CLIPPINGS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 156, 15 January 1878, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

From" Atlas" in The World. While the Atlantic waves were dashing over Cleopatra's Needle last' Sunday week, and ruthlessly severing her from her guardian the Olga, Erasmus Wilson was pursuing the quiet tenor of his way in his pretty little bungalow by the sea,. Having created this bijou domestic residence (which would satisfy the most, fastidious sanitary authority) he found it was good, and proceeded to establish others, until the model marine village of blossomed forth ? and was welcomed by the""'sea-bathTnf'" puhlicT He considers the place for purposes of health and peace, of mind a 'heaven upon earth,' and so it seems to be for him. Towards the end of the week he throws Henrietta-street and dull care aside, and in a con pie of hours may be found basking in the midst of his cabbages and flowers, a coatless and a happy man. It is something to know that the hand that gives the nation Cleopatra's Needle has never withheld the smaller gift that brings help, hope, and comfort to the individual. Miss Mabel Collings (Mrs Keningale Cook), daughter of my old friend Mortimer Collins, who has for some time been contributing anonymously to magazines, is about to publish her first novel, entitled An Innocent Sinner. During'the recent Congress at Croydon, manyV isitors found time to stroll to : the neighbouring village of Shirley. In _t§. pretty 4 churchyard there is a granite tombstone with the following \ characteristic inscription : 'Here rests 'from days' well-sustained burden John James Ruskin, born in Edinburgh May I*o- 1785. He died in his home in Londoh, March 3,1864. He was an entirely t hpnest merchant, and his memory is to &llwho keepit dear and helpful. His son, whom he loved to the uttermost and taugh.to'speak truth, gays this of him. Now "can yoti imagine this? A j gentleman announcing the accouchement of his wifelast'week in the Church Times, instead of giving an ordinary date, says, ''■On Translation of King Edward the Confessor, the wif.J of,' &c. % hear the washerwomen at a certain seat of learning wer.*.touch scandalised the .other day at findi-sg a number of fenuhme under-garments among the college linen sent to the wash. .But on investigation the suspicious articles proved to belong to the Chinese students, who at appear affect the petticoats and other ( things which shall be nameless of of the softer sex. j: A touching military custbih has been ! revived in the French army. Some time ago, ip artilleryman of the 14th Regiment, named Chassefiere, lost'his life at a fire iti Tarbes whilst heroically endeavouring to save the life of his captain. The general commanding the division has just ordered that Chassefiere shall be called out at the parades of his corps every day for a month, and, that 'the brigadier in charge of his shall, answer, l ,Mort enbrave'l Thjs reminds one of what was done in tljie case of Latour d' L , Auvergne, ' first grenadier of France.' '• His name for yearspwas sung out at the morning roll-call, and the i proud response was given by the senior serjeant, 'Dead on the field of honour.'