CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8485, 17 May 1893, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

\ A curious incident occurred at, the parish church in' a certain village in the Weald of Kent on a recent Sunday. The bells had been rung for morning service, and the congregation were seated awaiting the arrival of the vioftrV. Aa ha failed' to pat'in' an appearance, the churohwifdens, after Wait* ing for a considerable tune, proceeded to the vicarage. Contrary to their expectations, they found their pastor there in 'his usuali .health, but, from some unex« plained cause, he had forgotten the day was Sunday.

\ The Irifth .Times says the figures of the ;Registrar*Gejwral> banking and railway statistics of Ireland;show that under the Imperial system; "which existed undisturbed until the 13th of February, Ireland remained fairly prosperous. Trade was improving, there was a general confidenoo, and contracts were better filled ; but six days' familiarity with Mr Gladstone's Bill sufficed 'to arrest advance, and produce alarm and spread dismay throughout the moneyed in* Wests. The Registrar-General's return shows the amount of deposits and cash balances ini|o|_t itoetf ba&ks*iji Ireland on the 31st of December %ai £}a 5,578,060, the largest sum ever attained in Ireland.

With regard to the projected scheme for settling British farmers on the lands in New Zealand belonging to the Bank of New Zealand Estates Company, Limited, the London op It is proposed*" to. form a colonisation company, which would undertake the management of all details, but no definite action has yet been the return of Mr R.H. Glyu from New Zealand. In view, however, of tiie severity of the periods of depression 'through which the farming class here have t been passing, it ia believed there ia no reason why the project should not be carried to a .euecesaful issue, provided that arrangocan be made under which the available capital of the would-be settlers will not ; be too largely Educed by the payment down iof passage - money and other preliminary expenses-in the first instance. It is understood, however, that these matters of detail considered and .provided for later on, and. Jhat altb|jether really eligible persona will have greater facilities offered to them in the way of emigration and colonisation than havo ever been given before.'"

There are still tktntry jo»"%_ in New Zealand who takitho KataW Oazttta and take the * Ehimoill mgndent iv, their models. Ok North J, o d p apw recently referred td tho editof itg COR temporary as a ma\ who " d*,^ e9 to soundly horsewhippVl and C( - headlong out of the communis as a hara_ rte(l fiendish mortal," 'Lathis person r«. ferrod to in this agreeMe fa»b l Veplics :— ••The person who ha\ writter. IJB as , hard-hearted and fienUsli moi». | lag> j Q the past, when iv poWty »'distress been relieved and assisted by usfjin many occasions we have beev to b )ft Samaritan, and ho knowsthivt Swords he writes about us are false r4aliciCM ea> shall take.no further oo\ico Hm or of anything which he writes or sinless he becomes too offensive, and ana || probably kick the pitiful ex-Sal v„ Ar impostor."

In a letter to hia brother, Pro or Q atw ncr has written that ho has «utj e j yond his wildest anticipation iv experiments which he has been inaki among the monkeys in Africa with a vie-, l Mrn . ing more of tho lauguago that j 9 COQ> vinced nioukoys use. Ho says tue nfts now nearly two hundred monU wor and thinkß that there are not , @ t) lluJ twenty or thirty words which not been able to get hold of. Apart 3 tne j r own language, the professor Ims b^ e thß proud possessor of a c&n say "Tenakoe pakeha" (Maori foGood day, stranger"), a gorilla that kiiCgbouA twenty words of Fijian, nnd Ismale ourang-oßtang that has picked "Planner unci blitzen" from his German va w j t jJ whom she has shown signs of l>avif a j[ en iv love!

