BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3482, 11 April 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

, Theatre Royal. (kJimtliePonuian, "nnfriugement of Beer Duty Act, Minimum penalty of £SO imposed. Exodus of medical men from Masterton. The French press again agitating for the evacuation of Egypt by the British, The press of England indignant at the death sentence being carried out in the case of the Crewe murderers. ' How long girls should be courted,' is the title of an article in a contemporary. Much the same as short girls, .we should say. In January, deaths were recorded in tho Melbourne district of 40 per- . sons over the age of/75, Bight of these Tvere over 80, and four oyer 90, j the whole of the latter being females, i Among the deaths recorded in i Melbourne during January were 6 < from soarlet fever; whooping cough, 1 G; diptheria, 25; typhoid, 70; cholera, 1 (simple), 17; diarrhoea, 48; dysentry, ,

A report published by tho comttjttee appointed to inquire into the ■fKition and treatment of immigmls arriving at Castlo Garden, New York, says that the committee are unanimously of opinion that the immigrants are treated worse than dogs. A new stern-wheel paddle steamor is being built at Albury by the New South Wales Government, for the purpose of maintaining espionago over the red gum forests on the New South Wales side of the Murray, and also for public purposes, A pious man who can drive a baulky horse ten miles without being set back ten years in his religion is ripe for the better world. It is asserted that Mr E. W. Cole, of the Melbourao Book Arcade, encouraged advertising by procuring his better-half through this medium, A' New Jersey editor having announced the death of his unole in Australia, leaving him a gold mine and 400,000 dollars, his village contemporary professes to regard,the utter as a cunningly devised plan to oraiin credit for & box of paper cellars (Drift etr&w bat. An Irishman in Liverpool, being hard up for work, took a walk down one of the quays to see if he could pick up a job. Seeing a'captain Btanding, ou the deck of a sailing MKel, he addressed him: " Troth, Hplain, an! do ye want any sailors ?" "Were you ever at sea before, my man?" inquired the captain. "Ocb," answered Pat, " an' do you tbink I came over from Ireland in a coal cart?" Adoring grandmother:" Isn't he a lovely he's a nice littlo baby," Adoring grandmother: "And so intelligent! He just lies there all day, and breathes, and breathes, andbreathes," Some fashionable young men wear two pins in the necktie. It is to be hoped the pretty girls will not adopt the fashion of wearing two pins in the belt. One often causes trouble enough. say. Jenkins, can you tell a chicken from an old one?" "Yes"" Well, how ?" "Bytheteeth." " Chickens don't have fe&tb." " No, but I haye." A Hibernian visitor to Mastertoni thinking that the timber gutters in Queen-street had been originally used as trenches in the Maori war, tried an experiment the other evening. Placing himself calmlyin thefluming, lie awaited with breathless silence

the arrival of one whom lie suppose to be his" pal/' In a moment tlfo which he had purchased went 11 bang 1" and with a shriek a certain old identity oftbe town rushed frantically along the footpath iueearch I Hill! |

i was in tbo gutter, and no olue to the ) myatoryhasbeouobtained until toj day. The only exclamation of tbo , victim was " d- it I" , Mr Julian Thomas, " The Vaga--3 bondhas been appointed secretary 5 to the newly-formed Victorian Royal , Commission on charity, i The gaugo_ on the Belmore Bridge i at West Maitland showed 35 feet of , wator on the 14th March, and thus i exceeds all previous records,