ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 293, 9 May 1879, Page 2

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

.; (Collated from jbjir, Eicjjsriges,').,"' ". An Jrtsfr tailor, happfiunjrto jriake.> geatleman.'s coat and. * yest ,'"tob. ordered to' take them' Koine"' and letth'ein out. Some days after, the gentlemap>sts told that his garments happened "to fit a countryman-of hiß, ! andhehad letibeai=oat ,at*'iliilli6gff-week/. t *;hr.u>.l.' -i. The Auckland Star say&Z-v.h:.MW-•named ChjujleeySpaidjfig-, trade, \yh.o Edejn gaol on the" iStli TeVr'uary; for'ii term "6'f four months ada rogue' arid vagabond, has received intelligence of the- death - of-a miserly- old who by his will has made Raiding the heir to a fortune of £IQ,OOO. ..-. ' . -. - '■ D: , Henry, the usurer ;of Melbourne, by exacting-excessive inferest for Jtiflnip and by various evil actions, reduced a widow named Mrs Crawford to "beggary". Henry/tried to bribe the jury in the last of. the|e iaCjtions, , : for which he was fined £500 and sentenced to a long term of P imjp«6pnmen,t ; IJhe latest telegrams "from Melbourne stated that he had been strjcken down by'apoplexy, and had reniamed insensible i £6r several Henry used to have a splendid mansion on • Eastern Hill, where he Jived amidst almost the luxury of the Turkish Sultan: MrsCrawford, after being reduced to beggary, took a situation as manageress of a hotel in Kiverina. There she married a sexegermrian squatter, who recently died, 'leaving her t r million sterling.- -Talk of romance after this. Surely truth is stranger j ihan fiction. —Melbourne Argv.s.

A schoolmaster, "who probably speaks ■with ,the bitterness that ie begotten, - of, blighted hopes, writes thus in a Northern paper :—''X would give the following advice to applicants for employmentunder the various jEducatiqn ; Boards of the Colony. Be an Episcopalian in Nelson, a Presbyterian •in Qtago, a Wealeyan in Canterbury, and sit on a rail in Wellington, and it will not matter if you be an ass in all." ■•-,' ; , After many days of arid desication, the vaporing captains marshalled their thundering hosts, and poured out upon scorching humanity upon the thoroughly incinnerated vegetffifion a few inches of " aqua pluvialis," and that's the way in which a. Western journal announces the advent of the recent rains. ~'... When we are in onr teens, or just out of them, we say, " what nonsense," when we read of "a younsrman of 45."■ But,as soon as we get past 30, and meet the same phrase, it strikes us as perfectly proper. Human nature is arum customer. v ~ People often complain.,of hard tftnef frotS'a'mere tendency to' groWl/but 1 a darkle, the other dayy said* /-Nebber seed sicb. times since I been born. .Work all day and steal all night,, and b)e'Bt if I can hardly make a living. -• :; ,: - * "Love," Baidle," "what kind 'of 'stone do you thjnk: they will give 1 am gone?" r ''Brimstone/ niy dear, without doubt," Tesponded the wife of his bosom..* The newspapers bave been telling • a story about a rich ybuhg lady shoeitig Her horse with golden shoes? iHow wicked! What jight had-Ashe.-to, put gilt on , his s olef V"' ' : "."' '- ■;,■...,-.'.■ 8 vi ;/•:■■: ~r; m 1 - <■■'*■ ' -