The Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1890 UNSEA WORTHY VESSELS.

One would have thought that, after the hard battle fought and won by- Samuel Plimsoll in Great Britain against the sending to sea of unsea worthy ships, there was no port in her Britannic Majesty's dominions whence could sail with a crew of human beings of any race or nationality,—much less her Majesty's subjects,—such a death trap as the Emilie is described to have oeen by three of the survivors. " A floating coffin, she was," they say ; and the sailor Green told an interviewer that " she was one of the worst old traps that ever filled with salt-water, and was unfit to be afloat. Any sea worthy boat would have stood the weather all right. I have been in much worse (weather). All the canvas was taken off her before she Avent on her beam ends. Sails, ropes, and rigging were rotten, and in fact there was nothing but red paint holding her together." Here is a nice description of a vessel for one of her crew to give : yet that vessel sailed in that condition .from a port in a British colony. It has not been stated that before ship ping with her at the Bluff these sailors knew of the rotten condition of her gear, or the bad state of her hull, but neither has it been stated that any survey of the vessel was made at all, and clearly, if there is any truth in what the sailor says, the omission of that survey was a culpable thing on the part of whoever was responsible for seeing it made. Decayed planks and timbers, and rotten standing and running gear would have made themselves apparent to any old skipper entrusted with the duty of making a survey, and the vessel so pronounced unseaworthy would have been impounded. It is only after the mischief is done that we hear of things like this, and locking the door of the stable does not prevent the stealing of the steed already stolen. But it may save any still left in the stalls. We have not at hand precise information as to how the fact of the Emilie being owned in San Francisco may affect her in regard to regulations tinder our Merchant Shipping laws \ but surely if British merchandise is carried in an American bottom from one British port to another, British authority should be able to insist that that bottom is sound enough to encounter the oi'dinary perils of the sea, the more especially when her complement of men has to be made up with British .seamen. In any case, in the interests of common humanity, no vessel unfit to dare the dangers of the wave, as far as sound ness of gear and timbers go, and safety of loading, ought even to be allowed to Jeave a colonial port, whether she be Home or Foreign^owned, We wquld promptly hang a skipper who murdered one of his crew in cold blood, and with equal promptness would he be pre vented from committing the crime were his Intention known. Why should he and his ownei'S be permitted to risk his men's lives, even if he is reokless of his own in a tub like 1 that described by the sailor Green 1

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The annual statutory meetings of house holders for the election of School Committee*) are appointed to be held at the various schoolhouses at 7pm on Monday 28th inst. On and after Monday next, the Long beach Coach will leave the Ashburton Post Office at 4' p.m., instead of 5 p.m., as at present. Mails will close at 3.45 p.m. Mr John Anderson, jun. r of the firm of John Anderson and Sons, has been elected President of the Canterbury A. and P. Association ill room of Sir John Hall, re signed. A Christchurch telegram informs us that the Canterbury A. and P. Association has decided that, under the regulations of the Ashburton Show, Mr Carlan's mare Idalia was eligible to compete in the thoroughbred mare classes.

A little boy, five years old, son of Thomas Brown, farmer, an old resident at Doon, near Mansfield, Victoria, was bitten by a tiger Bnake while playing with his brother in a woolshed, He dropped a knife, and putting his hand through an opening in the floor to recover the knife, ho was bitten on the little finger. His parents knew nothing of it till half an hour after, when the child began to vomit, and complained of pains in the head. His father drove him fifteen miles to Mansfield for medical aid, but the child died soon after.

The Rev. J, Chapman, from Fiji, will lecture in the Wesleyan Church on Thurs day evening. For several years Mr Chap man has been engaged in Mission work in Fiji, under the direction of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He is visiting Australia, and will afterwards probably be transferred to the New Britain Mission, The subject of the lecture on Thursday evening is " Mis sionary Life in Fiji." The lecturer carries with him several articles illustrative of Fijian Life, and he also exercises his vocal powers by singing in the Fijian language. Altogether an interesting and instructive address will be given.

