What Everbody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2621, 2 June 1877, Page 2

What Everbody Says.

11 In multitude of counsellors there is safety." • : —Of.D Proverb.

Par nobile fratrum! You have wofully disappointed everybody on the Thames. We were looking forward to your rope-tying and your cabinet tricks. Your tambo-playing by spiritualistic agency. Your manipulation of the ropes, and your many delusions inside the cabinet—and you have failed us. Everybody is agreed that you were heavily handicapped in Auckland, when you had to give in •'■'■ to a torn fool's knot, but at ■ the same time it is pretty well known that youjwere under "spirit," influence when you were beaten ; and, however willing the spirit on that occasion, the flesh was weak. Everybody here is sorry. They were willing to be deluded to the top of their bent, and didn't want any Auckland Mayor or clever barrister to go and tie you up. As it has-been done, everybody will have to be content with what they can see, and if Professor Fay can show ererybody his " dark seance " and other manifestations, perhaps the absence of the " noble pair of brothers " will not be much missed. But everybody thinks that, notwithstanding the Davenport Brothers have disclaimed spiritualistic influence in their manipulations, they are so far operated upon by spirit power as to be sometimes incapable of performing their delusions. This is to be regretted in many ways— more especially in that they have not been able to fulfil their engagement here, where there are plenty of spiritualists, and more who would like to see their performance. Perhaps Professor Fay will yet enlighten ua in the cabinet seance and in his own particular line.

Ererybody was looking forward to the Native Lands Court, because it was thought that some of those longstanding reihanas would be honored, and people who hare trusted the Maories would get their own. Kow.it seems, they will hare to go to Ohinemuri arid shepherd debtors there. This system is bad. JNo doubt there are large profits attaching to reihanas, but the long credits are ruinous, and if these orders areinot satisfied soon, what are the creditors to do when the new Act becomes law? If the Gbvernnnnt cease to become land purchasers, ererybody who has given "tick "on the strength of the reihana system will find a difficulty in collecting their debts. They had better look out for the Ohinemuri sitting of the Court and get a squaring up.

Everybody has been looking out for the rendezvous of the men-of-war which the morning newspaper said was about to take place here for the "annual Court Martial," but as men-of-war are not in the habit of assembling in a port like the Thames, no great disappointment has been felt. The newspaper referred to is in the habit of filling up its columns with extracts from the Auckland papers, and the probability is that in copying a paragraph stating that certain strips of war would assemble "here," the paragraphist forgot in his usual way to acknowledge the source of his information, hence the mistake. It is better always to be honest, which the paper in question is not, and the consequence is that its news is generally of a-questionable character.

Why can't mine managers be a little more explicit in their telegrams and reports ? Everybody says there is no reason, except their inability to put into decent .English what they have to say. When they telegraph to directors some of them seem to appreciate the saying that language is given to men to conceal their thoughts. At any rate a careful study of some of the " bulletins" forwarded from mine managers is suggestive of this. It is not everybody who has a glossary of mining terms.at hand, and it would be better to frame these daily telegrams { in language that everybody can understand. As everybody is interested in mining, everybody should know at the earliest possible moment what is going ■ on, and that from the fountain head. If mine managers could be instructed in this matter it would be a public boon. At present everybody seems to recognise the fact that mine managers are responsible to directors alone, whereas shareholders seem to think—perhaps erroneously—that they should be consulted. A time may come when things will be nltered, and then shareholders may insist that information furnished to directors shall also be made equally and simul- j taneously public for the benefit of shareholders.

It is not usual to give a moral to a story at the beginning, but in this instance it may be best. It is: never Jaugh at your own joke. is recorded of a certain person that having told a funny story he burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, which was brought to a sudden termination by the collapse of his front teeth, and the laughter which had been withheld at the joke was unrestrained at the mishap to the joker. A consultation with the dentist might have prevented this contretemps.

Everybody hopes that it will not be accepted as a precedent, but, at a dance

given on the Thames not moro than a year ago, it wa3 found after supper that the glassware was limited to one tumbler; and as this was freely made use of byWlot of outsiders who had free access to the Brinks, the strange mixture which some people had to partake of may be more easily imagined than described. If anybody felt seedy next morning they, might well put their seediness down to "a confusion of mixed drinks."

The Americans are a very clever people, as everybody^ knows. They are an in-' ventive people, always finding out something new, aud amongst their latest discoveries is^what is known as " the blue glass cure." A " general " has discovered that blue glass is an admirable conductor of the sun's rays; and that whatever efficacy may exist in sunlight under ordinary circumstances it is much mofts effective when directed through blue glass. This general has found out that babies thrive more when nourished in rooms into which the sun's rays are permitted to permeate through blue glass. Beasts of burden are affected by it, even to the extent of increasing their kind, and these effects are not coufined to the brute creation, for an American papersays—possibly in a satirical vein—that " blue glass is all very well in its way, but it is rather more than our friend fcimson of Olive street, expected. He noticed a window full of it in his neighbor's house, and the following "Week his good wife presented ~ him with twins. He didn't delay a moment in going for the blue glass window with all the cobble stones he could lay his hands on." .

When on some national festival or anniversary Irish Catholics meet at the festive board, they occasionally drink a health before that of " the Queen," and forthwith they are accused of disloyalty, the mischief-makers to be found in every community being food of stirring up strife and setting people by the ears. Everybody nearly has seen some instance of this* There was one in Wellington a short time ago, when several members of parliament and gentlemen who write J.P. after their names—whose loyalty is unquestionable—were hauled over the coals for remaining at a banquet where the Pope's health took precedence ;of the Queen's. Now, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and if it is wrong for Irish Catholics to drink a health before the Queen's, is it not equally wrong for " merry masons " to do so f Who shall say? • ~ . ' ' ':