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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1034, 9 February 1882, Page 4

The Egyptain emblem of a snake with its tail in its mouth was the earliest sign of the “ swallow tail.” A lawyer asked a woman in the ■witness-box her age, and she promptly replied, “I sold milk for you to drink when a baby, and I haven’t got my pay yet.”

The Cape Government are advertising in the London papers, offering land in the finest agricultural and grazing districts of the Cape at 10s. per acre, the payment to be made in 10 years, at Is the acre per year ; with a free passage for the settler and family. According to a cable message in the Melbourne Argus, The Times of Jan. 6th has an article upon the state of the finances of New South Wales. The constant scrambling for a surplus is looked upon as a most dangerous proceeding, and it is considered strange that the treasurer should be unmindful of the importance of applying any surplus which may exist to the reduction of the Colonial dept. The carrying out of reproductive public works for the benefit of the country is suggested as the most legitimate mode of employing surplus capital, and any proposal for farther loans is strongly objected to.