Gubernatorial Generosity.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 259, 15 September 1874, Page 3

Gubernatorial Generosity.

Speaking of the unpopularity of the Governor, and having made mention of one or two circumstances in connection with paying for seats at the Opera, which tend to the belief that Sir James is rather "hard," the Wellington correspondent of the Daily Times says : —" Again, he has recently taken a very active part in a movement for building a new Church of England at Te Aro. He attended all the meetings and made long speeches,, inculcating the duty of subscribing liberally, saying that if £2OO could be raised to give Alice May, an opera singer, a set of diamonds, how very easy it should be to raise money for the Church. Under the circumstances above stated, but not then made public, this allusion wa,s scarcely in good taste. He on several occasions said he would head the subscription list, and those who did not know Sir James expected something handsome ; those who did know him shook their heads. The other day at a meeting the subscription list was produced, and his Excellency headed it with £25. The blank faces of the Committee when they saw the sum were very amusing. They had expected at least £IOO after all the fuss, and had he given £250 it would not have been very much. As it is, His Excellency's heading the list has thrown a damper over the whole affair, and I am doubtful if the money to build with will be raised at all. Members of the Church of England are rather ashamed of their subscription lists, for the Presbyterians are just building a church in the same parish, and Mr Waring Taylor headed the list with £3OO, followed by Mr Turnbull with £2OO, and Mr John Martin with £IOO, besides an enormous number of subscriptions, all for larger amounts than the one so ostentatiously given by the Governor."

also caught, and for a. moment or two there was a risk' of the animal being burned. With difficulty they severed the couplings; and £he-blading npiuister was, flung to the ground oh his 'badkv 'ThV procession proceeded, leaving Mr Vogel to his fate, Mr Luckie-still looking back through '.hi 3 eyeglass, as if in regret that in death' they should thus be divided. On, Mr Vogel touching earth he was rushed oh by, the crowd, who struggled around his blazing form; At length one him by the arms,'and another by the hind leg, and like a rocket or a shooting star, the Prime Minister was seen soaring heavenward, coming dpwn, on the sward with a thundering thud. ' Mr Vogel burned well, and long after his followers had been consumed a crowd stood around his. blazing remains, the fumes whereof they persistently affirmed w,ere distinctly sulphurous. After unshipping the.Premier the procession proceeded, but it was soon apparent that the impatience of the crowd, manifested by stiqka and other missiles projected at the heads of the figures/would 1 not enable the 'conductojs to carry out the original plan. The gallows, with ropes and hooks, were among the furnishings of the funeral car, but. lambent flames running up the coats presently showed that the amateurs were again at work, and that the legislators must be taken to earth, or the destruction of the equipage would be the result. Already the form' of Mr Wood.was wreathed in flames, and efforts - were made to detatch him from the fixings. He preserved a.s.ublime indifference, and when.dismounted and borne aloft in procession, suppciried by two bearers, each holding a leg, he-moved nbt a muscle. At length he was seen shooting skyward, the dripping tar making it unpleasant to his bearers. Mr Buckland was brought to earth,wrapped in fire. He burned with extraordinary rapidity, so that nobody durst go near him. In a few minutes he was consumed. Mr Creighton, after'being battered a bit, was left to burn out in a corner. Mr Luckie kept his eye-glass up to the last, and even when his head was knocked off by a backhander from some enthusiastic admirar of a free press, the right hand bore aloft the eye-glass opposite to where the eye ought to be. Mr Luckie burned slowly and died hard. The last dying speech of each, as well as the gallows and ropes, was in readiness, bat owing to the earnestness of the amateur assistants the after part was curtailed. Crowds gathered around each blazing form, which from time to time was flung'aloft to the no inconsiderable risk of the spectators. At length, after three ringing cheers for Mr O'Rorke, and three for the Evening Star, the crowds dispersed."

The following particulars of the circumstances under which Mr James M'Gregor, of Matarawa, lost his life, are given by the Wanganui Herald :—" It appears that a number of young men were in the habit of going to some very broken ground to shoot cattle, and although they hadbeen warned by settlers to be very careful, as on such ground an accident of the kind may easily happen, they pursued their sport in the same manner as before. Yesterday afternoon they were out, and in the excitement of the hunt there was a great deal of cross-firing. The deceased was missed after a time, and, on search being made, was found dead, a bullet having passed through his head. It is perhaps a fortunate thing for the peace of mind of those who were out with the party,-.that nobody appears to have the slightest idea as to who fired the fatal shot."

A triple suicide has just taken place at Vienna under sad circumstances. Three ladies, the eldest appearing to be the mother of the other two, took a bed-room at the Kummer Hotel. The next morning they went out for a short time, and on their return, after having taken a slight repast, retired to their chamber. Shortly afterwards several detonations were heard in that apartment, and on the door being broken open the three women were found on the floor, each with a pistol in her hand, and their skulls fractured by bullets. Subsequently they were recognised as Madame Gyorey, the wife of a tradesman in Hungary, completely ruined by the late financial crisis, and her two daughters. No rings or jeweller}'- were found on them, and the only property they" possessed besides their clothes was a sum of 47 kreutzers in the mother's purse.

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