FEATHERS AND CHAFF.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 810, 25 August 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)

FEATHERS AND CHAFF.

(From an Auckland Correspondent.) August 20. CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE. I peel proud to think I am a New Zealander, not a tatooed aboriginal, but the imported article, when I am told that Captain Brown of Auckland has discovered that .New Zealand possesses 100 caleoptera and that Great Britain possesses only 44. I suppose caleoptera are good eating, or the Press Agency would not have thought it worth while to telegraph the discovery to all parts of the colony. Perhaps Captain Brown or Judge Gillies or some other sayan at the next meeting of the Society will give the receipts for the best approved method, of cooking thenK .< Talking of scientific discavenes, that of a new black fieetle is a great achievement. 1 see that Captain Brown has earned a monumeiat by adding to the list a score ofnew insects, one of which he has named the " Augusta-Choese-maniejiisis," after the learned curator of cfr Jopa} muge^rn, J tijou^fc

it would never do to let Brow a have it all to himself, so I spent a whole day hunting m the Domain, aad vet'urned m the evening with the following rare collection, which I have presented to Judge Gillies and Mr Firth, with the following catalogue :— . . Oloaoa-Maximansis-Greenawnrius-Plothoru3-Von.loaus-Hurbtjmi3. Ramsiniensis Billariou* Roweriefcibus, Tokatarius - Muanatairii Hankioankiaribustus. &c, &o, &v. CANDID. The new Governor of Queensland, Sir Arthur Kennedy, believes m the nominee system. On leaving" Hong Kong, the Crown . Colony of which he was Governor, a banquet was given to him, and at that banquet he made a speech m which he paid many high compliments to the gentlemen he had nominated to the Legislative Council. He said he could fairly say that throughout their career m the Council they had acted as independently m every respect, although nominated by him, as if they iiad been compelled to go round hat m haiici to seek the suffrages of a lot of greasy electors. It strikes me that a few months of colonial expe- i rience will effect a considerable modification m Sir Arthur's views. A HA.PPY RELEASE. A fatal accident recorded m the English papers to hand by the ' Frisco' conveys a solemn warning to any wives m the Waikato who may be m the habit of administering lin- ; gual castigation to their husbands. The -Sheffield Telegraph 1 states that " while a woman who resided m Houston-street, Glasgow., was scolding her husband, she fell on the floor and died." I think I hear some poor henpecked sufferer exclaim — " What a happy release !" — poor man. A CHANCE FOR BACHELORS; There is a middle-aged person who advertises that she desires to correspond with a gentleman with a view to matrimony. Here's a chance for the bachelors of Waikato, far better, than picking up doubtful parties at Hannaford's Registry Office, and investments m sewing machines. The lady m this case has an income. Candidates are to send their cartes devisi. I think there used to be a photographer at Hamilton, if he is still there he ought to do a good business for a few days. PRESIDENT HAVES Has set an example to all Crowned heads, presidents, premiers, and heads generally. He has declared that relationship to himself is an absolute obstacle to any appointment, aud has caused weeping, wailing, aud gnashing of teeth among about 999 42nd cousins and distant relatives of his wife's aunt's mofherinlaw. Don't you think we might try a similar rule m New Zealand with some saving to the public purse ? ADVANCE CIVILIZATAON. Marriage' between European damsels and Maori Chiefs are quite en regie. A rangitira at Wellingfcou, has jusb filed hia schedule, and another named Paramena, has started a cork-leg of which he is vastly proud. He has bedecked the cork-leg m a new boot, and occassionally carries the other, boot suspended by the lace to Ms neck. There is sometimes seen iv Queen-street .a howling Maori swell m spectacles, who might pass for a coloured mission try. 1 cannon find words to describd the Maori belles who perambulate Queen-street; ia chignons aud pull-backs, and high-healed boots. TEICKS OF TBADE. I have read somewhere a story of a man who set up a booth on a race-course m which was an immense barrel of beer, placed close to the back of the tent. A friend requested permission t'» be allowed to set up another booth at the back, joining on to the other, so as to save canvas, and it was granted. The man at the back sold beer cheaper than th<i man m front, ami it was not until the later noticed how quickly hia barrel of beer had run out, and to <k stock, that he discovered that 'ha other man, who had packed. up aud left rather early had been working ou the sam.i barrel. A looal brewer was lately ' done' iv the same way. He bought several lots of ' dead marines' from two young hopeful's at di a dozen, and had paid away a considerable sum before he learnt that the youngsters had been helping them* selves from a heap ia the backyard, which the brewer, had stapkei up from previous purchasers ..-