‘Truth’ Clippings.

Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 749, 22 June 1894, Page 4

‘Truth ’ Clippings.

Kaiapoi School Committee spent £25 out of incidentals for piano—got to refund it.

A Sydney cordial manufacturer recently went bankrupt, and gave as a reason that he had given £5O to the Salvation Army. It is said that there is nothing in the laws of New Zealand which forbids cremation of the dead.

North Canterbury Board of Education has made no sign yet in the direction of reducing its own travelling expenses—£666 last year’s exs. A minister resident at the Bluff says his parish lies further South than that of any other minister in the world, as it extends from the Bluff to the South Pole. The rev. gentleman has not yet visited the whole of his parish.

The tnen doing best at Cheviot are those with capital at command, and those who are willing to give a good day’s work at fair wages to those who can afford to pay them. These two sections are likely to make a home out of the wilderness—at least the same thing was tried by the Canterbury Pilgrims and worked like a charm. Considerable trouble is being experienced by sheepfarmers in some parts of the Waikato district owing to the great mortality in weaned lambs. An Auckland writer says:—‘At present it is difficult to say who owns the country—the squatter or the swagger. The parties themselves are a bit uncertain about it.’

‘ Talking about the tricks of old stock horses in the way of opening gates,’ said a Queenslander the other day, whilst telling snake yarns, ‘I had a pony once who. upon being locked out of the stable on one occasion, was caught with a piece of fencing wire in his mouth picking the lock.’ Unemployed man to unemployed female of his acquaintance— ‘ And how do you get on for work ?’ Unemployed female—‘Just as you do, only .1 dont spend so much time looking round, and have left off going to the theatre for a bit.’ Unemployed man—- ‘ Whenever I have no work I must have some other excitement.’ Woman —* Yes, and a double quantity of tobacco.’ (Left considering). A dog has a remarkable sense of smell. But after he has employed it once or twice on a burning cracker, he seldom takes the pride in it he did previously.