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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 86, 13 April 1877, Page 4

An amusing' story In "connection with the Lynch Family of Bellringera, and Messrs Verten and Margetts — who, by-the bye, are nearly all bachelors — recently appeared in the Lantern, a comic journal printed in Adelaide. At the time the company were drawing very large houses at the Town Hall, and several ladies (young ones we presume), wrote under assumed names, advising them to exchange the single state for married blessedness. As the epistles were very laughable affairs one of the company, at the evening concert read them (amidst roars of laughter) to the audience. It so happened that the writers with some friends were present, and, as may be guessed, were thunderstruck at hearing their productions read. Standing it, however s as long as human patience could, and fearing perhaps, by some, mishap, their names might be appended, they,' with some confusion, hurried to. the door ; but not before the audience, noticing how matters ' stood, and guessing rightly they were the authors of the letters in question, had: given them such a round of applirise and cheers that considerably heightened their confusion j^nd, quickened their departure. So much was the incident enjoyed, by those present thaJL. several, minutes. ,elapse 4 before order was restored. ''-' : The London Crystal' Palace is to have a cjock, the dial of .which will be forty feet, in diameter, and the hands nineteen feet long! Sir Arthur Guinness, the Dublin, brewer, ,who. lately sold his shire of the business carried on in his name for one million of money, is said to hare been offered a peerage, which he has declined. Having a turn for epigram, he conveyed his refusal to the Prime Minister in the following lines: — "Your kind intention I must damp, The Game of Bank's not worth my candle, Ifc is, sir, but the guinea's stamp; My honest pewter needs no handle."