DIAMOND DUST.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1168, 6 October 1882, Page 2

DIAMOND DUST.

One day is worth three io him who dc< s everything in order. Beautiful are the admonitions of him whose life accords with his tcachNcver excuse a wrong action by saying somebody else does the same thing, this is no excuse at all. Let all malice be removed, and let us never adopt that maxim, rather to lose our friend than our jest. If there is one thing more than anol her which most people detest, it is the obligation tn be just io those with whom they differ. Nonsense when earnest is impressive and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry you occasionally mistake it for sense. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In 99 cases of a hundred it creates more wants than supplies. He that visits the sick in hope of a legacy let him be never so friendly in all other cases. I look upon him in this to be no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to pick out the eyes on’t.

Never suffer your chihlren to require services from others which they can perform themselves. A strict observ nee of th’s rule will be of incalculable advantage to them during every period of life. It is not becoming to turn from friends in adversity, but then it is for those who have basked in the sunshine of their prosperity to adhere to them. No one was ever so foolish as to select the unfortunate for their friends. Which will you do—smile and make others happy, or be crabbed, and make everyone around you miserable ? The amount of happiness yon can produce is incalculable if you show a smiling face and speak pleasant words. There is no joy like that; which springs from a kind act or a pleasant deed, and you may feel it at night when you rest, and at morning when you rise, and through ! all the day when about your business.

I Have you tried Johnstone's Bottled Ale i and Porter ? Go for it Dire(y)ctly Oh • ! my leg. ■ Mr Elliott Gruner has kindly submitted • for our inspection the prospectus issued by * Messrs. Koeber and Co., bankers of Vienna, l of the lottery in connection with the Imj perial and Royal Hungarian Premium Loan. i The guarantee of the prizes, which range ! from 200, (XX) florins down to 135 florins, is ' assured by the Austrian Government: the i shares being offered at £1 each, but with a i sliding scale of diminution so arranged that thirty-six shares may be hud for £25. There . are offered in all 300,000 prizes, amounting i in the aggregate to 70,192,120 florins of i Austrian currency. To persons unacquainted ; with the Continental system of finance. , this may appear to be something like gambling, but it is the very salt and savour of Austrian and Hungarian commerce. Some dissatisfaction has been expressed at home in consequence of six offices of Cabinet rank being held by three Ministers. Mr Gladstone is First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Lord Carlingford is Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of i the Council; and the Earl of Kimberley is Colonial Secretary and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Attention will be directed to the subject in high quarters shortly. The “ Leader ” of the 16th instant says the s.s. Te Anau arrived from New Zealand with a second shipment of pure pedigreed Ayrshire cattle for Mr R. Gibson, of Barbistod Farm, Tullamarine, consisting of five i cows, three heifers, and a bull calf, specially ; selected out of the best herds in New Zealand. Their pedigrees are of th . most fashionable strains, containing a large infusion of the celebrated Drumlanrig blood, and all of them show in a remarkable degree the peculiar type and milking character for which the Ayrshire stock is so famous. They have been landed in splendid condition. Mr M. W. Green, M.H.R., “ (he member with a conscience,’ was among those present at a recent exhibition in Dunedin of the work ■ ing of Forsyth’s rabbit-exterminating apparatus. T'>e “ Star ” says : —“ During the | proceedings some amusement was caused by the following colloquy between tw > of the onI lookers : —Mr M‘lndoe : I say. Mr Green, I can you reconcile it with your religious prinI ciples to stand by and see anim ds tortured !in this manner ? Mr Green : I am here , simply us an onlooker ; people may say little, i but still think a good deal. Mr MTndoe : j Just so ; and likewise people may say a great | deal, yet think h'ttle.”