VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2422, 21 December 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

7 Fatty Degeneration,—Buttcrinc. •Effigial.—“ Order your statue before you die,” is the neyvest.stylc of American advertising. 'The Irish. Disturbance “Bill” — Wißiam of Orange. “ I am sawdust when I sing.” as the board remarked to tlie buzz saw, T Soldiers must be fearfully dishonest,” said Mrs Partington. “It seems to be ah occurrence every night fora sentry to he relieved of bis watch.]’ Wlrat are the constituents of quartz ?’’, : Student —Pints,” A blaud smile creeps over the class. , - Alluding to .Mr Maginnity’s resignation, the‘Lyttelton Times ’says that it was required,, not because of .-laches of official duty or incompetence, but because be was seriously involved in a social escapade, affecting flic of the lady telegraphists employed in the Wellington office. It was a question of Mr Maginnity’s resignation or of the ladies resigning in a body. Mr Maginnity has Since been appointed officer-iu-charge at White Bay at a yearly salary of £l5O. By’.the premature explosion of a blast oh the Wingatui section pf. railway yesterday, a European, name not yet, known, and a Chinaman lies in an unconscious state in the hpspital . A new dray road is now being opened out to the Waimate Plains, along th'e line taken*by theold horse* track from Stratford, .and. a .block of fine land fronting this road will be next placed in Ihe'markct. Nearly £90,000 lias already been received, for the Waimate Plains land. , .. .

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