The Ashburton Guardian. Magna et Veritas et Prævalebit. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1890. THE NEW ZEALAND COAL SUPPLY.

During the past session a matter of some importance was brought under the notice of the House by Sir George Grey. The matter referred to was the necessity for a " cheap and abundant supply of coal to the welfare, manufac tures, and commerce of every country ; to the evils that-would result from the monopoly of a supply of coal falling into the hands of any powerful com bination of owners of coal tnines, and to the benefits which might be secured to the miners and their families if the working of the coal mines was con ducted under Government control/ He therefore mov*«l " That the Govern ment ought to make speedy arrange ments for working some of its own mines, to refrain from parting with any more coal mines, and to resume the Government coal mines already leased m those cases m which the conditions of the lease have not been fulfilled, and to acquire coal mines which are on private property as fittingopportunities offer.'* The Ministry promised to consider the proposal during the recess. In view of the difficulties now being experienced, owing to the labour troubles, m getting supplies of coal for manufacturing purposes, the subject introduced by Sir George Grey is a most important one, and worthy of serious consideration. A combination of labourers or a syndicate of coalmine proprietors can, under a private owner ship of coalfields, at any time raise the price to consumers without justifiable cause. Strikes and lock-outs occur more frequently m the Home country m connection with the coal industry than m any other following, and the causes are not the scarcity of the article, or increased difficulties m obtaining it, but the result of combina tions for private gain. In New Zealand these interests have not been felt to any great exent until the advent of the present labor trouble, but present indications are sufficient to arouse public attention to the dangers that may arise m the future if the State should permit huge monopolies of our vast coalfields. A State ownership of at least half the coalmines m the colony would no doubt serve to keep m check the effects of combination on the part of the coalmining interests. Indeed, where the State owns the railways, as m New Zealand, it is essential that some direct supervision should be exercised over the coalfields, or at least a portion of them, m order that the State railways—the property of the people—may not earn dividends only to place them m the pockets of speculators. The following particulars, from a con temporary, of the extent and quality of the coal deposits m New Zealand will be of interest at the present juncture:— The quantity of coal ascertained to exist, calculated from the imperfect surveys which have been made, is roughly estimated by Sir James Hector, the Director of the Geological Survey,.at 443,948,000 tons. The quality is extremely varied, some of the coal being, for all practical purposes, equal, if not superior, to much of that used m other parts of the world; while a groat deal is of com paratively inferior description, although it has considerable local value, especially for domestic purposes. The lignite, brown coal, and pitch coal correspond with the brown coals of the Exiropean Continent, and arc largely distributed through both islands ; but there is, owing to the geological forma tion of *he country, a great .variety m the value of the coal seams as fuel. In the South Island the best known deposit is that on the south-east coast, northward from the Clutha Kiver, where it extends Continuously over at least forty-five square miles. There are several seams of good coal, varying m thickness from sft to 30ft, the total quantity m the district being estimated at about 90,000,000 tons. The Green Island and Saddle Hill basin is about si* square miles m extent; but Ilie coal, the quantity of which is estimated at 11,180,000 tons, is slightly inferior to that of the Clutha. A tkird great extent of this formation on the eastern seaboard of Otago underlies the level country to the east and south of the Kakamu' Mountains;, whilst m Southland pitch coal exists m considerable ?[uantity. In many other parts of New Zea and valuable seams of hydrous coal occur. The wide distribution of these deposits and the applicability of this description of coal t« most uses are of the greatest importance to the future of the Polony, The most im portant development of coal of the higher classes —semi-bituminous and bituminous— is on the West Coast of the Middle Island. From the Grey River northwards the coal formation covecn a J&FgP area of the country, the seams rising with 4ip,6 of from JOdeg to 30deg from the sea level to altitudes of several thousand feet ; so .shat t\\o cpal occurs under circumstances most farorable for its being workfid at a small cqst. Jn the Brunner mine, about which so much has been heard lately, the coal yields vitreous coke with brilliant metallic lustre. The outcrops on the Buller River occur at all altitudes up to 3000 feet above the sea level, and accurate surveys prove that this coal field contains 138,240,000 tons of bituminous coal of jthg best quality and easily accessible, It appears fro^n jijt* /Genial Laboratory re ports that the IJull.er coal pt-ef^able for household purposes, whilst jfche' Grey coal is im>4?e suitable for gasworks. The coal m both d»S(L*/;sts, however, has been proved of great value tw jj.i'P#m coal. Seams of the same quality were some timp a<ro discovered m the Mokihinui, Heapliy, anamosi qi the other streams that flow to the westward; and it is to develop this part of the coalfield that the West-port-Ngakawau railway is to be extended, It is hardly necessary to state that tW coalmining leases at present granted extend y? fWj* aggregate oycr a. yery small area compared wi,tJj tlu? ascertained area of all the coal depos ts of the Oolony which may be worked advantageously,

