PITH AND POINT.

Western Star, Issue 1850, 10 January 1894, Page 2

PITH AND POINT.

A WooJvil'e farmer cured a tutu poisoned cow by pouring a pint of kerosene down the animal's throat.

Canon Danks is willing to accept ths vacant Bishopric of Wellington, but before coming to a final decision he requires mora details concerning the position.

The Talune, for Sydney, took the crack racehorse Loyalty and the colts purchased toy Sydney sportsmen. . <

There are 350 Loan and Mercantile strict)* holders in New Zealand, holding 52,42rx shares, whioh at £5 10s each will repressor £288,321 to bo paid up in 18 months. Theta arc only 5,796 shares held iu Australia. •;'.''■ Tho Woodville paper says that the. Maharahara copper mining project, likft> Pegasus, is evidently ended, as the owner* have thrown up their miniug leases. Tb.B.t* ends the prospact of what onos promised f«f be an important mining industry in tke district.

A few years ago it was thought improper for a woman to be a foreign missionarr en. less she were a misßionay's wife. Now there are two thousand four hundred ui* married women in the mission field, besides, probably, aa equal number of marries] women.

The Westminster Gazette, commenting oa the Speight-Syrae case, says that the Age is the one reil fore in Victorian journalism, and that the verdict is praoiioally one of acquittal. The striking feature of the trial was the ruinous expense of litigation. Tho latest perjury from America:—" A hen laid an egg on the brickwork of a boiler at High Point, N.C., and a few days afterwards a little chicken appeared."

"Do you considor Doctor, that getting; screwed ovcry night is likely to injure tfcft brain?" inquired a, shaky paliont. "No, sir," repliod the doctor, viciously, '• because no man who possesses any brain at all would bo likely to get intoxicated every evening. When a man makes a humblo beginning and ri«es to wealth and distinction, ha is pointed out by his fellow-men as a model self-made man. If a woman com nences life as a ohambermaid, or in any other position in tho humbler walks of life, and afterward rise 3 in the world, the rost of womaukind never forgives her. Whv is it ro?"

The Pomahaka estate, six miles from Clinton, lately acquired bv the Government and surveyed into blocks of 103 to 300 aero*, will be offerod on perpetual le »se in February. The soil has never been plouahed.

An event in tho history of Kisbpe (Wilson's River) came off on Christmas night, the first concert and dance being held in ih* publie hall recently erected by Mrs Sherlock. Tha chair was occupied by Mr May hew. " What prompted you to rob this man's till ? asked the judge of the p wooer. "My family physician, sir," was the reply ; " h« tola me it was absolutely neoessary that I should have a little change."

The Hungarian Government has decided to monopolise the miking of dynamite so as to p eve it Ana' caists getting po s ssion of th« explosive.

Under the " Statute of Limitations" a debt is not recoverable after the expiry of six years from the date upon which it was con* traded, unless, in the interval, there hsi b*en part payment or some form of aoknow* ledgment. The Cbi°ago gaols are crowded with prisoners. Fifty are awaiting trial for mnrdcr and altogether there are 500 offences io be disposed of. This is the r suit of the World's Fair.