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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 15 September 1893, Page 15

Farmers and agriculturists generally should make provision for the approachiDg harvest by ordering of Messrs Morrow, Bassett and Co, the McCormick reaper and binder— for which the firm are agents. The machine combines everything necessary to insure 1 s perfection," and i's use must, in all casee, be attended with the utmost satisfaction. Farming implements and machines of all kinds may also be obtained of the firm od the most favourable terms possible.* The D.I.C , High and Rattray streetp, Dunedin, are now showing a stock unrivalled both for ex'ensiveress and quality. It embraces everything needed to furnish a house, whatever may be the style n quired, as well as drapery and milinery of the choicest and most excellent descriptions. The Indigestion Mixture prepared by Mr G. ];. Warbnrton, Timaru, is highly recommended as a must successful remedy, Mr Warburton's corn solvent is also well deserving of a trial. Having just visited the principal European cathedrals, write*, a certain Protestant clergyman, I am forced to give the palm to the cathedral uf Cologne. It is, in its stupendous size, its unbroken unity of idea, and its harmonious symmetry, the masterpiece of its kind in all the world. How such a colossal pile, with such an endless variety of individual design, could have been so blended as to produce this perfection of symmetrical art cannot but excite our admiration and astonishment. In the Cologne cathedral it would really seem as though the creative genius of man had attained its height, to attempt to vie with or surpass which were hopeless. It 1a the sentiment of religious adoration embodied in matchless stone. Is a man who quotes Shakespeare in a public house drunk ? Sir John Bridge, at the Bow-street Police Court, says that when a man came to quoting poetry in a public house it was a pretty sure tiga thut he was drunk. Mr Henry Irving says that Shakespeare inspires us with sympathy, tolerance, serene and sustaining wisdom. Whom are we to believe, the magistrate or the moralist? From John Bronehton quoting Shakespeare at the Griffin inn to Henry Irving in the role of Cardinal Wolsey at the Lyceum is a far cry. But perhaps John Broughton in the tap-room of the Griffin was animated with au artistic long'ng to impart to his fellow-topers the moral strength of sympathy which Mr Irving so much admires in Shakespeare. At any rate Broughton might be engaged in a much worse way than quoting Shakespeare. In an article on Home Rule, which he has contributed to the Pall Mall Gasettc, Lord Salisbury writes : " I believe tlm our most sensible blow will be felt in India and our Asiatic colonies," and he goeß on to explain why trese same colonies will demaud what Ireland has obtained; ani presently, not content W uh tha', like the >oung crow in the fable will as-k for more. As a matter fact it is the concession of Home Rule to our colonies that tjas retained them within the Empire and knit them in the closest bonds with these islands. If the right had been refused 10 Canaia and the Auwtrahau colonies, it cannot be doubted that the ties which bind them to the Government would l.ng since have been severed. Had the United States been granted the same concession in the days of George 111. they would in all probability now form a portion of the Bntish Empire. Lord Salisbury advocates for Ireland a policy similar to tl at by which they were alienated and lost, but fortunately bis fossilised opinions have little weight with the enlightened an} tolerant democracy in who'.e hands the destinies of Great Britain and Ireland rest. — Liverpool Catholic Times.