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Madame Patey, the eminent vocalist, who has fetoty .arrived m the colonies, was born m 1842,'aud is jtj^e possessor of a contralto voice ol rare pow#r anti pweet nesa. Since 1870, when' Madame Sainton Dolby retired into private life, she has en joyed the reputation of being the leading contralto singer m the old country. ivfy Is#iiQ Selby, who a few years ago was starring round as/i Frecthought lecturer, has seen the error' of his ways, given m his adhesion to the Bible religion once more, and is now lecturing m Sydney as a cham pion of Christianity; and the earnest enemy j bi 4)thci3m.— "Australian Christian World." ' A Penny payings' Bank has recently been .established m Du^edi^iu with one ,of the States*kools. Theinstitutipnliasbecftme •very popular with the children, and the aeciMiiylated funds already represent £7 19s lid, the iwfco|§ qf which has been banked m pence. Deposit* e*<sj%ed £he withdrawals m all accounts, and il.ie bank's Wi^omp from overdrafts jis nil. It is believed that t,he grea.teat achieve ment Wf. tj)e way of telephonic coinmunica- i ■tion is .that o£ £l}£ telephone between New j York and .Chicago, iiy tfy\* ijje^fflnj audible converse is held between two persona stajid ing just 1000 miles apart. Europe has not yet come up to much more than ,one-half this distance. The telephone between Paris and Marseilles covers 582J miles^ which ia a long way short of the telephone New Yprk and Chicago, •

J. C. H. Williams, an Adelaide policeman, has fallen heir to a forttine of £85,000 left by his father, a merchant m Brazil. For a c»ld On the chest, a flannal rag wrung out of boiling water sprinkled with turpentine and laid on the chest gives the greatest relief. Fainting procsods from different causes, the commonest being a disturbance m the circulation of the blood m the brain. For an ordinary iaintiug fit you should lay the ratient flat. Ctreat harm has often resulted fi-om the treatment by ignorant people m trying to make the patient sit up, or prop ping up the head with pillows. You want to send the blood back from the heart to the brain, and so the flat posture is absolutely necessary. Let the patient lie so that the feet are higher than the head, throw open the clothes about the chest and throat, and sponge the face with cold water, and give tho patient some cold water to drink. Edward Everett's definition of a good J education was:—"Read the English lan guage well, write with despatcu a neat legible hand, and be master of tho first four rules.of arithmetic, so as to dispose of at once, with accuracy, every question of figures which comas up, m practice, and if you add the ability to write pure gram matical English, you have an excellent education. There are the tools. You Joan do much with them, but. you are hopulcNs without them. They are the foundation ; and unless you begin with these, all your ilashy attainments, a little geology, and all other olocics and osonhics, ure uatcntntioun rubbish." A new evidence of Chinese cunning ban just been brought to ligl.it at Chicago. 801110 time ago an Englishman exhibited an tin usually valuable lot of unset pearls to an ex pert m those gems, who bought for 2Woilol a number of fine ones, apparently worth SOOOdol. On weighing them lie found they weighed about four times more than they should. He finally took them to another expert, and it was eventually docided to i break one of them. This was done, when it was found to be filled with lead. A hcuoikl expert, who had lived m China, any* the Chinese i;atcli oysters and mussels, pry open the shells and drop bullets into them. This causes irritation, and a regular layer of pearl is formed around the lead. The credit balance on the half-year's business of the Melbourne Gas Company was £108,913, and a dividend of 10s 9<l per share amounting, to £76,025 was paid. On Ist January the price of gas was reduced from 5s M to 4s 7cl per 1000 feet, yet the in creased consumption enabled the company to pay 21£ per cent, dividend, the maximum allowed by the Act of Incorporation. The concession m the price of gas was equal to £35,000 on the half-year's business. Fifty six miles of new services were laid, 4486 meters went into use for new customers, and 66 were attached to gas engines during the same period, The number of meters now m use is 77,872 and the company have laid 723 miles of mains. There are no less than 2874 names on the eloetoral roll for the Ashburton district,' and as there wilj. be some hundreds more on thft supplementary roll it is safe to say that that there will be over 3000 registered names. Now as the total population is, according to the Representation Commissioners' calcula tion, only 7362, and as women and children are not eap.ible of being registered as electors, it follows that there must be an enormous number of dead-heads or duplicate names on the roll. In fact, seeing that adult males represent'only 27 per cent, of the total popu lation of the colony, the maximum number of possible electors m this electorate will be about 2000, there being thus fully 1000 names on the roll that certainly should not be there; affording of course it does the greatest facilities for personation and the tendering of bogus votes. In all likelihood the same thing obtains throughout the colony, so that we may probably look for. an unusual number of disputed returns and election petitions. The •'Medical Press" reports:—"Ar a meeting of the Academic dcs Sciences, Professor Brown-Sequard referred to some experiments he had conducted with a view to determine what {if any) were the toxic effects of the human breath. In condensing the watery vapour coming from the human lungs he obtained a poisonous liquid capable of producing immediate death. This poison is an alkaloid (organic), and not a microbe, or series of microbes, as might have been imagined.. He injected this liquid under the skin of a rabbit, and the effe-et was speedily mortal. The animal died without convulsions ; the heart and large vessels were engorged with reddish blood, contrary to what is observed after ordinary death, when the quantity of blood is moderate and of a dork color. In conclusion this eminent physiologist said tliat it was fully proved that respired air contained a volatile toxic principle far more dangerous than carbonic acid, which was also one of its constituents, and that the human breath, as well as that of animals, contained a highly poisonous agent. The repressive edicts issued by the Russian Government against the Jews m Russia in crease m severity (says a '' Times " corres pondent)- The new regulations are remark-, able m this respect. They ordain that m the future Jews shall reside only m towns and not m the country. No Jew will any longer be permitted to own land or even to farm land. To intensify the severity of this edict and widen its scope, the Government officials have included many hundreds of small towns m the category of country villages, and ex pelled the Jews from those towns. Tens of thousands of souls will thus be rendered homeless. Jews are no longer to be allowed to be m any way connected with mines or mining industry, nor even to hold shares m any mine. They will be practically debarred from partaking of any educational advant- j ages, whether m schools gymnasia, or universities, The legai profession, m which heretofore a large number of Jews m Russia have achieved great supgesg, wIH m future be closed to Jewish students, Jews are henceforth prohibited from following the profession* of engineer or army doctor, or from filling any Government post, however subordinate.

