ONCE MORE ABOUT COMMODORE VANDERBILT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1174, 13 October 1882, Page 3

ONCE MORE ABOUT COMMODORE VANDERBILT.

Arbitrary as the Czar, he wont to govern, in his private affairs, with a rod of iron. The husband of one of the daughters of the Commodore being unfortunate in business, many years ago, she went to her father for assistance, which was refused in a manner more forcible than elegant. She abruptly withdrew to fight for independence. The next morning the New York of those days was highly Surprised to read the following advertisement specially displayed : — Mrs desires to state she has an’excellent table and accommodation for families or •ingle gentlemen. Refers to her father, C. Vanderbilt. That advertisement appeared einc’ly one time, for the Commodore realised the situation, advanced liberally and promptly, and there was no more distension in that branch of the family for ever afterwards.

The Laukeate and the Good I’empLABS.— In reference to the resolution from rhe Templars of Englund, remonstrating against Mr Tennyson's j ecent ode, in which *' drink” is used as an expression of loyalty. Mr Mnlins, the Chief Templar, has received the following letter from the port’s son :—“ Sir,— Mt father begs to thank the (’ommittee of the Executive ofthe Grand Lodge of England Good Templars for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father I must, however, ask yon to remenihrr that t' e * comomn cup ' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol I inuc'i regret that ii should have been otherwise understood.—Faithfully yours, Hallam Tennyson. ” A Manchester paper says a trout weighing two pounds nine ounces, was caught by the rod in one of the tributaries of the Tweed. When cut up there was found in its stomach no fewer than eleven of its own species, measuring from four inches to seven inches in length, and an ordinary-sized minnow as well—twelve fish inside of one.

The division in the House of Lords rn ti e Bill introduced into that < 'hainber for legal ising marriage with a deceased wife’s sister was 132 to 128. The Prince of Waks. the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince L*op<>ld. t’ e Dnke of Cambridge, and the members of t e Government in the Upper Chamber, with the exception of Lord Sei borne, voted with t e minority. The majority numbered 17 prelates. From a return s ewing the number of hold ings of f rehold land in the colony, Otago has a greater extent of freehold bind than any other provincial district. It has no less than 2.4'.0. 209 acres. Canterbury ranks next, with 2,247 502 ; then Auckland with 1,561,579 ; and Wellington with 1.302,172 acres. The tot a' freehold acreage of the <-olony, sceoitiing t<> the census of 1881. was 26.817466 acres, bei- g an increase of over a million acres sin- e 1878.