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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 68, 9 July 1873, Page 3

Among the-petitions to the House of Lords in favor of the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill was one from Mr. Spurgeon and his congregation which was entrusted to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The New Zealand Herald learns with satisfaction, that four gentleman, thoroughly and practicaUy acquainted with the manufacture of wollen cloths, are desirous of establishing a factory in Auckland. The Provincial Government is to be asked for a bonus for the purpose. The uVew Zealand Herald understands that, “ Mr. Macfarlane does not propose to give any platform address, but refers the electors to the enunciation of his opinions as expressed ia the public Press." The Hawke's Bay Herald says :—The Superintendent has received advices to the effect that the Agent-General has called for tenders fora ship to sail for Napier on the 13th June.

An American found himself brought face to face at Rome last month with an old schoolfellow whom he had not seen for years. “ You here ?” “ Yes, my dear fellow, I have just been married, and have come to pass the honeymoon in Italy.” “ And your wife?” '“My wife ? oh, I left her in New York.” Babe Idea.—An American newspaper correspondent, describing Miss Oinnie Beam in her studio, speaks of her as, —“ With arms bare to the shoulders, and her ankles likewise.” There is only one recommendation attaching to a toilet where the ankles are bare to the shoulders, and that is that it cannot involve heavy milliners’ and dressmakers’ bills. At the same time, and with what the present fashion calls “ full ” dress, we should be inclined to think that a Ream ought to have at least four hundred and eighty sheets, and might gracefully dispose of one between the shoulders and ankles in question.