WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2945, 9 July 1888, Page 2

WELLINGTON.

(From Our Own Correspondent), '■; THE SAME OLD GAME. The " Sentinel Angel, sitting high in Glory" most probably frequently sheds salt tears as ho hcamand records • the inconsequent babblements of the men who make our laws. But that ; seraphic Recorder had special.cause for - ~; weeping yester-eve on tbe occasion of . the dobato on the third reading of '• Customs and Excise Duties Bill, for tho very demon of dislocated drivol took possession of our representatives, who, crowding each oh-, the heehi of ~ each, desecrated the night with shrill • rocrimihialions and senilo sneers and jeers, While reporters slumbered and high heaven shuddered, they rose to explain why they intended to vote with tho Premier, and why in some forgotten and possibly antedeluvian period they had voted some other way, : and why they were now Protectionists, i" and why somebody olse had been somebody else at sonic other time, and why somebody somo day would be some other thing. And W, P, Reeves frisked in and out of tbe debate like tho pro- : verhial parched pea in a pan, and Mr Seddon howled, " Mr Speaker, sor," and Mr Jack Kerr beamed and eachmated 1 Haw I Haw I and Mr Carker Hutchison opened his mouth as if it were the bottomless pit and he was cngnlphinq the Ministry, and Mr Taylor called the attention of tho 'Ouse to something, and the Piemier stretched himself on a bench and displayed his socks, and tho pattern of somo other garments not generally exhibited in public, and Fish wrote glowing but uiiarnmmatical letters to himself from an imaginary corrcspoudont who was fmppnseil to say that if Protection were established ho meant to send bis-non Tom to Now Zealand to start the China pot industry with £B,OOO and Dr Pitched repeatedly tried to catch the speaker's eye, and as repeatodly failed, and blushed an anqry red at his failure, and Mr Buchanan tried to do the same thing, and did it, at tho first shot, and looked angry bccnuso he had i succeeded, and the phenomenon sneered at Dr. Tanner's election posters ami Dr. Tanner said something nasty and partially inaudiblo about Reeves and boys, and Dr, Newman rigged both " stomach pumps," and used them iiuceasingly to relievo himself of a mass of undigested but cheerful verbosity, and IfcvPyko tried to bo funny, and was only flatulent, and Scobie Muckenisio endeavoring to be brilliant was merely bilious, and Mr Peacock t<onco more sprout his narrative on Iho ~<-:-' subject of education, and Mr Mcnteath ,'-' with an old-gold smile, called Mr Fisher a " chucker out," and Mr Moss, was pathetically miserable, And, 'at last, when every Member felt that his •■■'.■ spleen was better, tho third readm* ' was carried by a big majority, arid tn'ovSL. Recording Angel shut up his book went home to supper and to bed, and • » I did the samo, believing with tho .';".■ Preacher that all is vanity, and that. : our House of Rops isthomostgigan. - tic vanity of all. THE CITV COUSCIti. Our City Fathers, anxious to emulate the deeds of their older brethren ;C in Parliament, have been having their ownlittlo tompestin a teapot. Tho ■'][ cause of all tho trouble is Mr Kennedy Maodonald, who, at a public meeting, .: : sat upon the Mayor and his scheme ■''.'■: touching the Reclaimed Land Leases, v. It is fair to say that no one, including ■■.'. the Mayor aud Mr Macionald, realty

|' : knows what-all Ihia is about, 11 > but, our citizens are. always ready' for a £ * little innocent diversion, and love to I,' pit loquacity 'gainst loquacity. So, fli { at the meeting, as much lor puro cu* |;: , Ecdnessaa anything, thoy backed up &>.; * the auctioneer. Then the Council I'", ' considered their position,' and most of «[i - than determined to resign, During jX tho interval, ho wor, more "Consulffiy oration, like an angel canto nnd §i >t N wlii|i|.ni di«' oUcmiiiig Adtttu j£'r out of ■■lhem." Now thoy think fj - r . Kennedy acted in a very uugentlemanly manner, that ho had '". . 'em on toast as it were, nnd in tho &; ~ t the public—they wtii not forsake their i] ; ejutiß, but will carry their cross a little ift" longer. And the awful Pethorick}j*J.. who never threatened and never conT tcuiplated resignation-is master of [; . the situation, and rears up on his hind v ' legs in tho Council Chamber, and jjjtos aM chatters, pointing (he lenii finpT till scorpion-like scorn, and "„*>•- ejnculiitisP " Yali! Yer got no baok<J bono I'' Even Audy Young's inher-' '' ent fierceness and acquired broguo of \ tho Liverpool Irish American, is insufficient to silence the pitiless Petherick, But tho Councillors won't resign—not much,

