ECHOES FROM THE CAFE

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 4

ECHOES FROM THE CAFE

An eii a veiy um4i p^ige the Ihnc !,„«" anivetl hero with mir toiweilo bo it. with it wo hive tb.it .iiJ.lilioiivlni.Mns "t defence intheevmit ofwu. No doubt it would prove very uicful, but tho pity is th it it ih uti "orpli m " Should there ever bo occ.i-.Kni to u-u it, theie would be gieat danger that it would be sunk by the enemy who would concentrate all his gnus on it, hafmo it could get neat enough to c.iuv out it mission of do truetion. If we had half-a-dozen toipi do boats we might bo in the happy position of the traveller with empty pockets, who, tho Latin prou>ih nays, may lau«h .it a lobber. However, we h.ivo not half *-do/on toipedo bo its, an-1 we cannot get them any tmio this side i,f Christmas, so we must just bo prepaiecl to make the bent use wo can of the "orphan" and every other means of detencc we have. Sinw her ai rival, the t.ipcdo boath..s been d >mg a number of spuis ii{i a.id d.nvutho l.uboMi .mil she ce-.t. inly travel, u-a ye.v i-.p.ii rate, and being Pointed gn v «,ul luvin,? * v ry small poition of her su.face above the. water, she should be a veiy diftuulty object ti hit Mill I must Admit that L «b >"!rl "»t C«W to be one ..f her crow in the event i.flu r koiii 'int.. iftion, nit "-l.i 1 weie bit, theie w..uld iiotb,, much mob.bdity of any »f her crew letmning to fll the tile. Hut of omu-e, th.it n of the chances <>t war, andth<>*» who in.in iiei will doiiUl -vt he well awaie of thu ink they will h.ive to n '"' Wfi ha\e just hid a* visit from the Mayor of lilonheim, wh<» cum' up heu> in conTi.rt.on with business of the commotion This is the thud time that he has filled the i.nyoial chair of tho quiet httlo town though a nuinbor of y<urs have elapsed smro he fust tilled the office. Then ho attuned quite a colom.il celebrity through Wmg deiend.vnt in tho casn Lyes v. Henderson. Mr Eyes was M.H.R. for Blenheim, and at a public meeting Mr Hendeison referred to tho private character of their member in a very uncomplinientaiy manner. Mr Eyes immediately commenced an action for libel, which Mi Henderson defended, his defence being tho Ik -<t possible— th.it wh.it he said was true, and was said for tho public gend. The people of Blenheim showed their appreciation of his conduct by .subsciibing liberally to a defence fund. When the cisc was tued, it icsultod in a verdict for defendant, with cobls, nnd as the tn.il took place in Nelson, the costs were veiy heavy. Mr Henderson had not been m Auckland for about twenty-five ycais, and ho was quite surprised to notice the immense difference made in that time. He was very much astonished to find that there was only one pubbo-hou.su in Auckland open till eleven o'clock, as that is tlu closing hour for all hotels m Blenheim. I told him that after June, no house would be licensed to remain open aftci ten o'clock, and that tho early clo«mg worked veiy well here. The fifth annual exhibition of tho Auckland Society of Aits svas opened on Wednesday evening with a convei -.uione of the membeis and their fuendn. Them was not the vice icgal -.potch which has been a feature of the two exhibitions immediately prcciding it. the Governor being unable to visit Auckland just now. His place was taken by Mr T. McCosh Claik, President of the society, who is not a Rood speaker. His speechi s lead \uv well, but ho has not a good delivery. Howevei, he g-t through what little opening cei oniony there was to the satisfaction of his audience, who then resumed their esauiin ition of thj pictures. Those aie, on the wii-l- 1 , better than those of pieviousycais, though th< y might very c\ ily bo still bettci, if our local artists could ml themselves of a certain amount of monotony which ch.uactenses their work. One of the best means to attain this end would be a cin-ful study of .such pictures as those exhibited by Mr J. D. Moultray, an English artist of lep-ito, who has six pictmes on view. Of these the most ambition*) !