SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4124, 22 September 1883, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

The revenue is recovering. "An auioonin'ciiss."—The cir-euss ! | Court Minstrels in the Opera House to- j night. i Telegraph bureau opened at Parnell. j An athletic club is mooted for Dunedin.

Waitakerei Railway Station is to be a post and telegraph ofiice. The followers of Mahomet number about 175,000,000.

Dunedin butchers are to be prosecuted for adultering sausages.

Verdict of " Found dead " in the case of the woman Feenly, drowned at Rotorua.

Madame Patti is to receive £1,000 a night in the States.

Asbestos rope is now made for fire escapes, theatres, &c. Greymouth Land Leaguers intend giving an address of welcome to Messrs Redmond and Walsh.

The desertions from the British army in 1882 were 6,942, against 7,030 in 18S1, and 9,299 in 1880.

The schooner William and Jane, with produce, from Dunedin, is ashore on the Waikato bar, and a heavy sea running.

Mrs Dr. Potts was in Christchurch last week, and drew the largest houses ever seen in the Theatre Royal.

The brandy-shops in France are at the rate of one to every 92 inhabitants ; there are many wine-shops besides.

While Messrs Redmond and Walsh were in Wellington they were presented with £300 by an anonymous admirer.

More than six millions of unclaimed pledges loft with " mine uncle " are sold every year in London.

The steamer Stella has been on an expedition to Jackson's Head and the French Pass, to fix sites for beacons, &c.

Nearly a centenarian.—John Flanigan has died in Greymouth Hospital, aged 99 years. He came from County Clare, Ireland.

Letters have been received from Mr Kelsey re the alleged diamonds sent Homo from Canterbury, but are kept private. The Wellington Salvationistshave bought the lease of the Apollo Hall fora "barracks," at about t'soo.

What U that which is ever before us, can never be seen, and yet all are looking forward to ?—To-morrow.

A Maori has been badly injured by falling from a passenger train while passing through tho tunnel near Christchurch.

Oliver Wendell Holmes says that bad air, bad whisky, and irregular habits keep the doctors alive. He must be mistaken. Those very things have killed several doctors in this city.

Mr Wright, of the Australian Directory, has again been proved wrong. AtDunedin yesterday, he sued a customer for £2 2s, the price of a, copy of the work, but failed to recover, because the book had a false label—professing to be for ISS3-S4, while the information was collected in 1879.

The maiden's point of view : Mamma (to Maud, who has been with her brother to the play, and is full of it)—" But was there no love in the piece, then?" Maud—"Lore?" Oh, dear, no, mamma ! How could there be ? The principal characters were husband and wife, you know I"

London covers 72,000 acres of land, on which dwell 3,814,571 inhabitants, and an average of 28 new streets are opened, and good houses built every year.

At Timaru yesterday, leaders of the Salvation and Skeleton Armies were each fined 10s and costs for obstructing the streets. In both cases notice was given of tippeal to the Supreme Court.

Mr Robertson, the well-known poultry breeder, lately imported a Presburg cook, whoso chief peculiarity was that it had never crowed. As it died shortly after arrival and was stuffed, it now crows as little as ever. It may be seen in Mr llobertson's window in Upper Symondstreet.