BIRTH.

' Tweed.—On March 26, at Ashburton, tho wife of J. M. Tweed, of a daughter. ... _ „ 1

DEATH.

Scott—On February, 1892, at J'al- ing, near London, Mary Anne, widow of the late Revd. W. L. Scott, M.A , Vicar of Groat Dunmow, Essex, and mother of the Kevd. X A. Scott, of Ashburton.

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna Est Veritas Et Prævalebit. MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1892. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

The advocates of technical edu-1 cation have before them a bright ex ample in the Dunedin Technical Classes Association, an organisation which has been in existence for something over a year and has been pronouncedly suc cessful in the objects aimed at, despite many difficulties. Instruction in several important handicrafts has been given to a large number of scholars, and a much larger number of subjects to a correspondingly extended number of scholars would have been taught had the work of the Association not been hampered and circumscribed by the want of funds. * The report of the Association states that if a workshop and apparatus could have been obtained teachers would have been available during the last session of the classes for physics, carving, plumbing, car pentry, and wood and metal turning. These are all subjects which will assist our boys to make a living for them selves, and which it is to the great ad vantage of the community that boys should have an opportunity of receiving instruction in. Therefore, it is with pleasure that we see public interest in the classes is being stirred up, and pracliial supj* t byway of contribu tions towards the expenses sought, in order that the Association may be able to claim a share of the vote of last session of Parliament, which set aside £1000 to be granted on the £ for £ system towards providing technical in struction for scholars in State Schools. Dunedin and Hokitikaare, we think, the only places in New Zealand where any systematic attempt has been made j to impart instruction of this nature ; but now that the Government have recognised—though in very small | measure—the principle that the State should contribute towards the cost of this instruction, there is no doubt that steps will be taken in many other towns to establish technical or manual education classes. Fortunately the Minister for Education appreciates the value of instruction in such practical subjects, and we may be sure that he will not limit the State assistance to this branch of education to such an insignificant sum as £1000. We hope toseeaTechnicalEducation Bill,on some such lines as those of Mr Fisher's Bill of last session, introduced and become law in the ensuing session. The Hon. Mr Reeves has always been an earnest advocate of technical education, as he has been, and is, an opponent of "cram," and his communi cations with the Educational Institute last year show that he is willing to carry his opinions into practice, if Boards, Committees, or teachers will but take the initiative. Of the value of technical education to the rising generation we have many times written, and every day strengthens our opinion that endeavours should be made in all large towns to provide instruction in some handicraft, art, or industry to the male scholars in the higher standards of the public schools, while in the country the elements of agricultural science should be taught. We were in hope that in Ashburton. some step in this direction would have been taken before now ; the Committee long ago gave their adhesion to the principle, and we can only surmise that the want o£ funds has been the hindrance to carrying the principle into practice. The Government subsidy being avail able only to the end of this month, if any claim is to be made for it, action iin getting local subscriptions must 'be taken at once. This may not be practicable, but, as we have before said, Government support will not end with the present small vote, and if a share of it cannot be claimed now, steps should be taken which would ensure a participation in future votes • for a similar purpose.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A dockyard centenarian who has just died at Pluinstead helped to fit out the Victory before the battle of Trafalgar. Three bars of gold, weighing 367 ounces, have been cent to London from the mine at Barmouth, in Wales. A great vein of good coal lias been dis covered at the Straits of Magellan, This will be of incalculable benefit to the com merce of the whole world. With reference to the discovery that the sheep in the colony are 1,400,000 more than was specified in the last sheep returns, ch culars are being .sent to owners warning them of the penalty of evading the sheep tax, Mr .T. (i. Harvey, blaefcsipjjth, jR/cikaia, was on Saturday kicked by a horse, and suffered a compound comminuted fracture of the left j leg. He was taken to Christohurch Hos-1 piul by the express train for treatment, Thii stock sale to-morrow will be held at Tinwald yards—not Ashburton as stated in an advertisement pn Saturday. Messrs Miles and Co. offer 250G Amount Possession merino ewes, and the entry otherwise will bp large. Tbe !?/?at in Victoria has been phenome nal. On March 7 .(the warmest day of the present season) the thermometer in Mel bourne registered 104deg in the* shade, and j.5.3 in the sun. This is the highest tempera-1 tare ever recorded in Melbourne during March siyce 1868. The average atjbeatlatycc at the Clovernment schools in New Zealand Jasfc yfear was 97,058 aij increase of 2,426" on the'previous yeap. | Tlie avei*?sc attendance for the last quarter \ of the year was, however, only 9(J,264, which is less by 40G than in the'«<wesjwndingquar ter of the previous year. At Opnnakc a constable, who was in rmif v, collecting agricultural returns, was " gone 1 through " by a young man who slept in the i same bedroom at the hotel. The local con stable was sent for and found the money in tl>e MA.4nS c^ *^;e y°Hllg man's coat, and he was sevten,ced to three mouths' imprisonment with hard labor, hu^jdes sulFcring a severe shock on learning whom hp had operated on. The " Ifawgra Star 1" hears jthajfc the fleece ofF the merino ram wliich to.ok "first pf izo up the Wellington Show, and was bred and ex hibited by Mr (Jhas. Goultor, of Hawkpsr bury, Malborongh, was sent to Europe. It has since been shown in competition with wool from all parts of the world, taking first at London and Paris. This is regarded J as & $t:sa.t coup for New

