SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4192, 23 November 1883, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Mb MitciielsoN sworn in to-day. Tliis is the closing "Arabian Night" at Abbott's.

A bakor ought to bo a well-bre(a)d man. Death is tlio coward that strikes a man when ho's down.

A Chamber of Commerce lias beon established at Nelson, Mr James Sclanders being Chairman.

Male immigrants to Canterbury by the lonic have not found omploymont. 7,000 pooplo visited Otago Agricultural Show yeHtorday.

Muscles, like the quality of morcy, should nevor bo strainod.

• As mi inducement to young men, it may bo said that a good wife is never a miss.

A new organ in St. Luke's Church, Christclmrch, was opened last night with special services.

There are 17 applications for the post of Town Clerk at Wellington, 20 for City Engineer, and 13 for Assistant Engineer. The "Herald " is anxious to sco Queenstroet free of building hoardings. Would it rather havo grass growing in the street? In England and Wales there are 3G.000 ministers of religion, who deliver four millions of sermons in tho course of a single year. Tliero is thus ono minister to every 700 parsons in tho population.

"Louisa, don't let tho men come too near you when you are courting."—"Oh no, mamma ; whon Charles is horo we have a chair between us all tho time." Mamma thinks tho answor was rather ambiguous. Soven now hotels, four with 1,000 rooms each, aro being built in London.

It ia uA limited that over 500,000 pheasants aro sold annually in tho markets of England.

Applications for spaco at Christchurch Exhibition must bo in by Ist December. The space now applied for is 21,612 feet.

Tho appointment of tho four official assignees undor tho now Bankruptcy Act is fazetted ; also, tho appointment of Mr C. . O'Connor as Undor-Secrotary of Public Works.

Tho Washington monument, on tho banks of tho Potomac, is to bo tho grandest ever seen. When finished, it will bo tho highest structure in the world, an honour which Cologne Cathedral, 512 feet in height, presently onjoys. St. Paul's, at London, is 384 foot high. W. J. Glasgow, late pupil of tho Nelson College, left yesterday for England to take up the Military Cadetship at Sandhurst, which was at tho disposal of tho Senate of tho University of Now Zealand, in which he passed tho first section of the B.A. examination.