Writing of the probable early return to the colony of Sir Julius Vogel, the Rangitikei "Advocate says that it is morally certain that the ex-Colonial Treasurer will contest one of the New Zealand constituencies at the next general election, and it lias been sated that he will run for one of the West Coast electorates, Egmont for choice. The Advocate " thinks that if no outsider cut in Sir Julius would beat Sir Harry Atkinson, but would prefer to sec the former stand for New Plymouth for which it thinks he would be pretty safe to be elected.

The following extract from a letter re ceived by a Wellington gentleman from a friend in Sydney, last mail, is of interest as bearing iipon the vexed question of the prosperity or otherwise of New South Wales :—" things are very bad just now in this colony, worse, they say, than ever before. I cannot understand it. I thought that I had been through some hardships, but I have seen more poverty and wretched ness since my arrival in Sydney than ever before. You can see hundreds of men sleeping out in the parks, with a very large sprinkling of really good honest workmen."

Mrs Kendal, the English actress, wearß on her chatelaine five little bells, one to represent each of her children. These bells are curiously wrought and inlaid with tiny gems, and bear on their margins the mono gram and date of the birth of the child thus kept in memory.

A Wellington telegram says that some doubts are entertained of the validity of the proceedings in the Christchurch Diocesan Synod with regard to the election of Arch deacon Julius, and it is possible that the General Synod may be asked to rectify, by special statute, this suspected irregularity.

It is estimated that 60,000 people are home less in the world's metropolis, and spend their nights crouching about door-steps, etc., vainly endeavouring to shelter themselves against the cold. The Salvation Army Shelters are now providing 1000 of these with a bed every night, and are increasing their usefulness every month.

Sir Roger Tlchborne (says the " Dunedin Star's" London correspondent) has an nounced to the world at large that his case is to be re-opened in April next, a fund of £150,000 being guaranteed towards the necessary legal expenses. The claimant, who is looking remarkably well, resides for the nonce at Hanlcy, where he delivers free lectures each evening upon the points of the last trial.

In the course of a " character sketch " of Mr Parnell, an anonymous writer in the "New Review" indicates that.the Irish leader is eminently superstitious in trivial matters. He refuses to remain in a room where three candles are burning, and he regards green as a peculiarly unlucky colour, so much so that when the freedom of the city of Dublin was to be conferred upon him he requested that the lining of the casket should not be green but purple, the latter being his favourite colour and considered by him as very auspicious. His chief relaxation is machine-making, and if he reads at all, he is a student of specialist journals of the class of Engineering. The water lily, it seems, is largely used in some parts of India as food. The fruit of one species which grows plentifully in the Lakes of Caslnnere is rich in starch, and has much of the flavour of a chestnut. If the nuts are dried they will keep for a long time, and when ground may be made into cakes or porridge; or they may be soaked for some hours, and tj»:n boiled. The seeds of the lotus are also much used in India. When green they are eaten raw; when ripe they are boiled. The root, too, is often boiled and served as a vegetable. With Mr Br.lfour's return to London has come a little story from Ireland, which the London correspondent of the " Liverpool Daily Post" is told to be true. During his stay in Dublin Mr Balfour met a Catholic priest who did not belong to the Nationalist party. Taking an opportunity favourable for obtaining information on an interesting point, he asked the priest if, in his opinion, the Irish people were as bitter against him as they were represented to be in the news papers favourable to Mr Parnell. " Since you have asked me I will tell you the truth," said the priest. "If our flocks hated sin half as oordiajly as they hate you, there would be no use for priests in Ireland."

TEN MONTHS' SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL.

There is an old saying that physicians are a class of men who pour drugs, of which they know little, into bodies of which they know less. This is both true and untrue at the same time. There are good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. The trouble with these medical gentlemen as a profession is that they are clannish, and apt to be conceited. Ihey don't like to be beaten at their own trade by outsiders who have never studied medicine. They there fore pay, by their frequent failures,, the penalty of refusing instruction unless the teacher bears their own f' Hall Mark,^ \ i- .'■■ ' j- 1 '."-•'"-.:* T l-Brown-Sequard, of i,- 1 ■...:'.' ■ curately when he says : " The medical profession are so bound up in their self-confidence and conceit that they allow the diamond truths of science to be picked up by persons entirely outside their ranks." We give a most interesting in ci.lent, which illustrates this important trvrtk,

