LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1913, 9 October 1884, Page 2

LATEST AUCKLAND NEWS.

[BY TETiKGKAPH. — OWN CORRLSrOif DENT.] Importation of Sugar. Aitokiand, Wednesday Night. Tiik Penguin fiotn Fij brought 200 ton« of sugar for the Sugar Company. South British Insurance Company. Tlie Sontli Butish Insurance Company has. declared a divdeml of 10 per cent. SharemarketImperials sold to-day 19s 6(1, at Caledonia 7(1.

Not to br Hat). — Careful but curious^ wife : '• How did you get your coat so muddy, Charles ?" diaries : " Let it fall last night, love." Wife : " But where were you to do such a stupid tiling ?" Ohailes. : " Wheie was I ? Why — why — inside it ?"— Funny Folks. Music at Homk — (Tiik Egotism of Genius.)— Eminent Violinist — "Dell me — who is dat little paid old chendleman vid ze vite visk«rs and ?e bincenez, looking at z" highchus ?" Hostess — " It's my Uncle Robertson. I'm grieved to say he is quite deaf !" Eminent Violiuist — " Adi, lam zo zoiry tor him ! He vill not be able to hear me blay ze vittle !" He Was a Stumblixo Block. — Negroes are sometimes very careful not to say anything to injure the reputation, of a neighbour. A gentleman stopped at a cabin where an old negro woman lived, and while waiting for one of the children to get a bucket of fresh water, entered into conversation with her concerning the crop prospects. " I did hab fo' or five fine hogs," said the old woman, " but da's dwindled down till ain't got but one now. Somebody steal them ?" " I never talks 'bont my neighbours, an* I doan like ter say what became of de shoats. I neber makes mischief, I dosen't." " Did the hogs die ?" "Da musta died ; but yer ain't agwine ter get me ter say nuthin' again my neighbours. De man what libed up dar is dead now, and I ain't agwine ter say nnthm' agin him. De hogs dissappeared away from heah while dat man was libin' ; but I ain't agwineter say nuthin again him." " Do you think that he took them ?" '* Mister dat man's dead, and I doan wanter say nuthin' again him ; but lemme tell yer, while dat man was libin 1 he was a powerful stumbling block ter hogs." — Arkansaw Traveller. The route, Sec, of the entire horse Lowden Tarn will be found in another column. The usual weekly sale at the Hamilton Auction Mart will commence, at U a. to, on Saturday nest. *&4 ttacaiter, '