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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3605, 16 July 1880, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib,—l must say I was greatly amused with the foot note of the editor of the Thames Advertiser at the end of Mr Dean's letter in -to>day's issue of that paper. That gentleman must have been possessed of eyes having power to see through all the buildings and walls erected beWeen his editorial sanctum and the Council' Chambers or the-Bank of New Zealand; and ears of five million hofse power sharpness to have heard anything that transpired between the Manager of the Bank of New Zealand and the Mayor and Town Clerk with regard to financial, matters, with such obstacles intervening. —lam, &c, Eatbpayeb. '

Man that is married to a woman is of many days and full of trouble. In the morning he draweth his salary, and in the erening behold it is all gone. It ia a tale that is told; it ranisheth, and no one knoweth whither it goeth. He raiseth up clothed in the chilly garments of the night, and seeketh the somnolent paregoric wherewith to soothe the collicky bowels of his infant posterity. He facometh as the horse or the ox, and draweth the chariot of his offspring. He spjsndeth his sheckels in the purchase of fine linen to corer the bosom of his family yet he himself is seen at the gates of the city with but one susponder. Yea, he is altogether wretched. When Wilberforce became rector of Brightstone, in the Isle of Wight, he was waited on by an old farmer, whose one desire in life was to rent the glebe acre. "Why!" asked the bishop. "Well," said the old fellow, with a look of business shrewdness, "when t'other parson was here he used to farm it hisself, and there being so little of it he always got in his hay befor* anybody, else. Then he clapped on the prayer for rain!''/ -