BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 128, 23 May 1895, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

The mercury got down to 35- at Bealy tbia morning. The temperature m Blenheim was " mighty adjiceot." % Inspector Fender Bails for London m the i Dorio at tbe end of the month. 1 At the inquest on the body of Mr John Grubb, who died suddenly m Auckland, a verdict was returned that death bad resulted from rupture of the heart. One man was fined £2 and another £1 at Napier on Monday for throwing rotten eggs and otherwise disturbing a Salvation Army meeting. A policeman making a bee-line for the Waitara railway station tha other night at top speed to catch a train ran info a barbed wire fenoe. The fenoa had slightly tha best o( it, but tbe constable caught the train. Japanese children are taught to write with either band. Our youngsters do torong with both hands naturally. Private advioes state Mr Harper has beon living very quietly m Jersey on an allowance made him by some of his English relatives, and is m very poor health. Balfour and Rosebery were both so effeminate at school that the former was dubbed " Misa Clara," and the latter "Miss Primrose," Boaebery baa outgrown his weakness, but tbe Tory leader ia " Mica Clara" still, m spit 6of bis Oromwellian inclinations.—Truth. Here is a verbatim transoript of a letter received by a London merchant from Germany:—"Your esteemed firm i 3 as known by our friend— and we permit us the courteously inquiry, whether you will be willing ua to indicate tbe firm from London, which to want, a good deal — , and which to buy with tbe reques3 they draw out Garmarty. Tours respectfully." To one of tbe tall-talkers Spurgeon onoa said—" Your Master sent you to feed aheep ; you preach as if you were feeding giraffes." Ship builders are steadily working up to the Great Eastern's dimensions. The Campania comes nearest. Length ; — Great Eastern, 692 t ; Campania 598 ft. " Now that machinery enables one man to do the work of ten men, or fifty or a hundred, it is coming to pass that the one thing not needed m Bociety ia man himself."— D. Boseby. Teacher : As the twig 13 bent the tree is iaolined. Do you understand what that means? Scholar: Yes, sir. When bicyclists grow np they'll walk stooping. " The penitentiary of Pontridge is rapidly becoming Melbourne's chief charitable institution, for thereto tbe magistrates are Bending poor infirm ceatures arrested as vagrants, rather than they should ba allowed to die of starvation m tbe gutters."— The Beacon. At a reoent meeting of natives at the pah at Abaura, held to discuss the advisability of allowing one of their number taking unto himself a wife, a vote was taken and the result not being unanimous ia bis favour tbe poor fellow has to remain single— for a wbilo at least. On one ocaaeion when our reporter was travelling through Taranaki m wet weather he put up at a country pub., and Bridget MoUuinness, the young lady who presided over the stove and slung tbe hash around, provided dry clothing and slippers. Next morning the traveller asked Bridget for bis boots. " Howly Saints !" said she, "I put them m the oven and forgot all about them. Never mind, boss, it ain't everyone who gets baked soles for breakfast m Taranaki.''— Wellington Herald.

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