Mr W. P. Reeves announces himself as a candidate for Christchurnh. The annual concert m connection with St. Stephen's Cmirch will take place m the Church Schoolroom to-morrow (Thursday) evening at 8 p.m. At a meeting of the Wool Buyers' Associa-' tion at Christchuich on Monday a motion was carried to the effoct that all locul wool buyers pledge themselves not U> attend or be represented at sales m the .country, viz., at Ashburton, Rarigiora, or Amberley. Another mountaineering, accident m re ported. The ",St James' Gazette" states thai the visitors to Zell-am-See, one of the most popular summer resorts m the Tyrolese Alps, had been feeling uneasy recently as to the H»fty of three persons .who ascended the Kitesteinhorn" on Thursday, and were snid to have been lo«t. Tho report proved to be only too true, for on Sunday some guides found the three bodies, on the glacier. The Kitswteinhorn k the Highest peak of the whole Taucrii chain. Tho victims are » Vienna lawyer (Dr Edouard Meyor), his son, aged Boventeen, and their guide, who leaves a family unprovided for. Dr Meyer was a nervous little man, who could not see what was on luh plate uiilohh he wore spectacles, and what could have induced him to try to aacend a mountain of upwards of 10,000 feet m height it is impossible to understand. IJiHhop Attcrbury, it, (lie House of Lords, Hpcakmg of a certain Bill, Raid :—'< It ig not many months since I ventured to prophesy that thiH iniquitoiiH Bill would be brought forward. I am sorry that a prophecy, delivered ho much against my inclination, him huen so soon and H0 fully verified m all it» pointw." Lord ConingHby, who always spoke m a puuuoii, replied, "That, as the reverend bishop had ohow-n to call himself a prophet, ho only knew one m Scripture with whom ho deserved to bo compared—that was Ikliuun, who had been reproved by an ass." riie biwliop mildly retorted, "That part of lua lorduhip'H alliiMJon which compares me to Balaam [ mn roadily apply to myself, but as to the latter part of it, I am at a losh to find out to whom it must apply ; for Biire I am that I-have been reproved by no one present except his lordship." The history of John Burns, the Socialist leader, who has been ho much en evidence lately, has (writes a London correspondent) been given to the world. We are told that he is of Scottish extraction, and hia family boasts of the poet Robert Burns as one of its HcionH. When ten years old he was forced by circumstances to go to work m a candle factory. After this he worked as page boy and rivet boy, doing a pot boy's work on Sua« days. By-and-by he became apprenticed to an engineer, were he remained until, he was 21. Then, his application for tv journeyman's wages being refused, he "struck," and went off to another firm. Here he was employed at general engineering, and afterwards made telegraph working instruments. After some years of hard work on the West coast of Africa, where he had accepted an engage ment, Burns settled down atßattersca, where he now resides. A very sad case, writes a correspondent of a London paper, was tried m Vienna on July 30th, m whicli the sympathies of the public were all with the accused. It appeans that a gentleman was one day last month driving his phaeton through tlie cityj and on turning a corner the horse ran into the midst of a crowd of children, who had just left school. They ran m all directions, -and all escaped except, a little girl, who was knocked down. The man on alighting recog nised his own child m the little one who was lying there insensible with her thigh broken. The accused was convicted of having by his reckless .driving endangered the lives of the children^ and was sentenced to pay a fine £10. Before leaving the Court he said to the Judge ; "If you had sentenced ,me to a year's imprisonment you could not have punished me more severely than I have been punished already. I cannot describe to you what are the feelings of a father at the bed- Bide of a child who is suffering pain caused through his own negligence. I gave away my horse and phaeton upon tlie day of the accident, and I will never drive a carriage *g*»." b The annual installation and investure of officers of the Ashburton Kilwinning Royal Arch Chapter took place m the Masonic Hall last evening. The event was one of the finest gatherings of Arch Masonry that has ever taken place m the Hall, many visiting companions having been present. The ceremony of installation and inveature was conducted by M. E. Companions J. Scaly, P.Z, and C. Braddell, P.Z, the latter assisting, and both solemnity and impres siveness was added to the voices of the celebrants by the organ and Arch choir. Companion H. Gates was organist, and an efficient team of singers gave the popular Masonic anthems with fine effect. After labor the Companions retired to the refec tory were a sumptuous banquet was laid, ana the rest of the evening was spent m true Masonic style. The following werethe officers installed and invested :—M. E. Com panions A. Harrison. Z; W. Pattman, H; W. Malcolm, J ; : Companions G. P. Milsom, S.E; J. L, Brown, S.N; SM. E. Companion C. Braddell, P.Z, Treasurer; Companions. B. Nelson, P.S. ;J. Corbitt, S.S.; S. Brown, J.S.jH. A. Gates, organist; R. Cullen, janitor. , .

