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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2322, 28 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Mr Froude is planning to write another book on the relation of the colonies to the mother country. A Lkcture on Economy.—A stupidlooking tramp knocked at one of the finest residences in Austin, arid was received by the lady of the house. "What do you want ?" " Please'in, give me a dime to buy a glass of bread; 'cuse me, I mean a loaf of beer." "I haven't got any money." " Havn't got no money '! Then, madam, modest as this cottage is, I would suggest your moving into a cheaper house ; you ara evidently living beyond your means. Economy is wealth. Economise in the way of clothes and house rent. Cut your expenses, and then, perhaps, some day you will have a dime to spare—a dime, madam, that may be the means of preventing a hungry and thivsty fellow-mortal from committing tjuicide ; or it may be a quarter —a coin of the value of twenty-five cents —that will upholster the dark clouds of the horizon of his despairing soul with a silver-plated lining, and fill his stomach with bock beer. Good-day, tair lady !'