NO NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1455, 2 April 1873, Page 2

NO NEWS.

The Wanganui correspondent of the Wellington Independent is thus permitted to exercise his imagination : — A Banish author once wrote a History of Iceland, which has the following remarkable chapter :— CHAP. IXII.— CONCERNING SNAKES. " There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island." : T.his -vjas the. ejitire. phaptefj neither more nor less ; arid it often occurs to me in connection with newspaper work, wheii, at a dull season, I am tempted to say "there is no news," and thus temporarily, rid myself of a difficulty. The tion of ideas, however, will not carry, roe very far. "No news," but that only means no news of the character that is usually supposed B.ttijig for a ne,wsj>aper. There is always 'plenty of the. nsws wjjicji Goldsmith's village statesmen ' enjoyed, although it was older than their 'beer. Depend upon it, in every cqmmuhijjy of a thousand and odd souls there is much daily said and done, well deserving to be put on record, if one only knew it; ' Nothing very grand or sentimental ; common place enough, no doubt ; but sufficient, nevertheless, to make an interesting picture-gallery, There is sometimes dark tragedy, oftener blythsome oomedy • ' and not unfrequently the one runs into and blends with the other. Human: lie moves steadily along, with it's undertone of suffering, and he is a fool -who affects to take little interest in common men and common things. These we have always with us : the uncommon and the sublime we may only meet with once jn ; a life.? time. It is from the ordinary course of humanity that pur philosopher and novelists draw their most' interesting materials, and we call them men of talent or men of genius, according to their judgmpnt in selecting, as their imaginative or other power in; repro iucing what'comes within the scope of every-day experience. 2^o*

thing is more common than travelling about, yet n'pw and again the steamer leaves the* wharf with her living freight, and the fragment of a wreck alone drifts ashore to "tell of disaster. The rider goes out, and only a riderless horse comes back to indicate what must have hap.pened. Men slegp .anJL^wak^^rest^and toil, until one day and "then ~~ " And then the .correspondent discourses upon the weather as the one 'subject of ".paramojontimpprtance."- ,-;£«; j^m.