EASTER MOVEMENTS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3503, 17 March 1880, Page 2

EASTER MOVEMENTS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.)

Sib, —Can you inform, me if the Auckland Volunteers have been invited to participate in the forth-coming Easter festivities? I am given to understand a good number would gladly come here, . and there is no doubt their presence would tend to make the affair even more attractive and successful.—l am, Ac., Bbguiab.

Never sit down despairingly and say, "It is impossible for me to rise in the world. lam only a poor boy. There is no chance for me." Why, it is just such as you who have risen highest and become men whose names are known throughout, the world, who thoroughly understood at the outset that their fortunes, were in their own hands, and that hope and energy and effort were, better than all the family influence in the world. Inherited wealth seems to be actually enervating. Talents too often lie disused in the hands of rich men's sons. What need of strif ing, they think ; competence is theirs ; and often such men squander, the fortunes they have not earned, and lives that began in luxury end in beggary. "No living soul will ever give me a penny," seems to be about as wholesome a prophecy as a boy can read in the book of fatp.. Despair because you are poor P Why, that is the very reason that should bid you hope! The biographies of most great men, of most successful men, will tell you that, if you will but read them.

The dramatic critic of a French paper had occasion recently to criticise severely the performance of a somewhat popular actress. Shortly afterwards the lolairbf the young lady met the journalist in the theatre, and presented him with a package of goose quills. " This, sir," said he, "is a present from Miss X." "What.!", exclaimed the critic, " did she tear all. these out of you herself P How you must have suffered! "—Figaro.