ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 294, 13 May 1879, Page 2

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

! ((Collated from our Exd&ngfeß.)i X The is a copy of a shop-bill in "a village in . Lancashire :—".fames Williams, parish clerk, Saxtdne, town" crier, and bejlifcan, siriiakesXand sells all sorts of aberdasheries, groceries, &c; likewise ha,iir und wigs drest and cut on the shortest 'n<ltice. N.H.~1 keeps an evening school, where I teach, at reasonable ratesj reading, riting, rithmitic, and singing. N. B.—l plays the hooboy occaeionally if wanted. N.B.—My shop isnext,door, where I bleed, draw teeth, andshoo horses, with the greatest scil. N.B-. —Children - taut to dance if agreeable, 6 d per week, by me, J. Williams, who buy and sell old iron and coats —boots and shoe© ■ cleaned and mended, !

Australians will hail with satisfaction the honors done in France to the .great ! discoverer* of their country, and will perhaps ekpfcss wonder that Englarid was unrepresented at Captain Cook's centenary. Our journals explain the fact in our national-modesty. The glory is as the feat was performed by. one of our sons, and for us to take part in the demonstration would be like patting ourselves oh the back. This excuse is r&ther a lame 1 one. The fact is that English prophets have less honor in their own country than .prophets anywhere; , else. Yet Cook 'Wfis as great a man as Columbus- in his way, and did as great a work. He was a patriot too, eager for the honor and credit of hie own nation, not an alien '- sailing under a foreign flagv The man who added New South Wales and New Zealand "i to the British dominions, , Vhp proved that, Australia was an island, who discovered New Caledonia and the Sandwich Islands, is entitled to no less credit than the die-; , covererof the New , World. It is adis- \. grace to England that the task of paying tribute to his great memory- should have been left to our - generous neighbors, the French, to perform. Befering to the eccentricities of the murderer Peace, the -Home correspondent of the Otago Daily Times says that his execution being fixed for 8 o'clock on Toesday morning, he on Monday night wrote a letter to the sheriff, asking him if he would kindly oblige iim by postponing the ceremony an hour, as ne expected some rather important letters by the morning's post(r) ; . An interesting example of the glorious Uncertainty of the law was mentioned at the meeting of a Mr Hanson's creditors in Wellington. A resolution had been un-. animously agreed to, instructing the trustee to take an action against the TeAro Public Hall Company, as the legal adviser of the creditors had told them they were sure to obtain a verdict for a large amount. Theaction was tried at the present sittings of the Supreme Court, and the creditors got a verdict for £30, but were ordered to pay their own costs, amounting to £163* 17s lOd. Thus to obtain £30, a sum of £163 17s lOd was expended ! Yet! says the Post, the creditors are the very shrewdest business men in the city; and their legal advisers are two gentlemen holding the foremost rank in their profession, ■