[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1197, 28 February 1880, Page 3

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Last Night.

THE LAND REVENUE. The land revenue of the colony for the December quarter was £66,039 9s Sd. The consolidated fund receipts for the half-year ending the 31st December were £306,976 7s Id, with £651,609 from the Treasury and deficiency bills and temporary deposits. The actual expenditure during the same period was £1,840,742 16s lid.

Seme "horrid brute" has discovered that the difference between a woman and un umbrella ia that there are times when you can shut up an umbrella. Not Worth Keeping. — A correspondent asks — " How long can bottled cider be kept '! " That depends upon cimunhtances. If you put it into a safe, lock it up, and sling tlie key into the liver, you can keep it for some time, but you won't get much fun out of it. — Boston Post. An advertisement signed by the butchers, of Gisborne, anent stoppage of credit, is thus referred to and explained by the I'ot'trty Bay Herald: — "A notification from the butchers of Gisborne appears in our columns. In the language of their trade they state that in the matter of credit they intend to take the bull by the horns and stop it — not the bull but the credit. They argue that as i;he times are out of jotut, people must do without their joint Unless they can pay for it. They hare been as patient as lambs but can be so no longer. The bubiness at the best they state is no great ifiop* and if they g"o on giving credit any longer they will soon cease to have a stake in the district. Like their sheep, ihey have been i/cimted by giving credit, and like their corned meat they are in npicklv to meet their payments. One week, and only from week to week, will they give trust, and they trust this will be sufficient, and so determined are they to observe this rule that if the peoplo hould go down on their marrow bouts they will not break through it. They have united to gird up their loins against the ruinous system which has so long prevailed. They intend to give no quarter to people who have been several quarters on their books for fore and hind quarters of meat. They have been bled like calves, and will stand it no longer. They intend turning over a new leaf by not turning over an old leaf in their ledgers to inereaso an already long out-standing account. It is better that their lambs should skip, their sheep grow wool, and their ©xen graze upon the splendid feed there is for them than that t%pf should be converted into joints to fatten their customers who would let the butchers fitaryo before they puy their bills."