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Southland Times, Issue 1526, 19 January 1872, Page 3

Why should the male sex avoid tho letter A ? — Because it makes men mean. A bill is in course of preparation, and will be laid before Parliament early next session, to supply London with fresh water from the Cumberland lakes. The scheme is one of a private company. A musketo taper is a Pittsburgh invention. It creates such a smell while burning that musketoes ask to be excused. It drives human beings out doors also, which is the only defect. A letter from a fashionable summer resort says a young man is scarcely considered eligible unless he haß lost his hair, this being considered an almost indisputable evidence that he has always moved in the best society. Since the Ascot Stakes last year, Baron Eothschild has won about £24,000. This result is all the more remarkable that for many years the Baron's colors were invariably unsuccessful.

SONS OF TEMPERANCE. INVEBCABGILL DITISION, No. 4A. r pHE Brethren of tbe above Division are reJL quested to attend the funeral of the late wife of Brother Small, TO-MORROW (Saturday), meeting at the Temperance Hall, Eskstreet, at 1 P.M. By order of the N.P., GEORGE BAKBB, 8.3. NOTICE. WAIMATUKU BOAD DISTBICT. — The General Road Board having issued ite precept for the collection of a Highway Kate for the year ending 22nd June, 1872, in tho above district, the ratepayers of the district are required to pay their respective rates to me, at my house, on or before the 9th February, 1872.. JAMES FULLARTON, Collector. Flint's Bush, 16th Jan., 1872. WALLACETOWN SECTIONS. SATURDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1872. D MACBOBIE will sell in the estate of • D. S. Lawlor, Sections 14 and 15, Block 6, Wallacetown, facing the Makarewa bridge.