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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2505, 31 July 1888, Page 2

Nkqroks are deeply religions in character, though they maintain a too rigid separation between religion and morality. There was once a planter "up the coast," whose flocks and herds had suffered from the depredations of his coloured neighbours. His method of self-preservation was unique. He built a church which he presented to the negroes upon one condition. This condition was announeed to the congrogation from the pulpit by their iniaUtei. It was that so long as nothing was stolen from this planter's place so long would the sanc-

tuary remain open, but upon the disappearance of the first aiticle the church was to be closed, never to be re-opened. The plan worked faultlessly, and while other plantations suffered as of old, the originator of this scheme possessed his goods in peace.—N.Y. Post.

A California ex Governor has married his house-keeper, and surprised all his friends. The Governor is, says the Dispatch, to be congratulated. Many a man who thought he was marrying a housekeeper has merely surprised himself, discovering his mistake when it was too late,