SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4259, 21 January 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Miss Ckkk.nwood's debut at the Opera Houso to-night.

The Governor is visiting the Otago Lake district.

First tenders for Auckland tramways are now being called.

Donald Dinnie was defeated in the high leap at Invercargill. Earthquake shock in Christchurch last Saturday. Ovor 7,000 people havo visited the steamer Aorangi at Wcl1." '■ : The Kennedy famih , . closed an unusually successful season in Invorcargill. Auckland vital statistics for December ■.— Births, 72 ; deaths, 32. " Keep oil'tho grass "is a corporation way of interdicting a certain class of duelling ; it forbids the public to cross swards. Tho world consumes 2,000,000 tons of tobacco a year. Rabbiters aro making from £15 to ..30 per month. Vine te bunny !

A grand Masonic festival-^-tho most brilliant ever seen in the colony—took place atTiniaru on Saturday last.

Not by Dr Wilkins.—To euro deafness in a man, begin to whisper to him about a chance to make his fortune.

Step on a woman's f rail and she has a claim for damages. Her redress is a new dress.

"Tauranga talks of war, boys. " It pro poses to send a cricket team to Auckland.

Typhoid fever attacks about !_0,00( persons yearly in Victoria. The disease, though preventiblo, is greatly on the in crease.

The recent wet weather has converted the cricket ground at Dunedin into a swamp, and practice for the approaching match with Tasmania is impossible.

Banks in Japan charge from 35 to 55 per cont. interest. The 255 banks in the country in 1881 declared dividends representing 13 percent, on the capital. Whangarei brewery, which h_,s been closed for six months, has been started afresh by Mr Downing, formorly of tho Northern Wairoa.

Ono of tho Yorkshire newspapers gives an account of an examination in which a boy, on being asked to name one of tho minerals of Australia, promptly replied, " Tinned mutton."

Lieut. Innes, addressing a Salvation Army moeting in Dunedin, said that "in answer to prayer a young woman in Auckland had been restored to health after four doctors had given her up, and had left her on what they believed to be her deathbed."

Single women immigrants just arrived at Timaru have found employment at L 25 to L4O per annum. The demand was in excess of the supply.

Joseph Cook hopes the day will 'come when " wo will havo only olio postage stamp for the whole world." Does Joseph wish to got hold of that stamp, and make a fortune by selling it ?

A man named Andrew Hughes died at Ohinemutn on Saturday morning under curious circumstances, lie was apprehended as being insane and lodged in a police cell, but was found to bo suffering from typhoid fever. The matter calls for inquiry.

Tho steamer Victory left Wellington for London on Saturday night. Her cargo •included 7,000 carcases frozen mutton.

Tho British Government proposes to spend £100,000 on defensive works at Aden.

Old Mrs B. came to town on New Year's Day from the Waikato on an excursion, and when sho was asked why she was in such a hurry to leave she replied, "I've got to; you see as how I came in on an exertion train and my ticket perspires to-night." An uneducated man, vending a dictionary, was asked his opinion of the matter, and replied, " 'J.he stories are good, but rather short." As brevity is tho soul of wit, it will not surprise people to find a flash of genuine humour in Webster's dictionary. In that work, "wicket-keeper" is described as " the plnj er in cricket who stands with a bat to protect the wicket from the ball."