BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 28 March 1890, Page 2

BREVITIES.

Another change, Weather extremely unsettled. | Another rise in the price of flax. ■ . News very woloome to millers, j especially in this district.. Rich gold roof, discovered at .'{ , Cameden, Western Australia, District Court case concluded. Dry ' hash throughout. . Nonsuit point reserved. . . . St Maur's Comedy Company in [ Wellington. Drawing capital houses! Dp you hear, MrCoker? I: The Premier to bo confronted with formidable opposition in the coming election. v IVUniversity boat race won by Oxford by a length. Great surprise at'result, . Prince Bismarck took a farewell of the Emperor William on Wednes- *- day. ; Question ofduminyism" in tho< " :; Forty-mile: Bush to be considered at* a meeting of the Land Board next ' month, . - . The influenza which is spreading throughout Victoria is of the Eussian typo, The prisoners in the local gaols have been attacked by the disease, and sixty-eight, cases hm already been reported. He: " Can't I have just one kiss before I go? Only one." She: "And if I let you have one you will take two, won't you?" He: "No I won't;indeed!won't."She: "Then . you Bhan't have, any." ' Hr Jellicoe waxed exceedingly jookay-lar. (jocttlar) in his crossexamination oo Wednesday of a witness who turned out.to be a professor, of the legitimate game.. : ■ ]J)M The editor of our Carforton cofi-

temporary does not appear to appreciate" Brevity." Persian pro- ' verbs are more in his 1 : A ebarp fellow once asked a lawyer this question: "If a ipeacock bdongi.; ; fog-to"your neighbour came ■into ■ K • youf garden and laid an egg there, whom would the egg belong to by . jaw?" The lawyer answered that it would belong to ( the.owner of ( th,e peacook. Th4;other'nian't|)en|e'plieii •'"> "Have you ever beard of a peacook 'f! laying an egg?" •■ '*»' , Dearer and not cheaper,—Mrs Guslrinijton i '' I am' going to the : dressniakor, Tom, and I owe her DO dollars. Will you be angry with me ifl.ask you for a little monev ?" Mr Gushington! " How' could Ibe '' ■ angry with you when you aro growing dearer and dearer to me ove'ry day ?" During January no fewer than ,1988 stray dogs wore captured by the poli«eintlie streets of London and taken to ihe, lioina at Battersea. Throughout the past year stray dogs were found in London "By constables. ■ Experience is a great teaoher, but the little tin utensil we use to rub nutmegs on is a grater,. •There are ttro things in this world about which the ■ average pman WW to bi eternally in doubt. Ojio js j bother her hat ison straight, and wd/other is jußt how much her Jjusbandloveßher, L" Thompson, you're a Yery mean manT ."Thank you, Dulliver. Sow so?" ,"I allied you to lend me

'H'Anijbu M you* umbrella m allusedup,"! '.'Well?" " Tb-aay I saw you wilh • an elegant .umbrella." " What of | it?".- "You said it was used up." "So it ia., I always used it up. You don't aupposs I'd use it down, do you.", ' • '■:■;',- ' _: Mrs '' M——took great interest in parish affaire. Last year alio promised to. ; assist in decorating the parish church. Ono illuminated text she thought would look well Apr the chancel screen, and she "uested her husband to bring it from town. As might have beon expeoted lie forgot the text, and wed to his wife for particulars., To the surprise of the telegraph clerks this message camo flashing over tho wires: " Unto us a child is born, 9 feet long by 2 feet broad." In a caso heard recently in tho Supreme Court at Adelaide the following discussion took place, After some fencing the counsel asked tho witness: "Are you nn atheist?" Witness! " I need not answer that." Mr Justice Boncaut (from thoßench): » "WLnh has.that.to do with it? isflnatlioist?"' Counsel (to /^witness): " Do you believe in tho Bible ?" Ilia' Honor (interrupting): " Who does ?" (Sensation in Court). Counsel; " I hope [ do, your Honor,' ■ HisEonor: "Ah, wdlj the Bisliop of Peterborough doeß not." Counsel : " Oh, well, tlien, I won't press . it, your Honor." ■ ' ;,j