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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 19, 15 September 1898, Page 15

' When a man shows too much virtue, 1 said a moralist, ' I doubt his having any.' Mean it when you're doing it, for no enemy's shot is equal to a weak heart in the act. Absolute power is vexatious in precise proportion to the narrowness of the area over which it is exercised. ' I love to look in the mirror,' remarked Vanity. ' Yes, but you never ace yourself,' said Truth. If, in making your decisions, you are led principally by impulse, or love of ease, or desire of pleasure, your life will get darker, your last day will probably be your darkest — in this life. A gambler will let his wife and children starve, he will starve himseli, and still ri&k his last coin on the hazard of the die, the turn of a card, or the speed of a horse. — G. R. Sims. Work faithfully and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness, not such as can be won by the bpeed of a horse or marred by the obliquity of a ball. — Ruskin. Solemn Office and Requiem Mass was last week offered at St. Francis' Church, Paddington (Sydney) for the repose of the soul of the late Rev. Father Callachor, 0.5.8., whose death took place recently. The three members of the Dominican Order who are to undertake the administration of the parish of North Adelaide, were to have left Ireland on Auerust 11. They are expected to arrive in South Australia next month. Me?srs A. and T. Inglis' establishment has presented an animated appearance during the past week or bo. The spacious buildings seemed to have been the converging point of all the lady residents, young and old, of the city, and all seemed bent on the same purbuit, namely — bargain-hunting. That they were not disappointed in securing their much-desired object was patently manifest to anyone who took up a vantage point in front of the i-hop and watched the eagar looks of the ingoing people contrasted with the smiling triumphant visages on the out-goers laden as they were with plenteous booty. The firm are now opening spring and summer goods in all departments. — 9 9 * M