COMMERCIAL.

Ashburton Retail List.

The Christchurch. Corn Exchange. The following is the report for the week end ing Friday, the 22nd inst:— There is no change to report in the state of the market during the past week. The busi ness that is being done is purely a hand-to jnouth one. The crops in all parts of the country are looking extremely well. Copious rains have fallen all over the country. Up to the present time harvest prospects are ex ceptionally good. ■ Wheat. —First class milling is still in request, and sales have been effected at 4s 6d, f.o.b. in Lyttelton,, for this quality. Good sound mill ing, average quality, 4s to 4s 3d in Christ church ; second quality, 3s 3d to to 3s 6d ; chick, 2s to 3s per bushel. Oats. —Good stout milling oats are being in quired for at from is 6d to is 8d per bushel. Feed parcels are also saleable at from is 3d t° is 4d per bushel. Holders seem rather disin clined to part for the money offered, but there is no advance obtainable on these prices. In ferior feed parcels is to is 2d per bushel. Barley.—There is very little business doing in this grain. Brewers and maltsters are now fully supplied, and are very indifferent. No thing but the primest samples will tempt them. There is little or no inquiry for shipment; prices have not altered, although sales are difficult to effect. Prime malting, 2s 8d to 33 6d per bushel ; second class samples, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; feed, is 6d to is qd per bushel. Grass seed.—A few small parcels are still moving off at from 2s 6:1 to 2s lod per bushel, the latter figure for really well cleaned heavy seed. Samples which have been recleaned in town 3s to 3s 3d per bushel ; badly cleaned light seed Is gd to 2s 3d per bushel. Potatoes. —There is no alteration to note in the state of the market. Supplies are abun dant. whilst buyers are few and prices low. Small transactions are taking place at prices between 12s 6d and 15s per ton, sacks extra. Cheese and Butter—The market is well sup plied with the former, while the demand is sluggish at from 4d to 4)4d. The same re marks are applicable to the latter at from to 6d.

Auctioneers’ Report

STOCK. Messrs. H. Matson and Co. report on the live stock market, ex., for the week ending Thursday, October 2ist, iSSo, as follows : For yesterday’s market a small supply of mutton was again penned, the bulk being sent to hand out of the wool. There is no doubt but that shearing operations are the cause of the falling off in the supply for the past fort night, but, the clipping'season over, we do not anticipate such a “ rush” of fat sheep as some are apt to imagine. The rain we are now getting must cause such an abundance of feed as has not been seen in the country for some years, and with the difficulty of procuring store stock, sheep, especially marketable lines of mutton, will in many instances be held over to keep down jjhe pastures. There was an average attendance at yesterday’s auction, and mutton, both shorn and in the wool, met with a ready sale at an advance upon last week’s rates, is per head being perceptible in some lots. Still, considering the limited amount of fat sheep penned, there was an absence of any keen competition, and several lots were unsold. Shorn crossbreds ranged Irom ps to 13s; woollys, 13s to 16s. The entry in stores was confined to a line of 600 hoggets, which we placed at 10s lod, and a few small lots of ewes and lambs, which sold from 8s fid to 13s 6d. The fat cattle sale represented a very large supply of prime beef, for which there was a dull and dragging trade. About two-thirds only of the entry was cleared, and prices may be quoted 5s to 10s per head under last week’s rates. We sold steers L 8 to Lio; heifers, &c., L 5 xos to Ly 10s. The store cattle market was the largest of the our entry alone comprising over 300 head. For quality and evenness of classes they were above the average, and with several good buyers present most of the Tots were cleared with a quick sale at improved and satisfactory prices. The total yarded for the day comprised 4482 sheep, 720 head of cattle, and 52 pigs, of which our entry included 1432 sheep, 298 fat lambs, 413 head of cattle, and 17 pigs, for Messrs. Jno. Grigg, H. T, Smith, and others. The market was glutted with lamb, but it was very difficult to quit any but the best quality. HORSES. On Saturday last we held our usual weekly sale at Tattersall’s, submitting an entry of 103 horses, in addittion to drays, harness, etc., Taking the sale throughout, it was one of the most satisfactory we have held for some months. ASHBURTON —LAND, STOCK, ETC. At the opening sale of our new premises, Ashburton, we catalogued about 80 horses, 15 sets harness, 3 wagons, and 1 dray, out of which we succeeded in disposing of about 40 of the horses at from L 4 for a screwed hack to 45 guineas foi a draught horse. We also sold 9 sets harness at from 30s to L2 5s fid per set; 1 waggon at Ll 4 10s. Greater animation in the horse market than we anticipated. On Friday, 15th, at Ashburton, a large quantity of land was offered by our Mr. Walton, at the opening sale of the new firm of Matson, Cox and Co. There was a very large attend ance, but the biddings were not very active. The following were sold : —Lease T. H. Taylor’s farm, Wakanui, for L 495, to Mr. Mullins; lot 4, L 25, r rood, S. B. Nelson; 25, Ll2 ids, do. Lancaster; 26, 27, 28, 31, Ll2 each, do, E. G. Crisp ; 72, 73, 74, 75, L 4 5s each, do. D. Thomas ; 90, L 5 10s, J. Clark; 91, L 5 ss, do.; 92, L 5, do.; 90 and 94, L 4 15s each, Lancaster; 95 and 96, L 4 12s fid each, E. G. Crisp; 97, 98, 99, L 4 12s fid each, Moors head ; 100 to 103, L 4 15s each, E. G. Crisp. Town sections —No. 785, Peter street, L 53, R. Potter; 155, Tinwald, Ll 6, J. Clark. Rural sections —25199, Hinds, Li 10s per acre, P. Grant ; 33458, do, do, J. Clark. Since this sale we have leased the farm adjoining Taylor’s, known as Hunt’s, containing 96 acres, at L2 per acre. We have also disposed of lot ir, plan of Rev. Mr. Hale’s land, Lower Pligh street, near East Town Belt, containing 1 rood 16 perches, for L3OO. There are numerous purchasers of well situated land at fair rates, but fancy values are not obtainable. To-mor row, Saturday, 23rd inst., we hold a most im portant and varied sale of carefully selected sections of land in the estate of the late T. M. Hassal. This will no doubt be a good test of the present state of the land market.

