The Waikato Times.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 659, 10 August 1876, Page 2

The Waikato Times.

Eijwhl and exact justice to nil men, Ot whatever sc.Ue 01 persuasion, religious or JHnltlUll ***** Here shall the Tresi the Ploim.e'sj r.ght lnuiuttiiii, Unuwcd by iufluence and unbribed by gain.

The Auckland " Star," because of the uctiou of Ministers and the House — that the former haverefrained from answering the speeches of the advocates of the Separation resolutions, and tbat the latter is about to throw out the resolutions altogether — has warned Auckland members that it is their duty to retire from Wellington and the Assembly, place themselves at tho head of the people (whatever that may mean), and declare their determination to appeal to the Imperial authorities. Of course all this was telegraphed to Wellington the same night, and a return telegram next duy from Wellington shows that the evening press there made the most of it to the detriment and ridicule of Auckland. Much of what th« " Post" writes is to the point and deserved. The members, if they took such a step, would show themselves unworthy of ever having been sent to lilie House, and the people of Auckland, if they seriously advised them to it, would render thomselves the laughing stock of the Colony, and of the Imperial Govern vent m will. Truly, as the ♦• Post" atyn, "The tone of public opinion amongst it's (Auckland's) people is entirely unhealthy." We are quite willing to grant this much, bat Auckland city must not be confounded with Auckland Province. Whatever may have been the cause of unhealthy tone, however, it is not as j the "Post" fit ites, because "Auckland has for many years eked out existence in a chronic state of semipauperism, reiving on being kept going by aid from the colonial chest, that°it lihs at length become entirely derooialised." The "Post 1 does well to throw the injustice we have suffered in our teeth and charge us with demoialiaation ! If Auckland has lived by eking out its existence as a Province with aid from the colonial cheat why is it so ? simply because first th« Hcnth cozened us out ot our ■thare in the public estate, «ttl that f #n, again and ugain, a ministry amenable to Southern influence while it absorbed our custouis revenue — a third of that raised by the entirt colony — withheld tho threeeighths, or the capitation money, or whatever else happened to bt our

due, placing us in such position? The loss of the three-eighths, ami ' later still, of the capitation money was a mere bagatelle to mi. Idle Isl.uid Provinces with their ill-gotten laud fund revenue to fall back upou for local requirements, but it was the one little ewe lamb, all that Auckland pu3-*esseil. And while upon this subject we make bold to tell the Opposition Press of Auckland, that this Province has much of this neglect to lay at their doors. Superintendents have beeu encouraged in a biind and unreasoning hostility to the General Government lill it was not in the nature of human endurance to look for other than retaliation in return. The same evil influence is working 1 now, aud Aucklnnd, thanks to the cause we have mentioned, is reaping the political whirlwind. Whatever may be the value of the Separation resolutions, and as we said before, we Bhould be willing to accept financial separation and a present gain of £250,000 a year to the Korth, wo can scarcely see why tlio " Star," liko a petulant child ciying for the moon, should make t>o loud a splutter over its disappointment. It should place some value on consistency. What was only fair in the case of Abolition should be equally fair in the case of Separation. It is not right that the Colony should be taken by surprise, and it is as gross an act of tyranny on the part of the advocates of the Separation move jnent to attempt to force that measure through the Housa now, as it would huve been fui- the Government last session to have forced Abolition through, as they undoubtedly could have dove. The question of Separation was not oue which determined the fate of any single election in January last ; in few cases was it ever alluded to, and then always as a thing to be avoided. What Sir George Grey said in speaking of Abolition in the Session of 1875, applies equally to Separationinthe Sessionof 187 G. "Each Province," he said, " has a right -in itself to say as the United States originally did : — ' We came into this federation under a certain compact : if you destroy that federation we have a right to bogin •ab initio' to detei mine what our own future, in every respect, shall be.' " - - - "If the House passes this Act the people of Auckland Jinve the right to meet as the people of each State formerly did in Aineiica, and have a right to say, ' We will determine what our own future shall be." He claimed it as a right that in a question involving such constitutional changes as AJbolition did, an unmistakeable expression of public opinion should precede legislation. Consistency should ask as much in the matter of Separation, which involves change* quite as momentous. If the " Star " would lay claim to consistency, and what is a journal without it, it should rather argue in this strain than bear defeat with petulant childishness. That ministers as yet, at the time the " Star" wrote, had refrained from replying, could not be construed into an insult, either to the advocates of the resolutions or to the House, for np to that time neither argument nor reason had been adduced in favour of them, and as Mr Fitzroy said, everything except Separation had been touched upon. Doubtless when other advocates of the measuro speak more to the point, we shall find ministers and their supporters coming forward to reply. Till then, we can scarcely say that the sense of the House has been slighted. Since writing the above this has proved 'to be the case. Mr Whitaker baa spoken plainly and practically and to the point, and the Minister for Justice has acknowledged in him a foeman worthy of his steel.

