GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1311, 29 April 1872, Page 2

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS.

The Kelson Evening Mail has been " authorised to stale that Mr Alfred Saunders intends visiting Nelson shortly, where he will address the electors with a view to offering himself as a candidate for the seat rendered vacant, bv the resignation of Mr Lightband." Messrs. J. C Richmond and 1). M. Luckie are already in the Held. Messrs. Cargill, Cutten, Preston, Hutchinson, Thompson, Douglass, Fish, Green, Monro, and Macassey are all spoken of as probable candidates for the district of Waikouaiti, the seat for which in the House has been rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. George M'Lean. For the representation of Coleridge (rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Karslake) the probable candidates are Mr Cracroft Wilson and Mr George Hart. A report having been circulated that the electors of Ghristchurch East had called upon Mr E. J. Wakefield to resign his seat, that gentleman, in a letter to the Press, denies having received any such requisition.

John Chinaman, when unacquainted with the English language, is sometimes put to sore straits, and exhibits considerable ingenuity in explaining his requirements. Last week, says an Otago contemporary, an instance of this, which transcends anything we have previously heard, occurred at Waipoii A "heathen" went into a store in that town to purchase egg". Forgetting (if he ever knew 7 ) the English name for eggs, and seeing none displayed, he made super-celestial lingual efforts to make the stcuekeeeper understand what lie wanted, but without avail. Finally, the Chinaman selected an onion somewhat resembling an eg;:' in appearance, and imitated the process of laying, winding up by flapping his arms and cackling after the most approved manner of a hen exulting in the successful accomplishment of egg-laying exertions. So faithfully did he adhere to every feature of egg-laying as practiced by feathered bipeds, that the storekeeper had no difficulty in comprehending his pantomime. The affair is slated by oar informant to have been almost indescribably grotesque, and it had the effect of temporarily destroying the equanimity of those who witnessed it. We presume (says an exchange) that girls make themselves ridiculous by tight lacing in order to convey to others the notion that they are peculiarly sylph-like and graceful. They wish to appear in the eyes of their male admirers as light, etherial, angelic creatures, who are scarcely subject to the vulgar necessities of hunger. Unfortunately the impression conveyed is exactly the reverse. The lover cannot look at his mistress's eyes for thinking of her waist, and wondering how she can smile under her tightly-clasping bars of cane. In spite of himself he becomes an anatomist. ITe mentally dissects her. He cannot help thinking of those plates in books of physiology showing the position of the ribs anierior and posterior to the practice of tight lacing While he ought to be looking at her face he is in imagination contemplating her lungs. When she sighs it is not of affection he thinks; he is considering the action of her diaphragm. Tt is impossible for the tendere.st and most idealistic of lovers to discern the poetry of a mechanical waist. The Thames Guardian, April 10, says :—Yesterday afternoon a ceremony took place in Shorthand which we took to be the first of the kind that has over been known in the country. Two well-known Maori chiefs were united in the bonds of wedlock, according to the Marriage Act, to their own wives, by Mr D A. Power, the Registrar of the district. The first eon pie were Meremana Konuhi and Raiha Kirikawa Te Nga, who have been united for some time past, according to Maori custom, but who now wish to follow the example of their pakeha friends. Raiha Whakarongatai and his spouse, Hemaima Karaka, who were present at the performance of the ceremony, were so impressed with it that they likewise decided to. be legally wedded, and Mr Power joined them as man and wife for life.