BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 19, 13 August 1895, Page 2

BY THE WAY.

Dop trial At the Gore racecourse to-morrow. Interesting article on "Thistle Milker" on pace four. ' Two records! The result of the English Derby was received at Valparaiso, Chili, three, minutes after the winner had passed the post. The result of the N.Z. Grand National wag received at this office 44 minutes after the telegram was handed in at Christchurch. Mr Thomas Buxton, tha indefatigable correspondent to the Invercargill papers, says he does not start discussions himself. " I am invariably quiet until I am attacked, and then I am a terror to the other side," says Thomas. Bats ! Under the heading of "Sales, etc.— This Day" the • Hawkes Bay Herald' notified that the Kennedy-Lucas Dramatic 00. would give a performance that night. That should be a plain enough bint that the Bhow was a sell. Referring to the run of the Birchwood Hounds at the Champion Ploughing Match on Wednesday last, a correspondent says, the dogs were unable to negotiate a cruel gorsa hedge. Some kind pedestrians, however, grasped the situation and almost at the same moment in desperation grasped the dogs and threw them over the hedge as a man would throw turnips to a cow. And this is called hunting 1 A leading modiste in . tbe North of England possesses a parrot which she has trained to say, "Oh, how lovely 1" every time a customer comes into the shop. The astute milliner is reported to be making a large fortune. - In Albania the men wear petticoats and tbe women trousers. The women do all the work and their husbands attend to the heavy standing round. In Japan there are no old maids. Up to the present, according to Japanese law, if a woman was found unmarried after a certain age, a husband was selected for her. Now, however, the Mikado has issued a decree allowing her to remain unmarried if she chooses. Billy, the Goat—" That manuscript I just ate has given me an awful pain." Nanny— "Yes, dearest; that's called writar's cramp," Mr John Robertson says in the ' Christian Scotsman' .— " That the only way for a minister of Christ to get on nowadays is to write a novel. That novel-writiDg and novelreading have become as bad in ministers' studies as cigarette smoking. That both novels and cigarettes are from their father the devil." , The All Nations Hotel, at Cardrona.«tho properly of Elizabeth Kno w^es. was destroyed by fire at 6 o'clock on tbe evening of tbe 9th inst. The property was valued at LIOOO, and insured in the New Zealand office for L2oO, The cause of the fito was a defective stove pipe. The Dunedin and Christchurch Chambers of Commerce want the Government to postpone the coming into operation of the tariff on certain articles on which it is proposed to make concessions. By an order issued from the Defence Minister, constables and Permanent Artillery men are warned that summary dismissal will take place upon proof of their beinu found in hotels during prohibited hours, whether m uniforms or not. The Christchurch Meat Freezing Company have ordered a freezing machine from the Hercules Ice Company, Chio3go, capable of freezing 2300 sheep per day. The 'Gazette' contains an intimation of the purchase under the Land 'for Settlements Act of the Marewhenua Estate, Otago, containing 11,150 acres. It is costing Messrs B. Campbell and Sons Ll5O a week to get food for their flocks at Benmore by rail and cart. A man at Port Chalmers was last week fined for negleoting to get his child vaccinated. Queensland has lately passed an act prohibiting consultations in that colony. Although the chilled beef by the Gothic was a great success, a few carcasses of chilled mutton were a failure, as they were found to be spotted inside. O n L o S o t year New So " th Wale » imported 622.318 bushels of New Zealand oats. Queensland 25.609 bushels. Victoria 197,132 bushels. West Australia 109.404, and Britain 927,195 bushels. Fourteen and a-half millions of rabbitskins were exported in the same period. One of the largest frozen meat carriers afloat is now on the way from London to Queensland, via Torres Straits, to load meat, wool. etc. — a steel vessel named the Bakaia, of 5600 tons, the latest addition to the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s line. She is equal to the carriage of 120,003 frozen carcases of mutton in her refrigerating space. The Bakaia will not visit New Zealand on her present trip, but will, it is expected, be here in time for the approaching wool season. Sha was expected to leave London for Queensland on 3rd July. A suddnn mortality among cattle at Ohaupo, Waikato, has caused 143 deaths. The cause in unknown. At a recent social gathering in the United States the chairman proposed this toast : — "Woman!— once man's superior, now his _equaV A.— "ls your baby strong?" 8.-" I should say so. He raises the whole family out of bed at three in the morning." The ' Otago University Review ' announces that Mr A. H. Adams, its editor for a long period, is going to Wellington to join the staff of the • Evening Post.' Sharp lawyer—" 2"ou say the evening wore on. What did it wear on that particular occasion ?" Witness—" The close of the day, I presume. Messrs Fitzgerald Bros., the well-known circus proprietors, who left New Zealand, some months ago for the purpose of picking up novelties in America and England, expect to return to the colony via Australia before the end of the year, A Japanese commercial traveller is at present touring tbe West Coast of the South Island. Naturally the doings of' the first commercial representative of the progressive Eastern nation have excited much interest wherever he has been. The gentleman in question is highly educated, and speaks English with remarkable fluency. At a recent meeting of the debating society in Westport, to discuss tbe Chinese question, the Japanesavisitor spoke, displaying marked oratorical abilities. He was very emphatio in his denunciation of the flooding of New Zealand and Australia with Chinamen, and" expressed the opinion that a heavy poll-fax should be enforced.