It is perfectly delicious to read the sub-leader in. our contemporary, the 'Herald,' of the Bth instant. Therein are recorded his opinions anent the Px-emier, Sir Julius Vogel, and the office of Agent-General. It roust be boi'ne in mind that there is, perhaps, no official position connected with New Zealand aff.iivti which is so important, or which gives so much scope for tho free exercise of the judgment of the fortunate holder. Now, the ' Herald ' has, for the last two years, never ceased to vituperate Sir Julius Vogel. No opportunity of demonstrating his incapacity for the conduct of public affairs has been neglected, and no epithets have been j too severe to apply to his " corrupt and -venal practices," yet, this is the ' way the 'Herald' now speaks of this " curse of the Colony." " The most prominent name for the office 18 that of Sir Julius Vogel, and we can see much that might be expected to influence him to take the office. His appointment would not, we should think, be opposed by any party in the House. The Premier must reflect that his power cannot continue fer ever; that any day a hostile House of Representatives may displace him, when the AgentGeneralship is unattainable. It is a permanent office. It is highly paid ; the holder has an acknowledged position in London ; and, there is abundant scope for the exercise of any man's talents and political capacity on behalf of the Colony. # * # * Clearly the English money market has become alarmed, and, unless some extraordinary means are taken, we shall be met with a refusal to honor any more of our drafts. But, Sir Julius Vogel might succeed iv effecting just one

moro loan to the small amount of two millions, and what better opportunity could offer, than thathe should go lioine to negotiate the lo.m, in the position of Agent-General ? His friends, of course, would see the mutter in the same light us himself, while his enemies would be only too glad to get quit of him, so as to leave the way open for political combinations, to which he is at present an obstacle. * * * * Surely, when a man can do a good thing for himself, and, at the same time delight his allies and his opponents, ho ought not to hesitate. Whether the satisfaction throughout the country would be as great as it would be in exchisively political circles, we do not know, but that need not be taken in account." Surely ! surely ! if " political combination " is necessmy, this bugbear of the old lady of Wyndham- x street will not stand in the way of their being 1 accomplished. If the political masters of the Herald want power, it need not be taken into account that dissatisfaction would be great in other than politic.il circles. We are not the defenders of Sir Julius Vogel, in all the numeroui ramifications of his policy during the past seven years, but it is really too ridiculous to see a professed guardian of the public interests advocating the promotion to such an office as that of Agent-deneral of a man who has, in its columns, been credited with every description of incapacity and double dealing. The old lady almost goes on her knees, to bsnf Sir Julius Vogel to accept the office. She begs him to reflect that he nwy be displaced at any moment, she reminds him that the 'Agent-Generalship is a highly paid office, and points out " that there is abundant scope for the exercise of any man's talents and political capacity on behalf of the Colony." " What better opportunity could offer," she asks, " than that he (Vogel, the reckless spendthrift) should go home to negotiate the loan, in the position of AgentGeneral." Seriously speaking, we did not think that the "Herald" had so far succumbed to the Grey fever as to offer np the interest of the Colony upon the altar of " political combinations." Wo did not imagine that Sir Julius had hit them so hard that even this sacrifice was not too great to make, if he could bo removed from the path of their party and themselves.

