COROMANDEL RETURNS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2593, 30 April 1877, Page 2

COROMANDEL RETURNS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.] ■ (From Ist to 80th April, inclusiTe.) ;>'

Everybody no doubt notices occasionally the eccentricities of journalism-^that is, everybody who reads newspapers with a critical eye. Lately—not so very; long ago, at least—an auction sale Was announced for the 29th of February, but as this did not happen to be Leap Year, the day, never came. More recently somebody and son instructed an auctioneer to sell his property in such-and-such a street. A Wellington paper recently dilated upon the audacity of rats, and proceeded to state how a rat bit an infant; how subsequently rat bit another member of the family, and wound up by stating that. the rat had not yet been caught.. lu_ enlarging on the audacity of "rats," it is scarcely fair to saddle the whole of the mischief on Me rat. But regarding news* Saper errors there is one in a West oast paper which suggest! a bull: it announces '' a mid -day performance in the afternoon;'* Kb doubt these little mistakes are pardonable, but everybody notices them, and it is not j unkind to point them out, because in some instances they may set somebody engaged in newspaper wort at their wit's end to, please everybody .r-W.E.S.

A Shbewd Gttidb.—A party had climed a considerable way up the usual track on the side of Benlomond, when % gentleman (a stranger to the rest of the company) .who had given frequent -broad hints of his being a man of superior knowledge, said to the guide, " Pray, what is the highest part of this mountain, Sandy?" "The top, sir," replied the canny Scot.

Queen of Beauty 52 0 0 Bismarck ... ... ... 71 0" 0 Star of Hope ... ... 12 0 0 Tokatea .;. ; ... ... H3 0 0 Pride of Tokatea (Tribute) , 810 ' 0 lona ... v.. >.. W 23 Op; Union Beach... ;.. ... 400 0 0 Morgan's Claittt . ... 7... 20 0 0 Sundries .;. Z ...., ..y 25 00 Totali ... 721 10 0 totals: lauraki ... , 11,857 012 loromandel 721 10 0 V ; 12;678 10 1$;