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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 604, 1 October 1853, Page 3

Knotty Points.— Johnson says he never was in a tight place but once, and that was when he had an insane bull by the tail. Had he held on, he would have b«en dragged to death over a stubble field ; while if he bad not held on, the critter would have turned round and gored him. Tho question now is, which did J.,hnson do, hold on or let go? In the House of Lords, on the 17th June, Lord Radesdale, asked the Secretary of State for tho Colonies, what was the reason of the delay which has occurred in the appointment of a successor to the late Bishop of Sydney, who had died in England the 20th of February last. The Duke ef Newcastle aaid that some alteration had been contemplated in the present division of the colonial tee, and until that was determined, he had not thought it hit duty to recommend her Majesty to fill op the vacancy caused by the. death of the late bishop. Rbmabkablk. — The following his been handed to us as fact. A favourite dog belonging to a family in the town, having been brought down from the diggings, suffering under the prevailing epidemic, and showing no signs of amendment, its afflicted mistress, as a last resource, bethought beraelf of Hollo way's Pill's; and, as might have been expected from the singular virtues of this incomparable specific, after the second does the patient began rapidly to recover, and is now reported to be convalescent. Should any be sceptical in this case, they can eas:iy satisfy their doubts by trying the experiment, as, from the bad weather, there in no lack of patients to operate upon just now. —■Belfast Gazette.

A flock of twenty. one sheep lately strayed on to a railway bridge for shelter, and were caught there by train and cat to pieces all but three.