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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3349, 16 September 1879, Page 2

A pigeon message received by us this afternoon says there is nothing new to chronicle re the shooting case.

We have received a copy of the Bough Ashlar, a monthly magazine for Freemasons, which has been published in Adelaide by Mr Isaac Isaiah Symmonds, brother of Mrs Levy, of Queen street, Auckland. The magazine consists of eight pages. It is a very creditable production, carefully printed) and the reading matter is well selected, giving some valuable beneficial information to the craft, including a list of all the Masonic lodges in the Australian colonies and New Zealand, with, as far as possible, the lodge-room and the date on which each lodge holds its regular communications, as well as classifying the various lodges under its own constitution. We have no doubt this publication will become popular amongst the "brethren of the mystic tie " throughout the colonies.— Herald.

A lovely young lady, at the time when belles in Glasgow were scarcer than they are now, was talking with a gentleman from a distance about that city tnd iti gaieties. The conversation turned upon balls and- the attendance at them, when the gentleman laughingly asked the qneition, " Have you many beauties in Glasgow, Miss ? " On which the young lady naively replied, " Oh, yei, sir ; thert art five of us r'