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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2907, 24 February 1893, Page 3

WHERE ARE YOU CtOlffG ffIAUCII IS, 1893? The Mariposa with the San Francisco mail arrived at Auckland to-day. Tn the 1868-74 Administration Mr Gladstone made no less than 39 new peers ! The only record which beats that is that of Lord Melboarne, who between 1835-41 added 46 new lords to the "Upper Chamber. Earl Grey (1830-34) did not go beyond 37, and Lord Aberdeen (1853-55) only made one peer. Lord Palmerston made two batches ; first of all from 1855 to 1858 he-made 12, then from 1859 to 1865 he made 15. Sir Robert Peel only created six during the five years he was Premier from 1841, and Benjamin " Dizzy " made 29 from 1874 to 1880. How Sambo Understood French.—bVed says to the runaway negro on the raft, | "Jim, what'd yqvi say if 'twas said to you " Parlyvous-frangy !' " '' Wouldn't say nuffin. I'd just bust him over de ear ; if he wasn't a wite man. 'Low no nigger to call me dafc.' Finn says the word* only mean, "Do you speak French?" Jim inquires, "If they mean that why don't they say that?" Dr Forest says, in "Health, the New Method," we might make similar inquiries of the professors ot Massotherapy; but he goes on to explain massage, rubbing, and its beneficial results so that it might even enter the skull of the densest negro ; and his muscle-roller and other new methods are invaluable. An edition of his books much enlarged, is published at "Truth" and "Health" Publication Offices, 16 \ Tuam street", Obristchurch.—[Advt.J