A good story is told of the old police regime. A oonstable had got off-colour, these beiDg days when ' colour ' was of no importance, and he temporarily retired to his lodgings, not to put too fine a point upon it, from * the madding crowd.' By the underground railway he heard that ' His Knibs ' waß on tbe job, and that it was likely he would have to face the musio. He went, so the yarn runs, to a dentist, and had- some of his teeth drawn. When he made his bow in the inspector's room, in reply to the official inquiry, ' Why is this thus ?'. the dentist episode drew the teeth of the inspector, and stopped Ms ' jaw.' Inspector Cullen isn't taking any teeth. By gum.
Mr W. F. Massey acted as Chairman of Committees in the House on Friday night, and we hear from Wellington that he made one of the best and most business like chairmen the House haa yet seen.
