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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 120, 20 May 1880, Page 2

The death of Captain H. L. Robinson' R.N,, is announced in the English papers as the result of a railway accident. Captain Robinson, we understand, was a brother of His Excellency the Governor. Mrs JE\ A. Weld, wife of the late Governor of Tasmania, has been presented by her lady friends in Tasmania with a very handsome and costly diamond suite previous to her departure for the Straits Settlement. I Where do we find the earliest mention of free admission to the theatre? When Joseph was let into the pit by his brethren for nothing. ! A Hiufc.— " How nicely this corn pops " \ said a young man who was sitting with his j sweetheart before the fire. " Yes," she responded, demurely, "It's got over being green." Curious Difference.-— The difference between a barber and sculptor is very slight, j The one curls up and dyesj the other makes faces and busts. The following singular challenge appears in the Saturday Advertiser:— l Samuel James Muncbausen Jones, of the North Shore, Auckland, having persued Captain J. Barry's book, and having heard it asserted that the said Captain Barry has a larger de yeloped organ of ideality than any other man in New Zealand, hereby challenge the said Captain Barry to meet me on any public platform in the Colony, in order to test which of us has the best title to be considered Champion Spinner of Yarns in New Zealand. lam prepared to stake the sum of £100 sterling, on my own behalf, against a like sum on the Captain's behalf, that I shall beat him in flights of fancy and pyrotechnics of imagination. An early response i 3 requested. My card can be inspected at the office of the Saturday Advertiser, Princes street, Dunedin. A national association for the promotion of marriage has been established at Cincinnati. The aim of the society is declared to be "in all honorable wajs to promote the marriage of citizens, and to secure such end this society will, so far as is in its power, assist and give material aid to young couples in beginning married life, such as helping them to secure incomes, and the husbands in getting employment, or in any other manner within the province of the association." A picnic was recently held, the chief feature of which was the marriage of three couples, alleged to have been promoted and brought about by the efforts of the society's officers. Six thousand persons paid 25 cents for admission to witness the marriage ceremony, which was conducted on a high platform, so that all could see. The bridegrooms were an engraver, a painter, and a pedlar, and the brides were all three remarkable for personal attractions.