Extracts from the Free Lance.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3940, 15 August 1881, Page 2

Extracts from the Free Lance.

We are all glad to learn from the Bishop of Auckland's speech at the North Shore that it is in accordance with Church of England teaching to baptise by immersion in the sea Why not baptise all the larrikins ?

The editor of the Chnstchurch Society paper says that when he selected the title " Liberty," he did not mean that any irate reader was at liberty to punch his head.

Mr Macandrew evidently entertains the same idea with regard to small pox as he does of borrowing—that we can't have too much of it. la the course of a debate on Wednesday on the quarantine question, he remarked that the sooner the small pox and every other form of disease was acclimatised in New Zealand the better. You have only got to look at his face to see that he is safe. , . '

Sir|George Grey's Legal Practio'ners Bill has passed; and Garrard is hard at work preparing for the first exam. Hannaford has his eye on the Attorney-Generalship. Grey thinks the next step will bo to admit women. Why not babies in arms ? The father of the Bill thinks it will stimulate reporters to study for the bar, instead of " spending their leisure time in questionable places aud pursuits." The most demoralizing place for reporters that we e?er knew is the House of Uepresentatives ; the most questionable pursuit that of taking down all the rubbish uttered by Sir George Grey, Speight, and others of that ilk.

A " Disthrest Tinant" writes to the editor as follows: —If a man was to join the Wellington Branch Lague, would it be lawful for him to shoot a thief of a landlord beyant the bounds of the Wellington District ? There is a fella up here that has been botherin' and tormentin' at me this two year an' more, about a contimptible pettifoggin' thrifle of rint. that it's a'most a shame to talk about, ari>4(k want to take the law of him • an' do you think Sir Jarge would lind a gun to a active mimber, or some of them pisn'd arras he brought from the Eape, if he has any lift yit.