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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4555, 10 August 1883, Page 2

The South Australian Register assertg that it was probably owing to Mr Service's want of tact that the proposal to annex JNew Guinea was vetoed by the Home Grorernment. His instructions to Mr Murray Smith to state to Earl of Derbr that the Australian colonies would b» profoundly dissatisßed if New Guinea were not annexed," was a threat which

m A North-Country parson who was much interested 10 bell-ringing, and a bit of an amateur campanologist himself, had the bells of his church put into first-class condition and competent ringers appointed. One day while the bells were ringW out cheerily on the summer air, the rev nentle! aToldl d the *)llo ™« conTersaU o Rn ewith an old man who was cutting b*dee ß ,™ the church :-.Parson : « WellTm 7 friend ,*re,you not charmed with the' metoS "ShKp ° 8 et r T Qd cranin * his neck)? 'av^p" bf re>: "wSm* SfC "I ask Sv? (getti°?"?me"hatn««l«£ J- ask if yoa are not delighted with tha angelic music of the bellif (fi IIS (again extemporising an ear»trw*pet> "Aa beii« °r ear whaat ye nj for 2RLiS