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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1415, 30 August 1872, Page 2

A great many lambs have died in theTbkomairir© district during the latesnow storm, and stock ofall kinds which were exposed to it in the paddocks suffered severely. A long vexed problem has at last, been satisfactorily settled by the wiseacres of Wanganui. The Chronicle of the 17th inst. informs us that the question " whether are the menial capacities of the two sexes equal?" was decided last evening by the memlwrs of the Debating Class in the affirmative. Extensive fortifications are being constructed for the defence of SanFrancisco. Macready was extiemely particular,, and on one occasion, rehearsing the banquet scene in " Macbeth," the First Murderer persisted in keeping in the centre of the stage, and hiding Macbeth from the audience. The tragedian impatiently called for a carpenter, a brassheaded nail, and a hammer. The carpenter came. "Do yon see that plank there 1 Drive the nail into that spot." It was done. " Now you, sir (to the First Murderer), look you at that nail. Come down to that spot, not an inch further, and wait till I come." Mr Utility did as he was desired, and Macready's mind was easy.- Night came, and with it the banquet scene The First Murderer enters, walks down the *lage, stops suddenly, then turns round and rounds apparently looking for something he had dropped. The audience began to titter. Macready stalked to the man's side. '"ln heaven's name, what are you about ?' " Sure," exclaimed the Murderer, "aiu * I looking for that blessed nail ot yours ! "