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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 438, 18 January 1890, Page 5

The Secretary of the Albury Vines and Fruitgrowers’Aisociation has written to the Vine diseases Board suggesting, in view of the contemplated inspection of the district vineyards, that a local inspector be appointed or that the Vine Diseases Board should itself come to Albury. Objections are lodged against the inspector at p esent at work in the affected vineyards coming to Albury. principally because of the likelihood of the introduction of phylloxora through the medium of wearing apparel .of the inspector or other simple meai a, and should the pre-ent intention of the board to send an inspector from the phylloxerainfected districts be adhered to, the vignerons express their determination of resisting his entry into the vineyards. Lord Salisbury has at last made up his mind that his life is not in such imminent danger from Irish or other agitators as he had been lei to suppose. For a long time a regular detail of detectives has been kept in attendance upon his every step This espionage has become burdensome, however, at last, and the noble gentleman has decided to trust himself unarnarded to the tender mercies of the populace; hence the body guard has been dismis-ed. Nob so with Secretary Balfour, however. He, too, has been attended by detectives for a long time, and still insists upon the maintenance of the guard, notwithstanding Salisbury’s example in dispensing with it. A company has been organised in London to lighten the onerous burdens incident to the social life of the memoers of the aristocracy. This company proposes to take upon itself the duty ot paying calls by leaving cards at the residences of acquaintances, and will also undertake to make out and deliver invitations to balls, receptions, etc. It will also engage servants, select houses, secure rooms, arrange tours, retain tables at restaurants, and in a word do the tnousand and one little things which make life a burden to the British aristocrat. The happy individual,being i hasprovided for, wi 1 be enabled to pass through the world like an automaton, doing just those things for which he is wound up, and not be called upon to tax his intellect even to the extent of selecting his food. The only improvement that could be suggested would be for the new organisation to provide some means of masticating the food, so th >b the aristocratic British jaws need not be unduly fatigued. Perhaps a nursery bottle would supply the need.

Colonel H. G. Prout, in tbe November “ Scribner,” gives the following pen picture of Emin Pasha, whom he knew about thirteen years ago. In person Etniu is a slender man of medium height and tough and wiry figuro. He is swarthy, with black eyes and hair. Hie face is that of a studious professional man, and that impression is heightened by the glasses he always wears. His attitudes and movements are, however, very alert. He stands erect and with his heels together, as if he had been trained as a soldier. He was always reticent about himself, and his history was known to no one in the Soudan or the provinces of the Equator. He was supposed to be a Mohammedan. 1 am not sure that he ever said that he was, but I am quite sure that he did not deny it when I knew him. It btis become Known later that he is a German, of university education; but there were ipany at that time who thought he was a Turk of extras ordinary acquirements, He is certainly a man of great abilities in many ways, and of strong character. Mrs Bjones—Why, how your left shoe squeaks ! What is the matter with it ? Bjones—l think it must be the music in its sole..