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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 179, 27 December 1876, Page 2

At a table-turning entertainment given recently at Leigh, Lancashire, after the manifestations had duly set in, a Mr Evans, a surgeon, obtained permission to apply a somewhat novel test lie covered the tops of the tables and the lingers of the sitters with a coating of soft soup, after which every attempt to persuade the table to spin proved ineffectual. This result is said to have spread dismay in the ranks of the spiritualists who were present. A Nelson paper of a recent date notes that the durability of New Zealand timber for ship-building purposes has often been pointed out, ami as a further proof of its being able to withstand the salt water, we may mention that we inspected a piece of New Zealand cedar which had been lying under water for a considerable number of years and which, when cut through, was found to bo as solid as the day when it was put in the vessel’s bottom. The wood is a piece of the ketch Diana, which was burnt in West Wanganui. At Middlesex session lately, the Judge asked an Irish policeman named O’Connell, “ When did you lust see your sister?” The policeman replied, “ The last lime I saw her, my lord, was about eight mouths ago, when she called at my-house ■.and. I was out. Here tire.Court broke in to’a roar of laughter. The Judge rallied to the charge by asking, “Then you did not see heron that occasion ?" Breatblesss pause till the Irishman answered “No, my lord, I wasn’t there,” at which everybody roared again. It would be impossible to get an Irish joke more' racy than of tire soil than this of tho P, C. O’Connell.