We are not desirous of uiulemiluing (he p3S3ible advantage of the Kaimai gold field to this part of N«w Zealand, but the paeans whioh « portion of the Auckland preis is singing orer the reported find of alluvial gold it at the leiufc, we venture to 8»y, preinutuve. Without doubting the statement (bat nnggrtty gold, pure in quality, free from the mitrix, and in'pWcs vnijing up to an ounce, hat been found, we may still b* permitted to doubt the oxUtence of an alluvial goldfleld. The gold as jet has been found in this state only h tho creeks, and in the earlj days of Corouundel and the Tiki, nuggotty gold of exactly the same appear* .cc was obtained bj washing the creek beds. Liter still, the time has been found in piece* the suo of bjans at Kennedy* Bay, yet in either of thete instances an alluvial goldfidld is as far off as ever. It U therefore unwise as yet to raise expectations which may nerer be realised. That gold, however, has been found in quantities lutfioitnb to warrant the expectation that a valuable goldfleld will be discovered near Tauraugi ij indisputable, and tho discovery is one whish affects not only the Frorince und Colony at *Arge, but, tho Waikato district especially. A goldmining population settled in too Taurangi district means anothor outlet for tho sale of Waikafcj b».f and mutton, and 'Ultimately parhipi foe Waikato produce. Mr llu'cjaibe, who examined under instructing fio n the Minister of Public Works iv 1871, and reported upon tho nature of the country about th < Katikati block, of whijli distriot X»inibi forms « pinion, pjiu;,s out that there is little diffldlty um),:git ot ler roads of conueCxin^ TuuTangn by way of Kni.i.ai and Tupupa with Oioibi'id^e :—: — ' c lhe lino from To Papa (Tsiurin»,i) to Tapapa,' he says, 'would be nbout twentyfour (21) miles in length, but o.ily eight or ton miles through tli? bush would require to 'be made. Up to Kiiuni, on this tide (the Tauranga side) of the bmh, and from Tup^pa to CivmbrUgo, a dray could be driren now with very liitle road wort done. The range »t this point it very low, in fact, the bush is nearly flit. This road would open up the whole of the Upper Waikato und Thames pluitu (o rtiuivmjn, whLjh is their natural in vrket for export and supply." We give the above on tho authority of Mr Hilorabe, being quite avrare that the road at |>r sant existing between Cauibridge and To PajM, if it can be o i lie 1 such, cannot posaibly be tho line aLu iod to. Mr H-\loimb<)> undt>r tao otrc ims' ances, is not likely to be mist ikon in such a inabtsi*, and if only ten milos of a ro.id ihrou^h bush i* necessary to enable a dr»y to bi driven from Cambridge to Te Papa, it is a work of Mieh importance that we can only express surprise thit it his bpen to ljng neglected. _,_

GBISB-SRKDS, — At the moating of the Acclini tUation Sorietjrta*M OiyAlonday* tbe Olnirnian announced that several hundred weight of grass-seed hid an iced by the Invorallen, It wim ordured tl.at they fchould be distribute-l in fqual portions amongst the three brunoh aicictiea : Waikato, Taurangv and Gisborne. Tbo grasses oousilt of broad leaved meadow graei, jpllow oat gti.%*, ebeop fesoue, red foßOuc, darnel feuae, wood uiillot, »nd common burnott.

Auction S\le of Stock— The sale of Mr H C Gibsons farming slook and implements, by Mr Kennedy Hill, takes place to-day, at To Awawutu, com nencing at 1 p m. The Hamilton Eist Town-ship HaterAYßita List is now pjslod lor the inspcctio i of ratepiyer , at ilatri*' at re, llanil'ion Ejit. Any appeals wnl b<« h«urd on S.iturJay, September 9tb, at 2 p m, at the ttoyal Hotel. Thb Nwaruawahia Highway District >63H'ssment List is now ly'ng at the Post Office, Ngaroawihia, for mapoction by ratepayers. Tho JJonrcl wi'l her obj *ction3 to the surne at tho Royal Hotel, I Ngaruawahw, oa ilomUy, 11th prox'tno.

Paonucß Aqrnt — We observe by an ailrertisomenL in another column thafc Mr Pittar has opened an agency for tho disposal of New Zealand prodtue of all kinds at Auckland. Tim i 3 a want that has long baen felt, ns Sdttlei'd have heretofore been compelled to consign to auo!ioneers / theiobv forcing their goo^s on the nm'liet, and losing in uiuny cases considerably thereby.

