SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4325, 27 March 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Wicked things—Candles

Motto for bcggers—To alma. Cantata in the Choral Hall-to-night. The Ruapehu is \n Lyttejtpn dock. His ExcoUoncy arrives by the Waikatq train on Monday. -

Supreme Co,urt jurors arp n.p.t required to attend till Wednesday.

Boof tea. is a popular " tipple " in some pnrts of the United States. Highway robbery at Retnucra. What noxt ?

Thore are 23,000 blind persons in England and Walep.

Both the Auckland (grammar School and Girls' High School are " fi^ll up" of pupils. Milk champagnp is the name of a ne\v teetotal beverage in England.

The Ponsonby -Oddfellows made a handsome presentation, to Dr. A. 0. Knight on the occasion of his marriage. King Country survey aU but completed. Country found rich in minerals, fruit, and game ; Maoris well-oil' aud contented. Despiao not small things; the largest corn is always found on the smallest too.

Quacks and locomotives can neithor of them go on without ft great deal of puffing. Dunedin publicans are reorganising, and intend to, petition, Parliament for the ropeal of the present licensing la\v. The statue of Bm'nsfojr tb.e Thames Ern,banfcment (of which a, replica coi^es to Duncdin) was. ca,st en 22nd 'January last in Sir John Steeds Foundry, Edinburgh. Two thousand' British troops are in Scotland and 30,000 are in Ireland.

Thp Empire Hotel, Lyttelton, yestorday changed Wnd,? fa* £10,000, Bishop Neville has abandoned the idea of founding a Cn,thodral at Du,n.odin,. Comip.on salt js recommended as a, cure for indigestion. Take a, tabjeappoofu,! in. water before breakfast.. At fa.u.Kffiga.L His. Excelleftoy tho Governor catertasnod 4 number of gentlemen at lunolioon on, boars tl?,e Hinetnoa. Last year, tb,eve were 1,461 bankruptcies in Now Zealand, nearly as many as th.oro wera in 1879. It is calculated, that the solvent peopje of tha PQlpny ha.vp, through insolvent*, within the last seven y<mn *ustainod a dead loss amounting to i 1,500,000. Mr Mwrphy, the celebrated temperance Iccturer,n.ißkes £1,824 per annum by vtrsing pGraons not to waste their maney ar> drink. Aw unsuccessful attempt has been made at Wanganui to get up ; an agitation ft^ainat the new railway tari«: Only 30 people attended a public meeting cm the subject, and only ten farmers and business men turned out to a seconr? roeetinj(. One of tho saddest trials that comes to a girl when she marries is that she has to dis-. charge her mother and depend on a servant A new flro-proof paint has boon patented in London—the peculiar constituent being asbestos—which renders wooden buildings non.lnflnmmo.blo. Send a thousand tons of it here at once.

As the result of a oonoert on board the lonio during her last voyage, £26 have been handed to the Merchant Seamen's Hospital, London.

Near Greytowo, Qtago, yesterday, a ohlld of three years old, named Fisher, came near being killed by the express train. The child was pitched off the line, where it was playing, by the oow-eatoher of the train, ana got an ugly scalp wound. A witness in a Kansas la,vpourt, being bullied by a oross-oxamlning lawyer, called upon the court for protection. The judge handed him a pistol. " I havo no further question to put," said the lawyer.