The annual general meeting of the Ash burton Caledonian Society will be held on j Saturday evening. The swordbearer of the C n-poration of Worcester recently died. He was 7ft 6in in height. On Saturday the members of the Canter bury Club entertained Mr John Olhver at luncheon in honour of his eightieth birth day. The Tim- V.x Woollen Mill will again start work to-day It is sUted that the Mill has been leased by Mr R. Lwllaw, of Dunedin. On Sunday next, being Passion Sunday, Mais will be celebrated at Methven by a visiting priest. The services at the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Ashburton, will bo as usual. The Khiderspiel " Day of Rest and Glad ness," which was so successfully produced a few evenings ago by the United Methodist Choirs, will be repeated to-morrow evening at the Oddfellows' Hall at cheap prices. Mr Whittington announces by advertise ment that he is again making tomato sauce, which gave such satisfaction la<=t season. The sample bottle shown to us appears to be quite up to the former standard of quality and appearance. The committee of the County Hunt Club met on Saturday, and, as far as was possible, fixed the meets of the CluS for April and May, the first to take place at Scotsdean, on Easter Monday, April 18. Captain Osborne, whose name has been so much before the public lately in connec tion w th the recent pearl slander case, is the son of the emminent musical composer, Mr G. A. Oaborne, one of whose most popular compositions was, curiously enough, entitled " The shower of pearls." On making inquiry of Lloyd's agent on Saturday, the " Timaru Herald" was in formed that nothing had yet been decided regarding further operations on tke Elgin shire. It ia said that Messrs Scott Bros., of Christchurch, are the lowest tenderers for floating her off. At Rakaia on Friday, before Messrs Hardy and Allan, J. P.s., Timothy Cronin and James Brown were each fined 40s and costs for assaulting J. S. Compton. Mr Cuthbert son appeared for Cronin, and Mr Moore for Brown. Prohibition orders were granted against Timothy Cronin and Hans McClure. Two first offenders were each fined 5s and costs for drunkenness, and one first offender was dismissed with a caution. An American authority says that caterpil lars and other insects on the cabbage can be treated with a sprinkling of "pyrethrum powder, diluted with four times its weight of common flour, and which h.is been kept tightly closed for twenty-four hours, " and ifc is said that this remedy " leaves nothing to be desired, and thousands of dollars are yearly saved to small growers from its use." The " North Otago Times " says that at a meeting of a local body recently one of the members took exception to a ruling of the chairman, and said he could prove by the printed rules of another local body that he (the chairman) was wrong. The rules were produced, but turned oat to be those of the Dunedin Jockey Club, which the member (who was not suspected of being that way inclined) had unwittingly laid on the table. As the rules of racing did not apply they were handed back to the member, who put them in his pocket with a sigh. A young man asked for shelter for the night at the house of a peasant in Hungary. The husband being absent the wife gave him a lodging. He said he had come from America, and showed his savings, 600 sovereigns in a bag. The woman, to obtain possession of the money, murdered her guest during the night as he lay asleep. When the husband returned the next day he recognised in the murdere 1 man their own son, who had emigrated sixteen years before, and who for fun had delayed in making himself known. The Melbourne " Age" and " Daily Telegraph," are vigorously advocating the adoption in Victoria of tlie Norwegian liquor laws. This would mean that all private traffic in intoxicants would become illegal, and that the trade would be entirely in the hands of the Government. The profits on the trade to be devoted to defraying the cost to the country entailed by the use, or rather abuse, of the drink. The liquor bill of Victoria amounts to seven millions per annum, and its profits reach one million for the same period ; and our contemporaries urge that the State, which is so greatly impoverished by the ravages of drink, has the best moral right to its profits. The runaway Gilbert has not yet been captured, though the police have been close on his track on more than one occasion. On Saturday morning Gilbert made his appear ance at a threshing camp just beyond the racecourse, where he obtained some tDbacco, and said he was making for the Forks. The men at the camp had not seen any papers for some time, and did not know of his escape. Later on Gilbert made his appear ance at the Winchmore ploughing cair.p, and had breakfast. This morning, it was learned that he had bean seen at Westerfiold, and al&o that he had obtained a meal on Saturday afternoon at Mr Sutton's, in the Forks. The local police with the assistance of detectives from Christchurch, are all out in pursuit. A sample of what newspaper proprietors have to put up with in the absence of a just libel law was shown in a case at Broken Hill, the other day, when a publican named Walsh sought to recover damages from the " Silver Age" for having described his premises as g, ''dirty hotel." The news paper published the evidence of the local inspector of police, who stated that the hotel was one of the filthiest and worst conducted houses on the Barrier. It was such a disgustingly dirty place that a black fellow would not have allowed it to get in such a state. Judge Gibson, however, said that the publication of the paragraph was not an abuse of the privilege of a newspaper^ and the plaintiff was nonsuited with costs, The origin of the great coal porters' strike is thus stated by the London qorres. pondent of the " Argus ":—"Messrs F. B. Cimeron and Co., thought it right to send back from their coal-yard at King's Cross to Wai worth one of pheit foremen. He was a non-unionist, and although the \Valworth men had raised no objection to him before, they now threw down their tools, and a general strike in their support had been called. Complaint is now made that Messrs Cameron haye not been paying the regular wages, but this is repelled by the firm, who amaze us by revealing the fact that pqql porters in London earn as much as 42s 3d per man per week, whilst some of Messrs Cameron's men have been getting, during the past six monchs, an average wage of 56s lid a week !" A meeting of those favorable to the forma tijon of a branch of the Protestant Alliance Benefit cjocjfity was held in the Orange Hall on Saturday 'eyemng, Mr S. B. Nelson. who had convened tiie mse^ing, was called to the chair, and gave a deal CA ' infcrnmtipij in regard to the Alliance Friendly' Society of Australia, stating that he had eajjod the meeting at the request of several Alliances members and others who wished to see a branch started in Ashburton. Several other gentlemeu spoV.e, aiid ultimately a resolution to form a branch was uha'niinously carried, as well t'.s it motion appointing MeWs Nelson, Huston, Barrett, IXilley, and Hume a provisional committee to collect necessary information and ascertain the course of pro cedure to be follo,v>*d it% forming the branch, and to report to next meeting, \iv Barrett to act as provisional secretary with powei- £9 summon tiie next meeting. lv the M'Meckan will case the Full Court ot Victoria ho« endorsed the verdict of the jury, and at the same time gajrc an important. 'dictum'on the subject of jury verdicts. I}/ j this case Chief Justice Higinbotlmm re ' uot'tecl to tj).e Full Court that lie thought; the v"""^ 1' <*f f'hp |vi' ; y wj-ong^and their it "" ''«<•> far i\d fcq say that they Honors wen, .. . 4 ■*•' d would not have arm v " which the majority of the jury ... / vm y>''* ( determined to act on a recent judgmeru the English Court of Appeal, afterwards approved by the House of Lords, which declares that " the granting of a new trial because the verdict is alleged to be unsatis factory and against the weight of evidence oughjb not to depend on the question whether the learned judge who tried the action was or v/as not dissatisfied with the verdict, or whether lie would ha.ye tp come to the same conclusion as the jury did, but wliether tlie verdict was such \a reasonable mqn might have come to,

