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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3982, 3 October 1881, Page 2

" Coionel Davis," the renowned veteran warrior, who has retired into private life at Kopu, where for the remainder of his days he intends to pass the time in cogitations of his past glorious career; has discovered the reason for the construction of the railway from Shortland (o Kopu. Speaking to a gentleman the other day, he delivered himself thus on the subject:—" You don't know why tbe railway was made? Well, I'll tell you. You see that there is a highly respectable influential gentleman living at Kopu, who, in addition to being Ofcupiod in agricultural pursuits, keeps la ge numbers of pigs and flowls. Now you see, the Government were aware that a railway was necessa/y. to bring the aforesaid gentleman's produce to town. This ides was further strengthened by the representations, made to the Government by that celebrated gentleman. His name gentlemen, is Davis, and the Thames people have to thank him for the continuation of the railway line as far as Kopu." ■■';

"I saw more intoxicated women at the Derby than on any former occasion," said Edmund Yates in the London World, " and not merely the female with whom inebriety is nor ma), but decent lookiug women, apparently the wives and sweethearts of artisans and small shopkeepers. Perhaps the heat of the weather upset their calculations as to the amount of liquor they could take with impunity." A man is usually deaf at six o'clock in the morning, when his wife calls him to get up and light the fire; but when she gets up, murmuring that the poor man is tired out, and. goes down stairs, he can hear the gentlest call up two pair of stairs, "breakfast is ready."