The steamship "Coneordia," of the Donaldson Line sailed frqm Glasgow for TJ ": i ■ ' ■ IC"T. ! , : . on board as afir6-

1 /: ■. .: ■ ::> ■■■. , Wade, of Glasgow, j He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailing to America, China, and j India, He had borne the hard and exhausting labor, and had been healthy and strong, On the trip we nov/ name ljc began for the first i tune to feel weak and ill. His appetite | failed, and he suffered from drowsiness, heartburn, a bad taste in the mouth, and costiveness and irregularity of the bowels. Sometimes when at work he had attacks of giddiness, but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the fire room. Quite often he was sick and felt like vomiting, and had some pain in the head. Later during the passage he grew worse, and when the ship reached Halifax he was placed in the Victoria General Hospital, and the ship sailed away without him. The house surgeon gave him some powders to stop the vomiting, and the next day the visiting i p!iysician gave him a mixture to take every icur hours. Within two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors stopped both the powders and the mixture. A month passed, the poor fireman getting worse and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to be visiting physician for the next five months. He gave other medicines, but not much relief. Nearly all that time Wade suffered great torture ; h<3 digested nothing throwing up all he ate, There was terrible pain in the bowels burning heat in the throat, heartburn, and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture every four hours, powders, one after each meal to j digest the food, operating pills one every night, and temperature pills two each night to stop the cold sweats.' If drugs could cure him at all, Richard had an idea that he took enough to do it. But on the other hand pleurisy set in and the doctor, tooh ninety ounces of matter from his ; ight side and then told him he was sure to die. Five months more rolled by and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gave Wade a mixture which he said made Mm tremble like a leaf on a tiee.

At this crisis Wade's Scotch blood asserted itself. He refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if he must die he could die as well without them as with them. By this time a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for days. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces. We will let him tell the rest of his experience in the words in which he communicated it to the press.

He says: "When I was in this state a lady whom I had never seen came to the hospital and talked with me. She proved to be an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now be alive. She told me of a medicine called 'Mother Seigel's Ctxrative Syrup,' and brought me a bottle next day. I started with it, witfiout consulting the doctors, and in only a fern days' time I was out of bod, clling for ham and eggs for brealtfmst. From 'that time keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was soon able to leave the hospital and come home to Glasgow. I now feel as if I was in another world, and have no illness of any kind."

The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deem it best to use no names although Mr Wade gave them in his original deposition. His address is No 244, Stobcross street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him.

Saturday's Markets.

HORSE MARKET. I MR T. BULLOCK. Mr T, Bullock reports for the week end , ing Saturday, April 12th: —There was again a large entry of horses, viz., 39, including draughts, light harness horses, and hacks. Bidding was languid, as farmers will not buy aged horses except at very low prices, and the'reserves placed on some of the young horses were considered excessive, also on some of the aged, otherwise more would have been sold. Out of the day's entry of 39, 14 were sold at the following prices, i viz., A pair of fillies, 2-year-olds, unbroken, of a lighfc description, £20 10s; 6-year-old draught gelding, £17 ; aged dratights, £5 5s, j £9.; inferior, £2 15s, £4 10s; hacks, £6, I£9 ss, light harness hor?es, £3 2s 6d, £6 ss, inferior, £1 Is, £2 2s 6d, scrubbers, from 12s 6d. Sundries : dray and frame brought £710s, set of harrows, £4 10s, double-furrow plough, £2 10s, saddle £2 9s, leading chains, 13s to 18s per pair, collars, harness, and blinkers, from 8s to 18s 6d per set, horse covers, lls to 13s 6d, whipple-trees, blocks, and a quantity of sundries, all at full I market rates. ,

