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Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 13, 16 January 1891, Page 2

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-— ■ . O " la the Waikato district there are load complaints of the ravages of the codlin moth. | Timaru hospital took m a sailor, bat the captain refused to make the ship responsible for his expenses, and the Board passed a resolution declining to receive patient 3 from sea-going ships m future unless agents give a guarantee for expenses. Sir Harry Atkinson has been visiting Egmoat, both the mountain and the electorate. One of the Wellington bowlers says that the Nelson bowling green is the best they have seen m New Zealand. Captain Jackson Barry has no house for his second lecture at Chriatchurcb. Te Kooti's caval cade was notorious as much for the dress and undress of its members as for anything else. One tatooed warrior was comfortably clothed m rather a dingy shirt and yellow waistcoat that had once been white — when, deponent saith not — having probably left his smalls with his " uncle." We are informed by an exhange that one " elderly lady rode up, riding a la clothes peg, and appeared to be got up regardless of expense, being clothed m a blue and white spotted turban, a man's macintosh, a pair of brown calves and rubbers. Thus the Poit: "Mr John Robert? of Dunedin has accepted the paltry C.M.GL" A Napier J.P. says the police there arrest too many people for drunkenness. They ought, he thinks, to assist them home, instead of locking them up, Mrs (Dr) Tripe was buried m Picton on Tuesday. The Globe (Danedin) offered prizes foe original tales. This is how one of those selected opens : — " Come on, boys, your father's going to tell you a story, 'cried Mra Sabine to her two little Iwim—both seven years of age.' " If the twins had been 9 and 7 years respectively they would have novelties. The natives on the Waimate Plains have taken largely to buying and selling shesp and cattle. It turns out that they were other people's. . Mr Stead ought to know better than write of the •• Colony of Melbourne." Sergt. Quinn on leaving Greymouth received a purse of 45 sovereigns and a lady's gold watch and chain, the latter from the Chinese as a present to his eldest daughter. 121 of the Peninsular farmers have been attending Mr Sawer's dairy lectures. Nelson is now complaining of twopenny stamps that won't stick. Captain Edwin after predicting howling gales and heavy rain sailed across the Straits to Nelson to play bowls, where they . had a fine day and no breeze ! It is even said that the Captain knowing the value of the prediction, weat without umbrella or waterproof . An Otago school teacher, questioning m natural history, asked a girl : "Do animals really possess the sentiment of affection?" "Yes, almost always," said the girl. ' "And now," said the teacher, turning to a little boy, "Tell me what animal haa the greatest natural fondness for man ?" "Woman I' 1 said the boy. Three tourists to Rotorua ascended Mount Tarawera the other; day, and when they returned declared, they had lit their pipes by means of heat m the mountain a few inches below the surface. The Marquis of Ailesburyis credited with a grim joke. He had ordered a large supply of fine grenades, and after all the : corridors had been sufficiently supplied there were sis of the grenades ayer, A servant asked the Marquis what should be done with them. His lordship, reflected a moment and then replied — "I think you h.ad, better pat them m my cofijn.. 1 ' Mr J. Prouse, of Wellington, singing many Blenheimites have heard, sang . "It is Enough. from "Elijah" at a Crystal Palace concert recently. He is to take parjf " m the Cardiff Musical Festival, and having gained an entree to the best musical circles he purposes undergoing a rigorous course of Study UQder the best talent,