SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4255, 16 January 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Tiik lire-fiond and the storm-fiend have both been busy of late.

Homo-bound—The bed-ridden patient. Writing a wrong is the forger's work. " A Winter's Tale " in the Opera House to-night. Quite seasonable.

Fugitive offenders can now be arrested on an ordinary warrant in any of tho Australasian colonies.

The accused in the Greymouth murder case has been committed for trial.

A nipping air—Tho one the mosquito sings before he bites.

A fat and awkward billiard player Is a cue cumbersome specimen.

The Tauranga "Telegraph" says the steamer Triumph was "safely beached in St. George's Bay." And yet they didn't get that news by tell-a-cram ! A movement is on foot to have tho Wellington Railway Station removed to a more central and convenient site.

The triangular piece of ground adjoining the Naval Depot at Devonport is to be devoted to public purposes, by consent of the Admiralty authorities.

The Government schooner Kekeno has returned without finding any trace of the missing sealing ere t at the Auckland Islands.

Bishop Harper, Primato of New Zealand, ia now on a visit to Dunedin, the tirst for twelve years. Handkerchief flirtations at the beach are sea "waves " that are not sad.

" It is a mere matter of form," said the lady as she adjusted her corset. Tho Vjetorian bowlers, who arrivo by next steamer, ays to play a Now Zealand team at Dunedin.

Government is expected to give £500, which, added to the private reward offered, will make £1,000, for the discovery of a payable goldfield in Tauranga district. 6ld gent—"Ah, Mrs 8,, did you keep a diary during your visit to the country!" Mrs 8., indignantly—"No, sir, I didn't. Tho family bought milk from the neighbours."

Despito dull times, tho valuation of Dunedin this year is 10,888 more than last.

The strike at Kawakawa coal mines being ended, the steamers will shortly be able to obtain coal as usual.

Wellington-Manawatu Railway Company are getting 5,000 tons of steel rails from England, and passenger carriages from America. Contracts are entered into for five engines and complete rolling stock. Dunedin police havo seized bread from nine different bakers and had it analysed — the result being that it was all found to be pure. In a wrestling match at Dunedin last night between Hudson and Donald Dinnie, tho combatants were pretty equally matched. Ultimately, however, the big Highlander threw Hudson so heavily that ho was unable to continue tho contest, on account of his injuries.

Wm. Dryden, a patient in Wellington Lunatic Asylum, has been scalded to death in a hot bath in that institution. The occurrence is pronounced accidental. Christchurch Board of Health mean to compel the hospital authorities to stop emptying their drainage into the river. In opening the Presbyterian Synod at Dunedin last night the Moderator (Rev. Mr Greig) deplored the falling-offin the attendance°at church, which was due to infidelity, indifferenco, and dissatisfaction with churches as at present existing. A Mrs Collier, in tho R.M. Court, Wellington, ywterday, swore that the man sho was living with was not hpr husbapd, though he resembled him in some raspects. The man maintains that ho is the real Simon Pure, and that the woman is Insane. Fruits of the confessional in Otago. Father Vaughan handed to the Secretary of tho Waimea Plains Railway Company, yesterday, the sum of £22 10s, being the amount embezzled some years ago by a