THE SILLY SEASON SILLIER THAN EVER.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5515, 29 November 1878, Page 3

THE SILLY SEASON SILLIER THAN EVER.

(With Mr. Punch's compliments to the " Para • r/raphists.") Explorations in the Moon, recently made, have, it is reported in scientific circles, proved beyond a doubt that the extinct volcanoes found there must have been composed at one time entirely of green cheese, and not of frosted sugar, as hitherto believed. It will be interesting to our readers to learn that the next transit of Venus across the moon and the sun via Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter, will take place on the 23rd of February, 1984. Those who wish to see it at its best should take apartments in Herne Bay. If the weather is fine the phenomenon will be distinctly visible through a good telescope. We deeply regret to have to announce the death of Her Majesty Queen Anne, who expired on the Ist of August, 1714, greatly lamented by those to whom she was personally unknown. The well-authenticated report that a lady supporter of women’s rights has been tom to pieces by wild horses in Cheapside is contradicted on the most reliable authority. Mr. Brown, the popular and well-known author of “Jones —a Eomance,” is engaged upon a new work entitled, “ Kobinson—a Mystery.” Now that the session is over, most of our officials are on the wing. Mr. Henry de Snooks, of the Treasury, is at Kamsgate, and Mr. Tenterfour, of the War Office, will shortly leave Ball Mall for Boulogne. Wo give the following important item of intelligence, which has been going the rounds of most of our contemporaries, with all reserve ; —“There is uo news. Nothing is moving but stagnation.”