BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 80, 6 April 1894, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

« Ths Postmaster-General is completing arrangements for tho oxchango of money orders with Canada. A fire in -Shanghai destroyed 1000 houses. King Christian has invited the Czar and the Emperor of Germany to meet him at Copenhog3n m July. Apple orchards m Picton are Wwg plundered. After the codlin moth cornea the eneak thief. 1000 guests, including the several AgGntsGeneral, were present at the inaugural dinner of tho London»Australasian Athletic and Social Club. The two Wellington oyolists — Messrs Smith and Gibbons— who loft Picton on Easter Monday, passed through the Otira Gorgo on Tuesday, and were due m Christchurch yesterday. Dr Cahill, though not out of danger, is progressing favorably. The lonic left Plymouth on the 24th instant for Auckland. Threa citizens have presented the Napi«r Borough Council with an ambulance waggon for accident cases. A case of Bly grog soiling ia to be heard at Balclutbanestwesk, m whioh the defendant is said to be a leading Good Templar Rod Prohibitionist. The price of New Zealand fl-.x delivered m London has fluctuated during the past few years from £45 to £15 per ton. A pig was killed at Waitaki (South Canterbury) the other day, and its stomach, on being opened, was found to contain no less than 3|lbs pebbles. Thus Wairarapa Star : •' ' Mum ' Bhows have fallen very flat m the colony. Masterton will havo some difficulty m getting together a display this year."— What price Blenheim ? As it should be. Under the Purification of Rolls Act, a husband convicted of beatnag his wife is prohibited from voting at Parliamentary elections m Victoria. The Katipo for April bewails the fact that arrears of subscriptions cannot be kept down. We sympathise with our venomously designated contemporary right down to the bottom of our number tens. Miserable Melbourne. Four years ago Sir Matthew Davies' house at Toorak was let fcr £2,000 a year ; to day it only brings m £150. The Olnki paper has heard of a slightrise m the price of flax, whioh we trußt may prove to be correct. A Napier journalist who was once on our Btaff (good luok to him) commenting upon the results of the Wairau licensing elections, says: "They dearly love their whisky over there!"— Ditto, ditto, brother Smut ! 1 Nursery rhy me : ' ' Down came a blackbird " etc., reversed : —The breast of a blackbird was fastened to a woman's face, at an operation is a London hospital recently, aa a substitute for her nose whioh had bean bo damaged that it had to be removed. The cost of the licensing eleotion m Christchurch was £147 133 Id. Mr Kirby, the well-known Napier j«ur« nalist (with an extensive experience) has received news that bis brother, who had been for many years a lion hunter m Central Africa, has returned to England for a visit, after having been some 18 years m the interior of the Dark Continent. Manawatu Standard: "A loviDg coaplo of Feildingites— one of cither Bex— were precipitated out of a buggy into a bush gully a few dajs ugo, but were more startled out of their love droam than hurt." Nothing new m this. A'l journalists have (or ahouH have] bad an experience equally as thrilling as this. The matron of ft hospital up Taranaki was married tho other day. Her costume, and that of her bridesmaid?, was the ordinary hospital uniform. Potatoes m Napier have reached ten shillings the sack — a Blight difference to a season or two ago when growers were giving them away for tho carting. Not quite a brief, and wo don't know who is the author: — "At the Sydcey Criminal Court the other day two positively hideous specimens of pagan construction, named Sing Hing and Chung Wing, apptared m tho roles of prisoner and prosecutor respectively. Wing charged Sing with having stolen his watch, and Sing made a song m the witness-box to the effect that Wing was a trifle too "fly" m his behaviour. Wiag i- aid that on Wednesday night he was near Belmoro Park, when Sing approaohed, grabbed his watch, and fled. Meng Kong, who spoke m a plaintiff sing-song, said that ho pioked the watch up as Sing fled. Ming chased chased Sing and Wing followed Ming, but Sing was fairly on the wing, a thing whioh seemed to sting Wing, likewise Ming, but when it appeared evident that Sing would spring clear of Ming, also Wing, the string was joined by Ying, who wished to bring Sing to a reokoning. Laßtly, Miug did cling to Sing, also Wing, likewise Ying, and the entire ring took Sing, who had his fling, to the lock-up. He'll see a jury m tho early spring, will Sing."