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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2432, 4 January 1881, Page 3

“ All there.” —Clerk (who has called to see the gas meter); “ Is yours a wet or dry meter, madam?” Young Wife (who does not like to show ignorance): “Well, its rather damp, I’m afraid.” — ‘ Punch.’ An old salt, when asked how fa” north he had ever been, replied that he had been so far north that “ the cows, when milked beside a red hot stove, gave ice-cream.” The railway of Vesuvius is lighted by fourteen of Siemens and Halske’s electric lamps. The illumination of the crater and the sides of the volcano is said to be grand in the extreme. Fifty-seven tons of Greek marble have been delivered in London, free of all charges by the Greek Government, for the pedestal of the Byron monument. The smallest paper in the world is the “Madoc Star,” published in Canada the size of it is 3in. by 2Hu. and it is published weekly. The annual subscription is 2s. The first page contains foreign news, the second mining, and the third and fourth local news. Exhibitions are costly luxuries. A recent number of the “ Australasian ” estimates the yearly burden imposed on Victoria for ever, as the cost of the Melbourne Exhibition, at £20,000. For continuation of Nam > see fourth page.