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Evening Star, Issue 3434, 23 February 1874, Page 3

When is charity like a bee ?—When, it begins to hum. ° Who is the oldest lunatic on record ?—Time out of mind. Why are the cook’s tongs in a ship like pps mos( l ul^oes • —Because they are galley nipThe Greater the Truth the Greater the Libel: A legal wag affirms that in the West all the lawyers C^es ' 110,116 of the judgers are ‘'You are going to have your father’s nose,” said a mother to her daughter, “I would a repl dCa * ra ™ er ave m y own,” was the pert A Severe Threat: A man who had his new nat exchanged for an old one in a barber’s shop advertises that unless it is returned he will forward to the wife of the person who took it the letter found concealed in the lining of the old one. it. r? residents of Mount Ida are petitioning the Government to throw open for settlement land on the Maniototo Plain, where they declare that large quantities of land available and suitable for settlement are situated, more especially m the centre of the Plains, on. the banks of the laien Biver, and on the line of mam road between Naseby and the Kyeburn notel, and that a large number of settlers are prepared to take up land if it is opened. They further state ‘‘that a large agricultural settlement on the Manototo Plain would make the very necessary and desirable step of opening up the interior by a line of railway from Palmerston which will be ere long an imperative necessity—a very remunerative undertaking,” and that _ they are satisfied that, “ having stated their claim, his Honor being aware that that claim 13 a ffist one, up to this date no single acre of land, either agricultural or pastoral, has ever been offered to the district of Maniototo (including the townships of Naseby, Kyeburn, Hamilton, Sowburn, and Upper 1 men, besides numerous small settlements for gold-mining purposes) will not anticipate or encounter any difficulty in recommending to your Executive and the Provincial Council that blocks of land be opened on deferred payments, and that a Hundred be proclaimed in a central situation on the Maniototo Plain.” Late Advertisements. WANTED, a Youth of sixteen - eighteen, as Invoice Clerk with a knowledge of merchandise preferre Apply Box 158. THE Friends of Dr Sorley are request meet at 7 o’clock To-morrow nigl in the Lower Boom, Athenamm, to consid case of Hunt v. Sorley. NE W T ZE ALANp BUILDING AND Ml TLAL INVESTMENT SOCIETY. PURSUANT to notice received by i from the Committee of the above S ciety, ! hereby convene a Special Meeting the Members, to take place at the Society Offices, on Monday next,. 2nd March, * 8 p.m., to receive a communication from t Committee as to the disposal of Surpl bunds—in accordance with Rule 23 altered. W. ORAM BALL, Dated this 16th day of February, 187-i DUNEDIN^PRESBYTERI ANNUAL SOIREE To be held on TUESDAY, 24ch FEBRUARY Addresses will be delivered by s'ev Clergymen and other Gentlemen op various subjects. Several Anthems and Hymns will be a during the evepipg by the Choir Tqa qn the Table at half-past Six Tickets, Two Shillings each, may obtained from any of the Grocers in G King street; Mr A. R. Livingston, Prii street} or members of Committee,