PASSENGERS' ACT.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XI, Issue 554, 16 October 1852, Page 135

PASSENGERS' ACT.

The "Act for regulating the carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels " has been extended by his Excellency the Governorin- Chief to New Zealand, and applied to tbe carriage of Passengers by sea from this colony to all ports and places lying between the 70th degree of longitude west, and the 110 th degree east of Greenwich. The number of days necessary for the voyage of a vessel to the undermentioned places are declared by his Excellency to be as follows: —

For a voyage to any Island in the Pacific Ocean, thirty-five days. For a voyage to any port on tbe coast of North or South America, sixty-three days. For a voyage to any port in New South Wales, thirty two days. For a voyage to any port in Van Diemen's Land, thirty two days. For a voyage to any 'port in Victoria, thirty- five dayi. For a voyage to any port in. South Australia, forty days.

Paddy kot to bb Dons. — A newly imported Irishman was one day standing, with his hook under his arm, at a shop-window in a town not thirty miles from Glasgow. The shopkeeper, observing him from the door, accosts him thus ; — "Well, Pat, what do you want irr* my line to-day ?" " What you have not to give me," rejoins the Irishman. "I'll wager a pound I have what suits you," returned the former. The latter, pulling & pound from his rags, replies— "lt's done : table your duat. I want a sheath for my hook." To poor Pat's astonishment and mortification, the sheath wa» produced. Away he went to the harvest, however, leaving the pound with the shopkeeper. But not.to be beat, he called on him on his way home, and in presence of a witness, thus addressed him ;— " Well, Mr. , what will you take for as much tobacco as will reach from my one ear to the other?" "A penny," was the reply. This being agreed to, the grocer cut off about a foot of tobacco, and was about to apply its extremities, to Pat's ears, when the latter, pointing his finger upwards, exultingly exclaimed, "There is oae ear, but the other is nailed to the back of the goal door in Dublin." The duped grocer was obliged to give his ingenious antagonist forty pounds of tobacco before he could get quit of him.

" If you don't give me a penny," said a young hopeful to his mamma, " I know a boy that's got the measles, and I'll go and catch 'cm — so I will."

Titles. — Several years ago, there was a young English nobleman figuring away at Washington. He bad not much brains, but a vast number of titles, which, notwithstanding our pretended diilike to them, have sometimes the effect or tickling the ear amazingly. Several young ladies were in debate, going over the list— he is Lord Visount so-and-so, Baron of such a county, &c. "My fair friends," exclaimed the gallant Lieutenant N— - , "one of hi* titles you appear to have forgotten." — " Ah," exclaimed they eagerly, "what is that ?" — "He is Barren qf Intellect," wts the reply.