Playing Her Cards Well.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 30, 29 December 1883, Page 3

Playing Her Cards Well.

A young lady in haste, wrote an invitation to a clergyman to come to her Christmas dinner, on a playing card. On seeing it was the ten of hearts, he wrote the following lines on it, and returned it : Your compliments, lady, I pray now forbear For Old English service ia much more sincere, You've sent me ten hearts, but the tythe's only mine, So give me one heart, and take back t'other nine.

Cheque-Takers. — Bankers. Sir George Grey's Confederation and Annexation Bill has been reserved for Her Majesty's pleasure. Gold-bearing quartz from Wilberforce district has been shown in Christchurch. The Martin Luther statue, to be erected at Washington, will cost £4,000. Fashion note— All sorts ot sleeves are admissible for ladies' dresses, but the coatsleeve round the waist remains a favourite. Crombie Brown, journalist, has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment at Hobart for passing valueless cheques. The steamer Tasman was wrecked lately on the coast of Tasmania under circumstances similar to the Triumph. The owners have since disrated the captain and dismissed the mate. A Sydney publican and sinner, has been fined for allowing "sweeps" to be drawn on his licensed premises. The Magistrate said these drawings should be legalised, Blackburn and Thomas, Australian wrestlers, are coming to arrange matches with Robertson and Donald Dinnie. The various Mayors of the coiony are gazetted Justices oi the Peace. Two divorce cases are down for hearing at the Divorce Coart at Wellington on 14th January next. The "Grand Hotel, Melbourne, has just been finished at a cost of £150,000. It has 140 bedrooms. m Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard for judgThe New Zealand Land Mortgage Company's Auckland office is now opened. I Christchurch cricketers come with their minds made up to lose. '. . c The United Temperance Societies of Auckland are to hold a grand demonstration on next Regatta Day. m " Grand March of the White Sewing Machine " is the title of a piece of music which Mr W. C. Dennes is circulating just now among customers and others,