"BULLETIN" BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 188, 8 August 1914, Page 15

"BULLETIN" BITS.

The Morning Star—the new mission boat ior LMormngton Island—was recently lauiKlhed at Thursday Island. The church christening party broke over her a bottle, of «au-de-eologne instead of the usual cha.mp.i]nip The-latter contains about 1- per cent alco-hol, whilst the scent contains over 90 per cent.Thuedoee clerical ingenuity arrive et the place it steadily avoids, or something flke that. MJj. Tnepeetor-JGeneraJ erf Schools 'Bogben (call him Hoben) -is about <iu<» to retire on superunnmution. Hβ has iteea 33 years in the department, and for the itaei 15 of .them ha« 'held hie present position. Pt is expected that .Assistant 'Inspector-General Dr. Wβ. Anderson will climb into itfhe whiof'a ohajr. Iff tie does, no reasonable person will be en titled to complain. Cry from out of the North: — "Matrimonial. —Superior '.Aboriginal in permanent billet for 20 years desires meert aboriginal young fady of good character. iWrite. in 6rst instance, *Gemiine,' c/o Cairns '(Post.'" Thus insidiously do tJio subtleties of civilisation supplant tihe odd eavc-'ma.n.'e direct method of .■winning a missus toy cracking the lady on the head. Though he claims a great success Digby Denham says that to raise a loan in London is not exactly wine and roses. This is true. It's whine and Moses. The other day, at an agricultural show, a Mrs Burgess was handed a special blue ribbon while competing for the prize for the best astride horsewoman on the ground. , She was a brisk young settler of 74 years, and the show was at Emerald, where the awful climate comes from. Marry Laiuder carries a bit of timber tbat has a Ugh sentimental value to a Scot, for it belotijpnd. to Ja<mee iHogg, the mhyming "Efcfcrick Shepherd." But Harry -would not part vritfo *t on any consideration. A defendant of Hogg, ■rooted BomeWhcre in *h« wilde of Scotland gave it to J-ander with tears Mid hi a blessing- " Ye'H «an« ainonjr 6cote i n si' (Kurt/; v' #hr w-airld." said the later I'llogjf, "an' yr can show them the atlck I for a ehar-rm."