MISCELLANEOUS.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 116, 22 August 1885, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

The " 'orny-'anded "■ of Wellington want Government to send them to South Africa. Queensland has adopted payment of members.' The maximum amount allowed to members of the Representative Chamber is £200 a-year. A new steamer for the Union Company, 35 feet longer than the Wairarapa, will arrive in the colony in November nexk The municipal retrenchment mania is spreading. Tauranga Borough Council propose a reduction of 16 per cent, on all salaries excepting that of the office cleaner, the saving for the remainder of the financial t year being estimated at about £42. An old widower gives the following wrinkle to lovers:— "When you pop the question, do it with a kind of laugh, as if you were joking. If she accepts you, very well ; if she does not, you can say you were ouly in fun," The completed contract for the "Whanga-rei-Kawakawa railway has be6n planned by Mr Hales, District Engineer, and the contractors, Messrs Larkins and OBrien, have started to remove their plant to Thames. Lines that Seldom Pay.— Marriage lines. My heart is thine, as the cabbage said to the cook. Auckland has 1,056 registered dogs. " Conscience " Green has got a call to Adelaide. Riflemen are best qualified to answer the question — " What's in an aim ?" The "Lyttelton Times" confesses that those Meiggs proposals were "preposterous."