Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1733, 24 April 1895, Page 2

Odds and Ends.

School elections Monday last. Cricket match—Morrinsville v Thames Bovors » • ? - z -

Win for the Bovers by 24 runs. The first newspaper ever published was OctaDuirna, (The day’s doings), in Borne, 691 B.C, ■ •' ' ■■ ' .

■ It is proposed that an English football team shall visit the colonies during the coming reason. The Premier at Marfcon declared that there was a net surplus for the year of .£IBO,OOO. - i •

Over twenty boys under eighteen years of age have won the Victoria Cross. ; v Paper for the Bank of England notes is made from new linen, never from rags.

The entire population of India do not spend 6d per head per year for clothing. The poundkeeper, Mr Snewin, has an announcement in this issue that a stray horse has come into his possession, and unless claimed and expenses ; paid before the Bth prox., will he sold. Heard on the bus—* Ho smoking inside the car, sir.’ Old Gent (filling his pipe)— ‘ I’m not smoking.’ Conductor— ‘ No, hut you have your pipe in hand.’ Old Gent—‘Yes, my hoy; I have my boots on'my feet, but I’m not walking.’ - Coroner: Is this man whom you found dead on the railway track a total stranger-?. Mike (who has been told to be 'careful in his statement)': No, sir. His legs are gone entirely.' He was a partial stranger, sir. During the past twenty years the Jewish population of London has more than doubled. It is now supposed to number between one hundred thousand and one hundred and twenty thousand.

Were you calm and collected at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, iqajor ? Well, madam, I was calm enough, but I wasn’t collected. With a leg in one part of the field, an arm in another, and a left ear in another,- collection was difficult. 'irv'f?-: -Ji

The Hon Wm. Pember Beeves is gazetted Minister of Justice, in the room of the Hon A. J. Cadman, who resigns that - office. The meeting of the New Zealand Parliament is further prolonged until the 30th day of May, 1895.