LOAFER IN THE STREET.

Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 4023, 17 June 1878, Page 3

LOAFER IN THE STREET.

I have occasionally, » far as an outsider, like myself can, enaeavonred to show how hard it jb to ran * paper to the satisfaction of all concerned. Aβ an additional proof of this, '" allow mc to quote, for the bsatiit of your reader* tfce* following ■ letter -which has been receiTjwLbr ope of your up-country agent* .-— s ' "Shrf-t am «o disgusted with ell this 5?- taetmij and filling about the European crisi#, that I eni determined to diicantinue the - Wasxlt Prase till them is a good war on. •''.*■'' Tie** tell the Editor if he sends the paper to - mc an j longer till that occasion it w&be at hi* own risk t bat the moment war is established between Bustia and England send mc two copies." — Personally even in the froeot the writerV J belligerent offer of a double subscription-! "" ; atwuTd prefer peace, bat then your dissatisfied _ correspondent tires a life of Arcadian sheep- ' licity mil mi awaj in toe Iforthf and you and I are er«r so much closer io~l<he ipi-irateer crowd which it teems are already on the hover. r? * W»ofcrlearfl a Jot from tie American*. If lompar* thefr %tyl<* of advertising with ours., yon, will._pere«ive I'hi right for once. , Art' Aoieriean adrertieio? paragraph is often a perfect idyll in itself. Puff in " tbe Critic" :. mania who would hare made a fortune in the BUtee to day. There ie a wast of sentiment and poetic feeling shout our advertising public that i* ttery depressing to a' constant reader like ayself who wades daily through -V ooUunneofealenoticei.lhadiDadeupmymind Cthatth* prototype of the immortal Kobiris was never to appear again. A few days since, howjsver, I found I was wrong, and I mentally cried peccari over a catalogue I came across of the sale of town sections in the rising town- - ship of" Freetown. The compiler was a real trtot The degree of latitude (43 S) which .vis, he says, recognised as being the line of - :g**ilfty, pastes through Freetown, so will a rapny ehortJj. Silver, lead, gold, and - minerals of all descriptions, abound in the ' vicinity, which is picturesque, and in the itn- '- mediate neighborhood of the elegant residences of Heura Mallock and Lance. But the peroration is really charmingly artistic, as the following quotation will show :—" For * * children, for unmarried ladies of an unceitain age for whom it is of vital importance - that something tangible should be secured . ft-for ■ their' * maintenance in after jean, the opportunity now offered, &c, &c. The last momenta of parents who had invested a Freetown Section would be comforted ~ with the assurance that their children when

they came of age would have the wherewith (o stave off an evil day." I don't know any--3 thing about Freetown, but for the sake of breaking the monotony'of land sale advertiie''ments I wish some of our auctioneers would follow the example of E. Moses and Son, and keep • port of weir own. - The following telegram appeared in a recent issue of your paper :-— "Maw Pitxotth, Jane 10.

"Bewi has telegraphed to Sir G. Grey :— *lfaa* wotd i* good. Be sure to meet mc on Sift June.*

"Major Brown, Civil Commissioner, calls for tenders jn,to-day's "Herald" for the erection of three buildißge at Waitara, to be completed by 19th June, and for removing the jame, for the purpose of holding the forth- , .coining Bative meeting. Tenders are also '. called for bread, potatoes, beef, tea, sugar, &c." I'm not quite positive that Mr Bewi's ' opening remark will meet with general acceptanoe, but what I want to ask is could there

he a briefer or more beautiful description ef native affairs than the telegram of Mr Bewi, and the sequence contained in the tenders of , the Satire Commissioner below. I fear fowc ' s#w Plpnoßth ageat ;h*9 a tarn lor satire. ' Talking of telegtams, the foUowiog one vas received by a gentleman in Auckland from Dr ' UOBSWVfiIB':-—

"Bluff, May 39.—Bey. Mr Hinton, Secretary U.E. Committee, Grahamstown.—Bmbarking for Tasmania, Thank* for Thames love, voxologj. Zealandia fare well. —SohhbXVS&B."

