HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW TELLS ABOUT IT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1829, 15 December 1888, Page 3

HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW TELLS ABOUT IT.

I do not know where he had been spending the evening, as he calls it, my dear, but I know that the evening had waned into threo o'clock in the morning when I heard him fall over the rocking-chair I left in the hall for him ; and should it please heaven to send me grandchildren, I humbly trust they may , all be bom deaf—no, don't eay, " Oh, ma!" —rather than have them hear the languaga (hat man used, coupled with the name of your mother. He left the hall door wide open, and in the white moonlight I watched hfm stand on his hat to reach the shadow of the figure 7 blackly outlined on the white wall, upon which he endeavoured to hang hu overcoat. After several failures he laid the ooat carefully on the floor, and after fumbling in every pocket of his clothes he found soma matches, and then held up his foot and •eratched them against the wall, under the impression, I have no doubt, that he wai rubbing them on the sole ol his boot. He tried, with match after match, to light ona of the brass pegs in the hat-rack, making the most shocking and absurd comments at #v«ry failure. I could bear it no longer. I oriedout: "Henry, if you will cease disfiguring the waU and the hat-rack, and ooim here, Twill find a matoh for you." That nan, he turned in the most idiotic way to the hall door, bowed, and, after etaring out t,t the moonlight in a dazed way, said, Ob, vei: ye* «-see j got parlour all lighted up, «in' you ? Whaz goh)' ou P S'prise party ? Then I went downstaiw and led him up to bedi No, my dear, lam not goiDg to icold him Kb, when he coatee dowmtairs lam not'going to say a h»«h word to him .hall not say anything to him. I shsL merely look at him. [f.S.-She looked a'; him.] The rumored appointment of Mr Denniston, of Dunedin, to tbe Supreme (Jourt Judgeship is denied by the Government. Tbe directors of the Gear Meat Comoany Wellington, recommend to tho shareholdere that a dividend of 10 per cent. Ke paid. , . After nearly two years' trial the Cathedral authorities at Nelson are compelled to give up the electlic light aa ionsatisfactorj and aureliable.