MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1279, 1 June 1883, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

■•---.. ~: ♦— ~ " Thj^^onedin Sfiacning Herald, in Inangahua election,, expresses rcgfpt that apronouncedOppositionist was not retained. The editor also says : — ** If there Is any foundation for the statement that the Government have •already promised votes for the West Coast district, such conduct far sur|»Bses the limits of decency. The votes Jo {.hat district [during the coming session will be watched with attention. The demands of :.that district are unlimited, bat we hope the Government will not continue the vicious •system of squandering the public money merely for the purpose of keepthentselvesi in 'office. •' We have had •enough- of this. "No," said Fogg, "I don't believe la extending the suffrage to women. Tm decidedly opposed to it There's "been so much said about it already that Mrs P. has grown quite scrumptious aid begins to think she is some"body after all; Why, the other day ■she actually declined to shine my boots. If it goes on this way, it won't be long before she will refuse to polish the kitchen stove and split the irindUnga. No, sir; give the suffrage to women, *nd you will subvert society, knock, things topsy turvey, and transform home and hearth into a barren waste." And Fogg started, homeward, to have two suspender ■Inttons sewed on that he had pulled off daring the unwonted excitement he had been thrown into.— Jßoston Trww«*t X*-^” ■ V -••'.■.. Two sweet young ladies have retired temporarily by order of the magistrate at Wellington. Their guilt w^s larceny. Their coarse of -precediufe was to skip gaily into some .establishment attended to by some impressionable young fellow, secure £he article which attracted their fancy, and with all their blandishments in■vite the unfortunate youth to visit them and receive payment The magistrate didn't consider this business, and set them up for a week The press -at Home is even more Tough upon the Salvation Army than •colonial journals. This is the way that "one London paper chronicles an incident that took place at a camp meeting : — "Yes," said happy Eliza, "'look' at me and my husband; we are both saved. A short time ago we were both drunkards — horrible, despicable drunkards ; we were starving ; we were without clothing. I had only one chemise to my back. But lam saved. And now I have two chemises not to mention other articles of clothing. Save I not capting ? " And her husband answered, with grace and salvation on every feature of his face, * Missus, you W The editor of a paper at Fargo, Dakota, is a wanderer on the face of the eaith. • He wrote a discriptfon of an excursion, and said, < The majority of the ladies present wore sacks of the daintiest description, ' and the compositor set it up socks of dirtiest discription,' He got the copy of the paper the first thing in the morning, and when ne saw the error, had his wife prepare him a lunch and he started to catch a frieght train for the west. As the train moved out he saw a procession of ladies headed towards his office, anc he bribed the conductor to huny The conductor says he got off fort] miles west, and said he was looking for a tree claim. His wife- will no follow him, because she was on th< excursion, and wore a sack of th< dantiest description, and she is just &< mad as the rest The only way fo: the editor to do is to be born agaii and try and lead a different life. It i said he has sent for the composite) who made the mistake to come ou ■west and take up a tree claim, but th< compositor says he never cared mucl to own real estate, anyway.