The Evening Echo. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1878.

Return of Me. Hugo Friedlander. —Mr. Hugo Friedlander, of Friedlancl ex- Bros. , Ashburton, is on board the Acon cagua—from London for Adelaide —en route for Ashbui-ton. Our cablegrams to-day notify the arrival of the vessel, so that Mr. Friedlander may be expected here very speedily. We understand his health has been vastly improved. Opening Tea Meeting. —The opening tea-meeting of the New-kind Primitive Methodist Church, held last night, was in every way a success. The tables were laid at about six o’clock, and about 150 persons were attended to by the ladies of the con gregation. The good things were abun dant and excellent, and, of course, ample justice was done to them. Alter tea, Mr. Edwin Atkins took the chair, aid, after a few introductory remarks, called on Mr. Stokes, of Ashburton, who addressed the meeting. Mr. Huffey, of Geraldine, also spoke ; and after a recitation by Miss Bale—which provoked great mcr. iment — Mr. J. Leaclley reviewed the past history of Primitive Methodism, and predicted great strength for the branch of it just opened in Newland. The Rev. Mr. Staples followed, with an address full of encou ragement to the brethren, to go on in the work they had commenced ; and then the Rev. Mr. Westbrooke counselled the office bearers and members to help each other, not only in spiritual matters, but in the temporal affairs of the church. There was, he said, a sum of about £2OO debt on the church, which he hoped would be soon cleared off. The report was read by- Mr. Lloyd, Secretary, which gave the fore going sum as the amount due on the building. Donations had been received from several friends, amongst others the Mayor of Ashburton had subscribed hand somely. They now possessed the hand some church just opened, five acres of land (presented by E. G. Wright, Esq.), and a cottage yielding a rental of £lB annually. A resolution was passed, instructing the Secretary to write to Mr. Wright, conveying the Church’s thanks to him for his. hand some donation of land ; and, after the xisual votes of thanks, the meeting terminated. The Benefit Entertainment for the joint behoof of the Portuguese castaways and the sufferers by the Waimate fire was repeated last night with a slight change of programme. The castaways were brought on the stage and introduced to the audience, who received them with ap plause. They are young men of about twenty years, of the bronze complexion to their countrymen, and of rather pleasing cast of countenance. The admission charge having been reduced last night to a shilling all round, a good attendance was secured, and considering that the expense attending the entertain ments will be almost nil a good dividend ought to remain for the castaways and Waimate sufferers. Presbyterian Church.— To-night, a congregational meeting will be held in the Presbyterian Church, to transact the usual annual, financial, and other business. Y.M.C.A. Lecture.— T. S. Manne:- ing, Esq., will, to-night, give his promised lecture in the Town Hall. Considering the subject—“ A Fade Thro’Palestine ’ and that Mr. Mannering is specially quali fied to deal with it, from having travelled in the country, a treat may be expected. Diagrams will be used in illustration, and we can safely promise an enjoyable even ing to all who may show their apprecia tion of the Y.M.C.A.’s efforts to supply healthy recreation and instruction to the people. C.Y.C.— The Ashburton division of the Yeomanry Cavalry will be inspected to night. We would lemind members of the necess.ty of attending these inspec tions, and we hope that a full muster of the corps will be obtained. Before the Mayor.— On Saturday his Worship fined a man a pound for being drunk at the railway station and obstruct ing an official; he also lectured an ine briate. On Monday he mulct Thomas M‘Donald in £1 for being drunk and dis-. orderly, and gave a first offender against sobriety a caution. John Forbes, accused of stealing a coat, was remanded for eight days. On Tuesday his Worship was again sitting, Hp. fined Thomas Chapman £2, with 15s, costs, fop bpi n f» drunk in charge of a team of horses; and sen t John Jones to prison for a month with hard l$*PV for being drnnfe and

Baker & Farron’s Comedy Company is announced for Friday next. One More. —Another of the Govern-; inent promises has gone to the winds.- Mr. Macandrew in hi's Public Works Statement announced the intention of tilt Government to make the hulk ■ Omega c training-ship in Wellington harbor. Eithe: the promise, with ni my others of the same Kind, has been forgotten, or the Treasurer is very impecunious ; at any rate, Mr. W. H. Warren has been instructed to sell the hulk by public auction. —“ Few Zealand Times.”

