INKLINGS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 28 August 1889, Page 3

INKLINGS.

The Home want to vote an address to the Governor on ths recovery cf his ton. Hothing else for them to do, I suppose. They muss fill np their time somehow. Arrant ba'derdash I csll it. All_ this talky-talky, uliginous, enloginous, oleaninons stroking on the paternal b-.ck must be aa disputing to Lord Onslow as it is to the public in general. It certainly seems an unnecessary act of efiation. Of course, from a domeatio point of view everybody is glad the young mm is better, bat we don's want a special Act of Parliament pissed to permit na to Bjy so. The Archbishop of Canterbury has been giving another grand dinner party. Bin banquets t*.id garden parties are nsique in their magnificence. I believe. Who dots be ask to them! All his friends. Goes out into the highwiyj and hedges wad compels them to come in, I eappo33. Oh no! Quite a crowd of notabilities attend without any compulsion. It is certainly a good use to pnt the episcopal revenues of the Archbishopric to. He must feel an amount of smog satisfaction In reading the Presi accounts of his "tuperb banquets and " princely fetes." Well, I like to do things in style myself when I have the money. Style ! I wonder if he ever thinks of the ■warming crowds of hungry men, women, and children, who live, or rather exist, in the seething slums of London, almost at his feat. To my mind the toiling Fast End curate who pinches himse'f to cheerfully give a few pence to hiß poor is a nobler member of the Church than the Archbishop with all bis ttonsmda. The indefa;ii?ib!e Edison is still at work,; What's the latest? I far-sight machine. He's goiog to let na see onr friends hundreds of miles off. What ? Say that ajain slowly. He's going to revolutionise the world. Show ns our friends hundreds of miles off. Hurrah! I'll buy one. fcee my tailor hundreds of miles eff, my mother-in-iaw hundreds of miles off, the water-rates man hundreds of mile 3 off, the gas man hnndreds of mi'es off. Oh, he ceservts a perpotnal pension from all householder?. Wait a minute. You've got hold of the wrong end of the stick. It lets you see people whan they happen to be a long distance off. Oh-h-h-h ! So on the contra:y 16 will enable your mother-in-law to see where you are at 12 p,m., your wife to Mop. He ought to be shot. It's worse than an infernal machine. You rem-mbtr Mr Saunders mivi-g for a return of the travelling expenses for tha last three years paid to members ot the Education Board. Saunders I Saunders ? Hs's the man who agitated so strongly for the 10 per cent, reduction in the wages of State employe surely. Yes, the returns are now ready, and please you Mr Saunders heads the list himself with the largest amount. Mr Kraaer, of Otat,o, comes second, and Mr Anson, of Can* terbury, third, tha two latter each drawing less par meeting than Mr ceunders, though having further to travel. The expeaies are calculated On a mileage system though, are they no. ? Yes. More mi es leas money apparently. Well, I move that the returns be published and that Mr Saunders' honorarium be reduced by 10 per cent. Seconded, carried unanimously. Take a bask seat, Mr S. Belarus eeeni to be the order of the day. Mr Joyce is moving for one of the expense?, etc, paid Mr G. V. Shannon aa cuttoms expert, and also the amount .obtained by Government cocssquent on his discovery of frauds. That's a gocd plan to prove whether the man is a " requisite " or not. Is it ? They don't spell your namo with a Q. I suppose it never struck yon to inquire how iruch he may have saved by the prevention of fraud. What abcut this confidential circular? It is a gross insult to an honorable body of men. It's on a par thoogh with a good many ether blunders the Government have to answer for. The Minister cf Defence should be dropped On. What's the nse. They are all In league. If you speak to one it's "please teasher it wasn't me, it was another boy." Mr Richardson has committed his weekly blunder aa well. Yes; he's like one of tho foolish virgins—•lwaya too late,

There is method In h'a midneas, though. It is too systematic. Repetition fs apt to become weariaom l . The fac; la. he is S3 busy patting himself on the back for his own cleverness that he forgets he has not a race of fellow inanities to deal with. Thero 13 new light shedding on thi Kaivrarr3 murder esse. I suppose you are referring to this knife that ha? been found. Yes, that is an important piece of evidence. H'm I It m3y be. Ton must not loie sight cf the fact that, whsn a man publicly stages that hi his dreamt rapsatedly of a certain object in a certain placa, it is very ea'-y for tome amateur divinity to complete the dream by plantiDg tb; obj ct. Mrs Annie Besant hiß turned theos'phist. Who is she ? Bradlau'h's io'imate fri?nd and fel'ow She i ■ alio one of the great English social reform advocates. HradUagh 13 an Atheist, is he not ? Y.'s, It is his pet hobby, aad one he lectures upon continually. Wauts to take e-.erything from na and leiva ua noth : ng. Ihe old story of the fox who got his tail tak'n eff in a trap. Mrs Be3int was fn Atheist, too, until she joinad the racks of the Thecsophical Society. What is theosophism ? An Englishisei version of Faoieric Baddhism. Practically, it is sitnily an admission of a Supreme Intelligence and a disbeii'f a3 opnosed to Atbei-m in annihilation after death. What a'e the object 3 of the aoe'ety ? The formation of a theoacphicil and primarily the investigation cf unexplained laws of nature. It ia cf American origin. It i 3 a step in the right direction for her. Ltt ns hope she will use her pe"Sia=ive eloquence in inducing her quondam comrade to grow a tail as well. Ti»9 Enjl Bh end of the cable mnsl bo in the hinds of a eporting man. We do EEcm to get a good deal of Bportiug news. fcfo3t'y pugUhtic too. Kilrain's going to kill Sullivan, or Mitchell's going to box Slavic. They mast imagin > wa are a fireeating community. They prc bab y jidge our tas'e by the same a'andara oo they do tba 1 : of oar f merican coaeina who are prover jial " sports " in the old country. It's news that would not appeir in the Home dailies at anyrate, except in the sporting papers. airs Jlaybrick will get off yet. Do yon think so ? Yes. There ia such a tremendoui agltatatioa being raised, Brierly ha 3 gone away to learn to bo good. He's sorry and ho is not go:cg to do it any more. Where ha* he gone? America. Phew—The devil and the deep sea. Pesdbagok.