ENGLISH CLIPPINGS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 121, 14 September 1877, Page 3

ENGLISH CLIPPINGS.

I hear a good story about the manager of an aquarium. The other Sunday his wife got him to go to church, where, early in the proceedings, he fell asleep. The minister was reading the First Lesson of the day, which happened to be the Ist chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. As he proceeded in the discription of the wonderful beasts which the prophet saw in the land of the Chaldeans, bythe river Chebar, the aquarium manager moved uneasily in his seat, ''Every one had four faces, and every one had four wings." The aquarium manager rubbed his eyes, and the preacher went on : "And they had the hands of a man mirier-their wings on Iheir four sides and they four had their faces and -then wings." The aquirium manager was now wide awake. "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a. man and the face of a lion on the right side, and they four had the face of an ox on the left side. They four also had the face of an eagle." The aquarium manager was now standing up, his wife vainly pulling at his coat tails. " Name your own price," he cried, disregarding the martial entreat}', •' I will take the thing." — Mayfair. The English barrister Henry de Trouville who was charged with murdering his wife, Iry throwing her down a precipice in the Austrian Tyrol, and whose case was investigated some months ago at a London police court, will be put upon his trial for this grave offence. The trial will take place at Botz.m, the highest point in the Brcnne route between Germany and Italy.

The 23rd annual session of the R.W. Grand Lodge 1.0. G.T. was held this year at Portugal, Maine, commencing on the 23rd and concluding on the 26th May Mr. W. S. Williams, of Napwell, Canada, was reelected R.W.G. Sec, and Mr Scott reelected R.W.G. Treas. It was announced that since Judge Black's amendment to the constitution had become the.general law of the order at the Louisville session (its action having been confined to two states for the twelve months pre\ious to that, owing to the strenuous opposition of Bro. Malms and those associated with him), giving power to any grand lodge on its o.vn assent to an increased number of grand lodges in its own jurisdiction, eleven of the southern grand lodges have given their assent to the formation of coloured sub and .errand lodges under the immediate jurisdiction of the R.W.G.L. Charters have been granted for a worthy grand lodge for great Britain, and also for Australasia with full legislative powers. In the Liverpool Mercury of June 16th, we read that at a sale of Mr Gee's Dewhurst Stud, the followingextrordinary prices were paid for blood stock :—" Scottish Chief," bought by Mr Blenkirsh, 8,000 guineas ; a mare named "Agility," bought by Mr Viner, 3,300 guineas ; a mare named " Virtue," bought by Mr Moon, 2,000 guineas whilst four other mares brought each over 1,000 guineas. When will blood stock in the colonies reach figures like these ?

mixed up in death ; and the son, as representing the first husband, ■ appealed to the Portsea Burial Board for the restitution of the original head stone over his father and mother. Upon enquiry it was found that the third .husband " had paid all the fees"—and as this was the' point that more especially iuteresfed the Board, it was agreed that they •• should d.> nothing in the matter." The complication, therefore, resolves itself into a fami'y squabble ; and it would be an interesting point of law to know whether the original son or the third husband takes precedence. Husband No - -2 appears to be altogether unrepiesented in the matter, only that he has a tombstone now planted over his head with which he has no concern whatever, and which enlarges only on the living virtues of Husband No. I—a1 —a subject on which he might have been painfully reminded in his earthly pilgrimage. ' Always in debt when there is no necessity for it—The letter b." Young Spendall remarked, on hearing the above conumd rum, that he bad often been in debt when there was absolute necesity for it, from want of funds, and they never let him be. A French police officer recently arrested three robbers, and escorted them all to head-quarters. They inarched in front of him, and were not handcuffed. He hit upon the idea of cutting all the buttons from their pantaloons, and they had enough to do to keep their unmentionables in place without thinking of running away.