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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 52, 30 December 1867, Page 324

A Legad Butcheb. —Professional men do strange things sometimes. Here-is our old friend Mr H. B. Roberts, a leading member of the Wanganui bar, has determined to prove that lawyers never do devour their clients, by turning butcher, supplying the hungry with cheap meat, and his own office with sheepskins for parchments I» reference to this the Times remarks : —“ Our respected .townsman, Mr H. B. Roberts, solicitor, was on the sth instant, by the Wanganui Bench of Magistrates, legally licensed to slay and killsheep, cattle, &c., in a slaughter house erected on liis property No. 2 line. We believe it is Mr Roberts’s intention to lower the present high price of meat, and as he has erected a slaughter-house and taken a licence for two years he evidently' means business. Details will, of course, *be published in future advertisement,’ when it will more fully appear that .legol killing is not murder.”—lndependent. . . • * - Mothebs.— Some one has.' said .that a young mother is the most, beautiful thing in : nature. Why qualify it? Are not all mothers beautiful ? The sentimental outside .beholder may prefer; jouth in;.-the pretty .picturebut I am ihclined to think that sons and daughters, who are most intimately concerned in the matter, love and admire* their mothers most 1 when.- they are old; ' How- suggestive of something; holy and venerable, it is when a perscin talks of his “dear : 6ld mother!” .-Away- with your mincing “mammas,” and Rina’s”; —suggestive only of ; a fine; ; lady, ..who deputes her duties’to a nurse j a drawing "room maternal, parent, who is afraid;,,to Handle her offspring for fear of soiling- heir finenewgown! Give me the homely. mother,- of- whose love are allem* bracing, who .is beautiful always, whether' oldor lyblihgj’ in satin or modestlyattircdihbombasine,—Ghristian Times.