THE SHEEHAN PRIZE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4602, 4 October 1883, Page 2

THE SHEEHAN PRIZE.

Sib.'—A letter appears in your confein- : porary of this morning signed " Cabbage". I being one of the interested ones, would • like to see Mr " Cabbage " at the meeting to-nighfc to ask the questions himself, as he appears to be so well up in the matter, and particularly to explain that part of hisletter referring to diverting the^J prise from loyal Volunteering to subsidising of mutiny. He is very bitter.—l am,

Black Doitgias,.

la Fiji a curious kind of worm, about 6in. lone, and of the thickness of a piece "of ordinary string, rises apparently from out of the coral reefs twice every year. They are call baldlo.and make their first apearance in October, which month the natives call" Balolo lailai," or " little balolo" as the> worms appear only in a small quantity. They appear again in vast numbers about November 25, and give that the name of « balolo levu," or " great balolo." Thef are very excellent eating, bat very rich. The Fijians devour hug© quantities, and " E kua goaa ni baolo, me na kna sara;" which means," If you don't eat balolo now, it will be a long time before you do. A contemporary says " Was there ever a man who could look at a barber shaving him steadily in -the eye ?" If a barber were " shavinsr him steadily/ »the eye," we should think it would be- difficult for a, man to look at anything. ."H&us and BuG.3, Beatles, insects, roaches-,. anfa, bed-bugs, ra,t», mice, gopher*, jackrabfeiti; -'cleared out by " Bough on Bat*.—Moiti, Ifcw* & Co., Sydney, General Agenti-