What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2569, 2 April 1877, Page 3

What Everybody Says.

" In multitude ol oounsullora there is safety." —Olp Proverb

Everybody has. been .talking.- so much about tb» ''M'banatairi mine" for the la-<t week that it may fairly -belaid to have absorbed more than 2£ per tenth (not per cent) of tbe whole c<>nVersß.tt.'>n on mipirix Siia'tter^";"' The '.words '' Xtpvr's tlieru stocks," or their equivalent, are in every bodj.'i mouth, go whore y->Ti *i»l..and they are Used, not only by buyers and sellers ouly^.but by those who have not the remotest intention of buyint?, and certainly do not l.«ee the slightest pfo»peVt of liavi^jt a'ny'.sliares to'sell. Like many other' 1 things, it is^ the (Hshion to tal^c aboUt'Vhenv Its a, go d thing' to -b.making liiy while the.sun' shiue.s,»'Bo tis SHidvbut nobody;.'either at home or in JtJew"Zealand, tnakes hay on Good Friday; perhaps for the simple reason that there is uo hay to make. Thi*>ecpni.tnentjla'ioii to make hay w bile you can has been interpreted by brokers to mak e-goM, or notes, wßile they can, and so ot» Fridny evening, though Good Friday, the offices of some; were open for .buy ing and selling , v Up iniiendo 1^ here intended, as every-. )^dy know-s whose/office was °P en an(* was not; but everybody may nut k|np^ thatjis Go d Friday ;is a "dies non." all transact ions on <litit day are illegal, so it will be .well for brokers in future to strive to make Jiay* not when th^ylbaq,',btti jtfhenl thej''tn^y.^! ';

.Br.erybody has.been mnkihg money ■ br losing;it lately over the Moanatain. bu! you .hear morepprf r what has been lost than what? has been made. For in^tanee one hafl lost four thousand pounds during-,the, scrip racket, lie says,; -Hrii'whew askjad to explain, coojly^^ bfiy'■l^ou.p ; le;..of hundred Mqanatairis at a^pjpiSfndv Another one has loat some hjindtecls^Rnd ;he, accoujits tor it: iv « way gimiiar.tb.the tbrmer. H^e.had a lot «>f shares 'which only: cost a, few shillings apiece aucl, sold • out when they reached ■ £lQ.^ Thi^se. instances, are not few, arid tbejjitories are pouredintP your ear with pitable affectation of injured feelings. A rapid, accumulation of money tends to harden the heart, or else rlipseihdiridflals w^hb 'have - been'" forturiate possessors', of Moanatairi3 would, have a ' little con*ideration for those whp have uune. Every body can't he shareholders in these lucky, finds, and if some -people realise large sums, it mußt be at the expense of theif neigubora unless the gold comes out of the ground. ; A go<vd " spurt" is a fine oppbrtunity for observing personal characteristics.

When a man is told to sharpen his wits he;somehow^. :or other feels himself rather insu^tediragif the advice implied that }, P waß'%omi&what"<i'e:ficient in brains. Perhaps if the advice went further and told him: bow the sharpening process was, to be perform- d he might be induced to make the attempt. H *ye files anything to dp with it? loine.body may ask, for one man -is called a "sharp bid fiie t " and another a "cuto old blade." Jhe application of a file to a blade may account for Jts ciiteiiess .or sharpness, and such was the ideaof-a jiiveniie at ». recent fruit jpiree, who» complainiug of the hard : »ejs of.the apples, stated audibly that In? required a fila-t^; sharpen his teet.h with hei&r& ■ -mbre.V;'^Jt;-was ' a :blunt speech/ but -gerhap* an.appropriate ODeAnoth«ir said-that jf the appids .in Kden had been like thosef~giVen t > liim thf temptatioii --would haviß been greatly les-, gened; %i, '' '';.]_'■ „" '.".......■ '','■■. ■ ■?., ;. :•;■:

" How about that man's father P " .whs asked.;; '!.^hat.man, whichmnn,who?" was the' answer. Why, snid- the first speaker, over whose head more than-—say 20 summers had passed, "I. thought everybody knew the question about * brothers .and sisters have I none, but that man's father was my father's son." Well, and what's the answer said the second speaker " Who was he ?" "Why himself of course,'' said the first, "everybody knows that." "I don't sne that," said the second; and to 'he problem w>s attemptedto ..b'e jsolved by^ the^.srst with two forks (they were seated, at dinnpr) auda piece of bread. Neither would be enn vinced. so a« is .usual in affairs of this kind a bet> made as to who the unknown really.; wns.; can : anybody, say of a :cr- - tainfcyv .wjhether r jt. was. hirns. lf : or .hi* »onP' "> " ■"." , ■ •■■

" Are you goitYg to the Thames to-day." «aid one Aucklander' to a celebra-ed speculator pn Saturday.. The .answer was—"2Si<J^ wiiat do I want there?" «• What do yon want," - said; tht first " Why, to see the goh? ofcourse;-' ♦'Look here,-said the-metalivcianCf'thankthee, Bell's Life, (or teaching me that word.) '" I ddri't-want to see the gold in the minei'l want to'- see it on the. brain, and then I make money." This story teaches that a spreading fever is good for other people^ than dpctors, that is, if it be a gold fever." ' / , V

1 Somebody has : .been writing ,to the Auckland papers,, complaining .aboutlf litjht weights,". not nine stone seven men of pugilistic tenJtncies, but light heights of the kind known as avoirdupois, is scope here for tradesmen, jf their minds be turned'more on gain than honesty, of making «»• useful if not. an honest penny out of the brokers, a^" t.Uey are in sdirh i hn>ry (so much engaged'is. perhaps, tlie more correct term) that they have no time to see their purchases weiahed^ even when the puipohase be" but an ounce of 'baccy, but' have to rush in and say " fill this," come bai-k ten minutes after, and leave the shop as if they were'Btarfng for a short scurry. The wonder to some people has been how do they live, and Vom^brkly of a mathematical turn of mind has divided their day as follows :—Rise at six—don't wash, it takes; time—dress in three minutes, eat one miuutc, snioke pipe two minutes, six minutes; get office (nine minutes on average), total, quartet ol^an hour. Write until 10 o'clock, tlien bVisi ness, deducting necessary visits to the " Hil," say 15 at a ininute each. to<al half an hour up to 12 30 or- 1 o'clock, then dinner time 3| minutes, Uueinens. until four, then a pipe, hair brush, and ten-minutes for tea, to return a little after six to. use, persuasive language to hesitating buyers up to 10-p.m.; do up books, have a pipe, turn in at 12.p.m. —and all this for two and a-half per cent,, which some wish to see divided by two .1 It won't run it. ■