SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 377, 15 June 1889, Page 8

SUNSHINE AFTER RAIN .

Though we cannot help repining When misfortunes come in crowds ; Yet thcte is a silvo lining To the (linked ,qC the clouds. Time will surely lift the cm tain, And relieve us of our pain ; ,Joy will follow jus( as ceitnin, 4s the sunshine follows rail). Each will have his share of soirow, But the grief will pass away ; And the sun shine bright to- morrow, Though he hides his face to-day. And this should our troubles lighten, That they will not lons r< m n'n, Joy will pome life\ p.ith to brghten I^iko the sunshine after mi... friends prove false ; whut bitter fearing Tlieii ungratitude may bring ; fortune frowns ; perhaps revealing Other friends who to us cling. Though the fir.st our hearts may sadden Thiit our liust <n them was vain : Kindly deeds have come to gladdun Li^e the sunshine after rain. We should "bravely face ea«-h trial, Though our bie-ists with grief bo torn 5 Time moves swiftly o'er the dial ; Deepest glonm piecedos the dawn. And our burdens will giow lighter When the dawn has come again Apri our joy will seem the brighter Jjil^e the sunshine after rain.

TheNewZea^nnd Times says ;— " Letteis have recently been received from home from the. manufacturing centres, such as Bradford, in which it is stated that New Zealand flax is Wi:i« sttMclHy used more and move, mixed with other fibres, in quite n number of factories, and that by means of new machine! y it is confidently believed by-e:;peits that it will be in much nice steady demand thap heretofore. We are informed that there is at piesent an unwillness on the pnit of those who have been buying large quantities of flax to operative at alt in the markets, especially }i\ Wellington. Owing, however, to the bulk of the wool having been taken home and steamers not beina: over-supplied with loading for home poits, freight is more easily secured than was the case a few months back. A gentleman who has been a flaxtniller for the past five or r ; x 3'etus, in pperkingto iv» yesterday of the urgent need foi extreme caje in the eJe; ning of the fibre, rem.mked that once a flaxmiller's biand became known in ihe Home markets as beincr the label oC a bad sample, it was very difficult to quit ony pf his fib" c after. The same gentleman, in discussing the future pi ospeols of the pf the tradp', said, even if the pn'ce of fibre fell in the London nuuket to L2O per ton he had no fear of bc-'ng able to make a profit. — Uangilikei Advocate.