BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3472, 29 March 1890, Page 2

BREVITIES.

, David Christie Murray. Masterton to be visited on Tuesday evening.

Another demolishing of toll gates : ; at Ngahauranga, , -In consequence of the primaoy• deadlock'the Bishop of Wellington will resign, . Influenza is spreading throughout the colony of Tasmania. Prince Bismarck, who, recently resigned the German Chancellorship, has accepted a dukedom as a second title,

Mr Michael Davitt is acting as mediator between the Liverpool dock owners and the men on strike.

A good deal of disjatisfacti'on is expressed throughout the colony with-regard to the new boundaries, especially in the North Island.

: A lama farmer purchased & revolver for his wife, and insisted on target practice, so that she might be able to defend the house in liis absence. After tho bullet was dug. out of his leg, and tlie cow buried, ■ ; he Baid he guessed Bhe'd better *■' with an axe, ' f"

.We are given to understand (hat there is a_uian in this district t?1io ■ . supports his family, by simply tying nu able-bodied eat by the tail to the clothes-line' every night, and. then going out in the morning, to collect the soap, sharing cups, brashes, k, thrown into the yard by< angry boarders in adjoining houses. ■ A man' went into the country list Saturday for a constitutional. Ha carried his overcoat on his arm, but finding it burdensome hung it on a fence. Tailing a card from his pocket he wrote" Do not tonch this coat,, infected with small-pox, 11 He came hack a couple 6i hours later and found the card, upon which was written underneath his warning:. " .Thank's for the coat ;I've had the small-pox." A grett flight of locusts, calculated to have covered about 20,000 square miles, lately passed across tho lied Sea from the African to the Arabian shore, 1 A tailor, in order to Bare W fare, travelled all tho way from Vienna to Paris in a packing-casa marked" This side up," This journey oocupiod GO hours, and he suffered-w .terribly from boat. On its arrival ahjfi, tbePatis station the packing-case., seen to rock, and this lead; to. bis"'"'';' boing discovered, Ho stands .charged with defrauding the railway company,