BREVITIES.
Oddfellows excursion to-morrow. On the Threshold—The harvester. A gambler is always in need of a good deal.
The best thing going—An nnwelcomft guest.
A Man who will stick up for everrbody—The bill poster. The 8.8. Waiotahi, Rotomahana, and Obinemuri, have been engaged for the Oddfellows' excursion to-morrow. The Eev. D. McNicoll left here yesterday for Auckland, en route South to attend Wesleyan Conference.
One of the school at Stockholm was burned down yesterday and in the panic eleven children were killed. Dunedin Garriaoa Band dead. Wellington p Ost j 9 30 yean old. Gin was first manufactured in Geneva. Tb*re are over 20,000,000 widows in Inbia.
A cottage and three sections of land for £25 at Kumara.
Tasmanian reporters refusing to report Sunday sermons.
Brown beetles ravaging the fruit crop in Napier district.
Two Thamesites interested in recent cases at the Police Court say that" a power of attorney" is to browbeat witnesses. Inquiring child— <: Papa, why do people c/y •*- weddings?" Papa, (abstractedly)— Most of 'em have been married them* selves."
In Lirerpool recently a sentimental young lady from town waa on the Canard steamship quay, where she saw a young girl sitting; on a trunk in an attitude of utter dejection and despair. 'Poor thing,* thought the romantic lady,' she is probably alone and a stranger! Her pale cheeks and great sad eyes tell of a broken heart and a yearning for sympathy.' She went over to the traveller to win her confidence. ' Crossed in love ?' she asked sympathetically. « No,' replied the girl, with a sigh* crossed in the Servia, and an awfully rough passage too V
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Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4668, 23 February 1894, Page 2
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269BREVITIES. Thames Star, Volume XXV, Issue 4668, 23 February 1894, Page 2
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