Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 16 February 1893, Page 3

Notes and Events.

There is no saying how much good a clergyman can do who mixes

thoroughly in the amusements of his flock. A capital story is told in Dean Hole's l'etniniscetices. An atheistic lriiner" whot when bn Uy injured, sent fov a noted Cricket: h's Cleric, and, when asked what motive" had dispelled his antipathy to pirsons: replied. " Oh, that hit of your ri to scjiinre leg irir six converted me."

They like their bit of fun in London as well as t-lso where. Naturally a great deal of talk has taken place over the proprietor of Truth not having received a Ministerial appointment. The cablegram-, mentioned how annoyed ho. was. To have a ' dig' at the .G.O.M. Gladstone, the following is bein,i( spivad abroad, " Gladstone has given up Truth, and has ' taken in ' The World." Not a bad shot.

Clark Russell in one of his last books says : — I sometimes fancy that it needs a shipwreck and a great foundering of specie to make the " average " public realise the pro digious treasure which is at all hours of the day and night, year after year, and year after year growing vaster in bulk and in value, afloat under the colours flown by the ships of the British merchant service. Let any one, during any six consecutive days, take note of the published records of tho bullion movements and he would be astonuded by the results." The Bokhara has arrived at Plymouth, from ( hiua, with £42,450 in gold." "The Khedive has taken £81,598 in specie for the East, and the Pcshawur £65, 000." " The Pehin has brought £50,012 in specie." " The Sutlej, £16,110 from Bombay." "The Galacia, from Valparaiso, £80,000 in silver." " The Iberia, from Australia, £58,000 in gold." "The Elbe, from the River Plate, £93,379 in specie " " The JCaisar i-Uind, £46,000 in bar silver, and £15,000 in bar gold." " The Aider, from New York, with £5920 in specie." The 'Jrave, from New York £7941." " The Carthafje with 50,000 sovereigns from Melbourne." il The A'uetpehu, from Wellington (N.Z ,) with £10,000." And so on, and so on, day after day, month after month. Think of a year of figures to which the contribution of a single day may mean as much as half a million ! But supplement this huge floating pile of gold and silver with the value of the cargoes, with the produce of the east and west and south, the tea, the silks, the cotton, the tobacco - the hundreds and thousands of packages for which the despairing cataloguist can find no better name than " sundries."