What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1777, 12 September 1874, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

"In multitude of counsellors there is safety. —Old Provehs Having safely passed through tho exciteineni of an election;'everybody is now engaged, or profesases to ha engaged, in burying the hatchet. This is, no doubt, very magnanimous in those who hare been successful, but it is not so easy for those who have sustained defeat to forget all the pointed little things which hare " been said and written of them. People who go into electioneering are in the habit of giving their consciences a holiday for the time being, and it is a poor consolation to those individuals who have been abused to be told that their, detractors * forgive them. The defeated candidates who affected <o take hard knocks' with a good grace so long as the excitement lasted cannot forget their sensations while under the lash after the excitement has ceased. The hard words rankle and irritate their sensitive skins most when th(j conclusion 13 forced upon them that they have borne it all for nothing! Success is wonderfully mollifying in its effects ; but defeat is hard to bear—harder with gome than- , others—according to the nature of theV' animal. Moral: the man who: ventures into politics should have a skin as thick as an elephant's hide. . A little bit of personation, it is. laid, was cleverly perpetrated at the Municipal election—not amongst the free and enlightened Britishers, but by the w.ly Maoris. The latter gentlemen always realise their importance at election times. If,they haven't a vote they don't, object to use somebody else's vote, especially when detection is difficult, and the prospect of punishment remote. It is said that the votes of twelve dead Maori men and six live females were polled on Thursday, and distributed with that impartiality peculiar to the Maories, whose notions of the best men are mostly formed or directed by the liberality displayed,in dispensing waipero. A worthy candidate for municipal honors was told the other day that he ought to ascend the "stage" and address the electors. His reply was characteristic. He said there were some people who might possessa doubtas to whether he wasa fool, but if he were to attempt any of that kind of business they would no longer have any doubt on the matter. The candidate's disinclination to go on the stump did him credit. While his abilities as a public* speaker may be so-so, the place he occupied in the state of the poll was a flattering testimony to his usefulness as a Councillor: he was not at the bottom of the poll. Te Hira must be rapidly assimilating his habits to those of his previously despised pakeha friends. It is stated on good authority that he has opened a bank- ; ing account at one of the Albert-street establishments, on which he intends to " operate" as occasionjmay require. No office secrets have been disclosed, but the i good authority before referred to says ! that this antiquated specimen of the noble aboriginal has deposited no less a sum, I than £300. It is to be hoped that the old gentleman's education has been sufficiently attended to in the past to enable him to sign his cheques, or difficulties may arise: and it would certainly be . a pity that the esteemed • old chief should be compelled to leave his money in the bank. Put into circulation just now, it would be acceptable, as by all accounts the rex ptcuniarum is decidedly tight; dividends are few, and business is languishing. Couldn't somebody persuade the old gentleman to set up a town establishment ?

, That hospital committee business is not suggestive of the cultivation of social amenities. ' There has been more plain speaking this week—more imputing of motives—more contradictions. < One member of the committee says John Smith stated that the whole' thing was a complete hash, and another member gets up and asserts that he had a vivid recollection of what John Smith said, and he never mentioned anything about th# complete hash. Which is right? Evidently there will be more of this kind of wordy warfare, and when the committee, hare made up their minds '■[• (by which, time everybody will be sick of the whole thing there will be more burying of the hatchet. But in the meantime Committee _ men ought to remember (perhaps they will say they don't require to be told, tins) that they should sink their private feelings and set themselves to the task of putting matters right before the institution they manage suffers in public estimation or credit. . ' '

What went ye but for to see ? or hear ? A sermon; and ye were treated to a lecture. Of course it's no business of mine, but when the lecture 19 made the subject of: newspaper comment ererybody thinks they have a right to talk about it, and the lecture to which some of our friends were treated on last Sunday has been very freely discussed; generally in a manner not complimentary to the lecturer., There is something commendabla, howerer, in performing faithfully what one may con* celre to te a disagreeble duty.