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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 62, 2 December 1863, Page 5

A Poser.—Burke told Garrick at Hampton that all bitter thiug? were hot. " Indeed,' replied Garrick, " then what think you of a bitter cold cay?" Young ladies who faint on being u proposed to, can be restored to consciousness cy whispering in their ears that you were only joking. Sara Slick says, " I see the sunny side of life always, unless weather is too hot, and then Igo to the shade/' " Jury," said a western judge, "you kin go out and find a verdict. If you can't find one of your own, git the one the last jury used." They returned a verdict of suicide in the ninth degree. u Have you much fish in your bag ?" asked a person of a fisherman. " Yes, there's a good eel in it," was the rather slippery reply.

POLICE COURT, QUEENSTOWN. (Before Richmond Beetham, Esq., R.M.) Tuesday, Ist December. Henry Edwin Perley, charged with being drunk and using obscene language at Queenstown, on the day previous, was fined 20s. Thomas Cameron, charged with vagrancy and having no visible means of support, was sentenced to one month's hard labor. Messrs. Melody and Osborne, charged with furious riding in the public streets, were fined in the nominal sum of 205., it being the first case of the kind brought before this Court, his Worship remarking he had the power of imposing one of £2O.