A man once came to Dr Stuart and asked him to perform tho work of proposing for him to his swoetheart. This was too much even for Dr Stuart, who said .• —“ I am willing to do anything reasonable for you, and to marry you and your sweetheart when you gain her consent. But in order to gain that consent you must remember that yours is a case where Heaven helps those that help themselves. Pluck up your courage and speak to tho young woman, who, to my knowledge, is an in dustrious soul likely to make a good wife for you. I have never proposed for an other man, and think in this case it would be a blunder for me to do so. Take my advice, see the young woman at once, and let me know the result to-morrow.” The bashful man did so, and tho girl said “ yes.”

Mr John Austin, M.P. for Osgoldeross, Yorkshire, has been raised to a Baronetcy.
Sir Arthur Hay ter, M.P. for Walsall, and Mr Jacob Bright, M.P. for South-west Manchester (brother of tho late Mr John Bright), have been appointed members of the Privy Council.
Major Corbett, for his services in Gambia, has been created a Companion of tho Order of the Bath.
A letter has been received in Dunedin from Cardinal Ledochowski, Perfect of tho Propaganda, expressing the sympathy of his Holiness the Popo at tho continued illness of Bishop Moran, and conferring upon him the apostolic blessing.
Politicians should never make promises. Mr Cameron, member for Deloraine, in the Tasmanian Parliament, rashly stated that if 50 of his constituents requested him to resign he would do so. He is now being asked to carry out his promise.
