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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 13, 7 March 1890, Page 3

The Wellington correspondent of.ihe Feilding Star writesA .short* tinF back, a young lady who was collecting for some charitable obj- ct, told me that she had to '• make hay ” on the last day qf the. m-mtli, as in Wellington there are s» rainy Government clerks who get paid monthly, and if she did not get it on that day it. would be. useless, as she was told that the next day each was trying to borrow from bis neighWell, perhaps my lady friend had been misinformed as to the generality of Government officers, but it is, nevertheless, a fact that tnere are some young men in this city who are living 1 months and months beiiind their salary, which is no doubt due to this 'gambling' life. Qui’e recently a young fellow in a

good/steady-positioti here came te ni' j the day aft<r receiving his m- nth’s cheque, and evidently-wishing to un burden bis mind, told me that he was in a nice tlx, all- his month’s cheque 1 had gone, he had not paid his landlady for two months, and she bad turned him out phis next month's salary was already signed awav to a creditor, and he did nut know where th- next meal was to come Pom. Such .was the position of a young man earning over £l2 per rnontn. His is only one of many similar cases, and I have not the slightest doubt but, that the solution could be found in some of the gambling saloons which are bidding fair to blacken our sociaL life unless they are put down with an unflinching hand. One of the best Irishisms we (Wanganui JET. raid) have heard for a long time was given utterance to on Saturday. Tlx* conversation was. on the skulling championships, more particularly on that of the world,-.and. oar friend was standing up for O’Connor, of whom he b lieved “ he. could beat any man living barring the dead man ” He could not see the joke himself at first. Hokitika was the only town in New Zealand,, where St. .Valentine’s Day made any difference in the work oL'tlie Post Office officials. Nearly seventeen missives were posted there on that eventful occasion, and, as the beads of perspiration burst from the manly brow of the postmaster, owing to the unwonted exertion of sorting them, he ejaculated, “ Thank goodness < *ld Val. only,comes once a year.” Yet there are people who say civil servants are

ever pai'l. A lad of ; 14, the son■■of/ Mr Handing, of Picton,'’lfas 'just invented a wry notable contrivance, a brief account of which -will be interesting ,to boating men.' - It is well known that losing rowlocks is a very common misfortune in boating, and the lad the other day, ..after-losing one while boating in Pictou harbour, bethought him of a plan for preventing this, and designed a patent rowlock. One Or two have been-made, and a niod. t, wbicb has been handed to us, may be seen at this office for a day or two. It "Consists of a tongue that works on a pi vot in the slot of the shaft. Win n the rowlock is let into'the .hide in the gunwale the tongue falls into a corresponding slot in the boat and locks the rdcklock ’so fast that it pannotcome out-of’ltself. Tb|s is a vqry practical invention, and it has been patented in Wellington.—E\ press. A" tabular statement recently published of the importation of wool into Grat Britain ft the tn years 1880 90 shows that the supply from Australasia during that period has increased from 86:1,801 bales to 1,203,597 • that from New Z’aland from 189,400 to 278 252. New Zealand! which sent Home last year within 9000 bales of the whole supply from the Cape, stands third on the list of the'Australian'colonies as sin exporter of wool, New South Wales being first with 354,000 bales, and Victoria second with 385,000. The fourth is Queensland with 123,000.