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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 117, 27 February 1895, Page 4

Ono lad down South has earned as much as 2'ls a week in selling small birds' eggs to a County Council. A Masterton butcher has bought several hundred sheep at Is tid a head fcr the purpose of boiling them down, Hug) i Gamble, dairy farmer, of Taieri, has been fined £'7 10a and costs for selling adulterated milk. Sinco tho Zulu War in 1880 British standards have not been taken into the field. Tho stallion Scaton Delaval has arrived in Sydney but will be quarantined before being forwarded to Now Zealand. Tho Victorian Crown Law Department intend issuing threatening letters to ex-members of Parliament who refuso to return their railway passes, all other efforts having failed. An amusing incident is reported from Tasmania. A swarm of bees lodged in ho Hagley Church organ, and when the choir assembed on Sunday, and tho choie becama mixed up. Tho members ot the choir hud to retreat, leaving the bees in possession. A remarkable romance is reported. A woman, lately a convict, has married the chaplain of one of the home country gaols. Tiic clergyman in question was a widower with a large family, and the wedding only became known through an officiul of the penal depai till out complaining that the wife hud not reported herself on the ticket-of leave. In consequence of the fact coming out, the clergy man has asked for and been appointed to another prison in the North ot England. If more pains were to build up the feebler parts ot the nature, there would be less need to pull down the stronger. For virtues bear a relation to each other ".•hick never can bo disturbed with impunity. They cann'ot flourish alone, and lie who excels in one bus the utmost need to cultivate another which may seem ojqjosed, but which is iu reality its counterpart.