Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 27 September 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

Whit a difference in a hundred years. In 1790 the war with America was ended after having cost England 185 millions of pounds. In 1890 England had lent the various Colonies the same amount of money on which she receives punctually a fair rate of interest. The great Ulster Convention is stated to have oost £17,000 and it got together 12,000 delegates. It is credited with having been cleverly organised. Nothing is credited to the real earnest feeling of the people! Mr Oaborne Morgan has been replying to Lady Jeune's denuniciation,of modern society. He says the modern maiden goes up to Girton or Bomerville, takes the part of Anligone or Electra in a Greek play, pits her-self-against her brothers or her cousins in the Tripos or the Class Ijist, and comes out " above the -Senior Wrangler." i t ln Tmpty Bar Court life in the Century is compared itith the present time. It says that no doubt in the past they were more ceremonious, but their stilted language,, their bows and courtesies geem to have been only the veneur to ooyef amass of much coarseness ■ftttftno little vice. It is never very safe to' compare the morals of one age with that of another, but modern •society, :i if not "better," may certainly claim to be more " decent " than that of a century ago. In an account of the life of a captain in th? >Tyne Shipping Company the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle

has given us a glance at the hardy lives lived by seamen in the beginning of the century. When the lad went to sea in 1836 all the clothes he had for several voyages were a pair of coarse canvas trousers, worn against the naked skin, and a canvas jumper. Shirts were a luxury he did not aspiie to till he had been a sailor over ten yeare. It was on the longest night of the bitterest winter that ever he remembered— lß47 the year was — that he was washed cverboard in this costume of canvas. The things were frozen to him stiff as boards at the time.