GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

Bush Advocate, Volume I, Issue 68, 11 October 1888, Page 2

GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS.

Much' ' interest is ' taken (writes a London correspondent) in sporting and club circles in the case of a plunger wh° has attracted attention during the last few >$ears by the extent of his bets, and who failed to settle last w^ek .for, a, small amount. Not much 'sympathy can be felt for a man who is said to have run through a fortune of javet .£300,000 in a couple of years. It is stated that the amount in qu.QS.tion was, small. andthat it was art oversight/wM^hNvilUw^maae all right. An unrehearsed; scepe in.a, theatre was occasioned' at 'Nottingham on the .ISlhfinntjby; the yagawes:o| an infuriated bull; •,Th&animal.kpoclad|lown ,and jnjured.seyerir.pers.Qn^in' the ' market place, and k'ffer^wakr&s'rushed into the Theatre Royal by the stage door, wfyereit djdycpnsiderable damage amongst the sdenery: Several property deer? used/ in forest ,scejiery were conspicuously exposed a.njl tihese the bull savagely aftackejl jandf destroyed. The a nimal cKaVg^a ft'i the stage c'arpeptef, but he] Slipped aside and the bull's, horns went through a side wing. Eventually the Jbull was driven into a cUt-dd-sdc andifespatched by a bullet from a Martini-Henry A present of a complete I 'train lias been sent by a recent steamer to Li Hung Chaflg from France. 5 'It was specially made for the Viceroy of Pechihli at Lyons, and is composed of six carriages, of whioh three are for the Emperor, and his chief Ministers, two for the. guards, apd one fpr^ the luggage. This train is to'run'on" the short railway of- six kilometres specially constructed 'near Pekin for the instruction and edification of the young Emperor. The carriages have been prepared dn>a luxurious Style, aud bear the Imperial, arms of the dragon. ! ' > The marriage, of the Duke and . Duchess of Marlborough before the .Registrar of St. George's Hanover square, was a surprise. The Standard at the time of the' marriage,|gave prominence to an opinion expressed in New York, that the marriage was not a legal one, in consequence of one of the parties, having bean divorced for infidelity, The Statelpf '^ew York, hovyever, recognised ai biiSding the marriage of a person or persons, who have oeen divorced, if suc& ft. marriage is * considered legal - in? the country to which,? either of, them belongs, but it. does not recognise a marriage celebrated only in New York. Tliis particular laW is only a municipal or looal law ; but as all tjhe' Duchess's fortune is in New York, it is moat important^ there should be no> dwjbt on the subject, Counsel gave ifcafc their -opinion >that r the ''marriage was not a legal one unless celebrated in England,' and 'jit jya^ accordinglycelebrated about a fortnight agl.' A story ; is sgoing, about Vhicli if true (satys the Worffi), h one of the most ctisgraceful of Jche many petty w^nn^se^ '

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