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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4562, 18 August 1883, Page 2

Professor Huxley says s—" The Egypt, lans are not negroes, nor are they like the typiqal Semites. The only people who resemble them in character of bair and complexion are the Draridian tribes of Central India and the Australians, and I have long been inclined to think on purely physical grounds that the latter are the lowest and the Egyptians the highest members of a race of mankind of great antiquity, distinct alike from Aryan and Turanian on the one side, and from Negro and Negrito on the other." "My wife, " remarked Fitznoodle, "is fairly crazy over the fashion. She's sot the delirium trimmini."

Among the many curious things that have cropped up cut of the Separation Petition Inquiry, none the least curious in the fact that there are at present 'two separate ratepayers' rolls for the Riding. In other ridings it may be, and no doubt is, the same. Bat we doubt whether any other riding can show so scandalous a I state of affairs as the Hiding of Ohine- ' muri. The County Clerk, as by law required, compiled a ratepayers' roll for 1883, and that roll shows the names of 251 ratepayers, and it has fairly well stood the severe examination it has been subjected to by the Separation' ists. But there is another rate-roll compiler, it appears, and that is Mr William Smith, valuer for the Thames County and Government valuer under the Property Tax Act. Mr William Smith has alsocompiled a Katepayers' 801 l for the riding of Ohinemuri for the years 1883*4 and 5 ; and Mr W. Smith has reduced the roll by just one-half—his return being 125 ratepayers! It is, of course, a matter of pure accident that the names of C. F. Mitchell and John Goonan are among the names omitted! bat it does seem a little strange to find dead men and men who have for years past left the district, ha»e ceased to hold interests there, and ato no longer the payers of rates, rents, V- or taxes,—restored to the roll, while the V iJ&Jnes we hare given are omitted. Pos--1 sflbly Mr William Smith can explain ?— Hauraki Tribune. tWhen Dr H. and Lawyer A. were walk* ing arm in arm, a wag said to a friend— " Those two are just equal to one highwayman. "Why?" asked his friend. "Because," rejoined the wag, " it is a lawyer and a doctor—your money or your life!" One of the best of living sculptors ' cannot carve a turkey.