MEMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 124, 9 June 1891, Page 3

MEMS.

v The late Father O'Leary replying to a Protestant Bishop of Coyne silly observed, that 'much as the bishop, disliked purgatory, he might go further and fare worse.' Mr Lomas, of labor fame, is leaving the colony for the old country. He was one of the most honest and least assuming leaders of the party and was dead against the late Btrike. The Greymouth Star says that' the Black - ball Coal Company have received overtures from a powerful shipping company to divide the coal trade with the Union Company. At a school near Oatnaru a girl fell off a swing and broke her neck, dying almost immediately. A local m the Southland Times, referring to Mr Samuel Vaile, ia headed, " That Pestilent Fellow." A fortnight old bride m Sydney recently suicided because she could not cook. At the Karamea Licensing Meeting one of the applicants urged as a reason for granting her request that people were strong Blue Bibbonites ! Greymouth has now an average of 19ft 6in m the bar. "What will the ministerial travelling expenses come to for the last four months is what "the man m the street" wants to know. Ministerial as well as Opposition papers are Baying that Mr Seddon might content himself with ordinary trains. It is stated m Dunedin that Bro Sir Eobert Stout intends opening Lodges under the Grand Orient of France m Wanganui and Dunedin. "It may .nut" be generally known that th'e offence for which Sir Eobert was dismissed was not that he belonged to what is mistakenly called an atheistic order, but because he induced a foreign Lodge to invade Masonic territory held by the English. At the Good Templar Grand Lodge Annual Session held at Great Yarmouth, it was stated that there had been a decrease m the adult branch.