DAILY MEMORANDA.

AUCTION SALES. To-morrow, Saturday, October 23. Quill and Co., at their Mart, Saunders’ Buildings, and Yards adjoining —Furni- ture, Horses, Pigs, Poultry, Book Debts. 12 o’clock. Alfred Harrison, Consignment of Station-

ery. T. Bullock, at his Rooms, East street, at 1 o’clock —Landed property.

MEETINGS, AMUSEMENTS, &o. To-Night, Friday, October 22. Caledonian Society, Meeting of members,

7.30 p.m. Concert, Kyle Schoolroom, 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 26. Amateur Dramatic Club, Town Hall, at 8 sharp.

DEATH.

MaoLauchlin. —At Tinwald, on the 22nd October, the result of an accident, John MacLauchlin, farmer, aged 54. Funeral from Tinwald at 2.30 on Sunday. Friends invited.

TOWN EDITION. [lssued at 5 p.W.]

The Ashburton Guardian. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1880. The Ashburton Magistracy.

The siluation has at last been defined in regard to the Ashburton Magistracy, and Mr. Guinness has received definite orders, by telegraph, to proceed to Collingwood, his place on the Ashbur ton bench being supplied by Mr. Nugent Wood, an Otagan magistrate and goldfields warden. No appoint ment will be made to the district vacated by Mr. Wood, whose jurisdic tion will be divided between the Inver cargill and Lawrence Magistrates; while the present Collingwood Resi dent Magistrate—Mr. A. Le Grand Compbell—retires altogether. These arrangements save the cost of at least one R.M. to the colony, without inter fering with the efficiency of the public service.

A Shilling a Bushel.

The year 1880 will be remembered unpleasantly in future by the farmers — especially those of them who had a heavy crop of oats, and the recollec tion of crop 1880 will perhaps cause many of the bitten ones to make a wry face. Men having no oats to sell in a bad market could afford to joke over the low price the chief element of porridge and horse-flesh brought this year, and to say that every “ drink ” a farmer took was the liquidation of half a bushel of oats. The joke was a grim one, and there are those, we dare say, who may enjoy it; but to the man who had toiled all the season through. and had to sell his oat crop at such a terrible sacrifice, the joke meant really “ laughing at his calamity.” But there are two sides to every picture, and this picture of calamity has fortunately shown itself to have a bright side as well as a dark one. The exceed ingly low price of oats in New Zealand tempted some experimental exporta tion, and, we are glad to say with the best results. Private letters received by the last mail speak in most glowing terms of the popularity of New Zealand oats at Home, and the comparatively small quantity that has reached the old country has already established a name for the colony that- must tell on future exports. Both growers and meal millers have opened their eyes in won der at the splendid samples of New Zealand oats that have been put into their hands, and one correspondent writing from Scotland, the great coun try of “ aitmeal,” says he never saw more “sonsie aits” in all his life. Information like this comes like balm to a wound, for it points to a new, wide, and profitable outlet for a cereal that has hitherto been a drug in the market here; and an abundant crop, meant a loss. The loss on oats will be a thing of the past, for that corn will now be exported as regularly as wheat, and if care is taken to send home only good samples, and thus retain the good name gained, a ■ price as high as that obtained for wheat may easily be secured for oats.

