Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2348, 9 February 1893, Page 4

Striking Diversity and Strange Unanimity.

THE WOBECNajIAN'SMILLENNIjUM. It is swd that "Variety is the spice of life," and that "it adds to its flavour." The poet (Issac Watts, or Cowper, we forget which) waß not very far wrong when he penned this couplet, for certainly ife -would be bat a dull monotonous thing were it not for its pleasing- contrasts. In the animal world we have the graceful and Bhy'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 enpugh to know it) are conspicuously absent ; tten there is 'the monster whale and the tiny ahrimv on which it feeds. Whilst in mankind the contrasts are still more marked and numerous, for not only are their <f 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 onourable

In China and India, for instance, we believe, lying is a virtue — we won't say a rare virtue ; while among the Negroeß 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 differ, and our ambitions carry ns higher. We don't believe there is a single bank-teller in the Whole of the country mean enough to ley 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 thiDk that Ballance and his party are the willing instruments of the evil one; others think them the only men capable of ushering in that era of unexampled prosperity termed by Borne 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 unanimous in pronouncing Buchanan's House of Commons Whisky " the Purest •nd Best in the Market."

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HIS EXCELLENCY LORD GLASGOW while partaking of some refreshments during the interval at the Opera House remarked : " One thing yor have here that is, good Coffee." It is scarcely necessary to say his Excellency was drinking Crease's A. I. Coffee. Sold everywhere in 1 and 21b tins

We clip t/ta following important teat* uonial from the "Illawarra'+^fercurj' (N.S."VV.)., on the 30th March. It needs na comment : — " Mr, John Loveday, of the Bulli Mountain, writes to us that aftei ■offering for four years with acute gravel, he has experienced almost complete relief byVasfng Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Extract. Ha says seeing the said Extract jwj\sertised in the " lllawarra Mercury," his intense suffering induced him to obtain a bottle of the medicine from Mr. Hosking, chemist, of this town, and that the use of it gave him great relief at once. * He Btatej , that between the 10th March instant, when he obtained the first bottle of th« extract and on the 19th, the use of that medicine tontinued to afford him relief, to which hi had been a Btranger for four ye&rs. * Mr jjoveday writes also that he has found th< Eucalypti Extract a cure for rheumatism m well as gravel. He requests us to pub lish this information through the " Mer cury." • "Ye have much pleasure in comply, ing with Mr. Loveday's request, whosi word cannot be doubted, and who can hav< ao object in view other than a pure deair? Ie benefit suffering humanity."— Advt,