What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1669, 9 May 1874, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

" In multitude of couaaellors there is safely —Oid Fsovbbb. I

A fatal' accident, a severe casualty, a fire, .and several minor events of local importance have afforded topics^ for the idlers at Jihecorner to talk about when their own (immediate business got dull—r as/'it' r^erv lOfteriVdoes. Anyone visiting s'bri^cpfri.er.'at'^night: time.7^betwpen six .and' M^w ; p^ldiniagiDe:fchafcr'tue busi-; ness there, Vv-as little short of tjaiit done, in a, like period on the Eoyal Only the initiated'kiidwth^ Stature and extent of the. business and the' .m&tnpujatiori/;s^fetimes!resortpd ip iri dfdertobeable'toregisterli asale." There are too many jobbers, and very few broker's] The flatter are represented by a singly one, it is saidj,/who, as a matter of course] is-in!Authority. rihe:jobfeersikre-*epret sented by scores,., .ani-they know eacbj other's metalto-'a- grain. But they ard what Scotchmen, call, "tittle..cattle"—} *" tetchy " and the* rest. rJ ''While 'respecti iMpthe " broker,".,;they are r j^alpu* of i'tteir,;; pwn iprivjleges; arid canuot.,' be, api ' I'Somebjody saysl j; that a tew b'f them lnade ijjuite a ris'e,,at' Met fire .the other morning—not im; ( we' .jfayi f'o'f white'belt-toppers or looser proo^yM a similar description sometimes 'found kicking about at fires looking for an owner, but by. honest toilr^-wprking atj the'ielttliiie^lall KbnoxittoctheaSlc»r^oind so, and as the .laborer is worthy of hisl hire, so are the and others de 4 serving of liberal pay for pumping. j The Borouiph'-Council-Have decided! upon a seal after mature deliberation.! &h"e d^sif^fne'ce^sarily^mijri'ces rsfgnifii cant representations of the various indtis-; tries'p!eculiar to thfe'dwtricti;prbminencej being given to mining,, as. waa prop'^'By'i the introduction, of rpbp^et;h'e iidsi small! men pushing trucks -over trairiwftys.li rail-j way in'ltoiniature^—shipping/ Represented! by the Enterprise Ho. 2 conveyingrtlle to-the:Thames;'with HGoufadllpi Butt on the bridge, in the. addisenal characterfot 'pfilsdt. <*■ have included'-''Butt's' * corneTr/in'/th'e olden^tiibe '^ with the 1 !fatnj)U^ OhiWemuri deptf ta|ion X giving. San! "accbiint v 6F ftheir ( mission, so.as to have done juatic«^-IKe| membry of«characters "' wh6se':nalnie Is^ are] j-Well nigh forgotten, But worlPs;livej after them in the- 1 hiemories' bf rold'i'de£ti-| ties. The Borough "Council meetings are? be^ominp^subijepts of comment ffipn^^the' '*drspbsifebn*'wfiien counciUbrs ih.6yr'" to'bej (.alway.s onTtheir legSi> They display an; inordinate > predilection for motions and] notices of motion. Inj-fact xmeofr the: devils has thought fit to perpetrate a joke! i qr, jcopy.^soniebody else's (joke^^robab^yi the latter*fn Keadinar the !iatesttrei>orj;cof i the,Gounwl's;proceedings he said the councillors must haye 1 had an ovtTdose of Hollo;??ay'sLpills oß«bmeij;6ther.mU.dapfeient, judging) !hynthd:number > of motions posed, seconded, 15 carried or notified.! ; The. young ster. received aimild rebukbfor! his pains, life xhas been long enough' identified with printer's ink to knowj better] than attempt such a liberty with' thg .graye;deliberations : df Bdroug_h»CoTi|i-j ; cillors. .Bui!it Appears that he had at-: . tended the recent meetings of (the oouncil,! and from arough calculation ho fe§t«n»t#s' 'h'Vi'r '<-iii "«ti -yi^l •■ > 1{"!' Y'f 'Ho.tho;.f ad

