ODDS AND ENDS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 May 1884, Page 6

ODDS AND ENDS.

Light-Headed — A candle. Companion of the Bath,— A sponge. A freethinking girl — Hettie Kodoxy. The Chinese use honey instead of hair oil. A noisy solitude — A howling desert. There are 75,000 habitual criminals in France. East Coast electors are turning in favour of a local man. The Aorangi takes 2,000 frozen sheep from Otago. Inmates of British prisons are the healthiest class in the community. About a thousand Japanese are settled in America. The late heavy weather damaged the Greymouth breakwater. Mr J. C. Wason is a candidate for the Ashburton seat, now vacant. New Zealand is to have a fortnightly service of direct steamers. A flounder caught on the West Coast lately had a coating of gold in its stomach. Robert Hislop, the missing Canterbury shepherd, is safe. The Ruapehu's 'passage from Lyttelton to Plymouth is the fastest on record between New Zealand and London. The Wellington-Christchurch match at chess has been won by the players from the Empire City. Old London is said to be fast disappearing. Quaint old fifteenth-century mansions are being demolished to make room for modern structures. The boards of the Opera House are now the "native heath" of a strong-minded female called Macgregor. Sergeant O'Grady, recently burned out at Greymouth, has got a present of £92 from the sympathising public. England spends six times as much money for wars actual and possible as she does for education. There are no less than sixty-five lawyers in the American Senate, though not a few of them have retired from practice. At Panama, men continue to arrive by every vessel for the Canal Company. The number now employed exceeds 14,000. Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid. —■ George Eliot. Invercargill people want a water supply for the extinction of fires. The Council intend considering the matter. The s.s. Victory, now due from London, brings 379 Government immigrants, of whom 238 are for Auckland. " Vogel " is German for " bird." Hence Sir Julius is appropriately called a bird of passage.