CHAPTER XII.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 176, 24 June 1873, Page 3

CHAPTER XII.

But tbat it cats our victual, I should think Hero, were a fairy. 4 "Who arc you. and what wo you doing her© ? ' eavd Owen, litting upright, and looking at tbe wan who wai groaning.

' Water jou want, do you ? How will I get any down hero . Where do jou keep it > Have }au n cask of bragat here, or any mead ? Are you a Bonmn, \wr\\ ips. or oKO , ot tUe Gwylliaid co him* niul have loubeen here a hundred years, op more, perhaps •' (_, ( _, . , ' I'm an Engli&hm'in,' t-aid n faint husk} \<>ia\ I v<? had a fall, and am dym-;, and 1 want water, water!' Ui9 voice was 10.-t m the s,m»gle m ln» throat! and Owen, recalled to tho actual existing world, bc^un to look about ■ him, to see if he o.jhl 1 find -any water Theie was in ono I corner a small well, inclosed by shaped stones, full to t.io brim with clear, euld pellucid water. Ho brought noinc water in tho palms of his hands, nnd moistened tho lips and bathed tho face of the man who was lung there. ' Thank you, thank you ! Now, if jou could move mo so that my weight shall not fall upon this arm, which is crushed underneath me. — There, ah ! ' Gerard Robertson groaned with pain, but, place 1 m a inorc easy position, his arm straightened ovit, his b'ick. supported by a stone, began to feel more comfortable— almost happy. Was there not plenty of w ater to be had now 9 No longer would he be tormented with the trickle of the stream he could not reach. ' What may your name be, young mnn 9 said Owen, alter he had tended him, ' and where do jou come from? My name is Gerard Koberlson.' ' Cant punt yrwovr > ' (a hundred pounds reward ) Ive found him, Miss Winuy, bach. Cant punt !' shouted a fine voice above their head. A moment after, a dark ungainlj form came sliding down the loose gravel into the cave. 'Hollo' Oh en, are you lost too in the mountains.'' l>iao >ul 111 find you for nothing, as jou're such an old friend ; but i u have a hundred pounds for finding the young Sais. lhink of that, O\\Qi\,bach.' ' I found him first,' cried Owen. 'If there s a reward at all, it belongs to me, to say nothiog of your being tho richest man in Cierininn, and I only a poor parson. But Winny Kov. lands now descended into the cave, and , put a stop to tho squabble about the reward. ' How s> all we get him out of this,' she cried. Owen, run and bring your dog-cart j there is a track almost all the way If we take out the seat, and let him lie on the bottom, it will be better than putting him into the carnage, where he would be all doubled up Come, Owen— come, doctor '

Ni:w Zealwd Maid Skrtasts.— The following is from Mr Anthony Trollope's book, "Australia and ISVw Zealand : " — " The one great complaint made by the ladies who-occupy these houses— the one sorrow, indeed, of the matron; of New Zealand— arises from the dearth of maid servants. Sometimes no domestic servant cau be had at all, for love or money, and the mistress of the bouse with her daughters, if she Inn c nny, is constrained to cook the dinner and make the beds Sometimes a lass who knows nothing will consent to come into a bouse and'be taught how to do house-work at the rate of £10 per annum, with a special proviso that she is to be allowed to go out on two evenings a week to learn choral singing in the music hall By more than two or throe ladies my°s>mpathy was demanded on account of these sufferings, and I was askod whether a country must not be in a bad way in which the ordinary comfort of female attendance could not be had when it was wanted. Of course I sympathised. It is hard upon 1 pretty young mother witli three or four children that she should be'left todocverythingforlierself. But I could not help suggesting that the young woman's view of the case was quite as important as the matron's, and that if it was a bad place for those who wanted to hire maid servants, it must bo a good place for the girla who wanted to be lured. The maid servant's side of the question is quite as important as the mistress's. The truth is, that in such a town as Christchurch a girl of twenty or twenty-three can earn from £30 to £10 pounds a year and a comfortablo home, with no oppressively hard work ; and if she bo w ell-conducted and of decent appearance, she is sure to get a husband who can keep a house over her head. For such persons ISew Zealand is a paradise. It is not only that they get so many nioro of the good tilings of the world than would ever come in thoir way in England, but that they stand relatively m so much higher a position in reference to the world around them. The very tone m which a maul servant speaks to yon in New Zealand" her quiet little joke, her familiar smile, her easy manner, tell youat once that the badgeof servitude isnot heavy upon her. She takes your wages and makes } our bed and hands your plate— but she does not consider herself to be of an order of beings different from jour order. Many who have been accustomed to be served all their lives n ay not liLe this. If so, thoy had better not live' m New Zealand. But if wo look at the matter from the maid servants side we cannot fail to find that there is much comfort in it. I would advise no young lady to go out to any colony either to get a husband or to be a governess, or to win her bread after any so-called lady-liko fashion. She may suifer much before she can succeed, or may probably fail altogether. But any wellbehaved young woman who now earns £16 as a housemaid in England would find in New Zealand a much happier home.

