Cleanings

Kaikoura Star, Volume XII, Issue 22, 18 March 1892, Page 4

Cleanings

The Wellington correspondent of a contemporary telegraphs : “ The working classes are beginning in some cases to feel the pinch caused by landowners withdrawing from their labour fund all the money requiring to meet the new taxation when it comes into force. Many large property owners in this island as in the South are abandoning intended improvements and reducing largely their employment of labor on account of the expected absorption of their available mafgin by the new taxation. As winter approaches this will be felt mure and more.” It would seem that the new magazine rifle is a terrible arm in rhe matter of long distance as Well as rapid firing. The East Kent Regiment (the Buffs) hive been carry ing out someexperiments viith the weapon. It is found, however, that the ordinary targets at Bexley do Ijot afford sufficient range-. A ricochet bullet has broken a cottage window over four miles distant from the firing point. It has been consequently deemed expedient to transfer the rifle practice to Dymchurch near Hytbe.

Adelina Patti, during her operatic career, has always been on good terms with her fellow singers, but there was one notable exception. A certain French tenor made so unfavorable an impression on her that for a long time upon engaging she actually used to insist upon the insertion in the contract a condition that either this particular tenor was not to be engaged in the same troupe with her, or if he had been previously engaged that she must never he obliged to sing With him. Afterwards this feeling entirely changed. The name of the tenor is Nicolini (ne Nicholas), and Patti married him five years ago in Wales, amidst great public rejoicing. “ Is there a word in English which contains all the vowels 9 Unquestionably.” It may be said “ W ” is absent, but there are two u’s, which is double u all the world over.

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