SOLID PROPOSITION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1769, 23 August 1884, Page 4

SOLID PROPOSITION.

It has often been said that nothing save business success and money constitutes a claim to social recognition on this coast; but, as oven with such illustrations of that fact, as the Sharon trial before them, our Eastern friends can hardly understand how absolute the said rule is here, we can hardly expect tho following perfectly true incident to be believed out of our own state: One night not long ago the daughter of one of our best citizens was awakened by a noise in her room, and, upon sitting up, discovered a man disguised with a black mask standing beside her bed, and calmly contemplating her features by the aid of an old bull'seye lantern, " Don't be alarmed, Miss," he said; " I haven't taken anything yet." "Bless me!" said the girl; "Ido believe it's a burglar." " Of course it is," said tho housebreaker, with an ingratiating smile, as he lit a cigarette, " And lam proud of it." ," What do you want f demanded the young lady. '■ Well, I did want to sample your jewellery case," said tho robber, " but you looked so alllired pretty lying there with your auburn hair—just my style—that I couldn't help waking you to see if you also had dark eyes, I'm terribly fond' of light hair and dark eyes, myself," " Well, I have," said the young lady, glancing toward the mirror. "BntT must look like a fright in this-this dress."

"On the contrary, white is very becoming to you," said the disciple of Jimmy Hope, tenderly. " By the way, are you engaged." " That's tellin'," said the girl. "No, but are you—honest Injun ]" " Well, yes; 1 am—to a young lawyer ; but I don't care for him so very much." "He's poor, isn't he!" " Oh ! awfully." "Exactly. I thought as much. Now, my dear girl, don't you know there is nothing in this lovo in a ooitage business ? You don't want to peg along nursing babies in some stuffy hack room for the next ten years, do youl" 'N-n-n-o,' murmured the girl, ' Then why not let this fellow slide, and take me? I'm pretty comfortably fixed. Business lias been good this season, and our profits ara large. Our firm is now running a tunnel under a Marysville bank, and I've a fourth interest. Besides, I'm secretary to the Burglars' Protective Association. What d'yer say V ' Couldn't we go abroad next summer]' . . .

' Why. certainly. I expect to have to. Just think over the matter, and I'll drop in some night later in the week. I know how to get in,' and shouldering his kit the secretary went off to open a jewelry store for an engagement ring.

And the next day the young lawyer received back all his letters and photographs, Our girls know on which side theii bread is buttered, and you can bet on it. ADVICE TO THE NEW MEMBERS.

The following advice by the " Daily Times" to the new Dunedin members wilt, we trust, be pondered over and acted upon by every member of the House :

And now one word oi advice to the now Dunedin members. This- is the largest, and in many respects the most important city in the Colony. We expect you to uphold its good name and secure its rights, This is not to be effected by showing off your exertions in public, or trying to get a lions share of the spoil, but by making yourself esteemed amongst your fellow members so that thoy may feel confidence in your words and your judgment. Respect the rights of others as you would have your own respected, and whils} tenacious of the just claims of the province, do not be led away into making extravagant demands [for the purpose of showing your constituencies how much you can ask for. The best interests of Dunedin are wrapped up in the progress of the whole Colony as well as of the province. In politics you will have to live and let live. Bo not undervalue your responsibilities nor consider yourselves as mere delegates. You aie sent up to Wellington to think for yourself and us, Else the work of legislation might well be carried on by plebiscite. We want not merely talkers, but workers- It is not by Hansard alone that the influence of a member can be judged. There is work on committees and work in the lobbies to be done, and work out of the Houso as well. Above all, we will not have any more " Dunedin free fights." Wherever the interests of Ctago are concerned there must be united action. You have the fate of your predecessors before you as si warning.'' See'to' it" that when the dissolution comes you are able to vender a better account of your stewardship,