WAVERLEY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3267, 3 November 1892, Page 2

WAVERLEY.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) 1 The last few weeks' fine weather induced some of the farmers to commence shearing. > The present year's clip is not expected to 3 prove very weighty, on aocoant of tbe 5 unhealthy state of tbe sheep during the > winter. Shearing machines have been 3 imported here, and will considerably lessen the amount of work to be obtained by f shearers. 1 The Catholics are already bestirring themselves in arranging for the eooial that is to be held here on November 9th. As several good singers have promised to ' assist, the venture ought to be successful. ■ The usual monthly sitting of the R.M. ' Court, which proved saoh a boon to litx- ; gants seeking redress by law, is now % ; thing of the past. It waß asserted some time ago tbac a technicality stood in the way of this court sitting here, and that its existence would be short. Whether its ■ recent closing is the outcome of > that lately discovered technicality, or is i merely another proof of the parsimonionf nature of the present Government, re» mains to be seen. The court was in many respects self-supporting, tbe build* ing m whichjrft was held being supplied gratis. An appeal was made to tbe Government some months ago, on behalf of the shareholders of the town hall, claiming remuneration on account oi the court being held in the hall. It'is possible that tbis demand on the part of the shareholders has been the means of depriving the residents of a local court. Tbe people of Waverley are not altogether of a litigons nature, but when places like Patea and Manaia possess B.M. Courts the refusal to confer a similar boon here gives rise to considerable indignation.

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity. THE WOEKING MAN'S MILLENNIUM. It is said that " Variety is the Bpicß of life," and that "it adds to its flavour." The poet (Issac Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) was not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly ife would be bat a dull monotonous thins were it not for its pleasing contrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and shy deer, and the bold and ferocious lion, the huge elephant, and diminutive though destructive mouse; there is the plain, humble-looking thrush, with its rich song, and the beautiful humming bird whose musical talents (and he has sense enough to know it) are conspicuously absent; tten there is the monster whale and the tiny shrimp on which it feeds. Whilst in mankind the contrasts axe still more marked and numerous, for not only are their "physical features," so to speak, different, but they differ intellectually and morally also. In some countries certain acts are considered dishonourable and even criminal, and in others the same acts would be looked upon as ligitimate and ouourable In China and India, for instance, we believe, lying is a virtue— we won't say a rare virtue ; while among the Negroes of America chicken-stealing is considered one of the favourite nocturnal pastimes, and perfectly praiseworthy, too— provided they " don't get caught in the act." In this country our tastes i differ, and our ambitions capy as higfher. We don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the whole of the country mean to liy violent hands on a poor unprotected fowl. As to varying opinions on political matters, they are legion, everybody has an opinion of some sort; some think that Ballance and his party are the willing instruments of the evil one; others think them the only men carjable of ushering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by some enthusiasts the Working Men's Millennium; others, again, are loud in their praises of the author of the Public Works Policy, whilst; others clamour for—^ Sir Harry Atkinson ; but one and all are .4 unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's ■ House of Commons Whisky "the Purest md Best in the Market." j

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