A Correction.— Mr. G. W. Andrews writes to say that he was not the defend ant in the case, James v. Andrews, a suit for wages hoard, in the R.M. Court last Tuesday. Drowned. — A man named Carpenter was drowned at Grey mouth, from the Alma, on Wednesday morning. He had been walking from the vessel to the wharf and fell over.

The Recent Murders. —The general opinion in Wellington is that the law must take its course with the Kyeburn mur derer, Ah Lee, and the Fijian, Joe, and they will both be hung. District Court. The Clerk to the District Court has been advised by the Under-Secretary for Justice that on and after Ist November next sittings of the above Court for civil busi ness will be held as follows :—ln the Town Hall, at Ashburton on the first day of every month ; in the Provincial Council Chamber, at Christchurch, on the fifth day of every month. Gold Mining In the North.—Govern ment have resolved to open 50,000 acres of land at Te Aroha as a gold mining district, under the Act of 1873. Mr. Whitaker has arranged with Mr, Wilkin son, Native agent at the Thames, to con clude an agreement with the Natives for mining on their reserves. It is expected that arrangements will be cjmplete in about a fortnight. Several discoveries of auriferous quartz have been made, and claims are already pegged off. The new g Idfield adjoins the land sold to Messrs. Grant and Foster.

The Lyttelton Regatta. —The Lyttel ton Regatta Committee have adopted a programme, giving prizes of the total value of 1312.

The Heathcote Racing Club. —The programme for Boxing Day races, con tains seven events, the principal event being the Heathcote Cup, LIOO.

The District J ddges. —The following appointments . are gazetted : —Charles Dudley Robert Ward, barrister, of Timaru, to be District Judge for the districts of Dunedin, Otago Goldfields, and Western Otago, from the Ist pros., vice G. W. Harvey. Lowther Broad, barrister, to be District Judge for the district of West land from the Ist prox., vice T. S. Weston. Francis Dart Fenton, barrister, to be deputy of the District J udge of the Dis trict Court of Auckland.

A Hard Case. —Before Mr. F. Guin ness, this morning, two children, sons of the well-known Pat Dunn, were brought up under the provisions of the Neglected and Criminal’Children Act. Dr. Trevor, who gave evidence, stated that the father of the children was in the lunatic asylum, and the mother, with several other child ren, was living on the charity of neigh bors. She was perfectly unable to take proper care of the whole family. Mrs. Dunn, the mother of the children, stated she was in receipt of charitable aid from the Government, and her neighbors, es pecially Dr. Trevor, also assisted her. She experienced difficulty in managing the children. His Worship made an order for the children to be sent to Burnham, to be brought up in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church, members of which their parents were. An order was also made to the effect that when Dunn was discharged from the asylum he should pay 10s. per week towards the maintenance of the two lads.

Willowby Tea Meeting.— On Wed nesday evening last a most enjoyable tea meeting was held in the Willowby school room. The occasion was the celebration of the anniversary of the Sunday school, which is held from week to week in the building, and the school-room was beauti fully decorated with flowers and ever greens, presenting a most attractive ap pearance. Tea was laid at half-past four for the children, and between fifty and sixty of the young ones were there to enjoy it, which they did to the full. An hour afterwards the adults were catered for by the ladies, and a hundred or more people partook at two sittings of the good things provided, and the loaded tables did credit to the liberality as well as the taste of the many lady friends who provided the viands and gave their aid in dispens ing them. After tea Mr. Joseph Ward took the chair, the duties of which he ably discharged. Mr. Low, superinten dent of the Sunday school, reported on the state of the school, which was a purely unsectarian one, and was doing a great and good work amongst the youth of the district, as was manifested by the fact that some of the scholars had qualified for the work if teaching and were now engaged in that work, and there were others who would soon join them in it. Some fifty children altogether received religious instruction n the school, which was really flourish ing. The other speakers were Revs. Keall and Smith, and Messrs. H. M. Jones and Mr. Stephen Chapman. Apologies for absence were sent by several friends from Ashburton. One great feature of the evening was the singing by the children of a well chosen and admirably worked up selection of Sankey’s hymns, and the ex cellent singing was a credit to Mr. Wheeler, who had had the children’s training in charge. After the customary' votes of thanks, in the awarding of which no one was forgotten, the meeting closed with the National Anthem.

