Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

There are many capital stories told in the Cigarette papers of the People, so good that we noticed the Ministerial paper in Wellington hashed up an old one, received, so it said, from a correspondent in Marton. Mr Hatton haa nii.de his mark in this line and deserves credit when it is thought worth reproducing. The following is a atory told of a pauper in a country poor-house who could not go out of the world peacefully without dishurending his mind of something that hung heavy on it. A clergyman being found to offer him the consolation of religion in his last hours, the old man confessed the great sin of his life. " When I was a young man," he said, " I wai passing over the common, and I saw two labourers putting up a direction post. When they had gone away 1 took it down and turned it in an opposite direction ; and it has been a weight on my conscience to think how many unfortunate travellers I have sent the wrong way." Mr Gladstone, most of his life, seems to have been taking down honest direction posts and turning them the wrong way. But do you think he will ever confess it ? Not a bit of it. To quote the cabby whom he pursued, after the reckless Jehu had nearly run him down, " Mr Gladstone's a worry obstinate old gent ; that's a fact. '