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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 92, 22 September 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

A gentleman passing through Bondstveet, a short tinje ago, was accosted by a female mendicant, whose countenance spoke her distress more forcibly than her language. He gave her a shilling, asking her at the same time, from something that struck him in her tones, whether she was not an Irishwoman. ''Indeed I am," said she, dropping a graceful curtesy, "and have been ever since I was a child." An old Hampshire farmer, intent on making his will, was asked by the lawyer the name of his wife, when he gravely replied, " Well, indeed, I really don't recollect what it is. We've been married for upwards of forty years, and I've always called her 'myold woman.'" The lawyer left a blank to be filled up when his ohL woman's name was ascei'tained. A dabbler* in literature and the fine aits, who prided himself on his knowledge and proper use of the English languages, came upon a youngster sitting on the bank of a mill pond, angling for gudgeon, and thus arldresed him : " Adolcscens, art ihou not endeavoring to entice the finny race to engulph into their denticulated mouths a barbed hook, upon whose point is fixed a j a dainty allurement?" " So" said the boy, " rmfishm" \ Capturb of a Bushuaxgkii.—The bushrauger whoso capture, at Murrurutidi was ! recently reported has- turned out to be a brother of the notorious Ben Hall.