ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1868, 26 June 1884, Page 4

ECHOES FROM THE CAFE.

TltßitE is a very gr.ieial feeling of sat's fusion' here at the result of the information that the Governor has decided to MiB*olve Parliament, ;is almost everyone It believes that any Minidtiy that could have beon formed by the opponents of the present Government would ha\e been more or less inimical to Auckland interests. What consultation would we - have received fiom a Mini^tiy foiineil bv .Mr • Montgomery, for inst.uico ? St> George Giey and Mr M.icandiew would probably ha\e had .scats in it, ,iud we would have hula ic\ tuition of oui ex'jprirMfco \vhcn the Grey Ministiy was in .'Oface' — the ruombeis in the Cabinet leVi renting Cmteibu.y and Ot.igo would lia\c taken cue th.i»- t! c lion"* shaie of the evpcndituie took place in tho^e Provineiat Distiicts, while Sir (ieoiije Gfty would be " fctompin^ " the conntry and looking aftei the burning qucs , tions." Foituiratclj, the dec=ion of th& Governoi to mauta dissolution maKes the probability of such a combmation exceeding small. I belioo that a considerable number of the piebent members will be permitted by their constituents to devote the whole of thuir time and attention to their own piivate afFaiis and the othero better httcd will occupy their seats in the House of Representatives. Among those who may take a last and fond farcwellj of the Empire City are Messrs Han is and Geoige, aslbelie\etbat their places vill be better filled by Messis Bucklaud a.id Moat. Mr Buckland very n^aily. defeated Mr Harris at the last General Election, and I believe that he will succeed in doing so this time. Mr Moat would certainly have been elected for Rodney tuo jcais ago had ho opposed Mr Gcoige, but the state of Ins health piecuded his doing so now, howover, lie is w< 11 and fctiong and will, in all pi obabihty defeat Mr Geoige if that gentleman docs not, «b it is tumouied he will, decline to seek ie election. That wondei ful financier, Mr Dargaville, will probably be defeated for City West, if a good man opposes him, but the good man has not yet appeared. However, " theio is tune enough for that bvand-bye."

* That was rather a barren triumph gained by Mr Locke, w ho was elected for the East Coast by a large nnjoiity, but still it is satisfactory as an indication of what he ma) expect wlun the Geneial Election takes place. It is to be hoped that the elector will then endoise the verdict they have given on tins occasion, and that Sir ltees, at any Kite, v ill jf he stands again, again take Ids position at the bottom of the poel as an indication that the electois do not waut him. Mi Rees is a mostextiaoidinaiy man. He is, undoubtedly, a clevei lawyer, being especially good at iiddicsum a jiuy. He is an excellent public speaker and can gcneially c.ivy bis audience A\ith him, Ho io kind and hospitable to a fault, a gicat admner and suppoiter of eucUet and out dooi spoits, and, in fact, a "jolly yood fellow. " J I is gic.ifc fnnlts aic instability and a foolish extiavagancc in money m.ittcis. ftowe\er. estimable a man may be in other icspects, it is veij obvious that lie is not fit to bi 1 entni-ted with the contiol of the fi'iamcs of the Colony if he cannot manage hi-, own, 'O I hope ti.at he v.i\\ not g.un a seal in the House of llenicsoutatnes. "\\ r o aic gaining an uncnvial)lo reputation hi'ir, on account of the nuinbci of suicides which have been committed lately, no lc-^. than thiee m one week. In two cas-p-, the <aus' s secincd to have been financial dilheiilties and in the thud Jo\c. The Liit case would .seem to give tiie lie to the poet slitcncut that "Men hive died .md wmin-j b.i\e eaten them, But not foi ln\e The In :>t of tin- two who died by his own hand \*a.s Ciplain L'llewall, who ■was the son of one of the hest of our caily settled and who would piobably ha\e giown up as good a nun as his fathci but that iie hud the mi^fo.t mi \ v lule quite a bo\ , ol having a considciablo legacy left him Know ing that he was independent in pcuiniaiy mattcis, lie would not 1 look the piopei lestiaint sought to l/o put upon him by