^ " Thunder Clouds on Ben Cru.ich.ui, Aigylcshue," which is \ jlued at £17-"), and, jieihap-. the puttiest is " In Uothiemuichus Deer Foreit ' In all of them theie is :i style and attention to finish and detail, which is lacking in the ttoik ot our local ai fists, and which they would do well to study caiefully and endeavour to copy. There ik a considerable amount of talent here, but students have not the opportunity of sec ng the woiks of leally gicat artists, and, consequently, cannot do moie moio th tv copy tin* works of their tiMchei-, who aie themselves little, if anything, moie than aniateuis. Of coiuso, when we get oiu new Aitd.dleiy we may liopo to h iv« s,nne leillv good pu tui os in it, but in tho me ultimo we have none, rscepta few foimmg the Mackehiu cullerjtion, s>> it is a great advantage to have, though only fin a tune, such woiks of ait as tlioj.o of Mi Moultiay. * * There have been a number of letters in the newspapers complaining of the verdict of felo do so which w.w letnined by the coronet's juiy enipannelled to consider the ciicunistanees attending tho death of the man McKelvie, who bhot Stewjut in a lioumc in Customs-street, ami shot himself to prevent the police captuiing him. i hold th it a man must neces-uuly be insane when he takes his own life, but if ever there ■n.n a c<i->o in which a vi-rdict of wilful selfminder wan permissible it was that of \lclvelv le. At the s.une tune, Ido not «cc what good it can do to return a verdict of felo-de-se. The only effect of it is to prevent the iincido receiving Chiisti.m bunal, .-Hid, as the man is dead, he is not in a position to care what soit of bunal his body receive*, 01 even whether it is bulled. Of course his relatives may feel hurt, but if, .. i in the pif'ont case, a mtui has attempted to minder someone else, ,iud then takun his own life, it run hardly add to the displace th.it the juiy should letutn a vcidict which will debar him from ('hi i-.ti.in bunal. Indeed f do not spo how any clcigvm.in could consistently re id a seivicc at the grave of such a man as McKelvie, ceitainly none could leid the beautiful service of tho Chinch of England. My humble opinion is that that service is too often read in cureumstances which make it a solemn mockeiy, as, foi instance, « hun the deceased lms been one of thoio wlio cared for neither Ood 1 1< >i man but dovoted their whole attention to then pel sonul aggrandisement. Despite tho howl that we ha\o had about haid times the Bank of Now Zealand has had a satisfactoiy half yeai, having earned Milhtient money to pay the customary tli vifltnd of fifteen per cent, which is ck tiemely pleasant for tho original holdeis ofsb.nc-i. Of com se, the return it nt so p» )d f</i tliosr who have bought shaie« ncntly, as, at the prejent inaiket late ( iJ'JU) it is a tnflo less than seven iier cent. Still that is not a bad rate of interest, cou<iid<>img that it is so sure, and that tho stock is so easily coiivoitiblc into cash. There is one thing at which I always lo ik in the accounts ot public compunie „ and tint is the profit and loss .account, to set that th'j amount of ciedit is a< large at the md of the term as at the lvgui'img. If it i- n«">t, part, at miy i.ite, of tin dividend, is paid out of the piohts of previous M'uis. In this respect tho Bank of Xc *v Z'aluid pa-ses tho oidcd succe g sfully, as thf aiiiount to the err dit of the profit and loss account is considerably laig«T at the oii<l of the term just coin pletud than it w.ii at the beginning. Tins is satisfactory, as the Bank of New Zealand may be taken as a fan nid'-x of tho stato of tho Colony. While the nioht h.n been inado thedin ctonnatuiall) do not mention, but we may f ally assume that a considerable poi turn lias In 'mi made in Auckland, as this is the hank'istiongholdand business has been good hue. Why it «houlJ be ho, seeing th it oni e<|>oitsaio so small, while Oam.iru and Timaiu, where the exjiorts aro laige, aie m a Uiiilile statnof .ui|<ccuuio-jit> , is a constant source of siii[>nse to many. One gentleman asked mo how 1 accounted for the fact and how wo paid for our laiijo lmpotts. I admitted th.it I could not explain the piooess, but that it was evident that the expoitu of Oamaru and Timaru were used to pay for tho unpoits of Auckland. ♦ * Tho prospect of war has, apparently, niousid th'! patriotic spirit of otli'sia besides mir volunteers. Air iciirl of mine told me that he had juat ho.ud a number of sailors mm; ft patriotic song, tho re.'raiu of which took his fancy veiy much. It was " England was old England \vhrii Jiussi i, Wiis a pup ; And Ejigl nil «i'l b'i I'iiigland still When liiissi i's busted up."

I think tho sentimiiit h decidedly better than the c«uipo-,iti«n. Sr. Mi N(.o.

A Lady's Wish — " Oh, hmv I ilo wish m> skm wai .is rlcir md soft as yours )'" saiil a hdv Id a fncnil 'You mri i-.isily make it «o, ' answered tbe fri( ml " How t' imjiiirrd the first l.idy "Hy using Dr. Soule's Hop Hitlers, that makes pure rich blood and blooming health. It dd it for me, as you observe." Read