MEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 2, 3 January 1891, Page 3

MEMS.

The Grand Orange Lodge o£ Now Zealand has been 21 years m existence. Th 9 wife of a baronet has appeared m the Eow, m the regular hour, riding astride. Her <3res3 was a divided skirt, rather longer than the habit now fashionable. Chas Voss the ventriloquist, late of Havelock, has turned up at Wanganni. For the promptitude with which news is sent the H. B. Herald suggests a medal to the manager of the Press Association. The Manawatu Gorge Eailway line, it is expected will be finished m two months. A potato party is a new pastime. The participants try to see who is most expert m picking up a line of potatoes with a teaspoon. The Manawatu Racing Club is talking of two days' meeting. No second-class club mN. Z. can beat this one. The Palmeraton North people are the ones to make things hum. , An Invercargill paper suggests that the time has como when the Presbyterian Church should engraft the observance of Christmas on its constitutional worship. Impossible— the first thipg they would do would be to argue the thing oufc logically, and if " had their doots " about the exact date of the nativity they would nct_ accept it any more than now —besides it was thrown over. before as savouring of Papistry. Dr. Macgregor, Inspector of Hospitals, has been on the West Coast lately. Mr Sawyers dairy expert thinks the Peninsular farmers are primitive m their cheesemaking processes. Yet Akaroa has always been noted for the excellence of its cheese. The Mr and Mrs Gallagher who created a sensation at Waverley last week were the parties who were concerned m a dispute at New Pijmouth two years ago with Father Cassidy, whom he struck for driving out with Mrs Gallagher. Some male lovers are not over brave. At Napier recently, a cow m Tarndon Park showed up one gentleman. A pair of lovers sitting quietly by theniBelves were charged. The gentleman saw the animal when it was quite close, and cleared the fence like a deer, leaving his inamorata to face the cow. The lady had both pluck and presence of mind, and mada such good use of a stout sunshade, that the cow first became astonished and then timorous, and bolted from the scene. Deponent sayeth not what excuses the deserter made to his fair one. Why is it that the good are not always happy ? was the question which a Sunday School teacher put to her class last Sunday. There was dead silence for a moment, and then a little fellow piped out, " Because they're thinkin' of the fun they ain't havin'." At Marton the Native Land Court is putting through a block (the Awariia) of 217,000 acres, the largest dealt with under the new Act. 40" bowlers turned up m Napier the other day, to take part m a bowling tournament. According to the Press, the' Picton cricketers are " the ihvincibles of Marlborough " The Governor will be present at the opening of the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science at Christchurch, on January 15th. The report that the Eangitikei Advocate has been sold, is premature. A rival journal will shortly be started. , There will be a large quantity of ensilage made on the Woimate Plains this year. Mr George Fisher says his election did not cost his more than £100. { H.M.S. Curacoa has on board a pet sheep and goat, but the two animals seem to thoroughly understand the wide mark that j is scripturally defined between them, and , are therefore, not the best of friends. Mrs Booth "the mother of the Army" could not speak if she saw her husband present at a meeting. Mr Whitefoord, B.M. at Christchurch is too ill to be able to attend to his duties. The Nelson Education Board voted a bonus of £20 to Miss Meredith, teacher of the Westport girls' school, for her succession of successful examinations. He : " Oh, Mary, may I address you on the subject of marriage ?" She : " You may, if you can dres3 me after marriage." Christchurch sends 30 men to the Napier meeting of the N.Z.E.A. During Christmas week the Lyttleton Times used up 8 tons of paper, equal to 121,925 Bheets, or 94£ miles m length. Captain Jackson Barry is ;'n Christchurch where ho is to deliver two lectures. He is 72 years of age. Sylvia Park Stud (Auckland) is to be sold to-day. They want £17,000 for it. A Teinuka parson says some of his congregation contribute according to their means and some according to their meanness. The "Weekly Press" estimates that Canterbury will lose over 2,000,000 bushels of wheat, and probably as much oats, as a result of the drought. Mr Goldie says lately that 12,000 Catholic children attend State schools. Bishop Moran says there are only 13,500 m the colony and 11,000 of them are at Cotholic schools. Mathew Burnett, the best of the many teetotal lecturers we have had — not for eloquence but for earnestness, and absence of ranting, — had on his platform at Scarborough a Catholic priest, High Church Vicar, Primitive Methodist preacher, a country parson and a Quaker M.P. The Manawatu Times suggests holding the fire brigades competition there— a good place too. Mr Glover, temperance lecturer, is m Taranaki. The Auckland Trades and Labor Council sympathise with General Booth's scheme, but they object to any attempt to foist upon our respeotable and law abiding community the off-scouring of God's most glorious earth."