Thb Aoraioui/ruRAi, Show. — Last nigh', we received the programme of the Waikuto Aeioc ation's fortlicominj exhibition, to tike place on the 23^'d of November next, at Ohaupa. Horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry are all invited to compete in tl)«ir ru ious class- 1. Prizes will also be given for the best collection of labor-sav.n™ impl merits, also special I rizc-s for implement/* in usa, where of sufficient merit, and priz-s wih be give i to the best shcp-nhsarers, men and boj .

Auckland Racing Club. —At a meeting of the Auuklp.nl Rac.ng Club, held ou Monday, t o retiring in*iube"s of committee, Messrs It Wyiijard, Binke, W>itt, Cos^raro, Fwnor and Ymin:» wee reelected. Oi the motion of Mr Mnrtfß, tin di<qualifieaiiO'i imposed a ye-r i go on th.j jo, key Kelly, was removed, A proposal t> rave ihe ffO of .icl.nisji^n to tin* gt'oi from one ihilling to h-ilf-a-crown was rej cte«l, and the p-oject of tlie A.rt Union not having met with eneour.iJt'inen' from ■ t le public, the BCli"ino wti withdrawn, the announcement t>L>in^ raude th it purc'insors of tickets can receive their money back on application to the secretary.

Masonic Bill. — The ball which takes placo to-night at Alcian Ira is likely to bo ix g.-imd nffair, and will be tuo centra of at' i act 1011 for Masons and tlieii* families ia &\\ WuiUuiu. Surcral ludiei and gentlemen, will louvc Hamilton, to take part iv tho ain-nuiemeiit) tiad the snmo we bear is tbo ca^o iv other townships quite, of evei more distant. Every preparation for making tho itff.nr suco'ssful has been instituted by the committee of management, and we uiulositaud, that a rouui ha,3 been built alon-; tlio em ire length ot tlio AloKAudra Hill wliicli will be urui.dble as u supper room

Ha.wks. — We would da* tho »♦- tention of our readers to tho le'tor of Mr Roche, whicli ap .oars elsewhere. Te Anamutu lias set ua the example, it. would seem, of organising a club for the destiuction of hawks. Wln'o on this subject., we mny .illnde to a pl«n of destroying hawks winch Ins bei-n most ifTcctive in other place*. A smalt quantity of strychnin* is ids rted through thu thell and skin of an ordinary heu's egg, the hole stappod with wax or other matter, an 1 the ej»g placed on the top of a p^st or other place out of childrens reach. Ihe egg is soon pounced upon by the hawk who suck* it dry and pays tho penalty. By :his mo'im, a large number ot hawlct i<t the No. th were destroyed a few jeurs ago.

I O. O. ¥„ M. U.— The following recent »tatistic3 of Ills > rW, of a r. ceut date, will be iiitcre«t n^ to member*;— Thcro nre now 508,013 mombsrs *he*rmg an incrense of 11.4-54 during lust yea-, after deducting d*nthi -md all other losses Ot Mioje, 467 387 mo übers belonged to lodges iv the United Jlii.g lorn, and 30,62-J to colonial lodges.. Tho members initiutod li-fc y<»ar nu'nbered 33,260, of whome 2f>lO belonged to colonial lodges ; and of this nurabei* 21.64(3 or 75 per (vnt, were under 25 years of age, and 29,709, or 91 per cent, under 3D. The deaths durin<r the year nuinbureJ 6916, and tho leases from ot'icr ciu-ea wer» 1 3t, bnsides 15,026 from non-payment* o' subioriptioiij. Tuo death* have been 503 more than in 1875. The funeral beneiits paid, on tho d>-»ths of 6916J raembeiv, were £70,108 7*, hikl £2i,742 7s, on the death i of wiroa or widows, making th" total itini pail for fuueral b m,oU»-), £95,350 Us.