THE Williams Murders.

[PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 20. The police wholly disbelieve Deem ing's confession that he perpetrated two of Jack the Ripper's murder.-. They state that Deeming and his wife parted at the Cape in July, 18S9, and travelled to London by different routes. Mrs Deeming and her children arrived in London in August 4, and he on ! September 28. Deeming then rejoined j his wife, and subsequently the latter proceeded to Birkenhead, while her husband remained in London for a month, (Receiver! M irch 28, noon). Albany", March 28. During the journey from Perth, I large crowds of people, among whom , were a number of rioters, met the train conveying Swan son. At Bever ley and York they smashed the car riage windows, called Swanson " mur derer," and threatened to lynch him. Swanson was quite unnerved by these demonstrations. During his confine ment in Albany Gaol he secured a glass botble, which he smashed, and with one of the pieces chopped off his moustache, altering his appearance in an extraordinary manner.

Melbourne, March 28. The Governor has received a cable message from Lord Knutsford stating that if Mr Webster, ex-Governor of Hull Gaol, who is now on a visit to Melbourne, identities Williams, the identification of the Rainhill murderer will be complete. Perth (\V,A.), March 28. Mr Haynes, Swanson's solicitor, now denies that the prisoner made any con fession to him.

TELEGRAPHIC.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

PER PRESS ASSOCIA.TIO>.

THE BANK AMALGAMATION.

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THE BERLIN RIOTS.

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AUSTRALIAN.

CANNIBALISM IN QUEENS LAND.

