What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1985, 15 May 1875, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

" In multitudo of counsellors there is safety."' —OiiD Proverb,

Tairua and Ohinemuri. One down t'other come up. These places Iceep everybody on the gui vive, and their respective merits are canvassed daily and nightly in the places where men, most do congregate. Tairua is slightly in the ascendant, but Ohinemuri has its backers;' and if a disinterested opinion could' be evolved out of the mass of conflicting testimony, it is that between the two something will turn up in the spring. Well, it doesn't matter very much where it does turn up, so that it turns, for everybody is beginning to tire just a little of the existence which is prolonged by. great expectations. Even the threatened litigation, will be:"a" relief—when it commences. This same business has been not a little discussed; lately. The lucky fellows who pegged out the Tairua are even envied for the part they will play, and so: little is thought by many persons of the chances of the litigants that some of the needy everyb'odys say they would only like to take the chance of the Tairua Company people. It was thought that jumping was cookedv but it appears that something very like it is possible, and has been attempted. - , • ■ ■ ••. Cremation of the remains of. poor humanity is not a nice idea under any circumstances, especially; when proposed to be carried out in the centre-of a, populous district. Boiling down establishments are generally relegated to the country, and the same with burning down furnaces where animal matter is proposed to be dealt with. Yet it is said a local company on the Thames have it-in serious contemplation -to erect a furnace for the disposal of human remains in opposition to the old fashioned system in vogue of burying. It'may be;only a rumour, but rumour is very busy and says that the building, of the cremation house has been resolved upon. It may be that some one has been struck i with a brilliant idea of utilising! the gases of the dead. In conjunction with the distillation of coal such an idea might be made feasible enough to dividend "seeking shareholders, but how about the survivors ? Gas of extra .brightness might be put down to the credit?of some;one* who had gone to the spirit land, and on the contrary,: poor; stuff / would evoke comments unfavorable, to the dear departed. No; the thing wont work no how. Everybody has heard Miss Grace Egerton and seen her wonderful talent in the asumption of character, ■< but the " oldest inhabitant " will scarcely remember her former visit to the Thames; yet we are told that she will make her reappearance this evening after an absence of nine years. Nine years, ago, the site of the :Academy of Music was a swamp— or at most a pumpkin patch; Grahamstown did not exist, and Shortland was not discovered. Perhaps Miss Egerton's former visit was^ to the Natives expressly.; If so our Maori friends will roll up in strength to greet the reappearance of so fair an arartist; at anyrate they ought toroll up, because as lords of the soil they should be foremoat in patronising the fine arts in whatever guise presented. They liko amusement, these landlords of ours, and if they cannot exactly appreciate the niceties of acting, they are not insensible to the attractions of the stage. If they can't enjoy all that is provided for them, they can at least affect to do so; which is much the. same. .

' If Mr Darrell should feel called upon t« make a farewell - speech to-night, let him take a word of advice from everybody. Don't, Mr Darrell, fall into the error attributed to yoii^in Auckland of saying that your company is the. best ever got together in New Zealand. If you did say that—and the papers so reported you —you made a great mistake, and showed one of two things: either that you are not a competent judge of what is best, or that your experience of companies in New Zealand was insufficient to base an opinion upon, No doubt the company is very good—better than good, in fact; and everybody acknowledges that, as a fact which does not require reassertion. But -there be somo who think more amusement and instruction would have been afforded during the last fortnight if the ..company had had a better show of appearing in their (to most of them, including Mr JJarrell) legitimate business j which everybody makes bold to say is light comedy, farce and burlesque.. However/with everybody, it is this : they "pays their money and takes their choice " of seeing low comedy men and utility people in heavy pieces—legitimate and illegitimate "—■or- staying away. Everybody is sorry you are going away, and hopes as how if you come again you (Mr Darrell) will appear in your old form, and give " Walking the Zoo ". and " Act j on the Square," with a familiar appeal to the pit-ites Ito assist you in the chorus, j There are a few insignificant individuals who will remember the old* days associated with these songs when the present " season" has faded from their memories Couldn't you give them a taste of the old strain to-night ? If you did you would get a " round " which would make you forget for a moment the triumphs of later days in the recollection of former success.

A smart thing is said to have been done lately in the way of pegging. A well known individual went out t0.." peg," but he had become fatigued on his journey and went into a convenient place to refresh his inner man before' completing his. pegging. The proprietor was interested in a piece of ground adjacent, and from something which was let drop by the visitor the entertainer got a suspicion that his guest bad sinister intentions with

regard to the particular piece of ground in which he was interested, a legal claim to which, it is alleged, had not been established. Excusing himself to the guest for a moment, entertainer went out by the back door and started his mates to repeg, which they performed with celoritj', ami the would-be jumper is said to have hadhis journey for nothing, although he mado a parade of doing that which he had gone to; do. There are some smart men left here ;yet, and this little episode will perhaps furnish food for the lawyers, who appear to be awaltc to all the moves on the board likely to bring grist to their mill.