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Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1429, 11 August 1884, Page 2

That terrible scourge small-pox continues to spread, and has now reached this Island, the latest reported case being at Invercargill. If the scare lias no other effect than to instil into the miners of parents the importance of attending to the.vaccination of their children, it will do good service to the Colony. We understand that the Inangahua has two representatives in the " Oiago Witness" Chess Problem Tourney, the competition for which is open to .yew Zealand, and now half over. The handicap lias just been published, from which it appears that both the quartzopolites have to carry "weight" in the contest, in which there are some twenty or thirty performers. The rank and file of the Aggravation Army mustered for active service on Saturday evening last, in the vicinity of the resideuce of a newly teamed couple. The demand' for empty kerosene tins was urgent, and peremptory, and having been supplied "there was a sound of revelry by night." The festivities were proceed ing very satisfactorily when an ofiicer in blue belonging to another army suddenly hove in &i c ;lit. In quick er'n wink there was more abandoned kerosene tins and less boys in that neighborhood than could be found anywhere in the wide world. Talking about '-tin-kettling " reminds us of a case which occurred somewhere down South not very long ago. A man had been appointed a Justine of the Peace, and lying in bed on the nighr> following the gazetting of -%he appointment, he was amazed at finding his house surrounded by an army of ''tin kettlers" who rattled away tremendously. The newly created J.P. could not uncbrstand the thing for the life of him, while his wife became furious and announced her intention of going to her mother— for ever. It became really serious, but eventually explanations followed and the terrible suspicions of the wife being allayed domestic peace and confidence was restored, and they often laughed over this singular application of the honors of " tin kettling." The two following short, expressive, letters have recently passed between husband and wife. Wo have pornrinsirri to publish thorn : — ''Dear Hubby,— Please send by money order £10. I want to get a dress, — Gexevieve. — P.S. — I bad almost forgotten to send you my love. Your little wifie, — G."— "Dear Gonevieve, — I send you my undying best love. — Your h usbau d, — Charles, — P. S. — I had almost forgotten to say that I can't send the £10. With a kiss,- Charles."

The Nelson Mail says : — A steamer, at one time well-known in this port, put in an appearance yesterday afternoon, namely, the Wallabi, which was bound from Wanganui to the West Coast, but in consequence of the rough westerly weather which has prevailed of late was unable to reach her destination and was compelled to run down here for coal and provisions. There is perhaps no steamer in the Australasian colonies which has proved anything like such a money maker for her owners as did the Wallabi in the early days for the West Coast diggings. At that time she belonged to the trnn of N. Edwards & Co., and it is stated that in less than two years she cleared for them the enormous sum of L 35,000. A few boats doing the same sort of thing just now would be very acceptable in Nelson. The latest novelty in advertising in Japan has been produced by the patent medicine pedlar. The merchant carries liia two medicines at either end of a pole, as usual, but fixed on tlie pole is n frame containing photographs of persons suffering from the ills which his nostrums are supposed to cure. One photograph is of a child being run over by a jinriksha : another a lady with the toothache. Several are depicted as suffering from rheumatism, and others with indigestion and stomach-ache.