ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 278, 18 March 1879, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated from otir Exchanges.)

According to the report of a truant officer, a boy in the western district of Dunedin started for school the other day, and before he was four blocks from home he lamed a dog, lost his geography, scared a horse, broke his slate, and had three fights. This, at any rate, was his excuse for not reporting at school ai the proper hour. The contributor of the above to the Star, adds :—He was excused. " Bill," said Bob, " why is that tree called a weeping willow ?"—" 'Cause one of the sneaking dratted things grew near our school-bouse, and supplied the master with the sticks that did all the boys' licking." The Proverty Bay Standard records a reading by a local resident magistrate, relative to the retail of beer and spirits. The R. M. says :—Beer supplied by licensed persons may be recovered if booked, providing the persons receiving it be not intoxicated. Payment for spirits supplied retail cannot be obtained by process of law. The following birth notice appears in the Wellington Postof Wednesday last:— li On the 26th February, at Adelaide road, the wife of Thomas Howell of a son (No 14) —both doing well, thank God. Father quite pleased." An exchange observes that it is rather significant that Kaitangata means '• Mandevouring." The Maoris would, after the recent destruction of human life there, have given the place the very name which by a sort of fatal prescience it had already received. Who will say after this that there is nothing in a name ! A swarm of bees settled on one of the railway trucks on the Gladstone pier, at mid-day yesterday, and were secured by one of the men working on the wharf. Whether they came as the thistle-down comes, because the wind drives it, or of their own choice, we know not. If it was their own intention they seem to us to have shown bad judgment.