G'ONSKJtfBNCUS OP C.VTXr.R DISBASK. — As we utiiteil tuo olJmr day in our remarks on tlio con«eqntji.ct»« winch would result from onco allowing the ' foot and mouth dis-asa' to find its way ino No » ZsuUnd, v is not only th*> fuui'M, but the general public wlu woild culler. Tliu übovo disea>e liivs played 1' tiriul bavoo amongst (luiks iind heriis fn many parts of the United King lorn during Ihe past' /bar or liv» yoir«, and is aten>mjr on the incroise. A gbnoo at an Gnvlirh paper shiwj u< how ih a bat i-ffucted ihe gonorul publ'o, ths consuoier. The wholeoale prioe of beef rumjes fiom 4i 41 for inferior to 6s pur stone of 81b? for prime meat; and the ready money retail price* runge from 7 id to one still ii q per pound, nccor 'ing to thequdity and fcho nature of the \ Ant. We o innot, Ilieref jre, but. liopo thitthc motion for the lvsti'iol iun to iaipuriation of cattle, p-op >«ed by Sir DonaKl iKEcLoun, will not b- 1 lost sight of umongst \us important in ittoi 1 of n party nature.

Sinatoujal rtrsaiLTi'ißS. — Mr R#es, in his long spw-ec'i on the Separation resolutions, inda'.ged in the most unfounded And personal scurrilities, for which he was deservedly hissed from both S'des of the House, One of time was, that the private hospitality eliown by Sir Julius and Lttdy* Vogcl wai rendered for tho take of purchasing rotes; another that Sir George Arney wa« driven from the hencn to imiko room for Mr Gillies, so as lo silsnue a political opp3nont, ant that Mr Jus ice Johnston? was nm-ed over for the appoinbintmt of Chief Janice on account of a foud between the vvifo of one of the minis' ry and Mrs Johnston, the Judge's wife. The first of these attacks u a solecism aguinst goo I taste mid good breeding that mi-ht have r atonabk been expected frd-n Mr Keej. The i<e&*nu for Sir Grcorgo Ai'ney's n»lironvnt wm, howevoc, too well known and regretted to need com nent, and it is t^udly well k-iown that. Mr (jriilien, able ni he is, was n t to be feared m a. political party leadar by any Q-overn-meub to which he was opposed. With regird to the Uat charge, it it bub necessiry to i*y that Prender-just only accepted the office of Attorney-General on tlio uuderalanding that ihu 0 uef Justiceship should follow as a matter of cmrie. Tho supposed scandal to which Mr Raes had tho bad taste to allude is t> u< retmlad, on the authority of the * Auu. 1a id Stir '• ' Lady Vogel, before her m mage, was aisteniiticiilly ov.rlookel in the inritaliona issued by the w.fd of Mr Justice Jolitiston, tiie louder at thit timo of tho bou ton of Wellington society. I» course of time the tables turnod, and Lady Vog:l wai not slow to retaliate on the dethroucd queen of fashi m. Mrj Johnston was ox eluded from the Fremi t's asirmblages. Wider and wider grew the broach until, so tho story runs, the quarrels of the ladies iuTolvvd th« dignity of ihjir lords,

und when the chance presented itself, Mr Justice Johnson <\i\ not obtain the position which bii seniority und ackumlerlged profound legal knowledge entitled bin to.'

NoAUtfVWAHrA LlimAiiY.— Hamilton is proud of pi ool Hilling iisclf tho leading settlement of Wiikato, but. tbou"h it may be co in population, it ccr ainlv cannot take credit, for being sr> in energy and tocial advnncament. If we look around nt for le?3 pretentious places in thj distdct, we shall sco Public H* I ]*, while Hamilton has not a building fit to hold a concert n or to encourage the vi-«ii of professionals from AuckUi.d which tho popu'ntion of the district would otherwise attr.vfc Only the other day we noticed the opening of a skating rink in Alexandra, and njw we learn, that while Hamilton is findinj» it uphill work to establishing an met tu^o and librarVi Ni»aru.»wahia his long been in possr^sion of n iealin«-rooin an i a library, perhaps the Urst in the di-tnet. It contains neath' ii 0 volura s many of them standard works, and further additions ore now to han3, hdTing arnvpd in tae Esfacoaru, fmui homo. The library U solfsupporting. A sum of 12s 6J ii charged for the first yar's Bubjcnption, and 10s per a, mum afterward*.

