The Patea County Press, AND Manutahi-Waitotara District Guardian "Be Just and Fear No." FRIDAY, JUNE, 8, 1894. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Patea Mail, Volume VII, Issue 69, 8 June 1894, Page 2

The Patea County Press, AND Manutahi-Waitotara District Guardian "Be Just and Fear No." FRIDAY, JUNE, 8, 1894. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

M’.' j s tkinson, dentist, notifies dates of bis St. tttford and Patca visits. Tl o Gear Meat Company have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per ce.it. ptr annum. The “ new blood ” in the School Committee docs not seem to shew to advantage, as the meeting last night lapsed for want of a quorum. Three old members (chairman, secretary and Mr McKenna) appeared up to time; but no one else put in an appearance, so those present lost their evening. An amusing story is quoted by a contemporary from a recent political speech of Sir James Kitson’s. An old farmer who was dying, called his wife to his side. “ Sarah,” he said, “ I have been thinking about what you will do when I have gone, aqd 1 fear you will not be able to manage the Cbroe cows aud the few nox-es of land we have and make a living out of it. I think you-bird bettor marry John when I have gone.” Surah replied, “ Well, John and I haftibeea talking about it," Tbs fyrwor Wi(j worn I

Cheese should be eaten in small quan tlties with a large quantity of brend or some similar food, and must be thoroughly masticated.

A coi respondent of the Church Review says, that while catechisingjthe children, in his church on the Acts of the Apostles he asked why it was that the disciples held their meetings with closed doors, A little girl at once replied : “ Because of the policemen.’

A recent london sensation is Arniotis a girl of marvellous skill, fine face, and trim figure, who after carrying a fable, a barrel and two chairs in ber mouth round the stage, astonishes spectators by bearing round the barrel in the same way with first one man and then two astride it. The following appeared its an advertisement in the Coromandel News ;—Stolen, by a boy with a dog, on Sunday last or early on the following morning from a wh.ire on the hill:—One new Gilpin Augur, a Telescope, and some biscuits. This is made public for the boy’s sake, hoping the parents will explain the enormity of the offence.. The ship Isle of Arrow, which arrived in Sydney the other day, reported that in the vicinity of the Island of St. Paul, when crossing the Southern Ocean beautiful views wore obtained of the Aurora Australis. A stream of light arose from the southern horizon in tlie shape of a fan, and ontendad over 30deg., in the, heavens, lighting up the whole of the southern sky most brilliantly. Misprints.which make nonsense do no particular barm. But sometimes, as the editor .pf a . correspondent column in a contemporary justly observes, they make “ avWuksbnri*,” and tend to shorten the lifefpf : the 1 dyritor, Thus the editor in question oifec remarked of a domestic margined, •‘■'liis fiat dominated the house* hold, ’’ bat \vhon he came to read what he badjwrittnnV-it was “fist.” <^ftpl#j ; n.v,This is your third term in tbi^prisoti; «re you not ashamed to have your friends see you here “Indeed, I am,, sir. The prison is disgraceful; the reception room smells like a tap-room; the ceils arenas dark as pitch ; the warder is no gentleman ; and th« i» not: ii h to >it down to. Ashamed to have my 'friCmls come hero ! I am mortified every time I see them, but what can I do ? ”

Five sailing ships which arrived in ’'Sydney on Tjicsday report a remarkable continuance of easterly winds between 4‘2 >an'l -14 degrees of south latitude, and from of Good Hope to the Leuwin ,TIUB is a most unusual phenomenon at this time of year, and is due to a continuance of high atmospheric pro sure coming over the Indian Ocean in very low latitudes —Exchange.

On a Western railway for convenience, thfe locomotive is made to push the train down to the terminus, instead of, as on thp return trip, pulling the train after it. This circumstance occasioned great bewilderment of mind to a fr»shly-uiade citizen of the place. “ I kin aisy understand,” he observed, after watching this phenomenon one day, “how the injino pulls thlm cars oop; but I’m bothered entoire’y to understand howiver ihim cars pulls the injiue down !” Here is an anecdote as to the perils of extempore prayer, given by the Pall Mall Gazette. A well-known solicitor, great at Evangelistic work, had been away for a holiday, On his return ho re-appeared at tbo parochial prayer meet - ing. Imagine his anguish when a neighbour, offering prayer, retumel thanks for that “ our dear brother W has safely returned • from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking np and down in it,” Those whose knowledge of the Book ef Job is shaky, will find that the quotation refers to Satan. A young clergyman newly settled in a lafge parish bad occasional fits of embarrassment when standing before bis congregation, One Sunday, after reading a police of a women’s missionary meeting held a few days later, he endeavoured to| add a special appeal of his own for a large attendance. After stating that it was lobe a meeting of great interest and importance, he said, ‘ We, the women of this congregation With a Hushed coi ntenance, he stoppped and began afyesh. “ We, who are the women of tin's congregation,” he announced. This was np better, and he beat a blusing retreat by saying, “ Let us sing the four bunclredanq first hymn-”

J A prize of £I,OOO is being offered at St. t Petersburg for the discovery of a remedy “perfectly certain to euro or to protect hbrned beasts against cattle plague ’ (pleuro). The efficacy of the remedy is to be proved by the same standard as those known to science as protective against small pox, anthrax, swine fever, opf The award of the prize is in the hauls of the curator of the Imperial Institute of Experimental Medicine of St. Petersburg, acting on the advice of a committee ’of exports selected for the purpose. The competition is open to the w’holc world, with the exception of active lucmbcas of the the abovenamed institute. The dc enptien of the proposed remedy must be clear and complete. It ufnst be sent in, under the ordinary conditions as to: concealment of identity on the part of the author, on or before January 1, 1897. The award of the prize I will bo made on January 1, 1899. If no remedy satisfies the committee, a further competition will take place, the award to be made on January 1, 1902. “ilolf Eoldrewood” tells, in Macmillan, how be saw a buckjumper throw off the saddle, with the rider in it, without breaking the surcingle. It happened at a riding competition held at Wodougo, in June, 1891. ‘ The animal was an ‘ outlaw,’» bush term fora horse which has been backed but never successfully ridden.

She fully sustained her character by a persovrring exhibition of every kind of contortion calculated to dissolve partnership. Atone time it looked as if the betting was in favour of the man, but the 1 marc had evidently icso.ved ou a last appeal. Sotting to with redoubled fury, she smashed the crupper, fore out the giith-straps. and then performed the rare, well-nigh incredible feat of sending the saddle over her head without breaking j the remaining girth or the leather | surcingal! This is the second time during a tolerably long acquaintance with every J kind of devilry knownj'o cquiute intelligence that I have witnessed this apparently impossible performance. It is not always believed, butcan be vouched for by the wirier:, and about five or six hundred people dfl 'the ground. I felt the girth, and aaSy'ft hat the buckle was still unslaek ued ■ Tie rider came over the maro's Imdl,fitting square with the saddle betwc.m fSCQivgd 810