A LORD MAYOR AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 8918, 15 June 1897, Page 1

A LORD MAYOR AND HIS CORRESPOND ENTS.

At th» Fanno«»ker'« Company' n »nna%l competitive exhibition the Lard Major, acknowledging the toast of "The Corpi rhtion," skid it was rather difficult to fill the position of Lord Mayor la such a way as to give satisfaction to everybody, Including foreign correspondents. {He had Beveral let' era that were more like Chinese puzz'es than ordinary letters. One was from a young l*dy of Budapesth, who told him that she had lost her sweet* heart. (Laughter.) H b name wai Smith when he left, bat she fancied from the general tenor of his conrersatlon when ho was not protesting his aftection for her that be intended to visit England, and that probably he would change bis name. (Laughter.) She a«ked that he (the Lord Miyor) would kindly trace his whereabouts, and return him with car*. (Laaghter.) This morning he had received a letter from a lady who desired to place her daughter in a boardingschool, and requested that) he would recommend two or three. He thought one would be enough— (laaghter) — sod to that extent complied with her request. (Hear, hear.) Recently he had received a package, addressed in excellent epistolary Hebrew, from Jericho, and an accompanying note bepgad his aooeptanca oi specimens of common or gird^n sea* weed. As the writer assured him that the specimens were all grown in Jericho, of course be must take his woid for it. (Laughter)

London omnibuses cvried 79,000,000 passengers in the last six months, mora than twice the popalatioa of great Britian and Ireland. A farmer named Gibson has died near Scarborough in his 101 st year. Deceased, his father, and giandfathcr had been tenant on one eitate for orer two hundred years.