B.iwsbane, March 2(3. Several cases of cannibalism are reported among the blacks in the Cairns district, about 900 miles north west of here. Five boys were recently killed and eaten.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

Mastkuton, March 26. A man. nanied'ijlackleil, .wh,o has been under treatment in the Masterton Hospi tal for supposed poisoning by sheep dip, has succumbed after lingering many weeks, Wellington, March 26. The body oj:' !ftljo jrojjng man Perkins, who was missed last woek, was found in die liuarnahanga river, a lon# way down,' after a diligent search. The fresh had waphed the corpse away and lodged it in the branches .of a tree. ' '' ' ]?oW GiiA)fymif- r March 27- i At 6 p.m. on Saturday, when Captain ' Jones, of the barque Sandanah, who hud ; been ashore at the pilot station for orders, ; was returning to the ship, his boat cap sized in the rip. Yiio captain and four, men managed to got on to the 'boat's; bottom and cling there .until rescued by i Piiojb Mi^ne and his boat's crew, who W9VQ ¥?■*s pr.o,inpfc } ri rendering assistance, 1 utoi"*** 0 * '^^WJW^y? p^drownetl, .

Additional Mail News.

{PF.& PK3SS ASSOCIATION, Auokxanp. March 25.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

Afc Newport, Tennessee, on February , 23, some anti-liquor men blew up a ; saloon with dynamite, destroying two ad joining stores as well. Douglas and Bloom, who left Australia sqme months ago under suspicious circum stances, and have since bo-m ctuising about the south seas, sent up to San Francisco from Tahiti by the brig Galilee an iron safe, a piano, and fourteen cases of furniture from on board their yachi, Beagle, addressed to "Joseph Byrne." The goods arrived on February 13th, but not being called for were sent to a bonded warehouse for unclaimed articles. The Heaojlo, it is reported, had left Tahiti for Valparaiso. The United Scates Senate passed on February 18 the Bill to continue in force for ten years the existing anti- Ohinese taws. Tue Bill has a wider scope than that indicated by its title, for in addition to. re-enacting tha present ex clusion laws which are about to lapse, it contains a section intended to meet the difficulty the Treasury officials en count ared in returning Chinese to China, through judicial decisions adverse to their right to return further than to the country from which, they entered the United. States. Thos. A. Edison, the great, electrician md inventor, has been taken i.i by Wall street manipulators. He is dissatisfied with the projected consolidati m of the Edison General Electrical Company, and it is said that he will retire, if indeed be be not practically frozen out. It is said also he now owns only one-tenth of the stock of the Edison Company, which con trols nearly all his patents, and witli such a small portion of the whole stock he is practically powerless. A despatch from New Orleans says the pnn secret of the withdrawal of the Louishnian State lottery from the fierce political struggle which has been racing in Louisiana for many months past is because the lottery is to go to Mexico. Arrangements to that end are about com pleted with President Diaz of the Re public, and the fortess of Chepatapec will be the location of he Louisiana lottery alter 1893, when the present State charter shall have expired. The profits of the managers are enormous, and they can afford to give a pnncely bonus to any country for the privilege of location. The opponents to the scheme assert die operations of this game have demoralised and virtually ruined the city of New Orleans. A revulsion of feeling has set in against the Keeley bichloride of gold cure for inebriety. It is now contended that a number of deaths have been directly traced to it, and that no case of the permanent cure of a drunkard has been shown. The cowboys of New Mexico and the Navajo Indians are at war. There was a pitched battle on February 15, near Cooledge station on the A. and P. rail way, in which four redskins were killed and many ranchmen and cowboys wounded. Active hostilities were com menced to prevent the Indians running off and killing stock, which they are in the habit of doing, Chas. Mcllrane, a murderer, was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison, New York, on February 8, This time the reporters from the leading Press Associa tions an-i newspapers were present, Governor Flower having removed all restric:ioHs. Death was reported to be instantaneous and painless. Extensive frequent rabbit drives are found neevssary in Tulare and other southern counties of California. Notwith standing their frequency the scalps number from 5000 to 10,000 on eacli occasion, and hope of exterminating the peat has been almost abandoned. .John' D. Rockfeller, head of the Standard oil monopoly, ha*added another million .dollars to the endowment of the University of Chicago. His letter to the Trustees concludes: "I make this gift as a special thank offering to Almighty God for returning health."

GENERAL SUMMARY.

SEIMOCS EPIDEMIC IN VIENNA. The Vienna correspondent of the " Standard" telegraphed on the Ist February:—"For a week past an epidemic described as intestinal catarrh has prevailed in Vienna, and there is scarcely a house in the city without one or more patients. In spite of this the sanitary authorities fcr some time declined to take cognisance of the malady. The Burgomaster of Vienna, indeed, employed the Austrian Press Law to compel ©ne of the Vienna papers to contradict the report of the existence of such an epidemic, which had been attributed to the impurity of the Vienna drinking water. This course the authorities have now found it necessary to abandon. The fact that there are between 50,000 and 60,000 such cases at the present time in Vienna, many of them at the hospitals, where the doctors call the malady intestinal influenza, cannot be denied. The bacteriological examination showed that in the bodies of persons who died of the new disease there was not only the influenza bacillus as discovered in Berlin ; but a new sorb of bacillus hitherto unknown. The doctors now forbid the use of Vienna drinking water, which was 'formerly the purest in Europe, and where that advice is followed the illness disappears in a couple of days, leaving the patient, only in a state of extreme weakness, resembling that after influenza.

