BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3469, 26 March 1890, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Cloudy. District Court, Wire-walking to-night, Tomporanco meeting, Chapel street . hall.' - ,~u Alaslorlon Volunteers to takopavJr in enoampinout, " • Henry George, singlo taxer, lectured in Sydnoy in aid of the unemployed. A woniam named Eintna, Dugwell.', fined £lO for attempting to introduce r liquor into.Darlingburst gaol, Now South' Wales. <• .A strike of 40,000 East End tailors is imminent. So Bays a London telegram dated Monday,; : : ;.y. .;';'(;;:':, It is_ reported that evidenco been discovered exonerating Mrs"-, Haybrick, now under a life sentence ■ for poisoning her husbaud, The Native Minister and the Minister of Lauds are to meet the Governor in Auckland to Jay for the - purpose of holding a meeting of the Executive Council. A sign of the times! Undertakers , (not in Ibis district), are sending their 'bettor-halves with messages of love and condolence to invalids, and informing them that r thoy will soon • get over their fit of coughiu *A Sunday-school boy in a village was asked who made the beautiful hills about, there, and he said he "didn't know, as his parents * had only just come to live in that neighborhood." A French soldier on active service was informed by tho mayor of his village that his father had recently died, In acknowledgment ho wrole~ as follows:- "Monsieur lo maire, I' heartily thank you for my father's death; It is a littlo accident that often'happens in faiofc Asfor v myself, I api w the hospital mjnuj '. •

. • <- .. _JC—one leg, t ,with which I have tlio honor to salute yOu- 1 ' " He;" This is a nice state of tilings and wo tvro. only four months married. I'm almost crazy at seeing you gadding about with my old rival, you recollect what you promised at the altar'?" She : " Indeed I don't tlcav. I was bo nervous then tlmt I don't remember the least thing, The weary brain will plot and plan Some way of duty shirking; j It's queer how hard a lazy man K Will work to keep from working, Two Chinese gardonors had au altercatioii at Brunswick, Melbourne when one of them Hang Mo struck An Mow with an axe. Ths latter is not expected to recover, If ho dontl The Melbourne Standard oftlio 4th inst saysTlio coroner is busy. Four inquests at tlio Molbourno Hospital this morning, and alike number at the Morgue yesterday, Not a bad stavt fol' tho week' "What will you namo your new paper?'' 'The'Plugtown Harp of a Thousand Strings with Steam Calliope Interlude and Journalistic Stop Short.'" "Heavens, what a name I Why do you liavo such a v complicated title ?" "To avoid damages in libel cases. The attorneys will all blunder in the indictments, and they'll be quashed. See?" The good die young. This is particularly Irueof chickens.