GENERAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7091, 27 August 1901, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

'■. .■■: ■■'.'.•; ,-rp: y ...... - •■-■. ■■ The Premier of "South; Australia has been, discoursing on tea drinking.' He said h6 arrived in Australia in 1878, and he had made a rough oalou'ation that since that-time he had, drank about 50,000 cups of tea. He was still alive. Hishair was gray) but that was becau c he took; his tea weak. If he had tak n strong tea he would have had no hair at all.-;:. In South Australia ah" ordinary: man: could, work for half an hour without ■; a thirst, and the ordinary woman after could work fifteen mm-1 utes betorei afternoon tea. Tea drink-* ing ivas such companionable business.: One ;woman could .'•noli:, sit down 'to afternoon tea;.never. If the.c were no people in the house she wouiasend out into the highways and the byways and get some of her neighbours to come in. Then they wpuia make a call: oh a neighbour and wipe off another packet; Afternoon tea was an ■■■'institution,- and' one of the.pleasures of life. 'It'was a healthy occupation, too. He did not believe any. man had: ye t been kilied by • excessive tea drinking, unless it was that he had been drinking something else for a good many years, and returning t'a virtuous: habits,,; the strain was to 6 much'i for him.. He might have drunk more tea had it not been that he was in; politics. .He preferred hot to partake of* during Parliamentary hourß- becauseie uiight be tempted to-throw the cup- at somebody. He., felt like, it sometimes; he could assure them. •-.-....:: TyV - The famous, plot of "Ea ß t; Lynns" hasbeenbrought nglifup tb: daT^t Ohio. Id a cer.a.n family, consiatihg of a husband, wife,-ana daogbter/ther. was employed a lady as governess. - A cousin of hers came to visit her, and .the.wife and the young, man. were' so' enamonred-b^otie ; another^ thaVthev eloped,;.^he-busband-b'-ought pro-' oeedingSifor:a, divorce,1 and when he got Jit .; Lev- procßeded-:tov marry:^ the governess, {iThe eloping pair quarrelled ,andt.sepßratea.r^A- few months later husband- by ■ accident.; "Moved by. pity for: her for-; lorn conditiojp'jji'e -engaged ;ber.-to go ■.b■»ck^•:_a'B;■'go'J^)Br^eß;B;£tb■:;h■et:^dangh;'fer.■• i and he;has.jGs^gQne-affS>n a,pleasure. i fcrijSVwifih his'p^isßlQt'^vfMiiieavibgVtrie former;.oneViri•bbarg'e• of*home and . child.;'.. ; v.: :}r.x-i ■?}■ ;%'■'? ."•