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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 164, 16 June 1883, Page 2

Advices have been received from Sydney by the Wakatipu that the Union Company's well-known old steamer Albion has found a purohaser m Mr EUis, who is about to place her m the Newcactle coal trade. Thia seems rather a "comedown m the world " for what was onpe the crack steamer on these coasts and m the intercolonial trade ; but things soon ijrow old fashioned nowadays, and the Albion has long; been superseded by an improved atyle of vessels. . Domestic servants are becoming musical. A few days ago a lady m one of the suburbs . was engaging a servant, and had already agreed upon wages, &c, when the appli* cant said she must go twice . a week to take her music lessons. Tbi3 is fact, but - we (Dunfermline Free Press) can supplement it with one still stranger. • A servant recently applied for a situation, one of 1 whose stipulations was that she should be allowed to bring her harmonium with her. A good deal of matrimonial tribulation was brought to light m the last census re» turns of Great Britain. Several husbands returned their wives aa the head of thefamilies, and one describes himself as idiot for having married his literal batter half. 'Married, and I'm heartily sorry for it,' was returned m two cases ; and m a quite nurp~ ber of instancoa ' temper ' whs entered | under the head of iatiroutiea opposite the [aami of.wift* _„_,