SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 4193, 24 November 1883, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

" Sam'i. o' Posen " in Opera House to-night. Hostile furniture—Armed chairs. Weather report— A clap of thunder. Napier Horticultural Show was held yesterday. "Tauranga Telegraph " makes its debut to-day. Mr Bryce contemplates visiting Te Aroha goldfields shortly. Tho Takapuna made tho passage from Onehunga to Wellington in 23 hours. The Africans of the Congo eat salt alone ok a dolicacy. Drink is again being sold in the Eagle Tavern, London, while tho name General Booth remains over tho door as licensee.

Rev. J. Canning, Inspector of Schools, died at Christchurch yesterday morning. To encourage tho others, four of the. chief Oamaru breeders havo promised not to exhibit any stock at Chri&tcnurch for three years. When a man is half-seas over you may harbour a suspicion that his judgment is afloat. m In tho case of Rev. Mr Sheriffs, a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind," was returned at Wellington yesterday. At Napier Chamber of Commerce meeting yesterday, it was stated that the delay in prosecuting railway works was owing to the scarcity of labour, A plagiarist's apology—" It is true I steal from the ancient authors, but I give it all back to the public. At an Irish league meeting in New York, some one of the audience moved that "no one should vote who is not present." Yesterday, at the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Factory, Otago, a dividend of 10 por cent, was declared, £2SOO carried t» reserved fund, and £1381 carried forward.

A wifo, having lost her husband, was inconsolnblo for his death. "Leave me to my grief," she cried, sobbingly ; "you know the extreme sensibility of my nerves; a moi'o nothing upsots them." In the case of Mandera Scott v the Northern Steamship Company, the Appeal Court at Wellington yesterday dismissed MiScott's appeal after the decision of Mr Justice Gillies, with £00 cost.

That tho people of Taranaki are essentially a bucolic people is testified by tho following couplet, which comes down from tho old troublous times of the war:— " In the Taranaki war the order usod to bo, Not" Forwardl" but *' Qco up I Strawberry."