CABLE NEWS.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. (Per Renter's Agency.) Obituary. London, Oct. 20. The death is announced to-day of the Right Hon. Alfred Henry Thesiger, one of the Lords Justices of the C/firk of Appeal. Severe Snow Storm. A very severe snow storm has fallen throughout England. Tricket and Laycock. Tricket and Laycock have gone to the Isle of Wight, where they will continue to train for their matches. The Markets. Three percent. Consols, 98g. Adelaide wheat, per 49G1b., ex warehouse, 49s Gd. Wool arrivals to date for next series amount to 00,000 bales. The tone of the wool market was quiet.

AUSTRALIAN {Per Rented s Agency.) The Cup

Melbourne Oct. 21

Mata is now being backed at 10 to 1 for the Cup, having bad a splendid gallop to-day. * ‘Augur,” in his Spurting Notes, has selected Progress and Mata for the Cup.

The Postal Conference, Melbourne, Oct. 22.

The proposed conference on postal matters has fallen through, the various colonies invited to join in the same having declined the proposal. It is probable, however, that a conference of the Australian colonies will be held on the subject of border duties.

NEW ZEALAND

(Per Presss Asoocicdiun.) The Timber Trade.

Invercargill, Oct. 22.

During the past month 1,347,850 feet of timber was cut in the sawmills here, the royalty on which amounted to LIGB.

Prison Labor.

Government have forwarded a circular to the gaols, intimating that prison labor is to be let to the Corporation or indi viduals at three-quarters of the current rate of daily wages. An Alleged Wife Deserber Intercepted. William Henry Burton, the well-known coach proprietor of Canterbury and the West Coast, was before the Magistrate this morning, charged with wife desertion. He was apprehended on the strength of a telegram from Christchurch. He was a passenger to the Melbourne Exhibition per the Arawata. Prisoner was remanded, but has since been released for want of evidence. Torn by an Oat Oruslier. A boy at Wyndham got his fingers caught in an oat crusher. The fingers were crushed to a jelly, and the flesh torn from the arm.

THE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND.

Hanaome Dividend,

[by telegraph.]

Auckland, Oct. 22,

The Bank of New Zealand’s half-yearly meeting was held to-day. The report states the net profits to 30th Sept,, after full appropriations for all debts, bad or doubtful, and the usual reduction for bank premises and furniture, to be L 76,152 ; balance from the half year ending the 31st of March; 1880, L 22,185— making a total available for division of L 98,337. The following ap propriation was recommended—dividend of 10 per cent, per annum, L 50,000;

bonus, ss. per share, equal to 5 per cent, per annum, L 25,000 ; balance carried to profit and loss, new account, L 23,337 — L 98,337. _____________

Resident Magistrate’s Court.

ASHBURTON.— -Friday, Oct*. 22,1880.

(Before Mr. F. Guinness, R.M.) CIVIL CASES.

Trustees of Edmisfcou and Go. v. Robinson —Claim L 34 12s. lOd. Mr. O’Reilly for plaintiffs ; judgment fgr amount claimed and costs, LI 13s. Cass v. Holmes.—Claim Ll 9 18s. 7d. Mr. Branson for plaintiff; Mr. O’Reilly for defendant.

Francis Cass, sworn, stated he was. a farmer, living at Wakanui. He had been employed by the defendant to do thresh ing work. Holmes engaged, me to do the work for him. Witness produced the bag man’s book which showed that work of threshing had been done. Defendant did not tell witness that he was doing the work for someone else. Witness did not know defendant was acting as agent for any one else. Holmes is living in the same house with a woman who is called Mrs Holmes. Defendant has paid me sums of L 7 10s., and LlO. The former was given in cash, the latter by cheque. Forgot who was the drawer of the cheque. Mr. O’Reilly objected tocertain amounts which the other side had given his client credit for.

