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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 191, 30 November 1876, Page 3

Athletes may be interested in the following from the Home correspondent of a contemporary :—He says wrestling is certainly an English game, bat certain Frenchmen have visited our shores to show os that we are always superior in athletic exercises. Their style is "catch as catch can," and a man is not considered thrown ontil b«th his shoulders touch the ground simultaneously. Our champion found no difficulty in disposing of them when wrestling in the Cumberland and Westmoreland style, but in turn had to cry jxeeavi when tackled in the French manner. One of the Frenchmen, " Boulanger,'* is called "the man with the iron jaw and steel arms," and his feats certainly deserve the title. He throws 56Sb. weights about as though they were cricket balls ; he places an iron bar 1121b. across his shoulder, on each end of which a man seats himself, and a third man having got on his back, he walks about with little apparent inconvenience ; and finally he takes up a chair with a man seated in it in his teeth, walks round with him, and finally waltzes with his burden to the music of the band. The Home correspondent of a contemr writes: Europe for "fresh fields and pastures new" wherein to make holiday, a party starting from London has enjoyed a trip quite unique in its character. A Scottish gentleman engaged a train of Pulman sleeping, dining-room, and drawing-room cars, and invited a party of sixteen ladies and gentlemen to accompany him on a peripatetic picnic to a number of the most interesting places in the United Kingdom. The railway companies were very considerate, and arranged the passage of the train from line to line without any incon-

venience, the journey taken being from London to John O'Groata, and back by r. different route. Throughout the trip cue party were entirely independent of hotels, their travelling train being their home, in which every comfort was found. The journey occupied one month, and proved an entire success.