BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 135, 11 June 1900, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

(Jbkp weather. A wei Fonday. Wet Sundaya cot appreciated by those whose avooatioQ3 keep tb m indoors all tbe wet k. Bat, Btill, what can't b) oared mast be endured. Hawera proposes to oelebrate tbe relief of Mafeking by establishing a Turkish batb. New Zealand baß contributed more to the war fund than any other colony m Australasia, If tbero ii any country m tbe woe d where tbe crime of theft is withcat excuse, it Barely shou'd be New Zea'and, and yet it ie on tbe increase, and on the increase, too, amongst the ycalbfnl natives cf tbe Colony. — Biu'hern exohange. The reoent cleaning up dieo'osed tbe fact that the dirtiest house m Sydney was owned b; a Civil servant.— Sydney Truth. Tbe New Zaal&nd Wbeelrcan m its last issue ban the following enigmatical par. concerning one of the oempoiitora at the Blenheim 34th May Cyoling Fporle : - "It is said that George Bradley, who Boooped tbe pool at Mailborough, deolares be is not a defaulter." Lower down tbe column enother item reads as follow; : — " It is said (hat two riders, whose names are on the League's forfeit list, competed at race meetings on May 24 h." The Premier of New South Waleß bss expressed himself m favor of womanhood suffrage. Accordicg to a northern paper, a movement is on foot to eend a New Z-alacd-born piper to oor&pets at tbe Gfrs^ow Exhibition of next year, * In Wellington, on Mafeking Day, everybody seemed to bs as good aa anybody else. In one cart, Eide by side with a black-faced coal lumper, was the eon of an Earl and tbe son of a Bishop, waving Union Jacks m tbe procession, It is rnmored that Mr 0. Samuel, the well-mown New Plymouth lawyer, will \ probably bo offered a seat m tbe Legi lative Council. j It ib related of a country parson, who on a recent Sunday bad been wizing eloquent m the interest of foreign mission?, that be was surprised on entering a loobl enop to be greeted with marked coldness by tbe woman wbo kept it. He inquired the o:u9e, whereupon the woman produced a half-crown from a drawer, and, throwing it down before him, exolaimed : "I marked that half-crown, and put it m the plate last Sunday, and here it is back again m roy ebop. I kcowed well them niggers never got tbe money !" • At a meeting of tbe Cabinet recently tbe question of procuring Union Jacks for the State eohools of the colony, at an estimated oost of £1450, was rsfemd to Parliament. The large comet with a long tail, which was reported from Waibi about tbe time of tbe Mafeking rejoicings, bas not sinoe been seen. Blenheim hadn't 'cm quite so badly. In tbe Greek phalanx the soldiers stood as oloee as possible to each oiher, their shields overlapping. "What? Pell downstairs? How did it happen ? ' " Why, you see, I started to go down, and my wife eaid, ' Be careful John !' And I'm not (he man to be dictated to by any woman, so down I wen." Madame Zuleika Cavalier, the Bond street " mystio," was fined £25 and £10 oosts at tbe Marlborough streot Polioe Court tbe other day for " pretending or profeseicg to tell fortunes." Noiioa of appeal was given, Evidently tbe press has to handle His Honor g ! ngerly. For refe rng to Justice Darling as an "impudent little man m horsehair— a miorooosm of oonocit and empty headedneßa," tbe Birmingham Argus bas been condemned to pay £125. The very latest thing m toys was mentioned at. a London Oourt reoantly, when a man .was summoned for obstruction. Defendant was amusing a orowd cutaide tbe Btock Exchange with the toy, " the dyi g Boer." It was a little rubber pig whioh was blown out and then plaoed on tbe ground, where as tbe air eeoapsd, it gradually oollapßed. " A member of Parliament m New Zealand nowadays," said Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., at a social gathering m Wellington, "is rrquired to have, m addition to an intellect of high order, the physical strength of a brioklayer's hodman." He had pr posed to her, and now with fear and trembling be waited hft answor. 11 Only one word," he said, "if but to keep alive tbe fires of hope within my bosom." She looker) at him tenderly— nay, lovinply— and her lips moved m aooents that went to tbe depth of bis soul. She asked him how muoh he earned a week. It is interes ing to note tbe names that some infants are reoiiving from their martial-spirited parents at the present time, Among those registered m Dunedin lately are : Badec-Bowell Gordon Robert?, Edgar Pretoria, Alice Pretoria Badtn-Powell, BuLer Ptetorio, Alfred Pretoria. God'grant they may live ! Several ladies who bave gone down tc tho Southampton Docks to we'.oeme home tbeir wounded hnebands And eons have received dreadful ebooks. Tbeir dear odob have oome borne m tattered, dirty old olothea which a tramp would EOarcely relish wearing. Tbe market-gardeners and fruitgrowers m the vioinity of Melbourne, cambering about 20C0, are organising &n association for tbe protection of their interests and for the opening up of new markets. Demolished pestilential buildings m Sydney still have their uses if it is true, as reported, tbat tbe old bricks and wood are being sold " to be used m Betting up tbe came old deajti.trspi m Other flag.es,"