Tho spirits of the. Victorianemier have not been depressed by the mci_.l crisis. According to the Ah he was iv gui to a, jocular, inoocKjrhea speaking ut the Melbournu Tot Halt 011 the occasion of a lecture givery y r Cheok Cheong in aid of the church tions to the Chinese in Viotoria. He aaid&t j J9 was informed that in China, with teeming population, there had not )Q v financial crisis for 4000 years. This which caused no littlti lunu.emc jjp Patterson followed up with tho ah aoe ment that' he was seriously thttiL 0 f putting a poll tax on nil Bank managiy Directors unci of having all balnncq_Q{j written in the Chinese, language, ty* badinage aside, Mr Patterson said ' many lessons which we'could learn ir&q. Chinese. The cultivation of the soil ocjg& the front rank of Chinese industries, to us, with our rich country, wasanctaj. which wo might well copy. While men standing looking at 640 acres, not owing how to produce anything from we could see Chinamen raising enog&i produce from a quarter of an aore<-)_) trait for which tho Chinese were *_. strongly commended was in their, revoke to parents, which had been a character, from generation to generation, and watfe. great family tie which bound Chiua toge*r. Later in the evening, when announoi; _ collection on behalf of the mission, .Mr %%. terson raised another laugh by saving he-aa about to make another proclamation, ha safe custody of money Jiuil of late bees, matter of serious concern Tho audio* now had an excellent opportunity of getta rid of its money and putting, it to au exf; lent purpose, and ho assured those pros 4 that if they gave away all tho mouey th* had that night thoy would in a few daj have plenty more. , '''

There was a good deal of tajk last Sunda B (writes the London correapondeqt of th/if Argus)—" Show Sunday a divorc M which has just been obtained by Mrs Cater M Woodville from her husband, tho well- ffi known painter of military subjects utdg artist in black and white for the lUus- W trated London News. Tho Ingrams, pro- m prietors of tho paper, who first brought the if husband to notice and f»mo, stood by Mrs M Woodville all through. She was a most H devoted wife, a marvellously beautiful If woman, very tall, with fair hair. Wood- B ville treated his wife with studied coldness, ji and was wont to declare that he had only B married her in order to have'-someone to ft read out loud to him while ho was painting. I The faithful wife read aud read, till nW ft nearly destroyed her eyesight, to soothe her J' husband's irritability. Finally, Caton Wood* 1 ville went off with another woman to Paris, I and lives there now. Woodville, the Eng« | lish Maissonier, is one of the few painters, 1 or rather drawers, of horses with men oa M them whom we have. So firm was his hand If and so sure was his " feeling for form" that M he seldom or never drew ffom models of any | description. His best paintings have not i been exhibited, as ho had a great clknttk. w among wealthy Jews especially, who loaded 1 him with valuable commissions. §

Tha memory of Mr G. Abington Baird s (says the same writer) is still kept fresh by m rumours of law suits and complications m arising out of his will. The latest version M of the affair is that Baird made a will leav> g ing Mrs Langtry £50,000 a year, but forgot H to sign it. Of course, oven the public m rumour that the lady has narrowly escaped m receiving £60,000 a year so very easily must f* be exceeding'v fascinating. Tho prws generally has been rathor savage in critiuiem if) of the deceased youth. The Daily ClirankU *"; makes him a text for a coarse aud vindiotive , *' stump oration about the vices of the propertied classes and the aristocracy. 01 course, Abington Baird'a manners &fti ['} customs and whole careor were simply t.s h recrudescence in the third generation el t \ sheer rowdyism and brutality inherited v from ancestors who were uneducated, drunken, brutal colliers and" quarrymett. <j His craze for whisk}'- and for beating women m was thus inherited. . . ~ . . Xli« $1 fact, is that -the ; Baird type—minus tho j| jockeyßhip-r-is exceedingly common, espe- j's ciatly in tho North of England. Fortune :J are BU.dden.ly made there by working q people, by very poor people, much often** 4 than is supposed. Now and then this sort | of thing will happen—the father a work- ">', •ing man, makes aidtbf money, day oat ;,*; of some successful patent; ho and M* .' wife then proceed to drink therascM to, with great celerity; and' naa t comes in for the fortune. As a rule, tha | first thing he doos is to buy, or order, • I' large steam yacht to take his pals about fa- | ( That fine steam vessel the Merrie E»gte*l* fr which is at tho service of Sir William Mtfr |f Gregor, the administrator of Ne'er, C-iuoes* Jj»< had such an origin as this. The youngster &- who ordered it "bust up" before it *** %l completed, and the Troasury bought the it Merrie England a great bargain FremU** |< ship-builders. A few years ago a y&wt £« fellow oallad Brooke, tho son oi a working q man who had suddenly grown enbiwosiii.v '~ rich by some lucky speculation, inane * j.,* tremendous splash for a while in the WW 1 f End. He used to "jgivo largo supper parte* j$ at which there was nothing whatever w $ eat, but illimitable supplies of • enainpsf l ** h and cigars. He ia dead. 1 1