SNYDER'S NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1771, 18 October 1875, Page 3

SNYDER'S NEWS SUMMARY.

" Snydsb," in the last issue of the Coromandel Mail, reviews the state of the world in general, and concludes that the earth appears to revolve on its axis in a state of muddle. From his dissectation on this important topic, we make the following extract :—" We turn to England, the centre of the world's civilisation, and what do we find there ? We read of a " npble" lord causing a little girl to be sent to gaol for three weeks for gathering a few sticks for her aged mother who is in a decline and on the point of death. We turn to the obituary notices and we find four old men who had died and willed away to people who had already more money than they will probably ever spend—a sum in the aggregate reaching a million and a half. These men died comfortably no doubt. If a bath of calves foot jelly or vapour from liquified gold would nave prolonged their miserable lives a few brief minutes they would have had it, though on that day a woman and two of her children were found starved to death in a garret. We read here too of large failures where the widow and' the orphan have been betrayed by men in whom the v-orld held up as patterns of probity and rigid, unflinching, and uncompromising viitue. A Lord X OT& ye? a ban<luet> to the Lord Mayors ot the World which cost many thousands of pounds for turtle soup and strong drinks, ™lle f "L°nd<>n on the «ame day there were M. to be seven thousand men women unl, V 1 Wh° had sleP* out in the streets under arabways and bridges and on door food\J%/ 3P*S?^ c t0 Beck Bhelter and no tood to .$ M* the body to resist the cold.

When Rome fell and Greece waned and became a byword among nations it is recorded of these two empires that about the same thiug came to pass as it is now with England. There are hearts which neither Sankey Moody have been able to penetrate or sojten, We pass to other countries and we find Carlists and Alphonists and the Spanish provinces perpetrating the bitterest retaliations and cruelties towards each other. France is preparing to be revenged on Germany ; and Germany under a tyrannical Emperor and blood-thirsty ministers are reducing the people to the verge of destitution by turring ploughshares into swords; by withdrawing men from their farms and vineyards and homesteads to compel them to become soldiers that they may kill and wouiad and torture their fellow men according to- the most scientific principles of the day. War is a glorious thing. Ask the soldier with a bullet lodged in his groin whether it be not so. While all these things have come to pass or are happening we the good people of Coromandel live content nestling at the base of pleasantest hills or dwelling high up among them, with butcher's meat down three halfpence per pound, for cash on delivery bread of full weight, the Tokatea dividend money not all spent. Union Beaches firm ; general crushings good and fine flounders offering at five for a shilling."