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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9491, 21 April 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

A member of a well-known club in London lost his umbrella in the club, and was resolved to draw attention to the circumstance. He caused the following notice to be put up in the entranco hall: —" The nobleman who took away an umbrella not his own on such a date is requested to return it." The committee took umbrage at this statement, and summoned the member who had composed it before them. " Why, sir," they said, " should you have supposed that a nobleman had taken your umbrella i" Well," he replied, " the first article in the club rules says that ' This club is to be composed of noblemen and gentlemen,' and since the person who stole my umbrella could not have been a gentleman, he must have been a nobleman. " While the sun shines lay by for the rain that may come to-morrow." J. W. Shackelford, mindful of this axiom, has not only imported a large stock of latest styles in waterEroof coats from best English manufacturers, tit has supplemented the same with some picked lines from MoArthur's stock. Gentlemen will do well to pay an early visit to 194. Queen-street, next Savings Bank.

To butter-makers, etc. : We have just landed a consignment of superior vegetable parchment, the proper paper to use for butter.— Dairy Company,. Auckland,