MY MOTHER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1959, 27 January 1885, Page 4

MY MOTHER.

Oil ' for a hue poetic I.»v, To tell in noblest htr.un, Tin l<>\t< I fei'l for one -perclunco I ne'er ni.iy *cc ogam. Her woith alono myheait doth know— llpi lo\e> abo\e all oilier — Ah ! -<nd the hour and dark the day I said " good-byo," my mother. Yet oftentmu^ her gentle form In fane v present sfcim ; And oft I feil her fondly ki>s Mv brow in liappy drc uns. And knowiiiß thin hci presence nrar, I feel a hol\ joy, For then I'm Miie my mother deur Ih thinking of liur boy. And 'neatli hei waim and loving ki^s A fln-h -pread-- oVr m> Wrow ; For an^oK whi-pi'i tin* kind thought, Slie's pra^m^ for mo now. C. \V. M. Te Awamutn.

A i,tr>Y writer in one of our exchanged furiiHica lomo of the reasons why Evr did not keep a hircil pirl. She says : Flieio has been a great deal said about the faults of women and why they need -,0 much w litmg on. Some one (a man of course) has the presumption to ask : " Why, when Eve was manufactured out of a spare rib, a sen ant was not made to wait on her ?" She didn't need any. A bright writer hns said Adam never came whining to Kye with a ragged stocking to be darned, buttons to be sewn on, glo\ en to be mended " right away— quick, now." He never read the newspapers until the sun went down behind the palm trees, and then stretching himself yawned out, "Is supper ready yet my dear ?" Not he. He made the tire, hung the kettle over it himself, we'll venture, and pulled the radishei, peeled the potatoes, nnddid everything else he ought to do. He milked the cows, fed the chickens and lookod after the pigi himself, and never In ought home half a dozen friend* together when Eve hadn't any fresh pomegranates. He never stayed out till 11 o'clock at night and then •cowled because Evo was sitting up and crying inside the gates. He never loafed around coiner groceries while Eve was rocking little Cain's cradle at home. He never called E\o up from the oeller to put aw.iy his slippers. Not he. When he took them off he put them under the fig tree beside liis Sunday boots. In slioit he did not think she w as specially created fur the purpose of waiting upon him, and he wasn't under the impression thnt it disgraced a mnn to lighten a wife's cares a little. That's the reason Kye did not need a hired gul. Cvci.oNEAT M\diu '. — Tlic following detnls rcg<u ding a diaastroui ej clone at Madias are futnislud by the Calcutta ioi respondent of the Tunes :— " On Fnday last (\o\ . ill), a cyclone burst over the town in the tally moriing and bl>-w for a time at the l.ite of 4(i miles an hour. The shipping m the liaibour w.ii m great peril. The »hip« Dominion, Laurel, and Medusa diagged their anchors but were bi ought up before goin^ ."»hoie. The sliMmer Clan Grant was ohligtd to put to sea without a pilot, and narrowly escaped dnftiug \\\vm the buakw.iter. The most serious damage w.n done on the land. The storm hre.iched the not them embankment of the Red Hilli Like, the only reservoir of drinking wntei which the city po^ses^e-i. The lake was fairly full, owing to the recent liouy rain, but on Thuisd.iy e\ tiling the w.i tor was still (ift below tlie top of the embankment, while tli<re was a parapet 3ft high besides. The cyclone dro\ c the water over these 9ft of perpendicular hcicht, and the top and hack el the cmbinkment were torn away till the whole collapsed, and jiluiost the entire, supply of water effected its escape to the sea, : carrying away two small \illnges and ; some isolated houses with fix persons. | The whole country below the Like was under water on Saturday, and rafts ««rc being constructed to lesctte the people in the inundated villages. It is ferued that thcte is not rnougii watci left in the lake to send a supply to Madras, even by the means of steam pumpi, and the city must depend on the wells till the bieach has been repaired, which will piobablv he a work of some months. Cholaverain Lake, which supplies the Red Hills Lake, was also bleached by the storm, hut the flnmnge done wm rjv patently purely local." Cas'i Pkhu ii (jim)D. — Ko man ran do a (jood iob of work, proith a uood <ermon. try .i I i\\ suit well, doctor i p iticnr, or urite i K<"»d .itlillu when he le( !<■ nu^er-iblo and dull, with slukb 1 "'' 1 lir.nn and unstrung ncr\c-, and none should m iUp the attempt in «uih i condition when it i in bo so tasih and cheaply removed b} a little Hop Hitters. Look for Yes ! It is certainly true. Ask any of jour friends who ha\c pureh iscd there. Garliclc and Cranwell hive numerous unasked for and u-ry favourabli commendations from country cust mers on their excellent picking of Furniture, Crocker}, and Gls^s, &c. Ladies and •jentlemcn about to furnish should remember that G.irlick and Cranwell's is tiik Cheap Furnishinff Warchoust- of Auckland. Furniture to suit all rH<*es ; aMo Carpets, Floor Cloths .md all Huimf NectMsirics If jour new house is ne irly hnisKed, or, you are Koinj; to net married, \isit Garliek and Cr.imscll, Queen-street and Lome-street, Auckland. Intending purchasers can ha»r »rats.lo)ru»> srn frro