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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 467, 14 January 1881, Page 3

The Grcymouth Evening Star thus explains its non-appearance on New Year's Day : —To-morrow being 3 SSI— New Year's Day, in fact—our devil lias persuaded us that it is not right touork.. We arc not quite sure about the matter —we mean the devil and no work—for wo recall to mind something about " Satan finds some mischief s! ill for idle hands to do," but then theologius declare that " the wicked flourish like a green bay-tree," and as we have an intense desire to flourish, never having yet flourished—no, not so much as a dead gooseberry bush—we have resolved to act on the advice of the devil, ri.4: the wickedness of not publishing , our Lwinkier, risk Hatan finding somofhing for our idly hands to do, in" the liope of securiiig , some of that prospe:ii'.y. likened unto a green bay-tree, so despised by the •' salt " of t'ho earth, but which is acceptable to poor benighted devils of newspaper editor?, i\,S. —Pnragraphs ar<. , hard to >t these times.

Tiic late l>r Dciluine askod a morose and misi-riy man how lie was getting

T!i:> niiin replied, 4 - Wh;<i business is that of yours ?" .Siiitl tho .Doctor : " All, sir, 1 am one of those who tii'.io mi interest even in the meanest of 'Jod'.s creature : ."

'■ One of the bores at card playing , ,'-; s.ivs '' Cavendish," tin? gre.-it whist aulliroity "Is the ' if you had ' partner who constantly greets you with ' If you hal only done so and so. . My favorite rotor I. to him is to ;r<k if In; j.ias ever heard the sLory of '' your undo mid you: mint/ Ji'he li;!o he does not Vr'aut In hear it ag'jiin, a;:c! sileiif:. Jf lie 'i.-is not, and iiuioccutiy fall.-; into the tea]) by expressing a desire to hear it, 1 say in a solemn voice, "If your aunt had been n man s;he would have been your uuolu "