MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 20, 25 May 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The Wellington. Argus lays :— On the* West Coast there is a female blacksmith? in Napier a female auctioneer ; Danedin* possesses a female chimney sweep p Wellington was not veay lomr agoblesse-i with a female "'nightman;?' bat it bat been reserved for Auckland to hare » female bootmaker. An advertisement appears in an Auckland paper notifying* that " Mrs Me Gratb is now carrying on> < her husband's business as boot and, shoe maker ; orders punctually attended! to." A gentleman signing himself "An Auckland Footballer" recently wrote to the New Zealand Times proposing that Wellington be made the centre of a grand football tournament, instead of Dunedin sending a team thither merely to meet Auckland, Napier, Taranaki, Wanganui,. Hokitika, Nelson, Christeharch, and Danedin, and play a series of matches; extending O7er a week. The idea is good, bat hardly feasible— at least to the extent proposed. If all the places mentioned sent representatives, a week would not bea sufficient space of time' to compress all' the matches into, but the greatest obstacle we fear would be the inability or an* willingness of the players to attend front such distances. Otherwise, the proposed, tournament would be a very pleasant an>l entirely satisfactory method of settling a question, that is at-preaent much disputed,, namely, which is the premier football Province of New Zealand. The Licensed Victuallers Gazette ts> Tory severe on the Canterbury lawyer*. It says:— "lt was only the other day. that a bill of costs sent up for taxation to the Registar's Chamber, was returned/ cut down to nearly one-half. And it i»f well known that some starched up proper looking members of the learned profession who reside in the Cathedral City, yen* their services as Cheap Jacks do their ware* It is not so very long" ag6 that one of the most correct and form loving limbs of the Ghristchurch Bar allowing an* account of his to be reduced to very small proportions, in leed, sooner than, run the risk of a public expose whichwould have bared haestortionare practices, before the pnblic gale, and dissipated, at the same time, once and for ever, the halo of unctuous goodness with which he surrounds himself. Ko wonder that these gnarled limbs of out loctl bar love not Mr Justice Johnson, and speak with* prejudice of his mode of dealing with the Woodgate case. As a rule, in Christchnreli, beware of a sanctimonious lawyer.. His ways are tortuous, his law a doabltentendre, bat his bill invaribly « high, aye, high," which, by-the-by, is the* favorite motto of the profession.. Do any of your readers, asks a cor* respondent of the Otago Times, remember the snug little nook off Chancery Lane, London, known as Sergeants* Inn ?" This place was brought to the hammer the other, day, in consequence of it having, been decided to allow the title of Sergeant at Law to die with its present holders. The price had been wildly valued by some at as high as 4360.0 JO, bat the sumactually given for the property was £57,000 the purchaser being Mr Sergeant Cox, who is probably one of the most successlul men in England. Besides being: a Sergeant fit Law, he is Recorder of Plymouth, and Deputy Assistant Judge of Middlesex, in both of which capacities he receives a very comfortable salary. In. addition to this, however, Mr Cox is a very large owner of journalistic property of the most remnnera tive character— the Field, the Queen, and the Law Times being owned by him. Some time ago, too,. Mr Cox, being apprehensive lest the great success of the Field should lead to the establishment of a formidable rival of that paper, started another of the sain*

kind, bat of « somewhat slighter character, called Ihe Country, and this has likewise proved a thorough success. Finally, he has a considerable abate in the Exchange asd Mart that journalistic lusus natures, and from this shpre ho likewise derives a large profit -ft . is 3aicl , tliat Q0 has purchased Sergants' Inn, with tho- object of transforming it into a central establishment for the publication of his various newspaper 1 ' Mr Cox, however, is anxious to lee the ancient dignity of tho Sergeants af law continue in existence, and this eouW be done he says, by passing an Act of half a dozen lines, causing them to take rank with Queen's Counsel. Should his desire be gratified, he declares that he .-<;-wtilbe happy to give back Sergeants' Inn to the body with which it has been identified for many hundred years. B|s«eant Cox, it may bo of interest, to add, is a groat dabbler in Spiritualism, is President of. the Psychological works, wmeh have attained a wide eircula« tion. JThat Spartan Virturo, Fortitude, is anorded an admirable opportunity for its display, when tho joints and muscles aro racked by the tortures of rheumatism. Pew, however, can endure its pang 3 without wincing. The disease, is caused by acid impurities, in tho blood, which inflaufle the tissue which form the covering of muscles and ligaments of tho joints. UooiPtfo Wootb's ScaiEDiM Abomamc Schnapps, curse this disease by cleaning the blood through the kidneys. — Advt.