ODDS AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, 15 March 1889, Page 2

ODDS AND ENDS.

i Lord Harris "will probably be the I next Governor of Bombay. Lord Beay's time is up this year, and he would not accept a rewenal of his term of office even if it were offered. I Lord Harris is a respectable official, "but by no means a very brilliant man. He is better known as a cricketer} than a politician This, however, is no recommendation to the natives of India, it is doubted if he will be able to continue the sympathetic administration of Lord Reay . The Best Woman's Pun : — But in punning as in other departments of ingenuity women can well hold their own, and none of our author's stories are better tl^an the following : — " A plump Adonis of forty, who was looking at a house, asked the servant an extremely pretty girl, whether she was to let with the es- , tabUshment. ' No, sir,' waa the i answer, 'please, sir, I'm to be let alone.* Here is a pun which hits ' with both its barrels. Each of its ■ two meanings speaks a volume ; the ' one informs the querist that his ad--1 miration must not be expresed too '. warmly ; the other that an eligible ' offer is not likely to be ill received. • Was ever greater weight of meaning - co.mpi'essed into two words f"