By the Way.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 17, Issue 17, 12 October 1894, Page 4

By the Way.

Bank changes. Liquor legislation. Some disgraceful scenes. NZ. Parliament will lose its good name. Gore Horse Parade to-morrow. , Public Works Statement at last. No district railway votes excepting Seaward Bush. But L2OOO for Gore Bridge covers a multitude of sins. Good reports all round of the lambing. Our Chatton correspondent in an ultrademocratic mood. The Gore bred mare Watercress' has left Melbourne to be raced in India. The 'Courier' says Mr G. H. Mackenzie has leased his Balnamoyne estate to Messrs Whyte Bros. Unparliamentary. One hon. member must not call another hon. member "ft crawler." We should think not. Mr Bobert Ewing, lately in charge of the Palmerston branch, has been appointed manager of the Colonial Bank in Dunedin. The directors of the National Mortgage and Agency Company have Riven share* holders notice that a call of Ll per share is to be made payable in two equal instalments on the Ist January and lit July, 1895. The lambing in the Nortli Otago district has beeu exceptionally good this season. A farmer informs an Oamara paper tbat from 400 ewes he haß 600 lambs. It is reported in Auckland that S<r Qeorge Grey will leave for the colony by the Gothic, but will stay a month at Capetown. The winner of the 24 hoars' cycling championship at Bunedin on Saturday was Body, of Christohurch ; and the second man (Soanes) also hailed from the City of the Plains. j On the arrival of the steamer Flora at Lyttelton on Wednesday morning from Dunedin it was foand Mrs Taylor,* saloon passenger, was missing. She was going to Christchurch on a visit to some friends. Her husband is employed by Messrs Fergusson and Mitchell. A rather sultry enquiry has been held at Kiverton inte the origin of a fire which took place there some time since. Mr C. W. Martin, the owner of the premises, and a wellrknown. insurance agent, had his feelings so worked upon by Sergeant Macdonell as to induce him tp exclaim : "You scoundrel to Bay that; you vagabond. Don't get too clo.e to my fist* How dare you say so.'' The local paper after using up all its available type, announces ihat the enquiry was tp oontinue next day. It continued for five days when a verdict of fire-raising against some person unknown was returned. An inquest was held at Henley touching the death of Ann Kenny, wife of a farmer. She was sitting by the fire with a daughter when they heard a noise in the adjoining room. On entering Mrs Kenny saw that a candle had set. fire to the wall close to the heads of two children sleeping there. The fire was pat out by her and her daughter. The! latter went out for a bucket of water and wben she returned she found her mother had dropped dead. The medjcal evidence was to the effect that death was probably due to syncope. il A man broke into a church at Ealinggreen recently. After packing tip the Communion plate ready for removal, he drank half a bottle of sacramental wine. Enveloping himself in a oassook, he fell asleep,, in wbich condition he was disoovered when the caretaker arrived next morning. ; The gross receipts at the Post Office* last year for. stamps (gummed atyi an* gammed) savings deposited, ta_t*s ool* looted, fees for shooting, fishing, toster* ing, registration of hatohing.fl,toatchings, and dispatchings, machinery fees, and life insurances aggregated L 5,655,085 I6s 6d, so far as osn be ascertained from the books kept by the Department* It it computed saya. the 'Western I Mail ' that over 700 teams and,, some 4000 horses. are employed carting on tha road between the town of Southern Cross, the terminus of the railway,, and the Coolgardie township. Besides these, there is endless traffic in coaches, camels, horses and footmen. The following touching advertisement appears in a Wellinaton paper :—"Gentleman (43) desires to know lady, intellectual, modest, unaffected, cheerful, effeminate, graceful, constant, kind, unselfish, loving peaoe and concord, hating cant an J all hypocrisy." A newspaper man cannot always be accused of robbery when he is caught itt the act of taking notes. A suburban man, endeavoring to work ap a connection in the milk sapply iog business, distributed handaeds of handbills, wherein he announced his willingness "to scpply patrons with milk of the first water." As a failure in advertising he is a success. The women have appropriated the shirt and other parts of man's costume, bat the men are retaliating. One of the latest things they have laid hands npon is the safety pm* It is an ingenious contrivance, and ever . ao manj «- men, married and unmarried, use it to hold ap shirt sleeves and for other purposes* At the Sunderland Couuty Court, Judge Meynell sympathised with a poor man who had borrowed money at exorbitant interest, but ordered the money lender to reoeive the sum claimed, to be paid at the rate of sixpence a month. The dryest place in the world is that part of Egypt between the two lower falls of the Nile. Rain has never been known to fall there, and the inhabitants do not believe travellers when told that water can fall from the sky. " Program " is the way they spall pro*; gramme now in Chicago. Another in* stance of the retrenchment policy which that city is forced to pursue since the booming World's Fair.