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The Waitangi Tribune mentions that last week Mr Laurence Calder lost three splendid draught horses, which he could not roplace for £225. The animals had got at some wheat Y? ch J v . as P^ «P in bags outside a hut 011 the Wmtala Plalus, and gorged themselves In Commenting on recent outrages by larrikins m Melbourne, the deader Bays •_«' It is inexplicably as well as humiliating, that our city should hare been for years in a lawless condition when the peace-loving and lawabiding members of the community are to the roughs as hundreds to one. Yet so it is. If the law and its officers cannot protect the citizens from insult land menace, private effort could soon do it. One of our football clubs could clear the streets of Melbourne in a week. It thinks the remedy rests with the magistrates." "If. proved cases are sufficiently punished," it says, " there would be an end of it. At present the police are cowed through the pusillanimity of the magistrates. What is the übc of their risking their lives, and actually Sustaining great personal injury, in doing battle with organised bands of ruffians, professional thieves and buliies, if the latter are let off with some trifling penalty when caught? Consequently, when a mob of men and lads keep possession of the footpath for hourg, jostling unoffending passengers, and Using the most horrible language* the solitary constable prudently passes by on the other side, and leaves them to their own devices." A lady waited the other morning with exemplary patience in a Melbourne labor institution for the engagement for a parlor maid. There was in an adjoining room a crowd of the voluntary unattached. They had more than once declined an interview with the patient waiter at the other side of the wall. At length, with some Avarnith, the keeper of j the establishment said to the conclave, " Eeally, now, I wish some of you would see the lady— a most comfortable place and excelleut wages !" And then, after consultation, came this in chorus, " Well, you see, we have made inquiries amongst ourselves, and no young lady in cur room knows about her. So we can't think of ffoiue in."— " JEgles." * B A writer in a home paper telh the following story :— « ln a park in Gloucestershire last year a tomtit built its neat in a pump which supplied a cattle trough. Thi3 nest also f eated on the top rim of the cylinded; but it had a further peculiarity, viz., that the piston-rod passed right up through the middle of the nest, the eggs being laid a little on one side. It may seem incredible, but it ia a fact, that the bird sat on her eggs while the piston-rod was going up and down in the act of pumping; and she did not stir in spite of the noise, and the rod grazing her feathers. In this case she was saved the difficulty of taking our her brood, as just before the eggs would haTe hatched, the nest was destroyed by some vagabond boy." The liberality of some of our wealthy landed proprietors (says " JEgles," in the Australasian) is widely known, but the following notable instance of generosity should not be allowed to be lost to the world. A squatter, residing near Heartburn, and reputed to be worth bjx figures, some little time back paid a visit to the old country. On one occasion he employed a railway porter to convey Mb Juggage some short distance, and he rauuiflcently rewarded him for his services with two pence. Now, the official, turning over his two coppers, discovered a half sovereign between them. Hurrying after our lord of the soil, he breathlesßly enquired whether there wa« not some mistake, or wa3 the gold coin intentionally given ? "I was so astounded " (to use M'Hurdle'a own words) "at the honesty, of the man, that I immediately gave him another twopence !" " What a strain that is !" said Mrs Partington, as she heard an air from Lucia sung ! in the highest style by a young lady where ! she was visiting. « Yes," was the response ; "it is operatic." " Upper attic, is it ?" questioned she. " I should think it was high enough to be on the top of the house." A lad, narrating a fight in which he had 1 been engaged, said, "I'll tell you how it was. You Bee, Bill and me went down to the wharf to fish; and I felt in my pocket and found my knife, and it was gone; and I said Bill, you stole my knife; and he said I was another; acd I said, go there yourself; and he said it was no such thing; and I said ho was a liar, arid could whip him if 1 ,was bigger'n him; and he said he'd rock me to sleep, mother; and I said he was a bigger one; and he said I never had the measles; and I said for him to fork over that knife, or I'd fix him for a tombstone at Cypress Hills; and he said my grandmother was no gentleman; and I said be dersn't take it up; but he did, you bet; you never— well, you never did; then I got up again, and said he was too much afraid to do it again; and he tried to, but he didn't; and I grabbed him and threwed him down on the top of me like several bricks ; and I tell you it beat all— and so did he; and my little dog got behind Bill and bit him; and Bill kicked the dog, and the dog ran,' and I ran after the dog to fetch him back, and I didn't rateh him till I got clear homeand I'll whip him more yet. Is my eve verv black?" 3 * y

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