FEATHERS AND CHAFF.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 755, 19 April 1877, Page 2

FEATHERS AND CHAFF.

(From au Auckland Correspondent.) April 18. CWJSZ BATIRE. Newspaper editors reoaive queer thinn sometime* by way of contribution. It is not ail of them who eet, like vnn nti, a « of the fi» t fruit* of the ofcK Even J

ty* Ipumpkitt would be better *b»n tome Of tke^sdesMnin^oWfSeWTM ftr no* •*ioe ia the loo«I columns. -"I know an «ditpriWjiO!|rwirßd-i l««fcws©k a ptWJ «* limestone, * patent_.stoma«h-puinp, i*«n i ponndof Mitand^ooiUr* bor of oi«tment, a bofctle,. of schnapps, and lAstly-thadcs of Guttenburg_, and, ;O?xtop, a box of antibifiouapiD" ! i>,an amopn* of exftuliite irony about this hit contribation especially if tbe editor happened to be m a gptenetio mode when the present was iwktort.* ■&■* •-:wi )J7. fir \ ; : * A JOUBNALIBT IV HOT WATIR, W r A ' reporter's ' dat Ware 1 not Wwiya o( tbe pleasantest. I remember one at a flre^who grtt wet thrdn^h^ilil w*t%r from the hoße, all his hair stforphed eff, knocked down by a falling brick, sprained bis ancle, had his bell- topper oared m, and 'was laid up for six week*. Another, enter* Wei* °ent«la'«njj th ? jejtploits .of Greenwood i th«*O««ia.lr «nd " tbe vaaabond," l-knoeked^owna,^?. withthe Ww*6f get^bg scran dajrs, so ar ,tq beaWe.tp write a Bgnsation^arUolefn' happenMV'Howe^; (Mkt tfid journal to which he belonge^had ■.yrtifun. ? ,s6me MM a'rtidlei on Ue 1 gkoli ♦ In Peking about! fdr'informaltUn on 1 the first' day of bis incarceration tfe ootamitted a fleagraut breach oft thei prison regulations, /and so the gaoler by way of NTenge,* made him ' '. ■• dp,", therestof ,bis thne ,in) •• solitary" on bwa4 and water, aud out his hair. 'jHe^n/t gather much information about the internal management of that gap], and when he oame out the father of hit affianced, who was a churchwarden tabooed his- Konse, and: .broke off the engagement, m other 'day a reporter wenMft W** l ■• * cMI m harbonr , -for news,. "I ? n> ; 8 ' o P° r^ r of—^-?-*t 'he aaid fn'aniwer'to the okptain, wh* was directing the movement's of the orew,— a maori and a small boy.' "Oh 1 you are, are you"! replied the son of Keptao, then I've ••. preoions; good iinind to ring yonr .... „ nos#' ; A paragraph injthe •previous'day's paper had aroused the OommodtfreVsire. ;> . . . . v t )j< ■ IHB ' SABTMRN CjOTMBIOK : ~ s Banks next %o Moanatairii and, Walta- ] kauris. Ml;' w confidently 1 belieTed/thafc the Turkish question will in.the ,eno be settled^itK 1 4he ■ ba f ybrio£'and pation of a predatory \virit from Bussian cruiser we are getting our defence m orders. , .The steam dredge, ia :be im« 'armed With a three-poonfler rifled cannon, { andj qsdets are being got into a complete state of organiziation. The main sewer is kept.in a state of thorough- efficiency, and' is expected to overpower the enemy, .should .they land •anywhere within * mile : of 'the QoieinBtreat wbarf. It is rumoured m military 'oif clel> that Capfc. : -Morris 1 * #ill be pladed m command of the Waikato,', 1 . latl-fiacks";'' Sergaanfc Sa^ndes witf be en* trusted with 'the prapdrations of a plan of fortifications,, and- Corporal, Knox will have charge of the commissariat. The only hope of -peace liss m the St James' YouDg Men's Mutual ■ Improvmenf >A^ sooiatiop, ;iTbat:aagtiSt>body'of savans'is shortly to disonss the question ''Does Turkey deserve a place aniong- thelhationii ,of Europe?!' : ; Should the vote be m the negative, the fate of theJßorte is sealed. As soon as the result ii received m OoriBtajptinpple ; the, *' unspeakable-Turk, " as T qajrlyle styles him< will .emigrate '"bag and baggage",, to Timbuotoo>.. ■ ,

