Untitled

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1107, 7 December 1869, Page 3

\ —Ibid. Mb. Geobge Gbaham is earning for . himself a most unenviable notoriety. > Upon his letter to Earl Granville, lately reprinted in our columns, the Southmi [ Cross has some severe comments. It , says . — « The pens of Mr. William Fox . and of other distinguished men have often I been used with effect to combat misrejJre- . sentation, and refute calumny. But the ■ libellers of the Colony, who achieve a . fame which is marvellously like infamy, L are unfortunately very numerous, and it t would be a failure of duty to allow their y wanton and unfounded assertions in such ? a case as the present to pass unheededL i If, as an bid Saxon proverb runs, 'It is \ an ill-bird that fouls its own nest,' then \ Mr. George Graham, the ex-member for , IS T ewton, must be a very ill bird indeed." ■ , Manufactuee of Paper.— Among new i industries which might with advantage be ' inaugurated in the colony, the Southwn f Pross mentions the manufacture of paper, ■ the quantity of which consumed in the co- [ . lony is constantly increasing," This fact L (says the Cross) together with the circumstances that the very best of all material > lies at our very doors, and can be procured ■ infinitely cheaper than any other at pre- > sent used in the European manufactories, '> will, we trust, be sufficient to induce seme ■ of our moneyed men to embark in a spe- • culation which has been eminently sue- ' cessful in the neighbouring colonies even i under the disadvantage of being comt pelled to import the greater part of the I raw material. • A Scotch minister told his neighbour | that he spoke two hours and a half the 1 Sunday previous. " Why, minister, were " you not tired to death ?" asked the neigh- [ .bour. "Aw, nae," said he, "I was as fresh as a rose ; but it would have done ■ your heart good to see how tired the con- [ gregation was." L The Bishop of Exeter is credited with a r lon mot. A young lady visiting Bishops- • towe made the remark that Torquay was very like Switzerland. "Very," replied i his lordship, " except that there is no sea t in Switzerland and there are no mountains I in Torquay;" < } " How do you like the looks of the • varmint ?" asked an. Arkansan of a Down \ Easter, who was gazing with distended eyes at an alligator with open jaws on the i bank of the Mississippi. " Wall," re- , spohded the' Yankee, recovering his ment tal equipoise, |J he aint what ye wo'd call i a;han'some critter,, but he ! s a deal of openV negfSyheii'li'e'6tuUeß. >: ' i: - ' : — . . ■ • -- : -' 'y •■: -. srvi.-