MR CHAMBERLAIN AND MR PARNELL'S BILL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2250, 9 December 1886, Page 2

MR CHAMBERLAIN AND MR PARNELL'S BILL.

The following letter from Mr Chamberlain has been received by a Bolton gentleman who had writteu to him regarding his absence from the division on Mr Parnell's Tenants' Relief Bill :— Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham, October 2nd, ISBG. Sib, — In reply to your letter of the Ist instant, I bee: to say that I disapproved entiiely of Mr Parnell? Bill. I considered it a dishonest piece of party tactics, intended to divide if possible the Liberal Unionists and to provoke agitation in Ireland. I was in favour of giving some further discretion to the courts in dealing with eviction, not because I anticipate that there will be unfair recourse to evictions during the corning winter, but because I consider that the authority of the law would be strengthened when it was made perfectly evident that no man would be evicted without the clearest ground of right and justice ; but Mr Parnell's Bill could h:ne done little for the honest tenant, whilst it would have thrown the whole system of land tenure once more into confusion. The only people who would benefit would be the well paid patiiots who have already made such a profitable biifiness out of this agitation. lam glad to think that they are beginning to be found out, both in America and in li eland, and I should not be surprised if the influence which they have exercised with such unhappy effect for the past few years should speedily collapse in face of the determination of the people of Great Britain not to yield another inch to the vile conspiracy which relies on outrage and assassination to promote its ends. — I am, Sir, yours faithfully, J. Chamberlain.

Prudent Wivks.— Very few men have the time or the patience to make a shilling go as far aa it can ; women have, especially a woman whose one thought is to save her husband trom having burthens greater than he can bear ; to help him by that quiet carefulness in money matters which alone gives an easy mind and a real enjoyment of life ; to take care of the pennies, in short, that he may have the pounds free for all his lawful needs, and lawful pleasures too. Surely there can be no sharper pang to a loving wife than to see her husband staggering under the weight of family life ; worked almost to death in order to dodge " the wolf at the door ;" joyless in the present, terrified at the future j and yot .-ill this ivight have been averted if the wife had only known the value and use of money, and been able to keep what her husband earned ; to " «ut her coat according to her cloth," for any income is "limited" unless you can teach yourself to live within it. Half the miserable or disgraceful bankruptcies that happen never would happen, if the wives had the sense and courage to stand firm and insist on knowing enough about the family income to expend it propor- \ tionately ; to restrain, as every wife should a too-lavish husband ; or, fniling that, to stop herself out of all luxuries which she cannot righteously afford. Above all, to bring up herchildien in a tender carefulness that refuses to mulct " the governor" out of one unnecessary halfpenny, or to waste the money he works so hard for in their own thoughtless amusem«nts. — Dinah M. Craik, in "Contemporary Review.'