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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 969, 6 December 1879, Page 2

Captain Lord Gifford, V.C, who has been entrusted by Sir Garnet Wolseley with the official despatches announcing the capture of Cetewayo, will be entitled to the allowance of £500 whioh it is customary to grant to the officer bringing home the despatches - announcing the successful close of a campaign. . That young gentleman keeps on writing to the paper to know whether it is proper to take hold of a young lady's arm in the street ? Proper 1 Of course ; but you don't, get so good a hold on her as if you took her by the back of the neck. In a little villiagenear Leeds, England, may be seen the following : " A Day Skool kept at— plaise. Terms 3 pens and 3 pens per week for reeding and kni ting and righting and sowing." " Tears cannot restore my wife, there* fore I weep," was the inscription on a French tombstone. About the guiltiest-looking people in this world are a nan accused of a crime of which he is innocent, and a newly married couple trying to pass for veterans. A few mornings since two gentlemen were accosted in the. following magniloquent terms by a beggar — '• Gentlemen, will you administer the balm of conaola-tion-to a debilitated constitution 3"