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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 26, 16 January 1878, Page 3

A woman applied for a situation as cabdriver ;• being asked if she could manage mules, she scornfully replied^" Of course I caiv— l've had two husbands." A recent marriage notice ends ■w.ith. the. singular expression, probably added by a waggish, friend — " May their future troubles be-Kttfe ones." An. Irish glazier was putting a pane of glass into, a window, when; a groom, began joking him, saying, "Mind you put m plenty of pul.ty." Paddy bore his torment for sonit} time*, when he put a stop. to. him., by- saying, " Arrah, sir, be off' wid you, or i'Ui be after puttiu a pain m youy head, with- ' out any pultj."

The " Ma'rlborough Express" says: The conduct of the larrikins who were guilty of the New Year's Eve lawless performances is deserving of the highest reprobation. Anything more senseless or wantonly mischievous it m impossible to conceive. What pleasure a youth of ordinary intelligence can take m the destruction of property on au occasion like the one referred to is difficult to explain. Because forsooth'it happens to be the last night of the old year, these halfwitted brainless sparks take it into their heads that they can damage property and generally act like madmen let loose with impunity. AYe can make allowances for the festive season of the year, but hold that the practice oss. setting order and seemliness at. defiance is warranted by no excuse, and justified by no precedent. A great number of the townspeople have suffered to a considerable extent through the senseless proclivities of these temporarily demented persons who apparently could find nothing better to do than taking off and hiding shutters of shops, capsizing conveyances, carrying away gates, and other similar idiotic performances. A great number of the actual participators are personally known, and the sufferers by their ridiculous freaks have not yet decided what steps to take. Really it is time an example were made by way of a deterrent m the future. People will look over a great deal about this time of the year, so long as the element of wanton injury to property is not apparent. Guy Fawkes' Day, with its senseless celebrities, has died out, and we hope that before long the absurd practice of celebrating New Year's Eve by equally ridiculous, and mucn^aore reprehensible " amusement " will be considered as a relic of a past and less enlightened age. Some of the gay gentry who took part m the last Monday night's performances would be m a nice position were they to find themselves called to the Resident Magistrate's Court to account for their conduct, and if such does not result they may consider themselves very fortunate indeed.