The Timber Trade. —As an instarice of the extensive scale on which sawmilling in the Wairarapa is being or is about to be carried on, it may be mentioned that Messrs. Booth and Co., of Taratahi, are now importing between thirty and forty tons of rails, to be used in the construc tion of tramways for the purpose of bring ing timber out of the forest. Hit Hard. —Bounce’m, of the Wool Downs, who is proverbially rough of man ner, drove up to a neighbor’s station, and roared for the blacksmith to bring the heavy sledge, as his tires were loose. .The smith examined the defects and set about the work. ‘ 1 Call that striking ?•” shouted the passionate buggy-owner.; “ why, it wouldn’t kill a fly!” Whereupon the lusty smith swung round his weapon and dealt so brave a blow that the wheel svas distributed .in matchwood about those premises.' ‘‘Will that do, sir?” mildly mquiied the striker. Where B.ounce’m Gold that smith to go to is no business oi nybody’s, but the honest fellow did’nt know the address, and hasn’t gone yet. — ZEgles. A “ Dry ” People. —Professor Leone Levi believes that the troubles of the Eng lish working-men are caused by their own vices. They earn in the aggregate £300,000,000 in cash annually, of which they ought to save £15,000,000. As a mat ter of fact, they save only £4,000,000. The bulk of the missing £11,000,000 is wasted —mostly in drink. What is true of England, is true, to a great degree, of other countries. If the same indignation could be roused against drink which is vented against capitalists,, there would le more hope for better days. A I re-occupied Bedroom.— A curious scene o .cun ed at Napier recently. Judge Gillies with his secretary had engaged two. private rooms and two bedrooms at the Criterion Hotel. His Honor about four o’clock was engaged in a private parlor reading, when, to his astonishment, he heard some whispering and laughter in his bedroom. After listening attentively he became aware that a loving couple of the native race were in his room. He went to interview them, and was further astonished to find them on his couch. The woman, realising the position, made a bolt past his Honor, and got clear away, but the native was kept a prisoner by his Honor’s secretary uniil arrival of tie police, who marched the native to the lock-up. r i he police, however, are in come difficulty as to what; charge they shall bring against the native. A Queer Schoolmaster. —The Napier correspondent of the “ Wellington Post” ga y S; —A good story comes from the vicinity of the Taupo hot springs. The Inspector-General of Schools, who hap pened to be in that neighborhood some few weeks ago, invited a number of ladies to a native school in' order to prove to them how these institutions were gra dually civilising our dusky brethren. The school is under the management of a mas ter who is a European. The ladies accepted the invitation, and the inspector led the way. On entering the establish ment imagine the inspector s . astonish ment on seeing that the schoolmaster had taken to the native custom of the district, and was dressed with a red blanket .hang ing from liis loins downwards, without boots, and a dirty flannel, open in the front, doing duty as a shirt. Astounded at what he beheld the inspector beat a hasty retreat and begged his female friends to postpone their visit of the school for a few minutes. He then inteivieved the schoolmaster, who, to make himself pre sentable, put on an old coat, and thus attiied he received his visitors; who did nut stop longer in the school than it was possible 10 uelp. - An Lgly Case. A charge brought against two officials of the Royal Infirmary, at Gasgow, is of too extraordinary a nature to be passed over. The house, surgeon and the nurse were accused 01 r having cut from the right arm of a boy a. piece of flesh, for the purpose of grafting the same cn the body of another patient 1 ; and while the case against the surgeon was held not proven, the nurse was convicted on her own confession. admitted that she tore-a piece of flesh' from the boy’s arm with a pair of pincers—a pro ceeding the horrible brutality of which may well be realised. It would have been bad enough if the operation had ;• om ] e formed by a skiiled suigeo with every possible alleviation of the terrible pain, but for it to have been performed bj s ,ch a peis.n and in such a m.n.ier, was j, piece of cruelty unparalleled, we Lope, in the xn.als cf hcspitil 1 luetic e. No iu t the c'b.eet was a goocl enc, andper aa r s the xes" .t will be a bin-.fit t the boy urv.h ce aim the flesh vai g. af.e i, and no disadvantage to the boy f 10111 whoso a rii L was taken ; but the end dco not j- stay the moans. The operation is akin to that of the transfusion of blood, and transfusion is never performed with out the full consent of both parties, and without every precaution being taken against its results. The consequence of tearing a piece of flesh from a boy’s arm are just as likely to be most serious, as those of abstracting a few ounces of blood from a healthy boy ; and considering the peculiar recklessness and atrocity which marked the case in question, it can hardly be supposed that justice Trill be done by fcbg infliction of a flno,

