BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 161, 2 July 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

The Otago Daily Times suggests Bealandas an appropriate name lor tfce colony. To what base nee, eta; The ex-Govern-ment eteam yacht Stella is now engaged towing log's m the Auckland district. A school of 27 whale* has V»- «*«*nr»~" on the Muruwaißeaoh.jne**" 1 ? 8 ™ flead9 ' They mweure 301* tojot ft io leDglh> ftnd extend along the beaob J°* > w0 mil « fl - England asf 8 600,000»> 8 °* tea daily. Locomotives use a tn» rd of England's coal. ' x r . ■ There ar^about ninety cpere's plays. Eighty-one thousand passengerß cross the English Channel ever? month. Twenty lives lie bet^n Uw Emperor of Geraany and the Briti* (brone. Duke de Cay :AiDo^a love an old ruin ?" Miss Ottehum : ?s*> y° Or g»e«i this is so -er-I think LM learn." It is inteWßg to recall that m America, one band* jeaf™ "B©. the oharoh oolleetion was tain m*7 D& 8 •* tfie - en^ °' a P°' e with aSi ftttajPhed to arouse sleepy conWbotorT ■ I / The bat ot tpe late Mil ceniy Blnndell. of Welliirfon, 9* 'o be pttaad m the main oerridp/o! the jHo»pital,\i that city. ASeaoh of promise action legally mast be brSujtat wi^ in Bix 7 esl9 oi . the t' me °' the brAah - bnt) prastioally, it it is not brourao°" v "" voonet than that the lady of bligwßeSeotiona has a poor chanoe of fiom^Hwion, '■Br photograph of the heavens which - jj^BHßepared by the London, Barlin, and d^^Hk^onomers shows 68,000,000 wßßg^BßSßßSf no^^^^^Bß BBH|||^BBrs^ver been madflpng H9H^^^eßiet the barsting pH of H^BHSater. Twenty-ponnd Btee^bells B^BHHBrent aeonder ab though nfcde of BRBB Professot Blaokie said that the BMB^HmgnagajMnß of the oldeAjand Ajisp_tejaaJß^|fijL do nJHte«4^wofa of English. Jones : " How's Wheeler getting along since be bought a bioyole ?" Brown : "On emtohes, I believe." The new yacht which is being built for the Czar at Copenhagen is to be fitted with •very modern applianoe, and will oost £450,000. It will be the largest yaoht •float. Teacher: "What is an agnostio?" Observing Boy : " It's a man wot believes m 'moat everything exoept religion." The olerks m the National Bank of New Zealand received a mild eoare about three o'clook this afternoon when an exoited customer paid them a surprise visit— no less than a fowl which had got away from a youth, and chased by a dog had sought protection m the bank.— Oam&ru Mail.