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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3514, 31 March 1880, Page 2

Fbom what I can gather, says a correspondent of the Herald, I should not b* surprised to learn that when the' Home-, meets, Ministers will bring in an amended Counties Act. In many prorinoial districts the Act is wholly unsuited to public requirements, whilst in other counties the amount ■ of expenses for, management leares but little for the real work which the framers of the rnactment contemplated. In 'the proposed new bills extended powers of borrowing are talked of, consequent upon the state of the exchequer being such thai all subsidies must be stopped in the futmre., , . . .

An unusual notification appeals in the Arrow paper this week. It is in oonnee-^ tion with an insolvent estate, which pays si dividend of lls in the £. The Observer pertinently inquires what hate the lawyers been about ? .... Thk Evening Post, a paper that is usually careful to say nothing, which bom ;; . offend a sensitive mind,,relates this week that a brute named McCraith stamped on his wife until portions of her body ware pounded into " jellified flesh." This nauseates the reader, while the idea could hare been just as easily preserved if the writer had said: " Mr McCraith, by his saltatory evolutions on the body of his j. -spouse, speedily converted her into a fe* '/• male blanemauge."** When will the daily, ■ press employ men of culture ? . Thb following charmingly, candid re- . marks concerning the people of Dunedin ... appear in the columns of the Ballymena Observer (an Irish paper), from its "own, ./ correspondent," who is, doing therounjiK of New Zealand papers:—" Thereat bulk are of Scottish origin qf-tfie worst type, and indeed the Jfcngiish are not much better. It woala really seem as if the very sojim cftSfreat Britnin emigrated, and^Jl>e^"good remains. The people ... 'of^Dunedin—a few private families exoepted—are without exception th& v meanest, the basest, the most depraved^**and the most ignorant set I have ever ■< 1 come in contact with. Being originally the dregs and sweepings of home towns, - little else could be expected. But the impudent airs that some of the young snobi .-■. give themselves is almost intolerable to decent people from home. The Dunedin colonial is a fearful egotist and bully, and < when he is set upon by Engliah pluck and , . open manliness he cringes before you like .. a coward. . The women are infinitely -'-• worse than the men, and excel all qreation : in vulgarity, caddish pride, and bombastic impudence, and a general degraded and depraved nature. Nothing gives these, vulgar upstarts more pleasure than snub*'. . bing respectable and inoffensive new. ; comers, although one can easily see the . lurking jealously that they try to hide, and the cringing servility if they think* .;' ; anything can be gained by being sweet and oily in manner. In a word, they. are ' ill bred'hypoorites." _ , A few days since an old gentleman living where the drought has been sever?, and who has bern hauling water for the last three weeks, on being asked by an acquaintance if he thought it would rain, remarked, " I hope not, for if it does it . : will spoil the roads and I oansot haul:. ; water." What ohasro is that which often septr* ates friends P Sarcasm, -.