STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT.

AUCKLAND, N.Z., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1883

RANDOM SHOTS.

[By Zamiel.]

"„ write, a neighbour's namo to lash, S wrtc-vain thought !-for needful cash, X write to please the country clash, SO™ 0 And raise a din. «„, me, an aim I never fash yor mo,» j writo for Jun<

doctrines shed a lurid light „ the Anglo-Irish question—lurid for the t -jl, I mean. According to the views «hjch Mr Farnall is from week to week ex pounding in the lecture hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Irish neopte represent the remnant of the Philis tines of old who were to be a thorn in the ade of Israel in her greatness and pros .oritv Britain, of course, is Israel, and by Sowing the stream of prophecy it will be Men how bad things look for the Philistines, tf the "identity* is considered proved, it Mows *nat witnin a short sPaoe of time Israel and Judah will be completely re onited, and will again posse's Palestine, Ljn which they will rule the world, lijjjael will no longer vex Judah, nor Judah Israel." The Briton will no more despise his Hebrew brother and " spit upon y, Jewish gaberdine ;" and in return the Jeff will no longer take his revenge in the exaction of his bond and the extortion of "Sent per shent." With the complete fulfilment of prophecy there comes the solution of the Irish difficulty. In the re constructed Kingdom of " all Israel" there jhall be no " thorn in the side " to annoy ' tie chosen people. The thorn must be ex tracted, and, as is the fate of thorns, be cast into the fire and destroyed. In the days of Esther we read that " many of the people of that land became Jews, for the {ear of *ne ews was grea* u Pon t'iem-" This shows that the Hebrew race is not so Dare as some people maintain, and it also opens a door of hope for the anti-Jewish Jice who are threatened with extermina tion.1 The Stab and other well-meaning papers in the colony are constantly urging Irishmen to forget their past wrongs and feuds, and coalesce with the general com ( munity. The Anglo-Israelites might urge the same thing with far greater earnestness and effectiveness. They could tell the Hibernian population that, unless they are pronounced in their loyalty to British rule, they will be "cut off, root and branch," in the trying times which are near at hand. The Orangemen, who profess great love for those misguided sons of Erin who own allegiance to a "foreign potentate," might ■with advantage adopt Anglo-Israel views aa a fulcrum for their Protestant lever. Being neither an Orangeman, nor an Anglo- Israelite, I don't feel specially interested any way, but to all parties I offer gratis these few trifling thoughts on a very big - subject xxx i I have a suggestion to contribute towards ' the solution of the question now occupying Wmuch attention in certain quarters, viz., how to fill the churches. Read the fol lowing "ideal" advertisement, whose "counterfeit presentment" I hope to see shortly in the Saturday's Star " ecclesiasti cal" column :—" Little Bethel Meeting House: Brother Stumpy will conduct serviceat-H. N.B.—Brother Stumpy has hunt all his old sermons." That is just it; burnt all his old sermons. It may have been. ! a sore trial and affliction for the sermonis ing Stumpy to consign all his ancient discourses to the flames, jto light the matutinal tire with them, to see his airy thoughts, his bright flashes of fancy, his profound descents, his climaxes, his bathos, his pathos, all soaring skywards v up the kitchen ehimnoy. It required, I remark, no small effort on the aforesaid preacher's part to reduce so much manu eeript to ashes. But consider the benefit he was conferring on the many. That ought to have lightened his burden ; in fact, that was precisely why he summoned up courage enough to bear the load. Ho felt better when tho deed was done, one I may be sure. The die was cast, tho Rubi con was crossed, and though Stumpy had no collection of second-hand oratorical

efforts to fall back upon, yet his preaching marvellously improved, because, speaking ' metaphorically once more, he had to shake I himself together every Monday morning, and put a new sermon in soak. If he did : not, the Little Bethelites would have gone Mrmonless back to their cold dinners the

next Sunday. What was tho result of Stumpy's heroic resolution? Tho Little j Bethel soon became a Big Bethel. The ' congregation rapidly increased when the minister gave them something fresh and vigorous, something just from the anvil as it were bran new, every Sunday morning. Instead of the old extinct volcanoes with I noting but an empty crater and heaps of black ashes, he exhibited to them a genuine fire-mountain, with glowing molten lava 1 bursting forth, and red-hot scoriie cast about. Let our local clergy learn a lesson from "Zamiel's" parable. He who runs may I read, and the moral points itself.

