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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 483, 28 July 1871, Page 2

We regret to observe that domestic affliction has come upon his Honor the Superintendent. It will be seen from our telegraphic columns that his father has just died at Dunedin, at the mature age of seventy years.As will be seen from our advertising columns the next lecture in connection with the winter series of the Young Men's Christian Associa- '' tion, will be delivered at the Hall of the Association, in Wellesley-street, this evening, at half-past seven, by Mr. G. M. Seed. The subject is, ' e The influence of Colonial Life on the Formation and Development of Human Character." , i The " clip" of 50,000 women in Trance and Germany is annually imported into England, for manufacturing chignons. A reliable exchange says that it knows of a boy who accidentally swallowed a silver half-dollar. They gave- him warm water and tarter emetic, and antamonial wine, and poked three fingers down his throat until the boy thought he would throw up his toe nails. After a while a doctor came along who understood such cases. He administered d small dose of medicine, and in less than ten minutes the boy threw up the halfdollar in five-cent pieces. Science is a great ' thing, i • The women-woman should make a note of this item and apply the moral. A correspondent sends it to a Delaware paper: " I saw a hen Sunday that is a gay old chicken— half bantam. She used to lay eggs and hatch them during the first five years of her life. She then ceased to lay—changed her manner and looks to that of a rooster, and now crows Tor day and all day, fights' the other roosters, and mates with the hen.*." Japanese young ladies make wonderful pictures oat of peanut shells.