his fathei, butquaiiellcd v itliJuni.ind j.in away fiom bonie. An undutifnl s',n seldom turns out i good man, and so it pioved in tins ca c e. He Mniandued liis money, got into debt, took to dunking, inul, finally, died by Ins own hand. J'aients veiy often, f tlmii'", make a mistake when they toil and tay c, foi tin 1 purpose of leading foi tunes 1 quite endoise "Willie' >Swai! t -o))'s tlicoiy, nhich he piopoundcd to me many \eais >i«o, and which I have ncvei foi trottt n. lit said, " My idea is to give a boy a good education, teach him a liade, give him a few pound notes and let h.m go and make his own foi tune. Thnt was my s-tait in life, except th.it 1 had m lther the education nor the five pound notes." w * The cisc of I\fr Pickett, the second Self-mmdeier, is a sad stoiy of aliuscd confidence, lie was a shaiebiokei bearing an excellent leputation for piobity and husiiuts ability, aud had ltuge sums of money tntmstcd to him for investment. Some of (he investments made by him on behalf of client u Milted in loss, and he. instead of liifoimmg his piineipaK of the fact-, wusit m foi speculations to ucoup the losv, lining foi those speculations money < nil listed to him by othei clients. In>te.id of getting out (f the June he got in d( cjii i ami deeper until, I believe, he had lost 17000. Finding that txposine -w.is inevitable he com mitted suicide. T ha\c been told tlrit in older to l ( tain tho confidei.ee of his clients he paid dividends on sh.ues in companies m Inch had declaied no dividends, i«.V»o them with money enti Hated tv him by other clients, lie found, as so many othiis have done, that ha\in<; once lett the p ithi of icetitude it was iiii|)o*-m:,1o for him to leliace his L stej)s \S ell 'he has p,ud the penalty of * lii.s ini-'deeilsi witii his hie, so is now beyond the icaeli of cuisine, and all that is left foi us to do is to see that wo avoid bis faults. Ju ni»)(itis ml t'l'-i bomim (ot the dead nothing but good) is in my opinion a pernicious sstij ing. I think it is iai bcttd to lefei to tin: misdeeds of the dead as a warning to the living. II the lecital have the effect of pi eventing one lhing ptison fiom doing wiong the dead will not ha\e died wholly in vain. A disgiaceful case of " Umbing-down " •was heard at the Police Com t on Tues day, and, unfoitunately, lesulted in the accused escaping punishment, foi the piesent, at any rate. A man named Franks .came here fiom Wanganui and went to ■stay at the Swan Inn, in Mechanics Bay When lie went, theie he had in his possession two five pound notes and a deposit receipt for €250. The latter was placed to the ciedit of the bank account of Adams, the licensee of the hotel. Franks gave evidence to the effect that be was kept for t'niec weeks in a state of drunkenmssj and that, at the expiration of that time, Adams got him to sign a receipt for £Joo, alleging that he had spent tint sum on his "spree." Even then Adams did not give him the £100 ' due to him but only £SO. The e\idence of Fi auks was eonoboiated Iny that of a t cabman named Claik, but the case was dismissed on a technical point laised by "Mr Cotter, counsel for Adams. The geneial opinion is that Mr Seth Smith, ' Resident Magistrate, did wiong in dismissing the case on technical giounds 'and. that Adams is totally unfit to hold a license. It is to be hoped that the case ■will be brought up again and will result ' in a conviction. This is not the liist nor . the second time that the Resident Magistr ate has shown his preference for law rather than justice, and I should not be +Mi all surprised to see a numerously $^i#&ed, 'petition, playing for his removal the bench. YV bother that is the * outcome of this cis.e or not. it is very .certuui $iat «t|ie x City^ East- Licensing I'fipastaittfte will «dt^raqt- Auams a re-, s*|j|ftl pf ! his license. Whether they will itaf^lU not refuse to renew the license to

, Lli the house lomains to bo seen. 1, for one, hope that thty Mill. • ' • Lunbinu io« n " is repot ted to be of frequent occurrence iv Auckland, and this is a! splendid opI ortiwily to strike terror into the hcaits of the offenders. St. Mungo.

