SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3382, 30 May 1881, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Ho briot; lor it la with words as with uunuoams • tho more they mo oudensed tho deepor they tjuni."~3OUTHEY.

Tho lute husband catches the lecture. A robboc's cave—A burglar 8 confession. Romantic youth, rheumatio age, Circus men turn everything to their owu advantage-even a handspring, Tlio Wellington police oppose the granting of miy fresh hotel licensee. Woman Wit? the first side" speculation oa record. The dividends have been enormous, That veteran, Mr W. Uoskins, is doing v good business at the Sydney Theatre Koyal. The 11 M.S. Zoalandia brought two bisturs of Mercy from San Francisco, for the Sacred llourt Convent, at I'imaru. Captain liuine, Inspector - General of l'rlsonß, WOH v passougei1 to Auckland by Die Hawea yesterday. Mr Pollard, of Pollard and Reynolds Lillipution l'inaforo Company, is dnlliug sixty Auckland boys and girls for llio chorus. The Thames police hiwo seized ft quantity of spirits at the store of Messrs Clutwonhy and Uimtor, Wuihi. Mr Uaru»h'n stables and £150 worth of English harness at Wartlo, Waikato, havo been binned. Insuranceson building, £200 in Norwich Union. Searoll sold his ri»ht to the " Wreck ot the Pinafore" in Australia, previoUß to his departure for America. It iH to be produced at tlie Sydney C'peia House. Among the dead at the Opera House, Nice, were the bodies »fa father, mother, and child, who had boon grasping each otlicr in death. The infant still held an orange* The Canterbury Jockey Club have ratified the disqudlilictttfon of Miss Domett. Mr B, O. UiilliUis U to receive £100 salary for handicapping ilurin;; the year 1881-2. Mr Chapman, n well-known theatrical agent, was a passenger to Australia by the mail steamer, and propones shortly to introduce Wilhelmy, the violinist, to colonial audiences. The New Zealand Insuiancc Company's risk on this Waittttlßl Hour millc, Timaru, was £2,000. ihe insurance) on the Policeinau w.m sub-divided—New Zealaud, £'20) ; South British, £200 ; and Victoria, £100.

Mr Frank Matthias, who died at Levuka soon after lauding from the steamer Southern Cross, wan formerly a resident at Tauranga, aud is known on the West Coast of Now Zealand,

At Monte Uarlo gambling resort within four months there wore no less than 19 suicide*. The men shoot thcniHelvcH or drown themselves, and the women almost always poison|themsclves. A lover who hud gone to make a home for his " birdie," wrote to her : " I've got the finest 320 acres over I put my foot down oo." Birdie wrote back : " Suppose you get another selection, John, so that you can have a lawn around your foot." John made a home, but Birdie never went thorp.

! "Well, what do you want here?" reninrkod Mr Smith, as he eat up in bed and addressed a professional burglar who stood iv front of the bureau. " I want money and valuables," hiwtul the burglar through his clenched tooth, "and quick about it, too." " My friend." retorted Smith, " I've bi:"ii looking for those things for tho last twenty years without success, but go OU with your burglary, I'm sleepy." "More trouble in Ireland," read Mrs I'artington. " I wonder/ said the old lady, laying down her spectacles and blandly regarding Ike, who was trying to tie a hard knot in tl'.n cat's fail, "it wonder that Govorumoiit doesn't incorporate that Parncll for life aud send tho ringleaders into blandishment., aud then there wouldn't bo any more of these aquarium outrages."