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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 912, 26 January 1881, Page 6

A single firm (Goldsbrdugh and Co.) in Melbourne last year received and discharged no less than 78,512 bales of wool. A society of Mormon girls, having for its object the securing of monogamic hnsbands, has been discovered and broken up at Salt Lake. The making of starch from wheat is being successfully carried on in Christchurch. The article produced is as good and cheap as the best imported starch. Mr. Burnand said a neat thing of Sara Bernhardt; in consequence of her eccentricities he has christened her “ Sal Volatile,” and says she is so thin because she lives principally upon French role. It is proposed to provide New York with underground railway communication. A company has been formed. The line will be about 40 miles long. It is intended to light both trains and tunnels by electricity. A Kentucky girl says, when she, dies she desires to have tobacco planted over her grave, that the weed, nourished by her body, may be chewed by her bereaved lovers. There is poetry in the idea. In Japan a man may procure a divorce from his wife on the ground that she talks too much, and the amount of domestic bliss that there is in that country surpasses the wildest flight of imagination. What old Wellingtonian does not remember Mr. J. M. Perrier, the “ Intelligent Vagrant ?” He has just been married again at Sydney to a Miss Thornton, a professional actress, who has been out from England about two months.

The Bay of Plenty Times has the following amongst its locals : —A well-known gentleman in town, a native of the Emerald Isle, was conversing the other day with a young lady who, he fancied, came from the same part of the world. In the course of his remarks he asked her if she was not a Kerry girl. “No, but my father is,” was the characteristic reply of this young scion of Irish nationality.

We observe, says the Bay of Plenty Times several fine specimens of Bathurst burr are to be seen in various parts of the township. The people seem to be getting tired of waging war against this ugly weed, and the consequence is that it is allowed to grow undisturbed. If the burr once gains a footing in the open country it will be a dreadful pest, and will cost owners of sheep no end of trouble. Settlers should exterminate it whenever they see it.