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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2331, 18 June 1887, Page 6 (Supplement)

' SAVEiiL number number one, with a glass in his eye, pretending to mistake for a boxkeeper a rival whom he sees standing in the lobby of the theatre : " Ah, have you a programme ?" Swell number two, equal to the occasion : " Thanks, ray man—got one from the other fellow-" , i Stopping at a certain hotel, , a commercialtraveller, having retired to rest, became unpleasantly, conscious that his ted-clothing was anything but properly aired. He jumped: up in a rage,, stuffed the offending sheets up the chimney, and rolled himself in the blankets. Some twelve months afterwards his travels brought him to the same ' hotel. When shown-up to his 'room, the chamber-maid scrutinised him rather'closely, and then said/" Dear me, sir, you are the'same gentleman! Do you know, a most curious thing happened when you were ihore 'last!"' " What was that?" he Jasfeed. "Why," she said, "the sheets disappeared, and we could not think what became of them." "Oh, indeed!" he .replied. "Then get me my bill directly; you've n6t had a fire in this room since,: or you would have found your sheets— where all damp linen ought to be"—up the chimney?" '■ ■ •■ ' V The Yorkbhama Gazette 'says:— Admiral Hamilton is said to have informed the British Ministry in Tpkio that the three men-of-war which' he despatched to the south in search of the missing Unebi-kan have returned to Hong Kong without success. The Governor of Singapore rendered assistance in the search for the ship', but no, trace of her has been 1 found. The ; total 1 ■disappearance of a man-of-war, for such the Unebi-kan was, though she was not in commision, in the narrow seas; is a yery 1 unusual thing,' and it is equally unusual for any steamer to 'be lost in the China Sea without' leaving any 1 trace. •The Unebi-kan'had a crew of about 200 men, and carried without doubt a large number of boats, and it is remarkable I that no relic of her should have been found up to the present; Unless'the UnebiEkan turned": turtle in a ■ heavy sea and sank before there was time to get out a'boat, some of the' Grew would surely have reached land somewhere. "When the Captain capsized there was time for some of her crew to get on-i her bottom before she sank; and so., escape ; and the UnebiIran was undoubtedly divided into a great .many morecompartments than the Captain, arid; she ought; therefore, to have been longer sinking. It has been decided .by thejapanese Cabinet todemand from the French insurance company which insured the Unebi-kan payment of the amount for which the ship was insured, as she is now jsgnsidesed •■■• •/<:>■ "■'