Resusciation of the Drowned.

The " Timaru Herald" thus refers to a case of resuscitation of one apparently drowned, which is worth full description for the sake of the lesson it conveys. Mr Albert Hutchins is an : employe" at the freezing works and lives at Maori Hill. On Monday morning Mrs Hutchins was attending to a younger child, and her little boy of two and a half years, went out of doors to play. In the, yard is a concrete tank with a wooden cover, not, it appears, sufficiently secured. After the child had been out some time, Mrs Hutchins happened to look out of the window and saw that the cover of the tank had been pushed off. Hardly suspecting anything more at the moment, as the child had said he was going to a playmate, Mrs Hutchins. went to look, and saw the child floating m" the tank, white and still. Very fortunately owing to the rain on Sunday the tank was nearly full, and she was able to reach the child and pull it out, when it; was ap parently quite dead. Vary fortunately Mrs Lindsay happened to drive past at the time, and see,ing what had occurred offered to drive :^ckl iin4 letch a "doctor, an offer that was. of course gladly accepted. Mrs Lindsny drove to Dr Reid's. He, however, was, engaged at the hqspital, but being telephoned to, he left his work there and hastened to Maori HiU, When he arrived a considerable time had elapsed since the child: was taken from the water, and Up, feared an attempt t© resuscitate it would be fruitless. He, however, set to work, and m a couple of hours or so had the pleasure of returning the child to his parents alive and " doing as well as could be expected." Yesterday the child. was so much better that he was able to speak, and all fears of bad conse quences are removed. Many a case of drowning has ended m,. death, {op, "wafll of such know^aa and s^ili' as Dr Keid brought to boar m resuscitation of the child. When one considers the time the child had lain, seemingly m the sure grip of death, Dr Reid deseives credit for persevering m his fight with grim •nemy, ' .-

Alleged Threat to Shoot an Officer

[per press? assocut^oj^] Wellington, September 23> A man named Patrick Long, who worked his passage from Auckland on the steamer Tarawera, which arrived last | night, was this afternoon arrested on a charge of threatening to'shoot the chief engineer on the steam,er with a revolver. In consequence of Mr Ramsay, the Engineer, haying to go on with the Tara wera to Dunedin, the charge of threaten ing against Long will not be progeeded iWith. He says h«. wag dy.unk a,t the time, a^d there \s no doujbt that if he intended niisohiif he could have easily fired at Ramsay. His revolver was fully loaded. He will be prosecuted on another charge of stealing the revolver from a Kanaka on board, ''

The Land Ballot.

