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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 32, 23 July 1892, Page 2

There comes a tale from.England touching the eccentricities of matti&ge-.a.ila'.mode over there just now, and a very pretty tale it,is. Briefly put it is told thus:—" An aged lord who does the carving in a noble West end mansion has a young and very attractive wife, who is inclined to be a bit frivolous— not to put too fine a point upon the matter. Well, this lord came home on this particular afternoon and found a man in the house, or rather, was about to 'find a man in the drawing-room. There was consternation. Suddenly the caller had what he conceived to be a happy thought. He threw off his coat, raised the lid of the grand .piano, and pretended to'be tuning it as the aged lord of the manor opened the drawing-room door."

A- New York paper has been reminding.its readers that a law passed in 1792 enacts that "if any white female of 10 years or upward shall, appear in any public street, lane, highway, church, courthouse, tavern, ballroom, theatre, or any other place of public resort, with naked shoulders, being able? to purchase necessary clothing, she shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than' one or more than two hundred dollars.'* This 'law, it seems, has never'been repealed! .. : - r

Ifc is not generally known that Mr R. Burke't mare Belle was stolen from a pad-" dock while she was located in Melbourne. The police were informed of the matter and the daughter of Musket duly advertised for, butjno trace could be found of the mare till about three (months had elapsed, when ; she was found in aipound! The thief had^probably repented, Belle is in foal to Cuirassier.

. The April number of the "Review pt Reviews" contains a very interesting character sketch of Mr Gladstone. It is to be continued -in a subsequent number, but among the tit-bits that deserve to be remembered the following is perhaps the most beautiful; —'• Before I rose to go," writes the interviewer, "I asked Mr/Gladstone whathe reg- ided as thegreatest hppe'forthe future. He paused for a time^ not rightly understanding the question. Then he said gravely, 'I should say lwe*must lobktforl;hat to the maintenance of faith in the Invisible. That is the ; great hope of -the future,; it is the mainstay of civilisation. And by'that I mean a living faith in a personal god; Ido not hold with 'streams of tendency.' After 60 years of public life I hold more strongly than ever this conviction, 'deepened and strengthened by long experience, of the reality and thenearness and the personality ofGod-'"

Thus Mr Gladstone on -Female Suffrage and. Women's R'ghts :—" As this .is not a party question, or a class question, so neither is it a sex question. " I have no fear lest the woman should -encroach upon the power of the man. The fear I have, is lest we should invite her unwittingly to trespass upon ihe delicacy, the purity, the refinement, 4he elevation of her own nature, which are the present ixiurcei of its, power. • I' admit- that in the universities, in the professions, in the secondary circles of public action, we have already gone so far m to give a shadow of plausibility to the present proposals to gO further; but it is a shadow only, for we have done nothing that plunges the woman v such into the turmoil of masculine life. My disposition is to do all for her which is free from that danger and reproach, but to take no step in advance until I am convinced of Jte safety."