BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 229, 1 October 1902, Page 3

BRIEF MENTION.

Heaty sea off Cape Campbell. Northerly gale on the Golden West Coast.

tight rain fairly distributed throughout the colony this morning. Hotels in Holland are only closed between 3 and 5 a.m.

A marriage at sunrise in a garden is the latest New York wedding innovation.

There are sixty Maoris in the South Island in receipt of the old age pensions. On Stewart Islamd one Maori receives the pension. Fifteen South Island Maoris who once received it have now ceased to do 60.

There have been a great number of tragedies on the other side lately, and criminologists have been casting round for a reason.

A Dunedin constable says he was a grocer once, but entered the force to better his position.

•• The demand for Wesleyan pastors is far in excess of the supplying capacity of the training colleges. ■•** Many circuits have been waiting for extra Ministers for years." This statement was made at the Wesleyan Conference at Manchester.

According to an Irish maxim the only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens. According to a Sydney paper/ the president of the National Coursing Association is sending a shipment of hares to this colony.

In a local sshoolroom lately a boy was ashed to find the common divisor ola certain sum, "Well, my goodness," said the boy, " is that thing lost again ?"

An.lrishman says a woman always takes the cork out of a bottle by pushing it in. - As a concession to the weatker, the Bournemouth coroner held an inquest on July 5 in the open air, the court assembling in the cool shade of a group of trees.

A Slight Misapprehension.—Guest (impatiently): " I say, waiter, how long have you been employed here? Waiter: "'Bout a week, sir." Guest: "Oh, is that all ? Then I musl have given my order to some other waiter." It is stated that Sergeant Vogan, of Tauranga, who captured Commandant Scheepers, the notorious Boer, during the war, has not yet received the reward of £500 offered for his capture by tke Imperial authorities.

Upwards of £1000 has already been paid in wages in connection with the clearing work now going on at the Mount Kembla mine.

Land on Manhattan Island, where New York now stands, was sold at one penny for 12 acres 260 years^ ago. To day it is worth £250,000 per acre.

On July -15th a man convicted of murdering his wife was executed at Worcester, England. The newspapers state that Dr Gore, Bishop of Worcester, celebrated Holy Communion on the culprit's behalf, at the moment of execution.

Bad Business. —Two commercial travellers were comparing notes. "I have been out three weeks," said the first, "and have only got four orders." "That beats me," said the other; " T have been out four weeks, and have only, got one order, and that's from the firm to come home."

From advices which have been received by the San Francisco mail it seems that there has been a shortage in the salmon catch in Vancouver this year, and that there will be a deficiency of 1,500,000 cases in the supply.

It is stated in a letter from the Transvaal Engine-drivers' Association, received by the Trades and. Labor. Council, that " the labor market is in a very bad state, and we anticipate muchdestitution before long."

Easy Subtraction.—Ascum: " I suppose you haven't had time to figure oat yet how much your cashier took?" Bank President: "Oh, yes, we knew in a very short time.'' Ascum: " Why I thought he took a great deal?" Bank President: " Exactly. We merely had to count what he left."

The London Morning Post, in its description of the dresses at the Coronation, reports that" Mrs Seddon, wife of the Premier of New Zealand, was handsomely dressed in violet velvet, combined with iridescent embroidered blonde and pale mauve chiffon, while her jewels were splendid."

Extracts from exercises written by boy attending high school in Vienna: — "The lion roared so loudly that one could not hear him." "Lucullus brought the first Christmas tree from Asia into Europe." "Wine and beer are spiritual drinks*"

The Jewesses at Hanley, Staffs, England, are to have provided for them by the Corporation a bath for their exclusive use, if the Jewish community undertake to contribute 5 per cent, on the outlay for six years, with a payment of Is 6d for each person using the bath.

It has been given to the women of our race to set the fashion in most things: the fashionable dog, the fashionable novel, the fashionable scent, the fashionable theatre, the fashionable rose; all of these are prescribed each season by the ladies—but in games and politics it is man who sternly takes the lead. And well for the nation that it is so!— Field and Kennel.

It is a remarkable fact (says a contemporary) that the oak tree planted in Central Park, New York, by King Edward when he visited the United States as Prince of Wales, which began to wither about the time of the King's illness in Jane, has suddenly revived, and is putting fqrth new leaves. The tree is being tenderly cared for by an old Irish gardener.