The Patea Mail. Established April 14, 1875. Be Just, and Fear Not. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1885. NEWS OF THE DAY.

Patea Mail, Volume XI, Issue 21, 1 June 1885, Page 2

The Patea Mail. Established April 14, 1875. Be Just , and Fear Not. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1885. NEWS OF THE DAY.

In a graveyard are five tombstones which attract much attention. On one is the inscription, “My first wife;” on another, “ My second wife ; ” on another, “My third wife;” on a fourth, “My fourth wife ;” and on a fifth, which stands in the centre of the first four, is the comprehensive inscription, “ Our Husband !” A pretty girl applied to the general delivery window of the post-office and, smiling at the bashful clerk, she twittered, “Is there any mail here for me ?” “ I—l beg your pardon,” replied the clerk, b'ushing in four colours all warranted to wash . “ I said is there any mail here for me ?” she twittered again with a smile. “ I—l don’t know Miss, I’ll ask some of the other boys, I’d like to bo, but you came too late for I’m already bespoke by another girl.” The post-master gave the young man a few lessons before he let him take charge of the window again. The TaranaH Herald says : —At the last meeting of the Education Board, a man wrote that he had not a wife but would get one if wanted. This is nearly equalled by a person who writes ;—“ lam quite conscious that in my present habiliments, and those I am accustomed to wear under present circumstances, I do not look like, or have I the appearance of, a teacher ; but I have got a proper rig-out yet, and will use it when I get the situation. A few years ago, when in Victoria, I used to sport even a fashionable suit of clothes, and a watch and gold watch-chain.’’ An Auckland paper furnishes the following :—“ The editorship of the New Zealand Times has again changed hands. The change is not so remarkable—for the editorship of that paper is always being changed—as the circumstances under which it is reported to have taken place. The last man was Mr Fitzgerald. He went down to his office a few nights ago, and was just about to begin his usual task of making the public opinion of Wellington, when another gentleman, who occupies a position of somewhat ill-defined responsibility on the staff of the same paper, walked in, and with the remark that “ he was the man who ought to speak,” began to tell the editor proper what he was to do. Mr Fitzgerald, it appears, held a different opinion on this subject, and the result of the interview was that he took up his hat and walked out of the office, and has not since been in or anywhere near it.” Commenting on the Anglo-Russian difficulty, the World says :—“lf Russia had made up her mind to go to war with England at all hazards, she would have been on the high road to Herat before this time, and might now be on the point of carrying it by a rush. Why, then, has she not persevered in that which was indisputably her original intention—namely, to 1 rush ’ Herat ? and why has her progress towards it been arrested ? The answer is that she has received an intimation from German}', of the most precise and positive character, that, in the event of her precipitating war in Central Asia, she would arouse the active hostility ef Germany and Austria in Europe, We speak of what we know, and it is the fact that a fortnight since Prince Bismarck told the Czar that if Russia provoked a rupture with England, ho (the German Chancellor) would hold himself free to act as he might consider expedient. The pre-occupation of Russia in .Asia would at once provoke the Hungarians in the Austrian Empire to attack the Slavs. It would be absolutely impossible for the Austrian authorities, without risking the disintegration of the dual empire, to repress the Hungarians. Roumania and Bulgaria would be in an immediate state of effervescence and uproar, and an outbreak of Panslavonic enthusiasm in Russia would render a collision with Russia unavoidable. The European branch of the Eastern question would, in fact; bo reopened. Austria would press forward towards Salonica as surely as a duck takes to the water, and Germany would feel it incumbent on her to seize a substantial share of the Baltic provinces of Russia. This is what Bismarck meant when ho plainly told the Czar a couple of weeks ago that ho would not bo answerable for the consequences if (ho Russian commanders took the opportunity of pouncing upon Afghanistan. This, and this only, is the explanation of Russia’s dcsistance from the plan sho had first conceived of ‘ rushing ’ Herat.” Tho problem how to save money solved, —All first-class drapers at Home and in tho colony have found that exhibiting goods in windows does them incalculable harm. Tho losses sustained by goods fading is something enormous, which the customer of course has to pay, Tho goods after exhibition in this manner, never possess tho freshness and pristine beauty which now goods ought to possess. Ladies have found out that to their cost. Ladies and gentlemen have also found that by far the Best, Cleanest, Freshest, and Cheapest Drapers are tboso who do not exhibit tbeir goods in windows. These drapers find they can cany on their business at far less cost, and consequently at far leas profit. The well-known Direct Drapery Importer, Mb R. A. Adams, has adopted this system of no window dressing, and the customers will find that it is done entirely in their interest. Customers will find the goods are cleaner, fresher, and consequently by far the cheaper than window dressers can possibly do them, as his working expenses are considerably reduced, and what lady would like to wear a bonnet or a mantle after considerable exhibition in a draper’s window. [Advt. |