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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 907, 8 January 1881, Page 5

“ It is not the price of the goods, but of the dressmaker, that tells,” says London Truth.

A well-cooked breakfast will do more towards preserving peace in the family, than will seven mottoes on the wall, even though they be framed in the most elaborate of gilt mouldings.

So alarming has been the increase of the opium-taking habit amongst American ladies, that £lO,OOO have been subscribed for the erection of an asylum in Connecticut for inebriate and opium-dazed women. Lady (engaging footman) : “ You are clever at table ?” Jeames : “ Yes, ma’am.” Lady : “And you know your way to announce ?” Jeames : “ Well, ma’am, I know my weight to a pound or so ; but I’d hardly like to say to an ounce.” A gentleman in Tauranga has informed the editor of the Ray of Plenty Times that Romily, the grandson of the Earl of Minto, has gone to Rotumah, one of the South Sea Islands, situated to the north of Fiji, to take possession on behalf of the British Crown. This story of a troop-ship is just now current in London: —ln the ladies’ cabin were four wash-basins, one of which was much larger than the others. There were three ladies in the cabin whose husbands were about equal in rank. The women always think they have a right to presume on the rank of their husbands when taking choice of berths, &c., and there was a great discusssion as to who was entitled to the big basin. It was referred to the paymaster of the ship, who could settle nothing, and eventually to the captain. He gave a decision worthy of Solomon. After first asking them if they would abide by his verdict and not give any more trouble in the matter, which they readily agreed to do, he said he thought it was only fair that the oldest lady should have the biggest basin. The Fiji Times in noticing- the arrival of Mr. Lodder, says : —Mr. Lodder, the Manager of the Auckland Steamship Company, arrived in Levuka per s.s. Albion. The object of his visit is to endeavor to arrange for a fortnightly steam service between Auckland and this port one vessel also running monthly to Tonga. The project is, we understand, favorably entertained both by Sir Arthur Gordon and His Excellency the Governor, as in consequence of their respective positions as High Commissioner and Assistant High Commissioner, it is desirable to maintain a more constant communication than a monthly service will permit of. The arrangements will depend upon the question of subsidy to be granted by Fiji, and the decision of the Company will be given as soon as Mr. Lodder is in a position to definitely report to them upon the subject.”

The word love in one of the Indian dialects is chemlendamoughkanagogager. Fancy a sweet forest maiden telling her copper-colored brave that she chemlendamoughkanagogagers

Mr. James Tyson, the well-known squatter, is the richest man in Australia. He is, in fact, said to be worth more than any other five men in the Colonies put together. Nothing less than ten millions would represent his wealth, which is being continually added to from an income of about £500,000 per annum.

“ A report of the sugar industry in Queensland ” has been published by Messrs. Gordon and Gotch, of London. In 1864 the sugar cultivation of Queensland covered less than a 100 acres. The last reports give 16,000 acres and an annual production of 270,000 cwt. The report is by Mr. Henry Long Roth, who was commissioned to make it by some English capitalists, and thus made a visit to the Colony.

The Lyttelton Times is responsible for the following:—Mr. Andrew Maginnity, in recognition of his services as Secretary of the Telegraph Department, has been appointed officer in charge at White’s Bay at a salary of £l5O per annum. The resignation of the late Secretary to the Telegraph Department was required, it appears, not because of laches of official duty or incompetence, but because he was seriously involved in a social escapade affecting the positions of the lady telegraphists employed in the Wellington office. It was a question of Mr. Maginnity’s resignation, or of the ladies resigning in a body. As an officer of the Department, Mr. Maginnity has always won golden opinions from the public and from his superiors, and many will regret that what we will not name by a harder term than a grave indiscretion should have interrupted a promising career in the public service of the Colony.