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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 511, 7 June 1881, Page 3

Silt D. Goocn, M.P., in presiding at a half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway, said the snow-torm which oc ctirred in Kngland in January reduced their receipts by £56,000. Had that sum been in their pockets they would have been able to declare i- or f per cc;ut more dividend. To indicate the extent of storm he might Bay that they had to excavate the snow from 111 miles of railway varying in depth from three to nine feet. Sixly-four trains had to be dug out, and blocks took place on 141 different parts of their system. Here is the way a Montana editor " goes for " his esteemed contemporaries : —" The blear-eyed picture of melancholy and imbecility who has ravaged his exchanges to fill up the Insect during the past year, and the cheerful-looking corpse who lias acted lately as his man Friday, and who is a tender-foot equally soft at both ends, will doubtless paralyse every-body to-day with their thunderbolts of choice sarcasm and polite invicthe. The intelligibilities of their phillippies, however, will depend largely on whether they could borrow that dictionary or not, their vocabulary being painfully if to their own I'csourses." This editor of an Illinois paper took a boy to learn the printer's trade. He was careful to impress upon bis mind the necessity of obedience and of doing everything thoroughly. After preliminary instruction the lad was given a stick and rule, and was taken to a case to wrestle with a piece of copy. The editor went off to a convention. The other boys in the office paid but little attention to the recruit, and, when the editor returned half a day later, he found the boy down on his knees, .searching for something on the floor, " What's the matter, Johnny ?" said he " Why, I dropped a type before I got the lir:. ; t litio isel,"'replied the boy, "and you told mo before 1 went to 'Aork tlwii vvheiievei 1 dropped a type I must stop and pk-k it up bol'uc I did anything else. I'vj boon iot>:; ; iig for ihr-.t denied type all da}', and .'. j can't: iind it.' , Need we h-iy tl.ui boy | siki.ee.led in businees. lie grew up, vvuit W(::;i, and iwo wjoks ago he was hanged a iNevaiui for horse-stealing.