COLONIAL NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1182, 24 January 1880, Page 2

COLONIAL NEWS.

JHeusoujinu, January 21. Parliament "will be dissolved ou tlie sth February. No performance took place hint night at tho Academy of Music, iv coiibequencc of a prohibition issued by the Hon. Graham Berry. Tho Gippslund bushrangers liave surrendered. A Mauritius telegram .states that .since January 8000 tons of flour have been bought in Adelaide and Melbourne. There ia good demand for tonnage for New Zealand. The wheat market is firm and active. New Zealand milling wheat it wanted at 3s per bushel.

Sydxey, January 21. A sum of £5*500 has been remitted to the Lord Mayor of London as si contribution towards tho Irish Eelief Fund. Thirty- kix Chinese, residents of Sydney, subscribed together tho sum of £114.

The Japanese, says an exchange, believe that Job was the type of a new race. He was certainly a Job printer and one of Uz. A temperance man should never wear a cork-screw in his keyring". He throws himself away, when he carelessly opens his postoffice box. " I suppose those belta are sounding an alarm of fire," sneeriugly said a man aa church bells were calling to gethei the worshippers one Sunday morning 1 : to which a clergyman who was passing rejoined — " Yes, my friend, but the fire ia not in this world!"