ENTRE NOUS

Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 8, 25 August 1900, Page 10

ENTRE NOUS

The Government engineers say those Manawatu tunnels are safe, but it's not very agreeable reading for Wellington and Manawatu travellers to learn that two of the tunnels " are cracked in various places through the one-sided pressure of the steeply sloping hills." True, they add that " it seems evident the movement has now ceased," but the existing cracks ought certainly to be seen to at once.

An incipient fire was discovered on Saturday night in the new Bank of New Zealand building, amongst a heap of quick-lime and sacks. The intelligent constable who was called took in the situation at a glance, and having hurriedly got a couple of buckets of water, threw the contents on the fire — water on quicklime ! Then he wondered that it didn't extinguish.

, A well-known South sky pilot, before boarding his boat at the Albert Docks, London, for New Zealand, sent the following cable to his wife, " Coming Home." The message was sub-edited into " Come Home." Thereupon the excellent wife shut up house, sacked the slavey, borrowed £100 and departed. Moral — Put not your trust in the Cabeliar.

At a recent dance in Carterton, a country 'maiden suggested to the Wellington Johnnie who had just been her partner for the waltz that she would enjoy a turn in the open air. " Very well," said the young fellow, reluctantly, "but we mustn't be long, because I have just had my hair cut, and I don't want to catoh cold."