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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 133, 10 February 1874, Page 2

The Triennial Parliament Bill has paused its second reading in Sydney in the Upper House. “What’s the date of your bustle P” was what au anxious papa of Cobleskill asked his well-dressed daughter, after searching for the latest copy of his paper. A very general impression exists in Liverpool commercial circles that a steady fall in the price of coals has at last commenced, and that before the end of the year there will be a very considerable reduction in both steam and household cals. Somebody has been publishing a school-book history of England, and spelling “ calendar ” with a “ k,” after the Greek usage, although there were no Greek kalendars; and the Springfield Republican pertinently asks if we must write “ the kataracts of the Nile,” and speak of a sad “ katastrophe P” If not, why not? Why render unto C., sir, the things that never belonged to C., sir ?

Advertizing is a science, and although it is becoming to be recognized as a primary and unavoidable expense in the prosecution of any business enterprise, and sometimes the only capital in many undertakings, still there are but very few who really appreciate its importance, or realise the wonders it is capable of performing. When managed with experience, judgment, skill, persistency, and liberality, we do not believe there ever was an instance known where it did not yield most gratifying results. The Home News gives the following particulars : — “ The Agent-General for New Zealand has entered into an arrangement with Mr. Holloway, one of the representatives of the Agricultural Labourers’ Union, to accompany from 200 to 300 emigrants, who take passage in the Mongol on December 15th. Mr. Holloway will see to the settlement of the emigrants and return to England for the purpose of reporting on the advantages of New Zealand as a field for emigration.” The Napier Telegraph learns that a bullock, bred by the Rev. S. Williams, of Te Ante, was shown at the last Agricultural Show at Auckland, and was awarded the two best prizes in the class in which he was exhibited. This bullock was four years old when he was shown, and was bought last year from Mr. Williams, and exported by Messrs. Banks and M'Hardy ; he weighed 1,400 lbs., thus furnishing another proof, though none were needed, of the value qf the bull Sir James’ stock. The London correspondent of the Dunedin Guardian thus writes: —“ We are learning more about the men and brothers, as well as the women and sisters, of Africa by fighting them than we learned by Mrs. Jellaby’s scheme for ‘ cultivating’ them and coffee. It seems that a most laudable custom prevails at Cape Coast. All the women are bound to turn out and belabour any man who, in time of war, refuses to turn out and fight. Among civilized nations this thing has been attempted. We know that French women did their best upon a late occasion, but we know how unproductive it was of any result. The circumstance in which these heathens are really superior to us is that the men never fail to obey this command of the women, and submit themselves most humbly to their punishment. Sir Garnet Wolseley, it appears, having been informed of this little national institution, took good advantage of it the other day when there were symptoms of skulking on the part of some of the male population. The ladies mustered in goodly numbers, and with determined countenances : every maiden armed with a whip, and every matron with a baby beside the whip. They made short work, for who could know so well the retreats of the deserters ? and Sir Garnet Wolesley got in his recruits in double-quick time.”