Friday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 30, 23 November 1883, Page 11

Friday.

The jusfcsonl .of the Hoji/BTr, Dick must feel vexed beyond expression under the toying circumstances in which he finds himself. Notwithstanding ail bis legislation, and all his eloquent denunciators, a whole nest of wbaf he looks upon ,-.s vultures has beeu discovered m Dunedip 2 he police, in fact/a week or two ago, made a raid upon an establishment ia Kattray street, and yesterday the decision or ihe Resident Magistrate in the City Police Court bore them out in their contention that they had come upon a gambling club, and arrested a goodly number of its frequenters, the occupier of the house being fined £50 with costs or two months' imprisonment with hard labour, and the visitors found in the place 20s. each. Bat the serious question now is what is to be done. A great many things ' onT W ° ut *? us * hat S ambli °g ia going on as briskly as ever, and probably, owing to the secrecy that necessarily surrounds it with much more danger of mischievous results. The consultation swindles that have lately taken place in Melbourne, moreover, tend to confirm such a view. What seems completely certain is that the legislation in which Mr. Dick took a prominent part ha? so far signally failed to crush the vulture spirit of which the honourable gentleman touchingly complained, and it is much to be doubted whether even a stricter code of laws would in the future bring about £ iT£ £ things. There is, however, one resource left by wnicn the honourable gentleman may consistently with his inner man strive to overcome the evil. There the tract— Would it not be well to try its efficacy on the erring minds of the gamesters ? Mr. Dick is now acquamtedwith the names of several gentlemen who have not been reformed by the law ; let him supply them with the saving literature m which he, no doubt, has the utmost confidence, and see it it will not do that which the law has failed to do. If the tbin°\ in tact, were weLl managed, every one of those erring souls might be made a centre of reformation, and tracts should not be spared in an attack on the raw material. Our contemporary the Saturday Advertiser has issued this week two excellent lithographs, the one of the House in which Luther was born, and the other of an allegorical lion, or an allegorical lawyer, for we hardly know which. The pictures, however, are extremely well executed and some people, perhaps, might feel disposed to wonder at the decent appearances-presented by the Luther domicile,— but, then, they should remember that the f uture apostle was there only m a state of original sin, and that could not have left a- leprosy in the walls. The other picture is also quite as well done, and much more striking. It is, however, only natural to expect that the reformers of the future should have more " go" in them than those of the past. It is a very terrible looking lion, and none the less terrible than it is in extremely good condition-in fact, it looks as well-fed as if it had just gobbled up-let us say-a whole batch of poor Mr. Bradlaugh's persecutors, and as terrible as if it was looking out, with its teeth all newly sharpened, for another batch. The lion, liowever, is allegorical, as we said, and is representative of Mr. Stout in nis combat against dummyism, in which we very heartily wish him success. Master John Rose, aged 15, and the son of highly respectable parents, has been remanded by the Bench at Wanganui for medical examination The youth had "raised Cain" in a promiscuous sort of manner all over the town and district, ringing the fire bell, setting nre to a farm house, stealing boots, playing the mischief in a school bouse, and performing otber feats. a™ ?? sides Mr - Cmp, the lightning at lnvercargill killed a farmer's daughter named Kilpatnck, aged 12, who was returning with her si&ter from school, and took shelter in a barn belonging to Mr Fraser at Forest Hill.-Mr. Fraser at the same time havtagWlowS extremities paralysed— and a boy named Macgregor, aged 14 The rebellion in Servia is rapidly extending. News is to hand that a most formidable rising has occurred. All available troops have been sent to suppress it. p An accident occurred the other day near Springfield to the coach from Cbristehuich to Greymouth. Owing to some derangement oi tne harness the horses swerved and became entangled in a barbed wire fence, by which they were much cut, being only released by the passengers breaking the wires. A subscription was made amon» tne passengers to reward the driver for his conduct on the occasion ° Ihe Morning Herald gives the following items :— Mining at the -tfannockburn is going on steadily, and now the Carrick waier has come m nearly all the sluicing claims are in full swing.— There is nothing new from any reefs at the Carrick Eange. The Star of the ■&ast tunnel is in about 260 ft., and is expected to strike the reef in about another month. The Royal Oak tunnel is now in over 70Gft and it is in very hard country. It is supposed to be the old^Welcome'*' Dar that proved such a tough obstacle to prospecting the ground years ago. This company deserves success, as they have unobtrusively worked on for a long time in the hope of cutting the Heart of Oak 80ftllelonBMt ' ifnot theloDgest ' prospect -