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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 739, 13 March 1877, Page 6 (Supplement)

The Treasurer of the Orphan Home: acknowledges .with thanks the receipt; of £6 12s 2cl, being share of the proceeds of the pleasure trip of the s.s. Hero, Captain Logan; paid to that Institution. Now here is something like a hen. The "Southland News" says that ft black Spanish hen, belonging to Mr G. Bailey, luvercar- -■ gill, laid an egg measuring six and. a half inchos round one way, and eight the other, and weighing four 'and. a quarter ounces. The " Daily Tecglraph " gives the following as to the origin of the word "John Collins," a matudinal drink that has restored quiet to thousands of aching heads! ?l There are a few now living to remember the first and most famous of Limmer's waiters, whose name is prepetuatcd on both sides of the Atlantic by a still favorite drink/in which gin, sodawater, ice, lemon, and sugar are the constituent elements : — " My name is John Collins, Head waiter at Limmor's, Corner of Conduit-street, Hanover-square; My chief occupation is filling of brimmers, For all the young gentlemen — frequenters there." Peace be unto the ashes of John Collins ! His name is better remembered than that of the inventor of the sewing machine. '■? Who is the.mysterious female personage^ " Auckland Mary," whom the " Wanganui Chronicle ". describes as being "m trouble " at Bull's, Manawatu ? v