TWO LEaAL LIGHTS.— UnJei- the above heading, the following paragraph is going the round of the Southern Pros< — ' The writer of • Notes ' in the Timuru Herald says ! — ' It- may bo set down as an indisputable fact that Mr Rees is the greatest nui-ance that tbo Ptir'iamont of New Zealand ever knew ; and that no mcnion was ever passed with to much readiness as that requesting leave of abtence for him for a fortnight. Next to him comes Mr Stout, -\tlio deems it hi* mission to net a* nmitour Attorney-General, and to a.jod the tfouse with cheap and nasty law on every possible occasion. In the debate on the question of mi-am; tho uiico of laid, Mr Stout made 15 distinct spe ches, and Mr Rees I*2 ; and it is calculated that in a region of three months the^e two portemious boie* would orcupy one month between the . . Mr Stout has thi* adover liis learned brother, — he lirn n soft and plf asunt voi-p, nnd soon sends ths Home to sleep. Mr Rees, on Hie cou r rtvry, has a er»'iked voice, horrible to lia'en to ; aud as he always roais nt the top of it, it has been humourously rein irked that he resembles Macbeth, who ' murdered sloop.' " Fashion, tho nineteenth century Juggernaut of D'Tili'ed women his issued a new c Hct, according to the Parij correspondent of the Melbourne ' Argus,' who writes •. — ' A«d since lam speak tog of dress, alow me to note down here a detail which shows what are the caprices and whims of the mode and how faahioo rushes from oae extreme to another. I allude to the exaagera'ed narrowness of the .-kirts of ladies' dresses, which no longer teem intended to veil the burain body, but rather to show its frrn to tho eye as cleirly as poisible. Nay, more, f>p in Mia ball-dreates the fatl.i >n c >pii?i the moles of the ancients to such n decree th it ih • dreis is maintained on thj »h>u' tiers by a simple clasp, leaving Hi*- ariiis w>io ly bare; you must also remark that tho bodice is cut lower down thun over. Fashion seems to hare copied th ■ museums ' of anfie it art. and joi rne<.t in thn |>liyhouses and in th>) drawing rooms of our elegantes all the women without sleeve* of any Kind, as was the wont of Koine riut in: the time of Romulus ami his pucce.*ors. Even in the day t me the tight- worn dress rues supremr, and ft* i>» i l a>id velvet would not adhere su 11 *i *ntlf oo c to tho body, our bellei have recourse to t'.e skin of the doer, and curia-m th»a a hofy* as they glove their hands. .Tho sail cuirasses—such is tho name they hive rrcaived, and reall deservn — aiv em-uheJ wit'i prpeious stone*, damask-work, or pearls and beads, eothit cveiy contour of tho body stands out cle if to the eye.'

Titk Aiii.-E>aD4ND Elkvitn —Fiomthe 'Herald' of the Bth i»itatit, vc loirn that the teiui of Knglish cnckctcrs will co-itiit of eentlemeu pi >yera alonr, #e!ec(ed by Sir G F Graie. It appear 3 that W Or Oriwo is unable, from hia busine>a< e-igasements, to ajoorapmny tha traTi to the Australasias. The granest disappointment will bo Felt at the n>nappearance of (ho ciu-koter of ths century. Thrro h ive beon giants in the vannns departme ts of oriokat. Few cul 1 keep wL'kt'fc aaain^fc Lockyer, Jupp attaine I a degree of perfection with t»io bat barely eqnalled, Thornton could sky a ball over the pavilion at ' Lords,' anJ run a Bcore of 50 in thrce-quartera of an hour—but in knowledge of the game', and proficiency inarevy deparimont none h.ive in the prps»»nt. con'ury eit'i«r excellod or eg nailed VV G Crrao\ G F Gra->e, his ! brotlier, ia pcrhaos as i;onl an nil round pluer as can be fo ml in the United Kingdom, if \»e bjr the leviathin, and soni't first cln«8 pity nny bo autic.pated from f.he tpnin, ho will bring to the Colonio<. Lillywhiie \i the reproß -ntitive of » great lin ■ of cricketers, but bo g<e>it disappointment need be felt at his uouarrival, at there aro plenfy of men in Biigl n'l -gentlemen and professionaU — who aro quite able to supply hu place. We trust the Auckland UlenK will pash the preparations forward, so as to proriJe a fi ting reception for the English team.

