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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 916, 9 February 1881, Page 3

It is very sad to learn late in life that the hitherto unsuspected primrose is “ a corollifloral dicotyledonous exogen, with a monopetalous carolla and a central placena.” Professor Huxley is responsible for unearthing this scandalous fact. “ It is said,” warbles an Australian journal, “ but whisper is not abroad, that a bather of the female persuasion was disporting herself very recently in the sad sea, at a certain popular watering-place seven miles from the metropolis, having two railways, an Institute, and a jetty, the name of which watering-place must never be divulged or indicated, and she (the bather) got out of her depth. In accordance with a time-honored custom of the fair sex, she immediately took the necessary steps not to save herself, but to faint. She was rescued, and laid out upon the beach insensible. All the known expedients for restoring drowning persons—and a good many not known —were resorted to, but the lady remained obdurately lifeless till some one said, “ bring a nobler of brandy.” Immediately the lifeless lady opened her eyes, and faintly whispered, “get a shilling's ..oru.' ' '