CORRESPONDENCE.

We rlo not hold ourselves responsible for the ' opinions expressed, by our correspondents.-

f; To the Editor of the Evening Echo. Sib, —On my return from the Kaikoura to-day, my attention was directed to a letter of Mr. E. G. Wright, with reference to the banking account of the Ashburton County Council. Those who have known Mr. Wright and do not know all the cir cumstances of his rather bad case, will be surprised., that a gentleman of such re markable promptitude and energy of cha racter should have taken so many weeks to prepare an answer to a- few plain words, uttered by me about the middle of last month. A position so unusual for him is easily explained by one who knows the facts.

It may have been a day or two before I spoke at Waterton, certainly not more, that I called at the County Council Office in Ashburton, saw the bank book, and got all the particulars from the clerk, to enable me to make the statement I did, which was perfectly correct, as there ■was then only £IO,OOO deposited for 12 months. My statement was not quite so strong as s it. should have been, as I did not call attention to the .important fact that besides losing the £2 ss. weekly, the Council-had the disadvantage, of. having a portion of its money locked up, whereas If it had accepted the N.Z. Bank’s tender, besides not losing the £2 55., it would have had all its money at command, and free to use it as it pleased. But so far as my-statement went it was perfectly correct according to the bank and other coun cil books at that date. Any change re quired time and hence the extraordinary delay in a -swering my letter. What Mr.. Wright now .shows is—that bv locking up £40,000 out of £48,000 of the Council’s funds the Council has Since arranged to get £llO a year more interest than it would do by having all its funds at command in the New Zealaud Bank. He might have-gone fai'ther, and shown your readers that if the Council had chosen to give up all the duties the public expects it to perform during the next year and lend the whole of their money out to interest at ten per cent, they could have got £920 a year more interest. But would that prove anything except that the Council understood money grubbing better than doing their public work. If the business and object of tbe Council is to hold money at interest for long fixed periods they could have done much better than putting it in the Union Bank at G| per cent, interest ; but if they are to use it as opportunity offers they should have taken 6 per cent, for money at command in. preference to sk, especially when coupled with the advantage of overdrawing at 6 instead of 7 per cent. Mr. Wright has not mentioned one item which is affected by his arrangement. He has for gotten to inform your readers of how mucin the-borough of Ashburton is likely to lose: oh its £SOOO for water works by being compelled to bank it with the Union instead, of the New Zealand.

Mr. Wright is quite mistaken, in saying that I agreed with the Finance Committee, i.e. with Mr.: Walker and himself, as to “the probable disposition of the county funds.during-theterm tendered for.” If I had done so, on what ground could I have opposed it as strongly as I did, both on the Coirimittee and in the Council ?

I certainly laughed heartily at Mr. Wright’s supposititious figures, as a fine specimen of special pleading. Mr.- Wright’s closing regret about my “ favorite Bank” will remind your readers of Robert Burns’ wish :

“ Oh wad some poo’er thh giftie gie us ' To see oursels as fliers see us.”

