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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2283, 26 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

An Explanation.—lndignant boarder: " Mrs Winks, when I returned last night I found no lamp in my room, and thin mornins? I saw that the new novel I was reading had disappeared." Mrs Winks: "Yes, sir. Yon see, I noticed the girl forgot to put tho lamp there, so I thought you wouldn't need the: novel. It's a very interesting one, sir.?' ' Mb Gladstone,-while on the Continent, was the object of much interest to the natives. In Tegernsee the inhabitants were disappointed to see him without his britnday axe, and when he walked past whole row of trees and never felled a single one, they began to look upon him as a bit of an imposter. Many people refused to believe that the quiet old gentleman was the great English statesman. He had no nigger minstrel's collar on ; he had no enormous cabbage rose in his button-hole ; and ho did'nt stand on the step of his carriage when he drove and made a speech at the corner of every street. And the absense of the axe, which he was expected to wear in a belt round his waist, and to sleep with under his pillow, completed the disenchantment. Dr. Micitael Foster stated before the British "Association that smoking, if persisted in, and particularly if the same kind of tobacco was used, produced " colour-blindness in the central field of the red."—New York Tribune. We have frequently noticed it. We have seen fellows out painting the town red when they were as blind as bats, and couldn't tell a lamp-post from a hay-mow. Ir. fact, we have seen them try to go to bed on a lamp-post. But the Prohibitionists out this way never attributed such "colour-blindness in the central field of the red" to smoking "Killikinick, "Old Dog Tail," or any other brand of tobacco. Binghamton Republican. The rent question is troutling the Land Board of Otago, and a committee recently appointed to enquire into the subject, formed the opinion that, with the exception of two or three sections, the rents were higher thau the settlers could afford to pay until the railway should be open to the Strath-Taieri, and they submitted the following recommendations :—That in the case of the tenants who are not in arrears of rent, and in the case of the.tenants now in arrears, who shall have paid up 50 per cent, of their arrears before March 1, ISS7, a temporary reduction of rent be granted. That the reduction of rent granted be in every case retrospective) taking effect from the commencement of the lease, and continuing until the Otago Central Railway shall be opened for traffic from Dunedin as far as Sutton Stream. That the board charge no interest on arrears of rent now owing by the tenants. That tennant who, previous to the reduction of their rents, have paid to the board as rent a. grsatcr sum than the aggregate reckoned on the reduced sale from the beginning of the lease, shall be entitled to deduct the excess so paid from future' instalments of rent due to the b'oard until it be extinguished, but they shall hot be entitled to receive interest on the excess of interest so paid.