BRIEF MOTION

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXII, Issue 28, 3 February 1897, Page 3

BRIEF MOTION

Bain this morning at Nel m, Wtttpi Grey, Hokitiks, Chrittohuieh, aid F - Chalmers. The 'Frieoo mail boat has arrived. I bottom was foul. The news of Butler's arrest at 'Frii will be received with great satisfaction, particulars to hand. The PreßS Assoo tion might well enlarge m a oase of tl BOtt. Acoording to the Post Mr Bolleston likely to be the Opposition candidate i the Speakership m the new Parliament, The Burfaoe of the sea is estimated 150,000,000 square miles. - In keeping the aooounts at the Bank England over fifty ledgers are filled daily. All the letters of the alphabet are coi tamed m the following : " A quick brov fox jumps over the lazy dog," During the last fifty years Great Britai has been at war more frequently than ai other nation. The total number is fori wars for fifty years. Anobjeot leßßon.— Teacher : "Now, if take your slate-penoil, what oan I do wit it ?" Little Boy : " You tan tnrl your hair A Petone Blondin trying to wheel a barro on a rope 25ft from the ground had a spil breaking small bone of one wrist, beßidi being badly shaken. Liverpool ia the most densely populate oity m Great Britain, having a populatio of 114 per aore, inoluding the docks an quays. In the wrong order. Thus the Dunedi Star :— Sergeant-Major Boanlan was tb reoipient of an illuminated address on hi transference from Palmerstoa North to tb Marlborough potioe district. "No invasion of the colonies is possibl so long as Britißb fleets command the higl ways of the seas."— Lord Braseey. A visitor left it on record m the visitor! book at Hanmer Plains that the therms Bprings there cure everything but love an lying. Mrs Robb, of Napier (wife of Lieutenan Boss, ex«rifi9 champion), is to be a oom petitor m the Ladies' Match which thi year finds a place m the programme of tb New Zealand Rifle Association. Queen Victoria now rules 367,000,001 people— a greater number than has eve before acknowledged the sovereignty o either a king, queen, or emperor. A New York woman, who has a marvel lously retentive memory, haß sold her heai for £5 to a medical oollege, to be examinei by thfl experts after her death. There is a reading room m a seaßid Bossex town to the door of wbiob is attache* a wooden box. You put m your penny and, lo ! the door opens. When you ente it shuts. But you oannot get out agaii without giving another penny. Oruden labored nineteen years on hii " Concordance to the Bible," and immedi ately after its publication was sent to at asylum. He never entirely recovered fron the mental disease induoed by this gigantii undertaking. Instruments for self-torture, inoluding c spiky anklet, a rough horsehair belt, and i " barbed heart," are being sold at a shop ir London. The dealer Bays that for everj order he receives from a Roman Catholic he has three from " advanoed " members oi the Church of England. The wasp waißt is Baid to be disappearing and giving place to the Greoian mode, witt itß more generous proportions, The expan Bion of ladies' waists is said to have origin' ated m London, and is attributed to a tardj regard to the warnings against tight-laoing Hamburg's paper eating-house has walls composed of a double layer of papei stretched on frames and impregnated with fire«and-water»proof solution. A thin wooden partition affords further protection against the inolemenoy of the weather. The roofs and walls are fastened together by means of bolts and hinges, bo that the entire structure may be rapidly taken to pieces and put up again. The Duke of Marlborough'S first gift to his wife after their home-coming was a little Blenheim spaniel. It is traditional m the duoal house of Marlborough that every Duohesa shall possess, as her constant companion, one of these small dogs. The reason for this is that at the battle of Blenheim the first Duke was attended by a pet spaniel, whioh never left his heels for a single moment throughout the fight, and that after the battle, Sarah, the Duke's celebrated wife, adopted the brave little animal, and would not be parted from it Bgain. (For conti/nuation oj reading matter see first and fourth pages.)