BRAINS V. MONEY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 32, 5 February 1879, Page 2

BRAINS V. MONEY.

To tub Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sir, -Mr Adams boasts of his wealth, and, as a proof of his ability, he points to his smartness in money making Such a boast in an election contest is mean, and far from being politic, since the great body of the electors are men of limited means, who have learnt by experience that rich men have no sympathy with them. The man who evinces the least of the sort of ability usually found in the smart money-maker will prove the most honest, trustworthy, and able representative. It matters little to be worth money if one is worth nothing else A man of merit is never weak enough to boast of his riches. At the hustings Mr Adams warbled, "In all distresses of our friends we first consult our private ends." Burns wrote, "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." — I am, &c, Integrity.

To the Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sir— lt is often said drowning men will catch; at straws, and poor Mr Pitt's cause must be weak indeed when " Query " ha 3 felt compelled to come to his aid. To help his friend and get assistance in passing Mr Curtis's so called " first Bill on Education " the worst that he can say against Mr Adams is " that he has not denied having said to a poor Roman Catholic that he had gone further on the education question than he intended, but that his Committee had urged him to it." Now, Sir, if "Query " of last night's Mail will attend at the Provincial Hall to-night he will find that Mr Adams can and will go further on the question than he has hitherto done, and will do so without requiring to be urged by any one, and if Messrs Kavanagh, Frank, and Condell will kindly attend, no doubt they will hear of something to their especial benefit. I am, &c, Wandering Willis.

The Hokitika Star says :— " We learn from good authority that the Union Bank of Austrolia has been served with a writ of summons in the Supreme Court, by Messrs F. A Learmouth and Co., claiming £20,000 as damages for breach of the arrangement existing between the bank and those gentlemen." Speaking of the reign of Queen Victoria, the London Ttleqraph says :— " It has been a reign great in social events. There were not 300 miles of railways in England when the Queen ascended the throne. There was no electric telegraph. There was no penny post. There were no photographs of anykind. There was not the idea of the possibility of a penny Press. Remembering these things, we see that since the Queen began her royalty a different social world has been created." A facetious brakesman on the Central Pacific Railroad cried out as the train was about to enter a tunnel, " This is one miie long, and the train will be four minutes passing through it." The train dashed through into daylight again in four seconds, and the scene within the car was a study for a painter. Seven young ladies were closely pressed by seven pair of masculine arms-, fourteen pairs of lips were glued together,' and two dozen whisky flasks flashed in the air. A good subject for Punch and a true story. B — takes a cab to his chambers in the small hours, and on alighting fiuds he has left bis purse at his club. " Wait a moment, cabby," say 3 he, " while I fetch a light; Ii think I have dropped a sovereign in the straw of your cab. Mind you don't drive off while Igo into the house." No sooner has be closed the door behind him than he hears the cabby crack his whip and start off at a gallop. B laughs in his sleeve; and doubtless cabby ere long curses profusely, for need it be said that no sovereign had been dropped by B . The Otago Daily Timet is given to understand that letters have been received in town to the effect that the first of the large steamers to ply between New Zealand and London, chartered by the New Zealand Government, is expected here early in March; that she is to sail on her return voyage abo "« April l, by way of Magellan's Straits; and that Lyttelton is to be the last point of departure. The only available fast route to k D g]and hitherto has been by steamers from Melbourne; but now, with steamers of nearly 3000 tons running direct from our own doors, we are to be no londer dependent upon another colony. We believe the passage Home is to be done by the new line in 42 days.