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MISCELLANEOUS.

A peculiar storm was recently experienced at Bulu BulUj Australia. A correspondent of the Melbourne Age writes concerning it as follows: — "Every time a few drops of rain fell they turned out to be drops of liquid mud. I went out to saddle my horse during a lull, it was just spitting and no more, but in two minutes my saddle -was covered with spots of mud, and up at my residence, where dust is unknown, a billyfull of water caught at a spout was pure puddle." Spelling bees in America have given place to another amusement It is called a " Cap Festival" Gaps are provided for all the ladies attending a party, andnecktiescorrespondingtoeaoh cap are sold to the gentleman as they enter. It is expected that each gentlewill find the cap that correspondends with his necktie, and make himself agreeable to the wearer during the evening. A judge in Victoria acquitted a prisoner accused oi robbing a provincial newspaper man, on the ground that the robbery could not have.been effected single-handed. There must have been two ; one to give him something, and the other take it away again. "You may say, what you please," solemnly remarked a red-nosed listener to a temperance lecturer, but whisky once saved my life." "How was that V " Why, I wanted a drink so bad that I got up once in the middle of the night and went out to hunt foigapub. While I was gone, the house caught fire and roasted the old woman*"

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1078, 24 April 1882, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
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MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1078, 24 April 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS. Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1078, 24 April 1882, Page 3

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