CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8523, 30 June 1893, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Mr Justice Richmond, in dealing with a case in the Wellington Bankruptcy Court the other day observed that if he had to send to gaol every insolvent who did not understand double entry, Mr Garvey would have to enlarge his accommodation. At another stage his Honour said it was wonderful what a number of people signed their names on the backs of bills and forgot that they had done so.— Evening Post. The term "billet," as defining a situation, is objected to by the Wellington College G ovevnors as being a slang expression. The word appeared in the minutes of the last meeting o£ the Governors, and wheu read out by the Secretary it caught the attention of the Mayor, who ejaculated " What ?" The Chairman (Mr J. R. Blair)—" Don't put in slang words." The Secretary (Mr C. P. Powles), in substituting the word " situation," remarked that it was hard to tell what was a slang word now-a-days.—Even-ing Post.

An exciting scene was witnessed at S_ltaire recently. Lowe and Castleton's company were performing the drama "Lord Anerley." In the lost act the villain shoots himself rather than be token alive. Mr Wilford Selwyn, who was performing this part, accidentally shot himself. The curtain was abruptly lowered, and actovs rushed from behind calling out for a doctor. Mr S'shvyn's left band was found to be dreadfully shattered, and the third finger had to be amputated. Mr A. J. Lowe fainted, and was unconscious for an hour.

During a meeting of creditors in the estate of Mary C. Kennedy, draper, of Westport, held on Tuesday afternoon, the Official Assignee said he had received a letter from the debtor from which he gathered she was "a bit of a bush lawyer." She had replied to a telegram he had sent her as follows: —" I received from you a summons issued under the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. As I have never been adjudicated a bankrupt under that Act, I cannot appear. If you want mc to appear under tho Act of 1392, under which I was adjudicated, and send mc return ticket and 10s per day for seven days' absence from Westport, I shall appear." The Official Assignee remarked that the technical objection was a good one. The creditors therefore resolved to send a saloon passage ticket to Miss Kennedy, and also £3 10s for other expenses, in order to ensure her attendance iv Wellington. — Evening Post.

The ordinary daily life of Princess May, (aays a Home paper), is utterly and entirely unpretentious and simple. She is passionately fond of reading, and is a student of the classics, and well conversant with the poets of several nationalities. Of course the Princess talks chiefly in English, which she holds to be her mother tongue, but she is a good linguist, can speak both French and Germ.n, and reads Italian fluently. The Princess rises at eight o'clock, and at 9.30 breakfasts alone with Mdlte, Bricka, her dame de compagnie. A certain time is given to correspondence, study, and reading, and perhaps to singing. The Princess sings sweetly, and is always accompanied on the piauo of Mdlle. Bricka. Her voice is a mezzo-soprano, which has beeu carefully trained by Signer Tosti. Life at the White Lodge is simplicity itself. The dinners, always en famille, are such as would nob be deemed at all equal to the requirements of many of the nouveauz riches, and the princess goes to bed early. Princess May dresses ve.-y quietly but always becomingly, and to look at her in ber own home with her knitting or crochet in hand you would take her for a type of a sweet, unaffected English girl. She is, as we have said, the pet of everybody, from father aud mother downwards. She is very fond of riding and driving, and was at one time frequently to be seen about in the neighbourhood of her home in a little pony carriage driven by herself.

The Mansion House, London, recently was the scene of a remarkable sieht. It consisted of a party of cyclists oa a journey from London to Birmingham, and who called at the Mansion House before starting to say good-bye to the Lord Mayor. Most of them wore spectacles, but apart from this nothing in their appearance called for remark. Yet m truth ,they differed very markedly indeed from their brethren of the tyre. They were, in fact, a party of students from the Royal Normal College for the Blind at Upper Norwood on their way to Birmingham, where they are to be present at the opening of a new blind school by Lord Dudley. The party were mounted on ordinary tandem tricycles, connected together one behind the other, so as to form a string of seven or eight machines controlled by one steering apparatus. Two of these compound machines, with one ordiuary tandem tricycle, made up the party, which numbered some sixteen or eighteen in al'. It is hardly necessary to add that the steersman in each case was not blind. Before setting out, the party, after exchanging greetings with the Lord Mayor, who Bhowed the most kindly interest in the proceedings, were photographed on their machines. Then they threaded their way through the crowd which assembled, and speedily disappeared down CheapsMe, en route for Aylesbury, where they remained during the night.