ALFRED HARRISON. Mr Alfred Harrison reports his weekly sale as follows, Saturday 12th: — Cows.—Good quality, just calved, up to £5 15s. Aged and inferior animals are un saleable. Pigs.—There was a large entry, all the larger sizes of slips selling at good prices, while the smaller sizes were not so much in request. Slips, small, 4s, 4s 3d, 4s 6d, ss, 5s 6d, 6s 6d, 7s, 7a 6d and 8s 6d; slips, large, 12s, 14s aud 17s 6d; sows, 40s to 50s. Poultry,—Fowls, Is 3d to 2s per pair; ducks, 2s 6d to 2s 9d, Produce.—Derwents, 3s to 4s 6d per bag; kidney, 3s to 4s; oats, Is, Is 3d to Is 6d per bushel ; chickwheat, 6s to 8s per bag; j carrots, 2s 4d per bag; bran, 3s 6d; onions, gel to Id per lb; rye grass seed, 2s to 3s per lb. , Implements.—Anglo American drill, £28 10s; buggy, £16; dray, £13; D.F. plopgh, £5 #

Statistical Conference.

[per press association.] Wellington, April 14. Mr Yon Dadelzen, Deputy Registrar- General, hasjusfc returned frem Hobarfc, where he represented New Zealand at the Statistical Conference. The sittings were spread over two weeks, and some im portant work was done. A uniform census schedule was drawn up leaving each colony at liberty to add special . columns for its own needs. The recom- Imendations of the English Registrar- General were attended to, and the system of classification altered. Formerly there waa no distinction between employer and employed, both were returned under their trade heading, now the commercial class pure and simple will be separated from the industrial, the figures of wliich have hitherto been unduly swelled at the ex pense of the former. Laborers formerly under thafc heading indefinitely will now take their proper rank. Some other changes have been made, which the Con ference hope will simplify the system. In the occupation column of the schedule, employers will have to mark themselves, and their wage earners. The Conference also discussed the best methods of arranging the census returns with the re-, suit that what is known as the card , system, will probably come into force next -census, which is expected to be taken about April 3rd,

BOROUGH COUNCIL.

The usual meeting of the Borough Council was held last night. Present— Hia Worship the Mayor (presiding), and Crs Cuthbertson, Bird, Scaly, Scott, Brooke, Friedlander and Williamson. FINANCE, The Mayor reported that the debit balance stood at £1419 10s lOd. The amounts received since last meeting were —Form rates^-1888, 12s ; 1889, £5 6s ; 1890, £64 9s ; rents of reserves, £2112s 6d ; clog licenses, £5 ; library, 5s ; earth sold, 4s; refund, cost of summons, 3$ Total, £97 11 6d. CORRESPONDENCE, Mr C. W. Purnell wrote thanking the Council for his appointment as solicitor for the Borough ; and the Paymaster General advised the Council of the sum of Us (fines) having been paid to the Council's credit. Both letters were received. engineers' report. The Engineers reported as follows:— Clock Tower.—We have submitted a tracing of the design chosen by the Council at the last meeting to the Jubilee Committee. The Chairman has signified his approval of the same. Concrete Channelling.—We have advertised for tenders for channelling to be laid before you this evening. The labor gang have been principally engaged in reforming the N.E. Town Belt, also cleaning side channels, and grubbing thistles, gorse, etc., in streets, and attending to the water supply.

The report was adopted. RESERVE LEASES, The matter of arranging the old and new leases of reserves was referred to the Reserves Committee. WATER CART, Cr, Brooke called attention to the fact that Saturday, a very dusty day, passed over without the water cart being out. He thought that Saturdays, at least, when the wind was high and the dust flying about, the cart should be out. He had been asked to bring the matter before the Council. The Mayor said, as a matter of fact, the cart had been out on Saturday morning. Cr Scaly said he had seen the Engineer on Saturday about mid-day. The water man could not have gone out then without throwing a number of men idle, but he believed he was out later on. Cr .Williamson said the present weather was quite unseasonable, and it was never in prospect that the water cart would have to be used at this season of the year.

CLOCK TOWER. It was decided to call for tenders at once for the erection of the Jubilee Clock Tower. FIRE BRIGADE BY-LAWS. The question. of several new by-laws for the Fire Brigade was referred to the Chairman«of the Fire Brigade Committee to bring up a report. ENGINEER, The question of remuneration to the ( Engineer for architect's work clone by him, outside his duties as Engineer, was left over for consideration until the Clock Tower had been erected. CHANNELLING.

