General News.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3750, 4 January 1881, Page 3

General News.

-One of|he leading butchers of Dunedin who if enabled, to supply meat of all kinds from mutton to pork, sausages at 2d and j 6d per lb, cash, explains that he can do this by avoiding the prevalent rule" of making those who do pay, pay for those who do not.' The proprietor of this " New Era /..price list also gives the following •en si We advice :—" Let your food, living, and equipage be plain and not costly; avoid .expensive clothing; abstain from wine and all intoxicating liquor, and never keep it in the house; do not sink your capital by purchasing plate or splendid fopriture, have as few parties as possible; be^eareful as to- speculations, and never extend" your trade beyond your means; neW aspire to be a shareholder in banks, railways, etc.; liave as few men around you as is convenient, and none of a suspicious character; b.e determined to refuse alll offers of partnership ; be careful as to lending money or being bound with others ; avoid all lawsuits; keep your books well posted, and look well to the accounts of your customers; bring up your family to economy arid.industry. If you observe these things, yoii will always .be able with God's blessing, to pay your debts." Mr Raskin, in a letter addressed to the - Conservative students of Glasgow Uni- " Tersity, in answer to a note addressed to " him in the month of July regarding his candidature -a* Lord Rector, says :— "What in the Devil's name have you to do with either Mr Disraeli or Mr Gladstone P You are students at the University, and have no more business with politics than with ratcatching. Had you ever read ten .words of mine, with understanding, you would have known that I care no more either for Mr Disraeli pi' Mr Gladstone than for two old bagEipes, with the drones going by steam, ut that I hate all Liberalism as I do Beelzebub: and that, with Carlyle, I stand, we. two alone now in England— for God and the^Queen." Naturally this finished Mr Buskin's candidature, and Mr v lrving was next on the list; but it was too much to. expect that the godly inhabitants 6£.H*e "canny" town of Glasgow weft^a! tolerate an actor as Lord Eetftor o£th'efeilTniversity. Gisborne is famous all over the colony .for an amo^t of litigiouspess which is , out of 'aft .^portion to its population. It arises* from the keen competition for Maori-lands, and the bickerings and jealousies it. gives rise to aretlj|lfcordin. ary. ' /At a repeat,-.sitting of'We E.M. Court> Mr. 3. Gjannqh;' 'a . well • known reporter and Maori interpreter, appeared--with Kate'" ■ Gannon, 1 hij£ wife, and five native!, to answer acharge of = forcible entry in the, premises of A. R Hardy. - Mr Eees appeared f6r the prosecution. The affair ' arose out of a claim to land owned by Mrs Gannon, widow of James Wyllie, and rented by Mr Hardy. It appeared th&t the defendants went on the land while in complainants occupation, and commenced, cutting' the grass, causing him to fear violence and bloodshed. The defence alleged thai; Hardy had no right to use - the grass by the covenants of the lease, which the Bench refused to hear. Mrs Gannon committed for trial, and the charge afcainst her husband dismissed j Of hit early experiences as a journalist, i Mif Archibald Forbes says: I running the Scotchman at that time* I was sent to Metz and the paper died. I \ lost £IC3Q and swore I'd- have nothing more to do with running a. newspaper. That oath cost me £4000 a year. When i Edmund Yates started the World on j £500, he wanted me to go in and put up ' half, £250,1 wouldn't just on that account. , To-day the World pays Edmund Yates £8000 a year! £t was successful from the very start: i