MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1527, 27 March 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

. ♦ In a m*#nt address the new Postmw*er G *>ieral of the United States us^d th**s« p»*e:jnant wordi in discus«in ? th ft tariff question : — " The tariff is a form of sUvery not less hateful heo-tusa the whip is not exposed. No free p<*o«»lp can or will bear it. There i i* hut eno owse The plan of protective roUb^ry must he ntterly eradicated from every law for taxation. With , unflinching steadfastness, l»nt mod>*ra- , tely, without distinction, haste, or violence, the firm demand of freedom must l>e persistently pressed until ev^iy Hollar -levied i% the mmc o f Government ffies rato'the Tr**i««'vv. ami the vast millions rrow extorted for a class are left in the pickets of th p*«opl»» w'lo earn the money." Just comnlaint i« made of the masher " wailfliwer." who declines to dv>ep, ail only p'lts in a<i appearanc*wi>,hin a shoi't half hour before sapper. W< ra,ji n n"il i pi it w'lio'i obt^in^ at Svid'inrst at certain ''alls, whrrf the hostess goes round among male su«*t*, and, according as th»«y have dviff<H o> not do \"i their duty, sh 1 hairis a h\w> or pink ticket. The on< #»ntitl*»s the danct-r to a champaq:n< #npoer, while the 'other rontricts th<' lioider only to lisfit refreshments" oi lemonade and biscuits. In short:, ifc is • case of " no song, no supper;" and a eapital idea, too.— « World.', » Sir S^mu»l Wilson, of Hasbenden, has eontiibnted t« a recent uninherof , "England" a Ions; article, in which he i rec=ipifcnlates the steps taken Hv the j Oo'onies to defend themselves against F-eni*h and (rcrniju a<j9tre;sion in thw ( Pacific. He does not Maine German ctatffroen for providing an outlet for < their surplus pipnlation, bnt prefers ( rather to look forward to the glorious | fntur« which waits the British race ■ if only they remain nnited. In i another eentnry they, will number more J than 900 millions, and in. 203 years | over 4000 millions of people, or nearly , fonr times the present population of , the »lob<»." " With snch a destiny to i look forward to,'' o'Mtenres Sir Samuel, • 4t onr statesmen are not worthy of the nam9, and our Parliament no better than a parish rtnttry, * they do not, as true p-it.nofc«. lay aside all party feelinoa-d j.ia in fr*minz a measure which will pornvieMtlr unit^ under the Im *>rU! f-'\er',A Government, on ftiliy r*r>r*tfrteatfv4 nnd equal ternn »ll the A[»fw% an'f far separated portions o' h"r Mii^iv'i nVninions. Th*»n wiH ;jro»w np so^h an empire as tlie wcW h« n^ver yet known, peopled ».y a race wliieh h«s no equal. A <?t tt-« n vi wh^hw He«n instrumental in brin^'ii? abnnt §uch a union will need no order*, stars, or titles to keep g <•»•»• v tlf' memory of his name for all timt*. a<H to ?t'J posterity." The following amended conditions respecting tlie r»«waids offered for th« discovery of new goldfields have ( »«ee.n issued: 1. 'he maximum amouu' offered as a reward for any proveil <lis cov*»ry of « new sfoldfield i*i accordance with these conditions is £500, <>nt if the tota! sum clftined" as rewards in mv ypar exceeds tlw Parliamentary vote, (£2,500), the amount available 'only will he divided equally.— 2. Newly discovered goldfields, if all n vial ground must lie situate I not tegs than 10 miles from the nearest gold workings, or if <qu irtz, not less than five mile* from the nearest existing quarts imue.— B If > «rant will b« paid noon any application until it shall have »»eetj proved that not less than 20,000 ounces <m jjold have b^en extracted from the d!> covery, if it is quartz workings, pro f of a similar yield from this sonrce within three years from such registra tion will be required. —4. Any persons discovering new j^old workings, and" lieing desirous of obtaining the reward*, shall immediately forward a written report of «ueh discovery, with fall particulars, to the Warden or Bestdent Magistrate of the district within which such discovery shall Ite •ttnated. — S. No prospecting is allowed npon Native larfd, without the approval, m writing, of the Native Minister or someone appointed by Utra pn that behalf. Prospflotarf gaing «p«O Native land without the consent of the owners liaM<? to penalties impoß»d by the Acts relating to GoldfieMs, aud will forfeit all claim to the reward Bi*hop Thornton, of Ballarat, in AdJitjiaiiig his Byu.»d the other d-iy. mai« «p«»W rsfttivuvu to Mr Jasticc

j Williama's recently published paraphi let on religion. The Bishop remarked : • '* U the faith we teach a superstitiou ?" He said,: " Such is the delil.erat ! al!e jatio 1 of a second of <>u>- Suprem Court Judges, following theexampti set by Mr Justice Higinbothain near 1 } two years ago. The lecture of the latter waa promptly met l»v a reply from the peii of my brother of Mcl honrue, so candid, so direct, so philo sopliicii!, and so con viucins? that, as T think, less injury than cnnfirnintio< has p;ol»ihly accrued to the faith of the Oluiatian Clio eh from the cont-o vt-isy. Mr Justice Williains's Unitar inn Itroc'iure seems to me less on<ri>m' and striki'ivt ; and while I havf nof, a hitt«fr o.* oontHinptuous word to say ahont the pamphlet or its writer, the j latter will exciye m* if I avow my ini)ires<Hon, in the same frank way in which hn has expressed his own c«w-firlf-ive i'» the impending vanishm«>n of Church teaching, that the truly Catholic Christian doctrines willsurviv* in the future, as they have done in the past, severer assaults than that which this bok directs a^ins' ttain.h a m. I may remark that I entiely dissent from J those wh • would object to the public treatment of questions of faith l>y non professional theologians. lam light glad when such persons interest themselves in these. The leading issues of religion are not only the most universal in their urgent concern for all earnest men, and the least conditioned for their appivcia-tion hy the need of merely- technical training and knowledge. BiU, on the other hand, the responsibility is tremendous of those who address themselves to the public, discrediting prevalent religious tenets whichthey think erroneous; and scrupulous accuracy and candor of statement and infarencH are essential in such an enterprise."