•: T j:.'. . THE ADDLE DEFAHTMENT. ••£•'. Thirteen meetings of the Dunedin : Council have bosn called for the pnr'•u , pose of considering tho city accounts, !,V and thirteen times these accounts wore ■"• not there for consideration, Tlio \ Audit Department has thorn, Even a ;'{, worm will turn, and after this ■{ I thirteenth fiasco tho Dunedin City ; ;,' Fathers have arched their venerated !'■ ■' backs, and in polite and official J. language cursed the Audit DepartX ment even unto the third and fourth \ generation, expressing "in a few wellchosen words" their heartfelt desire K that dogs may delile the graves of tho I Auditor Geneial's great-great-grand t mother'sfVjnsters' cousins' aunt. But .).. the AudipJGcneral doesn't care. He j' is used to the uuathonia of the widow L aiirjjfeoiphan,and likes it, There f ' s a W n "'"' »V rtim simplicity about j!' tho methods of the Audit Department, • j calculated to freeze the marrow of the f' Observer—that method is never to pay I] anything or to do anything until compelled. And the Department can't be . compelled, Against that adamantine U system bravo men bave beaten out their it hearts in vain, Tho mournful widow .;.>•■ with a claim against Government gets that claim as far as the Audit Departj ment, but never further. She passes \ away, and her children, and in their [■ turnhorchildren's children, take tip M tho claim, but the claim goes on for j over, Valiant debt collectors, men •j. who would sit forty-eight hours on a ;j : debtor's door step, pino away and die ji if askod to collect anything from the I; Auditor-General, Somo day the great ; heart of New Zeiland will rebel and ■V there will be harricotcd Audit-General ;[ for wo bo there to sec, j ' T GOOD NEWS, j Those genial souls who periodically [, devoto their atten'ion to bush whisky, j and' havo 'em' rather badly afterwards i: will be pleased to learn that the ff EOverjfjkof whisky is shortly to bo v.. mitigoTcd by a benovolenfc and possibly I bibulous scientists, Drinking whisky .11 cannot hurt anyone, It is the fusil f' oil in tho whisky that attracts snakes . j: and green ayed monkeys. .Tho bone&V factor alluded to proposes to extract [?.■' tho fusil oil from new whisky by means ; jt. of electricity, In future tho" festive :. T"':. bushmau will take his, not with sugar, «h, but with "electricity in it please!' ?; ■ ' ' ). EARTHQUAKES. . i • Dr J, E. Taylor, in some recently 1 published ''Notes on Popular Science," i writes:—

Professor Milne, of Japaneso earth quako fang; shows that tho influence of tlieso phuHncna on tho human mind is 80 terribflnhat gonorations of it have helped to develop a certain typo of human nature Tho terrorism of earthquakes strikes tho pooplo who livo in carthquako-visitcd countries with a kind of madness. He does not hesitato to say that if those forces which have boon common in South America wero let loose in England and Germany, they would producoj'tions with no idea of permanency, 'fljt>ith very littlo intellectual grip. NEW BABBIT TRAP.

A New South Wales rabbit-trapping and preserving Company lias asked the Minister of Lands to set apart a fivemile block of rabbit-infested country in order to onable said conipanv to experiment with a new trap of a simple and inexpensive nature with which from 400 to 1000 rabbits have been caught in ono night. Tho Company will preserve the rabbits and export ■tlioir skins. '

HCKTOCKETS. Are very plentiful in Melhourno just now, and, judging from tho physiognomies of certain meek strangers at present in Wellington, havo probably sent a dotachwm to try their fortunes in Maorilaniir I advise country visitors to waro the confidence trick, and regard with the eye of gentlo but firm distrust any innocent-looking young men tlioy may mqot in this city, who would liko •' to play a gamo of billiards yer know, but can't siy as I can play much," t ,

palpitation.uf the lionit. These various symptoms may w>t be present at one time, but thoy tonnnnt. the sufferer in turn ns tlio dreadful disease progresses. If tlio case bo ono of long standing, tliero will bo a dry, hacking cough, attended after a time by expactj -ation In very advanced ago the skin assumes a dirty; brownish appearance, and tlio hand and feet aro covered by a cold, sticky perspiration, As tho livor and kidneys becomo moro and more deceased tlte moro pnms appear, and the usual beiitiincnt proves entirely unavailing against tho latter agonising disorder, Tho origin of (his malady is indigestion or dyspepsia, and a small quantity of tho propor nicdWue will remove tho disease if takon ir it incipiency, it is most important that tho disease should be promptly and properly treated in its first stages, when a littlo medicinu will affect a cure, and oven when ■ it has obtained a strong hold tho correct remedy should bo persevered in until every vestige of tho iiscasoiseradicatcd, until thoappo tito has returned, and the digestivo organs restored to a healthy condition this surest ami most effectual remedy for Tlio distressing complaint is "Soigcl's Curative Syrup, a'vegetablo propuratiun I sold by all chemists ar.d medicine vendors throughout tho world, and by the proprietors, A. J, White, Limited, London, E.O, This Syrup strikes no the very foundation of the disoase, and drives it root and branch out of tho system. Ask your Chemist for Snigel's Curative Syrup, "East street Mills, Cambridge Heath. 'London, E. 0., July 24,1882 "Sir,—it gives mo great pieasuro to bo ablo to add my testimony in favor of your.valuabloSyrupasa curative agent. 1 had suffered for some length of time from a sovero form of indigestion, and the-long strain of distressing symptoms following that disease. I had tried all the best medical advice. I had swallowod sufficient of their stuff to float a mau of war, so to speak, but of no avail. A friend of mine, coming on tho scene in the midst of my sufferings, brought with him a bottlo of your Seigol Syrup; ho advised mo to try it, stating ho felt confident that it would benefit mo Being weary of trying so many drugs, I condemned it before trial, thinking it could not possibly do mo any good, but ultimately determined to take the Syrup. Aftor doing so for a short timo it worked such a change in mo that 1 continued taking at for nearly two months, and I then ws thoroughly cured, for I havo discontinued its use for livo weeks, and fcol in the best of health, and can partake of any food' with ease and comfort. lam therefore thankful to you that through tho nistrrumeiitality of your valuable medicine, I am restored to tho state of health I now enjoy, Yours truly, W. S, Fonsißii,