BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXII, Issue 216, 5 October 1897, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

Tatjpo quiet. Ittrn fxtreme north and couth of th 6 colony this morning. Some people Dever realise how well tbej are off until they try to ride & bike. When judge and jury ate agaiost him, B man can't be blamed for thinking thirteen an unlucky number. " That red oarbunole on the faoe of Wei* lington I will never get used to— thai Bastile at Mount Cook," said Mr J. Huoheson last week. Mr Scobie Maokenzie later feelingly ex* p et^ed the hope that Mr Hutoheson would never be troubled with other than an exterior view of the building, An up to-date Ladiea 1 Clab haa been opened at Wanganui. Accoiding to a cablegram which hss been received m Sydney, frank P. SlaviD, the well-known Australian boxer, died reoently i.t the Elondyke goldfietfs, on the Yukon river. The gasometer at New Plymouth col* lapsed the other night, end left the town m darkness. A Clash at Arms.— 1 ' Well, Bobby, have you bad a pleasant day?" "Yes'm; me and Jack took our three paps an' went over l* pay 'th Billy Perkins 1 fotr oats." That fruitful Taranaki duok has now pat up the rcoord of 187 eggs m as many days, with the exception of two short breaks of a day each. The net price of gas m Wellington haa been reduced to 53 lOd pec thousand oubio •feet. According to an Amerioan paper, • Theoeophy is the oultured and soulful way of getting crazy.' The cultivation of the camphor tree for commercial purposes m the Taranaki distriot ia suggested, as it is stated that the trea grows there readily, Money is spent freely at racea at Goolgardie. At a two days' meeting there the sum of £18,843 was put through the total* isator by about 5000 persons who attended the meeting. An Inveroargill buainesß man posted a letter per 'Frisco route and received a reply from London m 77 days. One of the shocks of a man's life comeß when he sees a delioate, spirituelle sort of woman eating a big plateful of pork and greens. Conscience money, m the shape of two one-pound postal notes, was received last week from Wellington by the treasurer of the Wairarepa South County Council. Aooount passed for payment at last meet* ing of Balolutba Borough Gonnoil :— • John Dunne— obampagne, claret, Boda, and cork* sorew, etc.— £7ls6d.' Prohibition Clutha. Ghristohurob, unfortunately, has proved a fertile and well-manured ground wherein, humbugs and impostors of semi-religious propensities oan sow that brilliant seed which blossoms foith m golden dollars at even the shortest possible date. — Bangiora Standard. Station item : — Husband : • Our head shepherd wants a week off to get married. 1 Wife : ' Well, you uin't going to give it to him are you?' 'Yes; why not? I don't see why he should be exempt from all the suffering and misery.' Shearing is m full swing on the majority of the large stations m New South Wales. In nearly all instances ample labor was forthcoming, though this year fewer shear* ars and rouseabouta are travelling the country. - . At Grenfell, New South Walee, a lad named Graham, while playing with a loaded gun, shot a girl named Holten. The injured girl is m a serious condition. Another organisation, to be known as the Philanthropic Society is about to be established m Wellington. Its objeot ia to be the betterment of all olasses. " What system are you going to adopt m raising your baby, Mrs Youngly ?" " I'm undeoided, there are two or three women ia the block who haven't given ma their opinions yet." At the Thames, reoently, the Salvation Army gave a social, and heralded the affair with a long ad. m one of the looal papers. The fine " displayed" announcement wound np with " Everybody will be presented with a girl." The intelligent oomp. again, of oourse. " For " girl " read " gift. 1 For struggling to gain possession of a seat engaged m a theatre at Newcastle, and sitting on a lady's arm m doing so, Mr 0. N. Niobolaß has had a verdiot of £30 and heavy costs returned against him at Newoastle. Lawyer : " Now, Mr Thrift, desoribe to the Court the ohiokens that you oharged my olient, the defendant, with stealing," Farmer Thrift goes into the details, but ia interrupted by the lawyer, who exclaims, " I have some ohiokens like those myself." Farmer Thrift (resuming) : " The ohiokens he took are not the only ones I have had stolen 1" Four reporters attended a prize-flght at Buffalo( U.S.A) m a professional oapaoity, and were oaptured by the polioe. They were brought np before a Judge, who promptly released them, declaring it was a principle of the law, as well &a of common sense, that three kinds of men were permit* ted to go anywhere without blame— dootors, olergymen, and reporters. " Some time ago a teacher thought he would take two standards at once, the VI. m arithmetic and the IL m dictation. The sum was : « If a oouple of fat duoks cost 10?, how many oan I get for £7 153 ?" - while the dictation began : " Now as a lion prowling about," etc The result was that one poor little girl wrote : " Now a oouple ot fat ducks prowling about m searoh of a lion who bad lost 10s;" while a boy was found puzzling over the following sum: " If seven fat lions cost 10s, bow muoh prowling about could be got for £7 15 ?"