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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1886, 20 September 1886, Page 2

The pastor of a colored church at Fort Caines, (ia., succeeded in having the church debt liquidated in a very novel manner. The members had bound themselves under a promise to pay it, and recently the informed them that if they did not pay it at once he would turn them out of the church lor lying. Subsequently each member of the congregation brought ISOdol. and the dabl was paid.

Speaking at Manchester, on the Home Kule question, recently, Mr Gladstone appealed w 8 P ru dence, courage, and sense of honor of mrghshmen, with a view to the solution ol P r °W®ni as provided in bis scheme, and added—lreland is the mistress of tho situation. Ireland is mounted on the back of England as the old man in the “ Arabian Nights ” was mounted on the back ol Sinbad the Sailor. (Laughter) Do you recollect that incident ? (Renewed laughter). 1 hope you have not all of yon given up reading the “ Arabian Nights ; " it is a great pity if you have. (Laughter). I will read a passage from it. Sinbad is upon one of his islands. He sees the venerable looking old mao, and invites him to get on his back. The old man mounts accordingly. He takes him wherever he wishes to go. I'm at last he begins to wish that the old gentleman would dismount. " I said to him, • dismount." ’ He made the demand—a very modest one—" dismount at thy leisure,’ ” but ho would not get ofi my back, and wound Ins legs muud my neck. I was afflighted and would Lave cast him oil, but he clung to me and gripped my nock—(laughter)—with his logs till i was well nigh choked. The world grew black in my sight, and I fell senseless to the ground like one dead." Siulmd is the Parliament ol England. The old man is Ireland, who we, by our foolish initiative, have almost compelled to pi tee herrtif upon oar backs; and aha rides you, and she will ride yon, until, listening to her reasonable demands, yon shall consent to some arrangement that justice and roKro alike say are right. The proprietorship of love letters has ki for ever aet at rest in England, three ol tha Lord Justices declaring that Vac letters belong to the writer, who, i« o'ses of estrangement. ®»y demand and. receive them baek. provided they have not been destroyed. T,wdia. m.. write in them whatsoever non sente that may ase fit, with the full assurance that they cannot be published without their oonamt,. nor can they be sold or * >i *rr«td ol ooatrar* to the author's wishss.