SCINTILLATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4124, 21 September 1883, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS

DoiUC sailed to-day.

Tho frosty weather seems over. The Pope has £300,000 a-year. Routine business at the Cabinot meeting yesterday. The Premier is expected to reach Auckland in a fortnight. Woodyear's Circus clowns are up to a "Rinkle " or two.

Thoro aro 15,000 stray dogs in New York send over Goldio.

The Governor risked Wellington Normal School yesterday. "The Streets of New York" will be played in the Opera House to-night. Telegraphic chess match, Wellington v. Christchurch, to-morrow. London, " the richest city in the world," has Si) poorhousos. Tlio V.M.C.A. of Christchurch are about to erect new buildings. The Paris "Figaro's" receipts for last year were £240,000. Oainaru Frozen Meat Company hare resolved to start operations with vigour. Cambridge, Waikato, has got a chimneysweep, whose appearance greatly puzzles the Maoris.

Ker. W. P. Fairclough, Wesloyan clergyman, saved a child from drowning at Invercargill yosterday. .Agnosticism is oneof thelutast isms ; but if you iind a man with too much heart, you will find aneurism than that.

The Bishop of Wellington deprecates the removal of St. John's College to Auckland as subversive of the founder's intention.

The resignation of James Brown as Visiting Justice of the prison at Dunedin has been accepted. The protracted frosts of the last few weeks will kave an injurious effect on next season's fruit crop, and they have already affected the supply of green feed.

]>unedin Chamber o Commerce yestorday resolved to co-ope fate with tho other Chambers of tho colonii * and the Chamber of Commerce, London, n devising means to secure tho adoption of in equitable form of bill of lading. A boatman named 1 'enry Dives dropped down dead at Welling ton yesterday while attending the funeral of a Maori; supposed cause, heart disease. ! Sydney is not famed (for its sobriety. On a recent Monday monping no fewer than forty-nino " drunks " were- brought beforethe magistrate. At the horse parado at Dunedin yesterday, Wait-a-weo, a Clydesdale entire, bred by Mr Menlove, of Oainanr, was sold for 000 guineas. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, recently stater! in London, that he had gjMjnt within tho lost nine months upwards of 19,000 on mifisical instruments.

Messrs Cargill and And mfiP- with about tin! «'ir..'.. ,

i have SO nt ferret*,

employed, destroy ing rabbi;* itiivii "run in Otagn. Several weowti l.^voalso been imported to kill "bunny." The members of tho Ministry visited tho Wellington refrigerating works yesterday afternoon to witness the process of freezing mutton, which is now being actively carried on.

"I have forgotten more law than you ever knew ; but allow mo to say I hava not forgotten much," said Sir John Maynard to th(finfamous Judge Jeffreys, who taunted him with having grown no old as to forgot his law.