What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1943, 27 March 1875, Page 3

What Everybody Says.

" In'multitude of 'counsellors there is safety.' —Old Proverb

Sir George Grey had so much io say last'week that there was no room left for what everybody else had to say. But the week, had beei* exceedingly uneventful! " Patrick's Day" had gone by without any attempt at demonstrations.,p£ a holiday character, and as all the "lambs" were at Ohinemuri, the " divarsions" to which resort is occasionally made were honored in the breach and not the observance. For one or two years, on the morning after St Patrick's Day it has been pbsfrved;,that if there was ; a person oeforeitlie lbcal Court'forindiilgence in'; liquor, it was some one hailing from England or Scotland, who, in his wish to^ do honor to St Patrick's Day, eifeee'ded^ the bounds of moderation and rendered «■'. •himselftliable to the penalty or alternative for so doing ■ .- i Thei vacancy* in the Provincial Council, It was thought, wo^d have p'lt a little life into the people this week, but., the f intending candidates appear to be very coy. One don't do anything, publicly until another has done something, and the consequence is that the electors are being cheated out of their rights. No addresses —no public meetings—no nothing in the way of electioneerijng, and ; only a few days to elapse before the nomination. A baker's dozen of candidates are spoken of, but some of them have been included in . the list without so much as "by your leave." lAs the electors have to be wooed, the sooner the aspiramts for political place commence their courtship .the better. \ In-the election of Sir George may have gained a new lease of life. ■ That " young man newly arrived " ; is figuring a little too often in the criminal courts, and if he. don't look ouf he will get a bad name. The " young man newly arrived," with propensities for appropriating.''what isn't his'n " is not peculiar to Auckland Province.; In all the princi - pal towns- he has made his appearance, suggesting that he is übiquitous, or that amongst the immigrants the proportion of young men with predilections for .taking what belongs to others is much tdolarge^ A few severe sentence! may teach these vagabonds a leison. r There are plenty of young men already in the country who prefer picking and stealing to honest labor, and ,to import more of the class at a cost of some twenty or thirty pounds a head is too muck of a good thing. The only way to cure the evil would be to send them to the place, from whence they came. That would be expensive, but it would ba effectual. If that can't be done, a central penal establishment where,„the;f'young^men newly arrived" could be made to work would be useful. Perhaps some of them could be made to pay for their > bringing out and get a lesson which would last them their lives. A few statistics in a tabulated form, of the number of new arrivals who have committed themselves and afterwards been committed by somebody else—the nature of their offences, and punishment awarded, would be interesting -matter for the Agent Generals-perusal. **!he number would astonish him if it goes on long as it has been doing of late. Some Borough Councillors appear to have rather peculiar notions as to their responsibilities. During a discussion on the foreshore question the other nighttme councillor said that any proposal to hand over the foreshore to the Council would meet with his ."uncompromising opposition." If such a statement had been made at a highway board meeting—by a highway-man—one . could; understand it but from a man who has gone into the Council to dohis best for the borough, the speech was, to-say the least, peculiar—not such, as a candidate would make when seeking election, or if he did his chance of return -would be a poor one. If the Borough Councillors as such oppose the handing over of the foreshore, who the deuce can be expected to advocate it, and to whom should it be given ? Sir George Grey has a poor opinion of the Queen's favors of the character lately • : distributed amongst colonial statesmen. It is scarcely probable that his utterances will influence any one in accepting or re- * fusing the preferred-honors, and the neat, ■: little storiesmanufactured for the occasion, of colonists haviniar refused' such honors must be received cum grano. Such a ' thing has been known,- no doubt, as a = colonial politician declining a decoration, but if the truth were known it would probably show that the offer did not go far .enough. A O.M.G. might be considered.as falling short of expectations, while, had a G.C.M.C. been offered, the honor woulch'have been accepted with avidity.' It might, be so. Goodness knows, but most men have their price in -' mon«yorinkind.

Is it Eitualiim, Catholicism or Episcopalianism ? Is it a matter of belief or a matter of taste ?. People would like to know, you know. Yesterday St. George's Church was "draped " in funereal garb; the Catholic church was not. It has generally been thought that. Catholics were more rigid in the observance of Good Friday than their first cousins of the Church of England, but the latter have eclipsed, the former for once. It doesn't matter much if son c people do assume a mourning garb for one day in the year tb celebrate an event which happened over eighteen hundred years ago, but it looks like sailing too close to Jtbe wind to be safe.. (Perhaps this paragraph ought to ljave been kept for the columns of the Church Gazette.)