Or perhaps of the English proverb about glass houses. I don’t feel myself in a glass house on this subject, and no “ favorite Bank” will recognise me* as its ehampion. The only Bank I ever did business with in a long commercial career is the Union Bank, and the' only Bank I have ever publicly cen sured for its interference with New Zea land politics is the Bank of New Zealand ; but if the Bank of China had been doing business in Ashburton, was as safe, ano! had offered us as good terms as the Bank of New Zealand did, I should have voted for their acceptance in preference to the manifestly worse terms offered by the Union.—Yours, &c., • . Alfred Saunders. , A-,,pnside t .Dec. -10.

ASHBURTON SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

Tlje | .usual monthly meeting of tin School’Coinniittee was held last evening. The members present were the Chairmai (Dr. Stewart), Messrs. D. Williamson. W. Roberts, and George Parkin. Minutes read and confirmed. CORRESPONDENCE. From the Secretary to the Board of Education, forwarding a sum of £2O odd; in name of incidental expenses for the school, but objecting to pay an account o' £7 10s. for work done on the; new play ground for girls’ school, the Board think ing the amount ought to have been chargee to building account; asking what holidays had been observed hitherto by the Ash burton school, to which the Committee’s secretary had replied furnishing the infor mation ; stating that the sum to be set apart by the Board for a new house to the master would be fixed upon when the Board made their estimate of annual expenditure, and the Committee made aware of it as soon as possible thereafter ; authorising the Committee to make neces sary alterations in the sanitary arrange ments of the school; informing the Com mittee, in reply to inquiry, that the Ash burton school was worked on the old scale ; and also advising the Committee of the despatch of school furniture.

From Bovs. Paige and Marten and Mrs. Paige, declining to act as examiners of tire school at the examination on 10th Gmd 17th inst. ; from the Rev. C. Frhser, Christchurch, accepting the duty. 1 From the Borough Council, declining to contribute to the prize fund. K master’s REPORT. . , The Master’s report stated that the In spector had visited the school, and had during the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd ultimo, examined the scholars. The average at tendance for the week previous to his visit had been: —Boys, 170.5; girls, 149.2—t0ta1, 379.7. The numbers on the roll on the 22nd Nov. had been Boys, 218 : girls, 189; total, 407. PRIZES. Regarding the Borough Council’s re fusal to contribute as such to the prize fund, the Chairman, Dr. Stewart, ex pressed his surprise that the corporation should have done so. Probably they were more taken up with the town’s gutters than with the cause of education. The Borough Council was a sort of local Par liament, and ought to recognise the Bo rough School. The “Borough Fathers,” however, seemed to have very little care for the Borough children. Perhaps they would yet see the error of their ways. The Secretary stated that he and Mr. Stott had selected (as ordered by the Com mittee) a list of suitable prize-books for the children, to be given at . the examina tion ; but Miss Stewart had not yet made her selection for the sewing-school prizes. The cost- of books, etc., in all, would be about £2O, but a number of special prizes would also be given. Several of the mem bers of Committee expressed their willingness to give special prizes, and the names of other gentlemen were mentioned as having promised to do the same. . A special meeting was fixed for Fridry next, at 7‘30, to make arrangements for a children’s treat, to be given on Boxing Day ; and also to receive reports from, members as to their progress with the can vass for subscriptions towards the prize fund. ESTIMATED SCHOOL EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR. The following estimate of the school’s expenditure for the year was ordered to be sent to the Education Board : Cleaning school rooms, &c., £52 j.fuel, £26 ; sanitary, £l4 ; stationery, stamps, telegrams, &c., £5; secretary’s salary, £ls ; repairs and sundries, £l4; exami nation requisites, £5 ; contract for plan tations, £lO. Total, £l4l. Several accounts were passed for pay ment and the committee adjourned.

MR. SAUNDERS, M.H.R. AT KAI KOURA.

