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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 263, 21 March 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)

Witty Aberdeen has a shopkeeper who recently took it into his head to have a holiday, shut shop, and wrote on the shatters —" All flesh is grass, and grass is hay; We're here to-morrow, but we're gone to day—-fishing." One of our country exchanges says, " Never were the effects of matrimony more terribly depicted than the other day when a meek-eyed man who had been married about a yea? patrolled the village streets all day trying to swop a meerschaum pipe ior a second-hand cradle." A good Methodist parson, somewhat eccentric, and an excellent singer, exclaimed to a portion of the congregation who always spoilt the melody, " Brothers and sisters, I wish those of you who can't sing would wait until yoi 1 get to the celestial regions before yon trjr." The hiat was a success. Amongst other blatant prophets of evil times coming on the colony, of whom the chief was Mr, Stafford- Colonel Whitmore. the quondam e'ommandbr-in-c'hief of our colonial forces, has been one of the most noisy in his denunciations of the headlong speed at which the colony was being driven to destruction by the present Administration, and has for long been announcing his determination to shake the dust off his feet and leave the colony to its fate. Following, however, in the footsteps of his illustrious chief, I am glad to see that he has thought better of it, and has " given hostages to fate" by purchasing the Morven Hills station from Mr. John iVL'Lean, as announced in the ' Guardian', and at a very tidy figure too. How such a high and mighty member of the upper ten could condescend to leave the bucolic shades of Hawke's Bay, and mix with such a set of " unmitigated cads" as the people of Otago, to use a favorite expression of the gallant Colonel, I am at a loss to imagine, but, doubtless, he has his own good reasons for the step.—' Wei-