SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 3865, 4 January 1883, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

A race horse, like the law, must always take its cmrso.

A good motto for an expressman--"Haul things to all men " I The Key. Shirley Baker's salary as] piornier of Tonga is £600 per annum. t Some men, otherwise steady-headed, can never keep their balance in a bank. Edwin Kobertson has taken over tho mail contract from Young aud Pope for the conveyance o! the mail three times weekly betwesu Tauranga and Ohincmu n. The owners' winnings at Christehurch races were :-Mason «nd Vallance, £Sl7 15s; Cutts, £193 ss; W. U'Br'eti, £163 15s ; W- C. Webb, £95 ; several small amounts making tin total £13i>2 lis The gross receipts.at the Wansanui 1< aicy Fair wero £700. Tho affair yields £200 to the Fire Brigade Building Ftiad. The total amount applied for under the Reals and Bridges Construction Bill is £080,000, iv some parts of Franco betrothed ladici wear a scarlet bow on the left shoultlor, In 3omc parts of New Zealand they weir a green b a tion the left and right shoulder alternately. It doesn't do to engage in a dispute w.th a chemist, for he always has a retort icalv. "What is this mm cha-g;d with ? asked the judge. " With whisky,, yor honour,'' replied the sententious polioeimn. A gazette proclamation alters the boundaries of the Matamata Highway District.

A reason why a p:aao was not saved at a fire wjs bectu-e none of the liremeu could play on it. There wove 9000 people at theCaledon'an Society's gathering, Dunsdin, yesterday.. Mr X, Sckoiield, the present toll-collector and pilot at the 'lliames, has been chosen to undertake the duties of Harbour Master, pending a permanent appointment beiug made,

" 1 love tbe summer," said the boarding' school girl when sho eloped with her arith metic teacher.

Mr Andrew Kay has beeu appointed Property Tax Assessor for Kihiltihi district.

A jury of matrons empanelled in Adelaide to'try the allegations of_ Mis Gne, who was sentenced to death with her bu--band, that she was cncicnla, bore out the woman's statement, and the Governor has been requested to respite her. The back slums of Melbourne aro to be inspected by a strong committee, There tho Mayor is backed up by the Bishop ana members of Ihe Cabinet.

Alice Liugard, who is at present playing " Divorgons "in the States,ia advertised by her manager ai "the most beautiful woman on the American stage," Fire.) have broken out again on tbe Hamilton-Mori'iosville section of the Waikato-'l'hiimes railway, about two miles on tie Hamilton side of Mr Jenkin*' property, What is the difleicnce between a blonde and a locomotive ? One has a light head, and the other has a head-light Mr Sisaendorf always trembles when bis 'wife sings in church, with prayerful carncstnoss, "Oh, for a thousand tongues." Iv reply to a young wiiter who w'shed to know which magazine would give him he highest position quickest, a contompoiary advised, "a powder magazine, if you contribute a iiery article." Reggie Anderson, agsd five years, son of Mr Andersen, of the Grammar School, accidentally fell into the water, at Devosport yesterday, when fishing. Edwin Preslidge, employod by Mr Pearce, Masonic Hotel, rushed to the rescue, and throwing himself into the water, caught the boy. Mr Laehlan McGowau, tho favourite comedian, arrived by the E.M.S. City of New York. He intends to leave the stage and settle in * uckland.