Tawkiao and his followers have been very liberally entertained by the people of JNgamawabia who made them large presents of food. Tawhiao.will probably go to Mercer on Monday nexk •

Josh Billings says that an enthusiast is a man who believes about four times as much as he can prove, and who can prove about four times as much as anybody believes. :

People do not always mean what they. say. At least, such 1 presume was the case when the builder of a church in a London suburb, on returning thanks for the toast of .his health which had been proposed, re marked :—"I fancy lam more fitted for the scaffold than for public Rpeaking."

An aged negro was recently showing the scars of wounds inflicted by the lash when he was a slave. " What a picture !" ex claimed a sympathising looker-on. "Yes," responded the coloured brother, " dats de work ob de old masters."

A millionaire, who was looking at a level tract of land which he had just bought at an extravagant price, said to the agent who had sold it to him, "I do admire a rich green flat." " So-do I," significantly replied the agent,

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THE FRENCH IN TUN|S f !-;,;; PARIS, July'SS.
, News has beon received from-Tunis.that since, the capture of the t«Wn of Gabes the French forces have'occupied the Island or, Gherba-in the Gulf of Gabes.v

IBISH LAND BILL THROUGH COM.
MITTEE.
LONDON, ,July-2S.
In the House of Commons to-day the Irish Land Bill was reported to the House, with amendments made in committee) and the third reading fixed for next sitting.
LONDON, July 28.