Dii Horma^n' Kkiui says that tie annual mortality fiom inteniperance in Ciinat Biitiiin i 3i 3 40,500. A Lodisiaxa newspaper publishes an adsei tiscnicnt of a leeent m.iriidge anil after acknowledging the receipt of a lihcinl shato of tlio oKeand wine from the happy coiiple, adds : " May they pioxe as yood totaeh other as the oke .Hid whip pioxcd #cod to us." A YOi'Mi man nslud the liidy of his jiflcolions the othui eveniig how th-± likeit the look of his m-xs style sfc aiding voll,u\ Alter cutically sui\ eying him •iiitl the collar, .she ie;ilied, "Very nice indued. It looks like a whitewashed fence lound a lunatic asylum." A tocoii time. — A Vermont man owns alien thiit)-uinc jeais old. The other da.\ ali.wlt stole it, but after an hour came hack with a broken bill and thiee cla-xxb gone, put down the hen, and took an old mbber boot in place of it. — Boston Tost. No Cheescpai ings !~" And 'ow ahont the perfoimeis for my lady s conceit on W'edncbday next?" " Oh, it's all light, Sir Geoigius ! I've got you six first \ iolins, four second violins, " " Second violins be 'anged ! 1 11 'live none l.ut first fiddles performing at my 'otise .'"—Punch. J.xs. 11. Keene, an ex-Californian stock- broker, and of late years a leader in Wall-sheet, New Yoik, failed on May 1. Ho, however, refused all offers of as sistance, and it is bclie\ ed wili eventu all} pay in full. Keene, it will be remembcied, was on the English turf to &ome extent, wlipic one ot his horses, Foxhdll, did some, good running. His stables now are almost entirely taken up A young man who believes in selfimpio\ intent, having recently married, suggested to his wife that they should argue some questions fiaiikly and fully e\eiy morning, in order to learn more of each other. The fir&t question happened to bu " Whether a woman could be expected to get nlong without a hat," and he took the affiunative ; and when lie. wins last seen he had climbed up into the hay loltand was pulling the ladder after him. A cmu'AlN lawyer always begins his examination of a witness with " I'm going to put a quebtion to you, and I don't caie how you answer it," The habit was t-o bt'ong that one day ho met a fiiend ana said, " lam goiug to put a question to jou and I don't caie how you answer it. How do you do ?" " I urrJKVh I'll #o out and stietch my legs a little," said a tall gentleman, as tlie tiain stopped at a station, "Oh, don't, ' said a gentleman passenger who had been sitting opposite to him, and who had been imu h embarrassed by the let's of the tall gentleman; "don't do that. Don't stietch those legs any moie They aie too long alieady," A L\diks Ambulwck Coups.— A London paper says :-'' We heaid a few d.iys since, by the way, of aiather odd development of siugical teaching. A elms of ladies, students of the Ambulance coips, had been caiefully taught how, by means of a tied handkerchief, pad, and a nilcr (to twi^t, and fo tighten the handkeidiuf), the bleeding of an aiteiy in the aim or leg may be stopped. The lcnicdy un&cicntilically applied, is a little dangerous, and we lecently heard of a ca&o in which, where no aiteiy had been wounded, stiong but unnccessaiy piessuie had nearly caused modification. Bo tliK as it may, the extension of tho mttliod to the case next to be consuleicd was ceitainly unexpected, and perlups mistaken. ' How would you proceed,' the ladies were abked afterwaida in examination, ' in the cate'of a peison bleeding fiom a bad wound inthehtad ?' ' J would tie a handkciehief lound the neck, 'apply a pad to the throat, and with a uiU'r inseited under the knot at the hick of the neck I would tighten the handkoi chief until the bleeding ceased.' The lemedy Mould be undoubtedly decisive." Thk act of gallantry at Teb for which Captain Wilson, R.N. of H.M.