MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XI, Issue 1740, 6 August 1886, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

If the London correspondent of th<Sydney Teh-graph can be reli<*<i upon asan authority Bishop Moot-house im--, in tin* course of a re* iew of Mr Fronde 7s book ■•Oceana'' in the Church Ti'in s, in the main c<n.ob*rat' j d tlie ji <i f". . v >i abe views regarding New Z aland anu it*- finance put forward in tint wo: k Th«- correspondent says: — "T 'i. vvorih\ Bishop lays special stress on Mt Fronde's strictures on thein<l*-btedi • of New ..--aland. His lordship quo . . that passage beginning — ' The colo-: * collectively and the mnni<-i,)aMt:ey separately seem contending winch ca: borrow the most handsomely-— Aim's wliich have been as milk a.nl hun-y to the editor of the London Standard, and fts gall and wr mi Wood lo hi* F Dillon Bell, the New _-.*a_..ii.i .-._.- i it 0»-i*.-**il. After the sent-nee, Til« Wf.!'k:nen disco ill age emigration as likely to lower wag.-s,' the crit ;•■ int. *rp-.|<*.-_.-* in brackets — ' Mr Fiou.i.- v: <^h : have added that many of tbem are «n iviug on to Australia in despair of ' trade improving.' H's lordship then , quotes tlie grave sentence of the bin. < bill bitter indictment : — ' Very little i- < being done, at least in the Northern ' Island, iv the way of cultivation ; but ■ they take it generally with a light' t heart, and economy will wait till mon > « **an no longer be had for asking; ami ' adds — • Evidently the country i> r;ne-; & change of system if bankrupt c;. i- to , be prevented." 1 The Tuapeka Times says: — "The ' pmeeediiig 1 ' of the Lawrence Resident § Magistrate's Couit on Monday mon - • ing Itetrayed a state of affairs almost incredible and revolting in the extreme. ] The extent to which human nature ■ can be debased in these days of vaun ted civilisation aud moral progress is simply alarming; aud to think that it should be reserved for this oat-of-the wav comer to afford such a striking proof of tlu* superiority of the animal over the human being is sufficient to excite alarm and make us blu_b for the distinction. One after the other a number of female witnesses — mostly young girls of fair presence and guileless aspect — _tcp jauntly into the box and relate unblushingly filthy narratives of their own experience as mere incidents or matters of com Be in their everyday life; how when wandering about Dunedin they have encountered ♦bis vile procuress, who (according to tlieir story) engaged them as domestic servants and lauds them high and dry in the purlieus of the Chinese Camp. The only parties who came out of the matter with either credit or kucciks were the police; tiny did their duty, and tbey are deserving of great credit for the manner in which they have gone to work to stamp out the vices and the very existence of the aliominable seraglio. Flies and Bugs. — Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-ra bits, cleared out iy " Rough on Rats." The New Zealand Drug Co. Sydney General Agents.

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