By the Way.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, 9 October 1894, Page 2

By the Way.

Queen's weather. L ibor Day to-morrow. Government offices closed. Band contest at Invercargill. Tennis season opens at Gore. Fishers' baskets as yet show no margin. Coolgardio miners swallow intoxicants because water is scarce. Ooolgardie drinking water has to be boiled aad skimmed before using, 3?hermom,eter bas reached U3 at Coolgar die. Warm, eh \ A. writer in ' Taapeka Times ' says it will require an exceptionally fine season from this to makj up for the present backward condition of agriculture through (Southland. 4 Qerman officer is on his way to find ' an island in the Pacific where he and his associates can live the life of monkeys, subsisting solely on fruits, and going nakpd, __ The ' 4dvcpate ' (Dunedin) says : (t We know neither the date nor the year of the birth of Christ, but «re have the comfort--1 able a«urance that hoth as commonly j are wrong. "We are satisfied that | both are b\^t a,fter wbftt does [ j it matter P' Mrj Bosant arrived at Auokland on Jfrflay by fcjje AU»e4a,

The Waikdka Eiflaw opened tire on Friday, 28th ult. The club thinks the canvas will do another time yet. There is a rush for life insurance agents by the residents in and around Waikaka. On Wednesday afternoon Mr Garden took thirty >two trout out of the Kuriwao, averaging about a pouod and a half. Mr D. Murray has from 110 to 120 per cent of lambi) in his paddocks nt Pukersu. No fewer than 13 Chinamen in Wellington and one in Masterton are gazetted among the letters of naturalisation. A noted temperance man lies here, The green tnrf o'er his head. No man e'er saw him on the bier, Till after he was dead. The Ghriotohurch » Press ' says that Mr Griffen, of Loburn, has a merino ewe which dropped five lambs, all of which are doing well. At the Invercargill Walking Show the entries numbered twenty thoroughbred and carriage horses and twenty-three draughts ; or a total of forty-three. Queen "Victoria has expressed a great dislike to the present mode of colored underclothing, even of the most dainty tints, and says the pure white is so much more charming. We could not venture an opinion in opposition t° Her Majesty's. According to a Sydney paper fine cauliflowers were sold the other day in BelmoQt market at Is per dozen, while at any suburban butcher's beef and mutton can be bought at Id per lb. All kinds of provisions are said to be pbeoomenally cheap in Sydney. An important copper discovery has been made on the middle branch of the Kokatohi, a tributary of the Hokiiika river. The reef is Bft wide, consisting of peacock ore and manganese. The prize poem at an Australian Agricultural and Pastoral Show a year or two ago contained the lines : — I Thaße woolly things with Btnmpy tails— Without them whut were New South Wales ? An Order-in-Oouncil presreibes that the payment of capitation allowances to Education Boards for the quarter ending December 31 shall be according to working average attendance of the past quarter. Fame! The Marlborough 'Express' says : " Testing the knowledge of borough school boys — Headmaster: '.Name the most important city in a north-easterly directon from Blenheim ?' Pupil : •Wellington.' Headmaster: 'Tell me the name of a person occupying a high official position it that city ?' Answer from one boy : ' The Duke of Wellington,' and from another, ' Mr Buick !' " It was in the time of Mr Warden Prior, when 5000 gold diggers were winning millions from the golden ground oE the Boss flat?, that a raw young Irish policeman was relieving a veteran on sick leave, and being ordered "to close the Resident Magistrate's Court ;" he went to tbe door, and placing his legs apart, aad his arms akimbo, he rolled out grandly in rich Hibernian: "The Resident Magistrate's Coort's now closed, so help me G- !' That night Warden Price's tailor remarked that "he had never before met a man so hard on buttons as was the Magistrate."