ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 39, 1 March 1884, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

The paupers of London would fill Auckland three times over. There are a quarter of a million of domestic servants in London. The weather continues beautiful in Otago, and harvest hopes are high. There is a man in New South Wales who for the trifling sum of i 3O 3 000 will disclose the real author of Shakespeare's plays. A clock is a mos 1 modest contrivance -it is always running r olf down. A remarkable p.. rot used to give this conundrum and answer: "Why does a donkey eat thistles ? Give it up ? Give it up ? Because he's an ass ! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" An old la :y: y being asked to subscribe for a newspaper, declined on the ground that when she wanted news she manufactured it herself. Rev. J. T. Wariow Davies, of Sydney, is now on a New Zealand tour. He was formerly Congregational minister here. In 1882, there were 4, 145 soldiers deserted from the British army, of whom 1,297 rejoined. The average of desertion is 18 to the thousand. A colonel who used to assert That naught his digestion could hurt, Was forced to admit That his weak point was hit When they gave him hot shot for dessert. The Jesuit Order is increasing. In 1882 there were 11,058 priests, professors, and coadjutors, which snows an increase of the Order since IS7O, when it numbered 10,529, There are only four pupils at Cambridge High School. Good wheat harvest in Victoria ; estimated surplus, 200,000 bushels. Captain Thomas threatens to prosecute the " Waikato Gazette" for libel* Only one person in 80 has perfectly sound teeth. The slowest man ever heard of was one who could not get out of his own way, Nobody wishes the baby stolen ; still it is a relief when the nurse cribs it at night. Mr Hursthouse is now surveying the Kawhia-Alexandra Road, and work will commence shortly. Several School Committee elections in Canterbury being invalid, fresh elections are to take place on Monday, the 24th of March. Tremendous tourist traffic to Rotorua j Kirkwood, Cambridge, coining cash. A pearl of the value of £1,000 has been discovered by the McKay brothers at the north-west fishery, Western Australia. A bull-dog in London was recently sold for £5,000. There are 42 Maori schools in connection with the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Thirty-six Mormon missionaries have just sailed from New York. The Congregational Union is to meet at Auckland in January, 1885. S.s. Staffa grounded on the Opotiki bar at high water on Sunday. Expected to be got off safely, The" "Southland News" thinks that Kawhia is destined to one day become a centre of commerce — rivalling the city of Auckland. Rather a rash prophecy. According to the "Northern Advocate," Wattie, the jockey, has a salary of over £3,000 a year, and is Haid to be worth over £10,000. Rat poison is proved to be "rough on barmaids." NewWesleyan Church at Cambridge to be opened on sth March. The Prince of Wales is said to own 250,000 acres of land in Kansas. The latest census of England and Wales shows that of the 25,974,439 inhabitants, 24,855,822 were natives. Since the year 1850 sixteen baronetcies and thirty-four knighthoods have been con- % ferred upon the physicians and surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Herr Bandmann says that in India he played " Hamlet " with three people and, spoke all the lines.