WHAT'S IN A NAME.

Auckland Star, Issue 619, 5 January 1872, Page 2

WHAT'S IN A NAME.

ChabljE3 ' ■■- and Harry stood chatting in the corner of a ball-room.

"So/ Charley,"; said the latter, "your little Ellen got safe to New York I saw her there last week, looking like a beauty." "I dare say," returned Charles, "'for I J hear Osborne is bo happy in his new posses- j sion that he spares no expense to eet her off to the beat advantage." "It is: true enough, and I sometimas wonder how you made up your mind to part with her." ! " Oh! I'm going to be married you know , and young ladies do" not tolerate any rivals near the throne, In fact, J expect to find happiness enough afc home. " Ah ! very fine, but L should not wonder if, before long, you were for getting your beauty back again." "May be," said Charles, shrugging his shoulders; "nous verrons." And so the two separated—while a lovely girl who had approached behind unseen, and had been an involuntnry listener, hastilj retreated. The next morning produced the following correspondence :— No. 1. I take an early opportunity to request that our engagement may bo con» sidered afc an end from this time. Your principles'would dostr iy all chances of happiness with you even if the insulting manner in which you have allowed yourself to refer to our connection were not sufficient to produce the resolution I have communicated. Julia. ; No. 2. I am entirely at a loss to comprehend the meaning of your note, and until you can give me a clearer idea ot" -what I am accused, it is impossible for me to defend myself. I await your reply. Charles. No. 3. You ask my meaning. Ah ! Charles, you add hypocrisy to your faults. If your conscience dees not acouse you.perhaps it may be enough to mention, to you the name of Oshorne. ' Julia. : No. 4. lam more than ever puzzled. 1 next spoke to Osborne but once, and that was whenj sold him my yaqh,fr.. Pray.lgt me know what.youiukean. ■ ILA j.( h .;.» Charles.- - : No. 5. Your yacht ? and her name Ellen ? Oh! dearest Charles ! What a fool I have been. Come.,to.me directly, and IJ'll tell you— I can't write it; —Your owriJ ' . «' Jtjxia.

; Another serious landslip has occurred near Northtvich, on a foot road between Budwbrth::and Northwich. There had been a subsidence near the same place some years ago, and it was not unlikely that a further sinking might occur. The present one caused a hole about twenty yards deep, and took in the whole of the road at the point where it happened. At first the sides of the hole were quite perpendicular, but they had since fallen in, and the chasm was being filled up. The sinking was believed to be on the site of the first salt mine sunk in the county of Chester.