M. Alfred Saunders addressed his con stituents at Kaikoura on Friday evening last, as we published in our telegrams on Saturday. We give the following extract, from his speech as reported by the “.Press THROWING DOWN THE GAUNTLET. If after hearing my views on the present position of our public affairs and putting any question you please to me, you have reason to think that my opinions do not fairly represent your own, I will im-. mediately put you in a position to choose some one who may more truly represent you, as it Would be anything but a pleasure to me to hold a seat in which I was nov fairly representing those who had placed me in it. I make this offer because the events of the session have been very differ ent to anything that was contemplated either by you or by me, and consequently my action has not been c f a kind about which we could possibly lu.re come to any previous understanding with each other, and therefore it is quite possible that 1 may have given the present Government, or their measures either more or less sup port than you may have expected me to nave done. GOVERNMENT’S EDUCATION POLICY.

It was an unwise and delusive proceed ing to take twopence a pound off the work ing men’s tea, and in the same breath t

oil them that we must starve our educa cion system, and could afford nothing out of the. cansqlidatedrevenue for the erection of the £200,000 worth of school building;- iemanded by the Education'Boards/ it a; a wicked farce to rnake laws to compe parents to send their children to school', and then not to provide schools to which ,aey could be sent; and no working marl —and no true friend of the working man— would for one moment belie, e that tin .eduction of 2d. a pound on his tea, and l halfpenny on his sugar, was a boon worth raving at the expense of neglecting the education of liis children. Even the vote liked'by the Government for teaching wa it least ten per cent, less than they knew would be required, and £IOO,OOO was taken jut of loan for the erection of half the wooden temporary buildings that they knew to be necessary this year, and would be required every year. THE RAILWAY BILL. The Railway Companies Bill was a mea sure worthy of Mr. Macandrew, as it came into the House, and .would have enabled him to commit the colony without farther co do to an expenditure of £6,370,000, and fco have entered into contracts to the same mutant-. That-would have virtually ex cluded all fair and open competition. But' about ten of the most independent Mem bers of the House—who usually voted with the Government —determined to put their veto upon that, and Mr. Macandrew was obliged to make a virtue of and in his own able, quiet way took the Bill out of the Ifouse in a condition that was both harmless and useless.

THE COMPANIES TAX BUL was a very objectionable Bill, as it showed a disposition to pitch upon banks and loan companies for special taxation, in a manner that would have frightened capital fropi

New Zealand, raised the rate of interest, arid haye been very injurious to borrowers. Besides which it gave an unfair advantage to. those Who were rich enough to lend money,‘.or transact other business on their own account without forming companies. C, THE APPORTIONMENT OK REVENUE.

Let the Customs duties, which are paid equally.by all, be devoted solely to pur poses in which they are equally interested —primary education, hospitals, and other provisions for the sick and infirm, lunatic asylums, expenses of government and legislation, defence, police, gaols, light houses; and for interest of money borrowed for such purposes ; then let the""ißttd” ’ revenue be spent on any public works that add to the value of land, whether it be railways, roads, bridges, or drains. It should be spent as nearly as possible where it is raised, and be paid as nearly as pos sible from the land that receives the improvement, and in proportion to the value given to the land paying the tax. 1 * PUBLIC WORKS. It would be hardly possible to get a worse tribunal than the House* of Repre sentatives for deciding on what public works should, and what should not, be done at the public expense, and as long as it is made the tribunal the public money will literally be ’ spent f in corrupting the people’s representatives, and the public progress and credit will Be lost by making unprofitable h ' *’ THE BEER BILL. ■ • ;

