ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 1 July 1875, Page 4

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

(FROM OUB' tONDO^ CORRESPONDENT.)

'.■ ./• ' ; g. : L'osdok, May 4. VALUABLE PICTURE SALE. Mr" Qujtfetj a picture collector, with "Wonderful' judgment, has just sold his collection for £71,090 ! Mr Quilter is an accountant i» 1C c^,Yj E4n^ used to occupy his leisure il* lopkina; up new pictures by xiniinown arti'^s. His eye never failed him, ratal'! lie never, bought rubbish, and never gave Mg priced r Quilton has made a profit of 2GOppre r cent, ■which is not bad. It "Was chitfiy in v'ater colours tbat his money was invested. Formerly it was only oil paintings tfcafc bV 0Ugh't top prices, but now water colour d/aiyi ngs °* .merit bring as much rs oik. ME. GoiiST M.P.. ON CIVILIZATION • . A N*-» THE MAQBIS. Whilst on tie subject; of public meetings aiid assunblies, I ni^y n ter to the speech of Mr J. E. O. jrffi, M.P..ut the annual meeting | of tli*1! '^ocipiy t'orthePropogß Lion of the Gospel .*Jbc'other day. He spoke of fcbe progress,of Christian! tA in X«w Zealand.' an J. as you kr.ow, he .:■•• v;eH ijnalified to explain how nasterr '.^andia.yoTtr He drew a very mixed picture-of toe advantages derived bytht- Mj> iria from civilization and Christianity, but one which is familiar enough to every coloni&t. Mr.' Oorst thinks, that to eomnesi-citi' i-sr i.he misery v c have wought "y *he "'''.trodnction of :nm, blankets, and yoletoer.. we ought; to jut forward special ef'orts i>-. tbc r*mefi!; of Lhe t^ative race. As "?v Goi bwas • . ioi>2 ??/io ;d in the Wai* ;:C :•■ aadspoJ.-t pai-ttcularly with reference to you:- pnrt, of the colony. I don't think I need apologise for introducing a tolerably full report of bis pp<-ech : — "New Zealand was a part of the world he said, which at the present time especially deserved the attention of English Churchmen, because there we had very recently come into contact with a great number of very interesting native race?, and in which, during the present; year, we had made the latest addition to the colonial empire of the Queeu. It whs the fashion to speak of the spread of the English people in the South Pacific as if it must bear; unmixed* benefit to the barbnrous people with whom we had come in contact. He believed, however, if the native races themselves could be heard on the subject they would probably express the opinion tbat their happiness and welfare had not on the whole been increased by the advent of the Anglo - Saxon race amongst them, and even looking at the ■ matter from our more enliehtene'd point of view, it must be admitted that the benefits we conferred had been counterbalanced by a very great many seiioas drawbacks. The change of dress to the European system, so far from being a benefit, deteriorated the health of. the natives. One of the most intelligent New Zealand chiefs he had ever known paid of the blankets in which his people -were dressed, '' These are the things with which you are killing us. Our young men formerly wore flax clothing, and ware inured to the climate ; now they wrap themselves up in your blankets, contract effeminate habits of body, and are killed off by influenza and colds." Then the food we had introduced also had an ill effect. Potatoes were so easily reared thai; the natives were released from the task of tilling the ground,_ spent the time that used to,be so employed in idleness, and often got from idleness to mischief. . There was no don be of the evil produced by the introduction of our drinks. Adulterated rum introduced into the unprepared and unsophisticated constitutions of the natives had made them victims in enormous numbers. Turning to the social and political institutions we had introduced, they were by no means unmixed benefits to the native race. The principles of self-government, which were the pride of Anglo-Saxons, had had the effect of destroying witl? all ' their superstitious usages all the principles of Government founded thereon— the ir.flnence of the chief and of the tribe—and of leaving them in a state of anarchy. As, •however, it was quite impossible to stop Anslo-Saxon progress in that par!; of the world sidventurers would form settlements and stations amongst the islands, introduce English institutions and customs uncontrolled by "English law, until, as in the case of Fiji, the Government would be obliged at last to interfere to prevent anarchy. Under those circumstances' there was only one of the many things- we possessed which we could-introduce amongst the native '"c|/ with the confidence .that it would do.