• Of all the hobbies that man can set his heart upon, is there one so curious as that I which Captain Broun pursues with sedu- I lons industry 1 I see by the report of the I last meeting of the Auckland Institute he :'has catalogued and described sixteen, new ■ varieties of weevil. To the outraged /.farmer and grain-grower it will be very ■ gratifying to Know that the weevil family ; are really a most curious and interesting lot It is astonishing what ignorance pre- I vails in the world,and how very little people care for or are conscious of their own I defects. Now, I don't believe there is one , man in a thousand who cares a rap what V variety of bug it is that bites him, and who doesn't anathematise all bugs as if they I were of the same species. Yet. I have not | the slightest doubt that to the eye of the entomologist a bug is "a thing of beauty :'..■■' and a joy for eyer," and that the discovery ■ of a new species wpuld repay him for the H martyrdom'of a lively night. Just .picture I ike patience of the man who, in theintervals . <of running a public school, hag discovered Axteen varieties or species (I'm not clear Wlich it is) of weevil, to say nothing of ■•; ■ , MTeral thousands of distinct species of , iefltle ! And, rather than give up the hobby, I am told, Captain Broun has re ' Kiai a lucrative and easy appointment. I Sneh is the true enthusiasm of science, which proceeds :on the basis of minute flhseraajions, laboriously collated in lives derotej to these tedious researches. X -X X

: n The rae&fc-freezing/wora is not a thing I to be discouraged, but who in the name 'of common sense sent fish to the Eng . lish market under the idea that he could H sell at a profit 1 Here are we suffer . {Deafish famine, exporting mullet to sell I » Billingsgate at .9,(1 a-piece, when we often

cannot get it here for love or money. And who is expected to give 9d or a shilling for a frozen mullet in England, when he can get a fresh mackerol for 4d? When I talk to my fish-hawker about the philosophy of these things, he winks a knowing wink, and hints that h.e could a tale unfold about bulling the fish-market that would open my innocent eyes. How curiously these pranks run in trades, like scrofula or phthisis in lines of parentage, or the instinct of extortion in cabmen ! It is only lately that the practice of destroying hundreds of tins of good fish food rather than lower the selling rate was fairly sheeted home in London, and here, if this chap's sarcastic grin means aught, no phenomenal haul of silvery mullet or Savoury flounder will ever alter the standard shilling's-worth. Butter and eggs may rise and fall with the variations of supply and demand, but the fishermen know a thing worth two of that; better ship away in profitless export, or drop into the sewers, than let the people have their fish at lower than the usual rate. Can anyone tell me why this thusness ?

