THE HEATHEN CHINEE

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 42, 6 September 1900, Page 4

THE HEATHEN CHINEE

j In the light of European chihsaFjtioii, tho heathen Chinee is quite an • impossible person ; but he has some _ ancient saws and maxims which , are worth quotmg. Hero aic a few of the phrases dear to John I Ohmanmn : — A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water sh^es . itself into the vessel that contains it. The error of one moment; becomes . the soriow of a whole liietime. ' A vacant mind is open to all l T .suggestions, as fcho hollow moua- ( tarn returns all sounds. If the root is left, i.he gms3 will giow again (this is the reas. n t,iven for exterminating a trait ot s, 1 family). The gem cannot be polish* d without friction, nor the man perfected without trials, i A wise man forgets old grudges. Who si\ allots quick can chew but licfelo (applied to learning.) The gods cannot help a man v»ho loses opportunities. He who toils with pain will eat with plr-asure. Doiro-wed money makes tune short ; working for others makes it long. Early preferment makes a lazy gonius.

-An extraordinary natural curiosity has been sent to ihe Yv r anganui l Museum in the shape of a white native pigeon shot at Wbangamomona. It would ba interesting to know whether ;m\fchinpr of the kind has ever h'.tn seen before, an« what legends the Maous Lave concerning such a rau avis. One of the very few survivors of jthe poineer settlers who same 10 Otago in the ship Philip Laing !u 1848, died at Duntroon on Saturday in the person of Mrs John Buchanan at the age of ninety-three ycai^. The deceased lady was born near Glasgow. Mrs Buchanans hviband predeceased her by twenty years, at th 9 age of seventy- eight.