WOOL AND WOOLLENS.

PROPOSED TARIFF CHANGES. There has been a substantial agreement;, according to a Washington despatch of February 10, by the Wool Special Com mittee of the democratic majority of the House and the Ways and Means Com mittee on the previsions of the Wool Bill, Under the McKinley law the duties sprang from 30 to 6,0 per cent on articles of woollen manufacture, and the proposed reduction is 20 per cent made from the highest rate now imposed, and average rate is brought down to about 35 per cent \ on shoddies and waste. The agreement adopts the Springer rate of 30 per cent against the present rate of 30 cents per pound. All compensatory duties of course are taken off, as raw wool is made free, so the present per pound and per yard duties wili bo -iboljslied if the Bill becomes lav, and only ad valorem foities-retained. The member* of Hig Committee sa.y the Wool B;ll will be the principal measure reported. ! The reports of the majority and of the minority of the House Committee on Ways and Means to Springer's Wool Bill were presented 'to Gongres on Monday, February 29. ■ ; The first says that the McKinley Bill was passed with enormous rates of duties. Many of fcheiij y/ero prohibitory, and all; of them wore unreasonably high, " There is no good'reason." says the' report, -f'for maintaining such high taxes upon 1' articles 1 so necessary to the health and comfort of the people Twenty-five per cent was all the protection the wool manufacturers in 1567 asked, but it seems that in the ease of woollen goods, as 'in all' other, the amount of protection required increased from ye^l 1 Kb year..' 4§ fchp industries get (ilaer'and better established m,ore protec tion '* tWmanded/ Tho wool-grower pf ]867 believed that the imposition of high tariffs on wool would secured hem control of the Home market. The result proves how neatly they were mistaken, and how ineffectual the law has been to produce the condition they desired, As to us

elects on piles as, wool has htemiiiy declined from 1867, when it was worth ; sixty-two cents pur pourd. The Mc- Kinley Act increased the duty on wool on pn*avenige of one cent net 1 pound. The result has been a fall in the price of two Lo three cents per pound, instead of a ri^e. The result of twenty.rfive years of experi ments has been a reduction of one half in the number ofsheep in thestateseastef the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. There is | i a reduction of one half in the price of wool, nor have manufacturers of woollen goods bee.i benefited by the imposition of high duties ou wool and woollen goods. Notwithstanding the high protection accorded to the manufacturers of woollen goods', the quality has deteriorated year by year since the discovery of machinery < for converting woollen rags into subsfci ■ tubes for wool. A high protective tariff on wool has the direct effect of limiting the demand for American wool, for the reason that under such tariff neither the domestic wool nor the manu factures of wool cm be exported or sold at a profir, Only that amount of domes tic wool will be purchased and consumed which is required to mix with foreign wool to produce the required quality and quantity of goods to «upplj the Home market." The report concludes :—"lt is not unreasonable to assume that lower duties upon these articles would cause some increase of importation, for the re duction of duties would cheapen the price to consumers, thus largely increasing the consumption. Increased consumption would call for increased home manufacture is well as enlarged importations. By substituting economy for taxation we shall run the risk of causing a deficit in Govern ment revenues while lifting a grievous load of taxation from some of the plain necessaries of life." The minority report says that " from both wool consumers and manufacturers there comes an almost unanimous senti ment that the law be permitted to stand as it is. Not only are growers and manu facturers benefited by the law, but con sumers have shared the benefit. The people of the United States find them selves able to secure the woollen goods required at a smaller cost than ever before. The Committees' 811 proposes to deprive the wool-growing industry of the States atone blow of the entire tariff' protection it has heretofore enjoyed. The effect will be the complete and final aban donment of the effort to produce in the United States the supply of wool needed for the clothes of our people. The Bill does not mean a cheaper wool for the masses, but does mean the wiping out of great properties, the curtailment of our industrial resources, and is a savage blow aimed at our agriculturists, without the prospect of compensating benefits in any quarter."

SPORTING.

TINWALD RACING CLUB.