Numerous funny stories are told of the queer mistakes mode by foreigners in using our irregular, idiomatic English. I have one more to add to the ever-lengthening list. A short time ago a friend of mine was an invited guest at the annual dinner of the Garibaldi Club and Association of Italians at Wellington. After considerable conviviality, the President rose to propose the toast "General Garibaldi." After an oration in his native tongue, he made a few appropriate remarks in English, winding up as follows:—" Shentlemens, I ask you to dreenk de healt of Geeneral GaribaJdi. He's dead. ; So let us dreenk it on de solemn quiet." The worthy President, of course, wished the assemblage to honour the toast in solemn silence. This reminds me very much of the Frenchman's transla tion to his native tongue of the Shake sperian quotation, " Oh, Frailty, thy name is woman." This was how he rendered it: " Mademoiselle Frailty was the name of the lady." xxx The average policeman, like the 'Arry of modern English comic literature, likes his day out, and when this little privilege is trenched upon by his superiors our police man considers himself a deeply-injured in dividual; and so does "Zamiel; and he intends to win the eternal gratitude of the whole "foorce" by inditing a little para graph to expose a wrong under which he labours. Amongst the non-commissioned officers of the police stationed here is one— a veritable Bumble—whose love for horse raoing (and, perhaps, also for the five bob a day. tipped by the Racing Club) induces him to attend all the race meetings about the city. He becomes for the nonce a com mon constable, and so prevents some tic serving X.Y.Z. from the chance of a holiday (and, let me not forget it, that quintette of colonial roberta). "Zamiel" thinks that Sergeant Bumble, though clad with but a little authority, should exercise it in a fair, and, to some extent, self-sacrificing manner. xxx The Auckland Institute, which is given to discussing all possible and impossible subjeots—particularly the latter, as witness the dissertations on " The Spell of the Supernatural," " The Flight of the Boom erang," " The Visionary Faculty of Mind," et hoc genus omne —has this week had brought under ite notice the question of railway reform, which is in some respects worthy of being classed with the very edifying topics ennumerated. " Railway Reform " has the advantage of having a popular and catchy ringaboutit, and it is per haps not to bo greatly marvelled at that such a highly respectable and cautious body as the Institute should have been led away by the plausible arguments- and startling statements of Mr Samuel Vaile. Mr Vaile, I believe, is as excellent a draper as ever handled a yardstick, but he has a soul above buttons, and for the past year or so he has been carrying on a crusade against the railway system of New Zealand. Hitherto—or, to speak by the card, up to within ten days ago—ho was as one crying in the wilderness ; but about the time indicated his message began to receive that attention to which no conceives it to be entitled. Major Atkinson came to Auckland on a bit of delicate business ; he came, moreover, in that pliable frame of mind wherein he was ready to confer with all and sundry, from his predecessor in officu down to "the man in the street." To him went Mr Vaile, and propounded his scheme of railway reform ; and the gallant Major (who is credited with being a convert to Henry George's views on Land Nationali sation) listenea with becoming modesty and admiration to the brilliant proposals which are at one stroke destined to make the New Zealand railways yield a profit, to make settlers wealthy and contented, and the colony prosperous and happy. The scheme, it is necessary to remember, is nothing new, but simply a re-hash, and ite chief features are the equalisation of rates irrespective of distances, on the principle of the post-office charges for conveying letters and parcels. But the proposal, If not a new one, waß just of the kind calculated to ap peal to the imagination of a man like the present Premier, and I have no doubt Mr Vaile left thoroughly satisfied that he had made a favourable, and lasting impression upon him. When Major Atkinson has got ■ the consent of Par liament to nationalise the land and introduce his pet project of national insur ance, I have no doubt his next step will be to urge the acceptance of this fancy scheme of railway reform. It 1b some consolation to think that by that time the country -will be pretty well prepared for the revolution.

But Mr Vailo'fl success with the Premier was as nothing compared with the reception which was accorded him by the members of the Institute. They jumped to his plan as readily as a trout to a fly, and were loud in their praises of the daring conception. As I hawe already hinted, there is something very ■" taking," to a democratic community like onrs, in the levelling-down of all ranks and classes to a common statue. There is, besides, a dash of demagogic humbug in the idea<cf giving justice to the poor settler, and juf-tisuilicieiit of the apice of specula tion to suit the ardent minds of duly accli matised .colonials. Only think ; under the new and reformed system Mr Vaile could as cheaply send a parcel of soft goods to Te Awamutu as to the Whau; Mr Cheeseman Blight make innumerable inexpensive ex cursions, botaui&Uig and so forth; and the Bishop, instead of repining in the solitary grandeur of a first-class carriage, might travel surrounded by his family, in one of those delightful contrivances called by courtesy "second-class"—for, of course, the equalising method would sweep away all distinctions of class! Then I can suppose, in that grand future, how a clerk oat for a

holiday, or a politician in search of a job, would step jauntily into the Auckland Railway Station, singing and receiving answer thus :—

