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Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5025, 7 October 1887, Page 4

Similar looking dirFis found through' out the Thames Valley in enormous quantities as that which has been proved to be auriferous on so many properties in Waitoa. A great revival in the gold mining industry in the Thames district is expected shortly. Aaioisa the incidents of the election may be mentioned the following:—A frea and independent elector walked two miles to the Ponsonby polling booth, and after getting in came to the conclusion that nWfie of the candidates were to hi 3 fancy, and carefully erased the names of the whole lot, and walked out again. That man feels be has done his duty to his country. In another case an Irishwoman might have been seen careering around one of the suburban polling booths. She was looking for the O'Donoghue, " the dirty blayguard," who had come into town and sold his vote to the enemy for 10s. It was her intention to have given him a Liberal u3e of her tongue could she have found him.—Auckland • Herald.' Two ladies moving in society, during a iriendly meeting in the street, began quarrelling about their age. and used very, .strong language towards each other. At last, as if to end the dispute, one of them turned away and said in a very conciliatory tone of voice, " Let us not trouble over the matter any more; I, at least, have not the heart to do so. I never knew who my mother was —she deserted me when a baby, and who knows but that you may have been the heartless parent." A bidiculous incident occured at Windsor Castle, in connection with a recent function, that was not recorded by the Court newsman. Among those summoned to the royal presence was a gentleman of Brobdignagian proportions. It was with considerable difficulty that he knelt before Her Majesty; but when he was requested to rise Sir Blank Blank, he was quite unable to obey the royal command, and in his confusion he literally roiled over before the Queen and ber courtiers. Since the days of Sir John Falstaff, nothing more comic ha 3 ever occurred in the royal borough. An amusing cricket match was played the other day at Market Farborough, between an eleven of ladies (provided with the ordinary weapons) and an eleven of gentlemen, who bewled with the left hand and batted with broomsticks. Although thus handicapped, the gentlemen just managed to beat their fair opponents, making 86 runs to their 84. A Smart Man.—-A recent little land transaction in Elisabeth street shows how easy it is to make money, if you get the chance and know how to use it. A long lease fell in, and the tenant applied for a renewal. < You shall have it,' replied the landlord, ' but you have been getting at me for twenty years, and by —— I'll get at you now. Your rent for the next ten years is £2000 a year.' The tenant complained bitterly of this harsh treatment, and strove, though in vain, to beat down the inexorable landlord. Finally, he executed the lease of the premises at tbe higher rent. He then went across the road and signed a sublease for which he hafl previously arranged, at very nearly double what he was paying his landlord. The latter has since heard of this traneaotion, and now sweari at his tenant more than ever.