Witness, cross-examined by Mr. O’Reilly —The L 7 10s. was given, some in,notes and soiqe in silver, in the presence of the; hands on the farm where Holmes lives at Wakanui. I received the LlO from my wife, who had obtained it from Holmes. 1 Defendant ordered me to thresh the grain. Believe I was at home when Holmes told me to undertake the work.

Mr. O’Reilly declined to accept the set off put in by plaintiff. Witness, cross-exarainedbyMr. O’Reilly, remembered having a conversation with Mr. Jameson, at which Mr. Friedlandor remarked that Holmes was “ all right,” and understood from that remark that he was all right in a pecuniary sense. Mary A. Cass, wife of last witness, remembered getting a LlO note from Mr,; Holmes. He and his wife were present; the note was on the table, and Holmes said, “ 1 hat’s for you. ” Holmes and his wife have been living in the Wakanui district for the past two years, and it has been the general impression until lately that they were legally man and wife. Holmes has land in the district and they are living on it. Mrs. Holmes told me the land belonged to her. Only heard recently that the woman who went by the name of Mrs. Holmes was really Mrs. Haynes. _ ;■ By Mi-. O’Reilly—lt is about six months since Mrs. Holmes told me that the land belonged to her. David McHolm. labourer at Wakariufk' remembered doing, some work for Cass on Holmes’ land. During the whole time Holmes never said for whom the work was being done. Have worked for Holmes on his property at Wakanui. Defendant lives with a woman in Wakanui, and he had always addressed her as Mrs. Holmes. Defendant Las paid me for work done bn his property. Richard Higgs sworn—l am a laborer living at Wakanui. Have been employed by Mr. Cass. Holmes came to Cass’ place for a machine. Worked on Holmes’ farm but he did not tell me for whom 1 was working. I was carrying water for the machine, which was worked by Mr. Cass. Have been employed by Holmes, and he has paid me. David M‘Holm, recalled, stated that for work done for Mr. Holmes he had been paid by the latter. Mr. O’Reilly, for the defence, stated that Holmes was merely manager for Mrs. Haynes, at a salary, and that Holmes had no interest in the property whatever. He would like an adjournment for the pur pose of obtaining corroborative evidence from Mr. Jameson.

Mr. Branson would strenuously object to an adjournment. Mr. O’Reilly raised a nonsuit point, there being no date to the summons, and hence the Court had no jurisdiction. Mr. Branson submitted that possibly the original summons might differ from the copy which had been put in, and ob jected to a nonsuit unless the original summons were produced. ' His Worship said he had no course to adopt but to nonsuit the plaintiff with costs, as there was an evident laches on the part of the persons who drew up the sum mons.

Mr. Branson said the case was one of many in which persons whom ho character ised as “ legal poachers ” led people into difficulties.

Mr. O’Reilly—Cheap law. His Worship—Which sometimes be. comes dear law. '

In the case of Holmes v. Cass, Mr. Branson asked for an adjournment as he wished the two cases to be heard on- the same day. His Worship granted the adjournment, but without costs, as he considered the two cases were brought where one might have been sufficient.

After argument between his Worship and Mr. O’Reilly, the professional fee was allowed.

Alford Forest.

(From our Oton Correspondent.')

The inhabitants of this district were somewhat disappointed on Tuesday even ing last. A lecture by Rev. B. J. West brook was announced, and every prepara tion made for seven o’clock. Patiently waiting till eight, and no lecturer appear ing, it became a question of importance what was to be done ? Many of the visitors had come from long distances through a wretched drizzling rain. The children of the main school had prepared a good list of sacred and secular songs to assist the entertainment, and these were sung admirably, accompanied by Mr. Hi Knight, the master, on the harmonium, and giving great satisfaction to the parents and friends of the children. - Turn read ings were then given by the schoolmaster, namely, “Mrs. Caudle’s curtain lecture on the Lost Umbrella,” and “ Lord Tom noddy.” Mrs. Knight gave several songs; by particular desire, including “ Shells of the Ocean,” also taking part in the duet “ What are the Wild Waves Saying.” Messrs. Dunford and M'Neil greatly assisted to enliven the proceedings, the former singing “ Wait for the Turn of the Tide,” and the latter “The Tartan Plaidie,” etc. Refreshments were then served round, and in spite of a natural feeling of vexation at the unexplained absence of the lecturer, a most enjoyable evening was spent, many thanks being given to all who had by their genial good nature helped to drive away the dark clouds which shadowed the early part of the evening. The singing of the children was heartily enjoyed, and formed the most delightful feature of the entertain ment.

