SECOND EDITION LATEST.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2832, 22 April 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION LATEST.

NEW ZEALAND.

(Pbb Press Assooz^ios.) Alarming BurglariesChristchurch, April 22. Five shops were burglariously broken into last night, and the following good setc., were stolen. Montaynes fancy bazaar, over £IOO worth of iewellery; Wilkin’s boot depot, boots valued at £3; Lake’s booksellers shop, goods and cash to the value of £5 5 Oakeys tobacconist, pipes and cash, value £3 ; Banks china shop, cash £l.

A Cavalry troop is likely to be formed in Dunedin. About 50 gentlemen have already offered to join. Thomas Gurney was fined 10s, on being brought up at the K. M. Court this morning. for drunkenness, E. Wakefield, Esq., being on the Bench. A well-looking, respectably - dressed fema'e arrived at the railway station while the express was making its luncheon stoppage to-day, in an advanced state or intoxication, which prevented her maintaining a perpendicvlar position, and lea to her reclining in the mud in dangerous proximity to the cab wheels. An enquirer who loves astronomy wants to know whether sun-spots can be seen through the bottoms of tumblers. If so, he has many opportunities of looking at them. . , A volume of water cannot be called dry reading. , , , Dogs go the happy land of canine ; catstopurr-dition. . ~ Latest discovery—A nightgown is nothing but a nap-sack. A pleasant trip.—Falling into ayonng lady’s lap. New and popular preserve.—A tramcar jam. , , , Use of the birch.—A writer on schooldiscipline says, “ Without a liberal use of the rod, it is impossible to make boys A postmaster asking the cause of a disagreeable smell, the facetious offaceboy replied, “ Perhaps it comes from the dead letters.”