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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1270, 8 February 1883, Page 2

We see from a notice in a Southern paper that Mr Thomas Bracken,.M.H.R., was married to Miss Copley, daughter of Mr C. H. Copley, barrister-at-law, formerly of Clifton. Bristol, England.

Th* ’• Timaru Herald " has the following ttnusing eemment on a r*c*nt telegram from Auckland " The eight-hour* movement wu celebrated at Auckland on Monday by a mn hitting a boy on the head with a ham>:i<sr. The demonstration, It appears, was uut entirely confined to that remarkable performance, but that is the only incident tn it which the Press Association deemed worth in detail. The boy’s name, we ar* informed, is Holt, but we are left in total darkness as to the name of the man or the weight of the hammer. The demonstration was accompanied hy 1 a procession of . trrdeamen and labourers and sports ? The / boy named Holt, we fear must have very confused notion* on that subject. If that is what they call an eight-hour* movement, we wonder what they call a strike. We should have liked fuller particulars or else none at al” The native* are beginning to take advantage (says the Bay of Plenty Times) of the high prices of kauri gum, and are at the present time looking out for localities upon which to set to work. Tauranga and the back district* of Katikati can boast of rich deposit* of gum, which when prepared I* worth ahont £M per ton. If She prospect* should continue many of the tribes, so soon as fay have secured their crops, purpose starting in good earnest A ease was heard at Belfast a few weeks ago (says the Sydney Echo), in which a man named George Drennan was charged by Sub. coastable Baird with having assaulted his J wife and a man named O'Neill. The woman ' was in the Hospital, and O'Neill did not appear. The extraordinary feature in the ease wa* that the prisoner had actually sold hi* wife to O’Neill for one penny and a dinner. There eras a document drawn up between the prisoner on the one part and O'Neill on the other, treating, among other matters, that for the considerations mentioned he bad agreed to serign and transfer to one Patrick O’Neill all hie right, title, and estate in his -r lawfully-wedded wife—to wit, the woman now in the Hospital The document wa* a* follow* s—" I, George Drennan, do hereby agree to sell to Patrick O’Neill my wife for the eum of one penny and.a dinner. ” It did not appear that the agreement had been folly carried out, as an assault had been committed, as alleged, on the recently sold wife of the prisoner. A •• Mason's Wife," half in fun, half in earnest, writes a* follows to Part Grand Master Simons, of the New York " DisI patch”:—** I see at the head of your Masonic column, after your name, the initials P.G.M. If this moans Past Grand Master, I sincerely pity your wife, if you have one. Pray, sir, when you were Grand Master did you ever go to bed! Were you ever at home ? When the year had jj**er J . I hoped I would be relessM and relieved, but my husband explained that it was customary In his lodge, if a Master hae faithfully served for a year, to compliment him with a re-election. Bo he wa* re-elected; then he became a High Priest, an Eminent Commander, an Illustrious Somebody of the Council And so year after year this kept on ; and the funeral* he had to attend to ; I thought the Masons were dying dreadfolly fast, and it takes so long to bury them. I have known my husband to some homo late at night, returning from a brother’s funeral, and with all the widows that had to be seen and looked after, he had no time to r look after hie own wife and family. Now, ' my hueband is Paet Matter, Past High Priest, part everything, part all hope. But the measure at my trouble was not full until now. He ha* gone and joined the Veteran*. Thia is the worst of them all. In lodge. Chapter, and Commandery I did sometimes have some fun. They had balls, parties, excursions, and other social gatherings, but *No Ladies a Need Apply.* The old tellows keep all the good thing* to themselves. I have now become resigned to my lot a* a A Masox’s Wire.'