Scintillations.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3218, 12 November 1880, Page 2

Scintillations.

" lie brief; for it is with words aa with sunbeams : tho morn they are condensed, the deopor they burn."—Houthky.

Pigeons travelled from Echuca to Mcl bourne (15G miles) in 2h. 35m.

Victorian brewers have raised beer 10s per gallon owing to new duty.

It is said half the publicans of Sydney have gone to the Melbourne races.

The railway station at Preston, England, cost nearly £300,000.

An intercolonial lawn tennis match takes place in Melbourne to-day.

The Greek army is expected to muster 65,000 strong.

The Oddfellows of Manchester Unity, North Shore, propose to build a hall.

There will be races at Mercury Bay on the 3rd and 4th of January.

There isdistress amongst the bush settlers in Hawke's Bay, owing to the lack of employment.

Tenders for the purchase of the Anchor line of steamers being too low, they will continue to run.

A four-roomed bouse in south Dunedin, insured for £150 in the Standard, was burnt down yesterday. The ' furniture, insured for £150 in the N ational, was also destroyed.

John Fraser Bell, convicted of falsifying the register of his child's birth, was sentenced to three months at New Plymouth yesterday.

There were 213,727 children enrolled in 1533 day schools in Victoria for the year 1879, as against 215,355 in 1456 schools in 1878.

Candidates for the Mayoralty of Christchurch arc addressing public meetings of ratepayers.

" Och," said a love sick Hibernian, "what a recreation it is to be dying of love ! It sets the heart aching so delicately there's no taking a wink ot slapc for the pleasure of the pain."