ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 353, 12 February 1881, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

The Tarnaki Herald pays—“ Some days ago a party of six Natives came .down to the White Clfffs from the King country, the object of their visit being to secure a trophy which was buried under a rock near the camp, but the sixth, a young man who was tabood, went to the rock and found the concealed treasure, where it had been buried during the war in 1861. It appears the King desires to possess himself of the buried hatchet or mere, but for what purpose it is not easy to imagine. After having been buried so many years, surely the digging up of the mere protends something.” “ Have you ‘ Blasted hopes ?’ asked a lady of a green librarian, whose face was much swollen by the toothache. «No, ma’am, but I have a blasted toothache.” “ Ah, heavens !” cries Nana, sentimentally, to her visitor, “ when one is adored by a magnificent captain like you, nothing can ever make her love again—unless it is a major.” Mrs Cunningham at Malletsheugh, pear Newtpn-Mearns, is believed to be the last surviving contemporary of Burns. She is in her 103rd year, hale and vigorous, and professes her inability to understand why people should make such a work about the “ loose, drucken fallow Burns,” whom sheknew intimately. Mrs Cunningham is a native of Tarbolton. A -number of colliers have been turned out of their houses at South Moor Colliery, Durham, belonging to Messrs Hedley Bros. / The men had been on strike six weeks. One hundred and seventy families were turned one. The ground was covered with several inches of snow, and snow was falling fast. In a Milwaukee street-car the other day a near-sighted man was sittting pear the fare-box reading a newspaper, when a lady passed up the aisle and accidently dropped her pocket hankerchief in the lap of the near-sighted man as she paid her fare. She did not notice her loss, and after she had taken her seat a gentleman sitting opposite the near sighted person hit him with his cane to call his attention to the handkerchief. The near-sighted man looked down, saw the white handkerchief in his lap, and immediately covered it up with his paper, blushing as he did so. Then 1 he inserted his hand under the paper, tucked the handkerchief in out of sight and went on reading. Lawyer Komisky, arguing in a divorce suit at New Orleans, held that a husband had a legal right to make his wife stand in the corner with a spring clothes pin on her nose. “ If such mild means of compelling obedience are forbidden,” he says, “ what is to become