GROUNDS FOR ACQUAINTANCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2331, 26 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

GROUNDS FOR ACQUAINTANCE.

.limits iißed to rolato a story of .1. ii man who clhiiiiml tin: honour of Ins llrqiimmauii! oil rather singular grounds, : His Joidslup, when oiic of tlitjusticiary judges, teturniug from the hoitb circuit- to Perth, Jmpjiciied y. ; ono night to sleep at .Dimbld The \, - next uioijiing, wnlkiug towards fli« j; Jerry,- but apprehending Jib hiitT missed I .ii, hi# way, he asked a man whom'ha hint to conduct him. The other a iswered I with muelr cordiality. •« Tlmt ] wilt do with nil my heart, my lord ; does :j your lordship remember me 1 ) My nanuji John—•; I have had the I honor of appearing before you fm sheep stealing!". "Oh John, 1 remember you toII :mid how is your wife; she had'Jp: .Junior of being bqtpro iitfc,' too,' foi* receiving them, knowing them to. bo ijtclen,/ "At your Lordship's .service. ,;We .were -very h\cky ;we got •iff for wnnt of avidiMicd; and I urn "ill going on in the butcher trade." \ " Then, . replied his lordship, " we may .■ have tliii honour of meeting again:" 1 ' THE BITERS BIT. ' The .facetious. .Watty Morrison as he wab: commonly called, was entreating 'he commanding officer of a, regiment ut Fort George to pardon a poor fellow sent to the halberds. The officer /granted Ilia petition on conditions that : . ' Morrison should uccord with thu Irst favour he asked; the favour WiS' pprfonirtlib ceremony of baptism. , for a' youiig puppy; A merry party of' . «enfl(jmen wyro invited, to. the chrkein ./. Mr Mov.rißon desired Major —- to hold up-the dog, "As lam a!. Minister of the Kirk of Scotland," si.id M. M., i' must proceed accordingly,' .®wl J»_ asked no more, j " Well then Major, 1 begin with the usual questiou, You . acknowledge, yourself the father of this puppy J" The Major understood tho joke, Wad : l^ w'li the animal. Thuß did M r ■ A Morrison 'turn tho laugh against'the X K cn,n arer, who intended to deride ■ sacred ordinance. On another occasion , a young officer scoffed at the parade ot< study, to which clergymen assigned ' their right to remuneration for labour, and ho oflered to take a bet he would preach half an hour upon any verse, or section of a verse, in.tlm Old or New Testament. Mr. Morrison took the bet H. pointed out, " And the a&sopnned moulh and lit, npoke." The officer Jj! declined employing his eloquence on 9 j that, text, Mr Morrison won his if wager anu bilenci-d the Bcovuer,

Lr Recently I we published ut cablegram Bjb stating thiit the well-known Herr Most H 8 hud been sentenced to imprison'uient fur Hr incendiary speech in connucfcion with r; • tec# n fr riots in America. The report j ; fif th# meeting at which the Bpeeoh ;was. | made statesflerr Host's speech was f v unel °?M ul J totho American people■. to I J —"W®- lttfWieir. own defence. Seizing a U' rifle that had. been placed on the platform ) ho brought it to his shoulder, and cocked it witfi a. menacing mien, "This," he said, " is the protection of tha working v . ■ Blan - Let the people arm before it ia too , lit®, and- before their oppressors have made it impossible for them to get arms. - ,| I cait furnish you with 10,000firio brocch- > (loaders with bayonets, at lOdol, apiece, . i You waste your money buyine watches and A J ewe ' ur y',l'l'.V muskets,. rovolvora, Mb and cartridges. When you have enough #| shouting irons then rise and tako wliat \ belong to üb. Cairy clubs, also. Wo 7 J have n.ct «ot artillery yet, but we will ( have it in tin)e. The Constitution gives US the right to have cannon also, 43 for i , | bombs','you need not wait until you have the foundarics to niakti thuii,, You can wake bombs out of glass tubus and iron ,r I'ipo- which you can load with (lyiiaiii;ite : j or gunpowder. Fasten on the Ch]>d lit I / both ends, and when you see any uf the \ rascals thro* them under their'foot find \ kill them. -Let your women use bombs . also and learn hmv to nau petroleum, v iPetroleum is cheap Mid Irntus well. Petri ..fcleura bouibs can be- thrown twenty ...feet. I®, when we are all armed, we v can. rise™ a given moment and take -possession of all the armouries atidarfieny a's in the city,. In one year 10,000 men could be armed. Then we would seize ( L the capitalists by the throat. We will ■l. take all the meat, wine, vegetables and I champagne for ourselves. We will nut

l help out any foolish trades union strikers, I . will make war upon all capitalists Blld ; \ . State and Church for they are all our Y enemies." Herr Moat grew indignant , ; \ under tho recital of the shooting of the , \ of East St Louis, flo then spoke of i- I riot at the Williamsburg sugar . i fefinery as another illustration of the l of capitalist robbers. Then jie got to abusing ,the police, and asked, i " Why are they here i" Somebody , shouted, 11 Put them out." In an instant i'..;. ■ the meeting was in an uproar. The police the man out who cried ". Put - , them out,' and thi meeting broke up in confusion. Mr Bibby hai kindly handed us some specimens which has been referred to oa caal in the Makaretu district. The pieces "which we have now in bur possession were taken from tho burning cavity on Ml Turfery's land, and we must confess that thetjjdo not strengthen the belief that the colored seams is composed of.' coal, • \Ve believe the substanco 1b \ . limply bituminoUa shale, for it has a '•' pitchy .imell,. and burned, leaves 'a residue which resembles a stratified clay. Evidently the bitumen is what ii ; burning fill this while, for by comparing a fresh pi«» 01. the' substanoe with one that has boon burned, we find tho same structure-in each, only in the unburned one, the strata ate separated by layers of bitumen, the latter being I'■ completely consumed when the substance has been exposed to fire. Mr Bibby inform* ui that an upheaval haa takenplaco- : in the Makaretu, and tho Gratification of ;< the rocki ia vartical, the end of each foririatioh being exposed. In consequence of this, if coal were preitni, it would be easily detached. But there are no signs .of any other substance than the one we have referred to, and it# are forced to Y conclude that so fir, at any rate, coal bat not been found at tha Makaretu.-~W»i-pm Mail.