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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 143, 28 August 1895, Page 3

The Bov F. W. Isitt, writing in the Prohibitionist, says:—"Believing that Mr Seddon's astuteness is devoted to unworthy ends, and that his democracy is a sham—knowing that many members of his own political party regard his word as absolutely unworthy of belief, and having had many reasons to endorso this conviction —I have said, editorially and on the platform, that, in the interests of the people, of morality, and of Temperance reform, I regard his position as Premier as a Colonial disgrace and disaster." The salaries of His Excellency the Governor, five Judges, and six Ministers of the Crown in New Zealand, totalled £18,980 6s 5d last year.

Another mean man has been discovered in Masterton. Ho declined to take his best girl—a well-known and charming Hebe—to.a recent ball, because of the cost of the ticket, but when be found that the young lady herself was possessed of a double ticket he was only too happy to accompany hor. And didn't he enjoy himself, too, especially at the supper table!

It is a law of good society in China that young widows never marry again. Widowhood is therefore hold in tho nignest esteem, and the older the widow grows the more agreeable does hor position become with the people. Should she reach fifty, sho may, by applying to the emperor, get a sum of money with which is engraved the sum of her virtues. The tablet is placed °VOr the door at tho prineip al entrance to her house.

A thrilling domestic tragedy occured in the neighbourhood of Masterton the othor day, when a settler was horrified to find one morning on starting his chaff-cutting machine that ]unks of warm steak -were coming out with the chaff. He stopped his machine, made an investigation, and found, to his utter dismay, that he had ruthloßsly slaughtered his favourite cat.

Every pers nin this district should send hc ?PV of the Now .Zealand Cookery Book heir frienda. A more useful present could *>t be I Qund. —Adyt