MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1467, 7 November 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Truth says : Discussion sometimes arisus now a-days as to the precise yaW of the title. " Esquire.'', 1 Its is I generally agreed that it should not, if possible, be. allowed to any gentleman, worth, say less than ten shilling a week, unless he be an oflice-boy, or otherwise •'professionally" engaged. It has however, been reserved for the Press to fix the exaul worth of the title. A journal published in the town of Burnham, a small but popular resort on the Somersetshire coast, has the following note at the head of its "List of Visitors." " The word • Esq ' charged 3d prepaid." In the Probate Court in Dublin the •ther day if: w.>ginc!dentallymentio!>ed t ! mt the t-s'ator was unpopular wiUi 'iis tenants. This wjw indignantly leniesl hy the o*h»*r side. Upon a •"aroh inquiry, however, it was found is life had been twice attempted, and that i;i aMitionhe ha<i an eye knocked >ut an -1 his fane, half blown off by a shot. It is j:'ist possible that this is the co «n mo i way in which an Irish landlord is honoured by his tenants, but in other c Mintries it would be thought that a 1 uidlord thus treated would be conside -ed unpopular. Fltgs axd Bugs. ---Beetles, insects, roaches, ant's, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gophers, jack-ra bits, cleared out l>y " Bough on Eats." The New Zealand Drug Co., Sydney, General Agents.