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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 554, 19 October 1871, Page 2

One Chines paper, in an editorial, describes the editor of the other in the l'olllwiug terms : —"A time server of the worst type, a panderer and sycophant of the lowest order, a trickster and bhickcner of men's characters, a anything you like, sir, to fill his own pockets, servo !i» own purpose, and keep his k .si..er afloat."

" A.Mistress," writing to the Argue on the " ill used Servant. Girl" question, gives a description of '' 'the class of domestic servants t,ho most objectionable to masters and mistresses, viz , ' tho reader ? " 't'ho says : —" I had one once. My bitterest enemy could not wish; mo a worse punishment than to see me with another. Her mania—like your correspondent's —;-,,.- literature was astounding, and she mixed

it with the duties she should have done at every opportunity. o\'cs\ and over; and over amin have 1 set her to do some work—the most trilling thing—and returned iv about half an hour, hoping to find it clone. Vain

h pc! There would my lady bo snivelling over the love stories in a hastily concealed and very greasy London Journal. At, her washing she generally preferred the Weekly Tiw.s (sent by her friends in England) propped up in front of her; and I have often traced the very blue appearance of the clothes to the all-absorbing aud prurient columns of

I that journal. When at hist I broke the news ' to her that she must leave, she treated me to some of the choicest extracts from her favourite novelists."