SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4277, 8 February 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Payxe-ful experiences to-day in the Opera House. G old- prospecting still goes on in Canterbury. How sweet to recline in too laps(o) of ago. —Say aged about eighteen. Tho worst organ-grinder,—A hollow tooth that plays the pouco. Tho Pomoroy Dramatic Troupo closed a successful season in Wellington last night. Two men with boats ond nets havo boon caught fishing for trout iv Lake Wakatipu.

At tho Reaper and Binder trial, under the auspices of tho Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoaal Association, tho McCormick was first and the Buckoyo socond, TJ)O Howard was very highly commended. In Prussia thero is a clauso in tho liquor law against credit at bars. Why is a kiss like some sormons?—Bocause there aro two heads and an application.

According totho "TaurangaTelegraph," peaches aro selling in Auckland at 2s 6d per dozen—in Tauranga at Cd per kit, containing perhaps a gross. Tho Temperance Hotel Company in Christchurch have, lost £774 last year, and £2,342 since the concern was started.

At the Licensing Committee elections at Timaru yesterday, the temperance candidates were defeated in every case. ■

When is a schoolboy like a postage stamp? When he is licked and put in a corner to stick to his letters.

Dr. Luck, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, is cxpeptpd in Hamilton on Saturday (to-morrow.) A young Russian Jew has invented an elpctrical watch, without spring, and having only Uyo sv)ipsls, The trustoes of the Dunedin Savings B(>nk have agreed to pay from the profits the sum of £J,500 to the trustees of the Benevolent Institution. This is the third time such an event has occurred.

The farmers and settlers at Te Puke are showing a hearty interest in tho tobaccogrowing movement, antl have applied for a considerable number of shares in the $evy Zealand Tobacco Company, At the half-yearly meeting of the Squtfrprn Cross Petroleum Company at Chrietchurch yesterday, the balance -sheet showed paid-up capital £19,G15 ; liabilities, £1,055 ; assets, £1,169 ; and expenditure, £9,300,