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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 109, 18 April 1884, Page 2

France ought to engage a brigade of servant girls and send them to the East. There’s nothing like them when one wants to smash China. Among the Irishmen now under watch are Cornelius Cullimore, Eugene Davis, and Casey. A box containing clockwork has been captured in the post-office at Geneven. On the Manawatu Railway Line Henderson and Co. have completed the section cylinders for Railway Bridge across the Porouia Harbor. The bridge consists of four pairs of large iron cylinders, six feet in diameter, each pair having a span of eighty feet. The The cylinders are sunk sixty-eight feet and filled with concrete. The weight of each cylinder when filled is estimated at about 125 tons. A young man took his affianced to hear Nillson warble her sweetedt songs. He asked the young lady how she liked the singer’s repertoire. “ Very much indeed ; I think it fits her beautifully,” was the surprising reply. •• May,” asked a little girl of a companion, “ what do you suppose is the difference between a beau and a beau ideal ?” “ Well, I don’t know," was the frank response, “ unless they leave off the ideal after they get married.” “ Ah! Mr. Pannier, have you been to any parties this season ?’’ asked Gwendolen de Smith of his friend. “ No, bun I’ve attended three balls.” “ Why, how delightful, weally. Where were they at ?” “At the pawnbroker’s” sadly sighed Mr. Palmer.