I Tenders for concrete channelling and kerbing were opened. Two offers were made, one of which was informal: The tender of Mr John Crum at PA 10s per chain for concrete channelling and kirb ing was. accepted, provided he under took to do at least ten chains per week. CR MCFARLANE. The resignation of Cr McFarlane was formally accepted and orders issued for the necessary steps to be taken for the election of his successor. ' LICENSES. The Clerk was ordered to communicate with the police on the subject of un licensed carriers, etc. Cr Friedlandcr drew the Council's at tention to the fact that one of the carriers was in the habit of gallopping his horse . instead of moving at iho usual rate of j speed, ' • accounts, Accounts amounting to £00 Is lOd wove passed for payment and the Council ad journed,

Wreck of a Timber Ship.

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Inveroargill, April 14. News was received late on Saturday of the wreck of the barque Emilie, which left the Bluff on 25th ult. with a cargo of timber for Port Pirie, under charter to Mr J. G. Ward. The day after leaving, the vessel was struck by a squall and thrown on her beam ends. Captain Small and seven men were washed overboard. The vessel drifted into Doughboy Bay, Codfish Island, south of Stewart Island, and between forty and fifty miles from the Bluff. The survivors, consisting of the mate and three men, landed and ( walked to Mason's Bay where they fell in with a party of mutton-birders. On receipt of the news Mr Ward telegraphed to the Premier, who authorised the des patch of the Bluff Harbor Board's tug in search of the castaways. She found the party at Mason Bay, and returned to the Bluff at 12.45 a.m. to-day. The survivors came in by train and were taken to the hos pital. The mate is very weak. The Emilie was a barque of 720 tons, a Nicaraguan vessel, and last from Melbourne. She had 461,570 feet of timber on board for the New Zealand Pine Company, which was insured for £1350 in the New Zealand and Union offices in equal shares. The in surance on the vessel is yet unknown. Later. Bluff, April 14. The Awarua returned from the search for castaways of the barque Emilie at mid-' night last night, bringing four survivors including the chief mate. It appears that the morning after the vessel left the Bluff, when just losing sight of land a N.W. squall struck her and laid her on her beam ends, tremendous quantities of water washing over her. An attempt was made to launch a boat, but a falling spar cut it in two. The captain and one man in it were drowned. The fore and main masts were cut away and the vessel righted, but while this was being done six more men were swept overboard. The survivors lashed themselves to the mizzen rigging, and drifted towards the West Coast of Stewart Island'for five days without food, being unable to leave the rigging on account of the violence of the sea. The vessel drove on shore at Doughboy Bay and broke up. The survivors got ashore and were rescued by a party of mutton birders on an island further along the coast. The survivors who are much knocked up, the mate being in a deplor able and delirious state, were sent to Invercargill hospital this morning.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Ivercargii-i,, April 14. The names of the survivors are Jno. Brownrigge, first mate, Joseph Green, Geo. Cummings, and Wm. Meek, A.B.s The vessel was thrown on her beam ends when clearing Foveaux Straits by a terrific hurricane and the deck and masts were torn out. Before the masts went over one of the boats was got out but was cut in two by the falling mast and all on board were drowned except Green who regained the vessel after being, two hours on a piece of floating timber. The vessel drifted for five days and went ashore on 31st March on Red Head, the south point of Stewart Island. Cummings swam ashore and the others stuck to the vessel till next day when the vessel broke up and they landed on pieces of timber hav ing then been 5 days without food or water. They wandered about the rocks for seven days living on two Maori hens, part of a dead seal found on the beach and a few shell fish, and seaweed. Dur ing this time they ascended the cliff to reach the other part of the Island and when half way up Brownrigga whose feet and legs were in a fearful state from ex posure, gave up, and lay down on a ledge of rock. The others reached the beach on the opposite side. A party of mutton birders from the adjoining Island under George Newton saw the vessel strike and" as soon as the weather allowed made a search. They first discovered Brownrigge on the ledge after having lain there three days. His mates were subsequently re scued by the same party and taken to Mutton Bird Islands, receiving the greatest kindness from the Natives and others. The tug Awarua went out and brought the survivors to the Bluff and they are now in the Hospital' at Inver cargill. Brownrigge is in a very critical state and there is little hope of his sur viving. The others are doing well—they say that Captain Small who was lost in the boat behaved splendidly giving his orders with the greatest coolness to the last. The A.B.s are single men and the mate, a widower, none having friends in the colony. The three sailors saved joined the vessel at the Bluff. A few weeks ago the Steward of the vessel, who is amongst those drowned, was charged with attempted suicide, but dismissed and re turned to the vessel. He was a swimmer of phenomenal ability. Latest. Brownrigge is dead. The Emilie was commanded by Captain G. L. Small of Boston, with the following officers and crew : —John Brownrigge (fiirt mate), H. Morgan (second mate), T. McConnell (steward), W. Fleming (carpenter), and Seamen F. Yarnall, George Henry, Christian Holm, George Green, Chas. Cummings, W. L, Meek. The vessel was twenty-five years old and was formerly known as the "Arabella." Soon after the wind started she leaked badly and the pumps could not be worked. The captain tried to run back to Bluff but the vessel refused to answer her helm lying like a log on the water and ultimately rolled oeer on her broadside. The Captain ordered the boats out, both these being promptly swamped and the eight men who got in one were drowned. The Captain who behaved with the utmost coolness went to his cabin and put nine hundred pounds in his pocket on the chance of being saved.

