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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 507, 25 August 1871, Page 2

There has bee* a terrible 'huvrickne'ln"tlie Fiji lilauds. So great-wns the force of the wind that heavy substances were blown more than a hundred miles. A ship was sailing along with a light breoze off lh,s coast of Australia, when something "descended upon her deck with a dull thump. The boatswain stepped forward and picked it up. It was a piece of cut meat, weighing.. half a jjcund. The boatswaiu, ,who was iin olii ; resident of' Fiji, tasted it and prpnounce'd it Missionary. Most singular to relate, there was a rail set of false teeth imbedded in the tissue, with a grip like that of a steel trap. The boatswain examined these, and recognised them as. belonging to Mann JYleateat, a ; well inowjn- "B^jVchief. It was vallier cvklont that Uiero had been a high wind in Fiji.— American Paper. A learned clergyman was accosted in the following manner by au .praacher who despised education": .''Sir, youJiiVi^beeu to college, I suppose ?" " Yea\ sir," was the reply. "I am tliankful," rejoined the former, " that the Lord opened my mouth without any learning." " A similar event," rotorted tho clergyman, " took place In Baalam's time ; but such tilings aw of rare ofcuiToi.ce at the present day."

Atlanta, Georgia, young Lidiesaro uanmtocratio that they make their mothers pat mouiv grams ou tho dougliuals.