MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 486, 11 August 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

To detest to curse, to strike our enemies is easy. To 'edify them, that is the cliffi culty. If we are defeated, it is because we have not the capacity to edify. There are abundance of men fit for tire work of hatred and destruction ; those better endowed ought to seek another mission and prepare for quite other combats.—Ollivier. A girl of tender sensibilities eloped with a .young man from Knoxville, Tennessee, recently, and, when her father sought to detain her, sire knocked the old gentleman down with a shovel. Her parent pursued the coup’o after marriage, and the husband and father having exchanged shots, the blushing bride emptied a revolver at her liege lord, disabling him completely, and than fetumod home with papa. Who says the age of chivalry is over in Tennessee? Noverinthe history of the worilh's there been so “ fast” a Colony as New Zealand. Only thirty y ars colonize !, and a debt, in proportion to its population, double that of England—that most tax-ridden country. Eu t in England the interest of the debt is expended on the »po‘, and maintains a healthy ebeu'ation, while Wo all the profits of industry leave the country to enrich people on the other side of the would. But how has all this arisen? The Canterbury “Press ” hit the truth recently when it said;—“ It has been the fashion in nearly every community in the Colony for a number of years past, to look upon all the public luxuries which belong to old and wealthy countries as positive necessities. The fact has never been recognised that our debts are heavy, our population scanty, and our income comparatively inconsiderable. There are probably few who have not shared the general inclination to discount the future,” That is the real truth. New Zealand in its state of infancy has coveted all the appliances of ease and comfort possessed by old countries in their high state of civilization. This was not the way in which the foundations of prosperity were laid in the American colonics; and before New Zealandcan reach the| greatness prorcisssd her, she will have to “try back,” and grow up from a hardier and more healthy basis.—Nelson Examiner. Judge B—, in reprimanding a criuiina’, among other names cdled him a sooundred. The prisoner replied, ‘ Sir I am no! as b;g a scoundrel as you honour ’’—here the culprit stopped, but finally added—“ takes me to be.” “ But your words closer together,” said the J udgo reddening. An old grocer says- that “ the greatest nutmeg ever known met With a greater.”