The coming, men are, his "Worship the Mayor, Dr ' Wattii/ and n pdisibly Mr Gdldiiß. tli i)rUee i %anribk spare time bs« cause of family afflictions. Mr Cdsgrave may, perhaps, be tempted to woo the sweet ivoicea of, lh t e t fre^e an.dindependent; arid he would 'receive considerable support from, the f Bpman Mr Hurst, lite *a judicious maiden, is only " waiting to Jbe^ nxe,<L'' IJ r l VVfcllis is quietly' frorluug up support, and Mr Goldie wants to know whether or not Hurst is a candidate, because if he is, he, Goldie. .will not enter t the,Uslß.j,. v ßpth troldi^^a' Wailfs'^DiTave the Licensed Vie^ a t le "i n l^'^^ b^^t {OAm0 A me A would be strongly supported by the Good Templars, My. tip. jp '* Hurpt against; the field . JBy the I way, ' another reverend personage is mentioned^ Does this not speak volumes fdr r ttiefp'iety of Auckland 1 What ,a comfort it must be; .that, there are itffJtfore goSila iieedi'rig to^bfl saved, no brands to ( be plucked t from t^ejburningj iTOVBL lOGIO. Can any of .your- readers inform we whether or not the Hon John Ball, of Canter buiy^ • js; van )Irjshmafc:PA f In a recent speech to his constituents, he laid -uVwn'*"n<fteT pdlttical^^ory^ v ( 'jioaid It was fin utter mistake/ to suppose ftjiafc ftebpll 1 ih We < NbrthV liviiig^amongjh^ Maorife^nd un'derßtaAdi^g['tbeirlan^i9gef and 'cusfonJi; 'are better fitfcd'fo manage . tne ria'ttVes "than' tliose Lon mfmber«. froitf Hb\J 'Sotttb^ toj krfoW'ltftle or • hbttiing 1 about them,! v and' that" tile 1 SoulheW 1 & P e m«or;>re' the &fll' j&ages/'iof natire affairsi "becaWe thej. aHnotmttedtipw^ththfrnatiTei, arid are, thmtStb 1 , entire^ aiiltitereeted atid/im. \ partial." By- the same rule of reasoning, the Hon John Hall'is no" judge of political q^ei.tionsj bepau.ee. hejjhgf been more .or leßß.n^iied up^wjth them for, aeTe/alt Tear*, ana passes,^ great, deal of hit timejinithe, Upper House, and moreover, the Land Fund ought to bet handed oxer to us here m tbei Nbrtb^ seeing that we Have iforit had the handling, p| ;t, ;and;w w<J do not live m. tb[e- dislriets. wherein. lt v w,ei-H ponded, weWre belter fitted to administer the fund imparti»lly than the people of Canterbury and Otago. Of course, the Hon. John Hall, and his friends the run* holders will have no objection to transfer ths yl»fld rjßtoft&and -the management bf % the runs to us, m exchange for the esti- ' mable privilege of managing the natives. We are quite ready to make the bargain, bu.VJ'in afraidiou^frie^dstdown/So'uth do not believe m the old proverb, that what is sauce for .the goose, Is equally sauce for the gander, ti , GONB JLQ V TI(S . ,BJTI,?i«tIR , SPRINGS. • : i ■ " % our, pld/'frie.nd.F tB;. Troup ?has been lying, p,er4u of late. ; We missed his- well- > known • initials from, tho, correspondents'' leUers, jp l the -morning paper, and* the references to his illuatrioua relative who iiinthe Order oftthe Bathi People were beginning . to fear that . soraethinjt 'had happened ,to F» H, T., but the mystery is now cleared up. He has been to White Island, \and- is going to start a sulphur fabto^y, at the; North- Shore. In view of tpe probability of a European iwar, the speo. , prpmiaes: to be a- profitable' one.; Ths Nctrth Shore is likely to heco.me an important place, Matbh-mafciog is already done pver there, on a Sunday afternoon and evening, on a very considerable scale, bvvt.the butfneaa Yfjll juprease vhm Iroup goti his tixins' up. - „ ADO :IBOTTX NOTHIKOi' / ' . It is fifty years since Captain William Rattray, ol Auckland, t*ok unto himself a. wife of the daughters of Durham, named , Mary Hed ley, and this extraordinary (?),fact has been deemed worthy of a kind of tea-meeting, at whioh a number of clergymen and friends attended, who said many very compliTue.ntary things about the captain and his Bpouge, and presented, their photographs, all beoming with admiration of the cap* tain's manifold virtues. But after all, I can't see any call to moke a iuss over a man just: because he's been married to a woman for balf a century, when there are plenty ,of fellows going 'about who have married half-a-dozea during one-fifth of . thejjjnevandhave'nt stopped yet.