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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 551, 18 August 1865, Page 5

To the Editor of the New ZeaxaNl) HebaU)

oik,—-a ieaaer appeared in your papc* thi< mornmg having reference to the. builuinirtrado, pointing out some of the causes of failure: andits.prevention, with much truthfulness, and which, X'believe, will be read with great interest. '. ! ' J 1 * I wish to offer a few observations upon the subject. An admirable clause has recently been introduced into some specifications of wort, that the workmen shall b paid in full every Saturday in money, and not inside any public house. This being part of the specification, it is the duty of the architect, or engineer, or whoever it may be, to see that this is performed, but although the details of the work may be well and closely looked after, I believe this clause is much neglected. Who are the men lately and at present holding contracts ? You will find that the majority are comparatively new comers—strangers to Auckland—jnd these men are the successful tenderers for most of the work. What are the results ? I refer you to the reports of the City Board meetings a short time since to prove the trouble and annoyance, not to say loss, they experienced over some work in Albertstreet, and, further, to some groups of poor men who, for days past, might have been seen waiting about for payment of monies due to them from 80mo of those substantial contractors not a hundred miles from Queen-street. I would suggest that the owners of property, in taking security for the due performance of work, should also, so far as possible, provide for the payment of material and labour supplied to the contractor. Yours, &c., A Suffered. Auckland, August 17,1865. ARTEMU3 WARD ON I pitcht my tent in a small town in Injianny ona day last season & while I was standing at the dors takin money, a deppytashun of ladies came up 4 fed they wos members of the Bunkumville Female Moral Keformin & Wimin's Rite Associashun, and they asked me if they cood go in without payin " Not exactlv," sez I, " but vou can pky without going in." " ' " i ew you know who wo airf'Bdd' one of tha wimin—a tall and feroshus lookin Critter, with a blew kotton umbreller under her arm—" Do you know who we air. Sir." " My inipreshun is," sed I, " from a kersery view, that you air females." "We air, Sur," said the feroshus woman—" wo belong to a Society whitch beleeves wimin i rites— whitch beleeves in rasin her toiher prop spe whitch beleeves sho is endowed with as m intelleck as nun is—whitch beleeves she ia tramppod on and abooßcd—& who will resist hence;4th and for ever the encroachments of proud and domineering men." ■ Durin her discourse, the exsentrio feniMe grabed me by the coat-kollor & was swinging her umbrellor wildly over my head. " I hope maim," eoz I, starting back, " that your intentions is honourable ? I'm a lone man hear in a strange place. Besides, I've a wife to hum." " Yes," cried the female, " & she's a slave! Doth she never dream of freedom —doth she never think of throwing of the yoke of tyrinny & thinkin & votin for herself?— Doth she riaVer i think: 'df these hera things ?" " Not bein a natral born fool," sed I, by this time a little riled, " I kin safely say that klie : dt>fhunt." " 0 whot— wh"t!": screamed the female, swinging her umbrelier in the air. "O, what is the price that woman pays for her experience !" ;■ r H " I don't know, sez I ; the price to my show is 15 cents pur individooal." ' •.< > "& can't our Society go in'free! masked the fomalo. 1 - '• " Not if I know it," sed I. • 1 "Crooil, crooil, man!" she cried'& burst into tcera. 1 ; ' " Won't you let my darter?" sed annther of the exsentric wimin, taken me afeckshuhitely by the hand. "O, please let my darter in—ghee's a sweet guahin child of natur. " Let her gush!" roared I, as mad: asM cood stick at the tarnal nonsonce; "let her gush !'■* Where upon they alt sprung back with the simultaneous observasliun that I was a Beest. " My female friends," sed I, " bet you leeve I've a few remarks so wa them well. The female woman ia one of the greatest inetitooshuns of which this land can boste. It is unpossible to get along without her. Had there bin no femalo wimin in the world, I should scarcely be hero with my unparralleld show on this very occashun. dhe is good in sickness — good in wellness —good all the time. O, woman, woman!" I cried, my feelings worked up to a hi poetick point, " you air a when you behave vourself; but when you take off your proper apparel i■ (mettyforically speakiu) get into pantaloons— svhen you desert your firesides, & with your heds full if wimcii's rites noshuns go round like roarin lyons, seeking Jwhom you may devour somebody—in short when you undertake to play tlio man, you play the ievil and air an emfatic noosance. My female friends," I continuered, as they were indignantly iepartin, " wa well what A. Ward has sed." M. Maurice Joiy, a member of the Paris bar, has been sentenced by the Correctional Police Court to 15 month*' imprisonment, 200t'. fine, and costs, for a pamphlet printed anonymously at Brussels, entitled Dialogues mix JSn/ers entre Maehiavel et 3[oninqui , in Jof which he was the author. The charge against him was that of having in the said pamphlet excited hatred mid contempt against the Government. The item rial Diplomatique has the following : " It is certain that formal negotiations have comm-nced between the Court of St. Petersburg and th»t of Athens, for the marriage of the King of the Hellenes with the Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of trie Grand Duke Constantino, but owing to the extreme youth of the princess, who was born on the 2'2nd of August, 1851, the projected marriage will not taka place till two years have elapsed." A medical paper says that no less than thirty-one cases of the disease which has carried ofl' the Czarewitch —that is, meningite cercbro spinale, have occurred at Aurbacli since the beginning of February, and that this disease is raging in the kingdom of Hanover, especially at Celle, Einbech, and in the neighbourhood of Cassel. Of one hundred persons attached by this malady, on an averago sixty die of its effects. Sines the beginning of March, it has raged at Burgdorf, a small town near Schladen. The Gazetta del Popalo suggests that the municipality of Florence shall place, as it has already done at the Casa JUuidi, in honour of Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, a memorial inscription on the walls of her late residence in the Piazza del Independenza, where she died, to Mrs. Iheodosia Trollope. The Florence journals of the 15th inet, which announced her death, all appeared with mourning borders, deploring her loss as a public calamity. Mrs. Trollope was buried on that day in the peaceful burial-ground already hallowed by being the resting place of the remains of Mrs. Browning. Prediction or the Assassination op President LufcoLX. —La Gazelle ih France m°ntions that 18 months ago, at a .spiritist sitting held at l)i> ppe, in the presence of well-known and perfectly trustworthy witnesses, Mr. Douglas llomc anuounce that President Lincoln would be assassinated within the coming two years. A not-, or rather a proces verbal was taken down of this incident, and the paper is currently handed about in Paris, with tha date and siguatun s. Kathkk Co xl. —When the T.eeds Bank broke, Mrs. Kliza Padgett, wife of Joseph Padcett, had £400 deposited in it Not knowing Mrs. Padgett's ad" dress, the liqui. ators sent a circular to the only to th» only Jos pit i ailgeti they could find in the Direc. lory —a | erson who lived in Albert-grove, Leeds This J'lM-ph Padgett quiei.lv fill d up tlie 'om sent him, fiirwa.'ded it t > the atithori'ie-, and on chinking his residence a «eek or two afterwards notified the fact t . the laudators. <in presenting his claim in person, h wevor, to get the cash he was taken into custody. IL was found that he had no mn.e n«ht to the monev than Adam, the real Padgett b I-g the wife of an altogether different pewou, *hoha* lodged his claim in due course, and had been paid. Leltors from Chri.-itiania state that the ueaty of commerce with Franco has been f tlmtv as a substantial advantage. One hundred and thirty Ihips mostof them ladon with timber, were preparing to leave the port mentioned abovo as soon as the ICO