BREVITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3487, 17 April 1890, Page 3

BREVITIES.

Visible change in the weatuor. Sweiiting Commission sittiug at Wellington. Dissatisfaction at the arrest of " tin-kettlers" on Mohday night. About a dozen youths to appear beforo the Operatio Society mado a successful start in St. Matthews schoolroom last £ evening, The " Guv'nor" by the Greytown /maleurs, will bo produced in Masterton next week. .Holt, the ex-prisoner, and ex-man-ager of the Bank of New Zealand, in said to into a good billet in Sydney. Tremendous floods continuo at Bourko, N.S.W. The river Darling is rising and despite the fact thAt a Btroug embankment has been rnised, residents are leaving the distri t by /hundreds. c ' Most of us worry over our trials, j but the lawyers worry if they haven't any.

It is a strango paradox—that of a man losing bis temper, and getting snto one at tin same time, Blacksmith (to app'ontico) " Thunder, don't beat that anvil so. Anybody would think it was a piano." A sure Thing,-Chappie; " What can a fellah do to keep bis twousers •from bagging at the knee ?" Slappie; " Don't weah thom."

A First Elder (at the kirk sltailin*"): Did yo hear Dougal More snoring in- the • sermon ?" Second Elder,: " Parfectly disgraceful! He wakened 'sal"

Tippler: "Do you know the reason why I have never met with success in life?" Plain Speaker: "Yes; there have been two many bars in your way." Very oncouraging.—Boro: " But, perhaps, I am disturbing you with my chat ?" Biggy: " Oh, no. Go on. I'm not paying any attention." Why are sheep the moat dissipated of animals 1 Decauso they gambol in their youth, pass their life upon the turf, the best of them are blank-

legs, and they all get fleeced at last, £ Pat was trying on a now pair of -boots, and they were rather hard to get on. "Bedad," says ho, "I shall never bo able to get these boots on till I've worn them a time or two."