. A general meeting of the members of the Tinwald Racing Club was held on Saturday evening. There was a small attendance. Mr E. Gates occupied the chair, and explaiued that though the .annual meeting did not tan:e place until June, it had been thought advisable to make up the acsounts t3 date, and the balance sheet to be submitted to the meeting was practically the balance sheet for the year, and would stand as such, subject to being confirmed by the annual meeting. Mr Gates, as Treasurer, then read the report for the season, ns follows : — Treasurer's Report, March 2(5, .1892. "I have much pleasure in presenting my report for the last season, and in con gratulating the Club upon its continued progress and success. The experiment of extending the racing district proved satisfactory, and the class of horses that competed at the race meeting was better than usual. The attendance afc the meet ing was the best on record, ibo nn.ount t.ikea for aiisiK6oi-.ui io uits course aivl enclosures being £64 6s, against £42 J Os 6d at the previous meeting. Other principal items of receipts compare as follows :—Nomination, acceptance and entry fees, £91 against £88 5s ; totalisator commission, £157 10s against £112 14s (though against the increase there is the set off of £23 13s Id for the stamp duty) ; members' subscriptions, £18 16s 6d (besides £5 15s 6d unpaid but considered good) against £10 10s ; privileges, £24 against £24 2s 6d ; cards, £14 against £7 16s 6d. The principal items of expendi ture compare thus :- -Course improve ments, £63 13s lid against £82 16s; stakes, £188 2s against £196 10s (there being a race less this year); printing and advertising, £23 13s 6d against £20 2s (the increase being due to printing by laws, increased number of race cards, and increased advertising owing to the exten sion of the district); salaries (in cluding handicapper), wages, stationery, postages and other office expenses, £32 lid against £35 11s 3d (from which it will be seen that the Club is managed in the most economical manner). The balance in bank is £109 l*s 6d, be sides some subscriptions yet to come in, and there are liabilities. The Stewards' room at the racecourse requires enlarging, beyond which I do not think any further expenditure will be required for a year or two. T would recommend for the consideration of the members, the question of holding a two days' meeting in future. They will be asked to give a decision on this important question at the annual meeting." The balance sheet showed receipts (in cluding balance of £53 12s lid from the previous season), £444 13s 5d ; expendi ture, £334 Ip 3 lid, leaving a balance of £109 17s 6d. The balance of agsets over liabilities was £117 13s, of which £109 17s 6s is it> the Union Bank, £160 on fixed deposit, and £9 17s 6d on current account. The report of the auditor, ftfr.J. 0. Duncan, certifying to the correctness of the accounts, was also read. After disqussion the report and balance sheet were adopted by a unanimous vote. Jt was resolved that the Canterbury Jockey Club be notified that Mr li. Walker, nominator of the horse Balrooney, was a defaulter to the Club for nomina tion fee and fine due at th?, late race meet ing. The proposal to extend the meeting to two days' caused some discussion and was on the whole regarded with favor. The meeting then re&olved itself into a Committee meeting, and it was decided to write to tha members who had not paid their subscriptions, and the Treasurer, Mr E. Gates, was authorised tj operate on the Club's banking account.

SOUTH CANTERBURY JOCKEY CLUB.

AUTUMN MEETING. (per mess association,) Ttmahu, March 27. Tho following are the nominations for the South • Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting :— ( TiMAiiu Hiikdles, of 50 soys ; one mile three-quarters. - Efiigy, Idler, Dig nity, Erin-go. Bragh, Magpie, Little Arthur, Captain A bran), Iroqubis, Satyr, Smuggler.' 1 District Plate Handicap, of 50 soys ; qne mile and a quarter.—Kilmarnock, Victim, Affection, Jewel, Aquarius, Ybung'Cheviot, 1 Coinage, Count d'Orsay, Quibble, Cumberland,' '•' Atjtxjmn Handicap, of 125 soys ; one j-ftile and a half- Bay King' " O°TO v . Crpchfield prime NVarden Liberator Qaibbjd Ahua Lady Zetland Diadem Dialetera Don Pedro Piuw '

Washdyke VVei/tkr, Handicav, of 30 sows ; one mile.— Beach. Kilmamook, Victim, Affection, Jewel, Aquarius, Young Che iot, Count d'Orsay, Quibble, Cumber land . Flying Handicap, of 50 soys ; six furlongs.—Carronade, Roseleaf, Young; Cheviot., Cajolery, Finetta, Inez, Tararua, Tassy, Lady Zetland. Handicap Hukdles. of 40 soys ; about one mile and a half. — Rffiscy, Idler, Dignity, Erm-go-Bragli, Magpie, Little Art/hur, Captain A brain, Iroquois, Satyr, Sinusfuler, Kilmarnock. County Plate, of 40 .soys ; one mile.— Victim, Pearl, Affection, Aquarius, Youna Cheviot, Count d'Orsay, Quibble, Tarana, Cumberland. S.C.J.C. Handicap, of 100 soys ; one mile and a quarter. Bay Kintc Inez Apology "11, Ahua Cruchiield Lidy Zetland Coinage Victim Prime Warden Tassy Liberator Diadem Dialetera Don Pedro Stewards' Stakes, of of 50 soys ; six furlongs. — Carronade, Lady Zetland, Victim, Count d'Orsay, Dialetera, Rose leaf, Ilium, Cajolery, Cumberland, Tassy, Young Cheviot, Finetta. The entries total 96 as against 82 last year. Messrs Mason and Roberts' tender for working the totalizator has been accepted.

