PASSING NOTES.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 43, 8 October 1892, Page 2

PASSING NOTES.

A was a braw Scot who supervised ft j * 'tnine for a foreign company. B was^a j foreign company who h&d' a; mine- in* j distant land supervised by a braw Scot C was a mine owned by a foreign company and supervised by a braw Scot. D E.and F were pieces of auriferous ground surrounding C. A purchased D E and F and charged the cost to B. A rhen received the sack. But he retained D E and F in his own name and refused to hand them over. Other letters of the Alphabet "to arrive 'represent a policeman,' a case of fraud and some o'her unpleasant things and • matters. But all in good time. It is said that there are several speculator raeii who have thei.r^ eagle .__ cptics on the Weitawheta bush. And eventually you'll find that they will filch r - it as they have done thousands of acrea to'f kauri forest in other districts. While the County is fooling round with Arbo* -■' days, planting the unsightly poplar, the cheap and nasty Pinis insignos— parading infants With a bun in one hand and a macrocarpa in the other— *• one of the most valuable assets of the Colony is being stolen in broad day* light. V Stolen is the word. Aud the narite for those who steal is thief. And the punishment for thieves is—or should be —imprisonment. But,in this case the thieves are dressed in pot hats and white vests, and dwell in high places, aud down comes the trees and whirr goes ihe saw, and up goes the banking , account and—ah, well, its uobody's business We maintain th.it on this peninsula every stick of kaui^i should be; kept for mining purposes. It will all be. required and that very soon. The Warden should have full control and all illegal cutting of kauri should be treated as a misdemeauour. Just here-' we would say that the Warden should fine a man more than "25s a tree, at any , rate, for the illegal, taking of kauri* He will pardon us for open criticism, we know, when we soy that vha fining of a person about half the true value of a tree on conviction is simply offering a premium for persons to Cut 'kauri and wait until their are summoned to Court before they pay for it. *** Surely 25s a tree is cheap enongh to prevent people stealing timber. The average kauri tree' contains 3000 ft super., worth at least- 2s per 100 ft» This is more than double the stun charged, and when it is considered that fit goes to the County fund and directly benefit* the district, it seems strange that there are people mean enough to steaVit.' " V The wanton cutting of " rickets" tdo is to be strongly condemned, as is indeed the waste in bush pits generally. But, there as has been said, it is nobody'i business. Those who interest themselves in conserving these forests have just their trouble for their pains. " Why should- you make bad friends for nothing?" say people interested" to them " What's that to do with yon, let it rip—there's nothing in it for you,' 1 and so on. Come to look at it, they're pretty near right too. ***■ - In a certain hotel there* lives a mas who haa, married a doctress. Perhaps; h« thought it would be a good thing to have a physician in the family and so> save expenses. He had a sick turn the other day and told his symptoms to his deaf little spouse. She threw her arms, around his neck and cried delightedly, "Oh, you darling f [ think you have got »'disease that is 'sp rave as.tab» almost unknown to the faculty. " Isn't ihat lovely?" "• - : V" >"- Some ladies were discussing the question of age, how disagreeable it "is-to be asked how old one is by some Bpiteful sister of their own sex, &c. Said the lady of the house, "I always punieh such inquisitors .by making Hare of them.. 1 answer promptly,""' Oh, lam mach older than ypa-^-a whole year, at

