SCINTILLATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3851, 20 December 1882, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS

There aro four men in Nevr Zealand who h.ive deaf aud dumb wives.

Tho Kcv. D. Bruco has resigned the editorship of the "New Zealand Times,1' and returned to live in Auckland.

At the Altar.—A. youthtul couple were about to be joiued in wedtock. " Why do you tremble so ?' tsked tho swain. " Why don't you !' was tho fair one's reply. Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but tho pleasure grounds also.

The Hon. F. Whitakcrsp-ndshis Christmas holidays in Auckland, but returns to Wellington next month to rccciva 13is Excllcucy tin Gorernor, who is expected to arrive on iho 18th.

Delegates irom the Victorian Biblc-in-State-Sehoola League have declared beforo the Victorian Education Commission that there are at least 106,000 children In the colony who never enter wonday-schnoK

A mining manager at Castlcmaine has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter, iv consequence of the roof of a drive, 24 feet in width, and 34 feet in length, falling in through not being properly secured by props, and crushing a

Tho Native Minister will visit Whangarci next month, for tho purpose of inquiring personally into the merits of tho native dispute there.

The total nnmbrr of churches, cbapcls, and other buildings used for religious services in tho colony is 1,114/ giving accommodation for 189,155 persons, or 45 per cent of the population over ten years of age, exclusive of Chinese.

There are 51 land and building jociau'es in r>osv Zealand, hiving 9,356 members, contributing on an avcrogo a gross sum of £39,230 3? 7d por month.

A sensitive old bachelor says that pretty (/iris always affect him as ornamental confectionery does - they give him the heartburn.

ExamlDO the palm of h!s hand, nays a Brooklyn philosopher, and if it is full of pio-scratches, tell his sweetheart to use buttons on her waistband.

Tbo Wellington - slreot Quadrille Assembly hold a socinl gathoring iv tho l'orisonby Oddfellows' Hall on Boxipg night. 1 he man faithful fo princip'c is never cruel; the victim of expediency always ie Conscience makes a coward only where there is guilt, n«t wbero there is holiness,

Getting on, regardless of the means, is but another way of goins; back-

Mr James Stewart, C.E., is at Cambridge. Ho goes to To Aroha to consider tome proposed alterations iv the railway sys'em. . An English diamond merchant is reported "to have offered £400,000 for the Hegeut diamond, now the property of tho French IV-public. It was bought 150 yea's ago from an Englishman for £125,000. Mr James Craig, Mf ssrs Bcown, Campbell, and Co.'b agent at the Theme, has been thrown from a buggy, and sustained some severe scalp wounds.

Kggs und butter are now both euccessfully preserved in a solution of salicylic acid—one tablcspoonful to the gallon. Jhe acid i 3 a tasteless tonic, having valuable properties, The Hobart "Mcroury" says of tho Kishop of Melbnurnc:--Mon of the Moorhouso type create the impression that owiifi's of Ions; coats and shovel bats uro not necessarily so foolish as their dress would indicate,