NEWS AND NOTES.

Grey River Argus, 18 January 1912, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

, A man from Dunedin once visitfed Wellington. An Irish friend insisted j upon he visitor staying at his house •instead of at an hotel, and kept him •there for a month, playing the hosti in detail, even to treating- him to the theatres and other amusements, paying all; the cab-fares and the rest. When the visitor was returning to Dunedin, the Irishman saw him' down to tlhe steamer, and 'they went dnto -the saloon to have a parting drink/ "What'll you have?'.' asked the host, continuing his hospitality to the very last. "Now, look here," said the man from Dunedin. "I'll hae "no mair o' this. Here ye've been keeping, me at y'er hoose for a month, an' paying for -.a' the theattes an' cabs an' drinks — I tell ye I'll st'an' nae main 0' it ! We'll just hae a toss for this one!" ■

The statement that) Madame Sarah Bernhardt is going to marry the most recent success "in (her company is/ denied by «her with ridicule. Mr. Lou Tellegen, who is only 26 years of age, is a very handsome but onlY moderate ly talented Flemish actbr, and he ap- . peared with her in her recent American tour, and again in England. "The report that I am going to marry him," says Malamej "is comical, simplys N comical. If it were not so comical it would be shameful. T am a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. My son Maurice is 44, M. Tellegen is only 26." The greafi tragedienne is now producing in her mvn Paris threatre Victor Hugo's "Lucretia Borgia."

Optimism of the bluff, outspokeriA sort was that , possessed by the " late Senator Fr\'e 7 and he, could n^t brook a whiiner. Once at a dinner in. Lewi's fan a Avihiner ,&eated opposite Senator • Frye said dolefully: "I have only one. friend on earth— my dog. " ''Why don't 3 r ou get another dogr?" -said Senator Frye. .

A well -attended meeting of shareholder* in the Snowj^ Creek Gold-.Mining Syndicate was held at Gi-anity on Saturday, 13th instant, when the following business was dealt with :— An option of £1000 dewn with £15,000 at the end of twefre months was discussed, and after due consideration it Avas decided that the pric-j was too low. It. was then agreed that the syndicate accept a Joral offer, in tB? meantime, to erect a five head battery and commence crushing immediately. Reports from the works still go to prove that the reef is maintaining its size and quality, and is equal to anything in that locality. On night the shareholders received -a wire from the wovks to accepl ho offer or option over the property until they received a '•■letter which is on the wayl ,■;■■-■:,'... .'"' '"" ■.' .