PARS FROM THE BULLETIN.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3838, 24 April 1899, Page 2

PARS FROM THE BULLETIN.

A traveller up North lately writes :— -A police -sergeant *«. sured me on his oath that he had )een approached half-a-do% n ,mea by a local cleric who wanted rim to take a half interest in a private still, which the shepherd ntended, if he obtained polio* partnership, to run under the parsonage building. * * ♦ * Premier Seddon has already saved £36 a year off his anticf pated olct-age-peiwion expenditm^ l'wo old men (80 and 75) w^ awarded the full allowance of £i% a year each, but as one of them promptly killed the other with an axe, both pensions stop short after the first instalment This is the first death among Digrar Dick's pensioners, and his opponents will doubtless set it down to the evil results of ' experimental legislation.' * * # # The name of Burgees is unlucky ia Australasia. Butler passed for some years under it another Burgess was unjustly arrested for the Gatton murder*, a Burgess was the boss Mating*, tapu murderer ; and last week a Burgess in a fit of insanity murdered his wife and two children in S.A. *#■ * * * The irreproachable dames who have hitherto managed Melbourne Women's Hospital in the interests of male doctors, and who took an annual opportunity to despise the applications of female doctors, are fairly beaten at last. Two or three of their trousered idols cleared out of the show in * hurry, and when they advertised for a resident medical officer for the infirmary department, the only candidate was Dr Violet May Plummer, resident surgeon at Melb. Hospital. So the com* mittee pulled a long, sour face and told Dr Violet that she would do. > They might have added that they couldn't help themselves. * # •* * In the ' good times ' about 30 shearers, fresh from a ' cut-out,' strupk a lone shanty out back, > and were soon seated round the ', long table in the eating room. The shouting started, and went round once. Mid-way round the second time Brown didn't lespond, and it was his 'shout.' His neighbours shook him — he* was lying back on his chair, head on ' chest. They remarked that Brown had got drunk ' very sudden.' Then an observant shearer found that Brown wasn't drunk — only dead. It was resolved that they couldn't spoil the fun. So they took the dead man's cheque out, the corpse shouted and they drank his health, and the ball rolled on till Brown was stiff as well as defunct. His cheque was for 30 odd 8OV8. ! '.#.#■* * ~~lt doesn't take long to fix up a - township nowadays when a nuggets, is stumbled over in the Weibip Lately, someone found a 3<ft|gitfcjS piece at Wolhibar, 27 miles fiwa-^ Kalgooriie. There was a rush; and a man who had some sheep ,-' out that way joined in with Ithe animals, an axe, a knife, and a water-bag. Same evening there was a butcher's shop built of boughs, and a blood-stained monopolist offering chops at Is a lb.— the beginning, probably, of ' - the Wollubat Chilled Meat and Freah Food. Supply Co* And (who knows ?) perhaps a knight- ; hood in a coming boom-time.