" Sec-saw, bring the rates cown 1 What is the fare to Welliigton town J" " Two-and-six up, and twound-six down, And that is tho fare to Wellington town 1"

In those days we shall n<i more hear of M.H.R.'s squabbling about having the faro of themselves and families paid to and from the seat of Government, n«r will there be petitions from the "unenployed" in the South for a Government steamer to deport them to Auckland ; but all will be able to pay their fares, and the railway "dead head " will be as extinct as the moa. In fact, the longer I think on the subject, the more I am convinced that when the New Zealand railways are "reformed" in the direction indicated, the Millennium will be near at hand.

I was queried in Queen-street a few days since by a well-dressed individual, headed with a grey boll-topper, and accompanied by a swinging cane. He desired to know the way to the office of the Silent Associa tion, and I thought I could distinguish a earcastic smile playing over the time wrought furrows of his cheeks as, he asked the question. I paused, and then ran over the titles of several inane Auckland socie ties, including young men's coteries, which appear like moonlight shadows in the mist of a cemetery. My apparently aristocratic interrogator told me to guess again ; I had missed the mark. Alas, thought I, how few of us shoot straight enough to hit the bull's-eye ! He continued in a louder tone, "Imeanthe ." The mysterious stranger was proceeding in his remarks when at that opportune moment »n elderly connoisseur in the fine arts passed, with spectacles on his nose, and a pictare under hio arm. I was illuminated at onco as by a spirit-light, and pointing towards the art critic and bookworm, I said, "There is the embodi ment of the idea—theassociation you seek— the representative man." The two men were immediately in close conversation, and so familiar were they that it was evi dently not the first timo thoy had met. The conversation was active, and turned upon the merits, usefulness, and claim of the Silent Association, whose streams of beneficence (lowed through tho colony, and were the means of filling numerous neces sary institutions. Tho gentleman of tho grey bell-topper and silver-mounted cane wae, judging from his features, a porson of much feeling; sympathy scorned to hang, dew-like, upon his lips, and hover about the purpling tip of his nose. His grizzly hair appeared as thoughat somo time or other it had started on a cruise, and had finally settled on the lowor part of his face, whore it had takon root and sprouted prodigiously, I subsequently learned that ho was an antiquarian and toy dealer, and, in connection with another society, a diluted edition of Alderman Cuto, who was always eloquent over tho vicos of the poor. " Come this way, friond," said the representative man, button-holing tho man with the long beard, into an auction mart, where a wonderful original wan hanging (his property) bofore tho gaze of a soulless public yawning for land. " This picture," said ho, "is an undoubted Cor reggio. Mercury instructing Cupid. Cor reggio, sir, was a wonderful gonius, a painter of tho lGth century, iris life, how ever, is involved in much obscurity. Tho history of the picture and proof of its genu ineness will be furnished to tho purchaser at the financial close of the negotiation." " Is it genuine V" said tho scoptical gontlo man, with a merry twinkle of tho eyo. "By St. Stephen it is," was tho abrupt reply, " or I'll forfeit my white hat and ite contents, i.e., my hair and head. I pur chased it of a boor at a low figure, and you shall be the happy possessor of tho grand old relic for fifty notes." " Humph I" granted the toy-dealer, " Verily, my faith does not extend to five" " Nonsense I" rejoined tho ownor. " Come, friond, lot us adjourn to the British, and liquor up." xxx Tho debate on "Conditional Immor tality " was concluded last week, and not before the subject had bocome threadbare. A practical question now arises—"What has been tho result?" Havn Messrs Unison and Dunn been conduced by Mr Brown, or has the latter had his mental vision so en larged as to sco truth in the " orthodox " doctrines? It is doubtful. Tho question stands in very much tho same place that it occupied bofore, notwithstanding the smatteriiigH of logic, history, and common sense that have been brought to bear. Now, it must appear to most persons that the effects of the debate are rather adverse to the promotion of religious interests than otherwise; and especially is this the case with the personal remarks indulged in by one of tho disputants. The hissing and hooting of» largo section of the audience at anything opposed to their ideas, even if those ideas were correct, showed very little grace on their part, seeing that the question being discussed pertained to a matter which should be treated in all seriousness, or not at all. The outcome of tho dispute will most likely tend to foster and breed feelings of animosity, aiid thus sacrifice principles of greater moment than the subject of condi tional immortality itself—namely, the prin ciples of toleration and charity. The whole affair might be likened to the snarling and growling of a couplo of the canine species over a bone, while others of the same genus arft looking on, occasionally doing a growl on their own account; and after all there seems to have been mighty little to get off the bone. I would suggest that the parties to the debate would do better to expend their superfluous energy in attending to tho more useful aspects of their callings as ministers of the Gospel. Of course, the question is worth fair inquiry ; but when it degenerates, into a mere wrangle about words, supplemented with little exhibitions of temper and sundry personalities, then it is time to let the curtain drop. Again, there were the troubles in connection with the chairman. The objection of the audience to Mr Griffin's presidency puts one in mind of a lot of refractory school boys, with whom firmness is so essential an element of success. Then, to wind up the affair, the irrepressible Laishley must ex ceed the functions of his temporary office in order to have a shot at the subject. My prayer now is that the question may R.I.F.