Accounts given by the survivors show ' that the vessel had been a floating coffin. Questioned regarding the seaworthiness of the barque, all three men say that she was quite unfit to proceed to sea. Green said "she is one of the worst old traps that ever filled with salt water, and was not fit to be afloat. Any seaworthy boat . would have stood the weather all right, I have been in much worse weather. All the canvas was taken off her before she went on her beam ends. The sails, ropes, and rigging were rotten, in fact there was . nothing but red paint holding her j together." Brownrigge, the mate, who j died in the hospital a few minutes after j his admission, to-day, was a big powerful ' man. His death was caused by wearing gum boots for nine days after the wreck, which brought on gangrene. The barque which was 25 years old, was owned in San j Francisco and had had her name changed, being formerly the "Arabella." The survivors were six days without food or water, and for the other six subsisted on a dead seal found and two nvood hens. All are in the hospital, their feet especially being badly swollen and cut.

Village Settlements.

"The forfeitures (says the "Wan ganui Herald") even in the least pros* perous settlements have been exceedingly small, though through a trick they have in some cases been made to look large. Tt has been represented that in the Hevekino settlement there are .106 forfeitures and 4'l settler*. This return is got up by representing every applicant made, when the settlement was first thrown open in 1886, whore theapplication did not proceed any further, as a for feiture. In the iir.st rush crowds applied, and many of those who were unfit dropped

out before they ever went on the land at all. These are carefully scheduled by the i Land Department, called village settlers, J and made to swell the ranks of the[ ' forfeited. 1 The dishonesty of the trick I is apparent the moment it is explained. I But the official declaration ia sent forth f to afford pabulum for the unscrupulous." I

TELEGRAPHIC. HOME AND FOREIGN.

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LORD DEERHURST.

London, April 13. Lor Deerhnrst offered his creditors 10s in the £ down, and the balance when he succeeds to the title.

VICTORIAN LOAN.

The Victorian Loan is quoted at a premium of one per cent. k The "Economist" asserts that Vic toria is suffering from a financial crisis, that the export of gold has diminished, and that the management of the Treasury is reckless and incapable and would not be tolerated in any private firm. It says that the dwindled - sur plus, and the deficit in the railway revenue prove that the public works of the colony are unproductive.

SIR C. HALLE.

Sir C. and Lady Halle have sailed for Australia.

THE LABOR TROUBLES.

The master bootmakers insist that the wages dispute shall be referred to arbitration.

OBITUARY.

The death is announced of General Sir John Henry Lefroy, R. A., who was the Administrator of the Government of Tasmania in 1880-81, aged 73.

