BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3458, 13 March 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

W Windy. Holiday weather. Circus opens to-night. Great crowd expected nt the tent, Heavy rains in N.S.W. iJailwoy accidents, Messrs Buchanan, Fraser, and , Bunny elected to the Education Board.

News bos been received that tlio prisoners in Dahomey have not been tamed, Wuros, the Socialist, declares that he liiinsclf would be tho first nun to join the expedition to murder the Czar. Mr Hean's report will bo awaited beforo tho management of the Bunk of New Zealand is removed to London, One hundred and fifty miners entombed in a mine at Wales, Tlio mouth of tho mine is choked with debris, so that no help can be given tho imprisoned men, There aro about 6000 different descriptions of postago stamps in existence, Of, 0,000,000 Germans living away from the Fathci land, 7,000,000 are in the United States. Tongue cinnot tell the words nor express '.lie 1 astonishment of the ■ crippled soldier who awoke to find his wife using his wooden leg to pound the beefsteak .foi breakfast, 11 Where do all tlio pins go ?" asks a contemporary. That isn't tho question that bothers the man who rWtera around in his bare feel to fix tie tire for tho night. What be would lib to know is where all tho pins come from, Canvasser: "I have here a work read," Canvasser: "Bui your children—" Master of tho house: "I have no children"—triumphantly -"nothing but a cat." Canvasser': " Well, you want something to throw at the cat." Ho took tho book,