'Tis beauty, that doth oft trako women proud "lis virtue, that doth make them most ad mired i ■ , , 'Tin modesty that makes them Beom divine. —Shakespeare^ The man who has vainly tried for forty years to get a wholo .ardinc out of the box is now informed that the little iishes arc always blown up with torpedoes previous to packing. Addresses to business men will be given during next weok by the Rev. C. M. Pym in .lie largo ball of the New Zealand Insur ance Company's buildinc, commencing oil Monday at 12 and concluding at 12 45. " What does your husband do?" asked tho census man. "He ain't doin' nothin' at this time of the year," replied the young wife. "Isho a pauper 1" asked the census man. (She blushed scarlet to the ears.) " Law, no," she exclaimed, somewhat in dignantly ; "wo ain't been married more'n six weeks."

Dr. and Mrs Campbell and their daughter havo left for Auckland vifi Suez.
Tho shareholders of tho Queen of En. laud claim, next the Success mine, Coro mandel, met at Mr James Stodart's oliice yestorday, and resolved to put on two men to prospect for the rich leader which has yielded such good results to the Succcbb Company. Three young ladies sliding swiftly ib,-. n a hill in Boston the other day saw a sleigh aud team in front of them, and a collision seemed imminent. Fortunately, one of the young ladies had tho presence of mind to smilo, and the team at once ran away, thus probably avoiding a loss of life. Tho Grcy.nouth peoplo have resolved to eo-operato with thoso at the Christchurch end iv agitating for the railway from East to West Const.
