SIR WILFRED LAWSON AND THE COCKNEY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 329, 1 December 1879, Page 2

SIR WILFRED LAWSON AND THE COCKNEY.

At a public breakfast at Greenock Sir \J ilfnd Lawson said that he did not know that he was looked upon as such a monster until the other day, when he happened to beat a roadside station near London. A number of people were moving about, and. he began to talk to a man on the platform. He thought the man was a Londoner-and Londoners were not always yery intelligent. (Laughter.) He began to talk to the man about drink and politics and different things, and he found that the man was much in favor of drink Sir Wilfrid continued-I asked him if ever they had Sir Wilfrid Lawson in these parts? He replied-" Oh, yes; he is on he platform now." (Laughter.) I said, You don t say that f "Yes," he said -^ .<w, ls i^ M ,l oldhewashere -" Isaid, J Which is he J" and he pointed to a very ugly od man. (Loud laughter.) He said, lhatshim!" I said, " Are you sure?" . On, yes; he was pointed out to me " I " ld j„ "Jhat sort of a fellow is he realyf "myi»hesaid,"look a thiß ml ; I daresay he has had delirium tremens hisself." (Loud laughter.). He seemed to look on me with perfect horror No doubt he had read about me in the newspapers, and looked upon me monster who would "rob the poor roll of his beer." (Laughter.) f

A subscriber to a newspaper died recently leaving four years' subscription unpaid. The editor appeared at the grave, and deposited in the coffin a palmleaf fan, a linen coat, and athermometor. Regarding the Rev Charles Clark, the European Mail mentions that he is living at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, enjoying a wellearned rest during the week, and preaching m one of tho neighboring towns on Sunday. The income of the. King of Portugal is he extravagant sum of £491,000, a twelfth of the whole revenue of the kingdom. Factory operatives in the country can be obtained at sixpence a day, and women and boys for fourpence a At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs Montefiore and Montefiore, of tydney, a house long and extensively connected with the New Caledonian trade the statement shows liabilities £18126 • assets estimated at £19,3G1. OsJ^

made,by the creditors to renew current bills to enable them to tide over their embarrasment, but the firm elects to dissolve partnership, leaving the agency of the Australian Alliance Assurance Company in the hands of one of the firm. Hie firm has large contingent liabilities in connection with unprofitable guano engagements.

The greatest jump ever taken by a race horse was recently taken at Birmingham, England. Dmbjj 5 the jumping contest a the Horse Show, Robert Lemon's hunter, Surrey, ridden by Henry Grayson, made A&f ««sh a splendid jump over the mimic brook as to set the great audience applaud- W mg frantically. The horse, wild with 1 excitement went on. right down the rine I and riamg at the barrier of the amphf- * theatre, with one tremendous bound he literally sailed over the bars and five rows Vj of spectators, alighting in safety and in- ' juring nobody. The distance was measured and proved to be thirty-seven

Writing on the moral and mental effects aays-"Beensbrutalising, wine impassions, whisky infuriates, but ultim#\l v unmans. Alcoholic drinks, ciA&,d with a flesh and fat diet, totally ss|§L the moral man, unless their influellk counteracted by violent exercise But with sedentry habits they produce those unhappy flesh sponges which may be studied in metropolitan public halls, but better yet, m wealthy convents. Tha soul that may still linger in a fat Austrian abbot is functional to his body only as salt is to pork-in preventing imminent putre-

• Ui \ a Lon ( d m on P a P er > gives the follow-ingpictureofTurkeyasitis:-»lhear from Constantinople that the Turkish finances were never in such a deplorable as at the present moment ihereisnotany money whatever in the Treasury The soldierj is clamourinVfor arrears of pay, and threatens to disband ■ Stamboul has been of a truly alarimV character; an outbreak being m l feared. To temporarily meet the diffi culty £IOO,OOO has beenborrowed of £ Impena Ottoman Bank, and £150,000 of the local usurers during the past v?cek,