CABLE NEWS

Patea Mail, 13 January 1882, Page 3

CABLE NEWS

Renter's Despatches to Patea Daily Mail This Bay. Gambetta’s Threat. Paris, 11th,—In the Chamber of Deputies, M. Gambetta said a scrutin de liste bill, similar to the one thrown out last year by the Senate, will be introduced, and unless passed by both Chambers, M. Gambetta will resign as head of the Cabinet. Queensland Immigration. Brisbane, 12th.—It has transpired that the Queensland Government has decided to apply to Parliament for an increased vote for immigration purposes. Rivals in Turkey. Constantinople, 11th,—It has transpired that the Sultan has deputed a German officer to undertake reorganisation of Turkish Gendarmerie, and this step leads to belief that it is His Majesty’s intention to shortly dismiss all the English in the service of the Porte, except Baker Pasha, and appoint Germans in their place. Shipping. Sydney, This Day.—Arrived last evening, the Union Company’s Wakatipu from Sydney. Politics in N.S.W. Sydney. —Sir John Robertson, who was recently appointed Minister of Lands, has been returned unopposed for Mudgee, where he was yesterdey received with great enthusiasm. Russian War Ships. Sydney.—Russian war ships Africe, Plastoun, and Oestnce sail hence tomorrow for Hobart and Melbourne.

No fewer than five United States showmen have endeavored to purchase the funeral car of President Garfield, one of them offering as much as 50,000 dols. for it. No room was ever made large enough to hold a fat man and a mosquito. Some people are so very anxious lest irien should be spoiled by the possession of too much money that they strive to get it all themselves. This kind of philanthrophy is not uncommon. . A great crowd being gathered about a poor cobler, who had just died in the street, a man asked Alexander Stevens “ What was to be seen?” “Oh ,!” replied he, “ only a cobbler’s end.” Dean Swift, hearing of a carpenter’s falling through the scaffold of a house which he was engaged in repairing, remarked that he liked to see a mechanic go through his work promptly. An Irish dragoon, on hearing that his widowed mother had been married since he quitted Ireland, exclaimed, .“Murthcr! I hope she won’t have a son older than me ; if she does, I will lose the estate !” A rude, ignorant fellow called on the late Mr. Howe," the painter, who was so well known for his spirited representations of the lower animals, and inquired whether he was “ the man that drew the pictures o’ brute beasts.” “ I am,” replied Howe, “ shall I take your likeness ?” A musician wants to know how to strike a bee flat, and at the time avoid being stung by its demisemiquaver. “ Mike, did you ever catch frogs ?” “ Yes Sorr.” “ What did you bait with ?” “ Bate ’em with a stick, Sorr.” I am satisfied with my lot,” said a real estate owner, who held a piece of city ground worth 5000 dol a foot. The most afflicted part of a house is the window. It is full of panes ; and who has not seen more than one window blind ?