Tennis.— A character of much celebrity mmc History 01 "Tennis" has just died in Paris. "Lo perc Barre— le vieux Bajre — Papa Barre," by -which various names he was affectionately known, was the best living player of the game upwards of 50 years ago, and attained a pitch of excellence never reached by any rival. The few Englishmen who know the little tennis-court which nestles like an orangery in the north-west corner of the Tuilenes gardens, a court which for its perfect proportions as well es the comfort of its internal arrangements has unluckily no counterpart in England, will miss him on their next visit. Ho has flourished through many historical vicissitudes. He was by turns, the French papers tell us, appointed " pamnicr," a " professor," .rather than a marker of the game, to Charles X., Louis Philhppe, and Napoleon III. ; and enjoyed a pension of 1200 francs annually. With the siege and the overthrow of the Empire ended his long career of prosperity, and ho died, it is to be feared, as many have done, from the privations winch he endured, shut up within the walls, during that fatal winter. He was much in England, where he found of late years worthier opponents than among his own countrymen, among whom the game has fallen into such disuse that one court in Paris and one at Fontainbleau are all that remain of the number whose name was legion. If we cannot quite endorse the statements of a French paper that "he was invited to stay with the great nobles who have tennis-courts in their castles, and often played at Windsor before the Queen and Court with the Prince of Wales, himself a noble plajcr,' we fully agree that he was tho greatest player in Europe, probably, tb.ut has been or will bo. Ten years ago, old as he then was, it was wonderful to see him matched with Tomlnns, to whom at one time, >ye believe, he could " give halffifteen," as ho could to Masson, the most slilful of his French predecessors Lambert, the present marker r.t Lord's, and now the first living player, would, it was believed by many, have been an even match for him at his best, but the question is an open one — Pall Mall Gazette.

The Jesuits and their Tevching:s.— Dr dimming, the prophet, of Crown court, says the Catholic Opinion, lins been lecturing at Leamington on a congenial theme which allow ed free scope to his wild imagination, namely, "the Jesuits and their Teachings " He asserted that lie possessed c\ ldcnce " that Roman Catholic associations, such as thoso over which Archbishop Manning and Bishop Ullathorne presided," were designed to induce sovereigns nnd ministers to aid in ti.e restoration of the secular power of the Pope. To his intelligent audience— and we trust it was a verj full one for the benefit of the speculation— the doctor may have seemed a marvellously clever man, inasmuch as he had contrived to possess himself of such evidence, but we may inform them that, for the comparatively small sum of one penny, they could have had as much knowledge at first sight from a daily paper, or for nothing, by asking any associate. Dr Cumming accidentally expressed an opinion that " the Jesuits were nt the bottom of many of the agitations and strikes throughout the country." Mr Whalley has so few ideas that it is actually unfair to quoto him thus without acknowledgment. Catholic associations, according to the same recondite authority, failing to restore the temporal power, through the intervention of States, are " designed, by allying themselves " with revolutionary societies, to convulse the countries they could not conciliate!" Our difficulty is to discover when Dr dimming is foretelling nnd when dealing with plain facts According to his own showing, the stubborn world and its divergent politics have ©utlived their allotted time ; nnd, perhaps, his present intention is to " convulse " with laughter the people he could not destroy— with a prophecy. Time, his great foe, always falsifies his predictions ; and we can onlj deal with his statements when he condescends to deal with facts.

COBIOUB DISCOVEBIES IN IiOME — iiniUDgst »>»""J «' curious objects lately found in the excavations of Rome are portions of a net found at tho Esquilinc, pieces of woollen blackened by time, and baring tho appearance of contact with fire, but still preserving their elasticity, and the remnants of a straw mat much discolored. These objects were found in a largo room in which a public wash-house is bupposed to have been established. A Chinese paper, the lining Dragon, was carried onfor some time in London under English superintendence. No* wo are to have a Japanese puper, under a Japanese proprietor and editor, who will liave the assistance of the Ecv Mr Summei ■ tho Professor of Japanese at King's College, It is named the Tat S/iei Shimbum, or Great Western Neics, and is to bo illustrated This journal is to publish the writings of the numerous Japanese now in England and America, and thus to rommutiiealo their observation* on Western proceedings to their country men at liomp. Die number of these Japanese n eat i mated at 700, and a large proportion of them are students. We had a specimen of one of these the other day in connection with the missionary question. A good many reasons may be gi\en why a ship is, by common consent, designated as of tho female gender. Another has just turned up. No, it isn't because she is in stays, nor nnytliiiij,' of the kind. It is because so much attention has to be paid to her rigging.

* 'Ked' banditti, or wild men who flourished among the mountains temp. Henry Vlll.— the tradition of whom is still existing.

" My bruddcrs," said a waggish colored man to a crowd, " ni all affliction, in all ob your troubles, dar is one place you can always find sympathy." "Whar? wlmr ? " shouted several. "In the 'd.ctionary," ho replied, rolling his eyes .-kvwards. A ne\>ly-married gentleman and lady riding m a cliaiso were unfortunately ovcrLurned. A person coining to^ their assistance observed it was a very shocking sight. "Very shocking indeed," replied the gentlcr.un, "to s>oo a newhniarned couple fjll out so soon." " Poor Dick I how sadly lie is altered since his mm ri \go < ' remarked one friend to another.— " Why, yes, o( ooui&e," replied the other ; " directly a m.m's neck is in tho mipti il noose, evcrr one must see tliat he's a lialtered p«i=on." Wit loses its respect with the good when seen in company with malice ; and to smile pt tho jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to "become a principal m the mischief. " P.vy mo that s.ix-and-eiglifpcnce you owe, Mr M.ulrooaey," said a Tillage attorney — " For what ? "—"" — " For tho opinion you had of me." — " Faith, I ne\cr had any opinion ofyoujin all my life." Mrs Malapiop has taken a fancy for " congested " milk. It was Sheridan who said to the tador that asked him for at least tho interest of bis bill, " It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest." " My son," said a tutor of doubtful morality but severe aspect^ puttmg his hand on the boy's shoulder, " I believe S.itan has got hold of you." " I believe so too," was the reply. A C\pitvl LiSTEVini —The Auditor-General.