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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 971, 9 December 1879, Page 2

" Johnny, run over and ask how p pjd Mrs Jones is this morning." Johnny runs over, and Mrs Jones coming; to the door herself, he eagerly says— " Ma wants to know how old are you -this morning ?" Mrs Jones slams the door, m his face, and Johnny goes back andteus his mother that Mrs Jdnea wouldn't tfw her age, and " was as mad as fury $$&t it.» ; ; In London lives a professional jockey who is an Englishwoman. Being ptor, ana having a love for animals and. outdoor life, she drifted into this. ... She has .great physical courage, and ridea'horaes that men dare not mount, She is modest, intelti* [ gent and womanly, and has . a reputation above reproach. •.•.-.••;* The Press reports that the largest trout which has been taken m the Avon was caught on Friday night by Mr. Wagnehtff the Clarendon Hotel, . a, little below J»e dam at the Hereford street bridge. This monster, which was taken with an ordinary fly, weighs no less than sixteen pounds,, jp thirty inches, m length, and has a girth sixteen inches. i' ii"-? After the colliery explosion at Blantyrer the searchers discovered m the pockets^! the dead men six key* for opening the safety lamps, made by tba colliers them* selves by filing down ordinary house«keySj or by twisting two wire na\ls together m a peculiar way; five tobacco pouches, and half -a-doxeu lots of matches. •-'..'