SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3807, 21 October 1882, Page 2

SCINTILL ATIONS.

Non-Union Men—Buchelors. Gentlemen in wailing—Creditors. The mORt fashioiable iian3 go in sets. The " Faculty " of .A diosaloi—Speech.

FeaUres of Pamamott—Ayes and noes. U:;vyo Kubjects—Those in a dissecting room.

The long ulster covcreth a multitude of old clothes.

Always g«cs round witk a long face— An alligator.

Wh«u a akoowiaker takes a wife, does ho lay his ail at her ftel ?

The committee connected with the O!d Colonies' re.uuUn, huve resolved that all accounts shall be paid at Mr J. J, Craig'c office.

The Prince of Wales begiDs to »hine at a farmer, H« won three first prizes at the Norfolk Cattle Show, one for a shorthorn bull, and two for *ouU-dowa sheep. The laid mania has extended lo.Sandgate, ia Queeuftland. OaeSvdney capitalist, formerly * theatrical manager, has ju*t returned, having netted £40,0C0 ia one speculation,

The present D«ke of Wellington has no children. His o»ly brother left tiro so»b. The eldest Hurried a few weeks fl£»«, Tho "Iron Duke," always tfcrifty, died rich. His son will probibly die richer. Dr. Philson resumes duty at the Hospital next Monday, Bis hand, it is feared, is permanently injured. The Zfalanaia trek 50,000 Australian soverigns to America.

' No execution tor any crimo excep'inff murder hss taken place in J&ngland since

The live meat trade in England is still by far the neatest. For tbe p*st six months dead animus valufd at £1,306,000 hate been imparted, and in the snnio period live etock valued at £4,350,000. A bald-headed man says his hair reminds bun of a fool and his money. " Can you flirt a fan ?" asked a coquette of her pwtdtr. "No," he replied, "I cannot; but I can fan a flirt." Toe National Mutual Lifu Association of Australasia have purchased* sitoin Wellington for handsome new offices at the price of £9500.

We kaow a young she-potato who made eyes at a spoon the other day, and got awfully ma-hed in consequence. When in a oonvenation a man abruptly nays, " Beg pardon !" he means that he wishes to do all the talking him-elf. The two young persons, Worth and Pavis, recently sentenced to a month's imprisonment tor indecency in the Botanical Gardens, Wellington, have been released, pending the result of an appeal against the verdict, on the grouud that the evidoace did not warrant a conviction.

The Premier, replying to the Mayer of Hamiltoa'»telegr*iiiabotitfreeinf;Hamilton Bridge, says : " Arrangements are not vet completed for freeing tbc Hamilton Bridge of toll*.' If I am in Auckland when tbe time arnvea, I shall be happy to do what you ask on behalf of the borough and districti