Miscellaneous Extracts.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1822, 19 April 1886, Page 2

Miscellaneous Extracts.

We reprint an extract from the New Zealand Herald with fear and trembling, fear lest the booksellers should be rushed for a copy of the picture mentioned, trembling as to what the resulis may be to the purchasers, and also to ourselves should the general average not be maintained. Our contemporary says : When speaking of children thefollowing incidents are well worth recording A settler at Waiomo, Thames, had a latge number of girls, and the parents were greatly disappointed at never getting a boy. Some of the Christmas numbers of the Graphic of the year before last had very nice illustrations, one of them being” A Boy at Last.” The nurse was shewing the little stranger to an admiring bevy of sisters, little and big. A friend in Auckland sent a copy of that paper to the settler referred to, as a suitable reminder, and the result is, that about a month agohis wife, to her irrepressible delight presented him with a fine boy. Again, a lady in Parnell, who also had a lot of girls had a copy of the same paper sent her, having the similar result.

THE SALVATION ARMY. The wonderful progress of Salvationism was alluded to by ‘‘Major’ Barritt in his recent adress at the Tnames He said : "Three years ago there was only four Salvation Army corps and twelve officers in New Zealand. Now there are thirty-five corps, with seventy outposts, numbering in all 5000 enrolled soldiers commanded by eighty officers. These were men and women, the majority of whom had pledged themselves to abstain from all intoxicating liquors and not to smoke one more pipe of tobacco ('Hallelujah ’). The Army was the greatest temperance organisation in the world, and he did not say it in a boasting spirit. They numbered j,oooofficers and 485,000 soldiers all pledged to sweep the liquor traffic away from the face of the earth. 'There were 2,500 corps. The Army has gained a footing in thirteen countries, and they published eight* een different ‘War Cries,' with a circulation in England alone of more than half a million per week, while the weekly circulation of the New Zealand' War Cry' was 14,000 copies. The paper did not contain a single advertisement, and had refused an offer from one firm of £IOOO a year for one column of the 'Cry' for advertising purposes.”

THE CODLIN MOTH. The following from a Hobart newspaper is interesting for the light it throws on the codlin moth question, and the effect of its restrictions on the importation of fruit to New Zealand •—"We are now in the midst of the hop harvest, and the yield appears in most instances to be rather above the average. These is also an abundant supply of fruit, but in consequence of the stringency of the regulations enforced in New Zealand ports, with the view of preventing the introduction of codlin moth, the growers in many instances do not know what to do with it. Large quantities are shipped to Sydney by every steamer, but the prac'ical closing of New Zealand ports against Tismanian fruit is a -m i unis blow to the .powers. Hitherto the codiin-rnotii has hemi limited to a smad aic.i around Hobait and the suburbs and it is believed by some experts that it is introduced in ihe manure that is put on the ground. Soino colour is given lo tins belii i bv the fact ih.ii the Sloney Steps orchard, dis! ,Nt n it mi <>■•: than two miles from I lodarl, never his ,mv manure pul on it, an I has always been perfeetlv tree from co Inn moth.. JUI’KNALIoM Ihe requirements of journalism and the peculiarities of the law ftl 1,1. : ~ :>• ie great delicacy of cxpiessuui in new -paper men. A man is caught with in, hand in a citizen's pocket, ami the careful reporter records the fact as alleged laro m In -m the person” A ratepayer is nbseivci driving into the Thames with Ins cl tires on and this is reported as "suspected suici le ' An ingenious trader is detected dropping a lighted match in his primuses just htlore closing up, which is marked down a u " supposed incendiarism.” Their feeling- are spread, and the public getbill the interesting facts, which a reservation in favour of possible innocence. A recent instance ot this journalistic delicacy refers to " the lady who was taken drunk out. ot a cab yesterday with /coo worth of jewellery on her. ' The tribute to the social position of the heroine of the episode thus conveyed must be very gratifying to the persons interested, and will no doubt be pointed to with pride in years to come as a sou of official recognition. Compare the above with the matter-of-fact callousness to rank dispiave 1 in tin* following advertisment : " Wanted cabman that removed sewing machine, bedding and female, on Monday, from -siiei-t. Reward. 1 ’ This simply degrades the human being referred to below the level ol the brute creation ; in fact bexond the level of the sewing machine. A practised journalist would have advertised for " ihe gentleman who was alleged to have driven a cab containing a supposed lady and a suspected sewing machine.