Scintillations.

Auckland Star, Volume XI, Issue 3221, 16 November 1880, Page 2

Scintillations.

"Ho brlof; for it Is with words ai with sunbonniH: the mom they nro condonsod, the deeper thoy burn."—-Southky.

Tawhino is planting at To Kau-a-Moe. Falling down stairs—an extended trip. A " Trades' Protection Association has been formed at Blenheim. The "Poverty Bay Standard " says our knowledge is "mtcrmural." The dclicit in Victoria is expected to be £600,000. " Mesmerised" is the word for drunk at Napier. The Kingitcs were unaware of Moflfatt's murder until informed by Major Mair. Madame Franzini, the bicyclist, has finished her tour of the Wairarapa district. A spiritualistic union is to be formed at the Thames. Proctor will commence lecturing in Auckland on December 13. New Plymouth settlers complain of the local railway management. Tho Benevolent Asylum at Christchurch is to be closed. Waikato residents are greatly excited over the Te Aroha gold discovery. John Hurley has been drowned in a creek near Ashburton. There were 165 prisoners in Mount Eden on Saturday. Mr James Rattray's child was buried according to the rites of the Spiritualists. A small waterspout, ten feet high, fcas been seen in the Thames river, near Te

Puke. It was stated in the Victorian Assembly that £200,000 changed hands on the Cup Day.

Miss Jennie Nye has joined the Lydia Howardc Opera Bouffe Company, now performing at Dunedin. Mr Davidson having taken over the Albert Hotel, will be succeeded in the Star Hotel by Mr Cairns. The new Governor of Fiji has taken up his temporary quarters in Government House.

Mr Beardsley, agent of the Pacific Mail Company, having resigned on account of ill health, will be succeeded by Mr Gamble. The Auckland boys are in high jinks over the " haaimals " in Cole's circus. Acrobatic exercises on fence rails are " in." " Ah," said a deaf man who had a scolding wife, "man wants but little hear below 1" Kate Kelly went to the Marquis of Normanby to plead for her brother's life. He refused to hear her.

A duel between two German gentlemen in Melbourne, Ernest Spoyre and Max Hirsch, was prevented by the interference of the police.

If the Turkish Government doesn't look out, their country may be a place of exPorte.

Speaking of the different ages of this world, tc what age do peddlers belong? The pack-age. Why is the money you are in the habit of Kivinjr to the poor like a newly-born babe ? Becanso it's precious little. A Mrs Holder, recently from England, is preaching in the Primitive churches at Christchurch.

It is understood that Madame Summerhayes, who recently gave pianoforte recitals at tho Melbourne International Exhibition, is about to visit New Zealand.

J. Campbell, a farmer at Ashburton, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a fowling piece. Losses in land speculation had affected his mind.

Some Indians use scalping knives of tor-toise-shell, probably on account of the old fable in which the tortoise was alleged to have got away with the hare.

" I am surprised," said a politician to a heavy property-owner, " that you don't run for some office." " Well, you see, somebody has to do the tax-paying." " I caD't go to Europe," a lady is reported to have said; "I am reading forty-five continued stories, and my limited • means would not let me pay the postage." " Your train beats a cow-catcher," said an Englishman at a recent ball, as he stumbled over a lady's dress. "No," rejoined she, "it doesn't quite equal one ; it only caught a calf."

A junior was heard to remark on a recent Sunday, after Professor had preached an eloquent sermon : " That was a splendid sermon. Gad I 108 single gestures and 13 double."

"Ah, ha," said Jawkins, cheerfully, as he found a paper of fine cut in the pocket of his old fall overcoat. "Ah, ha I Congratulate me on my sudden accession of for chewin'."

"Silence enumerates 58Sspecies of organic forms in the air we breathe. Just think of it! Every time you draw in a breath a whole zoological garden slips down your windpipe, and no free tickets to the press.

When an Indian doctor hns lost five patients, the survivors of the tribe send him after them to sec what had become of them] After all the Indians would lose some advantages by civilization.