What Eveybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2154, 29 November 1875, Page 3

What Eveybody Says.

" In multitude -of counsellors there is safety." —Old Proverb It is scarcely to be wondered at that the proposal to bring out Sir George Grey as representative of the Thames is re garded with some.amount of suspicion in the district. Some people have got an idea that this move is a plan of the enemy to throw obloquy on-the Provincialists, and especially to heap dirt on Sir George Grey's beard.' There is some ground for these opinions, as'everybody says. If sympathisers with Sir George Grey's opinions .wanted to\ bring out a candidate, why did they not avow themselves, and say boldly that they believed they were strong enough to return one candidate against all comers. If they had done so, everybody would have said "Kapai." Rut uqw everybody says, .or thinks that the requisition to Sir George is only" a political dodge—not a genume^expression of opinion. It will • not affect Sir George very much, however, because itLdoesn't matter under what circumstances he comes put; if he agrees to come out at all for the Thames he will no doubt be returned. There is not a doubt of it.- It will not be. the, fault .of his requisitibmsts, hut they will discover that he has more independent supporters than they .were aware of. This, or these facts will not commit everybody to Sir George Grey's^ candidature, but amongst the electors will he found many who do not approve of ihe;tactic3 of the reqmsitiomsts who will'give a: plumper for Sir George. He has many friends.and more<admirers, and the least demonstrative of the latter will be amongst.the number who will help him to a seat if he should be prevailed upon to seek it at the hands of the Thamespeople. . ' \ '..'"'«■ Everybody will he surprised to. hear ot an establishment of so'novel a character that it probably is the only one in the world, at least if fcherebe another everybody is in ignorance of it. We allude to the, ■". establishment : of.deceased relatives and friends " which, i; accordingyto^miadTertisement in the Advertiser, exists in Shortla'nd, and, .where -^w^e are. : >also; told photographs can be procured* How the establishment is conducted, whether everybody <or'nobody:.is'-allowed-to _see theW relatives and friends* whose relatives andt'frienda the deceased may be, are of course, matters of uncertainty; but it is probable that .everybody., will be curious to ]£arri, and perhaps . everybody, will mclude.the,lhspe,ctpr of Police 1, who' may hold"somewhat different views', to ;the proprietorsTof the establishment as to the advisability of holding a charnel house in one of the principal thoroughfares. Lttckily this establishment is next to Dr Kilgourfs, so. that medical aid may be promptly: forthcoming, should -jthe unexr, pected = sight -■ .of some . deceased relative or friend•» be'; -.too much*, for; the nerves of somebody. Who penned the extrabrdinary paragraph cbhtaining'thisannouncement Cannot be stated with' cerfaihty/buias"internal evidence is often, Vsed to detern^ine the authorship of a'nopymbusworks, so perhaps, anybody or everybodyCwould. not' be far wrong in saying, that'it probably appeared in/the ; Advertiser having emanated from the; same grammatical hand which penned for that same erudite journal the-information to.be conveyed:to Sir George Grey thati the requisionists had no fear for his return to the A ssembly should he decline to stand! Tbe whole paragraph runs thus printed and wrastopped; as we have it :<— '* The public may not be aware that large photographs of a very superior kind can be enlarged from small card negatives at this establishment of deceased relatives and friends." What are the friends of ; education about that they do not send these infantile writers to school again ?