MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1265, 30 April 1883, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

- •. ♦ I The London correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury says the aristocracy still pushes into the Stock Exchange. The latest arrival is Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, the third son of Baron de Manley, an Eton boy and a D. 0. L. of Oxford. The Stock Exchange, it is said, does not care for its aristocratic adherents, and, at all events refuses to give them their titles. When Botfrschilds sent over the other 4ay for Lord Walter Campbell, the porter heard the request for bin* by his title as almost an insult to the democracy of the place. "Lord Walter damp- ■ bell ?" said he. " We've got no lords^. here," and then shouted, " Waiter "Campbell's wanted.-' : Blade has ooffle out in a new line, Under the heading of "Mace's Maori on 'a Jump" we find the fol owing in I ***** j '*' fc - •■■ ''■-■■ Se?- tf#K)cl deal% conwrKftion !-B taken place with reference to the pwtprandial challenge thrown oat bf Jem Mace on behalf of his pupil* Herbert AT' Slade. A person curiotti ta know what Blade's style of jumping, was whfether a standing jump, a fanning jump, or a high jump— called upon Mace and asked for the infer' mation. Mace said : 'I ought to have explained the Maori's style of jumping. Slade goes down on his hands and "" jumps on all fours, like a dog or frog. Nobody in the world can beat him at that game. He is a good long-jtlmper, too, but it is at the dog-jump that I challenge any man in ■ • America ta - beat him." ' •'■■• ' If I was managing this world I'd, do it on the plan of nothing for nothing and no trust : I'd give no man a dollar until he had tamed it,. and for those who would not work I'd have a plantation and workhouse, i where they'd be taught industry with ' a good whip, and pay them for their work when it was done. I'd make all' the fel ows work, and pay them; and \ those, who would not be taught to be decent .members of society I'd. pat in a bag with a big stone, take them out oh- the ocean and drop them overboard . . I'd assure " the, meek. should inherit the earth/ and clear all the .„ '. thieves and murderers, all dangerous^ classes Out of the way.— 'Mrs Swiss- •^• i helm.' '■ '"'■ • '-■■ ' ' '■■■'■ ' '■■■''■■ '•••' ■■■-«'■ The Itelßowiie PpluT XMiif^ X&sf*"" lighted 1 "with" the electric-; fignV^Otir *'" April; 7th for the first time, tfuid (tire Argus reports) witti entire' 'subcess. v ' This is the most important achievemeufc ' yet accomplished by the Australian Electric Company, not Only from tftef' size; and importance of the building, - 1 but also from the immense Vftloe of' the contents', which are now releiiati ' from one source of danger alW&yi ; ," present when gas is used, where »n t " accidental escape, or the carelesin«w '_ or forgetfulries3 of an employe, may ■imperil the most cherished rostitutitfth The number of lights— l64— is a fair ' greater number than has ever been set up by the Company before either in Melbourne or in any part of the Colonies. The largest number hitherto in use has been at the Opera-houae, where the number is ltitt Swan's incandeseht lamps, with reflector*, «fl» ■;■ those adopted, and the steadinew. and' luminous quality of the UghJt waa the theme of general oomauftkdatidxit Eaoht lamp is allied With an automatic selfprotecting arrangement wfafdh tect^it absolute safety. The dynamo engft»«»' '[' use 4 were entirely coustriiQtod in the Colony. Civis in. the Otago Witness says:-*. A fdend of mine tells mfy £hafc when in 'the Botomahana country lately h0 had an interview with his Sacred" Majesty King Tawhiao. Sacred Majestry was engaged -at the time in knocking down a cheque .at a bush pttblic-house. My friend, with a fel- • low traveller, . fouud him lying on a - Colonial sofa industriously sleeping off that portion of the cheque already knocked down, and recruiting his energies for the portion remaining. The visitors proceaded to* reuw him up. They could talk a little Maori, and "wanted a yarn with royajty. By dint* of much shaking, they so far carried their point that Tawhiao sat up and looked about. As soon, however, as he comprehended that he was being interviewed, and, what was more interviewed against his will, he flung himself back on the sofa with a gruiit qr dissatisfaction, and covered lug face, with' a red cotten handkerchief. Not a word could be got out of him, nor a sign! His Majesty— small blame to .him !— had taken refuge in a royal fit. of the suits. The enterprising visitors, however, were not to be done. One of them patted his head and stroked his limbs, whilst the other murmured conciliatory Maori vocables iv his ear. Under this mesmeric treatment Tawhiao. 9e.em.ed to come round. lift

