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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1004, 26 November 1881, Page 2

An exchange says : —A barrel organ mounted on a wheelbarrow and driven by a woman is the latest novelty in street music in Auckland.

It is the duty of the chairman of public meetings to rule “ That motion is out of order,” when he sees a ruffian raising his arm to throw a rotten egg. A Conundrum.—The difference between the preacher, the builder, aud the architect of a church is simply this :—One is the rector, the other is the erector, and the third is the director.

The Timaru Herald's Home correspondent states that a gentleman in England who keeps a hunting and racing stud, says that he, and many owners of the most noted stables are now convinced that there are no oats to compare for feed with those from New Zealand. An exchange says: In cases where publicans have been warned under the new Licensing Act against supplying persons with drink, ite| has been suggested the offenders should kfl marched round the various hotels for the spection of landlords and their servants. This would seem to be the only method of really carrying out intention of the Act iu the matter. The Wanganui Herald is informed by a local gardener and nurseryman that flower and vegetable seeds, simply dipped in kerosene will not be touched by either larks (the most destructive of all the feathered tribes), linnets, sparrows, and as a proof of this he shows a fine bed of turnips which has almost entirely escaped. The same remedy, however, will not do for tree seeds (pinus insig us and so forth) as they remain so long in the ground that kerosene of course wears off, and the birds only take these seeds when they begin to sprout above ground. For the private garden, however, kerosene will be found valuable.