OUR SPECIAL WELLINGTON TELEGRAM.
•9 (BY TELEGRAPH, OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON, this day. PROPERTY TAX. The second instalment of Property Tax is coming in well. There was a large attendance to-day at tho Wellington office of persons f o pay the tax. The Wellington papers do not yet com ment on Major Atkinson's speech.
" In the sweet, balmy, delicious happiness , A love's young dream," says an American paper, "a youth will not'only iuwist on ;racking walnuts for his girl, but on peeling i ;hem as well. T-\\o years after marriage he ■ ivill not even let her have tho nut-cracker ' mtil lie has done." j

SCINTILLATIONS.
"no brief; for it is wltn words as with sun beams: tho moro they ore oondensod tbo deeper they burn."— Soutuey.
Tho late Marquis of Breadalbarie was tbo grandson of a tailor. The Government Patetoro blocks are to be offered lor sale shortly.
De Vivo, it is said, is about to send a concert company to Adelaide.
If a borrower comes, lend him your cur only.
A Weather Point.—A nil wind.—A dead calm.
A Chiropodist's Sign.—Corns eradicated in to to.
The eternal fitness of things,—A chip hat on a block-head.
In n game of cards, " a good deal depends on 'a good dcaV "

Somo men arc called malls because they are used to keep a flirt's hand in.
Irishmen arc always laying bare their grievances, because they want them re dressed.
Mr Kirns Koovcs was offered £30,000 for the profits on his ecries of farewell concerts throughout Grout Britain, but decliued It. Tho Lynch Family of Bellringcrs left Molbouruo recently for a tour overland to Queensland; thoucc to Java and tho East.
