SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 4393, 25 February 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Popular concert in Choral Hall to-night. Rat poison is proved to be " rough on barmaids."

New Wesleyan Church at Cambridgo to bo opened on sth March.

The Prince of Wales is said to own 250,000 acres of land in Kansas.

Tho latest census of England and Wales .hows that of tho 25,974,439 inhabitant-, 24,855,822 were natives.

Since the year 1850 sixteen baronetcies and thirty-four knighthoods havo been conferred upon the physicians and surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland.

Horr Baudmann says that in India ho played " Hamlet " with throe peoplo and spoko all tho lines.

Thoro aro more Jesuit fathers in France than in Germany, Austro-Hungary, Belgium and Holland.

The agents of the Dunedin Refrigerating Company in London aro holding back the meat ex Tongariro for an advance in price. Heavy rain has fallen over tho South Island during tho last 36 hours.

The piano is the most moral of instruments, being grand, upright, and square. Shop assistants of Cambridgo, Waikato,aro agitating to have shops closed at 0 p.m. Messrs Pavitt, Lavery, Adams, Lipsey, and O'Halloran havo been appointed Licen. sing Commissioners at Te Aroha.

Donkin and Rawson, surveyors, may be expected to emerge at Kihikihi shortly. Mr Sutton, M.H.R., speaking at Napier on Saturday last, said he had informed M misters that he would probably not be a supporter of theirs next session.

In South East Ward, Christchurch, the temperanco candidates for tho Licensing Committee were all badly defeated.

Tho superiority of some mon is morely local. They are great becauso their associates are little.

Three hundred emigrants recently arrived in Tasmania by the Cape Clear, got engaged within a week, and within a month got up a strike for increased wages. George Simmonds, of Kumara, has been fined in two sums of £50 and costs for acting as borough Councillor when incapablo, under the 4th sub-section of tho 01st section of tho Municipal Corporation Act, IS7O.

Among the coining political leaders of New Zealand Mr Sutton would like to be classed. Ho is confident of re-election, and he said on Saturday that ho looked to the next general election to return men capable of forming a strong Ministry. "Procrastination is the thief of time," according to the poet. Tho thief at Christchurch is a low cuss named John Edward Taylor, who stole a clock from a house where he was sheltered out of charity. He has got six months added to a past prison record of seventeen years. At the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland, it was resolved not to allow women to participate in tho proceedings. A reverend father said his reason for objecting was that the "Scriptures command women to sit quietly in the Church," and he thought they ought to do so.

F. W. Reiminschnoider, late native interpreter for the Legislative Council, has been lodged in gaol at Wanganui for three months, for disobeying the order of the Supreme Court to repay to the Hon. Makena Kohere the money misappropriated by him. Two prospectors, named Williams and Everett, have been seriously injured by falling from some rocks in Wilberforco Valley, Canterbury, while searching for gold.