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Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1442, 29 September 1881, Page 2

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The Colonial Secretary and the Premier. WiiLMN-GTox, Last Night. The Colonial Secretary left for the South this evening, but the Premier will not leave until to-morrow.

Election Topics. Win Trounce, formerly of the Customs Department, announces that he will contest the Foxton seat.

Sale of City Property. Property in Willis-street changed hands yesterday, the price being at the rate of £7o per foot.

Adulterating Spirits. Informations have been laid against three publicms, who are alledged to have been adulterating spirits with water.

The Hon. John Hall and the Tauranga District. Tauranga, Last Night. A meeting was held to-day for the purpose of getting up a requisition to the Hon. John Hall asking him to stand for this district, Mr G. Y. Stewart agreeing not to come forward if Mr Hall elects to stand. A requisition is also being signed asking Mr Sheehan to come forward.

Never address your conversation to a person engaged in footing up a column of fiarures. There's nothing so deaf as an adder. Marbiaoe goes, to a certain extent, by contrasts, if not by contaries. A woman, ntill le&s than a man, gets the husband she paints to her fancy. Her connubial ideas are commonly regulated by hor age and experience. The man she desires at sixteen or seventeen would be a burden at twenty, and her ideal ac twenty would be burden at twenty five. She begins sentimentalism and ends with soberness : vanity impels her first, but sympathy hold her last. She is frequently surprised afc the offers she receives, and still more snrprised at the offers she does not receive. The love that comes at the first sight rarely remains ; it is apt to be born of the eye, not of temperament. The love that grows generally endures and produces fruit. Love and marriage are not related, as we think they should be. Love matches often turn out ill, and matches without love turn out well. No one can tell what love is ; nor can anyone guess what marriage will bring. We are all, when young, full of thoughts and theories about oth, and individual experience U ever contradicting what we have learned. Marriage is as impenetrable as lovo. Few of us are prepared for their disclosures. We mny loveaud marry ag.iin but our ideal of marriage is nliu'oib anvaj s \vhole love and , uiihkethe .things itself. — yew York Times.