SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3383, 31 May 1881, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

11 Be brlot; lor it la with words as with sunbeams : tuo more thor aro condensed the deeper hey burn."—SouTiiKy,

Perpetual motion -Scandal. Singers are often most miserable screech' ers.

Garrard's motto— dangerous thing."

" A little earning is a

A woman iv North Troy, Vt, is asking for a divorce after 50 years of married life.

Captain Hume proposes a plan for rebuilding Mount Eden goal gradually by prison labour.

A nice between Hide-a-wee, and Sportsman, for £f)0 it side, sumo weights as at I'apakura races, is arranged for the 10th on the I'apakurn course.

11l Austria, whole villages of people are preparing to go to the United States. The " Economist," " Saturday iicview," and " Pall Mall Gazette," are all hostile to bi-metalisin.

Tho Greek Government has ordered the delivery of .six ironclads within fiEteen mouths.

The " Westminster Review," and also the "Quaiterly ltoview," attack Froudo for his indiscreet publication of Carlylo's reminiscences.

The interior of Windsor Castle will ha shortly illuminated by tho electric light.

In July the ironclad Lapanto will be launched at Leghorn. Us total co.st will be £1,000,000. Nearly £10,000 has been raised iv London for the relief of the earthquake sufferers in the Inland of Scio.

The son of Bi-miarck cnu now many the lady with whom he eloped, us her husband has obtained a divorce,

Mr Andrew Dilworth is recovering from hia late accident.

Dr. Soiumerville, of Glasgow, is holding evangelistic services iv St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Duke of Westminster has decided to rebuild Pulford church, near Chester, at his own expense.

The cost of tho Government of tho ritualistic cases of Dale, Knraght and others amounts to about £4000.

Th« infant of Mr P. Hicks, of tho Thames, has been smothered by over-laying iv boil.

The cook of tho ship Abnruytu, which has arrived at Lyttelton from London, was washed overboard on the voyage and drowned.

Sliip-desertion is rife among seamen nt Purl. Chalmers,

The Lingards are in New York. According to the Sun I'Vancisco News Letter they claim to have netted £14,000 by their loot colonial trip-a very different Btury from that which William Horace and iindSi.'irrll swore to in the Supremo Court, ..ucKiaud.

It sounds very fishy to allude to 11 pair of freckled sisters us a brace of speckled beillltics.

Charles Patch was tarred and foatheroil by .some women at Ncwlield, United States. It made him insane.

iho Auckland Savings Bank mean to erect v handsome new building with the new erections of Messrs Jiarstow and Mason's nili's. This will make a handsome block.