Men and Women AND Matters all Around.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2851, 20 June 1896, Page 2

Men and Women AND Matters all Around.

in common with scores of other Welliugtonians I went into Eller and Son’s, in Willis street, yesterday afternoon to get a look at the framed resolutions Which are to be presented to the llon E. J. Seddon, Premier, on Monday evening in the Skating Eink.

A beautiful work of art all through, I was particularly impressed with tho frame. It is certainly tho most artistic and handsome piece of work of tile kind that has over been turned out in New Zealrod, and allows what a judicious combination of our native woods can produce. I would not have missed seeing it fora great deal, and feel that my art education and my taste for tho beautiful havo both been improved and strengthened.

I have, in connection with this charming work, to suggest that it 110 given a prominent jiiaca in onr Coming exhibition, as showing tho effect which our native woods aro capable of. Tho honeysuckle, handpolished with tho spirits of wine, is smoother, clearer, and contains a richer sheen than satin. If you want to improve your art education see it.

I sincerely thank the sender of the following invitation. It has given me the heartlett laugh 1 have had in a week, and 1 congratulate the Reception Committee on their exquisite sonso of humour. Hero is tho invitation.

Wellington. Jihieifitfi, 189 C. To “ Fat Contributor,”—' Members of tho Kirby Reception Committee aro requested to moot at the Manawatu Railway Station on Tuesday evening next at 8.45 p.m. Cabs supplied by tho Pulioo Department.—By Order. I am told on good authority that Dr Newman has been promised a place In the Tory Cabinet should the Rilssell-Stout combination succeed ill getting into jiowor. This is certainly a case of live horse and you will get oats. In, the meantime lam in receipt of the following;— Juno 19th, 1896. Sit, —Dr Newman regrets that the days of duelling aro gone for over-so do many innocent people whom ho has attacked. In my case 1 should insist upon his standing on a chair to bo shot at—it the conditions wore to be fair and equal, as I am not a COOKSPAKROW. The grim old Hawhcs Bay Herald, the appropriate rejiresentativo of tho Tory aquatocraey of that part of tho Colony, has by some means allowed a gem of solid truth to stray into its columns. Here itis; “Wo can manufacture our own fiction on the promises.” No one who reads the Herald will find it possible to doubt this statement for a moment.

Wore it possible. Wo could give a proof in point. Tho Herald says the New Zealand TisSes “ circulated at least two varying stories about Gasparini’s escape within the last two weeks.*’ Now, tho Times never did anything of tho kind. Truly the Herald, can " manufacture its owil fiction on the premises.”

To show you a type of the nhllignanoy and ignorance we have around us, I give the following, received at this office yesterday:— Dear Sir in reply to your appeal for subscriptions towards Mr Ward, you can put me down for £1 Is so as to put ifr iFanl hi Jail for robbing the orphan and Widdow, The only trouble Will bo that 110 will poluto tho Horncsefe moil ho Would meet theier.

There ifc is, just as written. No doubt tho writer of the above production is a specimen of tho followers of Sir Robert. Ho could not bo expected to have brains enough to read correctly and to havo seon that I did not make any appeal for funds to help Mr Ward out of his difficulty. I only said people wore talking of such a thing, and made the statement as a matter of current noWa.

Guinness* Stout (oven With the trade mark of knighthood) does riot take well in the House. It is tori nauseating. Good day. Sir Seeri-your-best-daya Robert.

But tho mind gets tired, if not disgusted, contemplating such people. Lot it take a flight and get some frssh air iu other fields and lauds remote. I notice that a curious rivalry has grown Up between Franco and Germany in the domain Of oculpturo. No sooner does one of those nations erect and unveil a fine monument than the other follows suit with something still better, if possible.

This rivalry has resulted iri tho completion and inauguration of more important public works Of art than havo been produced in tho previous fivo years. A strong feature of this rivalry is tho patriotic character of most of the work dono. In Franco, with few exceptions, the dominant key is patriotism and grief over tho misfortune of Franco during the last war, with strong hints of what irtay bo should the struggle ever bo renewed.

While tho spirit of patriotism to an extent obtains in the contemporaneous sculpture of Germany, it partakes of the ponderous and stolid in place of tho French gracefulness, spirituality and fire. But in n general iVay art is gaining, and that is the whole world’s gain.

The following are the names of the members of the City Council who voted on Thursday evening to keep the streets of Wellington the most rowdy and disorderly in any civilised city on earth Anderson, Myers, Tanner, Willeston, Higginbottom, Eraser, Smith, Tatum and Barber.

The argument advanced in favour of tho street nuisances, that to interfere with them and prohibit gatherings of all kinds would interfere with tho rights of citizens, is ridiculous. Personal rights in tho very widest sense end where the rights of others are interfered with ; and the right of all is to have free, orderly, open and clear streets. Tho Mayor was thoroughly right on tho question, but Heaven help him with such a let on his hands as are the majority of the Council. The Fat Contributor.