SCISSORGRAMS.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 484, 26 June 1875, Page 3

SCISSORGRAMS.

(From the Croats Theßev" T. Norrie has commenced to hold mom hly ? ser vices at Mercer, though -he visits also Queen's V Redoulbt, Pakeno settlement, Ramarawa, Pukekohe East, and Maketu. — Captain Hainlin, of Waiuku, in a letter to the Defence-Minister, suggests that the annual prize-firing should take place in November or March, instead of January and February, which is the busiest time in agriculture. — Two patients, named John I^wit ahd have recently died in theXu&kl&nd iWkji^Asjjrlum.

(FROM SOUTHERN 'EXCHANGES^ The hon Mr Waterhouse is expected to return from Jfyigland in time to be present ah the coming session of the General Assembly. — Mr Fox writes that he and his wife are alive, and not " lost in the element he loved so well." — New Zealand Steam Shipping Company divided .ten per cent. — Sir George Grey's letter on the Venetian Council of Ten professed to expose some queer dodges, aud has been largely circulated. Dr. Pollen now inhabits the granp Ministerial residence in Wellington, formerly occupied rent free by Mr. Voyel. — A Southern gentleman recently received 12s as a first and final dividend on the sum of £500 due from the estate of John Dean Pa\^p^is> mrfl^nMjif^d Barnfield has been drowned at ifoipuiQfr — is^otgtfof W«nt of Confidence moved in tnV^Prdvinciai^ouncil of Taranaki was lost by 12 to 4. — .Ward polled 202, and Moorhouse 177 for Wairau. — The question whether or not Mr. Vogel is really Premier is being discussed, he having been*absent from the Colony when the new Governor's advisere were sworn in. — The population of Victoria is 810,442,-370,282 being females. — It is said that an inflated bladder suspended in a chimney 18 inches above the mantel piece will remedy a smoking chimney. — A man named James Cameron has been convicted at Wellington of rape on a girl 14 years of age, who was employed as a servant in the house. — At Napier a couple went to the Registrar's to be married. He was nob at home. Having prepared a wedding breakfast they did not like to waste it. so they went and ate it. A^ain me expectant bridegroom went to meet the bride at the Registrar's, but she was non est. She had eloped with one of thejjuests* Tfoj poor swain had paid for the breakfas^JuM^hndr^^rtroles pf jewellery, and he is now dis^nsgj&fce. \. *• J