A while ago, the town went in for drain age and the w orkmen had put down a ventilating shaft to carry off the gases from a sewer that was near Ins house, and the other day he wiote to the Council to complain of the smells com ing from the sewer through the ventil ating shaft, and said the odour was «o obnoxious that his children weie pie vented from plavmg near the house The letter was read at the Council, and the cleik was instructed to reply The reply was a gem "Dear sir," it said "the ventilating shaft has not vet been connected with the sewer 1 " The com plaining one is silent now and is stand ing the chaff heroically It was, very amusrig on Saturda\ last to obsei\e the assortment of bikes and babies' carnages lestmg against the wall of Government House When His Excel \cnc\ and Lady Ranfurly ask the people to come along and spend a pleas ant hour the guests aie always suie of a gracious welcome. Lady Ranfurlv's evident delight in the society of child ren is not the least of her many social qualities and the Governor a.s roadih shakes the hoinv h-.nd as the hiahh mam cured digits of the anstociat • » • There are some yen old-fashioned people down Dunedin way One spot less old dame who remembers the last centuiv when it was fairly young, is the subiect of a kirk tale She was in the habit of putting a piece of bacon m the pot befoie gome to kirk so thvt it would be cooked bv the time she crot home She nas also in the habit of wrapping her large hymn-book in a snowy cloth after the good old Scoteli fashion The other Sunday when the hymn was ei\ en out. the d<Mi old soul could not find the place The coneio gation weie surpmed to see the ao-pd lady sazing m a horror-stricken wav at a goodh -sized piece of bacon 1 You ha\e probably been boied with the evei'lasting family album that peonle insist on j oui looking at in order to fill in an otherwise bald evening--' You aie expected to get esctatic ovei the old gentleman with the savage fimge lound has cranium, and the stock that yon wish had choked him before he got to the photographer's. 