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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Thf. secret of good talking is to have something to say, say it well, cut it short, and bo ready to listen. The best talker who will not listen is a bore and a nuisance, and so the verdict is given against him every time. To know bow to be silent in many languages is a great accomplishment possessed by few. The Cape ArgusVeports that the marriage of Captain Dawkins, aide-de-camp, with Ndredah Leeta, youngest daughter of Sir Hercules Robinson, took place at St. George’s Cathedral. Capetown on April 20. The marriage was solemnised by the Bishop of Capetown, assisted by the Venerable Archdeacon Ligbtfoot. At the conclusion of the ceremony the party returned to Government-house, where the guests were received by the Governor and Lady Robinson and the newly-married pair. The honeymoon was being spent at the Grange, Rondebosch, the country residence of His Excellency the Governor. Even experts are deceived at times. I recall in this connection the famous shorthand “fake.” A member of this profession, I believe wrote a story for a paper as a joke, in which lie described a shorthand writer in Washington sitting between two meetings of opposite politics and talking verbatim 'roports of both, one ■sith each hand. The story was published in an American journal as a joke, but, lo ! an English scientific journal took it up and published it for a fact, and to the amazement of the author expatiated upon the achievements of man. ft went the rounds of the English shortland journals, and the Washington shorthand reporters enjoyed it. There is a rather remarkable decrease in the sizes of farms in United States of late years. Twenty years ago, says the Newcastle Chronicle, the largest farms, on the average of States, were in Louisiana and in Texas, tile average size in these States being 536 and 001 acres respectively. Hut the average size has fallen until it is 171 acres for Louisiana and 20S for Texas. In 1970 the average size of tne farm in the United States, as a whole, was 153 acres, and it fell to 131 acres in ISSO. More persons are entering into farming, land being subdivided, but more of the formers own their own farms,