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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 350, 25 November 1879, Page 3

Things Reqdisite.

Have a tear for the wretched, a smile for the glad ; • "For the worthy applause, an excuse for the bad; *-- Some help for the needy, some pity for those Who stray, from the path where true, happiness flows. Have a laugh for the child in her play at thy feet; Eave respect for the aged, and pleasantly greet The stranger that seeketh for shelter from thee; Have a covering to spare, if he naked should be. Have a hope in thy sorrow, a claim in thy joyHave a work that is worthy thy life to employ; And, ah! above all things on this side the Bod, Have peace with thy conscience, and peace with thy God. . : ■ ■ * Exquisite Taste — Observes , the- New Zealander :—'• We have' all of the squatter who built a library, and then ordered from hie town agent a ton of books and two tons of best coals. We have heard how the owner of ah inland palace, who had sent an indent for a pair of globes, gave them away' after an inspection because he couldn't find Hopkinehill ■on the. celestial globe, which he took to be the southern hemisphere. But it has remained for- an advertiser in a daily paper to place pictorial merit in quite a new light. This is his intimation : 'Pair oilpaintings, good, heavy framed, 4xß. nearly new, a bargain. . That "nearly new' is delicious. They don't recommend port wine or Sevres china that way."

African exploration is being very steadily and systematically carried out, and the number of individual explorers and expeditions now or recently at work is very considerable- A Portuguese expedition started some time ago from Benguella, consisting of Major Serpa Pinto and Messrs Ivens and Capello. Shortly after starting the party divided, the firstnamed gentleman taking a south-easterly route, and his companions going in a more northerly direction. Major Pinto finally arrived at Durban, in Natal, having traversed ZUluland just before war broke out. The other explorers have been heard of, but have not yet worked their way through. As they took most of the scientific instruments with them, important contributions to science—particularly observations in terrestrial magnetism—may be expected from them. Major Pinto has made large natural history and other collections, and has also added very considerably to the knowledge of the river-basins of the Zambezi, Coanza, and Cubango. At the junction of the Cuando and Zambezi he fell in with an English naturalist from the Cape—Dr Bradshaw—" who was reduced to the greatest misery," wandering about barefooted, with only a tattered ebirt and a pair of trouseie on. It is satisfactory to learn that he was shortly after assisted by a Fxench missionary family, who supplied his most pressing wants. One of the most singular facts recorded by Major Pinto is the occurrence of a race of white people in South Africa, which will recall Stanley's observations on the white inhabitants of the lofty mountain, near the Albert Nyanza. This race, named the Casequeres, is entirely nomadic, living on roots and the produce of the chase, and seldom sleeping two nights in the same encampment. They live, not in tribes, but in small communities of four to six families. They are robust, very whiteBkiitned people, having high cheek-bones, Chinese-like eyes, and their heads covered with small tufts of very short woolin place of hair. : ■ ■ 7