The Wairoa Bell, AND Hobson County Gazette. FRIDAY, JUNE 17th

Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 150, 17 June 1892, Page 4

The Wairoa Bell, AND Hobson County Gazette. FRIDAY, JUNE 1 7 th

Messrs Mead and Baabour’s new pearling’ ketch Eon sailed for Thursday Island yesterday, Mr S, Mead has gone with her. A shock of earthquake was felt all over Aratapu nt five rniuutes past one on Mondav afternoou.

Are the sexes mentally equal ?” is the momentous question to be discussed by the Aratapu Mutual Improvement Class on Wedensdav next. The ladies should attend for their own defence.® The. Wesleyan Services will be conducted on Sunday, June "19t.1i, as follows:—Aratapu 11 a.m. Mr Stall worthy, 7 p.m. Mr Hitching, Mangawhere 11 a.m. and 7 p. m. Rev. J. Bligiit. Redhill 6.30 p.m. Mr McLeod. Flaxmill 3 p.m. Rev. Blight. There is a joke going the rounds at the expense of a young newspaper proprietor in a township not a hundred miles from here which is too good to be lost The young man in question, it appears, was invited to a party at a residence where the home had recently been blessed wiih an addition to the family. Accompanied by his best girl, lie met his kind hostess at the door, and -after the customary salutation, asked after the welfare of t.ie baby. The lady was suffering from a cold, which made her slightly deaf, and she mistakenly supposed that the young man was inquiring after her cold She replied that this one was the worst one she ever bad, it kept her awake at niglit, a good deal a t first, and confined her to her bed. Then noticing that the scribe was getting pale and nervous she said she could tell by his looks that he was going to have one just like hers, and she asked him to go and lie down !