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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 265, 19 November 1879, Page 2

" Remember whom you are talking to, sir," said an indignant pareat to a refractory boy, "I am your father." " Well, who's to blame for that ?" said young impertinence ; " 'taint me," A writer to an Auckland paper says:— A few days since, I noticed a memo, issued by the Postmaster-General of Victoria, addressed to the different Government departments, prohibiting their clerks from taking part in any gaming transactions, such aa lotteries at horse-races or Calcutta sweepstakes, &c, under a penalty of a reprimand for the first offence, and dismissal for the second. If the Government of New Zealand were to do likewise, I cannot help thinking it might have a more satisfactory effect. The bank managers, and also those of dnr insurance companies, in fact any firm that employs a number of young people, might do well to follow the example of the Post-master-General of Victoria, ami by ao doing might save many a young fellow from getting into scrapes which betting too often leads to The Hawera correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle, writing on Tuesday last, says :— Native news is dull, but I cannot help thinking that Te Whiti is losing somewhat of his iofluence. The natives cannot be gulled everlastingly ; and when they find that he is quite unable to release' the prisoners, and that the Government ignore him, they will, I believe, soon desert his banner, and try and make the best arrangements for themselves with the Government. Vhe Plains natives have no interest in common with him so far as their lands are concerned ; and as the Whenua ia to a great extent their religion, their God, connected as it is with all thijir histories and legends, I believe we will flud them ready enough to retain as much land as possible, and to attain this end would very readily come to terms. Thokowaru seldom goes to Paribaka now, and Wiremu Mania never ; and as these two are the principal owners, I have no doubt but that there would be little, if any, oppositien to our at once occupying the PJains, provided always that ample reserves were at first cut out for Sb« Maoris.