that, taking one witk another, councillor* had been ou their leksf aii averse of about twenty times each meeting. The occurrence of fire* at Auckland and the Thames simultaneously has given occasion to ill-natured people to make invidious remarks not complimentary to Auckland. These remarks are scarcely fair, because there is no question that the Thames has a better water-supply than I Auckland, and what is also of conse-quence-there is no petty jealo«#y ♦xigtiag' between the two fire brigades here to interfere witli I their -harmonious working. .Auckland is. getting,tobe known, as the city of fir^es— ijot withput reason. These Calamities are.'so frequent'and so serious that sometimes 1 it lbiiks as if another Cyrus Baiey^haid found a habitation in the pweU:C£hit; b6 that tb'ereUs avlatent elementQof ..combustion, existing in the city—a legacy bfjthe old times when six „o,r »-sefen ; r { Tqlcanoe» [Were continually belching;forth v ihejk streams'of uqu& fire within a radius qf the present city of <Au.qklan;4 p7jv 0 YTl3.i>Xjg iKFiI ■ • Talking ofjfires, who haßtftrrßmarked < the excitement which' prevails amongst a certain class at afiri k andthe nonchalance of: another xehvfi} Mm-i ciwMisijnguish them at once. -Those who get excited aMi rush) madly aboufefa 'Or/ler,^ save people'sproperiy—tjften doingdagwat deal more; Harm thantj good-*are who have a stake somewhere. \Their intention^ are praiseworthy, but their energies* aWo9 frte^etttl^ Mtfiairecfced. ntjtpon doing something, and they Tory 9f^n"^ai3amage™fo"£Beir neighbors' gobaVaria chattels, frequently at tfc.o jijgXjofi.theirTnecVs^or their limbs. On the other handrthere is a class lirho look upon fires as, spectacles provided for $heir. ijntertMnme^t.' They tSrb'cfutbn "tke&ysi ndte. ofMarni Jbeibfe i6sdtaded. rush tothe(Seen? oFtlie rfire\ f'fetene biest position foryeem'^^a £I*l proceed calmly to light their pipes; never leaving .tSheir ptos'tsiunta all !the'ixcttemenf is over. These persons are profuse in l criticisms of the actioi^ of others, and I prone tbgive directions which,^ if acted uppn>r wouldybe d^sa^trpus.r.; No ind,u«enjent is strong enough to ' make them forego the sjMfdtrclej ivwhich the-) nfisfi». tunes of ; others affordsr—They—4jaady little jokes with each other at the efpefse m the disinterested firemen,' anil any ' little contretemp happening-to-the-latter is the signal for>merriment vamongst these drones. *,Happily the^class^ ii M »ot-a numerous one, but it exists for all "that, [and the. experience of, the veriest, novice is'sufficientto conMA £he Aass^B vthat such men are to-be on all occasions of a fire"; — The lamentable death of a p<i6r miner, and^ the. difficulty which' his sumring friends,', experienced, 4n r procuring. ,the services of 'some. r reverbid gentleman to utter a prayer over his grave, have caused some sensation. The refusal of the priest to administer the last rites of th 6 Ckurch to which deceased was supposed to belong, has been the means of causing some ' odium to attach to the said priest. But the case is not an exceptional one. Such things ha^e occurred before, and will occur again. It is one of 'those incidents which erop'.up oqca'sionally in every community, and the blame (if any) should not be laid at the 'd,oor^of, those who are;the ministers of an uncompromising hier--archy,-butshould JieJLevelled at the system. 1 Bo JVono was:kind<eiimgh ,to}tell Kaiser William that "the Church" .^laimed^as'iiis'own. aljl who;^adsbfon baptised. How, therefore, can a man be ;" .without the • ,pale of the phurch if he has b^en - baptised, even though he .may notjiav.econform*d,to allr the ttsagosfand requirements of that Church P The situation is.-perplexing.><' Some persons look upon; the> last rites' a? a conventifcoality— ■ not of any direct or indirect' benefit, out as savoring more- of expediency 'than necessity. These rites show the line of demarcation 1 be 1 tween the decent burial of a Christian andjhe putting out of sight of a. mere animaly^hejtfindency of the age is towards a different mode of disposing of-tmnmxrtal remams~of poor humanity. Incremation would^necesss/ily-render obsolete burial-rites as £at present' practised, but until something else is substituted surviving relatives' naturally look to the £!hurch ; f<>F, th«_de^nt v) Bepulture > of t the A case of r ptculiar 1 hardship occurred recently. The directors of a certain gold* mining company met.' 1 ThAt) are reported JtO.possess anjff6& of %rrmnn l^Tg« 4mm|g^ for a Rinall sheep, walk, and .they, had • tak*n advantage of the Actho ike upmost limitpwaitingfor^somethrrig -to'turn up. Jti became 1 necessary/ to [make; ft call' or run the chance oi forfeiture. Well, three , ors of, five of these directp^ soi it is said. '/reifplyed urwin' making 'an 'eujxieenpenny call, and they did so, the,^therc;dire^tqra having quiedy, to submit. rf ' pany's scrip is ' W 'thousands, and not <rvery>idely distributed; the call was a hfeary one, and thfere(is a disposition to quit that scrip. So lone as tioetnininc^ •area-was only a pastuntge^orifoats theiP was not much feairbr official ageat's eon* tingeocies.-but mak4fg a call vid starting work involves^oeHttnv'tesj^sitiilities; hence .the opposition «f the two, duseetom. 'Mining ventnreg aYe risky matters to go into, under certaia circumstances.- Them is not sucHVahowof u dummying" worthless scrip as theref used' to be before the new, Aot, cam©; into 1 force. vjAn3.'ff«for a Dit of 1 go(^ 5 eround^tnera. ire T men on the field wh6 Tcnow 1 every! inch of knd -iikely-to be of any good—Who~holds ithow long.t^ey ca^oldiii/witheut work. \n%, and all the other trifling minutin I wuich enables men oecMioaall^ti>^l|ake a rise 'by afortunate'hit in pegging or jump* ; ing/i (ThQLeighte«np«nny eaU 'was -rather hard upon some, but they, appear to have survived it.- nH .? /rIJ« / IST