PICKINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 369, 27 June 1884, Page 5

PICKINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

A blacksmith at Tinkers, who was reCG ntly found dead in bed, left the whole of his Property, about LiOO, to the local lodge of Good Templars. , The Q u . eensland Reader 1 recently failed £? reco g™e a familiar quotation from 2^^S2^^.^"" The schedule of P. G. Prendergasfc, butcher, uf Melbourne, was filed recently. His liabilities are L 35,270, and the assets L2o. The Colonial Bank is the principal credijpl ; ut the insolvent says that lie has assigned a^ m 's property to Messrs Greenlaw vand PearSoQ as trustees. Hence the apparent sn l? llnes s of the assets. ■;,*. 0> tM ?" r . in S a .™ cent . trial in South WaleJ|to • the valldlt y of a Will, it was prove.&?.ffiat in I<?<S9 +v,« +„„+ j. -U • • j • ;v^vi S.iT,,^£^TS& SIE post-office with a postage stamp on' his 'ifdrchead, and requested to be sent by maifoo a place which he mentioned. - !*l -A- nice question has been raised in thefHay Temperance Lodge, Victoria, as to a memoei> ®f the order of Good' TempMS"' can carry on the 'business of a publican. r lhe { ? e ,?. dec . lded b y one vote that the memdSatiSfoH iS moti not br ° ken ;; Set cx P ress^ 3% the - S1 P»»«»d Sobulhoff. a well-known Vrta, tioner and tobacconist of Broadway, itee«<m, committed suicide by hanging the: ot&er morning. At breakfast time he kissed his sisters and bade them good-bye, saying he was S oin g on a journey, and remarked, jocuy» thG J thought, that he hoped they would give him a decent funeral. He did h^nmTh!. 0 ?"*"?' w! ° n s ? archi , ug his S°LWS ?t H ' W S ft 1 t° 'and t %%$% him at all his usual resorts they ?ould learn nothiug of him. The matter was- then .placed- .in v the ; hands of the police. At 2.20 P- m - a person passiag an empty shop adjoinin S Schulhoff's peej>ed through the shutters and saw Schulhoff's body hanging against wall;; The door AyasTblirßtpp;en,oalld the ■ -7 cut . do ; vn ' Tr bufc T llfe was found to be & «' met He had planned the deed JSShS^ SS^S^^^Jgffi which he had stepped after adjusting^a running loop round his nnck.. f)eceasQdwas good circumstances financially, and,lovmeeiic troubles arc supposed to have led to c a ct. ' ..','. . .;. , f^ 'he. closing Act, of Ihe session '..^s.'tiiu^jlje-c?i°-e(1 hy the Parliamentary cofreßp.qnd|(nt f t-he 1 Squth^and Times'.:—"Several'me^bers ' 1 dc f rou8 j, pE obtaining. -a .ittlefiheap PoP^ty and panting to,, save, a bW^g country, pretended to desire a, reductionftof the honorarium,: and .the lengthy discuS ended, , as everyone knew it wouiC.^the defeat of those disinterested parties. Y[& the di vision was taken, .the action of ;se^ej§l members .created great amua,ement... Jhey carefully watched the ..respective., pauu'iis trooping into the lobbies, and assopn^|s the y were assured their votes weuitl-j'nbt influence: the result, they walked. .intone with the minority. Wb en thuy^t. eir « onstl^ ts :\ hQ y ™V- pjpbably a ,nt- yadyert upon the rascality of the mainrity ni hu? acc £ p t ing the full- h<tforarium,Wt'ell the ' f^e a'ud independent ' hovythcyViJtGU against such 'a wicked ptoposaV." "■»;•■■-'*■• Good service was done by MxlLabouafiero recently,, in calling attention to the- gross wa,ste o£.publije'|mpney ln|G|riirtees for the Prince of Wales's son. MrmsVeung man is still at school — college is only school writ rge— has never done anything worth nof nd ls v ff.J^, on i7 ab + fe bo y : ,^ ot " thstfindlD g th^» h .°^ ver ' ft^natt^as Z^^sS^ i7%£%?smt mental order. The) discussion in the House n the subject was a most interesting one. The, first item ,was Lo^S for "Fees paid on the' instJiMion l of ' f H.R.H? Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, etc.,, etc,, etc.j-.as Knight of th^e Ga^t^'.V^n'other^.^a' Jim L 920 ,foi 4 ," Special packets lor 'tn'e / cpn i\feyance of distinguished persons." : Mr Labouchere moved the! reduction of" th'esfvoles. '•'Why," lie asked, vt -shcfnM^tke be called upb : h'['i:6 'pay'" the Dean ;of 'Windsor

about LSOO for tyißg.a'Gra'rter ■•round they leg of a young '-man who' lias :: dbilfe' flethihg^fpr the nation ? If the young person w ante"' to wear a Garter; let himlby aHfmtiang,-'tlut not to the tune of L 548."' Again', 1 ' royalty- possesses yachts, which' cost'rlie -'nation ail ■ immense sum annually; : Yet,-! when";ene of their Koyal 'H'igh'tfesses'ta'kes' a! 'pleasure trip to tlic Continetttj J l4c 'special packet at a cost of L-iO, and quietlly exclaims, " Btick it up to the nation !"