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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1539, 6 January 1874, Page 71

Fashionable young Men m New York can hire a gold watch and chain for one dollar a clay. An ol d Lady described a man of genius as " a man what knows morc'n he can Jind out, " The Five -"asters of York " ' ' ' in one ol: .he ... her eluij i /.-..." were certain I y eclipsed by Lhe live ilau.uiei of Mr Pascoe Grenfell - all charming, all accomplished, and all married to men more or less distinguished ; their five husbands being the late Lord Wolverton, the Rev Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne, the Rev Canon Charles Kingsley, Mr Warre, and Mr J.A. Fronde, the historian.— lllustrated Review. European Languages.—A recentoalculation relative to the principal European languages shows, that English is spoken by 90,000,000 of persons, inhabiting Great Britain and Ireland, North America, the Bermudas, Jamaica, Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Van Dicmau's Laud, Newfoundland, and the East Indies; German by about 55,000,000, in their own country. Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Russia, North and South America, La Plata, Australia, and the East Indies ; Spanish by 55,000,000, in Spain, Cuba, Mexico, the Republics of South America, Manilla, etc.; and French by 45,000,000, in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Cayenne, and ISorth America. An Australian Brogue—A contributor to the Australasian Sketchcr writes as follows: •Will the Australian branch of the Englishspeaking race ever develop a dialect of its own, or arc our descendants all over the island continent to be the only people in the world who will speak the mother tongue without [a brogue, idiom or provincialism of any kind 1 Unlikely things, of course, take place, but the growth of an Australian brogue in these days of free and compulsory education seems impossible. On our hospitable shores we welcome the Cockney colonist without his h, the Somersetshire ploughboy with his abounding z, and the Yorkshire with his burr and his broad a ; and with these we mix rollicking Paddy from Cork, sanctified Sawney frae Glaisco, and our h?rdswearing nasal-voiced Cousin Jonathan, in proportions that the peculiarities of none prevail, and in the second or third generation at furthest all will totally disappear. Tasmania, certainly, has a chance of raising a brogue of her own, and will very likely succeed if she contiuues her present policy of frightening away visitors by putting a heavy import tax on their luggage. Through being severely let alone by the educated world for five or six. generations the Yankees managed to create the ugliest dialect of the English langauee that the human tongue or nose is capable of uttering. It would be the interest of experimental philosphy (however much against their own) that the Tasmaniaus should continue to isolate themselves for, say, another 100 years, so that it might be seen what direction their corruption of the language would take. Of one thing we may be certain—tbey will npt beat-the Yankees in ugliness, "" '' '