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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 25, 4 June 1892, Page 2

i i Country editors always remain poor, but that is because they are not mean enough to get rich. In order to get rich it is only necessary to trust nobody, to' betriend none, to get everything, and save all you get; to stint ourselves and everybody belonging to us ; to be friend to no man and haverno man for our ftiend ; to heap interest upon interest upon interest, cent upon cent; to be mean, miserly, and despised for some'thirty >years • and riches will come as sura as disease 'arid disappointment. And when pretty ne»r •enough wealth is collected by a'disregards the .human heart, at the expense of'every •enjoyment save that of wallowing in filthy Jmeanness, death comes to.-finish the work. Country editors prefer to remain poor, live ihappy, and die happy.— Exchange. A Sydney fool lately received £10,000, the proceeds of an English legacy. Every third day he drew £500, or, say, £1000 a week. He gave hnndreds of pounds away to barmaids, and emerged from the wrestle with his. luck, after a 10-weeks' contest, with-a concertina-adjusted liyer, a parboiled brain, a dishonoured cheque for the 21st £500, 47 suits of clothes, 13 watches, 83 chains, 28 hats, 6 pairs of "worked" slippers, 13 garisfe smoking caps, 111 female photos., 54 unpaid accounts, two bootjacks, eight - letters from bookmakers, "five breach-of-promise threats, and one letter demanding allformer epistles. He is now lurking at street-corners for free drink's. When bound to the stake, the nigger burrit ■alive the other day at Arkansas Baid, .just ere the woman appointed to do the deett applied the match to his kerosened clothing;: "Stand back, gentlemen, and let the ladies •see." , . . -■- .Half-a-million acres in New Zealand-have 'been secured by the Salvation Army, and General Booth is anxious that the GovernmenUhould not charge rent, in order that'be be enabled to devote the profits arising «UB *out of the scheme to expenses.connected with the further transport of'the stibmergedtefltii. The General also desires the powers at a landlord, so that he may devise a .system Of woiking the settlement and control the settlers. A-later telegram says that ttte [land has been acquired from the natives.