NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8148, 17 January 1895, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

(From oue Latest Exchanges.)

Thk followia.f? are specimens given by sohool Board ohildren at Home. One said " Jerusalem was sarrouudad by walls to keep out milk and boney." It is news to learn that tbe cities of Refuge were intended for those who had unintentionally committed suicide ; also that " Titus was an apostle who wrote epistles," especially as the scholar added that he was Emperor of Rome and his eurname was O&tas. The child who sail the United States waa governed by machinery was noi very wide of the truth." "Esau robbed his fvt her and sold tbe oopyj right to a publisher for a bottle of potash." Carte blanche, on the authority of a yoathfnl Frenoh scholar, means " putting the horse before the c.n." "At tbe bottom " was a very natural reply to the query, " "Where was Magna Charta signed ? " As a malapropism, the following is hard to beat ; — Mention an instance of charity in the Bible. " They brought Him a penny, and He said, ' Whose Bub-oription is this ? ' " A local body in New Zealand, we do not say it was in Westland, compels its overseers and roadmen to fill in ' time sheets,' specifying bow ihey were oconpied eaoh day in the montb. Iv a recent time sheet, received at 'he office appear the following entries ; — Ootober 16th — got married. Oct* ober 17*h — wet, no work done." A speoial Providence seems to look after snoh men as may be inclined to matrimony.—* West Coast Times,'

By the San Franci.co mail Misa Dolce A. Cabot, tbe lady editor of the * Canterbury Time..' was informed of her electioa to full membership of tbe Chicago Press League. Tkis is a very appropriate compliment to the firet fema'e N.w Zealand journalist.

A Maine soldier tells how he got a titbi. w bile his regiment was marching along a hot and dusty road in southero Pennsylvania. Ofd.rs were very strict against foraging, but in spi.e of tuem a so'.dier suddenly sprang out of the ranks in par.uit of a fat gob* bier standing among the sumaob bushes on the roadside. The tuikey started of? iv a hur»y with the man after him, Major Brown oalled out angrily, " Bait I What do you mean ? Halt ! " A few hmri.d steps and the soldier had the turkey laid low with a blow from his rifle barrel. •' Tbere dum ye," he exclaimed, as he pioked it up, " I recon youM ucder.tand that when the major s*ys halt he means halt,"

According to a traveller an intenge prejudice exists against tbe introdnotion of electricity into Turkey. The only application of dec ricify in evidence in that count. y is the telegraph. Large sums have been cffered tha Government for eleotrio lighting and telephone privileges, but all have been refused.

Two singular accidents are rejiortei by tbe Southland ' Times.' The daughter of Mrs Knowles, of the AU Nations Hotel, Oardroha, fell ioto an old mining Bha.t whioh had become overgrown with grass, and had both legs broken. George Robinson, an old skippers miner, was travelling from Skippers to Maori Point after dark, when ha walked over a cliff about 1000 feet bigh, and after falling a distance of some 700 ft landed in some bushes. Ab.ut 300 ft from the top his hat was found, and 150 ft futther down his handerchief. The rest of the distance was throagh scrub, daring bis passage through which the side was tern out of one of his Wellington boots. Bobinson remained in -his place till 7 o'oiook next morning, when he was discovered by some men who were working on the ether _i<_e of the river and heard his cries. He sustained a fracture ol his left collar-bone snd some fearfal outs on the head, aud is in a very critical state.