PASSING NOTES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 38, 3 September 1892, Page 7

PASSING NOTES.

The cholera, op black death, is,ap. pearing simultaneously all over Europe and in parta of-Asia. T It is well for us to sit r here and read these things calmly. But the world'is getting very small. As one man writes, 1 it'is'like a "ball of soap being washed s'smaller iti the* hands of.time." With the' large number of vessels coming direct from, Europe to these colonies, how easy it might be for r this fell plague to break out among onrSelves. ■ j '~ ' 1 ' ## ' - * It is indeed a wonder that some epidemic has not already visited this place. Watch a new settler fixing his homestead. He takes up a lot some 40 x 100 He builds his dwoomed house' about'2o feet from the frontage. He digs two deep holes,-not more than 30-or 3o feet apart. Over one he buildsttwateicloset, and into the other he puts a pump. He' then puts a hen-house in the centre, and a stable at the side, and this, with a few heaps of kitchen > middens, constitutes Home, Sweet Home* JSe doesn't want a watec-supply, not he. All ht wants is to be left to himself. Me sticks up for the liberty of the subject.

.i Just.spL ;The liberty of the subject ..«xtends'just thafeffar that- ifc doesn't interfere with the liberty of some.;other fellow. Our backyard belongs to us, bnt.have we the right to Start business in the .wholesale manufacture of typhoid •and cholera bacilli to the detriment and danger of out' neighbours ?

Mart this! With the present state' of sanitation ip Paeroa, some of these days a fearful epidemic will takechaige. We axe at the jbottomiofia gully, we bavev no water-supply, our wells' are perilously near, in some cases, to our cess-pits, and qur river is rapidly becoming a sewer, God foibid the advent ■of such a frightful blague,as is now, visiting probably as small villages in Europe. But if such wcr/},to come our i blood would 'je upon our own heads. >> " * #

Mr^Sattnd^s^^tndndmetits^n the Electoral Bill n^^y before the House," rr^hiph, jiitrQ^edr ( the^ r thm, i en(i^f / ,ffie' J- 'lost by'a'iiiajonty oH, was' virtually;a victory, Proportional, represeiiitafaon musi ityVPfi ■:■■■ i.-^"^W^:U-i-»-^-Vf&-i----•ysTj|;l^r^^^cP^^a™ount:pf admiral ntip^^aje^ ,- nft fi^:t)? f :t;PT^ipiP?>'; ';W€; c^rfcamii^-: !^|^;jr(^e^hjr 0 to ms own solid colonial;f^thißc'a..dq'p.^- ;?- -and.wiMi^ipd^nd sljru^s and priggish gnn^aces, tericna himself Monsieur Leon priveiv hje is two eni3&ah4,tfis :Jsghi ;oj^a Coloni^

Abbe Liszt, but when he comes back to the dear old horne —where he used to make honest English mud pies—and comes the Mounseer, he doe's make us sojvild. \I" ' ' ' V ' : - ' The "Briggs Argus" now includes on its, staff a fighting editor, and thus it roars:'—"We d'esiic to announce, for the benefit of those who. Have exposed the intention of 'licking' the editorial staff of this paper that we have just added to that staff Sylvester Marshall, who was sheriff of Sacramento county at a time when mci' 'of weight and .sciej tific .pugilistic reputation. lwere in .vogue, and who since,'that time handled the sledge and the bellows at the forge, until recently, when his 275 pounds weight and proportionate muacle.had fitted him" for the position which he now holds—fighting.'editor of the 'Argus.' We will be* found in our sanctum each day during business- hours.'** ' '-' A man who gets v mad at what newspapers say about "him, should t return thanks three, times daily for what they know about him but don't tell. * # The great roW;between Harrison and Blame, which may have such momentous, histpi ip^re^^^ris^s^u^r^ a : quarrel between their,]wives,,;,which.originated; in the drunken; freakstM r Blairie^ '^ear? 'of; age^yvhd;ii|ion ;&e^q6a? piro'f down tlie low-cut icbrskge of one of the! belles' of the!!%iaih^. ■*' :iMrs 'S^&P^^lp^ifef^^ii|irig|i.i' from all social movements mide^ h"er; .?oPtjo^and f th^s,was Mrs.Blain^ gloved ; determined •enmity.- \.-,-:r- ,:i\c}-U:^: „:r^y>i:p- .!>-.-:?'>":* i"-|-

I#* - ' Managing editor'(to reporter)-:' " Are you engaged to be married, Mr Scaiehead?" Mr Scarehead ; "Er —yes, sir, 1"— Managing editor: "Kindly draw on the office for two pounds, get married immediately, and let me,,have two columns on Life in a Great City,',,by twelve o'clock., -And-^ er—congratulations!" When Governor 1 Norman was at Oroydon, N.Q., recently, he stayed at Gus. Weinhart's hotel, and, on leaving, ftps. m the arrangeaien ts made. •, Gus „hat in hai^^bowe* 'prbJfbundly,' andjpaM i-« r^atk yoWlftr'aV shjlf W stag P*|er yflur Kralse" 'p nail in'my coffin?' !i" Being l^ff suhu 5 (; abpu^ ; .thae^e^ipg^her re-; Riiied ; £Qi govse. ;.jl- tdid; jtneam^ it was a! 1 .fodder-;in meiniiiairi'?^: t^iii^u.u^ -c^x'-'■{&.; ■:

, A writer m a Chrisfchnrcti paper gives the following as gospel: At a certain villa on the belt a little stranger had arrived Some days after a 1 young 'commercial gent with his be'<t girl made an eveniug call. The mother 1 had a slight cold^hat gendered tier somewhat deaf! , "V^heu, the new, baby wai brought in ( the young man .eipqniied after its welfare. The lady, mistaking his having made some reference to hei cold, replied that she usually n had one 'every winter, and this was the worst one she had' ever had, and it,kept,her awake at night, and cpnfined her to her bedroom. Then noticing that he was getting sotnewhaj; red and i>ervoqs, for huge sudoific drops were chasing each other down his pericranium, she said she 'could tell he was going to have one too, and begged of him, when he went home to lose no time in getting into bed. The visit closed somewhat abruptly.