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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 114, 16 January 1872, Page 5

From the Evening Star we learn that Mr Haughton, Under-Secreeary for the Goldfields, purposes making a complete tour of the goldfields of this Province, in the course of which he will visit the various Warden's Courts in connection with the special arrangements which are to be made for water supply. He will then proceed to Hokitika, to perform a like duty in regard to the West Coast goldfields. Ail editor, wbo tried working in his garden for health, suggests that a cast-iron back with a hinge in it would be preferable, for gardeners, to the spinal column now in use. A Brooklyn mother advised her daughter to oil her hair, and fainted fiat when that candid damsel replied, "Oh no, ma ; it spoils the gentlemen's vests !" A contemporary prints the following letter from one of its old and prompt-paying patrons : j—" Please discontinue my paper from the time I have paid up to. I do not stop the paper because I do not want it, but to get rid of an intolerable old bore that intrudes himself in my I office, regardless of time or circumstances, to sit for an hour or two, three or four times a week, to read my papers, and who is a thousand times more able to take a dozen papers for himself than 1 am to take one. If the nuisance is ' stopped T shall take the paper again." Marriage is favourable to longeuity : few old maids get beyond thirty.