BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3481, 10 April 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Change in barometer! Prognostications oi tine weather. "Arabian Nights" at Theatre Royal to-night, Mr George Beetham, M,H,R, on. a flying visit to Masterton. Special meeting of Masterton-Opaki ' Jockey Club, Hack Rate Meeting 24th of May. Last hack meeting great success. Deficiency of £sl Ructions in the clerical department. Secretary threatening resignation, Feilding footballers pleased wiili the manner in tthich they were ■ received in Masterton. 1 Two members of tho aristocracy I . complaining because they were not admitted to Rtd Star ball, ; Mutiny on board H.M.B. Egeria ■ during passage fromSydnoy to Auckland. Ordered back to Sydney, W. , Boat accident on Lake Macquarie, ™ N.8.W., three occupants named Thompson, Spencer and Daly being drowned, 1 The youths who murdered thoir ' * father at Crewo hare been hanged, , notwithstanding that great efforts ] were made to secure a reprieve, "How are ycu succeeding, Mr Hornblower, in your work in tho ' West?" Rev. Mi'Hornblower: ''Mag- j fly nificently, There's a great awakening y at the close of every sermon," , " Onward and Upward" will bo tho maxim of the now paper," said tho editor proudly. And it proved a happy t maxito too. Fcr three short months the paper went onward, and then it. went upward, A barn belonging to a Nebraska editor burned the other night, and he takes a column and a half of his valu- < able space to describo it and add, "As [ the last dying flame flickered Hoaven- i ' ward we knew that the los 3 was 65 < dol—no insurance," c i An inhabitant of Maine has applied J for damages against the electric light- \ ing company of tint place. His case „ is. that the light keeps his fowls awake g till one in tho morning, so that they c aro too tired to lay eggs on tlio follow- t , ing day ! The shares of the company teMro falling rapidly. The two great pillars of tho South Australian Government are to be 1 protection to the producer and increased facilities for settlement on

i, the land. The . atearatpt owners in Soutb Australia and Ecliuoa contemplate forming a combination whereby rates of freight which will prove remunerative can be obtained. During last year there were 18,970 arrests for all offences in the metropolitan police district of Sydney, thiß being a decrease of 193G as compared with the arrests in 1888. A contemporary reproduces this frdtn a Dakota papor:—"A man living about twelve miles from here died from poisoning on Monday afternoon. It seems that he ate a lunch that had been wrapped up in a copy of our loathed and disgusting contemporary, and it killed him. Let others beware,"

One Sunday a minister was preaching to a scattered congregation in the open air.. By ill-luck he seleoted'an ant-hill as hia pulpit. In vain did he

try to appeal to their hearts and to wax. eloquent; but at last ho could stand it no longer, " Brethren," says "I hope I hao the word o' God in :1p my mouth, but the very deil's in my breeches." lie Queensland Government have ordered the destruction of 830 cases of dynamite, damaged in the magazine by flood water. During a disturbance in Adelaide between two gangs of roughs, a : young man named John Sullivan was stabbed near the heart, At Brisbane, ox-Inspector Dalgleish while swimming through the floods with some medicine fcr a sick woman, was affected by cramp and drowned, . Policeman—."How long did you nay jonrbrother bad been lost?" The • . Loser—Tno days." Policeman—" I thought you called him your long lost brother," . The Loser—" Yes, sir, because he's six feet five, tir." 'A very curious instance of condition occurred the other day in & family at Albany, A. mother anil her daughter were both confined on the same day, each Laving a little son. *Jn the bustle of the moment, both 4 infants were placed in a cradle /together, and, to the confusion of the mothers, \vhen the youngsters were taken put of the oradle they wore unable to tell which was the mother's , and wbioli was the daughter's son—f'' a matter which, of oourso, must ever remain a mystery, The family is in great distress over the affair. ;