MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2693, 5 November 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

When a clerk gets to thinking that he runs the business of his employers, and is for ever talking about what “ I did ” and “ I am going to do,” he should remember that instead of running, he may be ru(i)ning the business, all owing to to that everlasting I.

Solotnan was the first man who wanted to part the heir in the middle. No woman should borrow the husband of another, because it is not good for man to be a loan.

What’s the matter with little Johnny this morning? “Sure mam, the bye’s sick ; he tumbled off wan of thim wheels without a carriage to it.” The longest speech (says the Christchurch “ Telegraph,”) as as the Parliament of New Zealand is concerned, is that of Mr W. L. Bees, who spoke for twenty-four hours. Mr Beauchamp—of Messrs Beauchamp and Bell, of Christchurch, the well-known auctioneers —spoke for ten and a-half hours continuously in the Provincial Council of Marlborough. The boilers of the Cerberus, the ironclad belonging to the Victorian Government have all been condemned. The chief engineer, Mr Huysman, reported to Captain Mandeville a few days since that it was positively dangerous to get steam up, and asked for an inspection. Mr Wilson, the Government inspecting engineer was sent for, and reported that the boilers were not safe, and consequently condemned the whole five boilers. The cost of the new boilers is estimated at between £BOOO and £9OOO, but it is likely that four will be recommended, instead of five as at present. Some slight idea of the extent to which the boilers that have been worn may be formed from the fact that originally the plates were three-quarters of an inch thick, and they are now reduced to oneeighth of an inch.