A FEW THOUGHTS ON CURRENT TOPICS.

Evening Star, Issue 3732, 8 February 1875, Page 2

A FEW THOUGHTS ON CURRENT TOPICS.

No. iv. ’ &££& for that purple l 8 a „3oJ B Bl^^ d of all the e < *i a ,*^ l ? ltlon ductious should be heW in thence forwarded to AmliL M oh U,: “ e • £ be hi nothing of the at“ mS« this. It will put her to adS of “ ? b ° Ut but she will put up with it WoSd it £.®. w Zealand better to make one central exhibition from the vanom. Provinces i tt one of the leading towns. We succeeded very wellat Vienna, and we might repeat it at PhiJad«.uv,i. TuTu 1 * 111 * taft I in anxiou, for farther Motto, tnm ft. war m Chnatohurch. Palisades, drsins. enaSr* P 08 * aQ d chain fences, and police ’/expected before howto ♦kJf oW £at c »bby, the headfc>f the fraternity there, whose .family lying out house stairs to enable him to get on hS bcS had thrown his Weight against the Palitodes WmhtoMb ■parallel j and that hie f e . M Wi hip' shears through Inm, and bramed, another with his goose But unfortunately all is to be amicably settled. It *" SnrSuoi! it is sad to think or the opportunity his Wor&»®t Act. “The Riot Act 1 All is lost I Bring up the reserves!” —over a cabbies squabble I a r li hh ISiS tim “ te Alter cue exhibition Dunedin has made in Canterbury, I think it will behdvSe gentlemen, or rather part of them, to pracfis? for a year or two before entertaining chaUeuge. I is evident they are out%K” at, the same time it must never be i that the Christchurch ground is far suueriorto Kensington and offers creator faSL 1 V° practice, and also that, owing to the nature of the country, there is scarcely a collection nf f few houses in any part out its cricket ground, inducing a muc/crmter number of players and opportSff of practice But allowing for everything, we are humbled. But what is this T “ Ohone IZr T’ “«■» tota?d£sl, atorm. It look, ominous; but Ido honewe are not going to be deluged with bickerino* over the unlucky team. a-beararo? I feel out of my element if onlv in th* street, and if there is one thing I abhor it is p f°pk V* 110 indulge in unneoessaiy remarks about things that don’t concena them; and those are my reasons for addinc that any little amusement that may have taken placed boS* the steamer we should pitch oiKS? Perhaps some of it went. WW matter if S*. body spoUt the game? It’s over. beaten, and in a very distinguishedananner of r s/°* Twt thou, r 1 '’ ImSZfiSS?' 1 IP? b ? 4>VSI +ionli5 t i iu t ludes 4re * tfio ea«>rtainipg, pap. tipulariy when one sees the relish with which bis Worship enjoys his own joW SoiZ sociable fools would utter good things, and like remain unutterably solemn Sppm utter platitudes and roar whilst fbi -j^ B Artemus was not a real humorist Besides-he was not a magistrate, and might thought it presumption oh his part to laugh at his own jokes. Poor Artemus «!• nature itself. I don’t 1 think there was much of a rokr when certain dealers in Otago read the last paragraph or two of a certain derisiS Jo bo told “ that they cohld not trust the persons who sold it Not half' of the porfor sherry sold here ever saw Spain *’— (l beg pardon, they will smile)—“ andhe was in formed on rehable’authority that our wnatm last session sent Home for their drink.” Well, that may be; I don t belong to the House and Kn Q ii^ n p W * b ? 1 Ido ow i that a good t meml ? orß “e“«t abovediinking stuff that other people sent . Home for— and a good quantity of It We ought to get it good here°^ wh / not JU^ hy i n °V ye dealers ? g Don’t we get everything elseliere equal to t£ HoSe ---« rem W g aS

Major Palmer is making a stir in w hive. He is not half eyes as when he wascourtittg Venus a few weeks ago. In/act I have notfthe least doubt that ,^ s . BCientlfi p attainments, which were paraded hy our scientists as immense, are now looked upon by some as only mediocre • toelessitifltrue—there is not the least doubt about it—that the major is a talented, stientific gentleman, educated for his profession; But “ ot^ ad how . Stephenson ehpsfed tW scientific engineers ; how ' Ann* strong, the lawyer, taught;artillerymen 'how to make guns; and how ■ Arkwright' thn tau&ht the cotton people tSKo^?‘'lt lUreS they were geniuses. Who can teUWmwfv a “ on^ 8t UB ? By the oommoS I should say not a few. u Thera have been a few other little occurrences f have been deroted to! I think the Athenaeum meeting* would hoW been wortha word. IhfideSrSSlm S other things would be worthy of mention You he," and-the offer of the other te throw the 'peripatetic out of the Uvefy. to Wlge the chamnan * »ade things tkat little misunderstanding between the‘Guardian’ and Mr Fox migKST IPM * Ct ’ M WO v d al9 °* most certainly, the little rumpus about authorities ou;the teetotal question. Bother authorities “make useofS and everything you have begged, borrowed or stolen—all is fish. Who is original * •Inm'n nf the old identities that lived .a thousand or more years, age knew a few things; and when one is hard run on any subject William am^Pttf 8 * 0 ki m an allusion. But I am getting out of my depth. I want something very lowly and meek, and touching such weighty subjects is too elevating. I wonder if the undertakers are short of binds. I think Jiil H on «' w AI l you v f to do “*0 look sad and “ id * rt imm ***■ l Hojcilitt.