NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1186, 18 December 1913, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Magistrate : What is the charge against this old man ? Officer: Stealing some brimstone, your Honour ; he was caught in the act. Magistrate (to prisouer) : My aged frisud, couldn’t you have waited a few years longer ?”

Hamilton butchers have inaugurated a strict cash system. All orders for meat have to be given a day previous to that for which they are required, and the meat has to be paid for on delivery, or otherwise it is taken back to the shop. No exceptions are made in this connection. It is a case of “No money, no meat.’’ Customers who purchase at the shops are allowed a discount of 5 per cent.

“In all my experience of public life, I have found only one way of dealing with an unsigned letter,” said the chairman of the Gonvibe Town Board last week, and suiting the action to the word, he destroyed the letter without reading it. He characterised it as a mean and despicable thing to write to a public body without signing the letter, and there was only one way to deal with such letters.

A grave error was nearly committed in connection with a wedding that was solemnised not 100 miles from Gisborne (says an exchange). The officiating clergyman arrived at the church about the same time as the bride, who was escorted down the aisle and took her place beside, not her intended husband, but the best man. The minister appeared and commenced the solemn service. Grasping the situation, the bridegroom quickly took up his rightful position, and there was an audible titter amongst the audience during the pause which was occasioned in making assurance doubly sure that the right man occupied the honoured position this time, and a fresh start was made with the ceremony.