My Note Book.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4224, 15 July 1882, Page 4

My Note Book.

(By a Critical Chabacteb.)

• A fortune is in store for the man who (being capable himself and qualified to employ those, who are capable) is bold enough to start, and let it be known that he has started, a boot-mending establish* ment. He will find the number requiring repairs )will; soon enable him to give employment to many hands. The vast quantities of boots and shoes now manufactured by machinery lessens the number who patiently toil at the oldfashioned stool,, and it becomes a most difficult matter, to get a pair of boots properly mended. This is an age of conception, and no charge is made for this Idea. Let some enterprising son of St. Crispin take the hint.

4 r&ther amusing little document was laid before the Hospital Committee at the last monthly meeting. It was a note from the Surgeon in charge to another gentleman on the honorary medical stafl. The doctor, who gave his services free upon this occasion, would hare been perfectly justified in refusing to attend. The note certainly was of such a character as to reflect anything but credit upon the gentleman who despatched it. The New York Herald gives good advice to Mr Farnell. It says:.—" When men, fruitlessly contending for a long time come to the final straggle, the leader on either side, who has-the genius known as good sense, may effect a beneficial settlement. That England should tolerate the political independence of Ireland is as impossible as that America could tolerate the secession of the Southern States. But within the union in Ireland as in the Southern States, people may rightfully claim equal laws and.privileges, and the toleration of all religious and political beliefs. Is it not possible that Mr Parnell may mature a plan for a settle* ment so just and fair as to secure the consent of both England and Ireland ?.

The return from stone crashed from tho extensive reefs at Waibi has not come up to expectation, and this is only one of the many evils that unfortunately seem to t>e connected with'mining enterprise. Speculative individuals, who are more anxious to make a sudden rise in any way other than by legitimate enterprise, often do more to destroy the prospects 6f a district than they ever had any conception of. The public should ever exercise caution in their estimate of any gold bearing country, and be slow to take up the cry of these would-be prospectors, whose sense of industry i* too often guaged by the amount they are able to draw from a confiding.public. Mr Cass appears displeased with my remarks, and in his letter endeavors to introduce a newspaper discussion upon the subject of his paper. I decline to be drawn into the meshes of controversy to satisfy Mr Cass. I considered I had let him down softly, I did not even charge him with endeavoring to get question put in such a manner as suited the replies he had already prepared or by repeating the queries in his own words to alter the sense that they became his own. I blame a public teacher for setting forth the belief or opinions of a few and calling them the ism's or oxy's of the many, and basing his arguments against ism or orthodoxy, as if these opinions were, either one or other. Neither* wonld I blame Mr Cass and his Christian brethern for the extravagant theory of a flat earth, and certainly condemned the taste that prompted the question. One f gentleman asked what appeared a pertinent question, and failed to get a reply from Mr Cass at once plain and satisfactory to the querist. He evidently had the old Scotch saying in his mind, " Where there's a reek there's a heat," Revelation XIV and 11th, " And tho smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever." Here Mr Cass at once adopted the method he condemns the so-called orthodox believers for using, viz., putting his own interpretation upon, the passage. I have trespassed sufficiently upon your space in advertising Mr Cass, and in conclusion would recommend that gentleman to investigate and follow truth for its own sake! and have no fears for the result.

To the curious in business matters a very interesting document has been filed , 'in the. Supreme Court by Thos. Macffarlane, Esq., trustee in bankruptcy, dased Auckland, 23rd June. Out of a total of 43 names, 28 are in Auckland and suburbs, Onehunga 4, Coromandel 2, jnd

..one each from Whangarei, Wairba, Whangaroa, Tauranga, Northcote, Papatoitoi, Waitakerei, Waimate, and Papakura. I will-not attempt to moralize upon the above, but, in the words of the Irishman, "Is this another injustice to the Thames?"