I Avill now come to the celebrated Beer Bill, and on that I will explain Low I came to speak one Way and vote the other. I spoke against 'the Bill because I dis approved of it. .1 thought it an unwise interference With! a 1 home manufacture, and a very undesirable introduction of the expense and annoyance of an excise estab lishment for very: little purpose ;. but. I„ voted with the Government ion the’ second reading because I. did. not /wish to see .them thrown out, arid especially by the dictation of bfewers from all parts of the colony, which I thought very degrading to any Legislative Assembly. SIR GEORGE GREY AND THE ELECTORAL BILL. After severely criticising the Premier’s speech in favor of the Electoral Bill, and his change of opinion regarding it after wards, Sir. Saunders said :—After Sir George had had a few more weeks’ expe rience in the management of working men and working men’s representatives, a com plete change came over the. spirit of his dream. He seems to have found out that working inen and \ their representatives required at least some of the promises made to them to be kept, whereas Mr. Sheehan -had* evidently been able to manage the Maori vote without any incon venient concessions of that kind, and from henceforth the noble; savage and not. our farmers’ sons became the pith and marrow of the country that required Sir George’s special protection. HIS OWN CONDUCT. I feel that after what I have said you may very fairly ask me, why did I support Sir George Grey’s Government so far as I did ? Why did I vote* with theta on th'e Beer Bill, the Tariff, and on every ques tion where they were, closely pushed, or on which there was a probability of their be ing defeated ? In reply to that, I must give more than one reason. At first, I heartily supported them because I hoped that through them. the colony would get some important measures. There was the very evident policy of letting Sir George have plenty of rope to hang him self' with, and when- I considered, not only the magnitude, but the unreserved and positive and unmistakable character of Sir George Grey’s promises," and the past history of the man by whom such dis tinct promises had beeeri made, and the manner in which they had been accepted and believed by a majority of the electors of the country, I could not but feel that it would be a mistake to take any responsi bility for their non-fulfilment from Sir George’s own shoulders, whilst it was possible for hirii to - plead that’'he Rad been deficient of ample time and oppor cunity to give his supporters all the boons lie 1 had pictured as .sure to result, from his retention of power,, r ... . . ... . , - .. .HIS .REASON FOR IT. '' 1 It would have taken me a year to Rave learnt... from newspapers and blue books ; iud party speeches, what I learnt in a week by watching the Government in its own stronghold, and. seeing,how entirely every •Hing was'misrepresented ih the party lewspapers owned or subsidised by the Government-- they' Mattered. / .1; had no right *to expect that my-fellowc settlers would not taiie as long as I should have done to be-Convinced of.‘thejr insincerity. A 1 great-many hard things have been/said against Sir George Grey’s' £rbmiims, 'but., chose wlid'blamed-them could hardly have* considered how riiuch there was to justify such credulity. They were not listening : to the voice of a or.the, voice of an inexperienced youth, or to a novice in political affairs; qrdo any double meaning oracular sentiments, but to the most distinct avowals'of a man' born in high position, educated under every advantage, who had governed three great British colonies satisfactorily ' and successfully, who had gained the support of a majority of the New Zealand people’s representatives in his feeble old age, jvho spoke with natural contempt of any temporary popu larity lie could, now achieyb compared to the.verdict of pqsjterity( and the approval of the great judge before whose throi e he must so soon appear. It would have been a much stronger, proof of credulity if iRe ©lectors of New Zei lani’ had ciiosdi to believe that a man ctf such birth, ».ich education, such history, such age; and such position would deliberately dhoose to over whelm them with plain, distinct prom ses, which he had no intention to fulfil. lam still unable to understand why Sir George Grey has made, or why he has not ful filled such promises, and will still hope fqp some more charitable solution of the difficulty than any I can yet »ee,

WEDNESDAY, December ii, IS7S.]

THE , EVEN ING ECHO.



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Miscellanuous. FENCING WIRE. •30 TONS Just Received and on Sale at LOWEST PRICES. A. O. AITKEN & CO., Havelock Street. SOMERSET LODGE, E. C. THE Brethren of the Somerset Lodge are requested to meet on FRIDAY NEXT, 13th inst., at 6.30 instead of 7.30 p.m. By order. CHARLES BRADDELL, 133 Secretary. DAILY MEMORANDA. This Evening. Town Hall. —Lecture : “ A Rule Through Palestine,” by T. S. Mannering, Esq., of Rangiora.