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Colonist, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5980, 8 December 1890, Page 4

News Items.

♦ Youe honor and gentleman of the jury, I acknowledge the reference of counsel on the other side to nay grey hair. My hair is gity and it will be grey as long as I lite. The hair of that gentleman is black, and will continue to ba black as long as he dyes.', ■ . It was Jenkins' wedding-day, and he was teasing. His little brother-in-law. • Well, Johnnie,' he " said solemnly, * I'm going to take your sister .away off and haVe her all to Myself, whert you won't we her any

Mflor©.- • No, really, are you ?' asked the yoiiiigstei? oiir'iously. ♦ Yes lam, What do you tHink of it V ' Nothin', I can stand it if you cam' While Bnavlng nig pastor one day a Scotch barber, who had been drinking freely the previous evening, had the misfortune to inflict a gash on the minister's chin. 'Ah, Donald,' said j he, • look at the effect of whisky ; it is a terribla thing. 1 • Aye, minister/ responded Donald,- 'it makes the skin awful tendei'i' * Oh, Maryj my heart is breaking,' said an Aberdeen lover to his Highland Mary. 'Ia it indeed I So much the better for you/ wag her quiet reply. 'Why, my idol?' 'Because, Mr Smith, when it is broken out and out, you can sell the pieces for gunflints/ On boai'd the Bhip Taranaki is Alexander Carson (son of Mrs Jane Oarson, of Oastle street, Dunedin), an apprentice. The lad held a similar I position oil board the ill-fated ship MaMbordugh, ani had . been four voyages in her. On the last occasion of the Marlborough being in the colony he obtained permission to visit his mother ; on returning to the Marlborough at Lyttelton Oarson was taken seriously ill, and the vessel was On the eve of Sailing for London, the medical officer at Lyttelton advised Captain Herd to allow him to remain behind to recruit his health and afterwards join the ship Taranaki (which he did). The young fellow speaks in the highest terms of Captain Herd, whose ,fate unfortunately we shall never learn. On leaving the Marlborough in his hurry he left behind him £10, but thought, of course, on rejoining that ship in London he should receive it. On his arrival in London, by the Taranaki, Carson was subjected to a most painful ordeal, being the only person who could give information of the ship's company to their sorrowing relatives at home.— 1 Dunedin Star.'