BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 15, 3 August 1895, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

Thawing. A. little skating in East Gore yesterday. A provincial paper publishes the following :— " Lost, yesterday, a small, bine morocco pocket book, containing a variety of papers, among the rest a tailor's bill for L2O. Any pe.son finding the same will please pay the bill, anri nothing more will be said " The Auckland Stipendiary Masistrate inflicted a fine of L3O the other day on James Orilmour for executing a tranafer cf shares without the name of the purchaser being written io ink. Shortly after the Tainui left Teneriffe the carpenter of the steamer, named Sprague, died of inflammation of the lungs. He was very ill when the steamer left Plymouth. He leaves a widow and family in England. A subscription on board in aid of the widow and family realised over LSO. A series of crimes, similar to those perpetrated by Deeming, have been discovered in Chicago, where a man named Holmes has been i onnected with the disappearance of no less th»n 13 women. Three bodies were found in quicklime in a cellar. Holmes has disappeared. CjtistableWatfy, of Pahiatua.on Saturday brought to Wellington from Palmerston North a mm named Alfred Peter Farrell, whom he had arrested on a charge of disoboying a maintenance order, made by the Magistrate's Court in Balclutha. Ha was a passenger for the South by the s.s. Penguin on Monday last. Robbing railway stations appears to be the manner m which the enterprising burglar in the North Island is amusing himself just now. Little oak trees, an inch and one-half high, are grown by Chinese gardener?. They take root in thimbles. Wife (to unhappy husband)—" I wouldn't worry, John ; it doesn't do any good to borrow trouble." Husband — " Borrow trouble? Great Creaar, my dear, I ain't borrowing trouble ; I have it to lend." A white-headed vulture, captured in the year 1708 and taken to the aviary at Schoenbrunn casfc'e, lived until 1826— 118 years. Tobacco seeds aro so minute that it is said a thimbleful of them will furnish enough plants for an acre of ground. Mrs Gadz'ey — " Do you suffer much from toothache?" Mrs Blazzer— " No— that is, not unless my husband has it," The wife— "Ona half the world doesn't know how the other half lives " Tha husband— 11 Well, it isn't the fault of your sewing society, anyway." Bryce— " Alg-rnon Fitz Sappy is one of those fellows who has moro money than brains, isn't he ?' Knowso — " Yes, and he is poor, too." Clara— "How under the sun did Edith happen to marry Mr Awkward !" Dora — " He was the bane of her life at every ball she attended, and I presume she married him to keep him from wanting to dance with her." _ It is said that in India the people have no idea of time, but that they hive learned that trains do not Wait for any one, so that great crowds are at the stations hours before the time for a train to start. In the reign of Queen Elizibeth, if b3d fish were sold to the poor, the fishmonger was decorated with a necklace of his unsavory commodity, and then perched on a stand in the market. Lord Wodehouae, who resented remarks made by tha chairman of an election meeting at North Walsbam, and pulled him off the platform and offered to fight him, was fined L 5. The amount expended on drink in Victoria last year amounted to 13,759,000, or L 3 3s per head of population. Some medicine given in Melbourne by a Chinese doctor fSr tumor consisted of orange peel, burnt figs, ginger root, and bitter wood. A gentleman must, by custom, kiss every lady he is introduced to in Paraguay. The largest bell in the New World is eaid to be the one in the Cathedral of Montreal, which weighs 28,000 lb. The first known example of bookbinding in boards in the modern styles was a Latin psalter of the ninth centurr. The parishioners of St Matthew's Church. Auckland, have decided that the stone church fund, commenced in Bishop Selwyn's time and now amounting to over L 23.000, be now used tor i's set purp-se. The Graziers' Meat Export Company of Sydney have decided to consider the question of the establishment of retail shops in London. A court martial sitting atLsipsicon July 8 sentenced a German officer named Hanni to four years' imprisonment for assisting in the sale of soma special fuses to French agents. At a meeting cf the Dunedin Workers' Political Committee held on Wednesday night, a motion was passed protesting against single electorates In cities. A thrilling drama, the action of which is laid in New Zealand by George Loitch, entitled the " Land of the Moa " has met with an enthusiastic reception in Wellington.