GENERAL NEWS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1394, 19 September 1885, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

At a parish church in Surrey recently a widower of 84 was married to a widow of 87. The bridegroom was attended by a grandson, and the bride by a couple of great-grand daughters. With regard to the present rupliona in the House, the Oansaru Mail says ; “ It is, however, satisfactory to find that, in a House of about 95 members, there are only 65 members who are anxious for portfolios, and still more satisfactory to find that only 16 want th® premiership. These facts afford indications that patriotism and unselfishness are not yet quite dead in this colony.

One of the feature’s at a recent amateur concert in Auckland was the performance of a Maori lady, Mrs Nikorema Poutotaro, of the Thames, who sang both in Italian and English, A lawyer is about the only man who ever made anything by opposing a woman’s will. The Prince and Princess of Wales since their return home have been busily engaged forwarding presents and mementoes to persons with whom they came into contact during their Irish tour. A young woman who, through being disappointed in love, threw herself from the Chifton suspension bridge and escaped with very slight injury, before leaving the infirmary received no fewer than three offers of marriage. Talking in Church is a legal offence in the United States. Several young ladies and gentlemen of the best society in Missouri were lately brought up in a police court and fined for this offence. A Wanganui schoolmaster addressed a letter, the prefix Mr being strengthened by the affix Esq.

Referring to the wealthy men in New Zealand the Evening Press says : —“Here the richest colonists are the most unpopular—and deservedly so. We have often thought, with shame, that there is not a country so wealthy as New Zealand, where the wealthy class have done so little for the public.” Mrs A. Rooney, of Auckland, just deceased, leaves a family of seven daughters and one son to mourn her loss, all married, and about one hundred grand children and great-grand-chihlren. A bachelor of thirty years writes for & recipe for bean soup. A lady correspondent replies : “ Get a wife wbo knows how to make it.” An exchange says that a man who would systematically and wilfully set about cheating a printer, would commit highway robbery on a crying baby and rob it of its gingerbread—rob a poor-box of its counterfeit pennies—lick the butter off a blind nigger’s last crust—pawn his grandmother’s specs for a drink of whisky —steal acorns from a half-starved pig—and take clothes from a scarecrow in order that he might make a respectable appearance in society. An orator holding forth in favor of “ woman, dear divine woman,” concluded thus—“Oh, my hearers, depend upon it, nothing beats a good wife." “ I beg your pardon,” replied one of bis auditors, “ a bad husband does.” The Tiny Housewife.—The careful tidy homowifo, when giving her house its spring cleaning, should bear in mind that the dear inmates are more precious than houses; their systems need cleansing, by purifying the blood, regulating the stomach and bowels, and she should know that there is nothing that will do it so surely as American Go’s Hop Bitters, the purest and best of all medicines. While excavating at Dumfries a bed of peat was discovered. After sleeping from pre-historic times, the cranberry and other plants on being taken from the moss and placed under a glass were found to be still living, and began to germinate, as some time ago did grains of wheat which had been rolled up with a mummy buried in the time of the Pharoahs. Hollcwat’s Pills, Easy Digestion.— These admirable Pills cannot be to highly appreciated for the wholesome power they exert over all disorders of the stomach, liver, bowels, and kidneys. They instantaneously relieve and steadily work out a thorough cure, and in its course dispel headache, biliousness, flatulence, and depression of spirits. It is wonderful to watch the daily improvement of the complexion as Holloway’s Pills purify the blood and restore plumpness to, the face which had lost both flesh and color. These Pill combine every excellence desirable in a domestic remedy. The most certain and beneficial results flow from the occasional use of this regulating medicine ; even persons in health, or when following sedentary oooupapation, will find it an invaluable aperient.