Secret Societies in Ireland.

In view of the apprehension ''ex cited by recent events in Ireland* the; Cork correspondent of a contemporary gives some interesting particulars with re gard to two of the secret societies which flourish in Ireland —the Fenian organisa tion and the Molly Maguire Society. He says ;—“ Among the secret societies which are all-important factors in Irish social and political life, the Fenian organ isation occupies the leading position, not only in point, of numbers, discipline, and armament, but by reason of the difference of end it seeks to attain. This association is at this moment more formid able than at any time since the seizure of

the Irish People, and the arrest of the ‘ loaders of the movement in 1875. There 1 are in the United Kingdom between i 80,000 and .100,000 affiliated members, ' with available funds to the extent of i nearly L 60,000 and an armament which i though not commensurate with the : number of men, is increasing rapidly, and will be formidable enough before the close of the coming winter. There are probably between six and eight thousand Snider rifles, and an equal number of Colt Le facheux . revolvers in .the hands of the Fenians jin this country, and a continual •‘stream of these weapons is flowing in. Munster and pre-eminently Cork, is the hotbed of-this society ; Ulster follows and Connaught is the least organised, poorest, and worst armed of the four provinces. The “ adherents of the cause ” are pretty numerous, too, in Scotland and England, especially in the manufacturing towns of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Durham. But powerful and extensive though the Fenian Brotherhood bo, it is not from this source that danger to life and property need be feared. Assassination or arson is no part of the Fenian programme. Rebellion, open and above board, and conducted according to the rules of civilised warfare, is the ultimate goal of the Fenian’s aspira tions, and when it comes we shall have done with Fenianism for ever. Far differ ent in its objects and the means it employs to attain them is the Western offshoot of Ribbonisnv —the “Molly Maguire” Society. Fenianism is political and sentimental ; : Molly Maguii’eism is agrarian and emi nently practical. The Fenian would take the open field for battle; the Molly Maguire believes in treacherous murder from behind a hedge or ditch. Until the commencement of the anti-rent agitation, how nearly two years ago, the followers of Molly Maguire in the West could be counted only in units. Within the last twelve months they have increased to thousands. In Mayo alone there are from 5,000 to 7,000 affiliated members. The sole object, aim, aspiration, and hope of the' Molly Maguire is murder. The “brotherhood” avows no other purpose than the assassination of “ laid ” landlords, agents, et hoe genus omne. The oath taken, “in the name of Jesus Christ and his Holy Mother,” binds the brother to kill, “ if it were the mother who bore me in the womb,” should “ Molly require it for her safety and for her honor.” The songs and ballads of the movement are all glori fications of murder. “ Molly ” has few followers outside the borders of Con naught, but I have it on authority I would not venture to dispute, that to her malign influence is duethe Hew Ross outrage, which resulted in the death of Charles Boyd. The fact of Mr. Boyd being anything but a harsh landlord-would not save him if he had hut one enemy amongst the “ Sons of Molly.” The rules of the association are 1 few and simple. The oath, which is a blasphemous piece of ribaldry, and calcu lated to make the hair of a well-disposed J 'person -stand on end, is made as solemn arid binding as possible by being generally administered at midnight arrd in a kneel ing attitude. There are no fixed weekly 1 or periodical contributions, a special levy 1 being laid upon each “brother,” according 1 to his position and means, when “ Molly ” has a job in hand. There are midnight musters but no attempt at drill. Weapons are purchased just as they are needed, ‘ and destroyed when the purpose for which ■ they are bought has been acomplished. ; There are signs, grips, and passwords, which are changed every three months. • The ranks are filled by a system of terror ■ ism. It is no uncommon occurrence for a man who has refused to join the band • to be dragged out of bed, and either forced to take the pledge or beaten in a most ; merciless manner ; indeed, often maimed ■ for life. The spread of Fenianism for a time put a stop to this system of terrorism, !■ but the land agitation unfortunately re vived it.

The Society of Jesus.

