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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 485, 17 December 1879, Page 3

The Wellington correspondent of the Wanganui Herald telegraphed as follows on Monday : —There was a lively scene iu the House about midnight on Saturday, when opinions -were divided as to whether the business should go on into the small hours of Sunday. Mr Macandrew left the House indignantly, exclaiming “ If these be the tents ye dwell in, I am sorry for you.” D. Stewart, also made a parade of being extremely schocked, but strange to say both Dick and Fulton, the latter of whom was announced to preach on Sunday, and both of whom are regarded as representing the ultra-Sabbatarain party in the House, voted in favor of going on with the business, presumably in anticipation that votes affecting themselves personally, or districts they represent, would come on for consideration. The whole affair caused much amusement and fertile source of chaff in the tabbies. Tawhia brought matters to a climax by solemnly'- relating a parable, in which he likened the House to men, one of Whom had seven shillings per week anti tho other nothing ; the latter .asked the former for 6s, which he squandered. Tho poor man thereafter went to the rich man for the seventh shilling, and Tawhia added in like manner, “ God has given us six days to work, and we now want a seventh.” The House, apparently conscience stricken, adjourned immediately after this, on the impression that in order to tackle the native difficulty', Ministers will either give Sheehan a portfolio or appoint him as a special Commissioner to deal with the native question. Every' effort is being made by a large section of the House, including both sides, to bring this about.

. Mr Stout, in a leltcr to the Canterbury Times, says that the probable passing of the Property Tax Bill may be an advantage, inasmuch as it will act as,a stimulus upon citizens to take part in politics. They will suffer from defective Government arrangements, and the property tax is the first instalment of the burden they must bear. In conclusion, he writes ;—“ 1 charge the Government, in the face of existing depression, in the face of the need of new taxation, with increasing expenditure in all departments. I charge them with gross extravagance, and I ahi amazed that the House should not have agreed to Mr Alacimd row’s proposal, and sent back the Estimates. I hope we will hear no more of the Charge of extravagance against the Grey

Ministry. Let me only add that the Government and House—for both are respon ible—who desired to economic, con Id here, without injury to tin.; cbloin , have reduced the expenditure by £2011,0 ■'), and I state tin’s from my knowledge of Government affairs. - ’ No life is pleasing to Heaven that is to man. A Yankee was giving an account of his experience as an hotel-keeper. ‘ Did you clear anything by it ? ’ asked a listener. ‘ 1 cleared a six rail fence, gutting away from the sheriff,’ ho answered quietly. Somebody writes to a rural paper to ask, ‘ How long cows should be milked ?’— Why the same as a short cow, to be sure. The amount of pin money required by tJie tnnrriacl woman depends on whether she used diamond pins or rolling-pins. Hasty ebullitions are often best met by silence, for the shame that follows the sober second-thought pierces deeper than rebuke. ‘ You must recollect that all I am telling you happened one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine years ago.’ ‘ Lor,’miss, how the time do slip away !’ A man having road that dry copperas put in a bed of ants will cause them to leave, put some in his mother-in-law’s bed to see if she would’nt go. He says she was there at last accounts. ‘I don’t see how you can have been working all day like a horse!’ exclaimed the wife of a lawyer, her husband having declared that he had been thus working —‘ Well, my dear,’ be replied, ‘ I’ve been drmviny a conveyance all day, anyhow.’ Holloway's Fills. —ln general debility, nervous tremors, and mental depression, these unrivalled Pills have a marvellous effect. They have won the confidence of millions in all parts of the civilised world. Constitutions shaken by sensual excesses, by long residence in unwholesome climates, or by sedentary habits, are wonderfully renovated by a course of tins extraordinary medicine, which, powerful as is its action on the whole system, is perfectly harmless to the tend crest frame. The Pills are composed of rare balsams, without a grain of any mineral whatever, or of any other deleterious substance. They operate directly, powerfully, and beneficial!}' upon the whole mass of blood ; a fact we cannot question when we see indigestion cured, liver complaints arrested, the oppressed lungs brought in healthful play, and every physical function renewed and strengthened by their agency.