SCINTILLATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 4348, 19 April 1884, Page 2

SCINTILLATIONS.

Titii Governor goes North on Monday. Gisborne gasworks arc going ahead. Tho Premier loft AVollington for tbo South yesterday. Tho United " States "—Drunk and incapable. It is tho sausago manufacturer Who makes both ends meet. Thct'o tiro'27,ooo blind beggars in France. All tho amusements tire open tonight bicept tlib Kennedy Family. Mr McDonald. M.H.I . for East Co.ast, tills i'e-'Conside.cd the matter of resignation. Roti-enchment at Thames — Municipal salaries havo been reduced from £700 to £0,00 d i»car. Lord Archibald Campbell has in the pros 3 a volume dealing with Scottish antiquities and Scottish tartans. _ An unoccupied house at Port Chalmers, belonging to Mr Gray, was burned down yesterday mornihg; Insurance, £100 in Colonial offlco. .

Soudan tdntaine a.oilt, 12,(300,0 0 of pcdplo, ill'ost d. them bigoted Miissolmon and fierce flghtel'S. A company in Florida recently engaged to supply 500,000 alligator skins to a French tannery. Lyttelton is tho least rated borough in New Zealand. Ayd general rate covers lighting and scavengering. The French Government find colonisation costly. They have settled 2,000 French families in Algeria at an average cost of £1,208 osßd per family. If there is ono time more than another when a woman should bo entirely alone, it is when a full lino of clothes comes down in the mud.

Campbelltown, Scotland, which belongs to the Duke of Argyle, contains 22 distilleries) each titrniilg out an average of 100,000 gallons of Whisky. The MacCallum Moro thus owns the biggest dram-shop in tho world. Ho is a stailnch teetotaller, nevertheless.

Cromwell Quarts'. Mining Company, Otngo, which has paid £18,2(50 in dividends sinco 1809, has lately been non-paying, and it is proposed to cease operations. A minority of shareholders wish to spend i' 4,000 in sinking to tho lower levels.

A century since the Hnwaiians were savages and cannibals. Now there are over 300 telephone wires in use in the city of Honolulu, and tho application ofthe telephone is made throughout the island on the plantation... Some of the planters are now cutting their cane at night with the aid of the electric light.

Dunedin Chamber of Commerce yesterday passed a resolution asking Government to continue Sir F. D. Bell as Agent-General of tho colony, Dr. Newman, who is a candidate for Thorudon, addressed a largo meeting on Thursday night, and was awarded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. The contest lies between him and Mr Bunny.

A Rhodo Island jury wore five days debating on a long case involving a hog worth 7d01., and then came in, found the hog not guilty, and recommended both plaintiff and defondarit to the mercy of tho Court.

On Thursday night tho stables and barn at J. Mcintosh's Hotel, Invorcargill, were burned down, one horse being killed. The hotel narrowly escaped. The insurances amount to £175, and tho loss is £100 in excess of that sum.

"How to Catch a Husband" is tho title of a recently published pamphlet. In Hammersmith they say that tho best recipe for this catch is to leave the husband alone in tho house with the new housemaid, and then drop in on 'em unawares. ritimpton Park Company, Christchurch, were yesterday prosecuted for shooting hares without a game license. The Magistrate decided that the hares being in confinement, no license was required.