THE ROSEHILL CUP.

Sydney, March 26. Afc Rasehill to-day, the Cup of 500 aovs was won by Bungebah, Helens second, Tridentine third.

GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLE CHASE.

London, March 2(5. At the Liverpool Spring Meeting, yes terday, the following was die result of Thb Grand National Steeplechase, of 2000 soys (inclusive of a trophy value 100 soys;, by subscription of 20 soys each ; the -second to receive 200 soys, and the third 100 soys from the stakes. Grand National course, about 4 miles and 856 yards. Lord Cholrnondeley's bg Father O'Flynn, by Retreat—Kathleen, aged lOst 31b • ... 1 Lord Dudley's b g Cloister, by Ascetic- Grace 11.. aged 12st lib ... 2 Mr G. Masterman's eh g Ilex, by Kos trevor—Rostrum's dam, aged 12st I 51b 3 Dunedin, March 28. Stuart Waddell, the trainer, has severed his connection with Messrs Haz'ett and Stephenson's stable, which is temporarily in charge of Bishop.

CRICKET.

ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA.

[per press association, Adelaide, March 27. The first innings of the Englishmen closed for 499, the additional scores being Attewell 43, McGregor 31, extras 13. 0. 'Stiffen secured 2 wickets for 154, Mc- Leod 2 for 78, Trott 1 for 90 ; Turner 3 for 11, Lyons 1 foi* 22. The Australians' score for their first innings was a« follows:—Baunerman 12, 0. Giffen 5, Lyons 23, Bruce 5, Turner 10, Trott C, Gregory 3, McLeod 20, Donnaji7. W, Giffen 3, Blackham (not out) 7, extras 5, toUl 100. Lohman took 3 wickets for 46, Brigos, 6 for 45. The colonials had to follow on, their score being :—Lyons 19, Bannerman 1, C. Giffen 27, Bruce 37, Trott 16, Turner 5, Gregory 5, W. Giffen 2, MoLfcod (not out) 8, extras 4, total for 8 wickets 124. With only 2 wickets to fall, the Austra lians require 275 runs to save a one innings defeat. Owing to the rain the wicket was almost unplayable.

AUCKLAND V. CANTERBURY.

Auckland, March 2<5. Canterbury's second innings closed for 90, leaving Auckland ta get 27 runs to win. Six wickets were lost before this score was made, Auckland ultimately winning by four wickets.

THE MARKETS.

[cUR PK&SS ASSOCIATION]] London, March 26. Frozen meat generally has declined about £d per lb. The balance of the lonic's apples, which are in poor condition, have been sold at from 5s to 15s per case. Twenty-five boxes of potatoes, ex Matatua, from New Zealand, have been sold afc Id per lb. (Received March 26, 10.25 a.m.) London, March 27. Tallow, medium mutton, 25s ; beef, 24s ocl. The English wheat market is heavy and inactive, the Continental is dull, and the American depressed. Forward business in cargoes from the Australasian colonies, is active. Arrivals of foreign shipments are moderate. There are no cargoes of Australasian wheat off coast or in port of call. Wheat has declined 6d. The total arrivals of woql up to date number 350,000 bales, including 40,000 fromCUpe colony. The Cape is expected to supply 50,000 bales. Buyers anticipate there will be a fall of a halfpenny, ex cepting in crossbreds and superior l^erinos, as consumers are unable to cope with the supplies,.

THE WEATHER.

♦- ALKORD STATION. The following is the Meteorological report for the week ending March 27,1892 :—

German New Guinea.

—„. [per press association.] Sydney, March 27. Advices from German New Guinea show that 300--6uß ©6 the 450 Chinese imported there to grow tobacco since October, have died from fever, dyserttry, or influenza. Several other shipments have been greatly thinned by death. A. large number of natives recruited from the Bismarck Archipelago are dying at a fearful rate. Several of the stations hi*ve boon'aban doned, and the German' Company, must have spent up to date quite half a million of money with but very poor results. •

LATEST CABLE NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN.

(PER, PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 28, noon.)

IRISH NEWSPAPERS.

London, March 27. The "Freeman's Journal" has ab sorbed the " National Press " on terms extremely advantageous to the pro prietors of the latter paper. Mr Dillon has been appointed Chairman of the new company.

THE PARNELL-WOOD WILL CASE.

Under the settlement arrived at, the Wood family receive £142,000, and Mrs Parnell retains £70,000. She has agreed to divide her life interest with Captain O'Shea, and afterwards with the children of her first husband.