GOVERNORSHIP OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

The Marquis of Salisbury, is anxious for the Marquis of Lome to succeed Lord Carington as Governor of New South Wales.,

NEW DRAMA.

Mark Twain's " The Prince and the Pauper" has been successfully drama tised, and is saidjjto be equal to Mrs Hodgson Burnett's "Little Lord Fauntleroy,"

UP IN A BALLOON.

Higgins, the aeronaut, ascended in a balloon from Croydon, Surrey, yes .terday, with the intention of descend ing by means of a parachute. In the ascent, however, he lost the parachute, and the balloon, with its occupant, disappeared among the clouds. Higgins subsequently landed safely at Tun bridge, Kent.

THE KAISER.

Berlin, April 13. The Emperor William received an ovation on his arrival at Weisbaden.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

It is understood that Yon Caprivi and Count Kalnoky have formally re newed the Triple Alliance, and it is hoped England will co-operate.

THE EIGHT HOURS DEMON STRATION.

The Non-Socialist Unionises of Germany have declined to co-operate in the Eight Hours demonstration in May. The employees of Austrian and of many Germany factories are threatened with dismissal if they take part in the May labor celebrations.

ALSACE.

The passport system in Alsace is to be abolished immediately. Prince Hohenlohe, Governor of Alsace-Lorraine is about to retire.

ATTITUDE OF THE GERMAN PRESS.

The " Kolnische Zeitung attacks the Emperor, and eulogises Prince Bis marck.

DANUBIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

St. Petersburg, April 13. The Russian Government will subsi dise the Danubian Steamship Com pany, on condition that their vessels are available as warships.

THE STUDENTS.

It is officially stated that the com plaints of the students are baseless. In all, 140 have been expelled.

STANLEY.

Paris, April 13. H. M. Stanley has arrived at Cannes where he was welcomed by the Prince of Wales.

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

I The " Gaulois," a political journal, repeats the statement that the Em peror William of Germany is desirous of a rapprochement with France, and to make Alsace neutral, under a similar guarantee to that given in the case of Belgium, with a view to produce a I lasting peace. The " Gaulois " states that the object is to allow Germany to pursue a policy of expansion in/Africa, and there found an Empire which might yet rival that of India.

PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.

Washington, April 13. The Pan-American Conference agreed to a system of reciprocity, with the exception of,the Chili, Paraguay, and Argentine Republic.

THE MAHDI.

SuAKiM, April 13. Travellers from Odurman report that the Mahdi has disappeared, and that the. route between Dongola and Khartoum is open. v

AUSTRALIAN.

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NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, April 14. The trunk of the old man named Taylor, who was murdered near Wagga, has been discovered. The man in custody on the charge of murder has made two unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide.

All the inhabitants of Bourkc are engaged throwing up earthworks to protect the town from flood water. The Darling river is from 16 to 21 miles wide near Walgett. A dam at Brewarrina, 507 miles north-west from Sydney, has burst and inundated the town, but no fatalities are recorded,

VICTORIA.

Memourne, April 14. Victoria and New South Wales a^ree to subscribe, conjointly with other colonies, to pay Dr Ellis £10,000 if his specific for the extermination of wheat rust is successful. The Hon. Duncan Gillies has ap proved of Sir Henry Parkes' federal resolutions for submission to the various Parliaments. The Hon. James Service has been interviewed with respect to state ments made by Mr J. Higginson re garding New Caledonia, and has said that under no circumstances would Great Britain give her consent to even a rod of land in the New Hebrides Islands being handed over to t=, any foreign power. Any Victorian Ministry suggesting such a thing would be turned out of office with only twenty-four hours', notice. . . >

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Perth, April 14. There is great excitement consequent upon the find of gold, which' is said to be the richest made, in the.Coldhy. One thousand ounces.: of -gold and nuggets have been found, at ■Ash burton, the scene of the find..

The Year's Finance.

SURPLUS OF £116,000.

The Wellington correspondent of the ''Press" telegraphs:—lt may be, pos sibly, seme days yet-before the accounts for the past financial year are finally made up and the result of the year's operations authoritatively known. It is practically certain, however, that when the figures shall bo made public they will show a clear and undisputable surplus of revenue over expenditure for the financial year amounting to £116,000.

