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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 14, 8 October 1874, Page 3

A p*»p°r bays-ol toe an-. tL-^^\ elation to man, "It kisses and blesses him, but will not obey hitn.'" Blobhs says that descrip-. •ion suits his wife exactly. The friends of a wit expressed some surprise that, with his age and fondness for the bottle, he should have thought it worth while to marry. " A wife was necessary," he. said ; " they began to say of me I drank too much for a single man." There wa^ a farmer (somewhere) who devoted his attention exclusively to growing pumpkins, by which he succeeded in bringing them to an enormous s'Zfyeo that be would chop with an axe a. cart-load of pieces to take to the market without Fensihly diminishing the size of tbe pumpkin. Hovvever, one day as he was cutting-r.away at a new pumpkin, his axe slipped and fell thTotfgh into' the pumpkin ;, so he started off to his neighbour's and borrowt-d a ,lant m and descended into the pumpkin ; hut when he got to the bottom he was surprised to find, there another,man,.who,immediately demanded of him what hft-had come down for. " I've come,". -says he, ".to look fot' my 8-x?, which I .have lost in here."— " Well," says tbe other, ." you- may. go back . again instanter. for I have been vhere these tnree weeks lonking for my , horse, and have notytt heen able to get a sight of him." The '-Wanganui Chronicle', states that one of the grla'est ".finds "of fro<=t. fish ever made in the Colony: was made by the driver ofColb's coach recently between Olaki and Paikakariki,,, He picked. up no lessthan one hundred arid sixty, .and reports that the Maories had filled about fifty sacks and baskets. Some of the fish w*re cut or broken io twf) in a way that would lead to the conclusion that it must have heen done by asharp knife. The rea-on why this fish is never f.umd except on frosty mornings is s*ili a mystery, and that so many of them should be cut or b r oken. is. a ithing . that can only add to it. ■ We should suppose that they were broken by the seventy of the " frost. o