ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 356, 19 February 1881, Page 2

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Collated from:our. Exchanges .- -

What a happy city Nelson—more com-. nionly known as Sleepy Hollow—is to be. sure according to a local paper several Mormon apostles are fpjrtjh to the/- .*< good-looking but “big footed” Nelson maidens. As there are twenty-five sweet seventeen* to one Adopip, doubtless,. Mot-.- ~ monism will prevail on some of the«e>/ i willing captives;. , . -r - ,

A specimen of the native flowering fhschia ; (skyS an exchange) haebeen ing near Nelson, the -. sures 66 feet in c^^f ere^f and IpC5 . acroSß - A, section was sent to the Melbourne- inhibition, and took a prize.

We (Wangmui Herald) understand it is not the intention of Mr Seymour to seek re-election at the hands of the Wairau constituency, and that it is not unlikely he may seek a safe refuge from the babblings; of the political "arena in the etagnantat-—" mosphere of the Legislatm Council, where probably the Speakership mpy-be - seen in th.e distance. He and. Mr Curtis/ of ‘Nelson, are likely-therefore to be ihe next pensioners* on the'Col ony Fashionable Whim. Some ladies in Auckland are have/ started the most obnoxious fashion of wearing their rings outside their gloves. 0 . I ;'i . Thoaewho are in the habit of, visiting the Queen’s'wharf (says the Pnst) r mayKave from time vbtinie noticed * that Mol l ' ’

bourne bound steamershave frequently ~, conveyed from this port large quantities qf.x greeu flax, and it has"been a, matter of conjfecture- among ' the~eiiribus* as use, the flax- was. put..tQ£ ~.lt haa b?«n, hinted—and thehint, is not at all an probable oner-Biat the flax : is raanufac- <•; tureii in Tictdtia into- fdjirf'and'aclld her,e and elsowhene- as “ Manilla” —a class of - rope which readily; ‘ fetches £4O , per ton;_ ;; , However this may be,, it is certain that a > large trade in the exportation of flax from Wellington is being; quietly, carried bn. ,lt. is known that some owners of flax swamps, in the vicinity of Wellington receive frpnh. £2 to £2los per-ton for flax as it glows,, and the purchasers at this figure cut and deliver it at their own cost. It would appear by the following pura- v graph from, the Daily-Telegraph that per* sons visiting th& Hot Springs- would well to exercise a little more thaq nary caution as to where they, place their , ? feet. Our contemporary says that Richard Wood, son of a resident at Hastings, who is on a visit to Taupo, accompanied by Mr McLeod, of the same 'place, while visiting the, springs in, the, vicinity, qf ,[ Crow’s Nest,- sank through ‘a thin crust of earth into boiling watery'scalding himself ' above the knees. Had it not been for his companion being near, more Jserioua consequences would hqye ensued. >, Says the Auckland Observer Poor. Miss Williamson died from typhoid fever, brought on by over study, and ovqr citement of the braiu the approaching examination,' Mjss Hungeifor^,;, has succumbed, and lies dangerously ih at, , home of the same disease and from the same cause. When will examiners begin to discover that they are working l a serious and fatal injury to. the.health of the young women teaching in our public, schools, by , the severity, and length .of; the ; examinations to'which they ere now sub- ;: jected. Will they teach; any better for ,' the ordeal ‘through which they have tp, s pass 1 ” I doubt it. ; And, cer.taiply t»distinction should be‘made between men. < and women, and an easier set of 'paper* : allotted’to the latter, or we , tjbaU soon have our best, and most refined young women removed’ from the schools., .by. lunacy, or death . ; Hard worked thropgh* out the year between, teaphing ao4:i*tadyings, they are slaving now during the holidays, to wind up with a severe ex»tni| nation, and then back to schobl 'and .teach*;.', ing without any respite. .- Are thea.uthprities asleep 1 ” .*•••->! ”-■> The promoters of the West Coast way have sent a' surveyor and'" party but from Beefton to check the leviUf;’Ac., of Thornton and Brown’s surveys. ——