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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2945, 2 September 1882, Page 3

-The foundation stone of tbenew Baptist Church, will belaid by His Honor Judge Ward, on Tuesday next, at 2 p.m. The annual horse parade, in connection with the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association, will be held on Saturday, October?.:

At the inquest on the body o! Mr Irvine’s child, at Washdyke, this morning, Dr Hammond gave evidence that the deceased had been accidentally overlaid, and a verdict was returned in accordance with this testimony. . .Mr Mackay, the American “silver king,’’ intends, it is said, to build an hotel in London after the manner of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. There are to be 1600 suites of rooms, and the cost of the undertaking will be about two millions sterling.

Fashionable footmen in London, are said to be in despair oyer the task of announcing the name of the Countess Marsosushscwsnoff. The lady is announced in an astounding variety of wayo, as might bo expected of a title in which vowels are dealt out so sparingly among consonants.

“ Ready! aye Ready!”—Mrs Ponsonhy de Tomkyns—“ That lady was evidently intended by Nature for a 'Chinese, Sir Charles! I wonder who the can be ?” Sir Charles—" She happens to be my sister, Lady Plantagenet de la Zouche. May I ask. why you think Nature intended her for a Chinese ?” , Mrs P.,do T, (equal, as usual, to the emergencyjr- “ Sue struck me as having such exquisitely small feet!”—“ Punch.” A gentleman, accompanied by a favorite dog, visiled the studio of a rising artist. There was a picture on the easel, and the dog began to bark furiously at it,, “ Nature may be relied upon, after all,” said the gentleman. “The best evidence of the faithfulness with which you have painted that dog in the background is the earnestness with which ray dog barks at him.” “ But that isn’t a dog,” said the artist, flushing, “ it’s a cow.” The gentleman was nonplussed for a moment, but ho quickly replied, “ Well, the dog’s eyes are better than mine, he never did like cows,”