Thi evader of the telegram will be remem~Wed as-e reverend gentleman who conducted what I believe are called evangelistic services throughout New Zealand. He made a collection here to erect a building for the Chrutua Yoarig Men's Association, a collection which amounted to nearly £1000. Without any disparagement either to Dr Somerrille's efforts or the young Christians, I should have thought the mosey would have _ been better applied towards a benevolent asylum. I make the suggestion to the next evangelist who comes through here with much pleasure. Our charity wants reorganising. I nay be wrong, but there seems something a bit in sending hundreds of pounds away to -" xt&eraceople starving in India when we have - plenty bare who want looking after on the same terms; while to an aged cuss like myself, ■ looking at the matter from interested motives, there is something almost grotesque in a Eberal public parting for Young Christians """ who are presumedly able to look after them•elves when old chmtiaas who can't are sever thought of. I meau writing you an article on charity one of these days, and if there be any one who can handle uiis topio in its every .'branch with success it is the old man who now addresses you. " The Mayor of Xyttelton has taken up the question of Sunday labour. This is much to liis credit. 'It would appear that the workmen resident in the port of Iffttelton are tgularly formed. The/ are. owing to -ir- 'mmstances over which they have no controL habitual Sabbftthbreakers, The Mayor •tateu , in his remarks to the Council on the naitefr that by an ancient Act of Parliament worker*. to Sunday rendered themselves liable to MEneh«« t b 7 *»w. There is something Wewmeefck , * this matter, to the best of ay WMoUect *», in the 4th secUon of the Deologut, but tto reguktaon, hke the one ' alluded to by thtf Mayor, masighttoo old to be remembered when a &hip has to lose a day in clearing, Those most concerned wouldBR&ably a*™ b< eu aghast at the impiety of Snsf the Museum on Sunday TW wWT«hrink froa »*«£«'!* «™*? he to* for bis beer on t*» Sabbath, but if two casks of butter were delayed on the seventh dsv they woold be tinnking all church fame «f tk* iMffieency of the Hf rbor anmMit. m you g? to Id £ no | obeerre Ton Sere, but I noticed a lot of people I did mow. I was thinking of writing a P^ragrap^ l descriptive of this scene, butperfcape Yd better sot; in fact I should not aavexnentioned what we* to mc a very agretette entertainment, bat thai I wish to ~ coattadiet a statement which appears to have noted come rmwiit of credence. It is not a JJ& dial Bflkins improves the occasion of mt-eting the repreteahrtJTe of H« Majesty by presi.ioghii busiarea card into hit Exceileacy'i Skfei'XlHSarßiliirjsmeant todoso, but forgot the card. and when I caw him psa* through the cfcuabtS he looked m if he had so far foreottca hiwrif »• to wash h» hands on a weekday. He *ridently had somebody else's j tniuwn on, and vm wishing himself in a pit 3471 ft. under groond. Bilkins e»y§ he *n■sjeyed MmKii. Thfcie how » fettiv* batcher takes adrantafeof theeehmmsof the" Pate* M*a" to : addxew uwpraStabls customers :— *H» hungry and needy I will give unto CI ailed), but I don't like my mutton stolen. fcljsiken at uncooked sheep's legs from the Green liknd Fellmonger? beware I Mead ."; toJ* :ynv> « F - OS. M'Carthy will bare jjon beton the Beak." " ' I *ieefejr» recent telegram that at the next I OMt£«f ef the Otago Institute, Mr Stoet will read » P*P^ ° n "To* Beet Method of Studying PoWici." Without diiparagement to the tafteoti of Mr Stoat, the comparatively short time b* has been a member of the House , .sbengtiiai* mc is a belief I have lately fceom* a cenrrertto — lit., that our politics ■aw jKJt so wry hard to learn after aIL It «ice« iiot take'loag for even an ordinary brain ZoKatmihe broth of Sir Eobert Walpole's -oft ettotAJ remarkiu reference-to the personal Iftoaweß-preserveiJrecolleo- -, . tioaof this sjifioriem & XacfliSy be added for "*iHi4tiW£? Jthft fnA talking fluently '<~ «fcp»qt aottoof in e»rt*eolar, you have an &* better da» of New . -Zwkad paitt»ci»ns. At \*** f to I'eto'd.

Ft never got much further in politics myself than valuating a friend's vote for him. My charge for this is merely nominal; but if Mr Stout would like a few of my experiences in this respect he is quite welcome to them. Tho following little story comes from the "Kumara Times," and is well worth a quote: —During the hearing of a ca*e in the Resident. Magistrate's Court the provisions of the Tippling Act came under consideration. His Worship, in disallowing portion of a hotelkeeper's claim, exclaimed—"l canrot allow it: the brandy stares mo in the face!" A hoarse voice, coming evidently from the solicitors* table, was heard to murmur , —"l wish he'd pAs it down this way."