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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 201, 21 August 1873, Page 2

A new temperance society has been established at Cadrona, Otago. The first rule of the society allows its members to take two wineglassfuls of alcoholic liquors in a day, aud a fourth imposes a fine of 203 for every infraction of the first rule. The motto of the society is "Use, and not abuse." A year or two ago Mr F. J. Jones, of the Dunedin Club Hotel, was fortunate enough to draw a valuable prize in one of tbe home art unions. It consisted of a splendid painting, the last work of the great Scottish artist, Horatio M'Cullock ; and we notice from our Dunedin exchanges that Mr Jones has recently disposed of it to a Dunedin gentleman for the sum of £300. After this it cannot be said that art is unappreciated in Otago. An Auckland contemporary says: — The Maoris, as a rule, have a taste for music, having a preference for the Jew's harp, but we believe that they are now becoming more elevated in their taste, and go in for the piano. On Friday evening last a lady belonging to the Maori race attended the practice of the Philharmonic Society, and after listening to the performance was pleused to express to her squire her perfect satisfaction with the exertions of the members of the society. Inappropriate Chairmen. — The Earl of Oxford having been applied to by the Secretary of the Norwich Bible Society to take the chair at one of their public meetings, replied as follows _ — " Sir — I am surprised and annoyed at the contents of your letter. Surprised, because my wellknown character should have exempted me from such an application; annoyed because it obliges me to have this communication with you. I have long been addicted to the gaming table. I have lately taken' to the turf. I fear I frequently blaspheme. I have never distributed religious tracts. All this was well known to you and your society ; notwithstanding which you think me a proper person for your President. May God forgive your hypocrisy. I would rather live in the land of sinners than with such saints. — Oxford, May, 1857.— JV. Z. Wesleyan. An amusing case of breach of privilege cropped up in the Legislative Council recently when the Hon Mr Chamberlain claimed the protection of the Council under the following circumstances:— There is now a bill before the Assembly termed the Auckland Improvement Bill, promoted by an Auckland Committee who have sent their Secretary down here to try and get the bill through. This gentleman met Mr Chamberlain, and asked him if he intended to vote for the bill, adding, "If you don't r (naming a member of the Auckland press at present in Wellington, and who is supposed to wield a trenchant pen) will give you a leader in the Star all to yourself." Under the influence of this alarming threat, Mr Chamberlain solemnly appealed to his fellow legislators, and they, we believe, appointed a committee to investigate the matter. — Post. The most perfect copies of fern may be made by thoroughly saturating them in common porter, and then laying them flat between white sheets of paper (without more pressure than the leaves of an ordinary book bear to eaoh other), and let them dry out.

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A potato-digging machine has been tried with success at the Taieri. A writer in the Californian delivers a Sunday Bchool address, of 'which the following is an example: — You boys ought to be kind to your little sisters. I once knew a bad boy who struck his little sister a blow over the eye. Although she didn't fade and die in the early summer time, when the June roses were -blowing, with the sweet words of forgiveness on her pallid lips, she rose up and hit him over the head with a rolling-pin, so that he couldn't go to Sunday school for more than a montb, on account of not being able to put his beßt bat on. One Sunday in two churches near the boundary liDes of Renfrew and Ayr, a coincidence occurred which may be worthy of note. In one of tho two the officiating clergyman, in a sermon on " God made the winter," said: — "People give £15 for a single dinner, and a guinea a year for foreign missions. Tbey have wine on their tables at 70s a dozen, and half-a-guinea against their names in the list of contributo an hospital. They have twenty people dining at their table at Christmas, and no poor children better taught or better fed by tbeir charity. They have their healths drunk in champagne and sparkling hock, and no blessings invoked on their heads by the orphan or the widow." In the other church tbe minister, preaching on the subject of Christian liberality, said the Bible impressed the tenth part of a man's income to the Lord. People spent sixpence a week on tobacco and a great deal of money on 'drams/ but they came to church and put a penny on the plate. And what did a penny amount to in a year ? Four shillings and fourpence. And often they did not give that sum because of their occasional absence. — Of. B. Mail. A brilliant idea, says the Manchester Examiner, has been conceived by a Western belle, who has taken a Chicago journalist — and with him all the world— into her confidence. Trite as is the observation tbat marriage is a lottery, Miss K. has resolved to turn it to practical account. She means to allow herself to be raffled for, and by way of inducement, she supplies a pretty copious description of her attractions. She is twenty-one, and a brunette, handsome, talented, and attractive, conscious of many, many admirers, but unable to appreciate any of them. In tbis painful position, Miss K. has hit upon this grand device of a lottery. Less with she view, we imagine, of assessing her exact material value than with the humane intention of multiplying the number of competitors for her hand, she proposes 100,000 chances at a dollar a piece," but at the same time she "hedges "a little. Sbe may not happen to like the winner of the successful number, and in that case she modestly bargains to be released on paying tbe disappointed gentleman 500 dollars by way of smart-money. She does not say that she will pocket the remaining trifle of 99,500 dollars, less expenses, but she probably means to do it. Of course she will not say yes at the first drawing. The game will be too exciting, and even too profitable for it to be stopped suddenly. In every respect it is superior to an action for breach of promise of marriage; and it is not unlikely, aB the New York Times puts it, to achieve a " pyramidal success." The method of initiating a candidate into a lodge of Good Templars is but a slight improvement upon the same programme so long in vogue by the ancient and honorable fraternity of the " Sons of Malta." A " chap " who was taken from a lager beer saloon, where he got " tight" without knowing tbat lager would intoxicate, was put through a cold water treatment by the Good Templars a few evenings since. He " peaches "on the Templars, and gives the following expose of their initiation ceremony, for whicb, no doubt, he will be put through another course of cold water " spouts " at the next meeting of the lodge : — ln the first place the victim for initiation is blindfolded, bound hand and foot, and thrown into a cider press and pressed for five minutes. This is done for the purpose of clearing his system of ,( old drunks." He is then taken out of the cider press, and, by means of a force pump, gorged with cistern water, after which a sealing plaster is placed over his mouth, and he is rolled in a barrel four or five times across the room, the choir at the same time singing tbe cold water song. He is now taken out of the barrel and bung up by his heels till the water runs through bis ears. He is then cut down, and a beautiful young lady hands him a glass of cistern water. He is then made to read the Waterworks Act ten times, drinking a glasß of water between each reading, after which the old oaken bucket is .hung round his neck, and fifteen sisters, with squirtguns, deluge him witb cistern water. He is then forced to eat a peck of snow, while the brothers stick hiß ears full of icicleß. He is then run through a clotheswringer, after whicb he is handed a glass of cistern water by a young lady. He is again gorged with cistern water, and his boots filled with the same, and laid in a refrigerator. The initiation is now almost concluded. After remaining in the refrigerator for the space of half-an-hour he is again taken out and given a glass of cistern water, run through a clotheswringer, and becomes a Good Templar. — American Paper,