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Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 977, 24 June 1901, Page 4

n phc ISil B^sfliw^ 0 ' a Bv this Bft the Brn more Bnc«, Bee tO CODBr in Hnan BP^tvotition BJIOUS Wwna BFthan a case was Bleating BBYwas the Brthat Vlady who was MrFrance the Br aao, heard a deal Brier friends and acquainBRTcertain Countess of Kilp was also there on B>s distinctly bored her with Br«o she said. It may be that Br-<know the Countess of Kilwas envious. She looked Bkknoutn up in the peerage to see B)e was, and discovered, in the B*of the imsnoral Mrs Prig, ' that Bftull ---rs such person.' Full of triumph Br-aited until the conversation again on Lady Killaroey, and then ahe Iht but her thunderbolt—the woman Bra imposter, there was no Lady KilBV, and she waa downright sorry her were Uken in. There was a HUheu a smile began to appear, and HM the ladies remarked sweetly, Bfeiu realty know that the CounBfi'flarney Is the incognito of the WkA York ?' Tableau. BWospects of the iron trade Kd and the coloay (says the ly Times) was referred lo by B, who appeared for the eminently at the Arbitration ■ !oivs ; ' The employers who my BU it has been X BPnope can be will always BTf work for IK I do BK»e rate Brnp to 10.1 per day of eight PPrview of the fact that there is a Bjoff in the iron trade in England, Continent aud in America. If Hfourt knew us well as I do what a B}se in the iron trade means they 1 view with a little alarm Biinvasion of the colony by BHh goods, I shall be surprised Bman buckets (for dredges) are not BPthis i'colony within a few months, and Pi can assure the Court they wiil he lanIded here at little more than the raw maI terial coats to import.' L' A special correspondent of the Bvradon Chronicle visited Melbourne recourse of a letter to Bfcis to say of the Chinese BTese expansion very the Mel-: BV'. Tne'Mongolians have BW monopoly Bjfl rapidly acBtontro! the laundry Bjfl Buirniture establishments .are I in evidence Bj seem to B*3 and hours enBjaguisod BVe open the illuminated long untiring industry that makes; Brae 'celibate Chinaman such a formidKkblb, frequently fntal, competitor with ZS the white worker with * wife and family. Pv;No woDder that ' White Australia' I (b"g«red prominently amftne the planks of [ ;the platform on which the Liheral and y ; Labour parties are aoiog to content the .Commonweath elections. . The Chinese have the greatest .variety and most ■ curious oaths of ail "nations. ''The well-known one of taking a saucer and breaking it, while the clerk §3 says, ' You shall tell tlie truth and the whole truth. The saucert is cracked, ;•' and if youdonofc tell the truth your soul shall be cracked like the saucer'—seems ; rather absurd to us. But it is an ex- ~: tremely binding declaration to the Chinaman, for he believes that the eoul ; can be divided into fragments. In this | country and the United States the oath '.,' on the saucer is one commonly- us^d. More effective, however, in the eyes of the -.Celestials i 3 the joBS-sticK. The joss- ;■ stick is set alight, and while it bnrns the v Chinese shearer wishes that his soul may be burned like the stick if he gives false The Chinese swear in many • other ways. • A very solemn oath is made :: by writing certain sacred.characters on a ' paper and burning it, praying at the : same time that he may be burned if he I does not speak the truth. Sometimes he | swears by burning a piece of straw. But i nothing is so forcible in drawing, the truth from a Chinaman as getting hhn to I>ut off a cock's head. This, like the breaking of the saucer, has a religious foundation.' The Chinese believe that if their bodies are mutilated on earth their soulb will be siu.ilurly mutilated iu Heaven. . ; : JVadk'3 WORM FjGS tire most effective ind not unpleasant.'' Cnildtcu thrive. [fter using them. Price, Is.