NEWS ITEMS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2112, 23 June 1898, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

A man never realises how much wai> ing can be done in an hour until he waits outside for his wife who has stepped into a shop * just for a minute.’

‘Can she -play a good game of whist? ‘Yes, she is the only lady I know who has held four aces when there were two others out, and then when these were played take up all the stakes and remark quietly that someone, must be cheating, and so she shouldn’t play any moi'fifc’ *

Two Models.-—My husband has never asked for a latch key.’ 4 He’s good. Mine has, but he’s possibly better than yours/ ‘How so?’ ‘I gave him one, and he never used it.

With reference to the rumor that the Hon J. McKenzie will be a candidate for Oamaru, Mr T. F. Duncan, the present member, being transferred to the Upper House, the Taieji Advocate, which is understood to be in the confidence of Ministers, saysWe have reason to believe that the rumor, is substantially correct/ The London Philatelist, speaking of the new issue of New Zealand postage stamps, says :—The series will commend itself to all philatelists as one of the most perfect set o£ stamps at present in use throughout the British Empire, while the legitimate and permanent nature of the issue seems beyond question.’ ' Mr Beeves’ ‘ Story of New Zealand ’ is considered by the Westminster Gazette to be ‘ entirely what such a book should he—brief, simple, unpretensious, sufficient.’ It goes on to say ‘ The story is told in vigorous and interesting style, there is enough of opinion to stimulate thought, and we feel throughout . that the writer is speaking of what he knows at firsthand.’ The conclusion iof the review will excite a smile: ‘As for the Liquor Prohibition Law, which has been adopted in the district of Clutha, Mr Beeves judiciously says that ‘the acounts Of - the results thereof conflict very sharply. Bea era who followed a recent controversy in the Westminster Gazette will not dispute this assertion/