In New South'Wiift^tho same difficulty is experienced with* "regard to the ballot for land as lihb been found here, as the following remarks "from the "Sydney Mail" show :— One of the new Grievances to which the attention of the Minister was directed m tiic Legislative Assembly the other night is found m the working of those pro visions of the land lrtvr under which the ballot is _ resorted to for the purpose of determining che priority of applications for conditional leases when.' two or more relating to the same land are tendered simultaneously. The liability of the system to be abused appears to have been demonstrated experimentally during the late rush for land m the Eastern division. The ballot system was introduced with a view of giving every person desirous of taking up the land an equal opportunity, whatever his circumstances might be. What could be fairer, it was thought, than appeal to chance? What better means could be devised for preventing corruption or favoritism, or the acquisition of special opportunities by the man with the longest purse ? Tins was the theory. In practice, hoAvever, the system appears to have opened a way to clever scheming, or what may be regarded M virtual fraud. In theory every ap plicant has his erne chance m the lottery, and nothing more. In practice one applicant has found means to secure a number of chances, and to get the coveted land by means of practically fictitious applications, to the disadvantage of others who have asted us straightforward men. As explained by Mr Gough, a number of persons put m applications, nominally m their own interest, but really m the in terest of a relative or friend, aud with drew those applications when the purpose had been served. The practicability of this proceeding is traced to the proviso which permits any applicant, either before or immediately after the ballot, to with draw his application and to obtain a refund of any money paid m connection with it. If this could not be done the operation would involve expense ; as it is, it may be carried out cheaply. No doubt this proviso as to withdrawals and refunds was intended to protect the interests of bona fide applicants. The section under which the ballot system is provided for was discussed at great length when the Bill was m committee. Pre sumably, Parliament was satisfied at last that it had been hammered into the right shape; but it is actual experience that puts the workmanship of the! lawmaker to th» teat. The Minister says he has made the strongest efforts to thwart the abuses m connection with the ballot system, and ' he intimates that he has' had to take strong action to prevent abuses m con nection with special areas. " During the recent two; months,? he says, " all kinds of and devices have been prac tised with a view of blocking settlement." The information is neither gratifying nor unexpected. Our land ;law has never for nearly thirty years token . adequate account of the weakness of human nature or the force of natural instinct. If we had' been trying all the while to make mater run uphill, we should almost certainly have seen: some of -it trickling down again. Our land laws have had so strong a tendency to promote the, conflict of rival interests that even well-meant attempts to cure one set of evils are likely to be followed by the development of others.

Non-Unionists Attacked.

The Dunedin labor organ, "The Globe, has the following :— " The frequency of the occurrence of night attacks on non-Unionists is becom ing quite alarming. Of course we do not pretend to shut our eyes to tho fact that <v few Dnion men may be concerned m these affairs, but m the main it seems pretty plain that the Unionists not only do not take part m these cowardly tactics, but interfere on the other side. The case of John Dowie is. well to the point. Dowie was rescued by the pickets, and the stern cry of ' Union pickets keep order ' and the prompt action of the pickets alone prevented a murder being committed. That this is so is apparent, for Dowie himself feels convinced that hoodlums at tacked him, and his condition was pitiful. Such occurrences as these must tend to the discredit and disgrace of the Labor cause, and they must therefore be most careful how they deal with such. It is their duty, and we feel assured they will do it when opportunity presents itself, to hand over to the police any one they may catch taking part m these riots. The frequency of these murderous attempts has caused revolvers to be called into requisition. On Friday night two or three in stances of maltreatment came under the notice of the police. As the ' who had been working on the Manapouri, were passing the cross wharf on their way home, they were attacked by a mob of about forty men. Mr G. Martin (purser of the Rotorua) was struck by a man who held a stone m his hand, and has not yet recovered from the effects of the attack. -Mr D, Mathieson, the Union Company's wharf superintendent, and Mr Smith, wharf foreman, were also illtreated. The night watchman of the Harbor Board, Mr / . M'Millan, also came m for a share of ill usage. Mr McMillan states that he was coming up the wharf after locking up when he saw a crowd collected. He at once called out 'Police,' and was im mediately felled to the ground. The Union pickets whe were on the wharf say they knew nothing of the matter. An other instance was that of John Dowie, who was set on on Friday night. He states that it was hoodlums who "attacked him. This cannot he denied, seeing that he was rescued by Union men. One of the Te Anau's crew and a wharf hand were also knocked about oh Saturday night. Arrests have been made m connection with thes,e casjes,"

Effects of the Argentine Revolution.