Lord Carington on Federation.

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Sydney, April 14. Speaking at the University; com memoration, Lord Carington touched on federation. Referring to Lord Wol sele/s remark that he looked forward to the time Vhen heaven would send statesmen wise enough to federate all the lands acknowledging Queen .Vic toria as sovereign, he said that-with all respect to Lord Wqlseley, he thought the colonies better.as they were. He asked, was Australia not already over done with good meaning people whose fads, theories, and nostrums were more likely to break us all up., /•-" ?

INTERPROVINCIAL.

[per press -association] Auckland, April 14. Rain is still falling steadily, >nd it haa been found necessary' to^ postpone the second day of the Ellershe races- still further. ' -■' ' . Sir George Grey is suffering from in flammation of the eye,which confines him to the house. He was to have addressed the Anniversary Assemblage of St. Andrews' Presbyterian Sunday-School children yesterday, but being unable to do so he sent a contribution: of r -five guineas. ' ,'-•'-'-'-/ -i'-'S? Lord Onslow has not yet recovered from the effects of his cold.'.* Yesterday was the first time he was out of bed for a week, and then only for a short time. The opening of Costley's home for the aged poor, has been further postponed in consequence. Rev. Dr. M'Leod, formerly a- Presby terian Minister here, "was brought up from Napier to-day on his way to Sydney. where he is being charged with a criminal assault on a young woman. ■;

At the harvest thanksgiving - service at St. Mary's pro-Cathedral yesterday a thank-offering of £100 was included amongst the collection. The Directors, of the South .British Insurance Company have issued a circular intimating that the business of the past half-year has not been such as to enable them to declare an interim divi dend. They state that they are pursuing the policy of withdrawing from the foreign field, where the prospects are not satis factory. -.,"" The cutter Oi, of Tauranga, which left Maketu on Tuesday is supposed to have been lost with two young men, William Turner and William Cannamon. Nelson, April 14. The drought has completely broken up. Over six inches of rain has fallen: since mid-night on Thursday. Christchtoch, April. 14. A deputation from the Tailors Union interviewed the directors of the Kaiapoi Company to-day and complained that the Dunedin prices were paid for Christchurch work and that the proportion of machinists in the factory is insufficient. -The direc tors replied that they had instructed- the manager to follow the Dunedin system entirely but had not yet had the oppor tunity of trying it for a full week. They requested the Union to formulate the com plaints in a letter which the deputation promised should be done. ;; '\J

The New Plymouth Murder.

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New Plymouth, April 14. The police are trying to get evidence in the murder case, but so far they have nothing of a tangible nature. , A handker- I chief was found on the prisoner, which it was thought might afford a clue,, as de ceased was supposed to Have one'identical with it, but tins proved incorrect as the handkerchief could not be identified. From further evidence \it appears that the prisoner has heen spending money some what freely singe the time of the murder, and it was known that he had not money before.; He has so far failed to,satisfac torily 1 account for the money.' He says his father in Parihaka sent it to him,, but this is not believed as he has made several different statements, another onelbeing that his brother gave him the money. It is now thought probable that deceased had several pounds in bis possession at the time of the murder, as a few days ago he offered to lend a person £5, the offer, however, not being accepted. The. police have ascertained that a girl going to the High School oh Friday met a Maori in the Recreation grounds, The prisoner has not yet been identified by the gir], as she has not seen him since he was arrested. She will be taken to the Police Station to-morrow for the purpose of identifying him. The funeral of the deceased will take place to-morrow. Sub scriptions have been made for the purpose of giving him decent burial, otherwise he would have had to be buried as a pauper*

Portuguese Operations on The Shire.

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IjOkdon, April 14. It is rumored that the Portuguese have despatched troops and artillery to attack Imponda, in the Shir 6 district,

.T.HE ASHBTJRtOia GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, APRIL 15,1890.



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The- Ohi-istcliurch Oity Council last night struck a rate of Is Itlin the pound, being an increase of 2d on last year. The debit balance at the Bank v £6797,