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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 25, 31 August 1886, Page 2

An excited Irishman who wa* declaiming about justice to Ireland, was asked by a I-ondoii friend, “ What is it really that you and your countrymen want 7" He replied. “Wo do not know what w* want, sir; but, by the powers we are determined to have it." I advertised in three papers (says Mr Sale in the Illustrated Ixtndon News) for a lady socretarv, age not under 80, a governess preferred. Governesses can spell, and know something about geography. The lady amanuensis was to be able to write legibly, and to possess a fair knowledge of French. Replies, stating terms raqiured, were to be addressed to *' Delta," at a newsagent'* in Lamb's Conduit-street. 1 had four hundred and thirty-five answers to my advertisement. From all parts of tho metropolis and the United Kingdom, from Brussels, and Paris, and Gomiany came letters from ladies, all of whom wrote legiblv, many of whom wrote splendidly, all of whom stated that they spoke and wrote French with flnenev, many of whom added that they could speak and write half a dozen modem languages, and at least fifty of whom could write shorthand. The terms demanded hv these ladies varied frotn Gs a week to 255. The amanuensis who is now kindly assisting me is not one of the 485. A man named Westway, in the employ of Mr John Grigg, Longbeach, was cleaning out the cattle yards with a scoop, when a horse bolted. Westwav was knocked down and the scoop jiassed over him. He died after a few hours from rupture of the bowels. Another information was laid against Thomas Hall at Tiinarn on Wednesday for forgery. This is the fifth charge against him for forgery. On this occasion he is Hocused of having, on August Hth last, forged the name ot John Cook, a farmer at Pleasant Point, to a promissory note for £'4s. Constable Ryan was presented in the Town Hall, New Plymouth on Wednesday, with the Royal Humane Society’s silver modal and certificate for saving the life of Inspector I’ardy last June. Referring to the speech made by Mr Gladstone in the House of Commons when introducing the Home Rule Bill in April last, the Shorthand Magazine states :—" For three hours and 25 minutes he kept the reporters pencils going, and in that time he rattled off 24,700 words, or nuarly a dozen columns of the Times. His rate—that is hi* average rato—of speaking was, therefore, just a fraction over 120 words per minute. The rough estimate made by the jxist office authorities shows that the number of words telegraphed out of London on the occasion was about 1,500,000 being almost twice as many as on any previous occasion, the highest record hitherto being 860,000 words. The streets of New York that evening were vocal with the newsboy's cries, “ Extra—Gladstone’s Homo ltulo speech," and the papers are said to havo been bought as ‘eagerlv as if they announced the result ot the Presidential election . Next dav the New York papers presented a remarkable spectacle. The Times devoted its entire first page to tho subject. The Herald gave ten'columns, and the Tribune seven. Most of the leading English journals gave the speech verbatim, and several of theut broke it up under natural headiugi." On Saturday, June 12, say* a Manchester pajier, great excitement was occasioned amongst the Salvationists at Hull by the news that their steam vacht the lole, hail been wrecked in the Rumber. The yacht was some months ego pro-seuted to the Army for the purpose of carrying on ovangecal work among seamen and fishermen on the coast, and great preparations had been made in Hull for meetings with the crew of the lole during Whitsuntide. These gatherings were to have commenced on Saturday evening, and there wits to have been a meeting on board the yacht on Sunday afternoon. A few days ago the lole left Ipswich, and all went well until Friday evening, when it arrived off Pauli, near No. 9 buoy. The captain (Mr Fielder) and the mate, with the crew, were all on the lookout, and the lead was at work. Suddenly something caught ths vessel's bottom; she swung round with the flood tide, and the crew, finding her filling with water, had to take to their boat. They pulled to Southend on Friday night and boarded a steamer. On Saturday morning at dead low water only two or three feet of the lole's funnel was to be seen. John Gladstone, the father ofthe world’s greatest statesman, trained his children to give a reason for every opinion they offered. It was this way that Mr William K. Gladstone was early trained to debate. On one occasion William and his sister Mary disputed as to where a certain picture ought to be hung. An old Scotch servant came in with a ladder, and stood irresolute while the argument progressed ; but iis Mary would not vield, William gallantly ceased his speocTi, though unconvinced, of course. The servant hung up the picture where the young lady ordered ; hut when he had done this he crossed the room and hammered a nail into the optsmite wall. He was asked why he dui this. “ A weel Miss, and thst will do to hang the picture on when ye'll come round to Master Willie's opeenion." The fsmtly generally did come round to Willie's opinion, for the resources of hit tongue fencing were wonderful, and his father, who admired a clever feint as much as a straight thrust, never failed to sneourage him by saying—- “ Hear, hear; well pat Willie," if the young debater bore himself well in the encounter. The Wellington correspondent of the Auckland Herald writes :—I have made some inquiries respecting the rurooar current here that the life of Mrs Hall was insured for jEfiOOO, and find the statement confirmed. The LytteltonTitnee says:—lt is rumoured in Tinoaru that the detectives have found evidence in the dwelling of the accused of extensive preparations for burning the building, so that had the supjsised intentions of the alleged prisoners borne fruit, the house would hare been burned, and while the life insurance on the lady intended to have been sacrificed would have been secured a complete obliteration of all traces of guilt on the part of ths chief actors. These, howevor. are only the rumours on the street, and may be true or the reverse of true : but. as far as the unprejudiced eye can see, the web of guilt teems to be spreading itself around the accused parties. It is even hinted tliat the death of Mrs Hall's fsthrr (Csplain Cent, one of the old whaling •kipper* of presetUrment day*! may re quire inquiring into seeing that Margaret Houston was the nurse who attended the deceased gentleman on his death bud. Tho whole story has caused a big excite tuer.t in Tituartl, and the people )utt< „01h.4g else to talk about.