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Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5083, 19 September 1891, Page 3

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Mails for Friendly Islands, Samoa, and Fiji, per Wainui, close at Auckland on Tuesday 22nd, at 4 p.m. " What use to New Zealand is Dalgety and Co?" asked the Minister of Lands in the House. He affirmed that their estates might as well be in Fiji, for they got all they required for their stations from London.— Star correspondent. Mrs Gabb : " I hear Mrs Dadd is going to move." Mrs Babb : " Yes, she moves every six months since she got her new furniture." " Strange that Irish landlords are so nervous." I didn't know they were." "Why, yes; the leased thing worries them."

•' What are you going to do with the farmers' surplus corn when the distilleries are shut up?" "We purpose to raise more hogs and less hell."—Amer. Arural correspondent speaks of "fishermen lying about the banks of the brook all day." They generally do that. They don't begin to lie about the fish till they get home. Henry (with spelling-book) : "Papa, what is a fortification?" Papa: " It's a large fort." Henry: "Then is a ramification a large ram ?" A broken reputashun iz like a broken vase. It may be mended, but it alwuss shows whare the brake waz.—Josh Billings. "Rock-a-by, baby!" began the new nurse. " Desist.!" exclaimed the infant imperiously. "I am aware that the vibration of the atmosphere will cause a cradle suspended in a tree top to oscillate. "