-i. Hecla, has been hi ought to notice, is desciibedbySir Redxcrs Buller as one of the most couiageous he has ever witnessed. Theie was a gap in the square, and fixe or six of the enemy seeing it, lushed forwaul, attempting to pierce the lanKs. Theie Captain Wilson ad- \ anced to meet them alone, and breaking his sxxoid in his effoit to cut one of them down, would not tetiie a step, but held hisgiobnd, knocking them down with ins lists. Either by a miracle or the supiising mtuieof his attack, he escaped with a few wounds, and the sqiuie clobing up, rescued him. A tkv]'. Story —The Broad Arrow says :— " Who is the hero of the fellowing stoiy? A mild but zealous disciplira'.ian was biiskly passing a sentinel on his way to his official lesidence, when he turned upon the stalwait guardian and demanded the leason why he did not challenge him. In vain the sentry declared that he knew him to be the : he xx as emphatically told his duty was challenge e\ crj one who appioached him and, wanning with excitement, the gallant officer exclaimed, ' Challenge all challenge me, sir !' ' Well, then,' said the stuidy pupil, loweiing his rifle and bunging it to the chaige, 'I do challenge you. Gixe the countersign, sir !' and the hasty supeiior having in the cm isc of his piactical instruction allowed the 'word to blip his memory, was foithwith made a piisoner and driven into the sentiy-box. So situated, the woi thy preceptor was soon granted anotlici oppoitunity of estimating the cflect ot his teaching. A policeman, parsnip, demanded why the sentiy had imprisoned the gentlemen. ' You foolish fellow, 1 said he, ' why it is the !' Hut the only leply from the sentry was the xocifeions demand, ' Give the countersign !' The policeman, deeming his umfoim to be a buflicicnt authority for passing tho sentry, had also forgotten to lesun the woid, and he too was oideied into the sentiy-box, from which he and his distinguished fellow-prUoner were tescued only when the sentry was leliexed." Monte Carlo is showing evident signs of uneasiness. The Ciown Prince (says the Paris correspondent of the Times) ha& beon visiting Berlin and Paris, and at Home the Represensentatives of Monaco are having lepeated interviews with Caidinal Jaeobina. Meanwhile the roll of tiagedics increases. A ruined gambler, named Albert Strighelli, has shot himself at San Rcmo ; while at Pont Magnan, near Nice, a German lady, an habitual frequenter of Monte Carlo, has been found senseless and bleeding on the head, with her infant lying dead by her side. The lady has recovered. It is believed that after losing in all 250,000 fr. at Monte Carlo, she opened a vain in order to bleed herself to death, and falling on her child involuntarily suffocated it. Some mystery hangs over the affair, and the usual attempts are being made to hush up anything which deepens the stigma on Monte Carlo. A locaL newspaper remarks :—: — Fifty suicides and 12,000,000fr. lost— such is the yearly balance sheet of this yearly enterprise, which Euiope and France in particular xvrongly toleiate, but of which we are sure they will speedily rid themselves." Rats and Mice.— lf you wish to de %troy thorn get a packet of Hill's Magic Vermin Km i in; in packets, fld, Od, and Is, to be obtained oi nil storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enclosing an extia stamp. Life in the Basil— Then and Now. — It is generally supposed that'in the bush we have fo put up with rnanv discomforts and privations in the shape ot food. Formerly if was so, but now, thanks to T. R. Hill, who has, himself dwelt in the bush, if food docs "consist chiefly of tinned meats his Colonial Saucb gives to them a. most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most enjoyable, and instead as hard biscuits and' indigestible damper his Imphovbd Colonial .Baring Powder makes the very, best bread, -scones, cakes, and pastry far, superior and ''mbre wholesome' than yeast or' leaven, Sold by »H r storekeepers f wh'd c»nbbUrn it trom any merchant in Auckland; i