MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2584, 2 July 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

In Spain the heir to a title has to pay when succeeding to it as he would to any other property. Thus, at the death of the late Duke of Medina, Coeli, his successor, paid no less a sum than £15,000; and in the same way the present Duke of Ossuna paid some £12,000.

A physician of Bath was lately complaining in a coffee-house in the city that he had three fine daughters, to whom he should give ten thousand pounds each, and yet he could find nobody to marry them. “ With your love , doctor,” said an Irish gentleman, who was present, stepping up, and making a very respectful bow, “ I’ll marry all three of them!” Some gentlemen were standing recently at a street corner, when a little girl approached and rattled off her lines in quest of a copper. “ Are you an orphan?” asked one of them. ” We are only interested in orphans.’ “No sir,” replied the little parrot, thrown on her own resources to amplify her part; “we are too poor to be orphans.” The maladroilness of this explanation was too mnch. She got a penny from each member of the party.

The Annual general meeting of the Timaru Benevolent Society takes place at the Town Hall on Thursday, July 7, at 4 p.m. There was no foundation for the statement telegraphed by the correspondent of the “Press” that Sir George Grey had been turned out of the Speaker’s room. It was simply a canard. A correspondent of the “ Press ” writes: *• It is pretty certain that the present stagnation will continue until the Treasurer has brought down his financial statement and local government finance proposals. There will be more lively debates then, but I entertain not the slightest . doubt that Ministers will be able to show a good working majority in favor of their local government proposals should anything like a trial of strength arise on that question.” i Messrs Matson, and Co., Auctioneers, Christchurch, announce in our advertising columns an important sale of sugars, at Messrs Dalgetys’ warehouse Cathedral Square, on July 5.