I British capital embarked m Argentine ventures may be estimated ab 200 millions. In the worst event practically possible, the land remaining m any case, while railways cannot well be nnnihi^eti, "|h c loss might reach half tfas,t jiunV Argen tine Sterling C^QVer-hmeh't and Provincial lqftn# ftn^unf, to £43,620,000 nominal, the present market value of the bonds being about 35 millions. Cedulas are also held to the nominal value of probably over million dollars, valued at ? ,bolife seven millions sterling, Argen'tfiie Rajlw-w shares and honcfe^eaoh nearly &} millions nominal, the market value behi" 55 to GO million. Adding 15, to 20;: .millions f W uuenos Ayres port, drainage m d other miscellaneous . Arge^w tindertakings, and the securities held by trusts and not a,irea% t»keh into account, we get a total Britisli investm.cnJ known, to the London , Stock Exchange of upwards of 1Q& millions, at present prices. SncMsli capitalists are also intsr^ed' m pr^fvate land transac^tt&s, while, mercliants and o^e^A i\ve creditors of Argentine im porters. The depreciation of the past few weeks has knocked fully 10 millions off the value of British investments' m Argentina, without countme Orucuav "Daily News," " S -y'

Passes over the Alps

Many years ago, when -the' Wattlaad | goldfields were newly discovered, aiid all Canterbury was more or less, generally more, excited over the questioned wayp of getting there personalty; or of getting stock anrt goods over the mountains to ■ supply the needs of the diggers, there I were several meetin'-s hold in' Timaru to ' discuss the possibility of finding a direct | pass from South C.infcorintry to" the v \Vest i Coast, to save going round by the Hurumii ' or the Waimakoriri. We cannot recollect, whether anyone ever made the attempt to get over and blaze a practicable pass, but the conclusion was regetfully come to that there was no thoroughfare from South Canterbury toWestlana. The annual re^ port of thf Chief'Survey6r for this year, however, contains a special report, with maps, by Mr Brodrick, of the survey staff,: on two passes by which he, at all events, managed togetover from South Canterbury into Westland. One of these was discovered by Mr E, P. Sealey m 1871, but we do not gather that Mr Sealey descended the western side/ This Mr Brodrick did m May 1888, and " passed all the difficulties that lay between the pass and the Wataroa river." They were only a few miles from; a track and a wire bridge, but the weather looked threatening, so they reluctantly turned back. Sealey Pass is reached from this hide by going up Lake Tekapo to; Lilybank station, thence np the Godley; river and seven miles up Godley Glacier,. This appears to: be a very good pass for" those Who like the roughest of travelling with perpetual thunder of avalanches around them, and it seems, a dead certainity of more or less fog—when it is not snowing. : Its altitude is 5800 ft. The other pass is named the Huxley, as ifc is reached by going up one of the branches 'of the Huxley river, which again is 1 a tributary of the Hopkins, the "principal river flowing into Lake Ohau. Mr Brodrick describes the scenery on the. Huxley as very pleasing and m endless variety; there is no glacier travelling on this route.» The party took their horses and camped at a spot under five miles frorii the pass! One day they walked up to the pass to fix its position, "but when we got there the Lands borough river (of Westland) looked so near that we determined to visit it." They did so ? but they found the descent steep and rather difficult. Mr Brodrick says "the track over the saddle could never be made anything but a passable foot path- • • . . but without a very* large outlay; a f:ackhorse could be taken to 1 within a mile of the pass." The height of it is given at 5309 ft. After'all, if known, these two passes would.not have helped South Canterbury to reach the West Coast market at the time of the I rush.—Exchange.

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HOME AND FOREIGN

[rER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

London, September 23. /VVool is firm and competition active. The British squadron has:arrived at Mozambique. Lisbon, September 22. The Governor of Mozambique has been ordered to maintain a friendly attitude towards the British Squadron unless their conduct should compel him :tO) vindicate, thte h,onoti.'of- Por tugal. Buenos Aybes, September 22. The Argentine provinces are suffer ing from drought.

