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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 99, 28 April 1877, Page 2

A certain passenger who left Lyttelton by the Taranaki (says the Eveninq Pott) received a farewell demonstration of a nature more conspicuous than gratifying. It appears that the person in question, having won bets to the amount of £200, took the money, but on losing a like sum refused to pay a farthing. Accordingly, on the departure of the Taranaki from the wharf, she was attended for some distance by a steam launch which displayed a large banner bearing the inscription in immense letters, " Farewell! the defaulter." Referring to the Hon. Mr Orraond's visit to Canterbury, the Lyttelton Times says: The travels of Ministers are like the peregrinations of itinerant tinkers. Their principal objeet wherever they go, is to patch up some defect iu the numerous and Urn to taut specimens of hasty and ill-considered legisla- ' tion, constituting the now system of government which is now in full force in this experimental but unfortunate country. Skilful tinkers who know their business, and do it, invariably regulate the quality of their repairs in such a manner as to ensure them a repetition of their "job" at their next pe-iodical -visit. As their revenues must be perennial, they take good care that the necessity for repairs shall be unceasing. In like manner the Ministry seemed to have arranged their work. A short summary of the Parisian fashions of the day may be useful to those of my fair readers who honor these columns by perusing them. It may save them the trouble of wading through the astounding verbiage of those magazines which devote "themselves to the clothing of the female form divine. But it will pretty well describe in a very fewlines what Madame Troisctoiles of Pannicrs reet elaborates into many pages. Have your dress made so tight and closo-fitting that you cannot walk; your trains so long that no oue else can move without walking on them; your collars so high that you cannot turn your heads, and happily therefore have less chance of turning niiue ; your pockets placed so low in the dress that you cannot put your hands into thorn; boots in which you will certainly stumble when you walk; and mysterious knots and bows so cunningly devised as to render a standing, rather than a siting, posture, the more preferable.—-" World."

It is said that Midwinter, of Victoria, will go to England with Lilly white's team as a professional cricketer. As a young shaver of five or six years was reading at a school o^e day,'hescame upon the passage : "Keep thy' tongue f roin evil, and thy lips from guile." Master Hopeful drawled out : " Keep— -thy— tongue— from evil— and— thy— lips— from— girls."