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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 145, 22 June 1868, Page 2

The Dunedin correspondent of the Grey Eiver Argus states that the Provincial ■Council in that city have set in to work in serious earnest during the past week. The estimates have formed the principal business, though sundry other matters have cropped up. Amongst those, the establishment of a College in Dunedin has been affirmatively settled, the details, of course, being left for future consideration. The salmon ova experiment progresses well ; at the latest date some thousands of fish were hatched at the Waivera ponds. ' Amelia, for thee — yes, at thy command I'd tear this eternal firmament into a thousand fragments — Pd gather the stars one by one as they tumbled from the regions of etheral space and put them into my trousers pockets ; I'd pluck the sun — that oriental god of day that traverses the blue arch of heaven in such majestic splendor — I'd tear him from the sky and quench his bright effulgence in the fountain of my eternal love for thee 1' Amelia: 'Don't Henry, it would be so very dark.' ' Drunkenness and extravagance in dress are the most common social vices,' said the Rev. Dr. Teaser. •' I beg your pardon, uncle, but I think there is a social vice far more common than either of 'em, and one to which you are yourself much addicted,' responded his nephew Tom. ' Name it,' said the uncle, aghast. ' Advice,' said the audacious Tom. 'Yours is a very hard case,' as the monkey said to the oyster. ' I think I have seen you before, sir. Are you not Owen Smith ?' ' Oh, yes, I'm owin' Smith, and owin' Jones, and owin' Brown, and owin' everybody.' ' You are very pressing,' as the filbert said -to the nutcrackers. Aunt Betsy says that her milkman is the meanest man ia the world, 'he skims i his milk on the top, and then turns it over and skims the bottom.'