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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8270, 17 September 1888, Page 2

The latest marriage custom which has been introduced in the New World, is the " secret honeymoon." To the " best man" at the wedding is entrusted the task of selecting a wedding tour, the direction of which he is forbidden by the dictates of honour to disclose to either bride or bridegroom. When the happy pair drive off from tbe wedding they have a sealed envelope handed to them, and upon opening this they first dißOOver in w hioh direction their journey is to be. The practice is said to give great satisfaction and to work admirably. Its good points are that it throws an air of pleasing expectation over the honeymoon which would otherwise be absent, and prevents any chance of the brido and bridegroom wrecking their domestic happiness by squabbling as to the direction of the journey. As a drawback it may bo suggested that it will give admirable opportunities oE distinction for the practical joker. Probably the next ' society ' drama will be founded upon tbe complications ot a " Beoret honeymoon." By the New Zealand Shipping Company 's Kaikoura, there has arrived in Wellington a Danish lady, wife of a medical man, who, according to the best musical critics there, is the possessor of a voice nearly equal to that oE tho late Jenny Lind. In the city of Copenhagen she was regarded as the brightest star in the local firmament of that mußical centre. I had the pleasure, says a correspondent of a contemporary, of hearing her on a recent afternoon at the Danish Consul's, and the marvellous sweetness and compos* of her voice evoked tho astonishment of those present. The lady and her husband intend to settle in Auckland. An eccentricity of toilet to be aeon and heard on Broadway just now. according to a New York paper, consists of cowbells worn by fashionable women. These curious adjuncts are shaped like tho old-fßbhioned tinkling bolls which were suspended to ono cow's neck in a herd so that the beasts could be easily found when they Btrayed away in the woods, but they are smaller, being only about three inches long. The metal is brass with embellished surfaces, although in extreme cosee of extravagance gold may Do used. They dangle at the ends of chains from the wearer's belt, and the clappers tinklo against tho inner side with more or less noise according to the gait of the girl. If ehe trefcd hard and fast there is considerable ringing, but it the be an easy stepper the sound is only an o-jcaaionol clink, something hue that oftho bta&i beds ooqq wow on •»o«i.

After receiving the sentence o£ bix months at the Police Ooart this (Monday) morning, Kaho, the Maori, beokoned to a ] friend in Court and asked him "to tell the missus he would not see her for six months." This the friend consented to do, and Kaho marched off to durance vilo in an apparently philosophic manner. The London Sporting Life says that no matter what J. L. Sullivan, the pugulist, may say or do he has one good point, and that is that ho looks after his father and mother.