INTERPROVINCIAL

Axjcklano, September 23. Two houses, owned and occupied by Taylor and Scott respectively, were burnt at Kingland to-night. The fire arose from the falling of a kerosene lamp m Taylor's house. The insurances were — Scott's house £160 m the South British, furniture uninsured ; Taylor's house £125 m the South British, furniture £70 m the same eftice. To-day was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Bishop Luck's ordination, and he re ceived a large number of congratulatory addresses presented at the Bishop's Palace, Ponsonby, by parishioners of St. Patrick's and St. Benedict's, the Children of Mary, Marist Brothers, school children, .and Children of Sisters of Mercy School. The addresses spoke m glowing terms of the many works established by the Bishop . since his Lordship's arrival. In reply the Bishop said one of the grandest features of the Catholic Church was that priests and people worked m harmony, ana were united m faith and m action.

Breach of railway Regulations.

At the Invercargill Police Court the other day John Crowther was charged with having, on the 11th September, travelled on the Bluff line on a portion of • ticket transferred by another to him. Defendant admitted the charge, but said the circumstances -were such that he thought the Bench would agree that only a technical breach of the railway by-laws had been committed. Mr Crowther who was the holder of a "fifty, trip" ticket, want to the Bluff on the date m question with three men, taking out at Invercargill one return and two single tickets. He gave t\Vo of $he men a single ticket each, and the third the half of a return ticket, I retaining the other half himself, intending Ito return by it. Mr Crowther went down on one of his "fifty trip."• .tickets, and back 1 oh the half. There' was no doubt this was a technical breach of the by-laws, but it Was of a very small nature, and no fraud was intended. All that Mr Crowfcher- saved by it was sixpence. If the guard had asked him to use one of the "fifty trip" tickets he would have done so, but though the guard knew he had these m his possession he JdM not make that request. Mr Crowther used, the return ticket, thinking he had a p/s# feet right to do so. Counsel pojpyjG^ out that there was no transi^ of^ thj} K ja jf ticket, and asked for. ifce Mflictibj* o f n \y a nonvhial §ne* which the Raihr a y Depart incsat would be satisfied; %r}th; A fine of one shilling and costs was impo.s»e& as they only desired to make th^ position clear. .

Labor Questions

I; [PER PRESS ASSQ<?3[tVjHON.] jLondon, September 22. A meeting of ten thousand railway men at Finsbury passed a resolution of ! sympathy with the Australian strikers, I and made a collection m their aid. ■■ $y»ney, September 23. Sty^e matters are quiet all over Australia. : Melbourne, Sep,t&mb&r'23. : The Employers' ■Union, after long deliberation, have agreed to propose to Employer^' Unions m other colonies that a conference should be he]d with ' labor representatives, p-ovided | the principles laid down m the employers' manifesto are j; iinaly adhered; to.

AFFAIRS AT LYTTELTON.

Yesterday morning some of the wharj laborers dressed up a dummy to represe^jj a railway casual hand who returned to work, and carried it round the town,, fol lowed by a large number of children. T, he dummy was carried, past the house J