ToriJOUBS PfiBDBIX producet »»tiety and cv.'ii the too frequent appearance of twin* conM to be lookei upon a* a not unmixed blutumg. 'In April 187.3, • »y« Attiom in the ' Melbourne Leader,' a gentl'-mni nohßed fco the public through the ' Ladies' Gi/otte' in (he ' Melbourne A-;e* that, he win (be father of twindaughters, and to relieve tho mind of his frien It, and possibly indeed a little out of bravado, he added to his announcement tho words ' F.ther delighted.' Fifteen month* ••forwards that unhappy gentle ran hal to insert a precisely uvular ' advprt^oni'-nt, lnit (hit ti <>c he omitted ' (o desor be \m f.-elings. The twins ,wera 1 still there, but th> delight of the father w.ia cosie. Tlie siUnco of the second annou leement was mere elequent than words omi d have ma Je it, and poople were left to ima^inj from the plain matter ot fact tlyle in which it was givcu how heavtly the cares of paternity wrrj pr^-sing on him. In the faeo of this awful exa-nnle'.there is a notice of a 1 b rtli in W> d-iesday'* * Aj/e* that comes like a ihock on one. 'Ou nt-h a dtte, mi i sui-h a ]•'» -p, >he wife of So-and-so of twins ('au^ht m). All dnnq woll. ' Mother delighted. Father surprised. 1 I can quite uadorslaui the father's surprise —rather a mild m inner, by the w*Tj of putting it—but the mother's delight i» quite beyonl me. With the fate of the unh'ippy gentlrman to whom 1 I bare referred to before her, she should remember her 'surorisei' and unhappy husband, and what another short 15 1 mon hs may bring forth.

Sad Tal* or Distbrss.—We hare n most distressing tulo from Christphurch of the overcrowded state of tho labour : market of that city, one which fnlly bears i out the assertions mads by Mr Grant in ■ the ' Belfast New* Letter' that thousands | a-e starving and hundreds walking about i the streets of our cities in search of work, i unable to find it. To theri eternal shatno bo it laid, the stevedores of Port Littleton have refuse 1 to consent to the payment of lumpers at the r»te of 2s an hotir, and ta a^ree, in addition, that any tim 3 less thun a day is to be considered as a day, aud to be paid for as such. Th 3 lumpers have, therefore, very

properly itruck. They hai f»r better ■tarre than accept £l a f>ay. We glory at there ipirK, and wo *h iil be glad to lake o l i,irge of any subscriptions on their behalf to nash\ them in ovei riding thut lyrat ny of capital which would confine tliem to leas than 2< an hour and beer thrown in. It. ;s time for the Gorernment to commence the re-shipment of ou sal-plus population — our starving hordi>B— when employers ennnot afford, or cruelly refuse, to reimunra'Q manual labour at the lato of 2d au hour. Their condihoo is a Tery trying one, nearly equal to thufc of the coloured man wo read of the other day. It was related that a farmer, going in search of some chap willing to go inio the country and do a HUle work for good piy, vrat dropped upon by the aforesaid coloured iudividual, who arostcd hm, stvji-ig : 'Bjss, doei you want toineoao tj hujk corn ?' —'Yes; I've been looking all the mom* ii.g for someone ' — • What's do pay ?'— l'll give you a dollar a div-—A n I board ?' — 'Yi>B.' — ' W chickens au' pudding fjr dinier!'— 'Yj s'--'An' Mnvmi cigira to smoke? 1 — I—lI — I gu s-» so,' stammered the farmer. — ' An' a eo»l stov<j right olose aroun' dir where do o>m is?— ' Ao ; I never hpard t f a itove in a corn field.' — ' Well, if dir's no itoTa out d*r, you . *n't coin dis chile a' mn ! Vz j »ot to t ike kocr of my liedlth, ore i if dar nut a bushel of corn rasod in dis cjuntry. !'

THOUBDAI' AUGUST 10, 1576.