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A little girl asked a minister, “Do you think my father will go to heaven ?” “ Why, yes, my child. Why do you ask ? ” “ Well, because if he don’t have his own way there, he won’t stay long, I was thinking.” Macready once met an actor of the name of Pauncefort, who spoke warmly of favors received from the tragedian. The restjof the company complained of Macready’s insolent and grumbling propensities as they had appeared when they had met him. * He never uttered an unkind word to me,” said Pauncefcrt. “ I played the ‘ round ’ of all the second parts to him, lago, Ulric, Macduff, &c, and not a syllable of fault-finding ever passed his lips. He had a first-class opinion of me, I know.” This was, of course, highly satisfactory to all parties, and more especially to the stage-manager, on whom devolved the task of “ casting ” the pieces in a way that would be not only conducive to their being well received by the audience but agreeable to the London star. The morning arrived. Macready stalked on to the stage. The prompter placed a chair for him at the prompt table, and Macready entered at once into a conversation with the stage-manager. “ How are the pieces cast?” asked Macready. The stage-manager began to turn over his papers, and hurriedly placed one or two thin narrow slips beneath the eye of the great man. “ These are some of the casts,” he said, “No, no,” broke in Macready, impatiently pushing them from him ; “ I’m not particular as to who play the minor characters, but I should like to know who is my lago, Ulric, Macduff, &c.” The stagemanager’s face brightened. “ There, I think, we can please you. We have a gentleman you have played with before.” “ Oh, indeed. Where did I meet him?” “At Bristol?” “When?” “Two years ago.” “Bring my book of engagements,” said Macready to his agent. The volume was produced. “ Bristol, two years ago 1 ” mused Macready, as he turned the pages. “ Why,” he said, starting suddenly as his eye fixed upon the entry, “it was the worst company I ever performed with. Pauncefort Pauncefort I Is he my second ? ” roared the tragedian. “Certainly,” replied the manager. “Oh, Heaven help me ! ” answered Macready, striding up and down the stage. “Why,” said the other, following him, “he said he was a favorite of yours.” “A favorite?” “ Yes ; he said that while you found fault with everybody else, you did not once find fault with him,” “With him—no I With the others there was some hope, but with him there was none ! ”

R. THE following extract from the Regulations for the Registration of Life Policies is published for general information : 1. Every policy-holder, who is such in respect of a policy granted or entered into in New Zealand by a Company who shall have made a deposit of securities under the Life Assurance Companies Act, 1873, may, if the policy or contract has been made before the commencement of the said Act, register such policy with the Public Trustee within twelve months after the commencement of the said Act, but not after ; and if made after the commencement of the said Act, then within six months after the making thereof. (N.B. —The Ist of November, 1878, is fixed as the commencement of the Act.) 2. The person intending to register a policy shall either deliver the same to the Public Trustee at his office in Wellington, or may deliver the same to an agent ; and every such person shall make application to register such policy in a form which can be obtained at any Post Office in the colony at which Money Orders are issued, 3. The Public Trustee shall make and keep a book for the registration of policies, in which the particulars of each policy shall be recorded. 4. There shall be paid to the Public Trustee by the policy-holder a fee of five shillings on the registration thereof. 5. Each policy shall bear a registration number according to the order in which it has been received, and when registered the Public Trustee shall make and sign a memorandum thereon in the form or to the effect following : No. Registered in pursuance of the Life Assurance Companies Act, 1873, this day of 18 . (Signature) Public Trustee. J. WOODWARD, Public Trustee,