JOTTINGS.

Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 10 July 1895, Page 2

JOTTINGS.

Master Hubert James, who was here last Summer with Mr Boult, has been creating quite a sensation in Adelaide, according to a correspondent. He sang the chief soprano part in Costa's oratorio "Naanian" on sth June entirely without book. The audience was fairly carried away by his excellent singing and applauded him to the echo. The chorus comprised a hundred voices, and the band was chosen from the Leipsig orchestra. Tho choruses were finely rendered and did much credit to Mr Poult's traininir.

How long do the people of Rotorua feel inclined to waste an hour and a halt every mail night in waiting for and collecting letters which, in the ordinary course would be delivered at their own doors ? '

A Gazette notice permits the Auckland Young Men's Christian Association to bs registered as a limited company] without the addition of the word "limired" to its name. A Young Men's Limited Liability Christian Association would be rather a novelty.

"When Major Paiifiborn and his friends were introduced to a certain New South "Wales' legislator as the American Transportation Commission, the politician remarked tkat.transportation to the Australian colonies had long since been stopped:

As evidence.' of the subtlety of the native mind the following incident may be recorded. In a horse case the other day a witness was asked by the defendant if he did not know that the animal in qucsti* n was handed over by the owners at a certain taua. The Bench would not take cognisance of such practices and v.-oidd not allow the question. The defendant then asked the witness if he did not know that his people had made a fret! gift of the horse. The native in the box immediately drew the attention of the magistrate to the fact that the defendant was trying in a round-about manner to obtain an answer to a question which had previously been disallowed.