Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thursday 15 August 1867, page 2


TELEGRAPHIC.

(motor cars TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENTS.)

ROCKHAMPTON.

August 14.

NEWS has reached town of the discovery of a nugget at Raglan weighing thirty pounds.

Its value is calculated at £1400.

SYDNEY.

August 14.

The Government intend introducing a new Land Bill on Wednesday next.

Earl Belmore, the newly-appointed Governor of New South Wales, will leave England by the September mail. His Excellency Sir John Young will leave on the arrival of his successor.

Bertrand's case was to have been heard before the Privy Council on June 27.

Trade is dull.

Sailed Boomerang.

MELBOURNE.

August 14.

Mr. Duffy has been returned for Dalhousie.

ADELAIDE.

August 14.

The 14th Regiment is under orders to sail

for Tasmania.

The Legislative Assembly has passed measures for the relief of the Northern squatters.

STEPS are being taken for a demonstration of opinion upon the recent apostasy of Mr. Pritchard, one of the city members. A meeting, at half-past 7 to-night, will be held at the Town Hall Exchange, for the purpose of making further arrangements.

A REQUISITION, got up by several of the gentlemen who formed Mr. Pritchard's committee at the recent election, calling on the Mayor to preside at a public meeting, to be held on to-morrow evening, in the Town Hall, to consider Mr. Pritchard's conduct in voting against the Government in the division on Tuesday evening, and with a view to demanding his immediate resignation of the representation of North Brisbane, was in course of signature last evening.

WE publish to-day, we are not quite sure how many letters, commenting on the conduct of Mr. Pritchard. We overhead very nearly as many on account of the manifest excitement under which they were written, or rather on account of the strong terms in which that excitement finds vent. It is not surprising that the action of this most unfortunate section of the people of Brisbane should exasperate them bitterly, but we fear they are now most completely sold, and that Mr. Pritchard and his employers laugh in their sleeves at the anger of the electors of North Brisbane. Mr. Pritchard, we are informed, declares that he is in, and pathless all his promises to resign if called upon, in he will stay. It is the duty of the electors to request him to resign, and they are right in preparing to do so with a unanimity which cannot be mistaken. We must, however, crave their mercy in the matter of publishing correspondence which, being anonymous, has only a qualified value as expressing public opinion. All the letters sent us only say, in various phraseology, that Mr. Pritchard, chosen by the people mainly through a belief that he was an honest and intelligent man, and would be an honest and intelligent if not an able politician, has turned out, at the very outset of his career, a renegade to his pledges, a violator of the trust reposed in him, and being guilty of those crimes, without nocessity and without excuse, is not only politically false and foresworn, but the most remarkable example of a downright fool that has yet figured in Queensland politics. If any

one of those who love to write to the

press on occasions like the present can prove anything more than this, and choose to sign their real names to their letters, for publication, our columns are open to them, but if they have nothing more to say than has already been said about Mr. Pritchard who entreat of them to refrain. WE

would remind our Valley friends that the nomination of delegates for the Valley English Church will take place this evening, at the Valley school-house, at half-past 7 o'clock and in the event of there being a contest, the poll, by ballot, will take place on Monday evening, the 19th instant.

IT is scarcely necessary to remind the public that the ball in aid of the Brisbane Hospital takes place to-night. We dare say that very few of our fashionables will be absent, and that the gathering will be a brilliant and successful one in all respects, and will be the means of realising a handsome sum for the most valuable institution, in behalf of which it is to be given.

THE Secretary of the Brisbane Hospital begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the following donations for the Hospital Ball to be held at the School of Arts this evening Mr. H. Hughes, Spring Hill, three tongues ; Mr. L. Fogarty, Spring Hill, seven dozen rolls and one dozen loaves; Messrs. Bright Brothers, and Co., eight dozen of ale ; Mr. R. L. Drew, shipping master, milk, butter, lemons, and oranges ; Messrs. Fegan and Co., Queen-street, a case of charity Messrs. Mackinlay Brothers, Edwardstreet, a quantity of tea, sugar, butter, nutmegs, preserved fish, and biscuits ; Mr. M. Walmsley, fruiterer, a quantity of oranges, apples, and bananas ; Mr. J. P. Jost, Queen-street, three tongues, three large German sausages, and one ham; Mr. M. Hughes, grocer, Queen-street, one large ham, one English cheese, and a large tin of biscuits ; Mr. H. H. Payne (of the Gap), two pairs of fowls Mr J. Savage, Fortitude Valley, six tins of salmon ; Mr. Hanson, Family Hotel, George-street, five dozen eggs Mr. W. F. C. Wilson, George-street, a pair of fowls. All cooked and prepared provisions will be received by the committee at the School of Arts not later than one p.m. this day.

THESE were, in the Asylum at Woogaroo at date of last report, 987 males and 41 females. Since then, two more male patients have been admitted, and the total number now is 140.

