What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1949, 3 April 1875, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

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

If what everybody says be true there are not a few in this community who have • had to summon all the Mark Tayleyism they could command to their aid during the last week. Dull timesvery dull times—may be endured for a season, but the constant strain upon men's nerves begot of anxiety as to the state of their banking accounts is apt to overtask men of ordinary calibre, and not a few have been brought face to face with very disagreeable probabilities. No doubt it will all be right in the end. Is not Ohinemuri open ? They say so, but as yet the results haven't begun to tell. Polite notes on very thin paper from those useful but much abused institutions the banks are about as powerful things to upset a good digestion as any man could wish for. They are not to be put off. Excuses are useless. " The heart knoweth its own sorrow:" if the worst has been staved off for a season, it may return in a more aggravated form; so, for goodness' sake, you miners, be quick and get gold at Ohinemuri. Once before the gold saved the place. The Caledonian relieved the pressure then; which mine or claim or district is to do it next ? If something doesn't turn up where will everybody be in a few months ? Putting the screw on is the order of the day, and..the screw is irresistible when once applied. [ .•; Some, people can take things easy. They are people of a happy disposition— fatalists or s6mething of that iind. If they make a mess of business they-turn, up all right some, time after. One individual who had the screw put on once upon a time adopted an ingenious mode of saving something from the wreck of what he had made persons believe was a decent piile. He was prepared for the worst. Some agent in the shape of a simpleminded bum-bailiff had been put in possession of the business, which was an. "emporium of fashion "—a place where any specimen of tlie gjeniis homo from,a four year old to a sixteen stone man could be fitted wi|h store clothes. The trader pretended to submit to the authority of the man in possession, but he often visited thfe emporium. In fact he oscijlated between the store iliat once was his and his place of residence, each time he left the store he being noticeable for an increased bulk. By dexterously putting himself inside a new suit or two on each visit he managed to secure in a few days stock enough to make a fresh start &s soon as ever the formalities attending the legal process had been completed. He deserved all he got for his ingenious idea, blithe ran great risks in carrying it out, and it might not be safe for any one to become an imitator under similar circumstances. All--- bailiffs are not so-blind ■ as the one pur clothier friend had to do with. Being met by an acquaintance one day on leaving the store, looking very bulky, in reply _lo an enquiry as to what was wrong with him, what, he was doing, he said, with the greatest show of unconcern* that he was " stock taking." "So he was. He took a considerable quantity of ; stock in a very short time, and his creditors were never the wiser;

A person of the loafing fraternity has lately been taking in people in the South by very simple means, which, in fact, appear to be the most efficacious with some unsuspecting, individual*. The one in question, not liking work and ashamed to beg, managed to get tsjn for some time on an order to the following purport—" Please give Mri Blank all he wants." No signature was i

attached, but so guileless were the victims that the perpetrator of the fraud got what he wanted for some time. But some one possessed of ordinary caution wanted to know who had given such a vague order without giving his name, and then -the impostor came to grief. He got ijfat he didn't want—a term of imprisonment, during which he will no doubt be able to mature some other plan of procedure. He must be very barren of resource if he cannot hit upon a better one than that which he is now expiating by the hard labor that,he so much disliked. .