THE GOLD TINT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 308, 17 October 1888, Page 2

THE GOLD TINT.

There is a double law, though out of joint With other laws that men and nature sway, That} when man's heart attains its [highest point 0£ worth, his frame is sapped by strange decay. Or, when abnormal lustre of the mind Shines from the youthful and the immature, The tower of life by deathis undermined — ■ The walls look solid, but their fall is sure. It is not when the life is in the bloom And grace and vigor are the creature's dower ; But when the step is turned toward the tomb The soul within puts forth her grandest power. 1 The frame of too slight fibre oft is made For the keen mind that works and dwells beneath, Like some bright sabre whose ioo trenchant blade . Cuts through the texture of the encasing sheath. The same strange law in nature's realm we see, Whose ways our sense of harmony confound ; While clustering grapes in ripe bloom crown the tree The yellow leaves are hurrying to the giound. The faith and hope of God's saint as he dies Becomes more sure and steadfast, bright and clear ,- It is the sinking sun that paints the skies — The gold tint comes not till the leaf is sere.

" Anglo-Australian," in the European Mail says :—": — " It is highly gratifying to note the remarkable manner in which Australasian milling is now advancing on its new scientific basis. I notice that the American Miller gives a really capital portrait and sketch of Mr J. C. Firth, the builder of the first American flour mill in New Zealand, and a very good and characteristic likeness it is. It is high 1 time that these Antipodean flour mills woie put on the new and scientific basis, now a sine qua non for really successful milling, seeing that the da} r is not very far distant when the United States will have little or no flour to expoit to Europe. I may observe in this connection, tthart r quite recently, I had the privilege of seeing the greatest of all millers, Mr Pillsbury, who made a shoit stay in London, on his way to Paris, He had some highly pith) 7 things to say on the subject of American flnur-niillinff, ai.d, for one thing, le'iwirkcd that the time wis not sa very distant when the Ameiican people will consume all tli<^ flour made in the Stite<? themselves ! I do not wish to take too much to my«elf, hut this i.s but anoth'T instmce of the voiy emphatic wty in which Hicccssive events me confirming my own ob*-etvations, made some two ;\ cars or nuue ;ijro, that, if Australasia besti'ired h->ise!f, she rould secure the iirh revision of th° Amei iean trade with the United Kingdom in bre.id^tuff.s." We have to acknowledge from the secretruics of the Melbourne Temperance Convention, IBS*, receipt of n copy of the pioor.iinine of the Int-i nation il Tetnpeiance Convention to I>p licld in Melbourne duiinu November next, from the 19th to the 25th. Among tho«e expected to be present from Auckb-md are Sir William Fox and Mr David Goldie, M.11.H. The papers to be re. id are : — Section I : Histoiical paper, "The Temperance Movement in Australash." by Mr J. W. Meaden, Victoria. Section II : Political paper, '•'Austr.il.xsi.in Temperance Legislation," Mr John Yale, Victoria. Section 111 ; Religions p;iper, " Religion and Temperance," Rev. Joseph Walker, Queensland. Section IV : Women's work, paper by Mrs M. M. Love, Piesident W.C.T,U., Victoria, Section V : Physiological and Medical paper, "The Physiological Effect undi Medical Uses of Alcohol," Hon. S. J. Macganey, M.L.C., M.D,, South Australia. Section VT. r " Temperance Work Among the Young," paper by Mr W. J. Macdcrniott, secretary Auckland Band of Hope Union. Section VII : Social paper, " Social and Moral Aspect of the Temperance Question," Mr R, Semple. New South Wales. Section VIII : Economic paper, " Temperance Economics," by Mr Jas. Minims, M.L.A., Victoria, Section IX: " The Attitude of the Australian Natives with Regard to the Temperance Movement," by Mr S. Manger, Victoria. One of the features of the Convention will be an exhibition of temperance journalistic literature, giving specimen copies of all the leading temperance publications of the world. It is also proposed to issue a Convention Memorial Volume, containing the papers read in' the various sections, the letters af the most distinguished correspondents, and full reports of the discussions, to which will be added the early history of the movement in Australasia, illustrated by portraits of the leading temperance reformers ,