A] MEETING ofysboreholders of the Pim-came Sugar Company (limited) was held yesterday, to receive the final accounts and report of the liquidators. Messrs. W. Briggs and F. Bauer, the liquidators," presented a report to the effect that on entering upon their duties in accordance with a resolution passed at an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders, held on 3rd July last, they had found by the balance sheet to the 31st May, 1867,- that the debt due by the company to Mr. J. C. Houssler's firm formed nearly the whole amount of the liabilities, and that therefore there could be no difficulty in carrying out the exact words of the resolution. The mortgage having been previously released by Mr. Bauer, and Mr. Heussler having, on the 5th July, given the liquidators a written undertaking to discharge all the liabilities of the company from May 31, 1867, and the amount of such liabilities, together with Mr. HoBler's claim, being found to be £4368 7s. 11d., they had on the 6th July rendered to him a statement to that effect, and had debited him with the amount of the valuation of the crops and the unpaid calls on shares. That proposition being socopied by Mr. Heussler, the liquidators signed the conveyance of the property to him on the same day, and also signed notices to those shareholders who were in arrears, informing them that the interest of the company in such arrears had been assigned to Mr. Heussler. The report being adopted, and the account presented by the liquidators being passed, the meeting terminated.

A MEETING was to have been held last

evening, at the Treasury Hotel, for the purpose of forming a forensic debating club 5 but the

attendance was so small that it was considered desirable to adjourn until some future day.

A PUBLIC MEETING was held in the United Free Methodist Chapel, Chinaman's Creek, on the 12th instant, for tho purpose of forming a Band of Hope in the district. The meeting was opened by singing and prayer. It was moved by Mr. Charles Ballinger, and seconded by Mr. Stephen Barker, that Mr. William Wright do take the chair. The chairman spoke vigorously of the evils of intemperance, in the colonies particularly, and the duty of " training up a child in the way it should go." He then called on Mr. Ballinger to address the meeting. The chairman said that this would be called the South Pine River Band of Hope Society, and read a code of rules for its Government. About twenty persons signed the roll.

WE have received files of Rockhampton papers containing reports of amazing finds of gold, and but very little else of interest. None of them, however, come up to the mark of the big nugget mentioned in our telegram to-day, and we therefore think that they may stand over till our next issue We are obliged also to keep over a quantity of -correspondence on various subjects, Mr. Pritchard's friends insist-ing on occupying all the space that it was possible

to afford in this IssUe.

WE forgot (says thoJDaWijio- Downs Gazette) who is responsible for the dictum that " society creates ranges in order to hang them." This was true a hundred years ago, but it is equally true, at the present time, that the pastoral form of society in Australia has created bushrangers in order to hang them. The small cockatoo settlers " of New South Wales have obtained a

holding,~fnr beyond the reach of religious and secular instruction ; their children grow up without the humanising influence of education of any description, and all they know is to be able to ride a horse as well as the savages of the prairies of America. Is it a wonder that more lads brought up in idleness and ignorance should become at first cattle-stealers, and afterwards should imitate the feats of bushrangers -the only species of glory of which they have heard or even understand ? We trust that party spirit will not yet arouse a popular feeling that will be unopposed until ' free selection is the rule throughout the colony. What Queensland requires is compact, closely settled agricultural communities, where the rising genera-tion will be within the influence of the clergy-man and the schoolmaster. By far the greater portion of the country must be left entirely to pastoral occupation, and the best thing for the colony will be to give the outside squatters a certainty of tenure that will encourage them to make improvements, and thus increase production and exports. But where agricultural settlement is possible, by all means let us have a form of society where the people will be brought together and have a church and a school in their midst for the benefit of their children. It is of course impossible that the means of education can be brought home to all when the population of a second-rate London parish is scattered over a territory equal in extent to several European kingdoms. There are pastoral leaseholders in Australia which have an area of two hundred square miles, and afford employment for only some thirty or forty men. Three hundred of such runs contain a greater quantity of land than the whole of England and Wales but it is not the land that makes a country or colony, but the people who live on it. Everything that England has gained from political liberty and the arts of civilisation has been due to the people being concentrated at a great number of centres, where all the benefits of association and elementary education of the young are available. It would be well for the rising generation of Queensland, wore it possible that, by a judicious control of the public lands, a farming population could be settled on the lands, and every benefit that social institutions and intercourse afford he made available, without being accompanied by those evils that invariably exist when people are congregated in large

towns.

THE Roma correspondent of the Queensland Times says There is little or no variation in the price of articles of general use. There is a capital supply of vegetables at Mr. Watt's late residence ; there are cabbages quite equal to any in the "Parent Mes," and yesterday I weighed two turnips I picked up in the garden at Bungeworgorai, one of which weighed 10½ lbs. and the other Oi-lbs. There are sweet potatoes in abundance, and very good carrots. Mr. Spencer is also forming a vineyard j besides the vines he already possesses he is at present plant-ing between one and two thousand cuttings. These things may seem small matters to you good people in Ipswich, who live in a vegetable Goshen, but it is of considerable importance to us poor wretches, who for about nine months never saw any green thing. Fifty-six pounds of fine fresh butter was forwarded from Mount Beagle for sale, it fetched 3s. 6d. per lb.