BRIEF-MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3, 4 January 1900, Page 3

BRIEF -MENTION.

■» — A amißKiHo) ehower. Will set tb« gr*H a-growing and make the pastures green. Feed is likely to be very scarce this inmmer. A low temperature throughout the eo'ony. Heavy sea running off Cape , Campbell ifaie morning. The following ib the flrßt N.Z oontingent'a war cry bb approved of by Major Bobin, "Akt tke kia kaha huataoa anahiana,' 1 whiob, when translated, reads, " Fight on, fight bard, and wa will defeat the foe." Colonial troops proved the qnality of their metal m the engagement at Snonyside on Monday. Bravo, Canada 1 Bravo, Queenslandi 1 The railway employees m the Nehon and Marlborongh distriots bave deoided to oontribute a day's pay eaoh to the Patriotic Fond. Neztl Ladies with oolleoting boxes oolleoted £100 m the Btreeta of Auokland. A correspondent wb« accompanied the first contingent, writes :— " Most of the men who Game on board cleanshaven are letting their moustaohes grow, and, as all hands bave their hair cropped very olose, they are beginning to look a more uniform lot than wbsn they same on board. " Lieutenant Ganavan still grows a beard, •ad there is one trooper who follows bis •sampltl bat nearly all the others are making themieivea uniform." Speaking at the Danedin patriotic meeting the Bat. Father O'Neill said:— " He wished to remind bia bearers of a tribute of nspeot to tbe love and devotion of those Who remained to nurse the siok m Ladysmith, Mafekiog and Kimberley. lhe Oatholionuoß were there m possession of bomeß and teaching institutions, and were offered the alternative of leaving, bat they bravely and unanimously deoided that they would remain to nurse the 6iok." Stager, according to Bhakeßpeare. Bead lhe following quotations :— Hie Tyranny,— la this point charge him home, that he effebtß tyrannical power.— Goriolanus, Hi., 3, 1. Hlb Bravado.— l neither care for tbe world, nor your general.— Goriolanus, v., 2, 94. He Receiveß Deapatohes. — I am solicited, BOt by a few, and those of true condition, that yoar subjeotfl are m great grievance.— Henry VIII., i., 2, 17. Sinoe that the trade and profit of the oity sonsisteth of all nations.— Marohant of Venice, Hi, 3, 30. If you deny it, let the danger light apon yoar chaster and your city's freedom.— Merchant of Venice, iv., 1, 37. What follows if we disallow of this ? The pronft r control of fierce and bloody war, to enable these rights so foroibly withheld.— King John, 1,1, 16. For, as than orgeat Juettoe, be aesored •halt have justice, more than tboa deiireat. —Merchant of Venice, iv., 1, 808. His Position.— l onoe more offered the first conditions, whioh they did refuse, and cannot now accept ... a very little I bave yielded to ; freßh embassies and suits, nor from the State, nor private friends, hereafter will I lend ear to,— Ooriolanas, v., 8, 17. He Protests.— They do me wrong, and I will not endure it ; who are they that complain that I, for soot b, am stern and love them not ?— Biohard 111., i., 8, 41, There is no noed of any saoh redress, or if there were, it not belongs to you.— Henry IV., iv., 1, 97. A party of Boers, after the ceremony of proclaiming that the Upper Tagela disiraot was Transvaal territory, took some of tbe residents who were British sabjeots to Harrißtaaitb as prisoners of war. The differences bstween greedy folk and others is not ao muoh m what they want as m the esgerneßß with whioh they try to get it, A new rapid-fire is said to make no flash when fired with smokeless powder. The position of saoh a gun, uonoealed m grass or T? ibubbery, would be completely undisooverable by an enemy. Colonel Ville da Boise Mareuil, a Frenoh officer, has accepted tbe post of chief of staff to General Jonbert m snooesßion to Colonel Sohiel, the German offioer who was wounded md taken prisoner at Elands Laagte. j A remarkable temperance sermon wbb ibat delivered by a priest m Ireland, whioh oonoladed with this convincing statement to bisflook:— " What makea ye Bhoot at yer landlords? The drink 1 Aye, and what makea ye miss them ? The drink !" The Gape Times states that Dundee, which was evacuated by the British for military wagons, has been re-named Meyersdorp, presumably after the Boer General IjUGBb Meyer, who commanded at the battle of Glencoe. When tbe Boera mobilised their foroes, it is said that they only called out tha first levy, of men between 19 and 84, some 25,000 m ail. The Beoond levy would conlist of those between 85 and 60. Tbe third levy would sweep m everybody oapable of bearing firearms. Small Boy: ''Please, mother wanta to know if yon will give her an almanac" Grocer : " Bat yoar mother does not deal here." Small Boy j " I know ; bat we borrow yoar hand-cart." Grocer (as he falla fainting) : "Take one." The camp at Eil worth, County Cork. where 15,000 troops were dri lad this year, is now occupied by one soldier, all the troopa trained there having gone to Sooth Africa. No fewer than 11 Irish regiments •re either m Booth Afrioa or on their way there, In an American town lately, when the newly adopted curfew rang for the first time there was a general aoampering home of yoang folks. Tbe only one oat after the prohibited hoar was b little girl who, when accosted by the local oop, handed him the -following : -" Sir, My girl Jenny ain't brakisg no law Bhe is after pairogonrio for little, james pleee parse besides, it you don't my I man will liok tbe staffing oat of you tewmorrow." ______________