DEFEAT OF ARAB SLAVES.

Lisbon, March 27. News has been received from the east coast of Africa, that a party of Portuguese travellers defeated a band of slave hunting Arabs, near Lake Yanganyika, and liberated fifteen hundred slaves.

PORTUGUESE FINANCES.

Foreign creditors are raising a pro test against the Portuguese financial scheme, and claim that a board of control should be created.

AFFAIRS IN FRANCE.

Paris, March 27. Rochefort, who is at present living in London, has been sentenced to a years' imprisonment. Premier Losbet, referring to the sermon on socialism whioh was the cause of the riot last week, said the Government would not permit the pulpit to be turned into a political tribune. They would rather close the Churches. Orders had been given to •xpel Forbes, a Scotch Jesuit, for de livering a sermon insulting the army. The leader of the Catholic party re plied thattne Church would accept the Republic, but not revolutionary doc trines. The Premier, on a division, was sustained by a majority of 230. Foreign Anarchists are being ex pelled from France.

CANADIAN LOYALTY.

Ottawa, March 27. M. Laurier asserts that every party in Canada is loyal to England.

A RECIPROCITY QUESTION.

Buenos Ayres, March 27- The liberals of the Argentine have refused to agree to reciprocity with the United States.

AUSTRALIAN.

SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON.

(Received March 28, 12.30 p.m.) Perth, March 28. Sir William Robinson, intends to re turn to the colony, his continued illness in England rendering it inadvisable that he should remain there.

ANOTHER BANK FAILURE.

Melbourne, March 28. The Ballarat Banking Company has suspended payment, after a successful existence of twenty-seven years. The deposits amount to £265,000, and the assets are stated to be worth £>i\ 4,000.

TO-DAY'S TELEGRAMS

[PER PKBSh ASSOCIATION.!

Xhe Hutclildon-Uallaiic*! ]>ll»«l Caae.

New Plymouth, March 28. Mr E. M. Smith, M.H.R., is sub poenaed as a witness for the defendants in the libel case, Hutchison v. Ballance and Boyle.

I Shootiiitr Fatal ltr.

Palmkkston North, March 28. A singe man, John Cull, 30 years of age, was accidentally shot in the back, near Bunnythorpe, yesterday morning, by a young man, named Harry Rowlings. Death was almost instantaneous. Both men were out after pheasants on Cull's farm.

I A Stale Charge.

Wellington, March 28. Morris, alias Philips, has been remanded to Tasmania, on a charge of alleged rape in 1886. "

The British Post Office.

MORE REFORMS WANTED. Itseems probable (says a Home journal), that before long the Postmaster-General will be confronted with a demand for another great postal reform. Some nib bling tentative efforts are being made. We have long had the halfpenny post? card, the halfpenny circular, and th^e halfpenny newspaper postage. Now we, are allowed to use the halfpenny news paper postage in lieu of the letter—which has hitherto been insanely forbidden, under absurd penalties—by making an X on the cover to indicate that there is something in the inside also marked with an X, to which we desire to direct $ttenr tion. This last is an important point gained, because now a tradesmen may, if he pleases, use his halfpenny evening newspaper as his circular. But two things more are wanted. A half-penny postage on a half-penny or even a penny newspaper is an absurdity. Why, it is in the one case 100 and in the other 50 per cent for carriage and delivery on the price of the article dealt with. A farthing postage on newspapers would give an immense fillip to postal development. But when are we a have a halfpenny post for letters % That is the question which Mr Martin I. Sutton, who has been taking some part in the advocacy of postal, reform, now puts. There is really no great change involved. As regards trouble to the Post Office, the halfpenny post card is as much trouble as the penny letter. The change would of course in volve a considerable loss of revenue at starting. But probably this might not be so very terrible since a great portion of the revenue now earned is derived from halfpenny stamps. Besides, the Post Office would gain an enormous new busi ness. Its great margin of profit • might enable it to bear the strain and go on At once without loss. The difficulty is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not willingly let go his indefensible gains on this branch of tile public service. As bearing upon this question it may be worth while noting the extraordinary growth in the Post Office revenue during the past ten years. "• It Is positively amazing. If anyone in' 1880 had pre dicted the result, he'would hatfe been set down'as a rash and presumptuous' fooll Yet here are filie" facts,'' In''lß§o-§l th«j Post-Office revenue, as reported to the House of Commons by the Chancellor ot the Exchequer, was £6,700,000.. Last year it had risel* to the en'ormouis totaj of £9,343,000,. Areference to the weekly revenue returns shows thaj; in' the nin'j) fnonths of the financial year, now current, jftere ' fs' $n ' Increase of more than jgIQQ.OQQ oyer the inpome during the. corresponding three-quarters last year, t is certain that the total Post'

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