HIS HONOR AND BIJAH.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2333, 24 September 1881, Page 3

HIS HONOR AND BIJAH.

Justice sleeps Vith one eye shut. She is a sitting hen. She is patience. Weeks ago a stranger came into the station house one morning, and asked Bijah to give him a dollar towards buying a Bible for a dying man on Sixteenth street. The money was handed over, and next day it was learned that the man was a liar and a drunkard, Bijah bided his time and pocketed the jokes of his friends. He knew that the panorama of destiny would sooner or later bring that man back to his starting point, and the event occurred Saturday morning. The same man, having the same mournful cadence of voice and sorrowful eye, entered the station and asked: * Is this Bijah ?’ * Yes.’ ‘ Are yon a friend of the orphan ?’ ‘ lam.’ ‘ Will you contribute fifty cents towards buying a pair of crutches for a poor lame orphan,’ ‘ Not this morning, as I have another job on hand. lam going to give you the all-firedest licking a swindler ever got! I have been waiting for you ever since you got drunk on my dollar. Human hyena, prepare to bo masked!’ ‘ Oh, don’t!’ ‘ Yes, I will!’ * I’ll buy you off!’ ‘ You can’t do it! Gaze on this beautiful earth for the last time, for I strike like a sawmill and am as mad as a tornado !’ There was a rush, a yell, a fall, and the clatter of feet died away in the distance. In making his rush Bijah forgot his feet, and ho overlooked a chair in his path. When he got up from the saw-dust the swindler was half a mile away, the clock had stopped, and the prisoners in the corridor were crying ‘fire!’ at the top of their voices. HIS WIFB HAD EDM AWAY. ‘Peter Campbell, this warrant says you were drunk, ’ began hia Honor, as the first prisoner appeared. ‘ No I wasn’t, and yon can't prove it 1’ * Perhaps not, but I’ll try. Officer, where did you find Peter ?’ ‘ In an alley, under a waggon.’ 1 What was his condition V ‘ Too drank to talk.’ ‘ Anything peculiar in hia condition V ‘ Well, he had his head between the spokes of a wheel, hia feat tangled np in a barrel, and he was hugging an old paint keg so tightly that wo had to let him bring it along down hero.’ ‘ How did you bring him ?’ ‘ In a cart. ’ * What did he say 2’ ‘Nothing. Throe grunts and a groan were the only sounds he uttered from first to last.’ ‘ Well, Peter, what do you say to this ?’ asked the Court, as ha turned to the prisoner. ‘ Well, sir, my wife left mo several weeks ago, and I was tracking her. _ I had spotted the house where she is hiding, and I was under that waggon to secure further particulars,’ ‘Ah! just so. For furthorparticularssea thirty days in the workhouse.’ ‘ If you send mo up, I’ll sue you for 10,000 dollars damages.’ ‘ Well, you are sent.’ * Never !’ But ho was. He struggled some, bat what can a hider under a waggon do when a cyclone grabs him from behind. Bijah carried him off as if he was only a banana, and when he dropped him in the corridor he said—- ‘ Now yon go to behaving yourself or I’ll make you take a dose of castor lie!’

THE NATIVE ASPECT.

[By Thlbqbaph.]

[feom ottb own oobbespondhnt ] WELLINGTON, September 23. Ton will have ’earned by this time that my view of Te Whiti’s meaning has been clearly proved to be the correct one. Indeed, it was founded on most conclusive evidence, although, for good reasons, it was not deemed advisable to publish the latter. lam now entirely corroborated on all tides. The fact is that the original alarming version emanated simply from one source. A person interpreted the speeches in his own way, and communicated his free translation of To Whiti’a mystic and allegorical verbiage to the various Europeans present who thus took alarm and telegraphed in all directions. They acted in perfect good faith, and their informant may have done the same, for anght I know. He may have been nervous and excited, and so have unconsciously colored the utterances. It is quite certain that all the Natives who were present, mony of whom have been questioned on the subject, were astonished at tho constructions placed on the words which, to them, conveyed no snch meaning as that which they fonnd attached to them by Europeans, and it is known that Te Whiti, on learning how he had been misunderstood, took the earliest opportunity of clearing up the misapprehension. The settlers on the spot were not at all apprehensive on the subject; indeed, one correspondent expressly telegraphs to me that Te Whiti’s declaration has made no impression upon the Plains settlers, buildings and improvements being daily undertaken. Three public-houses are in full swing at Manaia, and two are in course of erection four miles further on at Ctakaho. Tho settlers are closely watching the coarse of events, bat are not serionaly anxious, having confidence in the Government to settle the question with firmness and despatch, if necessary, bnt the idea ot war is laughed at. At the same time it is undeniable that Native matters are somewhat com. plicated, and need very careful treatment, although not the slightest ground exists for any Native “ scare.”

[per pbbss association.! No fresh news was received by tne Govern, ment from the West Coast to-day.