THOUGHTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1254, 13 July 1880, Page 3

THOUGHTS.

The Thinker. I was at the meeting on Tuesday. I think the action of the Mayor in holding back Brett's telegram from the Council was imprudent.

I think his action in trying surreptitiously to induce your journal to lower the price for advertising was mean.

I think his action in abusing the Town Clerk publicly on Wednesday night was ungentfemanlike.

I think his action in congratulating the Council on the manner and success with which they had got through their ordeal, shows his self-sufficiency.

I think all his actions show that he is not fit to occupy his present position, more particularly -when he accuses a reporter of stealing a letter which was actually given him (the reporter) by the Town tlerk.

I think the dictionary offered to Knox by Vialou ought to be used oftener at '• ome"— iCis required.

I think Seddon has got the Borough "by the wool," thanks to the action of the committee appointed to see him "with power to act. " They did act with a vengeance. But then it looks big to deal with monies.

I think McGarrigle and Jones got out of it well.

I think it would take two Lawyers and a Judge of the Supreme Court to bind V down to anything, but as he draws up his own agreements, and is the only man alive who can read them he has up to the present had the best of the Borough.

I ;think the Council ought to vote the money to raise the agricultural and implement manufactory to a level with the street. It looks so low !

I thought very highly of some of the language used at the meeting. " Falsehood" and "lie" are too such nice words.

I think friend Slater was great fun and made it warm for the four seceders from the Council. He and V seemed thoroughly to understand one another.

I think I have eaid enough about the meeting:.

I think the Cambridge Town Board have done well as they are leaving a small debt of £300 or so to their successors, who certainly are not likely to forget them. Never mind ! Duke Street is made. Let the back streets make themselves.

I think a fire brigade should be organised at once in every township in the VTaikato. On Wednesday a bii^ade would have been of infinite service at Cochranes and Swann'g.

I think Constable Murray deserves special mention for his pluck at the fire. He had a " warm corner " for a considerable time that night.

I think Parliament ha<? at last become sane and the country ia once more safe. •'Bully " on retrenchment.

How quiet .Sir George ia. At one time I thought ho was as bid as Beale, that there was no keeping him in his place, but there is hope for Hamilton yet.

I thiuk I will go to bed. Good night.

Welsh Int^llioibihty. — An amusing tale is told of a Welsh grocer. The grocer fi-om hid little village had ordered his monthly supply from the big town, and particularly desired a certain quantity of soap, his customers having suddenly developed an inordinate wish to conform to that rule which says that cleanliness is next to godliness. By mistake the soap was not packed in the hamper with the other things, and the Welshman, fearfully irate, and with that impetuosity which is said to characterise the lineal decendants of the ancient Britons, wrote as follows : — "Messrs Evans and Company. — Dear Gentlemen, —Damn your noses ! Why was you not send my soap ? Is my money not so good as was uo man's money, anyhow hereafter thank you ? I was yours truly, David Morgan." Meantime the mistake at the wholesale house had been discovered, and the soap sent off in a separate box to the main bulk of the order, arriving in time for the now mollified Welshman to open his letter and add a postscript as follows :'-r^" S.P. — Dear Gentlemen. — Since I did not write the above below the soap was arrive, thank you, in a square box. " It's puzzling but it is to be understood, and if we can aU get at our objects as clearly as did the little Welsh grocer, there won't be much to growl about. The two latest "notions" in harrows from our American cousins are the Chicago screw pulveriser and the disc harrow. Tho first is a combination of seed-drill and seed-coverer, the covering being effected by a series of steel rib-bands affixed to a set of starrahaped arms fixed upon a spindle, the bands, as the axle revolves, pulverising the soil ; and, by the screwlike arrangement, throwing it slightly to one side of its or ginal position, thus covering up the seed. The Disc haarow acts in somewhat like manner, the steel discs being affixed to revolving axles, jointed at tiie centre, and dragged in a V form, with the narrowest part behind. The discs cut the clods, and at the same, time separate the soil, throwing it slightly outwarda.