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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 273, 8 March 1877, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS. ORATB Or A JOCKBT. Wto& Sloeroneld, the well-known SydH«J Jockey,, has fceen kitted at Newcastle toy a kick from a horse. XBAWKSOIVIttO .ESf AJ&EitAi&E. Thanks for tain and the harvest have twen offered up. in the Adelaide Churches. TSvw Zealand has no necessity to follow suit in this particular* Ttrtt lywcbes. The Lynch Brothers (beiiringers} got tip a burlesque cricket match at Warrnambool, Victoria, for the benefit of the local hospital,, which was a great success. G-tTtNITESS, TUB BREWER. Sir Arthur Guinness, the eminent brewer of Bubtin, has, on account of failnut health, dissolved the partnership which had existed between himself and his brother, Mr. Cecil Guinness. Ai*«MßJStt NO-VELTS". At Sydney Mr. Im*y, the great cornctpfcyer, has been received with great enthusiasm at the Masonic Uatl ; white Mr. and Mrs. Bates have drawn good houses at the Theatre Royal in "Quuen Elizabeth." ntmwau> stfie»tt at van ttvtm sTATtos. The station master at the Hinds found a man hanging by the neck, about 6in. from the ground, behind the goods-shed. The body was cut down and forwarded by train to Asbbnrton, where it now ties, pending an inquest to be hell to-day The name of deceased is supposed to be Shearman. A MOVE m THE EIGHT In accordance with the request of the Roman Cathot c Bishop of Waterford, alt the publicans of the city closed their houses of business on Sunday and Christmas Bay, with the happiest result. Tue otreeta were unusually quiet during the two days, and drunkenness w»3 almost unknown. A WW ©FfRESSOR. An atrotions invention has just appeared in the shape of a " hip belt," by which an abnormal slrroness is to be acquired. Iksides being utterly opposed to all beauty, I this pernicious fashion wilt be the forerunner of any number- of hygienic evil* to the women who adopt it, compression at this point tanner, in its after effects, absolutely irremediable. POOCEY V. BRAJtHAr.t. An Agency telegram, in addition to the facts given in our correspondent's telegram (says the ChristchnreU <Sfa»»->, states that th« arrest of Pootey and Bramhatt was made under " The Matte tons Injuries to Property Act ;" that they are charged withs having injured property above the value of £i>, belonging to Ratplt Dunk in. and that they are to appear at Clirutchurch on March 12. BROOK TROCT. A box of ova of the iiidmi> fontint.rii* has been received from America by Mr. A. M. Johnston, of Opawa, by the last mail, and a few of the eggs have already commenced to hatch. The eggs are ""*" smaller than the English brown trout, and the fish have the reputation of being more active, taking the tty more readily, and are considered the test variety, not in America, but in the wortd. Considerable dilhenlty and expense has been encountered in obtaining this particular ■variety, most of the other descriptions of American trout being inferior to the brown i' trout now establishtd in New Zealand. t The Stdmo- JFoHthndi* has recently been successfully introduced into England. TttK AtraOßCtfEP VER.S«»". The Revisers of the Authorised Version ©f the New Testament met on December 5 (says the Tima») r at the Jerusalem Chamber, for their (&>th session, and sat for seven hours. There were present— The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol (who presided), the Deans of Westminster, Rochester, Lincoln, and Lie h tie Id, the MsSL.er of the Temple, Canons Lightfool; and Wkstcott, Professors Motttton, Newth, and Edwin Palmer, Drs. Angus and Vance Smith, .Pn benda-ries llninphrty and Scrivener (in alt fifteen muwbwrs), and Mr. Tnutlieek, tie secretary, 'the to apany earned on their revision to the beginning of the sixth chapter of the Epistle fJJo- the Hebrews. a ctTvtottrrv. We have been shown by Mr. Pentty, the lessee of the billiard-room ac the Prince of Wales Hotel, a novelty in the way of art and science. It is an oil painting which has just been imported, and which represents a German town by the side of a smalt river. In the church tower of the town is a clock, which strikes the hours and half hottrs with an excellent mimicry of the sound of a targe chprreh clock striking. In the box at the back of the painting, and alongside of the clock machinery is a musical bos, which plays several operatic airs very well.— Htmthkmd Thiws, BAREffACflt* TTRAJTWY. We extract the following paragraph from the Lttur Times .-—Although the Paris students ma) fairly claim to be more free and disorderly than those of London or Berlin, it is quite clear that the Parts Bar is under as strict a discipline as that of any city in the world. An edict lias gone forth to the effect that moustache* are at once to> disappear from the upper lip of all advocates in the l*tthtis tie Jwike. Of late years tile dread authorities of the Famfts d« £>hvU had connived at the wearing of these unprofessional ornaments, and grave professors had even carried into the lecture-room* the forbidden embellishments. But the Minister of Justice has interfered to> correct tlie scandal, and 'the learned counsel will no longer be perI mitted to< dispense with their razors. The *, incident has- given occasion not only to a r I great d«al of grumbling on the part of these gentlemen, but to some considerable kL_amount of discussion in the public press •*so the fristwrj of moustaches.