SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4291, 22 February 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Fashionable night at tho Ipora. Fine harvest weather in lanterbury. Regatta at Thames on St Patrick's Day. 11.M.5. Espiegle visits (he West Coast Sounds.

Annual meeting of Aukland Institute next Monday. Christchurcli Exhibitionshows a credit balanco of £105.

Thoro nro only four pups nt Cambridge High School. Uood wheat harvest mV ictoria; estimated surplus, 200,000 buijels. A total of L 10,531 was at through the totalisator at Dunedin Ices yosterday. No sign of bad trado. Captain Thomas threat® to prosecute the " WaikatoGazotte" foibel. Only one porson in 80 haOorfectly sound tcoth. Mr Rochfort is poggin|out the main trunk lino from To Awamu southwards. The slowest man ever hrd of was one who could not got out of hbwn way, Nobody wishes tho baby olen ; still it is a relief when tho nurse crilit at night. A big potato grown atPcoa brought £1 at rallio, and Thames Bpital bouetits thereby. Mr Ilursthouso is nowiurvoying the i Kawhia-Alexandra Road, id work will commence shortly. Several School Commits olections in Canterbury being invalid,'esh olections are to tako placo oil Mond, the 24th of March. London has moro Schmon tlian Aberdeen, moro Irish thaßolfast, more Welsh than Cardiff, moro Ran Catholics than Roino, and moro Jewstan tho whole of Palestine. Educational atnonitios atlnedin Board of Education yesterday. Milder gavo Mr McKonzie "tho lio direct.io which the latter retorted:—"And I p you the lie direct. If you were not ali mean skunk you would not say such atg." Logical peoplo conclude there wdtwo " l.m. skunks" about! Tremondous tourist trafito Rotorua; Kirkwood, Cambridgo, coin cash. Tho tondor of Mr H. Dois, Auckland (£31,425), has been accepted tho Kopuaranga contract (constructionly) of tho Wollington-Napier Railway A pearl of the value of iDO has boon discovered by the McKay .hers at the north-west fishery, Wcsternstralin. At Sydenham, Canterburbur temperance candidates out of fivao "stood" woro eloctod to tho Licensirommittco. Mr Wm. Lovett's tende_7,S()o, has been accepted for ballastingl laying the permanent way of tho Cardgo branch railway. A plasterer and his boy ,g employed to white-wash a house by tlay, were so tedious that the owner askeo lad, in his master's absence, when hcought they would have dono. Tho Ibluntly replied : " Master's looking 'for another job, and if ,he finds one, will make an end this week." j Aoteoroa natives are reid to stop surveys of all kinds, whethlg, railway, or boundary; but as nobodints to look at their lands, this does noth much. In 1879, New Zealand tanjs imported 1,729 tons of bark, valued 1*5,000; and in 1882 they imported 3,<bns, of the value of £39,00 l». The temperance victory cpected to materially diminish the citjenuo from licenses. It will also seri! affect the local income from fines of |k and disorderly persons! Tho cityinuo is in danger! j Yesterday a hundred-milcycle race took place between MosgielLawrence, Otago, and was won by O'Kp 11 hours 25 minutes. Mr F. Dignan, of the Bat.New Zealand, Ashburton, was sei7 injured while riding, on Wednesdiy coming into collision with a drunkan named Boody, also on horseback. I Whence the "row" 4 the large public debt of Australasia! commerce is greater Chan that of Britf Q» Victoria ascended the throne, if B'time the British National Debt w»fc 3,000,000, and that of Australian-tow only £98,000,000. ... . \\