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Waikato Times, Volume II, Issue 95, 7 December 1872, Page 2

Mr. C. M. Palmer sends us (the Times) the followingextract fom a letter be has received from superintendent of the line of Italian mail steamers between Venice, Bnndisi, and Alexandria " The Captain of Principe Carignano, when about ten miles distant from the Digue, was surprised by an eruption in the sea bottom. JTe feared he was running on some unknown bank: he put the steamer close round aiuf ran out seaward for some time-into deep water, came round again, ciade the Digue, and came up to Venice without further trouble. He saw dead fish, shells sand, bottom growths, weeds, <fcc., all in a volcanic boil together; When he took his bearings lie was in the same route he made each voyage." A lady from the country entered one of our grocery stores and asked the clerk if he wanted to purchase my chickens —at the.same time throwing a couple of live oaes on tHß'counter. The clerk' reyjlic.l that he did, .and- as fee tied 'pair showed considerable* anxiety to be releastd from their unpleasant fix, lie-asked hen if they wouxl • lie a few moments on the counter until he could attend t> tbem. " Lay there ?"indignantly asked the old lady ; course not—them's roosters, they wont lay nowhere-