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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1291, 26 November 1896, Page 41

A remarkable argument in favour of the divided skirt was given last Friday afternoon on Jervois quay, when a lady was blown violently along the street, and only pulled up against a pile of broken stones which had been placed in the roadway. Judging from the rate at which she was travelling, if it had not been for those stones she would have been somewhere about the Chatham Islands by now.

It was pointed out at the City Council meeting last week that tho next meeting of the Public Works Committee would fall upon St. Andrew's Day. Councillor Fraser said that perhaps some of Scotia's sons who wero members might wish tho meeting postponed. After some jocular discus.-don Councillor Devine moved that the meeting be held on the Tuesday instead of the Monday. It was the only saint Scotland had, so they ought to revere his memory. Councillors laughingly passed the motion. The authorities of the "Wellington Boys' Institute are making arrang merits for a monster encampment at Greytown during the Christmas holidays. More than 80 boys will be sent there.

Mr Ashcroft, speaking at a meeting of creditors last Friday of tho probable value of land in Sydney, pithily remarked that " first they had a boom and then a burst, and now they have a cross between a boom and a burst."