The expulsion of the Jesuits from France may have some practical influence on the future of an English colony. A company of 27 Trappists will (the European Mail says) embark in a few clays for the South of Africa, to which they have been given a free passage by the Government. The party includes several workmen — masons, statuaries, locksmiths, and car penters—and, what is more important, some typographers. It is the design of the Prior of the Trappists that a review be published quarterly at the Cape, which should entertain all questions in which the Order are interested. The projected establishment atDunbrody may thus become a great colonial centre for a body that includes many nationalities. Although the first Abbey of La Trappe was founded as far back as 1140, the pre sent order is of much later date. In the lapse of centuries the monks had rather receded from pristine piety, and Jean de Ranee in 1602 devoted his property to the endowment of the Abbey, and his life to the reform of its occupants. He esta blished the rule, which still obtains, and which, while commanding silence, prayer, reading, and manual labour, forbids wine, animal food, or study. Both in this country and in Ireland the Trappists have had their institutions, but they seem not to have made any permanent way. In 1790 a company of them, driven out of France during the Revolution, were hospitably received by Mr. Weld, of Lulworth, who granted them some land in Dorsetshire, and there they remained till after the battle of Waterloo. At a more recent date another body were expelled from France, but these, to the number of 64, were English and Irish subjects. A French frigate conveyed them to Cork, where they landed in November, 1831, and soon afterwards established them selves near Waterford. The new Cape colonists will begin foreign life under very different conditions, and may be destined to form in .another quarter of the world the rallying point of their dispersed Order.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

IVESS V. MARTIN.

To THE EDITOR.

Sib, —“ Paint me as I am, warts and all,” said the late Mr. Oliver Cromwell, of pious memory, to Mr. Cooper, the artist. Print mo as I write, say I. I may, it is true, do better in the sweet by-and-by, when my hand grows accustomed to the Tomahawk, but in the meantime print my letter as it stands, with all its imperfec tions on its head. Don’t improve it, or add to it, or take from it, as the Mail did. I am on the warpath, and scalping is a sweet occupation. I wish to furnish my wigwam with the scalps of the oppressor and the humbug. Beware ye humbugs, for justice shall be the law of

Tomahawk.

To the Editor of the Ashburton Mail,

Sib, —For some time past the name of Joseph Ivess has been constantly thrust by him before the public, and between himself and Captain Barry the public are getting tired of such outrageous egotism. The one tells us that ho is at least equal to the Lord High Chancellor of England in ■matters of law, and the other that he has stood on 131 platforms in England with half the nobility at his back. When I took up my paper this morning, bent on half-an-hour’s lazy enjoyment, I came across a letter, and (like the man who took the physic by mistake) I had read it before 1 knew whose it was, and then I felt the disagreeable nausea arising. “ Heavens !” said X ; “ how long is this man going to abuse our patience ? When are we to hear the last of ‘ the accomplished journalist ?’ of ‘ This celebrated cause ?’ of ‘ another victory scored by a layman V of

‘ the legal and Court blunders so success fully overcome by the great IV ” Is not * that letter too much for human patience ? There is not a sentence of it good English, there is scarce a sentence which does not i contain a falsehood, and it all unmistak ably shows that it is dictated by the morbid vanity of a shallow mind and the malevo lence of a bad heart. Does this man think Mr. Branson would notice his letter 1 Mr. Branson is an educated gentleman, and there can be nothing in common between him and Mr. Ivess. The letter is one of the most untruthful ones I have ever read. I should like to take it sentence by sentence, but it would take up too much of your space, and there is no need to break a butterfly upon a wheel. But could not this shallow egotist ascertain from the legal menagerie which he has imported from a Christchurch third storey that Mr. Guinness does not “ sit upon suits,” or indeed sit in Equity at all. Yet he writes about drawing a rule nisi, a mandamus, and what not. A heaven born barrister truly. He actually pities Mr. Branson’s ignorance of his profession. Would it surprise this great pleader to know that gentlemen of Mr. Branson’s standing consider this great amateur simply brutally ignorant, and, moreover, that this is unmistakably stamped on bis very common visage. You shall not, J Ivess, you and your menagerie, you shall not drag a noble profession through the mire with impunity. Nemo me impune lacessit is the noble motto of a noble race, and faith, I intend to illustrate it. How Joseph Ivess scripsit “Judge Ward gave the Magistrate a slap on the face.” Mark the poetical and refined mind of the great Ivess. Now, take that assertion figuratively, or in any way pos sible, and 1 can say (because I was present) that it is a deliberate and mean falsehood. The facts were entirely the other way Judge Ward set down Mr. Ivess (and sat on him) and told him he had nothing to do with the jurisdiction of Mr. Guinness. Mr. Ivess trembled and grew pale, and I drew the evident deductions from these signs. From the beginning of the libel case until the present time Mr. Ivess has blundered in the Courts like a jackass in a wilderness; he has published his astound ing vanity and gross ignorance until he is the laughing stock of every intelligent person in the community. Captain Barry has reached the rotten egg stage, and mark me, his is the pretty certain fate of every rampant demagogue. The people are slow, but they are sure, and sooner or hffer they will arrive at a true estimate of contemptible pretension and ignorant presumption. If the people , knew the real facts of the case, Ivess v. Martin, I venture to say they would : howl at the great Panjandrum, and feel as indignant as I feel now. It is this case that has brought “-Tomahawk” on him, and although he has no warlock on his pate I shall certainly scalp him. To practise his-prentice hand at law, he com menced proceedings against poor Mr. Martin. He sued him for some L 27, • when there could only be some L 6 due, which be could have had at any time. ■ He would act as his own lawyer, and he got made a hare of by Mr. Branson, ; whose client grew tired of defeating the i vain-glorious yahoo and paid him off what he admitted. He could not gain a single t step in any Court. He paid away quite as much in Court fees and costs as the whole amount d le, and yet he could not get judgment Mr. Martin did wisely in pay ing thefew pounds ; for however successful • a man may be in the Courts, it is in the power of the most vain, the most shallow, the ignorant and male ; volent opponent, if he have money, [ to annoy the life out of a t quiet inoffensive gentleman like Mr. Martin, who does not wish to meddle . with law at all.

