HIGH CLASS EMIGRANTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1263, 3 August 1880, Page 2

HIGH CLASS EMIGRANTS.

Some day, perhaps, Australia and New Zealand may attract a new and a far, higher class of emigrant. Hitherto the men who have nought new openings in new lands have been workers crowded * out, or en tor prising youths with small - capital and active brains. Bnt it is just possible that people with what seems at first sight considerable mGomes, may be induced to emigrate to countries where they need make less show, and can yet do more with their money. Many of our landed gentry, the owners of large estates, as well as the sm;ill squires, hare been very hard hit by recent bad years. With some of these financial tightness amounts to actual distress. They are compelled to put down establishments and reduce expenditure in every conceivable way. The diminution in their means has been steadily and continuously gaining ground. The old type of squire, the man who laid a pipe of port in his cellar every year generally for his sons and descendants to drink, who also never left his park gates excppt in a carriage and four, and often with outriders besides, is a type of the past. Compared with those old times, even the magnates of the country live now-a-days parsimoniously. A simple brougham with a single horse serves to convey the lord lieutenant or high sheriff to his official duties ; hospitality may still be practised, but when guests fill the house, extra footmen and a man cook may be hired from the neighboring town ; clarets and champagnes, not always of the finest vintage, replace the Comet and Exhibition ports. When economy and frugal ways are so general, it argues that the spending power has sensibly decreased. If those who feel the pressure most could only harden their hearts to leave the old country they would find themselves infinitely better off in a new. — Hvnie Xown.

■ The word " butter" occurs in most of the ancient languages. Butter, supposed to be 1000 years old, has been found in a peat bog in Ireland. It was rather cheesy. Some Egyptian buttor, supposed to be at least 2500 years old, has been discovered. Though a little turned, it still tasted and smelled like the genuine article.

Stabtling laste. —A young lady who resides in Brooklyn, when recently asked if she was a singer, replied that she only sang for her own " amazement." Anna : " How I do love pets; before I was married I always had a monkey." Arthur: "And what have you now?" Anna: " You." Oxe of the old-time stage-drivers who has been on the road over half a century, says that " life is put together considerably like a set of harness. There are' traces of care, lines of trouble, bits of good fortune, breaches of good manners, bridled tongues, and everybody has to tug to pull through It is somewhit cnrious (says Truth) that the Zulus at the Aquarium, although they have now been many months on exhibition, still continue to attact sightseers in undimished numbers. The other day a young girl arrived from Scotland. She was aged about 17, and she was, according to her own account, the daughter - of a Presbyterian minister. She had con* Bhe said, to marry a Zulu, and, accompanied by one of the oldest and most illfavoured of these dusky strangers, she presented herself to the manager of the Aquarium, and requested him to aid her in her object. In vain he remonstrated with her folly. She replied that her heart was given. In vain he suggested to her that she would only be pne of the many wives when her contemplated husband returned to Zululand. She answered that the twelfth part of her adoration was preferable to no part at all. So, finding that it was useless to reason with her, she was told that she could not marry without the assent of her parents and she went back to Scotland to obtain jt.