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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3160, 24 September 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

The financial exhibit of France for the year 1891 shows an excess of 84,000,000 francs in the revenue over tho expenditure . An anti - socialist of Dunedin denies that the author of the Sermon on the Mount was a socialist, for if he had been ha would have told the parable of the Prodigal Son differently, something like this :—A certain man had two sons, the younger a well, who said " Give me my portion and let me go." The father divided his goods between thorn, and the younger wont hU way and spent his all in i-iotoxs living. After a while he 3aid " I will arise and go to my father, and say ' Let us divide again, for so it seemnth right and lawful in my s'liht."' And he did. and the father divided his goods a seennd time. And again the younger went his way rejoicing, and had another re;il good time of it. Again he said ; " I will arise and have the old man divide again," and ha did. Thfln the eldest said to hi 3 father : " Thi9 is gptting warm ; let ns g" into a far country, for peradventure he will return a fourth time." And they up sticks and made tracks. The younger having enmn t) himself a fourth time, said : " T will arise and go home ; peradventure there may bßßomethingleft to diviJ«." And he did bo, but found nothing. So he called together his neighbours and old hnyhood friends who had saved their substance for cheir children and old age, and he said unto them : " Come let ns reason together and divide, seeing that you have so much of this world's goods." But his fri?nds didn't see it. So he went away sorrowful, and communed with himself, saying ; " I am too proud to beg, also too Frightened to steal, and likewise too lazy to work. I will become a secretary to a trides union, and peradventure I may be sent to Parliament.'' Verily he did this thing, and ho waxed fatter every day,