GENERAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 207, 6 December 1879, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

( Fro m cm r Excl ia u ere s.)

More servantgalism. W ith this si erect vped preface a writm in fbe SydMail gives the fobowing ; —The other clav a lady in one of the suburbs advertised for a general solvent, md as usual in such cases, the door km-eker was plird unceasingly from an early hour next

m< Hi tig hv \. mg di niseis who came to si e if the p'ace vo ukl sni: them. One respectable air! at last appeared, and vas thankfully engaged, boon after, a

stout Irishwoman made her ap, earance, She had a figure like- a dropsical hour-glass.;! face like that of Belinda in “ Our Boys, " and a hoarse Voice, with, considerably more of the “ brogue ” than even Alderman O’Connor could praise, Ti ils agreeable femal • was informed that ti e situation was filed. 14 {)ch, sure, thin, ye’d ’save to pa A me 1 fan* back to Gvdney,” was the reply. The mistress sh murivdconsiderably to this cool denial) ! 44 Well, thin,” says Biddy, 44 shure it’s mighty mane ye are, juni the curse of Cromwell on yez ! Shure, F!1 niver forget to give this house a had name to my dying day.” .Regarding the position of the “Knight of Kawau” in Parliament, the Wellington correspondent of a Northern journal says —Mr Hutchison gave, in a very forcible

manner his (and mr own) opinion about the position of fcir Georye Grey. He said that no matter what part of the House that great man occupied, the same would be the head of the Hou-e, as the Scottish Chieftain remarked to his host wise made some excuse for not placing him at the head of the table;—Wherever the M’Gregor sits, that is the In-ad of the table. I repeat again it is in vain for Sir George Grey to resign the leadership ; it is like Epamii ondas resigning the station of Commandcr-in-Chief, the ax my knew where to find its head ; but one indication of R ir George Grey’s power, is the fact that every member of the Government, and every supporter of the same, rises in succession and levels his lilipution shafts ag-.inst the intellectual giant, who is now revolutionising New Zealand, and forcing his measures down the'throats of his opponents. A delicious thing in “ servantgalism” has come to us, being strictly true. A lady in Wellington having Advertised jor a servant, was duly waited on hy a red-faced .young woman, who .after some preliminary conversation, inquired whether a gas-stove was used in the house. The lady replied in the negative, and said that the cooking was done by means of an ordinary kitchener. £! lam glad of that, ” said the particular young woman, “ the last place I was at I hail to use a gas-stove, and it ruined my complexion.” The first horserace was held in Melbourne on Batman’s Hill in 1839; the population of the whole Colony was then about 500, and the whole crowd turned out to see the Squatter’s Purse and the Town Plate run for ; on which occasion in connection with many other interesting events Mrs Gubb the original owner of Petrel, herself, turning the -scale at fourteen stone, i*aced her husband for a bottle of rum. Now Victoria has a population of 800.000. The Flemington racecourse is pronounced equal to any m the world. Time as fast as any on record has Lein made there, and the MV-lbr.nrne raws are Wed upon ns one of the u-indpal (if not the chief) racing hi :W.r,b,cm Hfme.'rhoe.