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Kaikoura Star, Volume VII, Issue 85, 21 October 1887, Page 3

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"PROTEIUS")

Tiie old x dag thatS Happy is the bride the sun shines otig must have occurred .to all who witnessed the bright and gay ceremony of which “ Nellie Mcßsie ” (as most people have been accustomed to call “ Luckv Parsons’’’ wife) was the central figure on Wednesday. I sincerely trust, as I know everybody in Kaikoura does, also, that the happy, bride of two days since .has a hippy’ future before her, as I believe she has. “Lucky Parsons” can now say, ”• She is mine own; . And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks puj® gold. | I am informed that before the ewr of next week the fourth marriage of the month will have been solemnised* here, “ the flower of the flock ” completing the quartette. Ah 1 would you ? Excuse the interrogatory —interjection, but it was caused through Mrs Proteus giving ine a smart on the left ear (Mrs P. is left-handed) and telling tne to mind my own business. I could see that Mrs P. ha<t been reading what I have just written,; and it had roused the green-eyeit’ monster, as if anybody would now look upon her old grey-headed lore) and master—l mean dutiful and obedient slave : hum—with anything respect for his hoary locks. However, I calmed the perturbed spirit by callAing the seraphic creature “ my sweSf gazelle,” and that soon brought tranquility. All is now serene. .

The way the young men from borf north, south and west—they cannct conveniently come from the cast—arecarrying away the prizes from konra is doubtless a compliment to the Scarborough of New Zealand, but it’s getting a serious matter to the district In fact it’s impoverishing coi£a munity, and I think we’ll have to request Mr Lance to ask the Government to bring in a Bill entitled “ The Kai-:, koura Settlers’ Daughters Protection Act’’ providing that in future no mas shall come into this stqftl the young lady consents, a penalty than shall be determined byn a competent court of -disappointed lovers. Ycu needn’t mention it, but there’s more than one heart breaking and bursting with grief over “ Lucky Parsons’ ■” capture. He’d better tpt do it again. • Me-

lt surpasses my ken how people ctn spend a whole day in'Court listening to the cases which crop up from time to time. And yet there are those who frequent the local Temple of Justife, when Mr Whitefbord 'comes up, deifVing pleasure, it would appear, fromiSie proceedings, particularly when thete’s a spicy action between two settlers.-,I thought, in mine innocence, that rhe lawyers were the only people vho obtained pleasure and profit out of-fhe Court matters—(they -could baveiot, very little of either buVof this-wows proceedings)—but this does not appear to be the case, for I learn that one man, who was earning seven shillings a4ay, left bis work on Monday, sacrificing a day’s pay, in order that he might near a wretched cross action between two residents. The ‘ horny handed sdn of toil ’ was miserably sold. Tbq ease didn’t come off, in public, after all. Moral : Don’t trouble yourself teh neighbour’s differences, except, -to smooth them over, and then be careful how you act. L, The Napier ‘own correspond’d*’ of the Auckland Star got into a fog over matters after the wrUßbof the Northumberland in May last.'.Wrle telegraphed, “It has been decided by the Jubilee Celebration Committee to recommend that the Jubilee memorial should take the form of a marker’s relief fund, primarily for the support of the men who lost their lives (Hl the wreck of the A orthumberland.'' The italics are mine. Poor Jack had gone aloft, and didn’t require the support of the Jubilee Celebration Committee. The sub-editor of the Auckland Star could not have been as watchful as usual on the 17th of May, onjwhich day the above quo,ted item appeared. ■ ■ ; T.' ■ ?‘l‘

There is some excuse for aww-’ man making a slip in the hurry of going to press, but there is less tor a learned speaker committing a bull when adopting metaphors, dud yet this is frequently done. Sir Henry Aclnn.t, the amiable Oxford Ductor,

made an eloquent speech recently, on occasion of .the laying the foundasfon stone of a' hospital ,at Cowley, ending thus : —“ Let us hope that the enustard seed which we have planted this'Sdil to-day may grow and flourish. aud expand until it becomes a cedar tree."