least. Let's see, how old were yon last birthday ?* -* OL-course J,he,-tormentor replies so as to make herself ridiculously young still, ,and this makes me out to be years junior to what I should have dare to say myself.'* .. *** . Apropos to. the admission of women ■as members of/the British Medical Association,' a y story told by. Sir Spencer Wells .at a meeyog of another scientific body^the, other day is worth re-telling. 'Sir tSpencer. once asked an American ■examiner, his.- opinion ou the subject of professional, women, and received the following t very smart reply i —" Well, ■sir, iv our country we have a great "many .female,doctors, female journalist*, female and females in all 'classes^of.professions and trades; but j ■what^we want is more female women!"' M Carious is -the difference in the ■sexeVas'shown in the way a" mau-or a woman fixes a day," remarked a gentleman to a lady, the other day. "" Yqu ask a. man when such and such a th^ng <Happened, and he always -answers, \ln_,,the year so-and-so,' or, * about 1800. and something 3' but the woman invariably says: 'About so <naany.i.years ago,' or, 'it was so many j "years after,.Teddie was born,' and so on." *' Yes," replied his companion, " I havp ■noticed it in myself I feel that lam getting, like the Western widow, who, dated all her farming operations ftom •or before 'the year T planted Jim.' "which was her realistic way of referring 4o her husband's BuriaL" • v There are many good Radical pardons in London. One of their number was recently accosied by a Tory mem. sber of-his flock, in high glee over the 'election of a wealthy distiller. " Thank *God !" exclaimed the Tory, v our candidate has been returned, and the Church is preserved." '" Exactly," replied his rector —■" in spirits." • # # The youngest newspaper rriifor in the United States is a lad'of 13, living in a North Carolina town, who runs a ■prosperous little journal culled the " Daijy', l Hustler." - This juvenile .journalist writes his own editorials, sets Iris own type, and makers enough profit fromhis venture to support a widowed mother.- '". V* . '■■ ' •,/ The latest thing in. American adverv Rising is the coudemned man. The Tnanu'facturers of a ' grateful cocoa' undertook to keep a murderer's family for'life because the murderer prior to execution had'sail, 'The best cocoa is Brown's. ' It has been my last solace on <ear'tb?: - '■' ' * When-Lord Alber marie was Master •of the House "he is said to have per- i petrated a pun in the- Royal presence. J Her -Majesty was visiting London for I;he first time, and asked his Lordship < if ,he > thought .her subjects were as I pleased, to >see, her oas she was to see ' them, t -Pointing to the,' V.R. on the flagaand decorations, he said, ,'fThere ( is the loyal .cockney answer, "V.R." ' The.pnu-.was worthy the occasion. ' -was a pushing, per- I •severing fellow, bs Tt,"after four years' of J Toal-hard ' graft,'f 'beicame to the conclusion that even a Chinaman would starve on his selection, and so ' Tack ' "Sold off, packed up his traps, and started for a better land—in the Riverina district. After a few days' have! ho met an old acquaintance, who said, 'Hello, Jim;' I .thought you were far mi n' ?' ** So I were,' returned , Jim ; ' but I •eased off, and sold the farm.' 'What ■ did 'you get for it ?' was the " next ■question. ' Well, I got that heifer that you see tied behind the draw She's a real Havilah ; and a Havilah will breed as long as she can stand. Even now .she's all fat but her, tail, and that's two yards, o' pure suet. ' She's, a real Havilah, I can tell you !' ' I don't care what, she is,'replied the friend. 'You uan't make me believe you swapped 1 60 acres of land for one heifer.' ' Oh, no,' explained Jim, ' not exactly that; but I swapped 80 acres for h«r. That was a

thunderin' good bit of trade for me, too; but when we came to draw up the deedj I found that the other fellow couldn't read or write or figure out anything at all; so I quickly rang in the other 80 acres on him as well. The more of that land you could give away the better for yourself. Merry Chrismas, ole pal, I want t' get right away before the buyer springs the little game I worked upou him.' * Men used to be flogged to death j now we are sati-fied to flog them into the lunatic asylum. From the " Argus" (3rd August) : — At Coburg Police Court yesterday, a young man named Henry Frederick Myler was charged with lunacy. He j had just completed serving a sentence of six months imprisonment, and under* going during his incarceration two floggings, each of 15 lashes, for com^ mitting an assault on a little girl at Carl ton, the sentence having been inflicted by the Carlton Bench. At the expiiation of the term, and on being discharged from Pentridge, he was given into the charge of the Corburg police by the Stockade authorities, as during his custody in the prison he had [developed in a dangerous lunatic. It is considered that the seveiatyii);Df^iibf; floggings —30 lashes—being given within so short a period, added-.'itolAhej < ohfinpment, had unhinged hi< mind: The prisoner was corhmittedb.tp {Y,arra, Bend Asylum. • """""" *""' "*' And the most brutul part t p/.J l his fi uni, speakably bsstial business is, that the odds are it was the wretche,d;;;My,|'er*s ; diseased brain which prompted him to the offtftice for which the law skinned, him alive. *#* An enterprising young Australian, met a girl at Pakenham, Gippsland, mashed her, smd married her within a few rlavs palmed off a bogus cheque Tor" thp wedding-ring, imposed upon the ofßciafincr pardon with ather dnflvr, and deserved his wife the morning after the ■wedding. Those people who are continually advertising for active and enersretie youths had better look out for this treasure.