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Inangahua Times, Volume 73, Issue 73, 23 August 1878, Page 2

The Rot. Father Carow returned to Roof* ton from tlio Lyoll and Wonfcport yaptordn,y. Ho hftd fttnoithfizardou* and mioomfortable rido, all the northern rivers being 'groatly flooded and tho crossing at Christy's was orcr tho horso'fl buck. Tho Wostport Tiraco loams from Wotlingi ton, that (hough tho proposod judicial ohnngoson tho West Coast hnro boon do* forrad for tho proeont, oortain changes will bo carriod into offcot upon tho closo of tho tcsuon, Another instanoo of tho rigov of tho eoason waa nfFordod yostorday whoti snow foil in Rocfton to a depth of six or eight indies. Fortunately tho ground had gathorod aomo littlo hoat, and tlio snow cliflftppcurod aftor a few hours, but tho tonipomturo romainad Tory low, nnd nuroly noTor was a winter nloro full of disoontont, ov tlio glorioiu sun of York more carnostly oighod for, Distnnoo dooa not alwnya lond onohantmont to tho viow, Tho following ifl from tho Law Times for Juno BHi, 1878 (published in Lon« don), and is quoted by that publication from tho Ohiongo Legal Nowfl i— " A Now Zoaland Court has reoontly oommittcd a barristpr for one month of alleged ooutompt of Court, while floting profosaionally. Thwo ifl hardly a month passos in Now Zoaland but what Bomo lawyer is committod to gaol for oontompt of Court. Thoy must have a voiy bad Bar, or olso a Tory bad Bonoh thoro. Wo arc inolinod to boliovo tho Judges in Now Zoaland arc a oofc of potty tyrants.' Will nit tho nbovo mako amends to Mr Burton for all his pains. Tho I'ross Agont at, Timaru statos that tho tologiams rospcoting Fathor Uonnobory's oration on mixed marriages and nowapapor mon, as it appoarod in tho • Now Zoalandcr , and Bomo other papors, did not oxaotly represent tho vovorond gontlomtm's utforanooa, Father Ifonnobory did not lilcon nowspapor mon and oditors to aourse, but said ho treated those advorao to him as a traveller wonld a yelping cur— tako no notice of thorn, Ho said if ho prenohod tho doctrines imputod to him ho would bo etoppod by tho priosta and perhaps suspondod by tho Bishop. In Wellington thoro has boon a ran on dressing growns of a flaming pattorn, booauso a flwoll Rangatira took it into his head to pnrado Lambton quay attirod in ono. For tho rest of tho aftornoon Hill and Fonton's shop wan besiagod by dusky sookors after this now thing in owooats, At O-oro, ia Southland, lately ft publio mooting was hold to momoriuliso tho S-ovorn-mont to appoint a SosidoAt Magistrato and some Justioos of the Poaco for tho district, Tho proceedings w«ro terminated with a danco. It has boon roinarkod that Tory fow mon 'who got into journalism start out with such intontions, Thoy drift in aooidontally, arid nro promoted as thoy dovolop oapaoity. Money, wealthy parents, and influonoo dro of no sort of sorvioo in got ting a young man a phoo on a nowapnpor. Xhoro is no busiuoas that is no entirely indopondont of all those oonsidorations at this. A woalthy father, Brief says, oan easily got his son a looation to road law or modicino or push him forward in almost any rank in lifo ho may soloot j but he is utterly poworlofls to do anything for him in a journalistic way. To bo fluro, ho may buy a nowspapor, and sot up hio hopofnl in that way ; but unloss thoro is something in tho lad oallod ' journalistlo knack/ a naturnl knowlodqo of what to writo and how to writo it ho will bo a failuro in that lino, and all tho mono) and influonoo of woalthy and perhaps poworful rehtivos will oount for nothing. Somo fond parents oduoato thoir sons with a spooial viow of ranking journalists of thorn, but it is rare t'lit wo hoar of thoso young mon aftor a fow yours; Moantimo somo sorub, born among tho hilln, having bnt a common oduoiUion, and tho knowlocigo sorapod up in a country printing oflleo, will advanoo to tho front rank in tho profession. Ho hivs tiho journalistio knnok, and foroos recognition booauae ho lias it! Ho gota into a good position, not becmso ho has woalthy parents to influonoo tho proprietors of loadiuqr nowapaper.*, but to.snuso ho knows whit to writo and whin to writo and how to writo i' j Ilia article;) go in bocauao thoy supply a demand, whilo porhaps tho olaboiato sbmjh of a man oducatnd on two eautinonta uro oast into the WAstobaskct. Conflislonoy, thy nutno ia Hot Ooflby 1 No, no | that worthy clorioal dignity (snyg a Wellington wvitor) may bo a motiol of all tho (othor) Tirtuos, but oortainly in this particular ono ho is lamontably doiltiiont. I hardly oxpnot you will, any of you, bolioTo it, bnt aftor his southing denunciations of ' Butterfly Balls ' and ' Gossamer Entortuinmontg, ' I boo announood a oonoort in aid of St. Marks Church at that incarnation of demoralisation and don of infamy, a thontro j well I bolioTo it is going to bo a flrst-olass ono i*and,if it is only as a proof that tho rov. goutloman is not a prophet, ovon in hi* own country, I hopo it will prorluoo n • orowdod house.' It would bo porfoofc if ho could by « spooial request' bo induood to ro-dolivor as a ' aoroaming farco ' his oloquout denunciation of such caviml pleasures. Tho libol aotion of Bonjamtu t. Tho Now Zealand Sun is to go on« Our Canterbury contemporary troats tho solicitors oommuni* cations in a Tory oavalior raannor. ■