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Patea Mail, 23 December 1880, Page 3

iul 1. IIUWU O CII J1 Chimney-sweeping must be a good business ; it soots everybody who tries it, A member of a club objected to the publication of the list of the meetingnights of the club. 11 because,” said lie, “ if it’s published, wo married men will have to account for the off-nights.” The motion to publish was lost. It takes a while to get used to a woman’s ways. When a young husband steals up behind his wife while she stands at her dressing-case, and suddenly bends forward and imprints an unexpected kiss on her lips, he gains a knowledge that a woman holds about 197 pins in her mouth when she is dressing. The Government of South Australia, having regard for the strong opposition which Australian produce meets with in the English market from the ports of America, have determined to reduce the railway rates on the carriage of wheat and other cereals. The present charges are immoderately high, being in excess of the rates of all other colonies of the Australasian group. The rates which the Government have now decided upon imposingare us follow : —For the first 50 miles, 2-i-d per ton ; 50 to 75 miles, 2d per ton ; and beyond 75 miles, H per ton per mile.