NEW DEFINITIONS.

Evening Post, Issue 148, 29 July 1865, Page 3

NEW DEFINITIONS.

Superintendent— A superfluous appendage to Provincial Governments ; a dummy setup to be bullied by the Executive, Jsntttobed^lfy the Council, and pelted by the mob ; a mere stalking-horse, to bear the blame of everybody's misdeeds. Provincial Councils—Devices to obstruct progress and hinder beneficial legislation. Provincial Governments — Constitutional aliama ? powerless for good, but very effective for evil.— Dunedin Punch.

By the fall of a great part of Gaythorn Mil!, Manchester, an old unoccupied building, eight stories high, four bricklayers and labourers who were employed inside it were buried as they were taking their tea on the first floor. Two others escaped just as the wall was falling. After several hours' excavation two of the dead bodies were got out, and a third man was fouDd alive, but greatly injured. A gigantic hoax has been played off on the people of Boston by a man named Mortimer. He gave orders to the principal publicans of the town to provide accommodation for a | large number of officers and men of the 15th Hussars. The innkeepers made great preparations to receive their expected and welcome guests, and the population turned out en masse to do them honour. When the appointed time ftrrived it very soon becanie manifest that a practical joke had been perpetrated upon the inhabitants. Mortimer was therefore arrested ; but, as he does not appear to have benefited by his folly, it is doubtful whether he can be convicted on any specific charge.