Because Mr. Ivcss had caught that well known disease, known as the law craze, poor Mr. Martin had to suffer, but happily not in defeat, hut in a succession of vic tories. To illustrate “ the law craze,” I had better follow Sam Slick’s example, and tell a story “in point.” Mr. Scott, alias Captain Moonlight, once on a time robbed the bank at Egerton, and in such a way that suspicion was cast on a bank clerk, against whom Mr. Scott gave evidence, and be certainly bad a narrow escape. Mr. Macdermott, who is now in Dun edin, defended him. Shortly after Mr. Scott himself was placed on his trial, and at the same time he was attacked by “ the law craze.” He defended himself, and kept the Court two days. Mr. Justice Barry gave him ten years, principally as an acknowledgment of his legal ability. All the time he was in Pentridge his whole mind was set on having another display in Court. He barricaded his cell, attacked the warder with a knife, and so forth. Now, said the noble captain, you must put me on my trial in Melbourne for this. However, a visiting Justice gave him solitary and bread and water for some weeks, and this Repressed his noble rage,

And froze the genial current of his soul. The ten years having elapsed, Mr. Scott came out from Pentridge, and the legal craze was still as strong as ever. He determined if not “the applause of listening Senates to command,” at least to have the ears of the jury for some time. There is a pretty strong Bar in Sydney, but not one came up to Mr. Scott’s idea of himself. He had his display, but it was more expensive this time. The presiding judge ordered him to be hung by the neck till he was dead, and dead the estimable Mr. Scott certainly is ; and he had a large audience at the last. He was charged with cowardice, but this was but a week in vention of the enemy. If this story has a moral, it would bo that a law crage is not a good thing for narrow ill-balanced minds, and pauper understandings. However, to return to our muttons, as the French say. Mr. Martin defeated the great Panjandrum so often that at last he got tired of victory and especially tired of seeing his name constantly set out in the formula Ivess v. Martin. As one pays an organ-grinder to move on, Mr. Martin paid Mr. Ivess. But Mr. Ivess did not move on ; he at once danced a corroboree, so to speak, and published his great letter. Who does not remember J. Ivess’ first appearance in the Borough Council, and his speech on that occasion. Agamemnon could not compare with him. One thing surprised me, and that was that no one kicked him out. If shallow voters send in such a man to represent them he should be treated properly. Why should sensible business men be compelled to sit in his company, and worse, hear him speak arrogant nonsense slightly through the nose, and with the most horribly disagree able tone ever heard.

How long, O Jonathan Ivess, art thou going to abuse our patience ? How long art thou to be allowed to drag a noble profession in the mire “ under distin guished patronage”? How many more law yers—heaven save the mark ! —art thou going to import from the attics of Christ church? Art thou, O Ivess, art thou going to form a legal museum ? Great is the legal menagerie, and lo ! Joseph is its prophet. Bishmillah.—lam, &c., Tomahawk.

the ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1880.



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