General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4621, 26 October 1883, Page 2

General News.

The annual La of the GKrl* 1 . Christ* church Friendly Sojiefcy took place last' night, 18) being present. Aftar tea, music, tnd singing were indulged in. ' " ' " A Dunedin paper remakg that perhaps the most hackneyed quotation from Carlyie is his saying that " there are thirty millions of people in" England, mostly fools," but it would seem to hare come application in New Zealand, if we may judge from the fact that fortyeight M.xi.B.'s, and nineteen M.L.C.'g, signed (he Grey-Maoandrew invitation to Mr ' Gladstone to visit the colony,, "The People's William " can be easily drawn, as witness his replies on half-penny portcards tS people who wrote asking him questions for the sake of the autograph; | but he was in the cool shade of Opposition at that time. Now that he is an office, he replies through, his private, secretaries. If he is defeated at the next general elec. tions it might be worth while for our 67 legislators to make another attempt to bring him out. At present they might as well in?ite the man in the moon. In Burmah, editors receive elephants in - payment for subscriptions. It must make an editor in that country mad to go slushtog about in the wet all day without tain* able to collect a single elephant Detraction.—The Yonnger lady: « Ok, aunt, did you observe what a badly made dress Mrs Brown had on P" Aunt (who couldn't bear " that woman ") "Ah (jhat'f how it fitted her so well, dear—yes!"