SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4121, 19 September 1883, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Ciucl'h open* to-nigh-. Thames gold-mines still burning. Mr Moss has arrived froni Wellington. Waikato Cheese Factory start.-' >M dayFederation Conference put oil till end of Wovumbei'i

The Court Minstrels open in tho Opera House on Saturday. A bakernamedAlexanderpoisonedhimself at Christchurch yesterday.

MrC. V.Stewarthas floated the TaurangaRotorua Railway Company. Victoria proposes to export wheat to Calcutta next season. The Bishop of Melbourne i.s examining the different Sunday-school systems. A Dunedin reporter has been assaulted for writing a paragraph about a horse-whipping case.

New Zealand proposes to send two representatives to tho Federation Conference in Sydney. The American Baptist Missionary Union has -SI missionaries iv Asia, 587 churches, and 11i,017 members. Three hundred years ago Lord Bacon experimented in meat-freezing. Nothing new under the refrigerator ! " It's never too late to mend " said a fond husband to his wife at eleven o'clock last night. She was cobbling the children's clothes, and he—the wretch !—hod been to tho Opera House. The man who was a " picture of despair " has been set in a " serious frame of mind," and hung—in the back parlour. More than two millions and a half people travelled over the lines of the Adelaide Tramway Company last year. Fiji has been invited to send a representative to the Federation Conference. Things are looking up for that plucky but alllicted colony. Tho Clerk of Court at Tapanui, Otago, who was recently lined for failing to send his monthly returns to Wellington, has refused to pay tho tine, and is now doing a month in cro.ol.

Te Awamutu settler?,, in anticipation of the early opening of the cluSese factory, have been making large purchases of springing cows. It is expected they will supply 1,300 gallons of milk per diem to tho factory. During the voyage of the Doric from London, the passengers were supplied with New Zealand mutton, which, after being frozen and sent Home, was transferred to the Doric's refrigerator, and kept good the whole time.

It is a somewhat sad fact that some people have a higher polish on their boots than ou their manners. If their heads were only where their feet are how they would shino !

There arc grCat rejoicings going on at Wbatiwhatihoe in celebration of tho return of eight of tho prisoners convicted with Mahuki for tho outrage on surveyors. The prisoners arc in high spirits, and are entertaining their friends with tales of life in " ehokey."

The Minister of Works for New South Wales, in order to encourage colonial industries, has resolved to call for tenders in the colony for about 1,000 tons of castings required for iron bridges on railways. A country paper once said—" E. B. Doolittlc is in the habit of .stealing pigs and robbing hen-roosts. If he does not desist we shall publish his name." This is equal to the minister at a camp-meeting, who said, "If the lady with a blue hat, red hair, and cross-eyes doesn't stop balking, she will be pointed out to the congre-

gation." A serious lire occurred at Tewantin, Wide Bay, Queensland, a week ago, when Pillow's Club Hotel was burned to the ground. The loss sustained by the proprietor will be over i' 2,000. The premises were insured in tho South British Insurance Company for £800, and in tho New Zealand Company for £700.