo prisoners were brought down by tram yostorday. Their names wero : — Caroline Bridge, sentenced to throe months' imprisonment for vagrancy by tho Palmciston Bench ; Jano M. Fabling, fined £5, in default one month for being tho kcepor of a houso of ill-fnmo; and Alice Kenny, sentenced to 14 da} s' imprisonment for vagrancy, also 14 days for living in a liouso of ill-fame Tho two latter prisoners wero sentoaced by tho Feilding Bench, and tho trio shortly aftor arrival were accomodated with quarters at Wanganui Gaol. A meeting of working men was held al Lyltolton on Saturday, to consider the rules buggestod by tho sub-Committee of tho Stevedores' Association Tho meeting agreed to the rules in the mam, and suggested one or two minor matters by which the position between masters and men could bo placed on a bettor footing Only members of the proposed Association will be employed, and the rules provide for a sick and accident fund, to bo started by n donation of JL'SO from the oinulojcrs, and kept going by donations of Is per month fiom tho men. At tho Colonial Institute on Tuesday, Lord Carrington read bis pnper on "Australia." Thero wasalargcattendanco; ami the Prince of Wulcs presided. Lord Carnngton Baid Imperial Federation was a beauttlul und suggostivo proposal, but there wero many difficulties in tho way, and it would bo bettei 1 to dr-^w tho colonies to Kngland with, cords of love, leaving them to their own ww T ay«. Nationalism need not impair the loyalty of tho colouie*. 'llio colonials know that England would regard the invasion of Australia as sho nould the landing of a foreign enemy in Kent. To enable the colonists to fool that tbry belonged to tho British community, colonial indgos ought lo bo appointed on thejudieial Committee of thePnvy Council, and Chief Justices ought to receive life peoragos 'l'ho tillo o£ honourable ought to be 'ecogmied everywhere, and duo preccilenco allotted to governors, bishops, and ludges. Statesmen should bo members of tho Privy Council. He advised reciprocity between the Knglish and colonial bar, and extension of fucihtlos for the invostmont I ot trust funds. ! Georgo Bancroft, Ph. D., L.L D , D.C.L , j whoso doath was cabled on 18th January I fiom Washington, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, October 3, ISOO, enteiod Harvard College m 1813, and graduated in ! 1817. Almost immediately afterwards ho went abroad for five years, during which 1 time ho travelled through the greater part ' of Europo. He receivod tho degree of Ph : D. at Gottcngen in 1820, and returned to * America in 18.-!2. A year later ho founded 1 tho Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts, in conjunction with Dr ■ CoggswoH, noted a* tho organiser of the . Aator Library in Now York. Tha same . 1 oar ho published a volume of poems and ) began collecting materials for his history of • tho United States tho first volume of w Inch appeared m 183 d In lblo, Mr Polk being elected president, ho eiitced tho Cabinet as Secietary to tho Navy. In 14G ho was sent 1 as minister to Great Britain, where he was successful in urging upon the British Government tho adoption of more liboral nivigation laws. In 1867 ho was appointed } Minuter to Prussia, and in 1808 was ac- ' credited to the North German Confederation, and in 1871 to tho German F-inpire. \ Ilia luteat publication was a plea for the constitution of the United States. Ho was ' 00 ycara of age at tho time of death.

A young man named Alfred Jackson, 20 1 eai s of ayo, has been committed for trial at Oran<?e, New South Wales, on a chargo of

having murdered a Chinaman named Ah Suo to fur back as in November 1885. lfenry Small, half brother to the accused, 111 gn ing ovidonco Bind that on tho day of (ho murder tho piisoner took an Knfield ridoout ol! lua parents' house, and said that lit- was going to sell it to a Chinaman who was acting 119 a shopherd at Brandy oreok. Soon atterwards tbo witnoss heard a report, and caw Jackson conio running home. Ho told tho witness and his sister that he had (aken a shot at a Chinaman not thinking that he would hit him. fie poured some water down the barrel of the gun, sons to hide the traces of its having been recently fired, and threatened to kill witness and his sister ll they told what had occurred. When tho police came next day to make enquiiies the accused was very nervous, and Kept cutting at a stick all tho time tho polico were talking to him in order lo hide his nervousness. After the police hud gone the accused said that ho shot the Chinaman bec.iuso he would not buy the gun. Jossie Small, aged 10 a sister of tho last witnoss, gavo corroborative evidence.

On SatuuUy morning tho charterers of the tcuttlod ship Leading Wind, opened tenders for raising the vessel from her subineiged position, oil Fieemau's Bay, Auckland. The tender of Mr R. 8. Bigelow, at it price ot i2OO, ujb accepted. The contractor losi. no time in making a start, and during the day sent up the scow Lake St. CJair, with a powerful pump, and madg her fast alongside the ship. A diver went down and examined the holes in tho ship's hull, nith a view to plugging them up. Pumping operations were begun at an early hour on Monday morning, and it was anticipated that bi-fore nightfall the vessel would be so far clear of water as to bo nfioat, when she will bo towed alongside one of the wharves. On Satuiday and Sunday evening at high tide, the water was quite above the vessel's bulwarks and poop, the ouly portion of her hull visible being the top of the galley and poop-rails. As soon as the ship 13 safely raised and berthed, operations will at once be commenced to discharge her submprged cuigo. The flax will probably be sold by auction on behalf cf whom it may concern, but as tho gum is not likely to bo affected bj the water, recasing will perhaps be all that is required. When all is clear, and the vessel repairtd and cleaned, •»,' new cargo will be shipped with all available desputoh.

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