BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 168, 20 July 1894, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Wbather.— Samples. The bursting buds of the willows herald c the near approach ef Spring, s Obarje of perjury againßt Rev Mr Woolas, 8 at Invercargill, dismissed. Magistrate conj sidered Mr Woolas thought he was telling c the truth, i The London " cable- oraramer " did Marl--8 borough aa injustice yesterday. The full name of the infant prince, whose brow was I Bprinkled the other day, is " Edward Albert t Chrißtian George Andrew Patriok David." • If that poor innocent little " kiddie " surl vives the shook it will be a miracle I The Hon Mr MoOulloob, M.L.O , returned a to Wellington on Tuesday after a viait to s Europe. I The Italian Government intend to deport . their Anarchists to the Italian possessions t in Afrioa. 9 Mr Chamberlain suggests that a Private I Bill should be introduced to test the feeling > m the Heuse with regard to the Gothenburg 1 system of regulating the drink traffic The Italian Government is building eleven new waißhips, five of the first class, and ia largely increasing the number of torpedo boats. Two hundred people were killed by the earthquakes m Constantinople. A poor fellow named Gibson, a sufferer from cancer on the liver, was found drowned m the Wellington harbor— evidently a case 1 of suioide. His friends gave him a " sendi off " m the obituary columns of the Post, .. as follows :— " Galled from temporal *uffer- , ing, both physical and mental, to eternal glory, by a wise and loving Saviour, who 1 doeth all things well." ' Mr 0. A. Deacon, attacked by typhoid ' fever' m Wellington some weeks ago is | recovering. * " This evening has been an eye-opener | to me is connection with the Parliament of 1 New Zsaland," said Mr G. W. Russell dnr- ' ing the debate on the Newman Women's ' Bill. George had " the other eye" openad last night when his own little Women's ■ Bill was bundled out of ths Chamber. A lady advertises m the Poverty Bay ' Herald for « horse that has been lost sinci • tba flood 1 ' A Danish paper places Invercargill m 1 South Australia and Public Opinion (Lon--1 don) states that the moßt severe ahooks of 1 earthquake "felt m Auokland for many 1 years, ooourred at Welliogtoß." 1 No less than 1,579 names were added to ' the list of British doctors last year, but 1 there was no rise m the death rate. 1 An American paper stated that a Gelvea- ' ton man killed his wife with an axe a week > or two baok. The reporter's headliness an--1 noonced. " Married First and Axad after- ' wards." > Bruce Herald says :— -" It is said that an ' agent travelling m the Clutha district booked 280 gallons of liquor lass weak for delivery ' to private customers." They will have it. Under the heading of " Compulsory * Morality," the Kuaaara Times remarks :— J "At the end of this Parliament it ia extrem- ' ely probable that we shall have to forego 3 the daily pipe. We are fast losing the right * to do anything. The position is beooming 5 unbearable." . 1 If you want to see an expression of serane • and child-like innooenoe m a man's face, * watch hin when he gets half-a-crown 6 change out of a two-shilling piece. 3 A lad nine years of age was playing with ' a ' shanghai,' m Napier and by some aocident he broke the elastic and the stick en--3 tered one of his eyas, rupturing it. The 1 little fellow was taken ts the hsepital, and ' the eye was removed. r Diner—" Why do they pat such a lot of 1 writing on bills of fare?" Waiter— •• So 6 that yeu'll eat less, sir. Ton know Bacon 1 s»yß, • Reading maketh a full man,' sir." 1 Time is of suoh little importance to 1 Thomas A. Edison that he has never carried : a watch. " Never m all my lifa," he says, 1 "have I wanted to know what time it waß." As to where man first appeared, it ia beyond doubt that his earliest home was m Southern Europe, or Asia, or North Afrioa. It is not where be first appeared, but where he disappears, that troubles a fellow. A Mr G. W. Bunbnry, is the swiftest shorthand writer m the world. He has written 820 words a minute, thus showing, says the Reporter's Magazine, that (Sir Isaac) Pit- | maa'i phonography is capable of perform--1 ing anything which ths human hand oan 1 accomplish. Mr Bunbury says " repetition j is the only means of getting up speed." He is an Irishnaa by birth, and was educated J m Dublin. Boston Globe says:— "The Homestead look-out has already rolled up a bill of 1.000.000d015. Chief among tha cash losses is tbe militia bill of 320,600 dols., which will have to be paid by the taxpayers of 1 Pennsylvania. j Feilding Star says:— "We leara from a Nelson paper that tbe police were using ' their utmost endeavors to prevent the over- ' crowing of poultry." The people of Nelaon • never did like being " awakened too soon." ■ Even if a Nelson girl were eleoted Queen of , the May she would not say " Call me early, mother dear"— not by a long way. This is just a trifle rough on tbe happy and con--1 tented dwellers m the " Garden of New L Zealand."— Truth.