INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTER'S CABLEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1312, 25 November 1880, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTERS CABLEGRAMS .]

Beisdake, Tuesday. News has been received that the captain and crew of the Annie Brooks were murdered in September by the natives of Newstone Inland, and that a party of French naturalists had also been massacred by the natives of Moresby Island, Melboubne, Last Niprht. The death is announced of Sir Redmond Barry,, one of the Puisne Judges of Vic toria, aged 62.

Tina incident occurred in a West England town some twenty years ago. An eccentric individual of the Ranting persuasion was in the habit every Sunday morning of perambulating the town at about 8 a.m., preaching as he went. At length scarcely any one troubled him by listening, so one Sunday morning he got into a quiet street, and commenced shouting " Fire ! Fire ! ! Fire ! ! !" very energetically. Up go a dozen windows, and * c Where, where ?" resounded on all sides. "Below for sleepy sinners," responded the holy. Quick as lightning he had the contents of a water- jug over him, with the advice to "Take that and put it out." — London Sporting Times. A Debtor's Tree— Willowe.— Whitehall Time*. A boarding-house keeper's tree — 'ash. — Yawcob Strauss. A daily newspaper's tree— ex-tree. — Steiihenmlh Herald. A practical joker's tree — 'oaks — Saturday Breakfast Table. A sailor's tree— the 'elm ; and the oarsman's tree— the rowan.— Grip. A bather's tree— the beach ; a sheep-breeder's tree— the ewe ; a nigger undertaker's tree — the blackbury ; a favorite tree — the poplar; a wise tree (it's a bush, but that's all right)— the sage-brush ; a schoolboy's tree — the birch ; a rejected lover's tree— the pine. 0, hang it, brothers ! we might keep this up firever. Let's drop it. Sometimes, when I look back over my life, I am amazed to see how the pages of its records are dotted with hair-breadth escapes. I escaped the dangers and hardships of the revolutionary war by waiting until the war had been over about sixty years before I was born. When the Brooklyn theater burned I was in Burlington. When the yellow fever broke out in New Orleans I was in Minnesota, and immediately skipped out for Canada. When I was a boy, at school one day, all the boys in the school were flogged all around for robbing an apple orchard, and the flogging didn't do a bit of good, for every beggar of them had the cholera morbusall that night, just the same. And I ? I was attending another school twenty-th^ee miles distant. When all my brothers an(| sister 3 were 4pwn with the scareletiei^r, I was down " South in the array, andt when, I read the letter from home I lajiriiert aloud to think of my great good fortune, and that I would only have to be shot at once or twice a week instead of having to take medicine three times a day, When a man comes to the office with a little bill, nine times out of ten lam out. And if, by some astonishing blunder, I am in, then indeed am I more unfortunate but the man is in no better luck than before.— Burdcttc in the BmToujtm Eawkeyc Accobdiwo to the Mail, the Nelson School Committee recently sent an intimation, in the full glory of tinted notepaper with printed heading, to its teachers that " when school brooms require renewing or repairing, the teaohers are required to forward all the old ouea to the seore•twy."