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Poverty Bay Herald, 18 October 1879, Page 2

"Atticus" in the Leader says :— "One of the useless human importations by the Mail, surrounded with all the unadulterated halo of old world haw-hawiam lately visited the bar of Melbourne hotel, and entered into conversation with the presiding Hebe. Emboldened with the patience with which she bore his inanities, he essayed upon her those vapid arts of fascination which at home he had perchance fcund to be irrestible. Producing from hispocketa very TomThumb of a toy terrier, he asked with drawling affectation, "Which would you sooner kiss, me or my dog V " Let me look at it again," said the fair one. The celerty with which the new chum took his leave showed that he had witenoughleit to understand that Victorian smartness was quite a match for Anglician impertinence." A contemporary relates a case of absent mindedness. A gentleman writing a letter at his breakfast table, dipped his pen into his coffee and continued his letter. Noticing his mistake he put a lump of sugar in the ink, and then finding hia second blunder, poured the contents into the coffee-pot to set it right.