Igot up and expressed his sense of the honour done him by wringing tholaand of one of his visitors,- ami "clinging tearfully round the neck of the other. At the same time he sidled towards the door, and without any spoken farewell raßhed through it, banging it after him. When .the pakehas followed, they fouad that his Sacred Majesty was holding the door against them. They pulled, he pulled ; Tictory was with the strong battalions, and the king e^me back into the room, rather crestfallen. More endearments,, more, endeavours to draw out 'the royal mind on. matters •political, when again Tawfeiao made .a bolt, and banged the dogr r Thw^ime the interviewers were outwitted. The wily savage had possessed" himself of the key, and locked them in- When .half an hour later the landlord arrived to let them out, lug Majesty had disappeared over the «dge of the horizon, and they saw him so more. ' Clearly there is. more in ( tius Tawhiao than Southern incre•iufity ogives him credit for. If he '~^irmk^y^ia&m a <3mat Teiwrp^ his royahty might even yet become i^BpecWbiei jT£e /.last . item J hear, about him ia in. a country telegram :— *' 'Taw^aioj .!n«w been detained at . Oruanni,i 18 /' miles frpm, Taupo, but •whe&et through, the late bad weather,, or thertim-k^gs /^bnyeyed Either on ha Kaj^^s,,pack-hdrßos, is . an open question." Before judging him one should remember that there have been English kings whose sense of personal dignity has scarcely been higher than Tawhiao's, and who have shown quite «B, much affection for rum-kegs — or jtheur equivalents. A very fair amount of work is being <fone on the Auckland goldfields at the present time. The yield of gold. for the, moT.^ was cl6s& on 30006 Z. The promoters of the'wdrkof prospectiag the deep l^vete' oJ the Thames "Goldfield have^en much'eiicouragedof late by the prospects and gold obtained. It ia expected Chat much benefit will arise from the recent visit' of' the Inspector b/ Mines to the mod 6 of working, Ac. That official has*" made a through inspection of toe* leading reines, and obtaified a large amdunt of valuable information; which will "be of service to'the'Gbvertnient in dealing with the dalms of th^ :; gpidfields ; v at a future dfete;for aid ih theh;' .a 4':- "X^Jv '.'.'■ MjiiV „:'J''\'.~ i'.'t'i TeaonrceS t _ ,_ .._ . ._ t . # Ths'. tent? I lajiy " has certainly.be-. cone a somewhat elastic one ; neverwhat staggeHeji oppnseeingC^tew.avo'fl wives d^soribed, . ia print ;as • the •• kdiea »* , o^ju>~ . , hQnߧholcL s . . Really if a savage female, .-who. .shayea : ■ the wool .tthe exojim , . of ; lier , u head (with iifi exceptioaof a^mall top^knot, which sj(ie daubs vith red clay), anoints her wh^ebody with butter or fat^and wears JDy / way .01 dress only a yery abort kut of prepared hide who takes snuff prodigiously, and neglects all . vse of a Larwlkerctief, and looks upon a stewed bullock's paunch as a banquet, ia io ii^ spoken of as "lady," the word !haa 1 lost its, signincance. Mr IL . W. green's scheme for the prevention of ppyerty has been laughed at frompneendof the Colony to the. other. £he Auckland Star saya of. it :—** that^Mr^^Green's ♦ triple scheme '.is an abortiou-r-an intellectual freak not unlike the natural one which produces.. a .three-headed calf; and after bejpg nine days', wonder, the scheme,' like the calf, is doubtless doomed lib perish of inanijtion-r-its skeleton, . thereafter being hawked through the country to excite the admiration of ignorant and credulous people. These unfortunate three heads (which are more than any ordi-iparily-constituted calf can -carry) have indeed provedi&tal to Mr Green. In liis slavish adherence to the triune idea, he as assumed that the causes of poverty are threefold, vri Too much whisky, too little work and too little land. There never was a grander mistake. The causes of poverty are as numerous as are the vices and follies of human nature. And until men can be made frugal, poverty and its attendant evils will not cease out of the land.- Still ' the / legislative 'freshman' need not be debarred from airing his fantastic ideas, for in this way he will most quickley learn their impracticability ; and under the influence of public opinioii — expressed in sober criticism or lively ridicule— it ia quite possible that the ' Verdant Green' of politics "may graduate with fall honours as a practical statesman.*' ■-:■'■■■