FAIRLY CAUGHT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 369, 18 May 1889, Page 8

FAIRLY CAUGHT.

A village curate loved a maid, A little gay coquette ; Who with his heart Jit football played, And often made him fret. The more he wooed her, day by day, The more shb teased him too ; Until at length he went away, To see what that would do. A letter to her paientscame, And this is what it snid, — * Since Clara would not change her name, A widow I have wed." The hapless maiden started, sighed, And then her grief was such, That all da}* long she crying, eried — " I loved him veiy much." But soon again hi«s wonted place That artful curate sought, He saw tho prptty, pensive face, And whispered, 'Fairly caught!" " Be mine, there's nothing to deter, Foriiive my plan ; Tis true, my dear, 1 married her, But to another man "

It appears (j>ays the Ro^s Advocate"), from Mr Henry A. Gordon's statement, that the whole of the New Zealand quartz sent to the Melbourne Exhibition was mixed up and crashed together, and the result obtained was one and a half ounces of gold per ton, so tho only satisfaction the exhibitors get is the knowhd^e that New Zoiihmd can ptoduee quaitz reefs that \ield. generally an ounce and a half of gold pi>r ton, Therp were 49 s.-uoplos of New Zeal mid qum-z Heated by Mr Gordon, and aiii>i.;st which wim the hnlr" ton sent ti«>ni the -Donnellys Cre<k Quaiiy. Mining Co. Tne atone sent, h«<i besn treated vep.llate.l3, as indeed we •were U d to expect then, h^tead of now knowing noth'iig, we \\<iuid he in possess' ioii of information respecting its true value. If, as Sir Goition «ays, he found himself unable, owiny to the high pi ices demanded for treatment, then it would have been better not to have been treated at all. In a remarkable paper entitled " The Progress horn Poveity, " contributed to the Ameiican review the Forum, Mr Edward Atkinson deo'areahis opinion that the prime faeloi in the progress of the people of the United States, both in personal wealth and in general welfnie, has been the delevopment^of their railway system. Th*» tw. nty-six great systems of railway, which centre in Chicago, have leceived in the last four years 1 ii i tie les* than 640.000.000 dol»., or Ll2B 000,000 sterling, in lei U'U for cat n ing food, fuel ni.iteiiuls for shelter, and clothing ut a rate of less than £d a ton pei mile. The t-ub-Btantial ehai actor of the boon conferred by the reduction of the rate is shown by the fact that it is calculated that if (he old r.ites pievailing 14 to 2u 3*ears ago hid been in opeiatinn, the American public would Inve paid for this service in the 4 years nearly 1,100,000,000 dol, or L 222, 000,000 more than the amount stated. British farmers and manufacturers who complnin so bitterly of the exces>ive and unequal cos-ts of sending their products to niaiket may well look on these statement •with envy. But the service of these trunk lines constitutes, after all, only 85 percent of the railway services of the country and the reduction on the other lines has, we are told, been as gi eat or greater. Alto gether it is calculated that the leduction of the old rates foi cair^inggoods is equivalent to a gift to the public of 800,000,000 doK. ormoiethnn L 160,000,000 sterling per annum. Meanwhile the constitution and opeiation of the railways have been the souice of many of the gigantic fortunes of recent years.