BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 81, 7 April 1894, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

» Scott, the mining witness in the Ardlamoat murder case, has eurrendered to the polio*. Over 350,600 oarcasaa of motion lof t New Zealand in February. Colonel Fox ii in enjoyment of ft private income. Walter Hill, tht commercial traveller who was injured by ft bugiy ateidtnt near Hekitika last week, ig progressing well towards reoovery. Fifteen German officers hare been disreined from the army for gambling. Leilft Adair, the female aeronaut, was unable to make an aiosnt at New Plymouth, owing te her balloon catching ire. It wai burst to atom. The cost of holding the Weileyan Con« ferenee ia Melbourne wai £600 a week. Next year the Conference will be held in Hobart. The Melbourne papers aotually hare a standing bead lino, " The Burglary Boom." That indioatos tha state of things in the Viotorian oapital I The Tuapek* Times gives eurronoy to a report that there is a probability at tht early retirement from the Bench of Mr Garew, B.M. for Danadin, and in wall-in-formed eireles it is said he will be aucoeeded by Mr R, S. Hawkins, B.M. There is a language of flowers. Did yea ever hear a barefooted man talk after he had trodden on a thistle ? A crusade is taking plaee in Dunedia against tradesmen who are active prohibitionists, not to deal with them. The Hekitika raoes are expected to yield a profit of £40. Already there it talk there of giving a large money prize at the next meeting so as to attract good horses. Someone burglarised the Wellington Corporation kennels the other night, and stole fix dogs which were detained there as being unregistered. Two seamen of the ship Priaeeis Bbbe, lying at ThornabyoaTees, were recently suffocated ia a peealiar way. The men, owing to the intense cold, bad fastened up the forecastle, and there was no ontlet for the fumes from a paraffin lamp and a store whieh they barat all night. A scholar up Tatanaki way had been ia* straeted ia science aad was studying phyeiology. When he was aiked " What is matter?" as applied to mechanics, ho replied, " Bad Blood." The inspeoter collapsed. A man named Ward, who bad stolen £10 from a settler's dwelling at Hampden, Otago, was sentenced to eix months' imprisonment, and, under the Criminal Codt Act, was further ordered to make full restitution to the settler. Primus : "We hear much abaat the absurdities of fashion ; but most fashions have some basis in reason." Seouadis (sarcastically): "What, may I ask, is the philosophy of oarrying eur oanes apsido down?" Primus: "That's easy. It's to break dudes of the habit of suokiag them." -Pack. An English writer says :— " Amongst tht sycophants whom the shrewd Jabez Balfeur used with rare aoumon was the lev Dawson Burns, a tomperaaoe advocate and NoncemformUt with oonsiderable influence. It was throagh Burns the Liberator in its early days was set Reiag. Jabsz got at Baras, Barns got at miaisters all over the country, and th« minißtere got at their flooka. Barn knew Jabez from yoath, and, as he fondly thought, to the cockles of his noble heart." A widowers' association has been formed in Dresden. No man can join unless his wife is dead, and if he marries again he beoomes an honorary member merely. One of the chief pnrpeses of the association is to help newly made widowers by looking after their wives' funerals and earing for tht children. Physician : " Well, what's the matter with the kid ?" Mrs O'Lyna : " Arrah, docthor, th 1 b'y's head ia that sb topped up wid a eeold that his nose ii ao use, an* he's a ooff oa him that wud sphlit yer ares. Coff for th' gintleman, Moikey." Two yoaag men at If astorton who filed a year or two ago in eoaseqaenoe of misfortune through floods, refaied discharge from bankruptcy till they pay what they owe. Another person who tiled quite recently uader different circamstances, reoeived his disobarga. Bach is law.— Star. A Matabcleland Incident : — " Major Forbes," said Major Wilsan, " do you keow that yon are sending us to ctrtaia death?" Major Forbes turned round, and aaid, "You have your orders. Oo 1" Ten minutes after Wilsoa and his msa were crossing the. river, and that waß the last those left behind saw of them.