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Patea Mail, 21 October 1880, Page 4

A gentleman gave as a toast at dinner, - The ladies—Divide our sorrows, double our joys, and treble our expenses,'' when a lady gave, “The gentlemen—Divide our time, double our cares, and treble our troubles. ’’ As an indication of the depression existing in Scotch agriculture, it is pointed out that in the small county of Kincardine there are at present no fewer than 30 large farms to let exclusive of crofts." Absence of Mi mi.—A girl who was one of my lirsfc loves was one night lighting me out after having passed a delightful evening. In bashful trepidation she blew me out, and drew the candle behind the door and kissed it. At the Cattle Show.— Voting Farmer ; “ Are you fond of beasts, Miss (lusherlon?’’ Miss Giisherton : “ Oh, really, Mr Pawker, if you mean that as a declaration, yon must speak to mamma Ministerial Changes. —That fertile source of preposterous vunarth. the Lyttelton Times, has theoretically reconstructed the Ministry, taking the Defence portfolio from Major Atkinson and giving it to Mr Rolleston, consoling Major Atkinson with the Native office. As it happens, Major Atkinson docs not hold the Defence portfolio, nor docs MiHall, although the Titnarn Herald, which contradicts the Lyttelton Times, says lie does. Mr Bryce is both Native and Defence Minister, and is liklcy to continue so. The only Ministerial change in contemplation is that announced in Parliament—the transfer of the portfolio of Mines,'which will take place shortly. All the others are mere ligments of the imagination.— Post.