The sufferers from that most distressing of our commonest ailments—the toothache —are so numerous in all civilised com munities that I feel sure the declaration that I have been a martyr to it will pro duce a responsive throb of sympathy in every household whither my hebdomadal lucubrations find their way. I will not seek to abuse the confidence of my readers and exhaust their patience with a tiresome investigation of the chain of causality for

the pnrpose of showing that I was either the victim of hereditary dental disease, or that my regimen was at fault. Neither shall I inflict upon them a turgid homily by way of improving the occasion, after the manner of our ghostly advisers. Let me merely recount what I did. In the first place, a lively recollection of theagonies undergone iii childhood while an athletic dentist wrestled desperately with an in flexible old molar disposed me to try any measure of alleviation and to resort to every expedient of procuring relief short of that summary process of ejectment. I pro pitiated and humoured the disquieting tenants of my jaws with all sorts of pleasant medicaments, then essayed to burn them out with fiery and corrosive drugs ; at one time lacerated'the flesh, and scrupled not to shed the gore of my gums as a means of quelling the raging teeth, and anon experi mented with the primitive apparatus of some string attached at one end to a fixture and at the other to my aching ivory. It was all of no avail, however, and, at length, nerved for any ordeal by the hopeless failure of countless recipes from well-meaning friends, I determined to seek the aid of the dreaded dentist and to have five trouble some masticators drawn. Taking a trusty friend with me to see fair play done, I tremblingly invaded the sanctum of a gen tleman who, I had been assured, was the most expert and sympathetic of the local knights of the forceps. He was busy, and I prepared to wait.