£ et?, - great deal of good and could not^"°v.™ the J,st hi f Uy **5*3&£SS ■ ana barbarous race., f - w > >rjl' *** r £ •t- - i i ,i - j. jv^SiPTn of the Onristian bjed gone the intro£/V n Ui ", V , , - i- •• j. .i Sea Islands hart pSvufa^%Sr *o the spiritu.l and Giving Jrtnstance in which the introduction >of raJ^ivilization was rapidly depopulating _ -mislaid, while in another missionary effort was producing tjie best effect, he urged strongly the importance of immediate pro- .' vision being- made for the ecclesiastical V: government-of the Church of England in / Fiji. TKe history of all our settlements m Mitaposition with native races was alternate * llbUiiion with native riahts and usages and a WM of races, arjd it was of the utmost importance so to implant Christianity among them at the outset that it would bear this severe tfst -And strain Tbis had been the case id ■ Np« Zealand, and though during- the war a tret nnnii-r of tjatives bad relapsed into he^b.:nsu I .' i >ti. i or. a very- large^ rtmnant'had remained faithful to the Christian principles which had been taught them." . ) LADIES' CLUBS. A new and very exclusive Ladies Club is to be started at the West End, the entrance . w ki c h is to be about as difficult of attainment as that to Whites or Brookes. It is said that the chief object of this institution •will be high play,' of which there is just n ow sadly too much amongst our Grandes Dames. What with HurliDgham, Princes, Sandown, and all the other means of getting through time and n>oney now at the disposal of the-I won't say «upper» any moremoneyed ten ; one might nave w g the new club a superfluity. j.i_ ■ c ii,,, 0 fl -millionaire comers of their -h fast -ugh. They.are bit as bad an who work i KLt the black diamonds. The one gives k .^thousand pounds for a pair of pomes, and i pays her cook £1,000 a year and the other W Sears sealskin and sable, and drinks chamf paene. The one plays whist for £10C points, J and £500 the rubber,,and the others husband backs his dog or his pig £n f oi-fe amount of his fortnight's wages. It is the fashion to abuse the working-man and I believe everything that is said against him. He is usually a ruffian and a fool, but then so are those tbat talk about Mm and employ him, &W only in °tQer wayß' They dont \ lck l&Milbeir wives to death, but they i%'JSjL find other ways of hounding them to -• They ate not picked out of the gutter \!?!iy& -police and fined five shillings, but tl^ isiii&lkiualiy drunk at their Clubs, and "^ ' K^Pfttid-bv the waiters. Faugh-! It •w wicfea^»WOTid' and wants all the Moody and'Sanfef' lsm we can get. ; THE STBAJSTD. ; '■■'■■-■*-■ rThose of your readers who have been - - % w*? f-om. Er#Md: for matay^te™ would . »'-)R^\ lilT/7g yeCogll i S e intlie fflefcamor. "SES SSo^oftJfaerghbourhood of the s . gS.'ie o)d Lan*)D of their former exHiSiSdc 8; :'2l?<^«B«ttS expanaion* . ''" JiovC) V, rookentß, con- • ' muw¥- l(Af'-t ' rt' seems i^iuj st^atGentation and

doubtedlyhad a right to claim to be—evd the finest site in Europe. THE BUDGET. I have lef b the Budget for the last mention, dimply because there is nothing at allia it. Sir Stafford Northcote made a very clear statement of affairs, and brought forward an ingenious scheme, which has received the approval of the bulk of the press, for paying off the National Debt at a fairly rapid rate. If would be a great thing to lessen the burden of ditect taxation on the middle classes, and moreover it would set free a huge amount of capita], which would be devoted towards railways and other modes of employment, and would cheapen the means of living muchly. England is a paradise for the wealthy and the working man, but the very d—l for us of limited means.