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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2647, 11 August 1871, Page 3

Turt Chalmers Grvving Dock.— The contractor for fencing the Port Chal* niers Graving Dock attempted to go on with the work to day, but was resisted by Messrs Connor and M’Kay, who filled in the ground excavated for the posts. The contractor for the fencing withdrew his men pending a peaceable settlement of the matter. Not Forgiven.—A famous judge had a habit of begging pardon on every occasion. At the close of the assize, as he was about to leave the bench, the officer of the court reminded him that he had not passed sentence of death on one of the criminals, as he had intended. —“ Dear me,” said his lordship, “I really beg hs pardon—bring him in.” Libel on Scotland. —“Man, I had an awin' dream last night,” said Grant Thorburn one morning. “Ay, what was’t ? —did ye dream yer wife was dead?’ “Waur than that.”—“Was ye dead yerael?” —“Waur than that tae. I dreamed they sent me back to Scotland !” —American Paper. The Match Tax.—A correspondent, who calls herself “ Lucy,” writes as follows : “ What right has the Chancellor, cunning old fox, To deface with his Latin her lucifer box ? What ‘ Ex luce lucellum ’ may mean I don’t know, But if Lucy can’t sell ’em, what then, Bobby Lowe ? ” A German Idea of Granite. A German customer called upon a marble dealer, and was shown through the establishment and yard. He was much struck with the specimens of Scotch granite < n exhibition. Referring to the grey Scotch, he inquired, “Vat ish dat“ That is grey Scotch granite ” replied the dealer, “ and this is the red,” pointing to a finely-polished monument. —“ You calls dat g unite !” exclaimed the German ; you fools me notings. I knows him too well to be humbug mit your stories. He is no more as a pig glass full of sausagemeat. Dat is blayed out,”—The marble dealer fainted. A girl of tender sensibilities eloped with a man near Knoxville, Tenn,, nceutly, and when her father sought to detain her, she knocked the old gentleman down with a shovel. Her parent pursued the couple after marriage, and the husband and father having exchanged shots, the blushing bride emptied a revolver at her liege lord, disabling him completely, and then returned home with papa. Who says the age of chivalry is over in Tennessee ? Advertisements received too late for Classification. DUNEDIN RIFLE CLUB. THIRD MATCH will take place on SATURDAY, 12th inst.—Squads to fall in at Pelicaet Bay Range at 7 a.m., 11 a in., 2.3U p.m. ; also at Anderson's Bay at 2.30 p.m, Gourlay’s Omnibuses from Queen’s Arms at 2 p. m. JOHN NIGHTINGALE, Hon. Sec. OTAGO SCHOOLMASTERS’ ASSOCIATION. A SPECIAL MEETING will bo held TO-MORROW in the Education Office, at Three p.m. for the consideration of important business. IN Pursuauce of “ The Regulation of Elections Act, 1870,” I, Alfred Chetham Strode, returning Officer for the Electoral , District of Wakari, do Hereby Give Notice, j that by virtue of a writ, bearing date the ninth day of August, 1871, under the public seal of the Province of Otago, an Election will be held for the return of one qualified person to serve as Member of the Provincial Council for the said Electoral District, and that the Nomination of Candidates will take place at the Dpid Shed.J Kaikorai at noon, cm Tuesday, the twenty-second clay of August, 1871, and that the poll (if necessary) will be taken on Tuesday, the twentyninth day of August, 1871. A. CHETHAM STRODE, Returning Officer. The following is the polling-place for the Electoral District of W akari: — The Drill Shed, Kaikorai, A. CHETHAM STRODE. Returning Officer. LOST. Ou the Forbury or Green Island Road a pair of Cold Eye Glasses, in ivory case, with chain attached. Finder rewarded upon bringing same to Mrs James Smith. SINGLETON’S SARSAPARILLA,— Manufactured from the formula of the celebrated Dr Pereira, M.D., F.R. C.S., L.A.C., Lecturer on Chemistry and Therapeutics at the London Hospitals,—is the best preparation of the real Jamaica root ever oflered to the public. It is warranted free from mercurial or other deleterious ingredients, combines the agreeable flavor of a cordial with the active principles of the famous Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla, and is highly recommended for its curative and restorativ* properties by the most eminent medical men. SINGLETON’S SARSAPARILLA May be obtained from all druggists, merchants, and storekeepers, throughout the world. Agents in all the CVouies."