BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 162, 3 July 1895, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

A raorosAL to establish soup kitohena m Wellington is being considered. Mr H. D. Bell's house St Lowry Bay, Wellington, was broken into the other night, and the wine cellar robbed. Two hotels m Ghmtoharch, the Caledonian and the Rising Sun, were robbed on Sunday. A Wellington poultry fancier, Mr J. Walker, von 37 first, 24 second and 16 third prizeß, m addition to 18 " specials" at the Anokland Poultry and Pigeon Show. To olear off the war indemnity demanded b? Japan, the Chinese would need to pay £13 a minute, night and day, daring the next five years. A lad was fined £1 and costs & day oi two ago at Dunedin for snowballing persona who were riding on a tramoar. America is " a nation of Colonels. " Australia, a nation of knights-— and " ladies. 11 The Christobnroh papers have it that Mi Worthiogton, of Temple of Troth notoriety is not likely to return to the oolony. He ie at present supposed to be leotaring m Melbourne. The oroak of the raven alters not the flight of the eagle, nor should the taunts ol the worldly turn the pious out of their patb to their inheritance. In a single year 14,000,000 rabbits were killed m New South Wales, and 8,000,000 aorea of pastoral land were abandoned. There are many rales for merchants, Bat these two will suffice : Bs diligent m business, And don't fail to advertise. —Spring Poet. Magistrate (severe!}' • " You are obarged with biasing this youjg lady against her will, and on the poblio highway." "Prisoner: •• She was m a bioyole costume, and I took her for my long lost brother." Magistrate (briskly): " Discharged 1 Call th 1 aezt case." Mrs Sarah Jane kett, of Wellington, is petitioning for a block of land for her 12 sons, who are unable to obtain remunerative employment. The boys are New Zsalanders. Freezing works for fieh. are to be established at Pegasoi, Stewart Island, and it is likely £t£i a steamer will ran from Oyster Cove to the Bluff to catch the outward steamer for the Australian market. Daring alterations at Bxminster (Devon} Asylum, a workman discovered a heap of eoina (about 100) nearly 1000 years old. The man gave a quantity to his master, and lold some others' ipraixpence. The internal ieaTol^tbe earth increases Ideg Pahr for every fiftjr to seventy feet ol vertical depth m various iegidSM, io that horn (wo ttfonsand to three thouaaittMeet m depth is about ths limit that a man can work. / A rather serious aeoidenv-oocurred last *e*Vat Ashanttoa eon of Mr Kerrigan The little fellow was chopping Borne fir twlgn with a carving knife, when the point of ths knife entered the ball of his eye. "Qold on," said the doorkeeper at the tbs'Mre iQQ t) aa the young man pushed past hitb, "yon can't go m on that; this ticket "'for only one seat." "That's all right, mister, one cheer's been big enough to hold both of as many a time, ain't it, Liz ?" and ijbT a cloud of Liz's best blOßhes they were ,gone before he oonld otter a word. Kadavu Levo, the seoond highest ohief m -' Fiji, (he will be the highest when his father y dies) xb a remarkably powerful athlete. At erioket be is a tremendous Blogger ; be often hits the ball from the middle of the Suva ground into the eea.