Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 1 September 1894, Page 3

Notes and Events.

♦ A London correspondent writes — The Duke of York went down to Cambridge to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from that famous University. Just as the dignified procession had filed on to the dais, and Dr Sandys, most eloquent | and accomplished of Public Orators, was about to begin his solemn outpouring of Ciceronian Latin, a still small voice came down from the gallery, where sat the " gods " — the ' undergraduates, — and that still small voice put one query to the Duke of York which convulsed the whole assemblage with inextinguishable merriment, and made the Duke blush. The question was — " How's the baby ?" It was electrifying. However, at last Dr Sandys, who at fi>st looked daggers, but soon had to join in the infection and all pervading laughter, composed his countenance and began his oration. They manage these matters better in Norway than in New Zealand. In Norway a law has been passed which makes girls ineligible for matrimony until they are proficient in knitting, baking, and spinning. Certificates of proficiency have to be earned, and without these no girl may marry. Poor dears ! how many who lightly assume to look after their husband's homes in this colony can do anything but look pretty ? At a seaside place the finding of a severed limb is not so surprising, a

hand was picked up only the other day in Wellington, but on a railway line such finds acquire a much greater interest. It is said by a London paper that the platelayers on the English railways have frequent curious finds, one being a hand, not anatomatically cut off, but no explanation as to how it got there ever became known.