Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 9 January 1892, Page 2

Notes and Events.

Cneofthe most remarkable weddings since the time of Methusalah has just taken place at Atlantp, Georgia. The bridegroom was Hiran Lester, a youth of 124 summers — so, at least, the Yankee journalists assure us— while the blushing bride was Mary Moseley, a young thing of 81. Crowds flocked to the Opera House to see the ceremony, every one of whom was charged 25c. Hiram Lester had been an inmate of the workhouse where Mary Moseley was matron.

Upwards of B,loo,oooewt of herrings were taken off the Scotch coast in the ten months ending with 81st, and only 84,000cwt off the Irish coasts.

Somebody -whose name is still unfamiliar to science -ia reported to have discovered a pig in the Queensland bush which, compelled by the exigencies of its life, has taken to climbing trees in search of fruit and foliage.

Ladies will be interested in the information that ribbons are in great favour. They, are worn especially by young ladies. The last arrangement is to-— for an evening dress— pass the ribbon round the waist, cross it in front, take it round again under the arms, and tie it in a bow above the shoulder-blades at the point of the berthe or the frill of lace or chiffon, the long ends reaching ihe footof the shirt.

In the Pretoria;. High? Court, a short time ago,, a Kaffir sued his wife for divorce. The following extraordinary reasons were given in support of the suit : — " Wife talk too much with neighbours, too much paint face and eyebrows, too much fight, too muoh drink, jkop much more in sleep, too much boss/ too much kill husband, and too much no 'good."

Sir R. Webster, presiding at the opening meeting of the Society of Arts, alluded to the fact that her Majesty had appointed the president • and council of that body a royal commission for the Chicago Exhibition. He anticipated a warm vfe&Jo\ for British exhibitors at Chicago, ana

said he had reason to believe that our Indian empire, as well as the British colonies, would be fitly represented,