of the ru.'jual hand and exhibited to his children, and then taken round to the Slirimer road and consigned to the rubbish Leap. The procession, after destroying Hie dummy, hoisted a blaak flfig on a stick which headed them to town. A scratch ! band was m .attendance, of which the | most prominent instrument was a drum emblazoned with the words " Welcome all." ¥ It is rumored that the s,s. Hinemoa is to proceed to T)unediu direct to take the Maritime Council and others to Welling ton, to meet the Managers of Companies and others m a' conference. " ' There were 84 non-unionists working m Ljifeelton yesterday! Some 60' men have of the Now Zetland railways as permanent hands. The Amerisan brigaritlne Nettie should be clear of her damaged flax to-niglit. She has still 300 bales to put out. Welmngton, September 22. The Employers' Association met 4 this afternoon tor the purpose of considering the following resolutions, drawn up by the Committee :—'• (1) The following is the basis on which . the Employers' Association are prepared to' agree: to a termination of the strike ; (2)' that the question, of Union or non union labor working side by side shall hob be raised, and that being'a Unionist or otherwise shall be no bar to employment; (3) that infilling up existing vacancies theem ployers shall, as'fn'r, as possible, give p?§ ierence to those who were m their employment and left m consequence of the strike ; (4) that as the real well-being of the community depends on the w'ell bcin^i of the greatest number, the employers undertake to conserve and extend, as' far as practicable, the eight hours principle, .*nd assist m furthering measures which will per manently improve the condition of the community." No decision was however, come to. GREyniouTH, September 23. The correspondence published show* that the miners went to work on the understanding thai any coal they mined was not to be given to the Union Cony p<iny either directly or indirectly. Thp agreement was observed until Saturday night, when the mine manager informed them that the Union Company demanded that the Grey Valley Coal Company should fulfil their contract by giving the Union Company the carriage of their coal, so a,s to enable their contracts U> be complied with. The miners said the '.information regarding the Union Company's letter wag known at the mines at ten o'clock m. the morning, but Mr Bishop only told them at ten o'clock last night, thereby stealing a march on them, m order to get n few more tons of coal. A great crowd is expected at the mass meeting m the open air to-morrow. ' Fire hundred are to come from Brunner, headed by two bands. ' * It *s reported at Brunnerton that Mr Kennedy has resigned his connection with 1 the Grey Valley Coal Corii]jany. A few citizens have agreed to purchase a ton of flour and two tons of potatoes for the strikers, and it is expected that more contributions of the like kind will be made. There is only about 300 tons of coal m the trucks. The Mawhera will have to go to WestpoTt for coal. Contributions m food are invited on behalf of the Brunner miners who have no means to enable them to stand out; those who have are recommended not io take any. , Wkstpokt, September 23. i At the R.M. Court to-day Patrick Fite-Simmons, formerly .donkeyman on tho Orowaiti, was charged With assaulting thes second mate of the Herald when on the voyage between Wellington and West port, also two charges of assaulting the steward of the Herald, and a fourth\ charge of asssaulting the steward of t;he? Mawhera when ashore here. Fitz- Simmons was a passenger by the Herald, he being a Union man. • The accused was fined £13 :19s m all, with ■ costs,, or s^ven weeks. The money was paid; Dune Dix,. September 2?,. ; The officers of the Ohau, which arrived at Port Chalmers to-day, have decided to remain loyal to. the Unioii Company..'■' Several other officers are said to have returned to the Company^ ' * sg The Officers' Association witlmeefloii, Thursday, to elect representatives to the Wellington conference. Two slight disturbances; occurred thip, afternoon. Three non-Unionists were proceeding to, the wharf, followed by "a crowd •£ Union sympathisers, who Trere hooting. When opposite the Maritime Council oflices one of the men is said to have been struck by some person m the crowd, whereon he drew a revolver, The eff«t was magical, every semblance of opposition ceasing. A few minutes later » non-Union laborer was i proceeding to the wharf to the Te Anaii, a constable es«rW him. A crowd of SOdpr 306* I ©Lowed, hooting lustily, 'and cries were pasod of " Throw the b—- over." The constable slipped through the crowd and, arrested George McKeowu,^said itk be a' seaman on strike, for behaving In a meaner calculated to provoke a breach off > the peace. The man submitted quiefely, ' and was taken to th© station without trouble, this diversion enabling the non- , Unionist k> go peaceably to the Te 'Anatil Ihe Union Company claim'to have now 34 istewners running, and are employing,,, 2140 hon-Unionists. Labor is 'offering 1* freely, and tye Company say they can get enough to man every one oif their steamers if necesiary, while there is a good supply of coal on hand, and on the. way to the colony.

; At Ranriora, on Tuesday, th'^ WeT( , early date »w!% §m aerations at an cZJfc!*££* for a cW^iN oi about 500 tons of, qo^l.

Latest Telegrams.

Wellington, September 24.' Representatives of the labor party waited on a number of publicans, solicit ing aid ior styifcers, and wire fairh I successful. ' * _ The man Jerrard still lingersU bii^S r 08? 1**1*1^110"*^ st»te that there is Mtle hope of his ultimate recove^.^aM „ lilie Arawa ls being discharged by non ! Unionists brought from fyttdttafW™ TJle Mian Patrick Long, arrested for te^fcenmg grievous bMfly-farm to the ffgineer pf the Wm, was charged ;at the Magistratfe's' Coiirfc this morning with stealing a,revolver and pair of trpuisers, the more serious charge beimr witlidr^wi|. Accused was acquitted. '• Government liave received a reply from the Dnnedin Wharf Laborers' xS&SSL « they will send two delegates to the lSot Conference. The Dunedin Empkißßrt ctosider tlie question on- ThursdaTMr Bfillar, Secretary of the Hwjfioii 4in<cil, replies that as the employers statetliey have no grievance, .some qufeftM^should ibe set down for discussion before the I Uonference meets t , ; : Bunedin, Septemlwr 24. ; Ten hands^ere kndcltid off at Hillside workshops yesterday, and 20 others, have received notice. Th« ' report that this number includes Union officers m hi correct. !"|Th3 charge i\ga,imb Gktovgc: McK^owns 1 op provokhig a breach off fclio ptmee by sllouting "fhiwv- him'over "'m a crowd! was, following, a mnn to tlin Te Anaui yesterday,, was hwd this* mouuiiae^ asw2 awmissied^

THE ASHBtTRTON GXTAftDIAN, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1890.



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