My visit, however, was not unexpected, for I had previously notified my intention of patronising the establishment and of having the teetli extracted while under the influence of chloroform. Several war-whoops from the adjoiningroom and as many departures of muilled figures proclaiming the despatch of business, and then my turn came. Silently wringing my friend's hand, and bidding him break the nows gently to my better half, in case the worst came to tho worst, I submitted myself to medical inspection, was passed as a fit subject for tho anaesthetic, and then —seating myself upon an arm cbair which swung mo back to a horizontal position, I opened my mouth and indicated tho teeth wliichlwishedtohave removed. Tho dontist soized my wrist, and at tho samo moment covered my faco with a brown paper funnel containing tho chloroform. As I inhaled its powerful fumes my brain began to throb and my heart to thump against my ribs. Faster and moro fiercely throbbed my brain, and stronger and stronger crow tho boating of my heart, until sudden oblivion came to ofl'aco con sciousnoss. I was told that tho first three teeth woro drawn in quick suc cession, and that tho remaining two woro so deeply embedded in tho gums that although tho dontist pulled, twisted, and gouged for fully a quartor of an hour with all his strength, no was unablo to move thorn. Then, concluding that tho fangs were united by an alveolar growth, ho broke off as much of the tcoth as ho could grip, and, after 25 minutes' insensibility on my part, laid mo out to sleop off tho effects of tha soporific. It was like a slow awaken ing from a lethargic sleop, and I felt bereft of all power or dosiro of motion. I would not liavo moved a limb if my lifo had de ponded upon it. Gradually, howovor, my strength returned, and the haze lilted from my mind, until all at onco I remembered whore I was and why. The pain was en tirely gono, but there was a strange void in my mouth. I was ablo soon afterward to tako my doiwvrturo. Every attention had been shown by tho dentist; ho had skilfully per formod a ditlicult operation, and I liavo not sinco experienced one twingo of my chronic complaint. To all who aro similarly af flicted I unhesitatingly say "Go ye and do likewise!" All specifics are in vain. They may p;.t off the evil day for a time, and at tho same time enrich the chemists, but ox-, traction is bound to bo resorted to in tho long run. x + x Tho spectacle of an old woman with arms b<ued to tho elbows and a most ferocious cast of countenance, rushing wildly along Custoinliouso-streot West, one afternoon this week, naturally attracted tny atten tion, and I followed her as speedily as was consistent with comfort in ordor to see what tho trouble was. Soon tho old woraun caught hold of a little girl, and almost screeched, " Where is he? Just show him to mo." Tho Httlo ono pointed onward towards Albert-atreot, and thither the frantic female rushed with headlong npecd. After turning the corner, and when noar the now Pior ilotol, sho caught up to two yoi'ng fellows, ono of whom sho seized by tho coat and fiercely demanded that he should " givo it up at once." I wa« naturally anxious to discover wliat tho old girl wanted, and accordingly I appealed to the young man to explain, whereupon ho drew a small tomahawk from his coat pockot and said, "Well, d'you sco th/.s ? she throw that at mo, and I guess it will como in handy on board my snip." Why tho tomahawk was thrown at him I could not ascertain, but it had eridontly been discharged from tho old woman's house, where it would be most likely usually kept, and why tho young fellow was " round there," I fear must remain a mystery so far as lam concerned. But to conclude the story, I require to remark that tho woman stormed most violently for some time, and then seeing that her vocal exertions woro of no avail in securing tho tomahawk, she gave up the task as hope less, and returned homo, threatening as sho went what awful punishment woe m store for " the vagabond." XXX The custom of throwing floral bouquets to successful vocalists at public concerts has always appeared to me to be-, a graceful method of recognising and rewarding talent, but, like many other customs of an equally harmless nature, it is open to grave abuse. Instances of such abuse are known to every amateur vocalist, and it has been reserved for "Zamiel" to add one to the list of offenders. It happened thuswise. Intent upon the pursuit of pleasure, I found myself the other day in a certain Provincial township which shall be nameles?, and during my stay there I visited a concert, with the object of en hancing the enjoyment of my trip. Scarcely 'had I seated myself when I was interviewed by a matron who was laden with beautiful bouquets of most lovely flowers. Imagining that talent and genius were about, to be rewarded in a country which was not the prophet's own, I allowed a smile to grace my classic and intellectual features, and prepared for the ovation. But I was dis appointed. The lady certainly did present me with a lovely bouquet, but with the re quest that I would throw it to her accom plished daughter, who would shortly appear on the stage, and who would be annoyed if some flowers were not thrown to her. So charmed was I by tho cool simplicity of the

request that I readily assented, and looking around the room I was surprised to find that many others besides myself had per mitted themselves to be utilised as " ilower chuckers." The maiden appeared, the floral offerings were piled around her pretty feet, and it is to be hoped that she was satisfied, especially as the local paper made a feature of the display. Comment is scarcely necessary.



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