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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 861, 12 August 1879, Page 2

Lucy has posed the little rustic model, and Mary, Maud, and Madeline sit, pencil m hand, ready to catch and transfer to paper the child's expression of wonderment and delight as it listens,, for the first time m its life, to the murmer of the shell. : Lucy:" Now, darling, put the pretty shell to your ear, and hark to what it says." Rustic Model.: "Lor! is that all ? Why, a beer-jug can do that !' AFFECTING The donkey is a pretty bird, So gentle and so wise ; It has a silky little tail With which to whisk the flies. Upon its head two ears it bears, So silky, long, and soft, That when its tail can't reach the flies. The ears can whisk them off.

The Lord Harris embroglio has undoubtedly spoiled International cricketing. It will be long before the cricketers recover from its effects. 11 The Times Polka " is'3tfe title o f a piece of music contributed to the first number of West's New Zealand Musical Magazine by a member of the literary staff of the Otago Daily Times. The new aneroid barometer erected on the clock tower, Gorbal's Cross, Glasgow, has been constructed according to a novel design; the effect of which is that the indications can be read off to the fiftieth part of ah inch.