THE WATCHMAN.

Saturday Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 145, 20 April 1878, Page 13

THE WATCHMAN.

A? For some must waloljl while some must sleep, L.J.aThus runs'the world away.* — Samlet. the “ shoe trade ” advertises for a good finisher. We will back our five-year-old as Fthe mosf expeditious finisher out, of both boots and shoes. I By.[)B?trcE has beaten Bruce by 28 points; but the latter says the victory has been gained by lying, and they want the match shot over again, 1 tbatjtheyimay lifT&s welbaSjitheir opponents. •If is»Ba]d to see tenth.,af a‘-diseount. Verdant Literally. —Port Chalmers has 1 rdffirned a G-reen representative, but it is said there is no verdure in his eye, and his skin is blue. Although he spoke mildly, it is expected that hie will swear by George)' If he does not, Blueskin will, not serve kim jflext chance. , Difficult Problem.— The philosophers have actually succeeded in solidifying gas — oxygen and hydrogen both having been conquered. It will beat the, best of, them, however, to find anything solid in the gas. spoken in our Municipal Council. Hot Springs. —The papers say few people are aware of the existence of hot springs in Lower, Waikatp. ] )We never doubted that there are springs everywhere in Maori land, which have kept the colony in.hot water ever since we can remember. - An Admitted Want. —The Australian Accident Insurance Company has been started in Sydney. A branch should be established at Port Chalmers, as -there is never a week passes without a head or a leg being broken there. The papers now keep in type for the Port “ Another- Accident. ” The Main Chance. —-The main reservoir at Wellington isempty, and water is short at the various bars. In consequence a customer made a dry remark to a barmaid, when she, by way of retort, smashed a water-jug over his head. The sufferer of the jug going to his head, but the magistrate seemed to think it was better that than if the whiskey had gone to his head, and he gave / him no redress.

Too Much of a Good Thing..—A law. student writes to the Star, suggesting that there should be two law to the University. We presume that; this is the usual result that a single lawyer starves, but when there are two in a place they both get on swimmingly. Or perhaps one would lecture . on plaintiff’s law, and 1 the other on defendant’s. If there are stitdients differing in their stages, would it not do for'the one lecturer to teach at different hofirs ? : The Shoemaker'should not go beyond his Last.— The Government have appointed j Mr J. T. Thomson and Mr .Arthur to classify the Waste Lands of the Crown. These gentlemen hold * deservedly , high rank as surveyors, but how a good surveyor is specially qualified to decide on the agricultural qualities of land, is one of those things “ which no fellah can understand.” r j A la Lantekne.—The old Parisian cry, “ To the lamp-post,” will be heard next election in ’Dunedin, when our working-men will ~ teach the Council the inexpediency of send- 'V ing money out of the town to England for goods which can be made on the spot. The , little extra cost would have helped to strengthen the ratepaying power of the electors instead of diminishing.it. ... OurvYEiNG the Moon.— Says the Tua» / pelca Times— “ A very singular phenomenon was observed by Mr Vyo of this town on Sunday morning last about three o'clock. A brilliant body about half Ihe size of the moon was witnessed by him for a couple of hours, travelling from east to west in the heavens at a speed faster than the apparent motion of the luminary of the night.” Warlike Preparations. —lt is expected that the Russians, being afraid of the powerful batteries erected at Dunedin ana Port Chalmers, will make a flank attack by landing at Martin’s Bay, and pouncing on the capital of the Goldfields, by way of the Greenstone. In consequence, the Invercargill Volunteers are to assemble immediately at Queenstown, in support of the local corps, so that they may be prepared for any contingency./ ■ The celebrated Pole, Count Von Caskowhisky will render help. No Connection. —Now that peopleare taking such a warm interest in “the other place, and newspaper proprietors ai’e bothered with heaps of correspondence on the subject, it may be well to inform our friends that printer’s devils have no connection with the ) !, swarthy gentleman or gentlemen who pre-> sides or preside, as the; case-may; be, over the / regions below stairs. The Otago Daily Times thus speaks out on the subject—“ Will our correspondents have the kindness to not bother us aboufhell-fire? That is not in our province. We have to do with the incidence of taxation, and the Russian wax*, and the Pritchard claims, and the Piako Swamp, and and the Dardanelles, and manhood suffrage, and the city sewage, and'Tawliiao, and the •■ balling out of the reserves,) and the Corporation; lamp-posts,■ and a variety of things fcDonumerous to mention.; Auj’thing on this globe, or in. its circumbient atmosphere, will - not come amiss, but we niust draw a line somewhere, and we draw it there. Into ghostly .question's! we shall not be seduced, and we shall feel very much obliged if our correspondents will eschew theological controversy.”