Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 1 November 1892, Page 3

Notes and Events.

An old poet wrote " Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle ? He was all for love and a little for the b ittle," An almost similar ease is reported from Hawera where, the other week, the relatives of a man Baventy-one years of age took proceedings under the Lunacy Act to prevent the local registrar of marriages from issuing a certificate for his union with a girl fifteen years of age, whose parents were quite agreeable to the union. An English detective and his wife while spending their holiday in France, went to the Paris Zoo, and both had their pockets picked, the thieves getting clear off with £56. The * Teo ' has thus discovered that " a man of pleasure is a man of pains." Recently the Locomotive Department of the Government Railways received a communication from Mr C. K. Lord, Vice-President of the Baltimore a,nd Ohio Bailway Com- 1 pany, U.S.A., says the Post stating that the company had secured a large wall space in the coming Chicago Exhibition, and they were anxious to obtain photos and drawings of the latest-designed locomotives from all parts of the globe, for exhibition in their Bailway Gallery Department at once fell in with the views of Mr Lord, and commissioned Messrs Wrigglesworth and Bin ns to photograph one of the nswly-constnicted locomotive engines in the possession of the Bailway Commissioners. Prom this npgative Messrs Wrigglesworth and Binns have executed a bromide enlargement, the size of which is 45 x SO inches. This, they assert, is the biggest enlargement ever attempted in New Zealand. The picture apj>»nrs to be without fanlt or flaw, "* and reflects the highest amount of credit upon its produoers. The ff nine, which was made at the Petone Railway Workshops, is of puriri, whilst the inside slip is of native honeysuckle. The picture is at present on view at Mr McGregor Wright's establishment, Lambton Quay.